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Commander

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Jalira, Master Polymorphist

{2}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonlegendary creature card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Jalira, Master Polymorphist (m15) 64

Commander

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Card Draw

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Brainstone

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Artifact
Brainstone (mh2) 426
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (2xm) 44
Brainsurge

Draw four cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainsurge (mh3) 399
Foresee

Scry 4, then draw two cards.

Sorcery
Foresee (fut) 36
Interpret the Signs

Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Draw cards equal to that card's mana value. (To scry 3, look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Interpret the Signs (jou) 43
Modify Memory

Exchange control of two target creatures controlled by different players. If you control neither creature, draw three cards.

Sorcery
Modify Memory (clb) 83
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
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Preordain (brc) 92
Serum Visions

Draw a card. Scry 2.

Sorcery
Serum Visions (cn2) 120

Card Draw

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Land

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Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Land
Castle Vantress (clb) 885
Coral Atoll

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{U}.

Land
Coral Atoll (vis) 160
Faerie Conclave

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {1}{U}: This land becomes a 2/1 blue Faerie creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Faerie Conclave (ulg) 139
Hall of Storm Giants

If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {5}{U}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 7/7 blue Giant creature with ward {3}. It's still a land. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {3}.)

Land
Hall of Storm Giants (afr) 257
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (bro) 270
Lonely Sandbar

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Lonely Sandbar (mh1) 242
Memorial to Genius

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw two cards.

Land
Memorial to Genius (dom) 243
Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Land
Minamo, School at Water's Edge (plst) CHK-279
Mishra's Factory

{T}: Add {C}. {1}: This land becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land. {T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Land
Mishra's Factory (dmr) 251
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
Rivendell

Rivendell enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {U}. {1}{U}, {T}: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Land
Rivendell (ltr) 344
Silundi Vision

Instant
Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80
Sink into Stupor

Instant
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241
Soldevi Excavations

If this land would enter, sacrifice an untapped Island instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. {T}: Add {C}{U}. {1}, {T}: Scry 1.

Land
Soldevi Excavations (all) 143
Tolaria

{T}: Add {U}. {T}: Target creature loses banding and all "bands with other" abilities until end of turn. Activate only during any upkeep step.

Land
Tolaria (leg) 308

Land

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Poof…Surprise!

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All-Seeing Arbiter

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, draw two cards, then discard a card. Whenever you discard a card, target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-0 until your next turn, where X is the number of different mana values among cards in your graveyard.

Creature
All-Seeing Arbiter (snc) 286
Ancient Silver Dragon

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. Draw cards equal to the result. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

Creature
Ancient Silver Dragon (clb) 366
Colossal Whale

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Whenever this creature attacks, you may exile target creature defending player controls until this creature leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

Creature
Colossal Whale (m14) 48
Defiler of Dreams

Flying As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {U} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of blue mana you pay. Whenever you cast a blue permanent spell, draw a card.

Creature
Defiler of Dreams (dmu) 46
Frost Titan

Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays {2}. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Frost Titan (sld) 220
Inkwell Leviathan

Trample Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature Artifact
Inkwell Leviathan (2xm) 55
Lord of Change

Flying, ward {3} Architect of Deception — When this creature enters, draw three cards.

Creature
Lord of Change (40k) 24
Marang River Regent

Creature
Marang River Regent // Coil and Catch (tdm) 378
Phyrexian Ingester

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. This creature gets +X/+Y, where X is the exiled creature card's power and Y is its toughness.

Creature
Phyrexian Ingester (plst) EMA-66
Profaner of the Dead

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, return to their owners' hands all creatures your opponents control with toughness less than the exploited creature's toughness.

Creature
Profaner of the Dead (plst) DTK-70
Scourge of Fleets

When this creature enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Creature
Scourge of Fleets (jou) 51
Sharding Sphinx

Flying Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Creature Artifact
Sharding Sphinx (brc) 94
Sphinx of Magosi

Flying {2}{U}: Draw a card, then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Sphinx of Magosi (w16) 6
Sphinx of the Second Sun

Flying At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, there is an additional beginning phase after this phase. (The beginning phase includes the untap, upkeep, and draw steps.)

