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Commander

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Whtz, the Bibliophile
Rulebreaker — A deck with this commander has no maximum deck size.
,
: You draw a card and gain 1 life. This ability costs
less to activate if you had 200 or more cards in your starting deck.
Legendary Creature - Homunculus
Whtz, the Bibliophile (mbc) 57

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Anthem

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Knowledge Is Power
Creatures you control get +X/+X, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn.
Enchantment
Knowledge Is Power (mkc) 42

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Artifact

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Diary of Dreams
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a page counter on this artifact.
,
: Draw a card. This ability costs
less to activate for each page counter on this artifact.
Artifact - Book
Diary of Dreams (sos) 248

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Bounce

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Biblioplex Kraken
When this creature enters, scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Whenever this creature attacks, you may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature - Kraken
Biblioplex Kraken (j22) 10
Portal of Sanctuary
,
: Return target creature you control and each Aura attached to it to their owners' hands. Activate only during your turn.
Artifact
Portal of Sanctuary (m20) 71
Rescue
Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand.
Instant
Rescue (dom) 63

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Copy

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Virtue of Knowledge
If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Enchantment
Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions (woe) 76

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Counters

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Erudite Wizard
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Human Wizard
Erudite Wizard (fdn) 37
Lat-Nam Adept
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Human Wizard
Lat-Nam Adept (bro) 56
Miscast
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Miscast (m21) 57

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Creature

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Augusta, Order Returned
Flying, vigilance
Whenever Augusta attacks, each player exiles a card from their graveyard. When one or more nonland cards are exiled this way, put that many +1/+1 counters on target attacking creature.
Legendary Creature - Spirit Advisor
Augusta, Order Returned (soc) 11
Kid Loki
Each creature you control that you've put one or more +1/+1 counters on this turn has hexproof.
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Kid Loki.
Legendary Creature - Villain God Hero
Kid Loki (msh) 63

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Discard

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The Underworld Cookbook
, Discard a card: Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Artifact - Book
The Underworld Cookbook (mh2) 240

