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surveil
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Mirko, Obsessive Theorist

Flying, vigilance Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on Mirko, Obsessive Theorist. At the beginning of your end step, you may return target creature card with power less than Mirko's from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If it would die, exile it instead.)

Creature
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist (mkc) 2

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Land

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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 (clu) 233
Gallifrey Council Chamber

When Gallifrey Council Chamber enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Time Lord or Alien spell or activate an ability of a Time Lord or Alien.

Land
Gallifrey Council Chamber (who) 462
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (clu) 259
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (clu) 263
Tocasia's Dig Site

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Tocasia's Dig Site (mkc) 308
Undercity Sewers

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Undercity Sewers enters tapped. When Undercity Sewers enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270

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Artifact

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Candlestick

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, 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.) {2}, Sacrifice Candlestick: Draw a card. Equip {2}

Artifact
Candlestick (mkm) 43
Cryptex

{T}, Collect evidence 3: Add one mana of any color. Put an unlock counter on Cryptex. (To collect evidence 3, exile cards with total mana value 3 or greater from your graveyard.) Sacrifice Cryptex: Surveil 3, then draw three cards. Activate only if Cryptex has five or more unlock counters on it.

Artifact
Cryptex (mkm) 251
Laser Screwdriver

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Tap target artifact. {2}, {T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) {3}, {T}: Goad target creature. (Until your next turn, it attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Artifact
Laser Screwdriver (who) 178
Power Conduit

{T}, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Choose one — • Put a charge counter on target artifact. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Artifact
Power Conduit (ncc) 376
Ransom Note

When Ransom Note enters, surveil 1. {2}, Sacrifice Ransom Note: Choose one — • Cloak the top card of your library. • Goad target creature. • Draw a card.

Artifact
Ransom Note (mkc) 47
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (mkc) 237
Sword of Once and Future

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from blue and from black. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 2. Then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of Once and Future (mom) 265
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (mkc) 242
The Grim Captain's Locker

{T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Until end of turn, each creature card in your graveyard gains "Escape—{3}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard." (You may cast a card with escape from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Artifact
The Grim Captain's Locker (lcc) 82

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Sorcery

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Charnel Serenade

Surveil 3, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Exile Charnel Serenade with three time counters on it. Suspend 3—{2}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{B} and exile it with three 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.)

Sorcery
Charnel Serenade (mkc) 26
Connive

Sorcery
Connive // Concoct (mkc) 203
Contingency Plan

Surveil 5. (Look at the top five cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Sorcery
Contingency Plan (plst) EMN-52
Discovery

Sorcery
Discovery // Dispersal (clu) 187
Notion Rain

Surveil 2, then draw two cards. Notion Rain deals 2 damage to you. (To 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.)

Sorcery
Notion Rain (mkc) 217
Start the TARDIS

Surveil 2, then draw a card. You may planeswalk. (To 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.) Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Sorcery
Start the TARDIS (who) 56
Taigam's Scheming

Surveil 5. (Look at the top five cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Sorcery
Taigam's Scheming (ktk) 57
Thought Erasure

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Sorcery
Thought Erasure (plst) GRN-206

Sorcery

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Creature

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Barrier of Bones

Defender When Barrier of Bones enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Creature
Barrier of Bones (grn) 61
Blood Operative

Lifelink When Blood Operative enters, you may exile target card from a graveyard. Whenever you surveil, if Blood Operative is in your graveyard, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return Blood Operative to your hand.

Creature
Blood Operative (grn) 63
Coastal Bulwark

Defender Coastal Bulwark gets +2/+0 as long as you control an Island. {2}, {T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Creature Artifact
Coastal Bulwark (bro) 76
Copy Catchers

Flying Whenever you surveil, you may pay {1}{U}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of Copy Catchers.

Creature
Copy Catchers (mkc) 20
Dimir Informant

When Dimir Informant enters, 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.)

Creature
Dimir Informant (grn) 36
Dimir Spybug

Flying Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on Dimir Spybug.

Creature
Dimir Spybug (mkc) 206
Dimir Strandcatcher

Flying Whenever you attack, surveil X, where X is the number of opponents being attacked. At the beginning of each end step, if three or more cards were put into your graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield this turn, draw a card.

