Once Upon a Time

If this spell is the first spell you've cast this game, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Harmless Offering

Target opponent gains control of target permanent you control.

Pore Over the Pages

Draw three cards, untap up to two lands, then discard a card.

Library of Lat-Nam

An opponent chooses one —
• You draw three cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
• You search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Rescue

Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand.

Book Devourer

Trample
Whenever Book Devourer deals combat damage to a player, you may discard all the cards in your hand. If you do, draw that many cards.

Role Reversal

Exchange control of two target permanents that share a permanent type.

Tomebound Lich

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Whenever Tomebound Lich enters the battlefield or deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then discard a card.

Into the Story

This spell costs {3} less to cast if an opponent has seven or more cards in their graveyard.
Draw four cards.

Folio of Fancies

Players have no maximum hand size.
{X}{X}, {T}: Each player draws X cards.
{2}{U}, {T}: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in their hand.

Compulsive Research

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.

Environmental Sciences

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 2 life.

Bury in Books

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets an attacking creature.
Put target creature into its owner's library second from the top.

Solve the Equation

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Practical Research

Draw four cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an instant or sorcery card.

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Grove of the Burnwillows

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}. Each opponent gains 1 life.

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Talisman of Curiosity

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. Talisman of Curiosity deals 1 damage to you.

Goblin Wizardry

Create two 1/1 red Goblin Wizard creature tokens with prowess. (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, they get +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Wrong Turn

Target opponent gains control of target creature. (If an attacking or blocking creature changes controllers, it's removed from combat.)

Think Twice

Draw a card.
Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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.

The Biblioplex

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Look at the top card of your library. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard. Activate only if you have exactly zero or seven cards in hand.

Study Hall

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: 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.

Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.

Temple of Mystery

Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Plains

Forest

Swamp

Guardian Naga

Vigilance
As long as it's your turn, prevent all damage that would be dealt to Guardian Naga.

Banishing Coils

Exile target artifact or enchantment. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Guardian Naga // Banishing Coils

Endless Detour

The owner of target spell, nonland permanent, or card in a graveyard puts it on the top or bottom of their library.

You Find the Villains' Lair

Choose one —
• Foil Their Scheme — Counter target spell.
• Learn Their Secrets — Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Tragic Lesson

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you return a land you control to its owner's hand.

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.

Introduction to Annihilation

Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller draws a card.

Magma Opus

Magma Opus deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. Tap two target permanents. Create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token. Draw two cards.
{U/R}{U/R}, Discard Magma Opus: Create a Treasure token.

Tales of the Ancestors

Each player with fewer cards in hand than the player with the most cards in hand draws cards equal to the difference.
Foretell {1}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Candlekeep Inspiration

Until end of turn, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X, where X is the number of cards you own in exile and in your graveyard that are instant cards, are sorcery cards, and/or have an Adventure.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Lorehold Command

Choose two —
• Create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.
• Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain indestructible and haste until end of turn.
• Lorehold Command deals 3 damage to any target. Target player gains 3 life.
• Sacrifice a permanent, then draw two cards.

Mountain

Cascade Bluffs

{T}: Add {C}.
{U/R}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Sunken Hollow enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Island

Maestros Theater

When Maestros Theater enters the battlefield, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Obscura Storefront

When Obscura Storefront enters the battlefield, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Flaxen Intruder

Whenever Flaxen Intruder deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. When you do, destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Welcome Home

Create three 2/2 green Bear creature tokens. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Flaxen Intruder // Welcome Home

Decadent Dragon

Flying, trample
Whenever Decadent Dragon attacks, create a Treasure token.

Expensive Taste

Exile the top two cards of target opponent's library face down. You may look at and play those cards for as long as they remain exiled.

Decadent Dragon // Expensive Taste

Devouring Sugarmaw

Menace, trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token. If you don't, tap Devouring Sugarmaw.

Have for Dinner

Create a 1/1 white Human creature token and a Food token. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Devouring Sugarmaw // Have for Dinner

Rosethorn Acolyte

Seasonal Ritual

Add one mana of any color. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Rosethorn Acolyte // Seasonal Ritual

Edgewall Inn

Edgewall Inn enters the battlefield tapped.
As Edgewall Inn enters the battlefield, choose a color.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice Edgewall Inn: Return target card that has an Adventure from your graveyard to your hand.

