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Ephara - Flash / Control
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Commander

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Ephara, God of the Polis

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white and blue is less than seven, Ephara isn't a creature. At the beginning of each upkeep, if you had another creature enter the battlefield under your control last turn, draw a card.

Creature Enchantment
Ephara, God of the Polis (bng) 145

Commander

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 52
Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant

Flash If a player would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead. {4}, {T}, Exile Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant: Return to the battlefield tapped all artifact, creature, enchantment, and land cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Artifact
Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant (dmc) 17
Kefnet's Monument

Blue creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, target creature an opponent controls doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Artifact
Kefnet's Monument (akh) 231
Pearl Medallion

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Pearl Medallion (c14) 260
Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (mh3) 296
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
Talisman of Progress

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (scd) 283

Artifact

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Creature

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Aboleth Spawn

Flash Ward {2} Probing Telepathy — Whenever a creature entering under an opponent's control causes a triggered ability of that creature to trigger, you may copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature
Aboleth Spawn (clb) 612
Alms Collector

Flash If an opponent would draw two or more cards, instead you and that player each draw a card.

Creature
Alms Collector (plst) C17-1
Ancient Stone Idol

Flash This spell costs {1} less to cast for each attacking creature. Trample When this creature dies, create a 6/12 colorless Construct artifact creature token with trample.

Creature Artifact
Ancient Stone Idol (cmm) 940
Angel of the Dire Hour

Flash Flying When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, exile all attacking creatures.

Creature
Angel of the Dire Hour (jmp) 85
Archivist of Oghma

Flash Whenever an opponent searches their library, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Archivist of Oghma (plst) CLB-4
Aven Mindcensor

Flash Flying If an opponent would search a library, that player searches the top four cards of that library instead.

Creature
Aven Mindcensor (tsr) 5
Brineborn Cutthroat

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Brineborn Cutthroat (fdn) 152
Cathar Commando

Flash {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Cathar Commando (inr) 15
Containment Priest

Flash If a nontoken creature would enter and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.

Creature
Containment Priest (m21) 13
Crafty Cutpurse

Flash When this creature enters, each token that would be created under an opponent's control this turn is created under your control instead.

Creature
Crafty Cutpurse (c21) 117
Deep Gnome Terramancer

Flash Mold Earth — Whenever one or more lands enter under an opponent's control without being played, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Do this only once each turn.

Creature
Deep Gnome Terramancer (clb) 607
Deputy of Acquittals

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Deputy of Acquittals (rvr) 177
Errant and Giada

Flash Flying You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast spells with flash or flying from the top of your library.

Creature
Errant and Giada (mom) 306
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
Faerie Vandal

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Faerie Vandal (j25) 311
Githzerai Monk

Flash Flying Psychic Defense — When this creature enters, tap all creatures you don't control.

Creature
Githzerai Monk (clb) 20
Glorious Protector

Flash Flying When this creature enters, you may exile any number of non-Angel creatures you control until this creature leaves the battlefield. Foretell {2}{W}

Creature
Glorious Protector (clb) 695
Guardian of Faith

Flash Vigilance When this creature enters, any number of other target creatures you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Creature
Guardian of Faith (afr) 18
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
Jeskai Barricade

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Defender When this creature enters, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Jeskai Barricade (frf) 15
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Flash At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards. Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.

Creature
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur (mul) 141
Merfolk Trickster

Flash When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. It loses all abilities until end of turn.

Creature
Merfolk Trickster (dom) 56
Mizzium Meddler

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, you may change a target of target spell or ability to this creature.

Creature
Mizzium Meddler (ori) 64
Mocking Doppelganger

Flash You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature an opponent controls, except it has "Other creatures with the same name as this creature are goaded." (They attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Creature
Mocking Doppelganger (clb) 617
Naiad of Hidden Coves

During turns other than yours, spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature Enchantment
Naiad of Hidden Coves (j25) 333
Niambi, Esteemed Speaker

Flash When Niambi enters, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, you gain life equal to that creature's mana value. {1}{W}{U}, {T}, Discard a legendary card: Draw two cards.

Creature
Niambi, Esteemed Speaker (m21) 379
Portal Mage

Flash When this creature enters during the declare attackers step, you may reselect which player or permanent target attacking creature is attacking. (It can't attack its controller or their permanents.)

Creature
Portal Mage (cmm) 112
Selfless Squire

Flash When this creature enters, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn. Whenever damage that would be dealt to you is prevented, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature
Selfless Squire (mkc) 82
Snapcaster Mage

Flash When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creature
Snapcaster Mage (plst) ISD-78
Stunt Double

Flash You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

Creature
Stunt Double (plst) CN2-38
Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Flash Creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield have flash. Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.

Creature
Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir (tsr) 91
Venser, Shaper Savant

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Venser, Shaper Savant (j25) 66
Wavebreak Hippocamp

Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.

Creature Enchantment
Wavebreak Hippocamp (j25) 387
Whitemane Lion

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

Creature
Whitemane Lion (dmr) 277
Windshaper Planetar

Flash Flying When this creature enters during the declare attackers step, for each attacking creature, you may reselect which player or permanent that creature is attacking. (It can't attack its controller or their permanents.)

