Key Cards

Thought Vessel

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

Ertai Resurrected

Flash
When Ertai Resurrected enters, choose up to one —
• Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. Its controller draws a card.
• Destroy another target creature or planeswalker. Its controller draws a card.

Riptide Laboratory

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Return target Wizard you control to its owner's hand.

Micromancer

When Micromancer enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 1, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

cutting board

Izzet Charm

Choose one —
• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.
• Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature.
• Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

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.

Timestream Navigator

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
{2}{U}{U}, {T}, Put Timestream Navigator on the bottom of its owner's library: Take an extra turn after this one. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Coastal Breach

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.)
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Finale of Eternity

Destroy up to three target creatures with toughness X or less. If X is 10 or more, return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Desynchronization

Return each nonland permanent that's not historic to its owner's hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Unclaimed Territory

As Unclaimed Territory enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Engulf the Shore

Return to their owners' hands all creatures with toughness less than or equal to the number of Islands you control.

Nezahal, Primal Tide

This spell can't be countered.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card.
Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal, Primal Tide. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Diviner's Wand

Equipped creature has "Whenever you draw a card, this creature gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn" and "{4}: Draw a card."
Whenever a Wizard creature enters, you may attach Diviner's Wand to it.
Equip {3}

Swiftwater Cliffs

Swiftwater Cliffs enters tapped.
When Swiftwater Cliffs enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Planar Incision

Exile target artifact or creature, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Vantress Visions

Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Virtue of Knowledge

If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions

Raise the Draugr

Choose one —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Return two target creature cards that share a creature type from your graveyard to your hand.

Mountain

Separatist Voidmage

When Separatist Voidmage enters, you may return target creature to its owner's hand.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters 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.

Have

Fellwar Stone

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

Anathemancer

When Anathemancer enters, it deals damage to target player equal to the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.
Unearth {5}{B}{R} ({5}{B}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Silumgar's Command

Choose two —
• Counter target noncreature spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
• Destroy target planeswalker.

Rakdos Carnarium

Rakdos Carnarium enters tapped.
When Rakdos Carnarium enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{R}.

Ivory Crane Netsuke

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have seven or more cards in hand, you gain 4 life.

Boomerang

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Onyx Mage

{1}{B}: Target creature you control gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Plasmancer

Flying
Dynastic Advisor — When Plasmancer enters, search your library for a basic Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Temple of Deceit

Temple of Deceit enters tapped.
When Temple of Deceit enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Niv-Mizzet, Parun

This spell can't be countered.
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet, Parun deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, you draw a card.

Trophy Mage

When Trophy Mage enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 3, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Naban, Dean of Iteration

If a Wizard entering under your control causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Radiant Performer

Flash
When Radiant Performer enters, if you cast it from your hand, choose target spell or ability that targets only a single permanent or player. Copy that spell or ability for each other permanent or player the spell or ability could target. Each copy targets a different one of those permanents and players.

Trinket Mage

When Trinket Mage enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Death of a Thousand Stings

Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have more cards in hand than each opponent, you may return Death of a Thousand Stings from your graveyard to your hand.

Unsubstantiate

Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand.

Molten Echoes

As Molten Echoes enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control of the chosen type enters, create a token that's a copy of that creature. That token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

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.

Flood of Tears

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If you return four or more nontoken permanents you control this way, you may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Descendants' Fury

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice one of them. If you do, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card that shares a creature type with the sacrificed creature. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sedraxis Alchemist

When Sedraxis Alchemist enters, if you control a blue permanent, return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Stonybrook Banneret

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Merfolk spells and Wizard spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Diviner's Portent

Roll a d20 and add the number of cards in your hand.
1—14 | Draw X cards.
15+ | Scry X, then draw X cards.

Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.

Teferi's Tutelage

When Teferi's Tutelage enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Maestros Theater

When Maestros Theater enters, 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.

Crosis's Charm

Choose one —
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
• Destroy target artifact.

