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Ian Malcolm, Chaos Theory
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Ian Malcolm, Chaotician

Whenever a player draws their second card each turn, that player exiles the top card of their library. During each player's turn, that player may cast a spell from among the cards they don't own exiled with Ian Malcolm, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it.

Creature
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician (rex) 13

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Burn

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Flaming Tyrannosaurus

Menace Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, this creature deals 3 damage to any target. Then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, it deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.

Creature
Flaming Tyrannosaurus (who) 385
Razorkin Needlehead

This creature has first strike during your turn. Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to them.

Creature
Razorkin Needlehead (dsk) 153
Scrawling Crawler

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card. Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Scrawling Crawler (fdn) 132

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Copy

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Hive Mind

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, each other player copies that spell. Each of those players may choose new targets for their copy.

Enchantment
Hive Mind (m10) 54
Tempt with Mayhem

Tempting offer — Choose target instant or sorcery spell. Each opponent may copy that spell and may choose new targets for the copy they control. You copy that spell once plus an additional time for each opponent who copied the spell this way. You may choose new targets for the copies you control.

Instant
Tempt with Mayhem (m3c) 62

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Cycling

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Brand

Gain control of all permanents you own. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Brand (usg) 176

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Draw

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Curse of Verbosity

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, you draw a card. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.

Enchantment
Curse of Verbosity (clb) 717
Cutthroat Negotiator

Parley — Whenever this creature attacks, each player reveals the top card of their library. For each nonland card revealed this way, you create a tapped Treasure token. Then each player draws a card.

Creature
Cutthroat Negotiator (moc) 40
Dakra Mystic

{U}, {T}: Each player reveals the top card of their library. You may put the revealed cards into their owners' graveyards. If you don't, each player draws a card.

Creature
Dakra Mystic (jou) 35
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
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
Fevered Visions

At the beginning of each player's end step, that player draws a card. If the player is your opponent and has four or more cards in hand, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Fevered Visions (soi) 244
Folio of Fancies

Players have no maximum hand size. {X}{X}, {T}: Each player draws X cards. {2}{U}, {T}: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in their hand.

Artifact
Folio of Fancies (eld) 46
Forced Fruition

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player draws seven cards.

Enchantment
Forced Fruition (wot) 18
Ghostly Pilferer

Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card. Discard a card: This creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Ghostly Pilferer (otc) 98
Howling Mine

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if this artifact is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

Artifact
Howling Mine (cmd) 251
Jace's Archivist

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

Creature
Jace's Archivist (c15) 95
Kami of the Crescent Moon

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Creature
Kami of the Crescent Moon (voc) 107
Lore Broker

{T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Creature
Lore Broker (rav) 57
Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist

At the beginning of each player's end step, that player may draw a card if a player other than you lost life this turn. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist (c16) 37
Molten Psyche

Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards. Metalcraft — If you control three or more artifacts, Molten Psyche deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of cards that player has drawn this turn.

Sorcery
Molten Psyche (som) 98
Niv-Mizzet, Parun

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

Creature
Niv-Mizzet, Parun (clb) 851
Plargg and Nassari

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. An opponent chooses a nonland card exiled this way. You may cast up to two spells from among the other cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Plargg and Nassari (mat) 18
Powerbalance

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost if the two spells have the same mana value.

Enchantment
Powerbalance (mh3) 131
Step Between Worlds

Each player may shuffle their hand and graveyard into their library. Each player who does draws seven cards. Exile Step Between Worlds. Plot {4}{U}{U} (You may pay {4}{U}{U} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Sorcery
Step Between Worlds (otj) 70
Storm Fleet Negotiator

Flying Parley — Whenever this creature attacks, each player reveals the top card of their library. For each nonland card revealed this way, you create a Map token. Then each player draws a card. (A Map token is an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Creature
Storm Fleet Negotiator (lcc) 46
Temple Bell

{T}: Each player draws a card.

Artifact
Temple Bell (lcc) 117
Valakut Awakening

Instant
Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (plst) ZNR-174Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (plst) ZNR-174
Vision Skeins

Each player draws two cards.

Instant
Vision Skeins (e01) 29
Well of Ideas

When this enchantment enters, draw two cards. At the beginning of each other player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. At the beginning of your draw step, draw two additional cards.

Enchantment
Well of Ideas (2xm) 75
Words of Wisdom

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

Instant
Words of Wisdom (ody) 114
Zenith Chronicler

Whenever a player casts their first multicolored spell each turn, each other player draws a card.

Creature Artifact
Zenith Chronicler (one) 246

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Finisher

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Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature
Laboratory Maniac (sld) 1394

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Land

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Cascade Bluffs

{T}: Add {C}. {U/R}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Land
Cascade Bluffs (cmm) 990
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (rex) 26
Ferrous Lake

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

Land
Ferrous Lake (otc) 294
Frostboil Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Frostboil Snarl (pstx) 265p
Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (lcc) 335
Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Land
Homeward Path (sld) 1467
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (rex) 22
Izzet Boilerworks

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

Land
Izzet Boilerworks (2x2) 408
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card.