Creature
Windshaper Planetar (clb) 50

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Enchantment

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As Foretold

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on this enchantment. Once each turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for a spell you cast with mana value X or less, where X is the number of time counters on this enchantment.

Enchantment
As Foretold (who) 214
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (2x2) 31

Enchantment

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Instant

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (blc) 161
Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn. • Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.

Instant
Akroma's Will (m3c) 165
Cosmic Intervention

If a permanent you control would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn, exile it instead. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. Foretell {1}{W} (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.)

Instant
Cosmic Intervention (khc) 3
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 45
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (cmm) 84
Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Eerie Interlude (soi) 16
Ephemerate

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Instant
Ephemerate (mh1) 7
Fierce Guardianship

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

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (sld) 1823
Generous Gift

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

Instant
Generous Gift (blc) 106
Illusionist's Gambit

Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step on an opponent's turn. Remove all attacking creatures from combat and untap them. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Each of those creatures attacks that combat if able. They can't attack you or planeswalkers you control that combat.

Instant
Illusionist's Gambit (c13) 47
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (2x2) 57
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (blc) 147
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (plst) PLC-44
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
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.

Instant
Sublime Epiphany (plst) M21-74
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
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (dsc) 106
Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.) Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant
Teferi's Protection (2x2) 424

Instant

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Land

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Azorius Chancery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Azorius Chancery (dsc) 261
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (onc) 151
Deserted Beach

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Deserted Beach (inr) 276
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 (mh3) 220
Glacial Fortress

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

Land
Glacial Fortress (drc) 159
Halimar Depths

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Add {U}.

Land
Halimar Depths (dsc) 282
Hallowed Fountain

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

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rna) 251
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land
Maze of Ith (dmr) 250
Myriad Landscape

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

Land
Myriad Landscape (onc) 159
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mom) 277
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (mkc) 282
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (otc) 316
Seachrome Coast

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Seachrome Coast (one) 258
Strip Mine

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land.

Land
Strip Mine (4ed) 363
Temple of Enlightenment

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Enlightenment (scd) 325
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (one) 261

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Sorcery

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Farewell

Choose one or more — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all graveyards.

Sorcery
Farewell (neo) 13
Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Supreme Verdict (clu) 211
Wrath of God

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Wrath of God (dmr) 37

Sorcery

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Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Dovin's Veto (p30a) 27
Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Enlightened Tutor (dmr) 6
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (h2r) 2
Familiar's Ruse

As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a creature you control to its owner's hand. Counter target spell.

Instant
Familiar's Ruse (mm3) 37
Ghostly Flicker

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Instant
Ghostly Flicker (cmm) 98
Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (mkc) 67
Ledger Shredder

Flying Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Ledger Shredder (psnc) 46p
Masako the Humorless

Flash Tapped creatures you control can block as though they were untapped.

Creature
Masako the Humorless (chk) 33
Nadir Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.

Creature
Nadir Kraken (j25) 332
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (scd) 58
Ojutai's Command

Choose two — • Return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. • You gain 4 life. • Counter target creature spell. • Draw a card.

Instant
Ojutai's Command (pdtk) 227
Overcharged Amalgam

Flash Flying Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability.

Creature
Overcharged Amalgam (inr) 80
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (otc) 108
Return to Dust

Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Return to Dust (dsc) 102
Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (plst) PCY-45
Settle the Wreckage

Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. That player may search their library for that many basic land cards, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Settle the Wreckage (plst) XLN-34
Shrieking Drake

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

Creature
Shrieking Drake (vis) 43
Sicarian Infiltrator

Flash Squad {2} (As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay {2} any number of times. When this creature enters, create that many tokens that are copies of it.) Benediction of the Omnissiah — When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Sicarian Infiltrator (40k) 25
Spectral Sailor

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying {3}{U}: Draw a card.

Creature
Spectral Sailor (j25) 363
Stasis

Players skip their untap steps. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay {U}.

Enchantment
Stasis (5ed) 127
Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (m21) 76
Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim

Whenever you draw a card, put a loyalty counter on Teferi. 0: Draw a card. −2: Create a 2/2 blue Spirit creature token with vigilance and "Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this token." −12: Target opponent chooses a permanent they control and returns it to its owner's hand. Then they shuffle each nonland permanent they control into its owner's library.

Planeswalker
Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim (bro) 66
The Council of Four

Whenever a player draws their second card during their turn, you draw a card. Whenever a player casts their second spell during their turn, you create a 2/2 white Knight creature token.

Creature
The Council of Four (clb) 530
Thistledown Liege

Flash Other white creatures you control get +1/+1. Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature
Thistledown Liege (2x2) 285
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (pip) 251
Torrential Gearhulk

Flash When this creature enters, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature Artifact
Torrential Gearhulk (kld) 67
Vanquish the Horde

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Vanquish the Horde (inr) 49
Wizard Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) You have no maximum hand size. {2}{U}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards. {4}{U}: Level 3 Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment
Wizard Class (afr) 81

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18 mana - 18 cards
43 pips - 33 cards
22 mana - 22 cards
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