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Alela's Trickery
Deck Size: 107
Commander / EDH
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Commander

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Alela, Cunning Conqueror

Flying Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying. Whenever one or more Faeries you control deal combat damage to a player, goad target creature that player controls.

Creature
Alela, Cunning Conqueror (woc) 34

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Blightwing Bandit

Flying, deathtouch Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, look at the top card of that player's library, then exile it face down. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it.

Creature
Blightwing Bandit (woc) 13
Deliberate

Scry 2, then draw a card.

Instant
Deliberate (znr) 56
Dictate of Kruphix

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Enchantment
Dictate of Kruphix (c18) 86
Dire Undercurrents

Whenever a blue creature you control enters, you may have target player draw a card. Whenever a black creature you control enters, you may have target player discard a card.

Enchantment
Dire Undercurrents (shm) 159
Distant Melody

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Sorcery
Distant Melody (cmm) 846
Enduring Curiosity

Flash Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. When Enduring Curiosity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment
Enduring Curiosity (dsk) 51
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (cmm) 631
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
Keep Watch

Draw a card for each attacking creature.

Instant
Keep Watch (woc) 98
Kindred Discovery

As Kindred Discovery enters, choose a creature type. Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.

Enchantment
Kindred Discovery (wot) 22
Likeness Looter

Flying {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {X}: Likeness Looter becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except it has flying and this ability. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Likeness Looter (woe) 208
Nymris, Oona's Trickster

Flash Flying Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Creature
Nymris, Oona's Trickster (woc) 141
Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (woc) 101
Rowan's Grim Search

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) If this spell was bargained, look at the top four cards of your library, then put up to two of them back on top of your library in any order and the rest into your graveyard. You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Instant
Rowan's Grim Search (woe) 104
Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor

Flying, deathtouch Other Faeries you control get +1/+1. Whenever another Faerie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor (woc) 1
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (lcc) 212
Wavebreak Hippocamp

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

Creature Enchantment
Wavebreak Hippocamp (thb) 80

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Archmage of Echoes

Flying, ward {2} Whenever you cast a Faerie or Wizard permanent spell, copy it. (The copy becomes a token.)

Creature
Archmage of Echoes (woc) 9
Malleable Impostor

Flash Flying You may have Malleable Impostor enter as a copy of a creature an opponent controls, except it's a Faerie Shapeshifter in addition to its other types and it has flying.

Creature
Malleable Impostor (woc) 10

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Counter

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Didn't Say Please

Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.

Instant
Didn't Say Please (eld) 42
Glen Elendra Archmage

Flying {U}, Sacrifice Glen Elendra Archmage: Counter target noncreature spell. 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.)

Creature
Glen Elendra Archmage (woc) 94
Spell Stutter

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2} plus an additional {1} for each Faerie you control.

Instant
Spell Stutter (woe) 69
Spellstutter Sprite

Flash Flying When Spellstutter Sprite enters, counter target spell with mana value X or less, where X is the number of Faeries you control.

Creature
Spellstutter Sprite (lrw) 89
Three Steps Ahead

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1}{U} — Counter target spell. + {3} — Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control. + {2} — Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Three Steps Ahead (otj) 75

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Land

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Arid Archway

Arid Archway enters tapped. When Arid Archway enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. If another Desert was returned this way, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Land
Arid Archway (otj) 252
Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (woc) 152
Choked Estuary

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

Land
Choked Estuary (woc) 155
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (woc) 156
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (woc) 157
Dimir Aqueduct

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

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (woc) 158
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (woc) 159
Faerie Conclave

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

Land
Faerie Conclave (woc) 160
Guildless Commons

Guildless Commons enters tapped. When Guildless Commons enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Land
Guildless Commons (cmm) 1003
Hagra Mauling

Instant
Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (woe) 269
Jwari Disruption

Instant
Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins (znr) 64Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins (znr) 64
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
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.

Land
Myriad Landscape (woc) 164
Mystic Sanctuary

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

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (woc) 165
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (otc) 312
Saprazzan Cove

Saprazzan Cove enters tapped. {T}: Put a storage counter on Saprazzan Cove. {T}, Remove any number of storage counters from Saprazzan Cove: Add {U} for each storage counter removed this way.