Restless Bivouac

Restless Bivouac enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.
{1}{R}{W}: Restless Bivouac becomes a 2/2 red and white Ox creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Bivouac attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Restless Vinestalk

Restless Vinestalk enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
{3}{G}{U}: Until end of turn, Restless Vinestalk becomes a 5/5 green and blue Plant creature with trample. It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Vinestalk attacks, up to one other target creature has base power and toughness 3/3 until end of turn.

Frolicking Familiar

Flying
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Frolicking Familiar gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Blow Off Steam

Blow Off Steam deals 1 damage to any target. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Frolicking Familiar // Blow Off Steam

Beluna Grandsquall

Trample
Permanent spells you cast that have an Adventure cost {1} less to cast.

Seek Thrills

Mill seven cards. Then put all cards that have an Adventure from among the milled cards into your hand.

Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills

Restless Fortress

Restless Fortress enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{2}{W}{B}: Restless Fortress becomes a 1/4 white and black Nightmare creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Fortress attacks, defending player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Replication Technique

Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. Players may choose new targets for their copies.)
Create a token that's a copy of target permanent you control.

Cultural Exchange

Choose any number of creatures target player controls. Choose the same number of creatures another target player controls. Those players exchange control of those creatures. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Mystic Retrieval

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII

As Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII enters the battlefield, choose white Citizen, blue Camarid, black Thrull, red Goblin, or green Saproling.
{3}, {T}: Create a 1/1 creature token of the chosen color and type.

Lat-Nam's Legacy

Shuffle a card from your hand into your library. If you do, draw two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Banish into Fable

When you cast this spell from your hand, copy it if you control an artifact, then copy it if you control an enchantment. You may choose new targets for the copies.
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. You create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Tree of Tales

Codie, Vociferous Codex

You can't cast permanent spells.
{4}, {T}: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}. When you next cast a spell this turn, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile an instant or sorcery card with lesser mana value. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put each other card exiled this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Fractured Identity

Exile target nonland permanent. Each player other than its controller creates a token that's a copy of it.

Happily Ever After

When Happily Ever After enters the battlefield, each player gains 5 life and draws a card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are five colors among permanents you control, there are six or more card types among permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard, and your life total is greater than or equal to your starting life total, you win the game.

Vanishing Verse

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.

Excavation Technique

Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. Players may choose new targets for their copies.)
Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens.

Obscura Ascendancy

Whenever you cast a spell, if its mana value is equal to 1 plus the number of soul counters on Obscura Ascendancy, put a soul counter on Obscura Ascendancy, then create a 2/2 white Spirit creature token with flying.
As long as there are five or more soul counters on Obscura Ascendancy, Spirits you control get +3/+3.

Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Lost to Legend

Put target nonland historic permanent into its owner's library fourth from the top. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Voldaren Estate

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Vampire spell.
{5}, {T}: Create a Blood token. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each Vampire you control. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Realm-Cloaked Giant

Cast Off

Destroy all non-Giant creatures. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Realm-Cloaked Giant // Cast Off

Fervent Mastery

You may pay {2}{R}{R} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the {2}{R}{R} cost was paid, an opponent discards any number of cards, then draws that many cards.
Search your library for up to three cards, put them into your hand, shuffle, then discard three cards at random.

Hearth Elemental

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the number of cards in your graveyard that are instant cards, sorcery cards, and/or have an Adventure.

Stoke Genius

Discard your hand, then draw two cards. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Hearth Elemental // Stoke Genius

Quick Study

Aquatic Alchemist

Whenever you cast your first instant or sorcery spell each turn, Aquatic Alchemist gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Bubble Up

Put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Aquatic Alchemist // Bubble Up

Beanstalk Giant

Beanstalk Giant's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.

Fertile Footsteps

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps

Twining Twins

Swift Spiral

Exile target nontoken creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Twining Twins // Swift Spiral

Galvanic Giant

Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, tap target creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it.

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