Cloudkin Seer

Flying
When Cloudkin Seer enters, draw a card.

Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, you may cast up to one target card of the other type from your graveyard. If a spell cast from your graveyard this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Leave in the Dust

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Draw a card.

Dire Fleet Ravager

Menace, deathtouch
When Dire Fleet Ravager enters, each player loses a third of their life, rounded up.

Archaeomender

When Archaeomender enters, return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Dimir Aqueduct

Dimir Aqueduct enters tapped.
When Dimir Aqueduct enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {U}{B}.

Dour Port-Mage

Whenever one or more other creatures you control leave the battlefield without dying, draw a card.
{1}{U}, {T}: Return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Vedalken Mastermind

{U}, {T}: Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand.

First Day of Class

Whenever a creature you control enters this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it gains haste until end of turn.
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Curiosity Crafter

Flying
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever a creature token you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Barrin's Spite

Choose two target creatures controlled by the same player. Their controller chooses and sacrifices one of them. Return the other to its owner's hand.

Conduit Pylons

When Conduit Pylons enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Vindictive Lich

When Vindictive Lich dies, choose one or more. Each mode must target a different player.
• Target opponent sacrifices a creature.
• Target opponent discards two cards.
• Target opponent loses 5 life.

Scholar of the Ages

When Scholar of the Ages enters, return up to two target instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Mirror Box

The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Each legendary creature you control gets +1/+1.
Each nontoken creature you control gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control with the same name as that creature.

Mindmoil

Whenever you cast a spell, put the cards in your hand on the bottom of your library in any order, then draw that many cards.

Brutal Expulsion

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Choose one or both —
• Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand.
• Brutal Expulsion deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If that creature or planeswalker would die this turn, exile it instead.

Maestros Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Return target monocolored instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
• Goad each creature target player controls. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Reliquary Tower

Merchant of Secrets

When Merchant of Secrets enters, draw a card.

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Tidecaller Mentor

Menace
Threshold — When Tidecaller Mentor enters, if seven or more cards are in your graveyard, return up to one target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Polymorphist's Jest

Until end of turn, each creature target player controls loses all abilities and becomes a blue Frog with base power and toughness 1/1.

Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

Toothy, Imaginary Friend

Partner with Pir, Imaginative Rascal (When this creature enters, target player may put Pir into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Toothy, Imaginary Friend.
When Toothy leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Vela the Night-Clad

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Other creatures you control have intimidate.
Whenever Vela the Night-Clad or another creature you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Mirror of the Forebears

As Mirror of the Forebears enters, choose a creature type.
{1}: Until end of turn, Mirror of the Forebears becomes a copy of target creature you control of the chosen type, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Deny Reality

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.)
Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Steaming Sauna

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

Roaring Furnace

When you unlock this door, this Room deals damage equal to the number of cards in your hand to target creature an opponent controls.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

Roaring Furnace // Steaming Sauna

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.

Triskaidekaphile

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand, you win the game.
{3}{U}: Draw a card.

Zndrsplt's Judgment

For each player, choose friend or foe. Each friend creates a token that's a copy of a creature they control. Each foe returns a creature they control to its owner's hand.

Sower of Temptation

Flying
When Sower of Temptation enters, gain control of target creature for as long as Sower of Temptation remains on the battlefield.

Proft's Eidetic Memory

When Proft's Eidetic Memory enters, draw a card.
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've drawn more than one card this turn, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn minus one.

Island

Inner Fire

Nightmarish End

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Dismal Backwater

Dismal Backwater enters tapped.
When Dismal Backwater enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Alandra, Sky Dreamer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.
Whenever you draw your fifth card each turn, Alandra, Sky Dreamer and Drakes you control each get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Darksteel Ingot

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Sunken Hollow

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

Puppeteer Clique

Flying
When Puppeteer Clique enters, put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. At the beginning of your next end step, exile it.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind deals 1 damage to any target.
{T}: Draw a card.

Frantic Search

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

Aether Channeler

When Aether Channeler 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.