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Pumped up secrets
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Commander

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Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

The first face-down creature spell you cast each turn costs {3} less to cast. Whenever a face-down creature you control enters, draw a card.

Creature
Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer (c19) 45

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Manifest Enablers

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Become Anonymous

Exile target nontoken creature you own and the top two cards of your library in a face-down pile, shuffle that pile, then cloak those cards. They enter tapped. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Instant
Become Anonymous (acr) 14
Deathmist Raptor

Deathtouch Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield face up or face down. Megamorph {4}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Deathmist Raptor (dsc) 176
Etrata, Deadly Fugitive

Deathtouch Face-down creatures you control have "{2}{U}{B}: Turn this creature face up. If you can't, exile it, then you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost." Whenever an Assassin you control deals combat damage to an opponent, cloak the top card of that player's library.

Creature
Etrata, Deadly Fugitive (mkm) 200
Leyline of Anticipation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Enchantment
Leyline of Anticipation (clb) 726
Primordial Mist

At the beginning of your end step, you may manifest the top card of your library. (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.) Exile a face-down permanent you control face up: You may play that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Enchantment
Primordial Mist (dsc) 123
Scroll of Fate

{T}: Manifest a card from your hand. (Put that card 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.)

Artifact
Scroll of Fate (dsc) 251
Thieving Amalgam

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you manifest the top card of that player's library. (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.) Whenever a creature you control but don't own dies, its owner loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Thieving Amalgam (otc) 150
Ugin's Mastery

Whenever you cast a colorless creature spell, manifest the top card of your library. (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.) Whenever you attack with creatures with total power 6 or greater, you may turn a face-down creature you control face up.

Enchantment
Ugin's Mastery (mkc) 53
Whisperwood Elemental

At the beginning of your end step, manifest the top card of your library. (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.) Sacrifice this creature: Until end of turn, face-up nontoken creatures you control gain "When this creature dies, manifest the top card of your library."

Creature
Whisperwood Elemental (dsc) 204
Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, manifest dread if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. Otherwise, you may turn a permanent you control face up. (To 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
Zimone, Mystery Unraveler (dsc) 8

Manifest Enablers

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Removal

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Ainok Survivalist

Megamorph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.

Creature
Ainok Survivalist (mkc) 165
Bane of the Living

Morph {X}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Creature
Bane of the Living (c19) 104
Brine Elemental

Morph {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, each opponent skips their next untap step.

Creature
Brine Elemental (tsr) 55
Chromeshell Crab

Morph {4}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, you may exchange control of target creature you control and target creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Chromeshell Crab (c19) 81
Echo Tracer

Morph {2}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, return target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature
Echo Tracer (plst) LGN-37
Exit Specialist

This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater. Disguise {1}{U} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.) When this creature is turned face up, return another target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature
Exit Specialist (mkm) 55
Icefeather Aven

Flying Morph {1}{G}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, you may return another target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature
Icefeather Aven (c19) 194
Ixidron

As this creature enters, turn all other nontoken creatures face down. (They're 2/2 creatures.) Ixidron's power and toughness are each equal to the number of face-down creatures on the battlefield.

Creature
Ixidron (c19) 87
Kadena's Silencer

When this creature is turned face up, counter all abilities your opponents control. Megamorph {1}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Kadena's Silencer (c19) 8
Kheru Spellsnatcher

Morph {4}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost for as long as it remains exiled.

Creature
Kheru Spellsnatcher (dsc) 119
Nantuko Vigilante

Morph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Nantuko Vigilante (mkc) 177
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (dsc) 125
Silumgar Assassin

Creatures with power greater than this creature's power can't block it. Megamorph {2}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target creature with power 3 or less an opponent controls.

Creature
Silumgar Assassin (c19) 128
Skinthinner

Morph {3}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Creature
Skinthinner (plst) LGN-80
Stratus Dancer

Flying Megamorph {1}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, counter target instant or sorcery spell.