Land
Saprazzan Cove (mmq) 327
Secluded Glen

As Secluded Glen enters, you may reveal a Faerie card from your hand. If you don't, Secluded Glen enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Secluded Glen (woc) 166
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
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (woc) 168
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (woe) 272
Tainted Isle

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

Land
Tainted Isle (woc) 169
Temple of Deceit

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 {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (woc) 170
Waterlogged Teachings

Instant
Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261

Land

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Protection

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Fleeting Reflection

Target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn. Untap that creature. Until end of turn, it becomes a copy of up to one other target creature.

Instant
Fleeting Reflection (otj) 49
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 (woc) 95
Mana Short

Tap all lands target player controls and that player loses all unspent mana.

Instant
Mana Short (4ed) 85
Veilstone Amulet

Whenever you cast a spell, creatures you control can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn.

Artifact
Veilstone Amulet (fut) 166

Protection

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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 (woc) 145
As Foretold

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on As Foretold. 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 As Foretold.

Enchantment
As Foretold (2x2) 38
Bandit's Haul

Whenever you commit a crime, put a loot counter on Bandit's Haul. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) {T}: Add one mana of any color. {2}, {T}, Remove two loot counters from Bandit's Haul: Draw a card.

Artifact
Bandit's Haul (otj) 240
Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}: Put an hour counter on Midnight Clock. At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on Midnight Clock. When the twelfth hour counter is put on Midnight Clock, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile Midnight Clock.

Artifact
Midnight Clock (woc) 99
Mindsplice Apparatus

Flash At the beginning of your upkeep, put an oil counter on Mindsplice Apparatus. Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each oil counter on Mindsplice Apparatus.

Artifact
Mindsplice Apparatus (one) 63
Misleading Signpost

Flash When Misleading Signpost 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.) {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Misleading Signpost (woc) 11
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (woc) 149
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (plg22) 2

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Tribal

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Faerie Harbinger

Flash Flying When Faerie Harbinger enters, you may search your library for a Faerie card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Creature
Faerie Harbinger (plst) LRW-61
Glen Elendra Liege

Flying Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1. Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature
Glen Elendra Liege (woc) 138
Obyra, Dreaming Duelist

Flash Flying Whenever another Faerie you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Obyra, Dreaming Duelist (woe) 210
Oona's Blackguard

Flying Each other Rogue creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Creature
Oona's Blackguard (znc) 51
Oona, Queen of the Fae

Flying {X}{U/B}: Choose a color. Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library. For each card of the chosen color exiled this way, create a 1/1 blue and black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Creature
Oona, Queen of the Fae (woc) 142
Scion of Oona

Flash Flying Other Faerie creatures you control get +1/+1. Other Faeries you control have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

Creature
Scion of Oona (woc) 109

Tribal

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Tricks - Frogify

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Amphibian Downpour

Flash Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies. Copies become tokens.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a blue Frog creature with base power and toughness 1/1.

Enchantment
Amphibian Downpour (mh3) 51
Asinine Antics

You may cast Asinine Antics as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. For each creature your opponents control, create a Cursed Role token attached to that creature. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature is 1/1.)

Sorcery
Asinine Antics (woe) 42
Cyber Conversion

Turn target creature face down. It's a 2/2 Cyberman artifact creature.

Instant
Cyber Conversion (who) 38
Dress Down

Flash When Dress Down enters, draw a card. Creatures lose all abilities. At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Dress Down.

Enchantment
Dress Down (mh2) 39
Eaten by Piranhas

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a black Skeleton creature with base power and toughness 1/1. (It loses all other colors, card types, and creature types.)

Enchantment
Eaten by Piranhas (lci) 54
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 (c17) 90
Sudden Spoiling

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Instant
Sudden Spoiling (tsr) 144

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Brazen Borrower

Creature
Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft (woc) 85
Capsize

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Instant
Capsize (tmp) 55
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
Nowhere to Run

Flash When Nowhere to Run enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn. Creatures your opponents control can be the targets of spells and abilities as though they didn't have hexproof. Ward abilities of those creatures don't trigger.

Enchantment
Nowhere to Run (dsk) 111
Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant
Soul Shatter (znr) 127

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Tricks - Situational

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Alter Reality

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Alter Reality (tor) 22
Ertai's Meddling

X can't be 0. Target spell's controller exiles it with X delay counters on it. At the beginning of each of that player's upkeeps, if that card is exiled, remove a delay counter from it. If the card has no delay counters on it, the player puts it onto the stack as a copy of the original spell.