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Draw

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Academy Loremaster
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player may draw an additional card. If they do, spells they cast this turn cost
more to cast.
Creature - Human Wizard
Academy Loremaster (dmu) 40
Accumulate Wisdom
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Put each of those cards into your hand instead if there are three or more Lesson cards in your graveyard.
Instant - Lesson
Accumulate Wisdom (tla) 44
Aether Channeler
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.
• Return another target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.
Creature - Human Wizard
Aether Channeler (j25) 283
Arcane Encyclopedia
,
: Draw a card.
Artifact - Book
Arcane Encyclopedia (clb) 297
Arcane Endeavor
Roll two d8 and choose one result. Draw cards equal to that result. Then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value less than or equal to the other result from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Sorcery
Arcane Endeavor (afc) 14
Arcane Epiphany
This spell costs
less to cast if you control a Wizard.
Draw three cards.
Instant
Arcane Epiphany (fdn) 29
Archive Dragon
Flying
Ward
(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
When this creature enters, scry 2.
Creature - Wizard Dragon
Archive Dragon (woe) 41
Archivist
: Draw a card.
Creature - Human Wizard
Archivist (8ed) 60★
Archivist of Gondor
When your commander deals combat damage to a player, if there is no monarch, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of the monarch's end step, that player draws a card.
Creature - Human Advisor
Archivist of Gondor (ltc) 18
Archivist of Oghma
Flash
Whenever an opponent searches their library, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Creature - Cleric Halfling
Archivist of Oghma (clb) 4
Archmage Emeritus
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.
Creature - Human Wizard
Archmage Emeritus (fic) 261
Artificer's Assistant
Flying
Whenever you cast a historic spell, scry 1. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic. To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Bird
Artificer's Assistant (plst) DOM-44
Augury Owl
Flying
When this creature enters, scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Creature - Bird
Augury Owl (j22) 273
Automatic Librarian
When this creature enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Creature Artifact - Construct
Automatic Librarian (dmu) 229
Barrin's Codex
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a page counter on this artifact.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw X cards, where X is the number of page counters on this artifact.
Artifact - Book
Barrin's Codex (usg) 286
Body of Knowledge
Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, draw that many cards.
Creature - Avatar
Body of Knowledge (dsc) 112
Careful Study
Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Sorcery
Careful Study (ody) 70
Catalog
Draw two cards, then discard a card.
Instant
Catalog (8ed) 65★
Chart a Course
Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.
Sorcery
Chart a Course (fdn) 586
Combat Research
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
As long as enchanted creature is legendary, it gets +1/+1 and has ward
. (Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
Enchantment - Aura
Combat Research (dmu) 44
Compulsive Research
Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.
Sorcery
Compulsive Research (tdc) 147
Contact Other Plane
Roll a d20.
1—9 | Draw two cards.
10—19 | Scry 2, then draw two cards.
20 | Scry 3, then draw three cards.
Instant
Contact Other Plane (clb) 62
Curate
Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Curate (mkc) 99
Diminishing Returns
Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library. You exile the top ten cards of your library. Then each player draws up to seven cards.
Sorcery
Diminishing Returns (ema) 46
Divination
Draw two cards.
Sorcery
Divination (dom) 52
Emmessi Tome
,
: Draw two cards, then discard a card.
Artifact - Book
Emmessi Tome (ema) 221
Enduring Curiosity
Flash
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
When Enduring Curiosity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)
Creature Enchantment - Cat Glimmer
Enduring Curiosity (dsk) 51
Fact or Fiction
Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Instant
Fact or Fiction (cmm) 91
Fblthp, the Lost
When Fblthp enters, draw a card. If it entered from your library or was cast from your library, draw two cards instead.
When Fblthp becomes the target of a spell, shuffle Fblthp into its owner's library.
Legendary Creature - Homunculus
Fblthp, the Lost (sld) 583
Field Research
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Draw two cards. If this spell was kicked, draw three cards instead.
Sorcery
Field Research (znr) 58
Firmament Sage
If it's neither day nor night, it becomes day as this creature enters.
Whenever day becomes night or night becomes day, draw a card.
Creature - Human Wizard
Firmament Sage (mid) 53
Folio of Fancies
Players have no maximum hand size.
,
: Each player draws X cards.
,
: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in their hand.
Artifact - Book
Folio of Fancies (eld) 46
Frantic Search
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
Instant
Frantic Search (tdc) 153
Gadwick, the Wizened
When Gadwick enters, draw X cards.
Whenever you cast a blue spell, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Gadwick, the Wizened (eld) 48
Geist of the Archives
Defender
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Spirit
Geist of the Archives (emn) 62
Hard Cover
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and has "
: Draw a card, then discard a card."
Enchantment - Aura
Hard Cover (m20) 63
Heirloom Epic
,
: Draw a card. For each mana in this ability's activation cost, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay that mana. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact - Book
Heirloom Epic (blb) 246
Idle Thoughts
: Draw a card if you have no cards in hand.
Enchantment
Idle Thoughts (eve) 23
Impulse
Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Instant
Impulse (bbd) 119
Index
Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
Sorcery
Index (m13) 55
Ingenious Prodigy
Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this creature has one or more +1/+1 counters on it, you may remove a +1/+1 counter from it. If you do, draw a card.
Creature - Human Wizard
Ingenious Prodigy (woe) 56
Intrude on the Mind
Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Create a 0/0 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying, then put a +1/+1 counter on it for each card put into your graveyard this way.
Instant
Intrude on the Mind (mkm) 61
Investigator's Journal
This artifact enters with a number of suspect counters on it equal to the greatest number of creatures a player controls.
,
, Remove a suspect counter from this artifact: Draw a card.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact - Clue Book
Investigator's Journal (cmm) 956
Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
+1: Scry 1, then draw a card.
−2: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent casts their first spell each turn, counter that spell."
Legendary Planeswalker - Jace
Jace, Unraveler of Secrets (inr) 70
Jalum Tome
,
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
Artifact - Book
Jalum Tome (dmr) 226
Jayemdae Tome
,
: Draw a card.
Artifact - Book
Jayemdae Tome (ori) 231
Jodah's Codex
Domain —
,
: Draw a card. This ability costs
less to activate for each basic land type among lands you control.
Artifact - Book
Jodah's Codex (dmu) 233