Creature
Stratus Dancer (c19) 96
Voidmage Apprentice

Morph {2}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, counter target spell.

Creature
Voidmage Apprentice (jvc) 4
Wash Out

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Wash Out (2x2) 67
Wizard's Retort

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a Wizard. Counter target spell.

Instant
Wizard's Retort (plst) DOM-75
Zimone's Hypothesis

You may put a +1/+1 counter on a creature. Then choose odd or even. Return each creature with power of the chosen quality to its owner's hand. (Zero is even.)

Instant
Zimone's Hypothesis (dsc) 15

Removal

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Clones

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Vesuvan Shapeshifter

As this creature enters or is turned face up, you may choose another creature on the battlefield. If you do, until this creature is turned face down, it becomes a copy of that creature, except it has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may turn this creature face down." Morph {1}{U}

Creature
Vesuvan Shapeshifter (tsr) 97

Clones

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Protection

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Ashnod's Intervention

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand."

Instant
Ashnod's Intervention (bro) 85
Golgari Charm

Choose one — • All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn. • Destroy target enchantment. • Regenerate each creature you control.

Instant
Golgari Charm (plst) GK1-62
Mistfire Weaver

Flying Morph {2}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn.

Creature
Mistfire Weaver (ktk) 46
Willbender

Morph {1}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Creature
Willbender (plst) DD2-6

Protection

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Sac Outlet

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Lampad of Death's Vigil

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature Enchantment
Lampad of Death's Vigil (plst) THB-103

Sac Outlet

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Draw

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Grim Haruspex

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Creature
Grim Haruspex (clb) 754
Mystic Forge

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast artifact spells and colorless spells from the top of your library. {T}, Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library.

Artifact
Mystic Forge (pip) 236
Paradoxical Outcome

Return any number of target nonland, nontoken permanents you control to their owners' hands. Draw a card for each card returned to your hand this way.

Instant
Paradoxical Outcome (mb2) 33
Vivien, Champion of the Wilds

You may cast creature spells as though they had flash. +1: Until your next turn, up to one target creature gains vigilance and reach. −2: Look at the top three cards of your library. Exile one face down and put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. For as long as it remains exiled, you may cast it if it's a creature spell.

Planeswalker
Vivien, Champion of the Wilds (clb) 838

Draw

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Pump

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Curator Beastie

Reach Colorless creatures you control enter with two additional +1/+1 counters on them. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, 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
Curator Beastie (dsc) 30
Experiment Twelve

Trample Whenever this creature or another creature you control is turned face up, put +1/+1 counters on that creature equal to its power. Disguise {4}{G} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)

Creature
Experiment Twelve (mkc) 37
Forsaken Monument

Colorless creatures you control get +2/+2. Whenever you tap a permanent for {C}, add an additional {C}. Whenever you cast a colorless spell, you gain 2 life.

Artifact
Forsaken Monument (cmm) 950
Overwhelming Stampede

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Sorcery
Overwhelming Stampede (dsc) 192
Thunderfoot Baloth

Trample Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, this creature gets +2/+2 and other creatures you control get +2/+2 and have trample.

Creature
Thunderfoot Baloth (dsc) 201
Vannifar, Evolved Enigma

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose one — • Cloak a card from your hand. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) • Put a +1/+1 counter on each colorless creature you control.

Creature
Vannifar, Evolved Enigma (mkm) 241

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Tokens

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Printlifter Ooze

Deathtouch Whenever this creature or another creature you control is turned face up, create a 0/0 green Ooze creature token with trample. The token enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of other creatures you control. Disguise {3}{G}

Creature
Printlifter Ooze (mkc) 40

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Evasion

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Roshan, Hidden Magister

Other creatures you control are Assassins in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. Face-down creatures you control have menace. Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Roshan, Hidden Magister (acr) 32
Wonder

Flying As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Creature
Wonder (mh2) 271

Evasion

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (fdc) 1
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (blc) 119
Flourishing Bloom-Kin

This creature gets +1/+1 for each Forest you control. Disguise {4}{G} When this creature is turned face up, search your library for up to two Forest cards and reveal them. Put one of them onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Flourishing Bloom-Kin (mkm) 160
Obscuring Aether

Face-down creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {1}{G}: Turn this enchantment face down. (It becomes a 2/2 creature.)