Creature
Dimir Strandcatcher (clu) 30
Dogged Detective

When Dogged Detective enters, 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.) Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you may return Dogged Detective from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Dogged Detective (mkc) 127
Dream Eater

Flash Flying When Dream Eater enters, surveil 4. When you do, you may return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. (To surveil 4, look at the top four cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Creature
Dream Eater (mkc) 101
Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth

Whenever another creature you control dies, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a token, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Creature
Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth (mic) 3
Eye of Duskmantle

Flying, lifelink You may play lands and cast spells from among cards in your graveyard you've surveilled this turn. If you cast a spell this way, you pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

Creature
Eye of Duskmantle (mkc) 27
Faerie Dreamthief

Flying When Faerie Dreamthief enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {2}{B}, Exile Faerie Dreamthief from your graveyard: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Faerie Dreamthief (woe) 89
Fain, the Broker

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. {T}, Remove a counter from a creature you control: Create a Treasure token. {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying. {3}{B}: Untap Fain, the Broker.

Creature
Fain, the Broker (brc) 105
Foul Watcher

Flying When Foul Watcher enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) Delirium — Foul Watcher gets +1/+0 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Creature
Foul Watcher (mh2) 43
Hex Parasite

{X}{B/P}: Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For each counter removed this way, Hex Parasite gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Hex Parasite (nph) 137
Hexavus

Flying Hexavus enters with six +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Hexavus: Put a flying counter on another target creature. {1}, Remove a counter from another creature you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on Hexavus.

Creature Artifact
Hexavus (brc) 14
Larder Zombie

Defender Tap three untapped creatures you control: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Creature
Larder Zombie (mid) 58
Lazav, the Multifarious

When Lazav, the Multifarious enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {X}: Lazav, the Multifarious becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except its name is Lazav, the Multifarious, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has this ability.

Creature
Lazav, the Multifarious (mkc) 214
Master of Death

When Master of Death enters, 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.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if Master of Death is in your graveyard, you may pay 1 life. If you do, return it to your hand.

Creature
Master of Death (mkc) 216
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 (mkc) 113
Sanguine Spy

Menace, lifelink {1}, Sacrifice another creature: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) At the beginning of your end step, if there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Sanguine Spy (snc) 93
Seer of Stolen Sight

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever one or more artifacts and/or creatures you control are put into a graveyard from the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Creature
Seer of Stolen Sight (mom) 330
Sinister Starfish

{T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Sinister Starfish (mkc) 140
Snarling Gorehound

Menace Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Snarling Gorehound (mkm) 105
Soul Diviner

{T}, Remove a counter from an artifact, creature, land, or planeswalker you control: Draw a card.

Creature
Soul Diviner (war) 218
Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad, the Grim deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (mkc) 141
Thoughtbound Phantasm

Defender Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on Thoughtbound Phantasm. As long as Thoughtbound Phantasm has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature
Thoughtbound Phantasm (mkc) 122
Thrull Parasite

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) {T}, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.

Creature
Thrull Parasite (gtc) 81
Watcher of Hours

Flying, ward {3} Whenever you remove a time counter from Watcher of Hours while it's exiled, surveil 1. 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
Watcher of Hours (mkc) 25
Whisper Agent

Flash When Whisper Agent enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Whisper Agent (clu) 218
Whispering Snitch

Whenever you surveil for the first time each turn, Whispering Snitch deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Whispering Snitch (mkc) 144

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Enchantment

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Case of the Shifting Visage

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. To solve — There are fifteen or more cards in your graveyard. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — Whenever you cast a nonlegendary creature spell, copy that spell. (The copy becomes a token.)

Enchantment
Case of the Shifting Visage (mkc) 19
Disinformation Campaign

When Disinformation Campaign enters, you draw a card and each opponent discards a card. Whenever you surveil, return Disinformation Campaign to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Disinformation Campaign (mkc) 208
Enhanced Surveillance

You may look at an additional two cards each time you surveil. Exile Enhanced Surveillance: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Enchantment
Enhanced Surveillance (mkc) 102
Think Tank

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Enchantment
Think Tank (ody) 104

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Consider

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

Instant
Consider (clu) 84
Curate

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.) Draw a card.

Instant
Curate (mkc) 99
Dazzling Lights

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn. 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
Dazzling Lights (plst) GRN-34
Drag the Canal

Create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token. If a creature died this turn, you gain 2 life, surveil 2, then investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Instant
Drag the Canal (mkm) 199
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
Ephara's Dispersal

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets an attacking creature. Return target creature to its owner's hand. 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
Ephara's Dispersal (mkc) 103
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 (woc) 90
Mission Briefing

Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To 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
Mission Briefing (mkc) 110
Otherworldly Gaze

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Otherworldly Gaze (mkc) 115
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 (mkc) 134
Price of Fame

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a legendary creature. Destroy target creature. 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
Price of Fame (mkc) 135
Sinister Sabotage

Counter target spell. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Instant
Sinister Sabotage (rvr) 61
Unauthorized Exit

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Instant
Unauthorized Exit (mkm) 74
Unexplained Disappearance

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Instant
Unexplained Disappearance (grn) 56

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