Laquatus's Creativity
Target player draws cards equal to the number of cards in their hand, then discards that many cards.
Sorcery
Laquatus's Creativity (ody) 88
Ledger Shredder
Flying
Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Creature - Bird Advisor
Ledger Shredder (spg) 55
Library of Leng
You have no maximum hand size.
If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.
Artifact
Library of Leng (spg) 158
Mangara, the Diplomat
Lifelink
Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card.
Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Mangara, the Diplomat (soc) 155
Marina Vendrell's Grimoire
When Marina Vendrell's Grimoire enters, if you cast it, draw five cards.
You have no maximum hand size and don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards.
Whenever you lose life, discard that many cards. Then if you have no cards in hand, you lose the game.
Legendary Artifact - Book
Marina Vendrell's Grimoire (dsk) 64
Matoya, Archon Elder
Whenever you scry or surveil, draw a card. (Draw after you scry or surveil.)
Legendary Creature - Human Warlock
Matoya, Archon Elder (fin) 62
Mazemind Tome
, Put a page counter on this artifact: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
,
, Put a page counter on this artifact: Draw a card.
When there are four or more page counters on this artifact, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.
Artifact - Book
Mazemind Tome (fdn) 676
Mercadian Atlas
At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't play a land this turn, you may draw a card.
Artifact - Book
Mercadian Atlas (mmq) 305
Mysterious Tome
,
: Draw a card. Transform this artifact.
Artifact - Book
Mysterious Tome // Chilling Chronicle (mid) 63Mysterious Tome // Chilling Chronicle (mid) 63
Mystic Remora
Cumulative upkeep
(At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays
.
Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 420
Nerd Rage
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, draw two cards.
Enchanted creature has "You have no maximum hand size" and "Whenever this creature attacks, if you have ten or more cards in hand, it gets +10/+10 until end of turn."
Enchantment - Aura
Nerd Rage (pip) 34
Obsessive Search
Draw a card.
Madness
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Instant
Obsessive Search (dmr) 61
Occult Epiphany
Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying for each card type among cards discarded this way.
Instant
Occult Epiphany (voc) 14
Opt
Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Opt (otc) 104
Ormos, Archive Keeper
Flying
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead put five +1/+1 counters on Ormos.
, Discard three cards with different names: Draw five cards.
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Ormos, Archive Keeper (jmp) 13
Otherworld Atlas
: Put a charge counter on this artifact.
: Each player draws a card for each charge counter on this artifact.
Artifact - Book
Otherworld Atlas (avr) 219
Otherworldly Gaze
Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Otherworldly Gaze (dsc) 122
Overwhelmed Archivist
When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
Disturb
(You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
Creature - Human Wizard
Overwhelmed Archivist // Archive Haunt (mid) 68Overwhelmed Archivist // Archive Haunt (mid) 68
Owl Familiar
Flying
When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
Creature - Bird
Owl Familiar (clu) 90
Pore Over the Pages
Draw three cards, untap up to two lands, then discard a card.
Sorcery
Pore Over the Pages (soi) 79
Portent of Calamity
Reveal the top X cards of your library. For each card type, you may exile a card of that type from among them. Put the rest into your graveyard. You may cast a spell from among the exiled cards without paying its mana cost if you exiled four or more cards this way. Then put the rest of the exiled cards into your hand.
Sorcery
Portent of Calamity (blb) 66
Priest of Ancient Lore
When this creature enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Creature - Cleric Dwarf
Priest of Ancient Lore (clb) 704
Pull from Tomorrow
Draw X cards, then discard a card.
Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (soc) 116
Quick Study
Draw two cards.
Instant
Quick Study (fdn) 513
Raven Familiar
Flying
Echo
(At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When this creature enters, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Creature - Bird
Raven Familiar (c13) 55
Reckless Scholar
: Target player draws a card, then discards a card.
Creature - Human Wizard
Reckless Scholar (inr) 81
Rousing Read
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, draw two cards, then discard a card.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.
Enchantment - Aura
Rousing Read (m21) 67
Rowdy Research
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature that attacked this turn.
Draw three cards.
Instant
Rowdy Research (woe) 312
Scour the Laboratory
Delirium — This spell costs
less to cast if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
Draw three cards.
Instant
Scour the Laboratory (emn) 73
Scroll Thief
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Scroll Thief (ddt) 17
Secrets of the Dead
Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, draw a card.
Enchantment
Secrets of the Dead (sld) 7099
Soulknife Spy
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Creature - Elf Rogue
Soulknife Spy (afr) 75
Spellbook
You have no maximum hand size.
Artifact - Book
Spellbook (m10) 220
Stroke of Genius
Target player draws X cards.
Instant
Stroke of Genius (soc) 203
Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
+1: Tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
−2: Draw a card for each tapped creature target player controls.
−8: You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size" and "Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you may return it to your hand."
Legendary Planeswalker - Tamiyo
Tamiyo, the Moon Sage (med) RA2
Tamiyo's Journal
At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Legendary Artifact - Book
Tamiyo's Journal (inr) 272
Teferi's Protege
,
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
Creature - Human Wizard
Teferi's Protege (m21) 77
Temple Bell
: Each player draws a card.
Artifact
Temple Bell (c16) 277
Think Twice
Draw a card.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Think Twice (tsr) 92
Tome Raider
Flying
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Faerie
Tome Raider (eld) 68
Tragic Lesson
Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you return a land you control to its owner's hand.
Instant
Tragic Lesson (j22) 115
Trail of Evidence
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Enchantment
Trail of Evidence (soi) 93
Urza's Tome
,
: Draw a card. Then discard a card unless you exile a historic card from your graveyard. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Artifact - Book
Urza's Tome (dom) 235
Volo, Itinerant Scholar
When Volo enters, create Volo's Journal, a legendary colorless Book artifact token with hexproof and "Whenever you cast a creature spell, note one of its creature types that hasn't been noted for Volo's Journal."
,
: Draw a card for each creature type noted for target permanent you control named Volo's Journal.
Choose a Background
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Volo, Itinerant Scholar (clb) 103
Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
Flash
Flying, vigilance
When Wan Shi Tong enters, put X +1/+1 counters on him. Then draw half X cards, rounded down.
Whenever an opponent searches their library, put a +1/+1 counter on Wan Shi Tong and draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Bird Spirit
Wan Shi Tong, Librarian (tla) 78