Creature
Sphinx of the Second Sun (cmr) 99
Star Whale

Flying, vigilance Other creatures you control have ward {2}. Suspend 6—{1}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{U} and exile it with six 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. It has haste.)

Creature
Star Whale (who) 55
Stormtide Leviathan

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) All lands are Islands in addition to their other types. Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.

Creature
Stormtide Leviathan (m13) 70
Ulamog's Dreadsire

Vigilance Ward—Sacrifice a permanent with mana value 1 or greater. {T}: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Creature
Ulamog's Dreadsire (m3c) 38

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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 (eld) 331
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
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
Gilded Lotus

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

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (40k) 239
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (dmr) 286
Sapphire Medallion

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

Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (mh3) 296
Sky Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Sky Diamond (clb) 337
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (onc) 140
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmr) 346
Thran Dynamo

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

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (uds) 139

Ramp

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Removal

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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.

Instant
Arcane Denial (plst) CMA-30
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (6ed) 61
Flip the Switch

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Instant
Flip the Switch (mid) 54
Kasmina's Transmutation

Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1.

Enchantment
Kasmina's Transmutation (2x2) 54
Keep Safe

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control. Draw a card.

Instant
Keep Safe (iko) 56
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.

Instant
Polymorphist's Jest (m15) 75
Revenge of the Drowned

Target creature's owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library. You create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Instant
Revenge of the Drowned (mid) 72
Sleep with the Fishes

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature and you create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token with "This token can't be blocked." Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Enchantment
Sleep with the Fishes (snc) 61

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Special Sauce

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Lithoform Engine

{2}, {T}: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. {3}, {T}: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. {4}, {T}: Copy target permanent spell you control. (The copy becomes a token.)

Artifact
Lithoform Engine (brc) 146
Magewright's Stone

{1}, {T}: Untap target creature that has an activated ability with {T} in its cost.

Artifact
Magewright's Stone (plst) DIS-162
Quicksilver Amulet

{4}, {T}: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Quicksilver Amulet (ulg) 130
Soothsaying

{3}{U}{U}: Shuffle your library. {X}: Look at the top X cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Enchantment
Soothsaying (mmq) 104
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (brr) 58
Thopter Spy Network

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control an artifact, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Enchantment
Thopter Spy Network (c18) 107

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Token Makers / Sac Fodder

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Alirios, Enraptured

Alirios enters tapped. Alirios doesn't untap during your untap step if you control a Reflection. When Alirios enters, create a 3/2 blue Reflection creature token.

Creature
Alirios, Enraptured (thb) 42
Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Creature
Baral, Chief of Compliance (tsr) 306
Caelorna, Coral Tyrant

Creature
Caelorna, Coral Tyrant (dft) 40
Fblthp, the Lost

When Fblthp enters, draw a card. If it entered from your library or was cast from your library, draw two cards instead. When Fblthp becomes the target of a spell, shuffle Fblthp into its owner's library.

Creature
Fblthp, the Lost (pwar) 50p
Hard Evidence

Create a 0/3 blue Crab creature token. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
Hard Evidence (mh2) 46
Hope of Ghirapur

Flying Sacrifice Hope of Ghirapur: Until your next turn, target player who was dealt combat damage by Hope of Ghirapur this turn can't cast noncreature spells.

Creature Artifact
Hope of Ghirapur (plst) AER-154
Kasmina, Enigmatic Mentor

Spells your opponents cast that target a creature or planeswalker you control cost {2} more to cast. −2: Create a 2/2 blue Wizard creature token. Draw a card, then discard a card.

Planeswalker
Kasmina, Enigmatic Mentor (plst) WAR-56
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 (thb) 55
Otterball Antics

Create a 1/1 blue and red Otter creature token with prowess. If this spell was cast from anywhere other than your hand, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, a creature with prowess gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Flashback {3}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Otterball Antics (blb) 63
Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Creature
Talrand, Sky Summoner (plst) DDS-11
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (mul) 12
Wall of Kelp

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {U}{U}, {T}: Create a 0/1 blue Plant Wall creature token with defender named Kelp.

Creature
Wall of Kelp (hml) 40

Token Makers / Sac Fodder

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