Kess, Dissident Mage

Flying
Once during each of your turns, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Rush of Dread

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {1} — Target opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control, rounded up.
+ {2} — Target opponent discards half the cards in their hand, rounded up.
+ {2} — Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up.

Storm-Kiln Artist

Storm-Kiln Artist gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token.

Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Sorcerous Squall

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Target opponent mills nine cards, then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Invoke the Winds

Gain control of target artifact or creature. Untap it.

Nightscape Familiar

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{1}{B}: Regenerate Nightscape Familiar.

Cruel Ultimatum

Target opponent sacrifices a creature, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life.

Goblin Electromancer

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Invoke Despair

Target opponent sacrifices a creature. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card. Then repeat this process for an enchantment and a planeswalker.

Reversal of Fortune

Target opponent reveals their hand. You may copy an instant or sorcery card in it. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Thought Distortion

This spell can't be countered.
Target opponent reveals their hand. Exile all noncreature, nonland cards from that player's hand and graveyard.

Alpha Brawl

Target creature an opponent controls deals damage equal to its power to each other creature that player controls, then each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to that creature.

Din of the Fireherd

Create a 5/5 black and red Elemental creature token. Target opponent sacrifices a creature for each black creature you control, then sacrifices a land for each red creature you control.

Rakdos's Return

Rakdos's Return deals X damage to target opponent or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards X cards.

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch

Flying
Whenever you cast an instant spell from your hand, it gains rebound. (Exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast it from exile without paying its mana cost.)
When Ojer Pakpatiq dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control with three time counters on it.

Temple of Cyclical Time

(Transforms from Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch.)
{T}: Add {U}. Remove a time counter from Temple of Cyclical Time.
{2}{U}, {T}: Transform Temple of Cyclical Time. Activate only if it has no time counters on it and only as a sorcery.

Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time

Sublime Epiphany

Choose one or more —
• Counter target spell.
• Counter target activated or triggered ability.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
• Target player draws a card.

Star of Extinction

Destroy target land. Star of Extinction deals 20 damage to each creature and each planeswalker.

Bribery

Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Spells can't be countered.
Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost.

Bituminous Blast

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Bituminous Blast deals 4 damage to target creature.

Blood Tribute

Kicker—Tap an untapped Vampire you control. (You may tap a Vampire you control in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)
Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. If this spell was kicked, you gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Clone Legion

For each creature target player controls, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Worst Fears

You control target player during that player's next turn. Exile Worst Fears. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for the player.)

Acquire

Search target opponent's library for an artifact card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Farideh's Fireball

Farideh's Fireball deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker. Roll a d20.
1—9 | Farideh's Fireball deals 2 damage to each player.
10—20 | Farideh's Fireball deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Ghastly Conscription

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard in a face-down pile, shuffle that pile, then manifest those cards. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Explosive Singularity

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may tap any number of untapped creatures you control. This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature tapped this way.
Explosive Singularity deals 10 damage to any target.

Shivan Meteor

Shivan Meteor deals 13 damage to target creature.
Suspend 2—{1}{R}{R} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{R}{R} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Curse of the Cabal

Target player sacrifices half the permanents they control, rounded down.
Suspend 2—{2}{B}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{B}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if Curse of the Cabal is suspended, that player may sacrifice a permanent. If the player does, put two time counters on Curse of the Cabal.

Slave of Bolas

Gain control of target creature. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Ignite Memories

Target player reveals a card at random from their hand. Ignite Memories deals damage to that player equal to that card's mana value.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Prophetic Bolt

Prophetic Bolt deals 4 damage to any target. Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Radiate

Choose target instant or sorcery spell that targets only a single permanent or player. Copy that spell for each other permanent or player the spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those permanents and players.

Phthisis

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses life equal to its power plus its toughness.
Suspend 5—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{B} and exile it with five time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Choice of Damnations

Target opponent chooses a number. You may have that player lose that much life. If you don't, that player sacrifices all but that many permanents.

Explosion of Riches

Draw a card, then each other player may draw a card. Whenever a card is drawn this way, Explosion of Riches deals 5 damage to target opponent chosen at random from among your opponents.

Skullscorch

Target player discards two cards at random unless that player has Skullscorch deal 4 damage to them.

Remorseless Punishment

Target opponent loses 5 life unless that player discards two cards or sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. Repeat this process once.

Eternal Dominion

Search target opponent's library for an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.
Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)

Creative Outburst

Creative Outburst deals 5 damage to any target. Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
{U/R}{U/R}, Discard Creative Outburst: Create a Treasure token.

Treacherous Urge

Target opponent reveals their hand. You may put a creature card from it onto the battlefield under your control. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Master the Way

Draw a card. Master the Way deals damage to any target equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Wit's End

Tyrannize

Target player discards their hand unless they pay 7 life.

Undercity Plague

Target player loses 1 life, discards a card, then sacrifices a permanent.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Corpsehatch

Destroy target nonblack creature. Create two 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Sins of the Past

Until end of turn, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Exile Sins of the Past.