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Evasion

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Faerie Vandal
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Faerie Vandal (znc) 26
Pseudodragon Familiar
Flying
: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Creature - Dragon
Pseudodragon Familiar (clb) 88
Sage Owl
Flying
When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
Creature - Bird
Sage Owl (m10) 69
Suspicious Bookcase
Defender
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Suspicious Bookcase (cmm) 977

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Finisher

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Battle of Wits
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 200 or more cards in your library, you win the game.
Enchantment
Battle of Wits (sld) 1446
Rise and Shine
Target noncreature artifact you control becomes a 0/0 artifact creature. Put four +1/+1 counters on each artifact that became a creature this way.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Rise and Shine (moc) 233
Time Stretch
Target player takes two extra turns after this one.
Sorcery
Time Stretch (dmr) 422

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Instant

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Divergent Equation
Return up to X target instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Exile Divergent Equation.
Instant
Divergent Equation (sos) 43
Run Behind
This spell costs
less to cast if it targets an attacking creature.
Target creature's owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.
Instant
Run Behind (sos) 66

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Land

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Fabled Passage
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
Land
Fabled Passage (soc) 130
Great Hall of the Biblioplex
: Add
.
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.
: If this land isn't a creature, it becomes a 2/4 Wizard creature with "Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn." It's still a land.
Land
Great Hall of the Biblioplex (sos) 257
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (sld) 555
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (jmp) 53
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (hob) 189
Study Hall
: Add
.
,
: Add one mana of any color. When you spend this mana to cast your commander, scry X, where X is the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.
Land
Study Hall (soc) 407

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Lifegain

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Staff of the Mind Magus
Whenever you cast a blue spell or an Island you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Artifact
Staff of the Mind Magus (m15) 234
Venser's Journal
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.
Artifact - Book
Venser's Journal (c21) 273

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Mill

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Abhorrent Oculus
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile six cards from your graveyard.
Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Creature - Eye
Abhorrent Oculus (sch) 50
Codex Shredder
: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Artifact
Codex Shredder (cmr) 304
Mystic Redaction
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
Whenever you discard a card, each opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Enchantment
Mystic Redaction (mh2) 53
Overwhelmed Apprentice
When this creature enters, each opponent mills two cards. Then you scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Creature - Human Wizard
Overwhelmed Apprentice (eld) 60