Land
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea (dmc) 217
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (pip) 323
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (lcc) 348
Riverglide Pathway

Land
Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (znr) 289Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (znr) 289
Riverpyre Verge

{T}: Add {R}. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control an Island or a Mountain.

Land
Riverpyre Verge (dft) 260
Shivan Reef

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

Land
Shivan Reef (dmu) 380
Steam Vents

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

Land
Steam Vents (rvr) 298
Stormcarved Coast

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

Land
Stormcarved Coast (vow) 284
Sulfur Falls

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

Land
Sulfur Falls (lcc) 354
Training Center

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

Land
Training Center (cmm) 665

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Mill

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Tasha's Hideous Laughter

Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until that player has exiled cards with total mana value 20 or greater.

Sorcery
Tasha's Hideous Laughter (sld) 1395★
Psychic Corrosion

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.

Enchantment
Psychic Corrosion (m19) 68

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Protection

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Chef's Kiss

Gain control of target spell that targets only a single permanent or player. Copy it, then reselect the targets at random for the spell and the copy. The new targets can't be you or a permanent you control.

Instant
Chef's Kiss (mh2) 120
Propaganda

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

Enchantment
Propaganda (m3c) 191
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 (cmd) 57

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 (lcc) 299
Braids, Conjurer Adept

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may put an artifact, creature, or land card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Braids, Conjurer Adept (cmm) 76
Decanter of Endless Water

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

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Descent into Avernus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two descent counters on this enchantment. Then each player creates X Treasure tokens and this enchantment deals X damage to each player, where X is the number of descent counters on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Descent into Avernus (clb) 580
Izzet Signet

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

Artifact
Izzet Signet (lcc) 306
Mana Geyser

Add {R} for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery
Mana Geyser (scd) 151
Midnight Clock

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

Artifact
Midnight Clock (otc) 100
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (lcc) 309
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (lcc) 313
Talisman of Creativity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (cmm) 979
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmm) 414
Wayfarer's Bauble

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

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (moc) 389
Wild Evocation

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player reveals a card at random from their hand. If it's a land card, the player puts it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, the player casts it without paying its mana cost if able.

Enchantment
Wild Evocation (m11) 160

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Removal

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (ima) 40
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
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (lcc) 216
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (sld) 741
Disrupt Decorum

Goad all creatures you don't control. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Sorcery
Disrupt Decorum (mkc) 151
Dream Fracture

Counter target spell. Its controller draws a card. Draw a card.

Instant
Dream Fracture (clb) 66
Guff Rewrites History

For each player, choose target nonenchantment, nonland permanent that player controls. Those permanents' owners shuffle them into their libraries. Each player who controlled one of those permanents exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card, then puts the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order. Each player may cast the nonland card they exiled without paying its mana cost.

Instant
Guff Rewrites History (cmm) 737
Long River's Pull

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Counter target creature spell. If the gift was promised, instead counter target spell.

Instant
Long River's Pull (blb) 58
Perplexing Chimera

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may exchange control of this creature and that spell. If you do, you may choose new targets for the spell. (If the spell becomes a permanent, you control that permanent.)

Creature Enchantment
Perplexing Chimera (bng) 48
Remand

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it into its owner's hand instead of into that player's graveyard. Draw a card.

Instant
Remand (rvr) 59
Shifting Grift

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2} — Exchange control of two target creatures. + {1} — Exchange control of two target artifacts. + {1} — Exchange control of two target enchantments.

Sorcery
Shifting Grift (otj) 66
Sink into Stupor

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

Removal

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Whims of the Fates

Starting with you, each player separates all permanents they control into three piles. Then each player chooses one of their piles at random and sacrifices those permanents. (Piles can be empty.)

Sorcery
Whims of the Fates (bng) 115

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Reality Scramble

Put target permanent you own on the bottom of your library. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card that shares a card type with that permanent. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Sorcery
Reality Scramble (c18) 25

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Maybeboard

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Burning Inquiry

Each player draws three cards, then discards three cards at random.

Sorcery
Burning Inquiry (m10) 128
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
Charred Foyer

Enchantment
Charred Foyer // Warped Space (dsk) 340
Confusion in the Ranks

Whenever an artifact, creature, or enchantment enters, its controller chooses target permanent another player controls that shares a card type with it. Exchange control of those permanents.

Enchantment
Confusion in the Ranks (mrd) 87
Coveted Jewel

When this artifact enters, draw three cards. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of this artifact. Untap it.