Flame Wave

Flame Wave deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.

Twisted Justice

Target player sacrifices a creature. You draw cards equal to that creature's power.

Temporal Extortion

When you cast this spell, any player may pay half their life, rounded up. If a player does, counter Temporal Extortion.
Take an extra turn after this one.

Judith, Carnage Connoisseur

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, choose one —
• That spell gains deathtouch and lifelink.
• Create a 2/2 red Imp creature token with "When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to each opponent."

Veyran, Voice of Duality

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Veyran, Voice of Duality gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
If you casting or copying an instant or sorcery spell causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Melek, Reforged Researcher

Melek, Reforged Researcher's power and toughness are each equal to twice the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.
The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs {3} less to cast.

Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Mizzix of the Izmagnus

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value greater than the number of experience counters you have, you get an experience counter.
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each experience counter you have.

Urabrask

First strike
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Urabrask deals 1 damage to target opponent. Add {R}.
{R}: Exile Urabrask, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you've cast three or more instant and/or sorcery spells this turn.

The Great Work

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — The Great Work deals 3 damage to target opponent and each creature they control.
II — Create three Treasure tokens.
III — Until end of turn, you may cast instant and sorcery spells from any graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead. Exile The Great Work, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Urabrask // The Great Work

Mercurial Spelldancer

Mercurial Spelldancer can't be blocked.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on Mercurial Spelldancer.
Whenever Mercurial Spelldancer deals combat damage to a player, you may remove two oil counters from it. If you do, when you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Stolen Goods

Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

Blot Out

Target opponent exiles a creature or planeswalker they control with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.

Black Sun's Twilight

Up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. If X is 5 or more, return a creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Hurl Through Hell

Exile target creature. Until the end of your next turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Omen Hawker

{T}: Add {C}{U}. Spend this mana only to activate abilities.

Errant, Street Artist

Flash
Defender, haste
{1}{U}, {T}: Copy target spell you control that wasn't cast. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Talent of the Telepath

Target opponent reveals the top seven cards of their library. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Then that player puts the rest into their graveyard.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, you may cast up to two instant and/or sorcery spells from among the revealed cards instead of one.

Flick a Coin

Flick a Coin deals 1 damage to any target. You create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
Draw a card.

Haughty Djinn

Flying
Haughty Djinn's power is equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Magda, the Hoardmaster

Whenever you commit a crime, create a tapped Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Sacrifice three Treasures: Create a 4/4 red Scorpion Dragon creature token with flying and haste. Activate only as a sorcery.

Opposition Agent

Flash
You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries.
While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Deekah, Fractal Theorist

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is that spell's mana value.
{3}{U}: Target creature token can't be blocked this turn.

Ovika, Enigma Goliath

Flying
Ward—{3}, Pay 3 life.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create X 1/1 red Phyrexian Goblin creature tokens, where X is the mana value of that spell. They gain haste until end of turn.

Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch

Sorcerous Inspiration — At the beginning of your upkeep, return an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard to your hand.
Fire of Tzeentch — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Marchesa, Dealer of Death

Whenever you commit a crime, you may pay {1}. If you do, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand.
• Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Leadership Vacuum

Target player returns each commander they control from the battlefield to the command zone.
Draw a card.

Thunderclap Drake

Flying
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{2}{U}, Sacrifice Thunderclap Drake: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Descent into Avernus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two descent counters on Descent into Avernus. Then each player creates X Treasure tokens and Descent into Avernus deals X damage to each player, where X is the number of descent counters on Descent into Avernus.

Bloodletter of Aclazotz

Flying
If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Displacer Kitten

Avoidance — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Exhaustion

Creatures and lands target opponent controls don't untap during their next untap step.

Cleansing Wildfire

Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Draw a card.

Hymn to Tourach

Target player discards two cards at random.

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 {1} less to cast.
You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.

Mocking Sprite

Flying
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Ioreth of the Healing House

{T}: Untap another target permanent.
{T}: Untap two other target legendary creatures.

Bottle-Cap Blast

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Bottle-Cap Blast deals 5 damage to any target. If excess damage was dealt to a permanent this way, create that many tapped Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Case of the Ransacked Lab

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
To solve — You've cast four or more instant and sorcery spells this turn. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

This Is How It Ends

Target creature's owner shuffles it into their library, then faces a villainous choice — They lose 5 life, or they shuffle another creature they own into their library.

Great Intelligence's Plan

Draw three cards. Then target opponent faces a villainous choice — They discard three cards, or you may cast a spell from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Corrupt

Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Nightmare Incursion

Search target player's library for up to X cards, where X is the number of Swamps you control, and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Void

Choose a number. Destroy all artifacts and creatures with mana value equal to that number. Then target player reveals their hand and discards all nonland cards with mana value equal to the number.

Monomania

Target player chooses a card in their hand and discards the rest.

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