Instant
Ertai's Meddling (tmp) 61
Exchange of Words

When Exchange of Words enters, choose two target creatures. For as long as Exchange of Words remains on the battlefield, exchange the text boxes of those creatures.

Enchantment
Exchange of Words (unf) 45
Fate Transfer

Move all counters from target creature onto another target creature.

Instant
Fate Transfer (shm) 161
Fumble

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Gain control of all Auras and Equipment that were attached to it, then attach them to another creature.

Instant
Fumble (bbd) 34
Grip of Phyresis

Gain control of target Equipment, then create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token and attach that Equipment to it.

Instant
Grip of Phyresis (cm2) 43
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 (woc) 97
Misinformation

Put up to three target cards from an opponent's graveyard on top of their library in any order.

Instant
Misinformation (all) 56
Mystic Reflection

Choose target nonlegendary creature. The next time one or more creatures or planeswalkers enter this turn, they enter as copies of the chosen creature. Foretell {U} (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
Mystic Reflection (khm) 69
Polymorphous Rush

Strive — This spell costs {1}{U} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Choose a creature on the battlefield. Any number of target creatures you control each become a copy of that creature until end of turn.

Instant
Polymorphous Rush (jou) 46
Quickling

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

Creature
Quickling (woc) 103
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.

Creature
Sower of Temptation (woc) 111
Sudden Substitution

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Exchange control of target noncreature spell and target creature. Then the spell's controller may choose new targets for it.

Instant
Sudden Substitution (c19) 11
Wrong Turn

Target opponent gains control of target creature. (If an attacking or blocking creature changes controllers, it's removed from combat.)

Instant
Wrong Turn (cmr) 107

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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) 662
Anticipate

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.

Instant
Anticipate (f15) 12
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 (woc) 84
Bitterblossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Enchantment Kindred
Bitterblossom (wot) 27
Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (mkc) 96
Brainsurge

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

Instant
Brainsurge (mh3) 53
Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) Draw a card.

Instant
Consider (woc) 87
Consign to Memory

Replicate {1} (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Counter target triggered ability or colorless spell.

Instant
Consign to Memory (mh3) 54
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 630
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (woc) 146
Don't Blink

Until end of turn, if one or more creatures would enter from exile or after being cast from exile, their owners shuffle them into their libraries instead. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Don't Blink (who) 40
Drown in the Loch

Choose one — • Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard. • Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Instant
Drown in the Loch (clb) 842
Emrakul's Messenger

Devoid (This card has no color.) Flying Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Creature
Emrakul's Messenger (mh3) 61
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Filter Out

Return all noncreature, nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Instant
Filter Out (mat) 7
Flatline

Creatures your opponents control have base power and toughness 0/1 until end of turn.

Instant
Flatline (who) 43
Forger's Foundry

{T}: Add {U}. When you spend this mana to cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 3 or less, you may exile that spell instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard as it resolves. {3}{U}{U}, {T}: You may cast any number of spells from among cards exiled with Forger's Foundry without paying their mana costs. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Forger's Foundry (otc) 14
Halo Forager

Flying When Halo Forager enters, you may pay {X}. When you do, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value X from a graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Halo Forager (woc) 139
Hithlain Knots

Tap target creature. Scry 1. Draw a card.

Instant
Hithlain Knots (ltr) 54
Inspired Sprite

Flash Flying Whenever you cast a Wizard spell, you may untap Inspired Sprite. {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Inspired Sprite (mor) 37
Metamorphic Blast

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Until end of turn, target creature becomes a white Rabbit with base power and toughness 0/1. + {3} — Target player draws two cards.

Instant
Metamorphic Blast (otj) 57
Nettling Nuisance

Flying Whenever one or more Faeries you control deal combat damage to a player, that player creates a 4/2 red Pirate creature token with "This creature can't block." The token is goaded for the rest of the game. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Creature
Nettling Nuisance (woc) 15
Notion Thief

Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Creature
Notion Thief (znc) 96
Notorious Throng

Prowl {5}{U} (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Rogue.) Create X 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature tokens with flying, where X is the damage dealt to your opponents this turn. If this spell's prowl cost was paid, take an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery Kindred
Notorious Throng (znc) 33
Perilous Research

Draw two cards, then sacrifice a permanent.

