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Volo, Guide to Monsters
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Volo, Guide to Monsters

Whenever you cast a creature spell that doesn't share a creature type with a creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, copy that spell. (A copy of a creature spell becomes a token.)

Creature
Volo, Guide to Monsters (afr) 238

Commander

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Land

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Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (plst) TMP-315
Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Breeding Pool (rvr) 399
City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (wc97) pm413
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (brc) 178
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (brc) 185
Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Flooded Strand (ons) 316
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (unh) 140
Gaea's Cradle

{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

Land
Gaea's Cradle (usg) 321
Glasspool Mimic

Creature
Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore (znr) 60Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore (znr) 60
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (unh) 137
Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 438
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ons) 321
Rejuvenating Springs

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 424
Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 439
Sea Gate Restoration

Sorcery
Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76
Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 440
Waterlogged Grove

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {U}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Waterlogged Grove (who) 331
Wooded Foothills

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Wooded Foothills (ons) 330
Yavimaya Coast

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

Land
Yavimaya Coast (apc) 143

Land

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Craterhoof Behemoth

Haste When this creature enters, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Creature
Craterhoof Behemoth (inr) 480
Dream Halls

Rather than pay the mana cost for a spell, its controller may discard a card that shares a color with that spell.

Enchantment
Dream Halls (sth) 28
Hullbreaker Horror

Flash This spell can't be countered. Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one — • Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Hullbreaker Horror (inr) 68
Phyrexian Metamorph

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Metamorph (mkc) 116
Silverback Elder

Whenever you cast a creature spell, choose one — • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • You gain 4 life.

Creature
Silverback Elder (dmu) 177
Wandering Archaic

Creature
Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands (stx) 6Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands (stx) 6

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Card advantage

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Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Creature
Beast Whisperer (clu) 158
Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Dig Through Time (plg21) 2
Evolutionary Leap

{G}, Sacrifice a creature: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Enchantment
Evolutionary Leap (tsr) 362
Faerie Mastermind

Flash Flying Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card. {3}{U}: Each player draws a card.

Creature
Faerie Mastermind (mom) 58
Ice-Fang Coatl

Flash Flying When this creature enters, draw a card. This creature has deathtouch as long as you control at least three other snow permanents.

Creature
Ice-Fang Coatl (h1r) 27
Keruga, the Macrosage

Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with mana value 3 or greater and land cards. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) When Keruga enters, draw a card for each other permanent you control with mana value 3 or greater.

Creature
Keruga, the Macrosage (mul) 48
Loyal Drake

Flying Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, draw a card.

Creature
Loyal Drake (cmm) 104
Mulldrifter

Flying When this creature enters, draw two cards. Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Mulldrifter (sld) 1887
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (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 {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (sld) 406
Raven Familiar

Flying Echo {2}{U} (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
Raven Familiar (ulg) 39
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (pcy) 45
Risen Reef

Whenever this creature or another Elemental you control enters, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, put it into your hand.

Creature
Risen Reef (plst) M20-217
Sandstalker Moloch

Flash When this creature enters, if an opponent cast a blue and/or black spell this turn, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a permanent card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Sandstalker Moloch (mom) 203
Sylvan Library

At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.

Enchantment
Sylvan Library (leg) 207
Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

When Uro enters, sacrifice it unless it escaped. Whenever Uro enters or attacks, you gain 3 life and draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. Escape—{G}{G}{U}{U}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Creature
Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath (thb) 229
Wall of Blossoms

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Blossoms (plst) STH-125

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Protection

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

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

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 160
Fierce Guardianship

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

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Force of Negation (2x2) 50
Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Force of Will (all) 28
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (drc) 55
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (ltc) 197

Protection

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Combo

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Food Chain

Exile a creature you control: Add X mana of any one color, where X is 1 plus the exiled creature's mana value. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.

Enchantment
Food Chain (mmq) 246
Intruder Alarm

Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.

Enchantment
Intruder Alarm (sth) 34
Man-o'-War

When this creature enters, return target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature
Man-o'-War (plst) VIS-37
Shrieking Drake

Flying When this creature enters, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Shrieking Drake (vis) 43

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Ramp

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Arbor Elf

{T}: Untap target Forest.

Creature
Arbor Elf (ltc) 232
Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (wc02) shh231
Cemetery Prowler

Vigilance Whenever this creature enters or attacks, exile a card from a graveyard. Spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each card type they share with cards exiled with this creature.