Artifact
Coveted Jewel (moc) 353
Dack Fayden

+1: Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards. −2: Gain control of target artifact. −6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell that targets one or more permanents, gain control of those permanents."

Planeswalker
Dack Fayden (sld) 1689
Eye of the Storm

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery card, exile it. Then that player copies each instant or sorcery card exiled with this enchantment. For each copy, the player may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Enchantment
Eye of the Storm (plst) RAV-48
Fascination

Choose one — • Each player draws X cards. • Each player mills X cards.

Sorcery
Fascination (frf) 34
Fortune Teller's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) You may look at the top card of your library any time. {3}{U}: Level 2 As long as you've cast a spell this turn, you may play cards from the top of your library. {2}{U}: Level 3 Spells you cast from anywhere other than your hand cost {2} less to cast.

Enchantment
Fortune Teller's Talent (blc) 14
Grip of Chaos

Whenever a spell or ability is put onto the stack, if it has a single target, reselect its target at random. (Select from among all legal targets.)

Enchantment
Grip of Chaos (scg) 98
Howling Golem

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, each player draws a card.

Creature Artifact
Howling Golem (cmr) 316
Ice Cave

Whenever a player casts a spell, any other player may pay that spell's mana cost. If a player does, counter the spell. (Mana cost includes color.)

Enchantment
Ice Cave (plst) APC-24
Jace Beleren

+2: Each player draws a card. −1: Target player draws a card. −10: Target player mills twenty cards.

Planeswalker
Jace Beleren (cmm) 850
Jace's Erasure

Whenever you draw a card, you may have target player mill a card.

Enchantment
Jace's Erasure (m12) 60
Knowledge Pool

Imprint — When this artifact enters, each player exiles the top three cards of their library. Whenever a player casts a spell from their hand, that player exiles it. If the player does, they may cast a spell from among other cards exiled with this artifact without paying its mana cost.

Artifact
Knowledge Pool (mbs) 111
Kumena's Awakening

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card. If you have the city's blessing, instead only you draw a card.

Enchantment
Kumena's Awakening (rix) 42
Memory Worm

Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, this creature deals 2 damage to target player. That player discards a card, then draws a card. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Memory Worm (who) 90
Minds Aglow

Join forces — Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player draws X cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Sorcery
Minds Aglow (cmm) 105
Otherworld Atlas

{T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}: Each player draws a card for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Otherworld Atlas (avr) 219
Possibility Storm

Whenever a player casts a spell from their hand, that player exiles it, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a card that shares a card type with it. That player may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put all cards exiled with this enchantment on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Enchantment
Possibility Storm (dgm) 34
Prosperity

Each player draws X cards.

Sorcery
Prosperity (vis) 40
Risky Move

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player gains control of this enchantment. When you gain control of this enchantment from another player, choose a creature you control and an opponent. Flip a coin. If you lose the flip, that opponent gains control of that creature.

Enchantment
Risky Move (plst) ONS-223
Scrambleverse

For each nonland permanent, choose a player at random. Then each player gains control of each permanent for which they were chosen. Untap those permanents.

Sorcery
Scrambleverse (m12) 153
Share the Spoils

When this enchantment enters and whenever an opponent loses the game, exile the top card of each player's library. During each player's turn, that player may play a land or cast a spell from among cards exiled with this enchantment, and they may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell. When they do, exile the top card of their library.

Enchantment
Share the Spoils (afc) 34
Skyscribing

Each player draws X cards. Forecast — {2}{U}, Reveal this card from your hand: Each player draws a card. (Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Sorcery
Skyscribing (c13) 57
Stolen Strategy

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of each opponent's library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among those exiled cards, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Enchantment
Stolen Strategy (clb) 807
The Locust God

Flying Whenever you draw a card, create a 1/1 blue and red Insect creature token with flying and haste. {2}{U}{R}: Draw a card, then discard a card. When The Locust God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
The Locust God (c20) 219
Thieves' Auction

Exile all nontoken permanents. Starting with you, each player chooses one of the exiled cards and puts it onto the battlefield tapped under their control. Repeat this process until all cards exiled this way have been chosen.

Sorcery
Thieves' Auction (mmq) 218
Warp World

Each player shuffles all permanents they own into their library, then reveals that many cards from the top of their library. Each player puts all artifact, creature, and land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then does the same for enchantment cards, then puts all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield on the bottom of their library.

Sorcery
Warp World (m10) 163
Wistful Thinking

Target player draws two cards, then discards four cards.

Sorcery
Wistful Thinking (plc) 53
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
Zurzoth, Chaos Rider

Whenever an opponent draws their first card each turn, if it's not their turn, you create a 1/1 red Devil creature token with "When this token dies, it deals 1 damage to any target." Whenever one or more Devils you control attack one or more players, you and those players each draw a card, then discard a card at random.

Creature
Zurzoth, Chaos Rider (ncc) 278

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