Instant
Perilous Research (mma) 58
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.)

Creature
Puppeteer Clique (woc) 115
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 (woc) 104
Reconnaissance Mission

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Reconnaissance Mission (woc) 105
Reenact the Crime

Exile target nonland card in a graveyard that was put there from anywhere this turn. Copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Instant
Reenact the Crime (mkm) 70
Reflections of Littjara

As Reflections of Littjara enters, choose a creature type. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, copy that spell. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Enchantment
Reflections of Littjara (woc) 106
Reins of Power

Untap all creatures you control and all creatures target opponent controls. You and that opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn.

Instant
Reins of Power (clb) 734
Reverse the Polarity

Choose one — • Counter all other spells. • Switch each creature's power and toughness until end of turn. • Creatures can't be blocked this turn.

Instant
Reverse the Polarity (who) 54
Shadow Puppeteers

Flying, ward {2} When Shadow Puppeteers enters, create two 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature tokens with flying. Whenever a creature you control with flying attacks, you may have it become a red Dragon with base power and toughness 4/4 in addition to its other colors and types until end of turn.

Creature
Shadow Puppeteers (woc) 12
Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Instant
Snap (woc) 110
Sugar Coat

Flash Enchant creature or Food Enchanted permanent is a colorless Food artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Enchantment
Sugar Coat (blb) 76
Sway of Illusion

Any number of target creatures become the color of your choice until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Sway of Illusion (inv) 77
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (woc) 150
Theoretical Duplication

Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls enters this turn, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Instant
Theoretical Duplication (woc) 112
Think Twice

Draw a card. Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Think Twice (fdn) 165
Thrilling Encore

Put onto the battlefield under your control all creature cards in all graveyards that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Instant
Thrilling Encore (woc) 118
Trickery Charm

Choose one — • Target creature gains flying until end of turn. • Target creature becomes the creature type of your choice until end of turn. • Look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Instant
Trickery Charm (ons) 119
Turn to Frog

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

Instant
Turn to Frog (ori) 81
Utter Insignificance

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1. {2}{C}: Exile enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Utter Insignificance (mh3) 78
Words of Wisdom

You draw two cards, then each other player draws a card.

Instant
Words of Wisdom (ody) 114

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Alexi's Cloak

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Enchantment
Alexi's Cloak (pcy) 29
Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Other Rogues you control get +1/+1. Whenever one or more Rogues you control deal combat damage to a player, that player mills a card for each 1 damage dealt to them. If the player mills at least one creature card this way, you draw a card. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Anowon, the Ruin Thief (znc) 1
Archmage's Charm

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Target player draws two cards. • Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

Instant
Archmage's Charm (mh1) 40
Artificial Evolution

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one creature type with another. The new creature type can't be Wall. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Instant
Artificial Evolution (ons) 67
Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
Beyeen Veil

Instant
Beyeen Veil // Beyeen Coast (znr) 46Beyeen Veil // Beyeen Coast (znr) 46
Blood Pact

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Instant
Blood Pact (mid) 88
Blur

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. Draw a card.

Instant
Blur (clb) 58
Blustersquall

Tap target creature you don't control. Overload {3}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Blustersquall (c15) 89
Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (c21) 115
Cackling Counterpart

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Cackling Counterpart (mm3) 32
Cloud of Faeries

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

Creature
Cloud of Faeries (woc) 86
Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (mom) 98
Cryptic Command

Choose two — • Counter target spell. • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Tap all creatures your opponents control. • Draw a card.

Instant
Cryptic Command (plst) LRW-56
Cunning Nightbonder

Flash Spells with flash you cast cost {1} less to cast and can't be countered.

Creature
Cunning Nightbonder (iko) 219
Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant
Darkness (leg) 94
Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (clb) 124
Death Denied

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Death Denied (uma) 92
Deluge

Tap all creatures without flying.

Instant
Deluge (10e) 79
Demon's Due

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Demon's Due (snc) 75
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 (woc) 88
Dream Spoilers

Flying Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, up to one target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Dream Spoilers (woe) 85
Ego Erasure

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Creatures target player controls get -2/-0 and lose all creature types until end of turn.