Enchantment
Obscuring Aether (mkc) 179
Overgrown Zealot

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to turn permanents face up.

Creature
Overgrown Zealot (dsk) 193
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (j25) 704
Sakura-Tribe Elder

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

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (dsc) 194
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (fdc) 2
Threats Around Every Corner

When this enchantment enters, manifest dread. Whenever a face-down permanent you control enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Threats Around Every Corner (dsk) 200
Ugin, the Ineffable

Colorless spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. +1: Exile the top card of your library face down and look at it. Create a 2/2 colorless Spirit creature token. When that token leaves the battlefield, put the exiled card into your hand. −3: Destroy target permanent that's one or more colors.

Planeswalker
Ugin, the Ineffable (cmm) 811
Wilderness Reclamation

At the beginning of your end step, untap all lands you control.

Enchantment
Wilderness Reclamation (dsc) 205

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Tutor

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Evolving Door

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Count the colors of the sacrificed creature, then search your library for a creature card that's exactly that many colors plus one. Exile that card, then shuffle. You may cast the exiled card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Evolving Door (snc) 144

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Land

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Branch of Vitu-Ghazi

{T}: Add {C}. Disguise {3} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.) When this land is turned face up, add two mana of any one color. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.

Land
Branch of Vitu-Ghazi (mkm) 258
Choked Estuary

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Choked Estuary (mkc) 254
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (fdc) 3
Darkwater Catacombs

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (otc) 282
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (dsc) 275
Flooded Grove

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

Land
Flooded Grove (dsc) 276
Foreboding Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Swamp, Forest, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {B}{G}{U} ({B}{G}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Foreboding Landscape (mh3) 221
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (fdn) 281
Hinterland Harbor

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Hinterland Harbor (dsc) 284
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (fdn) 274
Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Llanowar Wastes (dsc) 287
Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Land
Mosswort Bridge (dsc) 288
Overflowing Basin

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Land
Overflowing Basin (dsc) 293
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Shrine of the Forsaken Gods

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless spells. Activate only if you control seven or more lands.

Land
Shrine of the Forsaken Gods (mkc) 292
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (otc) 325
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 277
Tainted Wood

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Wood (dsc) 305
Tangled Islet

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Tangled Islet (dsc) 306
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (dsc) 313
Tomb of the Spirit Dragon

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: You gain 1 life for each colorless creature you control.

Land
Tomb of the Spirit Dragon (cmm) 1048
Viridescent Bog

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Viridescent Bog (dsc) 324
Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Yavimaya Coast (dsc) 327
Zoetic Cavern

{T}: Add {C}. Morph {2} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Land
Zoetic Cavern (mkc) 311

Land

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Recursion

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Den Protector

Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block it. Megamorph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Den Protector (mkc) 169
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.)

Sorcery
Ghastly Conscription (c19) 115
Honest Rutstein

When Honest Rutstein enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Honest Rutstein (otj) 207
Illicit Masquerade

Flash When this enchantment enters, put an impostor counter on each creature you control. Whenever a creature you control with an impostor counter on it dies, exile it. Return up to one other target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Enchantment
Illicit Masquerade (mkm) 88
Yedora, Grave Gardener

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may return it to the battlefield face down under its owner's control. It's a Forest land. (It has no other types or abilities.)

Creature
Yedora, Grave Gardener (dsc) 209

Recursion

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{"ops":[{"insert":"Face-down creatures galore. With the right luck, it's likely to draw nearly the entire deck. The majority of \"spells\" are within creatures and the wincon is either just combat damage or get the infinite with Brine elemental.\n"}]}
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