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Deceive the Messenger
Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)
Instant
Deceive the Messenger (ltr) 47
Kasmina, Enigmatic Mentor
Spells your opponents cast that target a creature or planeswalker you control cost
more to cast.
−2: Create a 2/2 blue Wizard creature token. Draw a card, then discard a card.
Legendary Planeswalker - Kasmina
Kasmina, Enigmatic Mentor (j22) 60
Living Conundrum
Hexproof
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, skip that draw instead.
As long as there are no cards in your library, this creature has base power and toughness 10/10 and has flying and vigilance.
Creature - Elemental
Living Conundrum (mkm) 63
Mother of Runes
: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Creature - Human Cleric
Mother of Runes (clb) 702
Personal Sanctuary
During your turn, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.
Enchantment
Personal Sanctuary (m12) 30

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Scroll of the Masters
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a lore counter on this artifact.
,
: Target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each lore counter on this artifact.
Artifact
Scroll of the Masters (frf) 163
Skilled Animator
When this creature enters, target artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5 for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.
Creature - Human Artificer
Skilled Animator (cmr) 98
Splashy Spellcaster
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a Sorcerer Role token attached to up to one other target creature you control. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1.")
Creature - Wizard Elemental
Splashy Spellcaster (woe) 70

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Campus Guide
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Campus Guide (fdn) 251
Creeping Peeper
: Add
. Spend this mana only to cast an enchantment spell, unlock a door, or turn a permanent face up.
Creature - Eye
Creeping Peeper (dsk) 46
Curious Homunculus
: Add
. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are three or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, transform this creature.
Creature - Homunculus
Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader (emn) 54Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader (emn) 54
Five Hundred Year Diary
Five Hundred Year Diary enters tapped.
: Add
for each Clue you control.
, Sacrifice Five Hundred Year Diary: Draw a card.
Legendary Artifact - Clue Book
Five Hundred Year Diary (who) 42
Jace's Sanctum
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.
Enchantment
Jace's Sanctum (c19) 88
Letter of Acceptance
: Add one mana of any color.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Letter of Acceptance (cmm) 397
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (clb) 325
Monologue Tax
Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, you create a Treasure token.
Enchantment
Monologue Tax (soc) 157
Patriar's Seal
: Add one mana of any color.
,
: Untap target legendary creature you control.
Artifact
Patriar's Seal (clb) 332
Sarevok's Tome
When this artifact enters, you take the initiative.
: Add
. If you have the initiative, add
instead.
,
: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if you've completed a dungeon.
Artifact - Book
Sarevok's Tome (clb) 685
Sky Diamond
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Sky Diamond (clb) 337
Spell Satchel
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, put a book counter on this artifact.
, Remove a book counter from this artifact: Add
.
,
, Remove three book counters from this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Spell Satchel (stx) 258
Talisman of Progress
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (sld) 1052
Tataru Taru
When Tataru Taru enters, you draw a card and target opponent may draw a card.
Scions' Secretary — Whenever an opponent draws a card, if it isn't that player's turn, create a tapped Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Legendary Creature - Advisor Dwarf
Tataru Taru (fic) 30
Tempting Contract
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent may create a Treasure token. For each opponent who does, you create a Treasure token.
Artifact
Tempting Contract (c21) 78
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (ltc) 287
Unblinking Observer
: Add
. Spend this mana only to pay a disturb cost or cast an instant or sorcery spell.
Creature - Homunculus
Unblinking Observer (mid) 82
Watcher of the Spheres
Flying
Creature spells with flying you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever another creature you control with flying enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Wizard Bird
Watcher of the Spheres (m21) 227
Wayfarer's Bauble
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (sld) 2656
Wizards of Thay
Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost
less to cast.
You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
Creature - Human Wizard
Wizards of Thay (clb) 105