Instant Kindred
Ego Erasure (lrw) 59
Ensnare

You may return two Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Tap all creatures.

Instant
Ensnare (nem) 32
Even the Score

This spell costs {U}{U}{U} less to cast if an opponent has drawn four or more cards this turn. Draw X cards.

Instant
Even the Score (snc) 42
Extraordinary Journey

When Extraordinary Journey enters, exile up to X target creatures. For each of those cards, its owner may play it for as long as it remains exiled. Whenever one or more nontoken creatures enter, if one or more of them entered from exile or was cast from exile, you draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Extraordinary Journey (woe) 48
Faerie Artisans

Flying Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls enters, create a token that's a copy of that creature except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. Then exile all other tokens created with Faerie Artisans.

Creature
Faerie Artisans (cmm) 92
Faerie Bladecrafter

Flying Whenever one or more Faeries you control deal combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on Faerie Bladecrafter. When Faerie Bladecrafter dies, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is its power.

Creature
Faerie Bladecrafter (woc) 14
Faerie Formation

Flying {3}{U}: Create a 1/1 blue Faerie creature token with flying. Draw a card.

Creature
Faerie Formation (woc) 91
Faerie Seer

Flying When Faerie Seer enters, 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.)

Creature
Faerie Seer (woc) 92
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 Faerie Vandal.

Creature
Faerie Vandal (snc) 44
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (woc) 147
Frantic Search

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

Instant
Frantic Search (woc) 93
Ghost Lantern

Artifact
Ghost Lantern // Bind Spirit (clb) 128
Hibernation

Return all green permanents to their owners' hands.

Instant
Hibernation (8ed) 82
High Seas

Red creature spells and green creature spells cost {1} more to cast.

Enchantment
High Seas (mmq) 83
Horned Loch-Whale

Creature
Horned Loch-Whale // Lagoon Breach (woe) 278
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 (woc) 95
Hypnotic Sprite

Creature
Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare (woc) 96
Illusionist's Stratagem

Exile up to two target creatures you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control. Draw a card.

Instant
Illusionist's Stratagem (aer) 36
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
Kindred Dominance

Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.

Sorcery
Kindred Dominance (woc) 113
Memory Plunder

You may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

Instant
Memory Plunder (clb) 849
Merciless Resolve

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or land. Draw two cards.

Instant
Merciless Resolve (plst) SOI-123
Military Intelligence

Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, draw a card.

Enchantment
Military Intelligence (znc) 31
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (woc) 148
Minion's Return

Flash Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
Minion's Return (thb) 104
Mistbind Clique

Flash Flying Champion a Faerie (When this enters, sacrifice it unless you exile another Faerie you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.) When a Faerie is championed with Mistbind Clique, tap all lands target player controls.

Creature
Mistbind Clique (lrw) 75
Mizzium Skin

Target creature you control gets +0/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. Overload {1}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Mizzium Skin (rtr) 45
Mocking Doppelganger

Flash You may have Mocking Doppelganger 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) 667
Mocking Sprite

Flying Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Mocking Sprite (woe) 62
Mystic Veil

You may cast Mystic Veil as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. Enchant creature Enchanted creature has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Enchantment
Mystic Veil (vis) 38
Necrologia

Cast this spell only during your end step. As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Draw X cards.

Instant
Necrologia (7ed) 149
Nightmare Unmaking

Choose one — • Exile each creature with power greater than the number of cards in your hand. • Exile each creature with power less than the number of cards in your hand.

Sorcery
Nightmare Unmaking (woc) 114
Nightveil Sprite

Flying Whenever Nightveil Sprite attacks, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Nightveil Sprite (woc) 100
Oona's Grace

Target player draws a card. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Instant
Oona's Grace (c19) 91
Opportunity

Target player draws four cards.

Instant
Opportunity (plst) ULG-37
Opposition Agent

Flash You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries. While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Creature
Opposition Agent (cmr) 141
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 (kld) 60
Part the Veil

Return all creatures you control to their owner's hand.

Instant
Part the Veil (chk) 77
Perplexing Test

Choose one — • Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands. • Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Perplexing Test (woc) 102
Picklock Prankster

Creature
Picklock Prankster // Free the Fae (woe) 64
Pile On

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.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant
Pile On (mom) 122
Plagiarize

Until end of turn, if target player would draw a card, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Instant
Plagiarize (10e) 97
Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way. You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (stx) 81
Power Sink

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that player doesn't, they tap all lands with mana abilities they control and lose all unspent mana.