Creature
Cemetery Prowler (vow) 191
Cloud of Faeries

Flying When this creature enters, untap up to two lands. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Cloud of Faeries (ulg) 29
Delighted Halfling

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can't be countered.

Creature
Delighted Halfling (ltr) 158
Earthcraft

Tap an untapped creature you control: Untap target basic land.

Enchantment
Earthcraft (tmp) 222
Energy Tap

Tap target untapped creature you control. If you do, add an amount of {C} equal to that creature's mana value.

Sorcery
Energy Tap (leg) 54
Fyndhorn Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Fyndhorn Elves (ice) 244
Ilysian Caryatid

{T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, add two mana of any one color instead.

Creature
Ilysian Caryatid (cmm) 297
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (lcc) 273
Lotus Cobra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.

Creature
Lotus Cobra (j25) 685
Maraleaf Pixie

Flying {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Creature
Maraleaf Pixie (plst) ELD-196
Peregrine Drake

Flying When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.

Creature
Peregrine Drake (usg) 88
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 57
Utopia Sprawl

Enchant Forest As this Aura enters, choose a color. Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of the chosen color.

Enchantment
Utopia Sprawl (rvr) 355
Voyaging Satyr

{T}: Untap target land.

Creature
Voyaging Satyr (cn2) 195
Wall of Roots

Defender Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add {G}. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Wall of Roots (mir) 253
Wild Growth

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.

Enchantment
Wild Growth (ced) 230

Ramp

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Hate

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Blasting Station

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target. Whenever a creature enters, you may untap this artifact.

Artifact
Blasting Station (5dn) 107
Endurance

Flash Reach When this creature enters, up to one target player puts all the cards from their graveyard on the bottom of their library in a random order. Evoke—Exile a green card from your hand.

Creature
Endurance (h2r) 14
Gilded Drake

Flying When this creature enters, exchange control of this creature and up to one target creature an opponent controls. If you don't or can't make an exchange, sacrifice this creature. This ability still resolves if its target becomes illegal.

Creature
Gilded Drake (usg) 76
Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant
Rapid Hybridization (blc) 111
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 (drc) 39
Scavenging Ooze

{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Scavenging Ooze (plg21) 5
Volatile Stormdrake

Flying, hexproof from activated and triggered abilities When this creature enters, exchange control of this creature and target creature an opponent controls. If you do, you get {E}{E}{E}{E}, then sacrifice that creature unless you pay an amount of {E} equal to its mana value.

Creature
Volatile Stormdrake (mh3) 404

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Tutor

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Chord of Calling

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Chord of Calling (rvr) 345
Drift of Phantasms

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Drift of Phantasms (rvr) 42
Finale of Devastation

Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. If X is 10 or more, creatures you control get +X/+X and gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Finale of Devastation (cmm) 289
Long-Term Plans

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card third from the top.

Instant
Long-Term Plans (plst) SCG-38
Survival of the Fittest

{G}, Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Survival of the Fittest (exo) 129
Worldly Tutor

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.

Instant
Worldly Tutor (mir) 255

Tutor

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Clifftop Lookout

Reach When this creature enters, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. Put that card onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Clifftop Lookout (blb) 168
Cloudstone Curio

Whenever a nonartifact permanent you control enters, you may return another permanent you control that shares a permanent type with it to its owner's hand.

Artifact
Cloudstone Curio (rvr) 255
Coiling Oracle

When this creature enters, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Creature
Coiling Oracle (rvr) 361
Consecrated Sphinx

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
Day of the Dragons

When this enchantment enters, exile all creatures you control. Then create that many 5/5 red Dragon creature tokens with flying. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, sacrifice all Dragons you control. Then return the exiled cards to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
Day of the Dragons (khc) 38
Elemental Bond

Whenever a creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Elemental Bond (scd) 180
Junk Winder

Affinity for tokens (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each token you control.) Whenever a token you control enters, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Junk Winder (blc) 169
Kitesail Larcenist

Flying, ward {1} When this creature enters, for each player, choose up to one other target artifact or creature that player controls. For as long as this creature remains on the battlefield, the chosen permanents become Treasure artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color" and lose all other abilities.

Creature
Kitesail Larcenist (lci) 61
Octomancer

Gift an Octopus (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, when it enters, they create an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.) At the beginning of each end step, create a token that's a copy of target creature token that entered the battlefield this turn.

Creature
Octomancer (blc) 37
Spike Weaver

This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Creature
Spike Weaver (mb2) 214
Windswept Heath

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 235

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