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Archaeomancer
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Wizard
Archaeomancer (j25) 285
Biblioplex Assistant
Flying
When this creature enters, put up to one target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Creature Artifact - Gargoyle
Biblioplex Assistant (stx) 251
Cogwork Archivist
Reach
,
: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Cogwork Archivist (stx) 254
Dutiful Knowledge Seeker
Whenever one or more cards are put into a library from anywhere, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
Creature - Spirit Fox
Dutiful Knowledge Seeker (tle) 92
Grimoire of the Dead
,
, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead.
, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.
Legendary Artifact - Book
Grimoire of the Dead (c19) 213
Krile Baldesion
Lifelink
Trace Aether — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may return target creature card with mana value equal to that spell's mana value from your graveyard to your hand. Do this only once each turn.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Dwarf
Krile Baldesion (fic) 86
Learn from the Past
Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.
Draw a card.
Instant
Learn from the Past (dtk) 60
Loyal Retainers
Sacrifice this creature: Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.
Creature - Human Advisor
Loyal Retainers (cmm) 39
Magnanimous Magistrate
This creature enters with five reprieve counters on it.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, if its mana value was 1 or greater, you may remove that many reprieve counters from this creature. If you do, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Creature - Human Advisor
Magnanimous Magistrate (j22) 7
Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Forgotten Lore (fdn) 314
Tenacious Tomeseeker
Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, if it was bargained, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Knight
Tenacious Tomeseeker (woe) 74
Wizard's Spellbook
: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Roll a d20. Activate only as a sorcery.
1—9 | Copy that card. You may cast the copy.
10—19 | Copy that card. You may cast the copy by paying
rather than paying its mana cost.
20 | Copy each card exiled with this artifact. You may cast any number of the copies without paying their mana costs.
Artifact - Book
Wizard's Spellbook (afr) 82

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Agent of Treachery
When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control three or more permanents you don't own, draw three cards.
Creature - Human Rogue
Agent of Treachery (m20) 43
Bury in Books
This spell costs
less to cast if it targets an attacking creature.
Put target creature into its owner's library second from the top.
Instant
Bury in Books (j25) 292
Council's Judgment
Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.
Sorcery
Council's Judgment (2xm) 336
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (sld) 2497
Guardian Naga
Vigilance
During your turn, prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature.
Creature - Snake
Guardian Naga // Banishing Coils (clb) 23
Loran of the Third Path
Vigilance
When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment.
: You and target opponent each draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Artificer
Loran of the Third Path (mkc) 71
Memory Lapse
Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.
Instant
Memory Lapse (sta) 16
Perplexing Test
Choose one —
• Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands.
• Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.
Instant
Perplexing Test (soc) 197

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Blind Obedience
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Enchantment
Blind Obedience (sld) 1030

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River Song's Diary
Imprint — Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell from their hand, exile it instead of putting it into a graveyard as it resolves.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are four or more cards exiled with this artifact, choose one of them at random. You may cast it without paying its mana cost.
Artifact - Book
River Song's Diary (who) 182

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Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII
As this artifact enters, choose white Citizen, blue Camarid, black Thrull, red Goblin, or green Saproling.
,
: Create a 1/1 creature token of the chosen color and type.
Artifact - Book
Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII (tsp) 263
Spellbook Vendor
Vigilance
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may pay
. When you do, create a Sorcerer Role token attached to target creature you control. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1.")
Creature - Human Peasant
Spellbook Vendor (woe) 31
The Book of Exalted Deeds
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 3/3 white Angel creature token with flying.
,
, Exile The Book of Exalted Deeds: Put an enlightened counter on target Angel. It gains "You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game." Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Artifact - Book
The Book of Exalted Deeds (afr) 4

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Academy Rector
When this creature dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Cleric
Academy Rector (uds) 1
Enlightened Tutor
Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Instant
Enlightened Tutor (dmr) 6
Personal Tutor
Search your library for a sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Sorcery
Personal Tutor (cmm) 110
Solve the Equation
Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Solve the Equation (stx) 54
Spellseeker
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Wizard
Spellseeker (cmm) 635

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Component Collector
If it's neither day nor night, it becomes day as this creature enters.
Whenever day becomes night or night becomes day, you may tap or untap target nonland permanent.
Creature - Homunculus
Component Collector (mid) 43

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Animate Library
Enchant your library
Enchanted library is an artifact creature on the battlefield with power and toughness each equal to the number of cards in it. It's still a library.
If enchanted library would leave the battlefield, exile this Aura instead.
Enchantment - Aura
Animate Library (ulst) 11

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28 pips - 23 cards
6 mana - 6 cards
151 pips - 123 cards
11 mana - 11 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
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10 mana - 8 cards
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