Instant
Power Sink (6ed) 87
Primal Amulet

Artifact
Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (xln) 243Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (xln) 243
Pull from Tomorrow

Draw X cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (moc) 230
Quick Study

Draw two cards.

Instant
Quick Study (woe) 65
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.

Instant
Raise the Draugr (khm) 105
Rankle, Master of Pranks

Flying, haste Whenever Rankle, Master of Pranks deals combat damage to a player, choose any number — • Each player discards a card. • Each player loses 1 life and draws a card. • Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Rankle, Master of Pranks (woc) 116
Reckless Spite

Destroy two target nonblack creatures. You lose 5 life.

Instant
Reckless Spite (woc) 117
Repulse

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

Instant
Repulse (woc) 107
Rowdy Research

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature that attacked this turn. Draw three cards.

Instant
Rowdy Research (woe) 312
Run Away Together

Choose two target creatures controlled by different players. Return those creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Run Away Together (woc) 108
Sakashima's Protege

Flash 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.) You may have Sakashima's Protege enter as a copy of any permanent that entered this turn.

Creature
Sakashima's Protege (cmr) 90
Shadow Kin

Flash At the beginning of your upkeep, each player mills three cards. You may exile a creature card from among the cards milled this way. If you do, Shadow Kin becomes a copy of that card, except it has this ability.

Creature
Shadow Kin (mic) 16
Silver Scrutiny

You may cast Silver Scrutiny as though it had flash if X is 3 or less. Draw X cards.

Sorcery
Silver Scrutiny (dmu) 65
Skeletal Scrying

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard. You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Instant
Skeletal Scrying (plst) C14-162
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (moc) 379
Soaring Thought-Thief

Flash Flying As long as an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, Rogues you control get +1/+0. Whenever one or more Rogues you control attack, each opponent mills two cards.

Creature
Soaring Thought-Thief (znr) 236
Soul Manipulation

Choose one or both — • Counter target creature spell. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Soul Manipulation (znc) 100
Spellscorn Coven

Creature
Spellscorn Coven // Take It Back (woe) 237
Squeeze

Sorcery spells cost {3} more to cast.

Enchantment
Squeeze (mmq) 105
Standardize

Choose a creature type other than Wall. Each creature becomes that type until end of turn.

Instant
Standardize (ons) 116
Stolen by the Fae

Return target creature with mana value X to its owner's hand. You create X 1/1 blue Faerie creature tokens with flying.

Sorcery
Stolen by the Fae (eld) 66
Stunt Double

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

Creature
Stunt Double (plst) CN2-38
Tainted Indulgence

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard.

Instant
Tainted Indulgence (snc) 227
Talion's Messenger

Flying Whenever you attack with one or more Faeries, draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a card this way, put a +1/+1 counter on target Faerie you control.

Creature
Talion's Messenger (woe) 73
Talion, the Kindly Lord

Flying As Talion, the Kindly Lord enters, choose a number between 1 and 10. Whenever an opponent casts a spell with mana value, power, or toughness equal to the chosen number, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Creature
Talion, the Kindly Lord (woe) 215
Tegwyll's Scouring

You may cast Tegwyll's Scouring as though it had flash by tapping three untapped creatures you control with flying in addition to paying its other costs. Destroy all creatures. Create three 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature tokens with flying.

Sorcery
Tegwyll's Scouring (woc) 16
Temple of the False God

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

Land
Temple of the False God (woc) 172
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

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

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (cmm) 126
Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Instant
Tragic Slip (cmm) 192
Turnabout

Choose artifact, creature, or land. Tap all untapped permanents of the chosen type target player controls, or untap all tapped permanents of that type that player controls.

Instant
Turnabout (dmr) 70
Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Unwind (dom) 72
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.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (woc) 151
Whispers of the Muse

Buyback {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Draw a card.

Instant
Whispers of the Muse (tmp) 103
Wydwen, the Biting Gale

Flash Flying {U}{B}, Pay 1 life: Return Wydwen, the Biting Gale to its owner's hand.

Creature
Wydwen, the Biting Gale (c20) 235

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