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Obeka's Knife Tricks
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Commander

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Obeka, Splitter of Seconds

Menace Whenever Obeka deals combat damage to a player, you get that many additional upkeep steps after this phase.

Creature
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds (otj) 222

Commander

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Artifact

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Diamond Pick-Axe

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this Equipment.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Equip {2}

Artifact
Diamond Pick-Axe (lci) 143

Artifact

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Burn

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Court of Ire

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, this enchantment deals 2 damage to any target. If you're the monarch, it deals 7 damage instead.

Enchantment
Court of Ire (cmr) 170
Fiendlash

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has reach. Whenever equipped creature is dealt damage, it deals damage equal to its power to target player or planeswalker. Equip {2}{R}

Artifact
Fiendlash (cmm) 221

Burn

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Copy

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Copy Enchantment

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

Enchantment
Copy Enchantment (wot) 16

Copy

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Creature

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Nezumi Bladeblesser

This creature has deathtouch as long as you control an artifact. This creature has menace as long as you control an enchantment. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Creature
Nezumi Bladeblesser (neo) 115
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion

Whenever Tetsuo attacks, if it's equipped, choose one — • Tetsuo deals damage equal to the greatest mana value among Equipment attached to it to any target. • You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand with mana value less than or equal to the greatest mana value among Equipment attached to Tetsuo without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Tetsuo, Imperial Champion (dmc) 44

Creature

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Discard

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Court of Ambition

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life unless they discard a card. If you're the monarch, instead each opponent loses 6 life unless they discard two cards.

Enchantment
Court of Ambition (cmr) 114

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Drain

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Reaper's Talisman

Whenever equipped creature attacks, it gains deathtouch until end of turn. Whenever equipped creature attacks alone, defending player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Reaper's Talisman (afr) 117

Drain

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Draw

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Chart a Course

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.

Sorcery
Chart a Course (lci) 48
Combat Research

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card." As long as enchanted creature is legendary, it gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}. (Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)

Enchantment
Combat Research (dmu) 44
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 (stx) 40
Flamekin Herald

Commander spells you cast have cascade. (Whenever you cast a commander, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with lesser mana value. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Creature
Flamekin Herald (cmr) 179
Outpost Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card. • Dragons — Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, this enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

Enchantment
Outpost Siege (clb) 804
Shadowmage Infiltrator

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Creature
Shadowmage Infiltrator (ncc) 351
Tavern Brawler

Commander creatures you own have "At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that card's mana value. You may play that card this turn."

Enchantment
Tavern Brawler (clb) 511
The Royal Scions

+1: Draw a card, then discard a card. +1: Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike and trample until end of turn. −8: Draw four cards. When you do, The Royal Scions deals damage to any target equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Planeswalker
The Royal Scions (plst) ELD-199
The Ruinous Powers

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose an opponent at random. Exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may play that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it. When you cast a spell this way, its owner loses life equal to its mana value.

Enchantment
The Ruinous Powers (40k) 139
Trumpeting Carnosaur

Trample When this creature enters, discover 5. {2}{R}, Discard this card: It deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Creature
Trumpeting Carnosaur (lci) 171
Twilight Prophet

Flying 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, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Creature
Twilight Prophet (mkc) 143
Vance's Blasting Cannons

Enchantment
Vance's Blasting Cannons // Spitfire Bastion (xln) 173Vance's Blasting Cannons // Spitfire Bastion (xln) 173
Visions of Phyrexia

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't play a card from exile this turn, create a tapped Powerstone token. (It's an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")

Enchantment
Visions of Phyrexia (bro) 156

Draw

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Enchantment

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Grasping Shadows

Enchantment
Grasping Shadows // Shadows' Lair (lci) 108Grasping Shadows // Shadows' Lair (lci) 108

Enchantment

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Finisher

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Aggravated Assault

{3}{R}{R}: Untap all creatures you control. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Aggravated Assault (wot) 39
Vorpal Sword

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch. {5}{B}{B}{B}: Until end of turn, this Equipment gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game." Equip {B}{B}

Artifact
Vorpal Sword (afr) 124

Finisher

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Land

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Arid Archway

This land enters tapped. When this land 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
Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dismal Backwater (neo) 267
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (vow) 263
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mkm) 280
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (lci) 399
Obscura Storefront

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Obscura Storefront (snc) 252
Raucous Theater

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

Land
Raucous Theater (mkm) 266
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mkm) 282
Swiftwater Cliffs

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Swiftwater Cliffs (mom) 273

Land

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Lifegain

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Ill-Gotten Inheritance

At the beginning of your upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life. {5}{B}, Sacrifice this enchantment: It deals 4 damage to target opponent and you gain 4 life.

Enchantment
Ill-Gotten Inheritance (rvr) 77

Lifegain

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Mill

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Cemetery Tampering

Hideaway 5 (When this enchantment enters, look at the top five cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill three cards. Then if there are twenty or more cards in your graveyard, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Enchantment
Cemetery Tampering (snc) 418

Mill

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Protection

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Lavaspur Boots

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has haste and ward {1}. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Lavaspur Boots (otj) 243
Octopus Umbra

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 8/8 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap target creature with power 8 or less." Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Enchantment
Octopus Umbra (plst) C18-11
Slip Out the Back

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)

Instant
Slip Out the Back (snc) 62
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 (afc) 217

Protection

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Pump

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Blackblade Reforged

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control. Equip legendary creature {3} Equip {7}

Artifact
Blackblade Reforged (dmc) 178
Lizard Blades

Double strike Equipped creature has double strike. Reconfigure {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Creature Artifact
Lizard Blades (neo) 153

Pump

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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 (40k) 229
As Foretold

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

Enchantment
As Foretold (wot) 68
Brass Squire

{T}: Attach target Equipment you control to target creature you control.

Creature Artifact
Brass Squire (cmr) 460
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (mkc) 226
Dowsing Dagger

Artifact
Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale (xln) 235Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale (xln) 235
Gilded Pinions

When this Equipment enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Equipped creature has flying. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Gilded Pinions (snc) 238
Izzet Signet

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

Artifact
Izzet Signet (ddj) 17
Lotus Bloom

Suspend 3—{0} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {0} 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.) {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact
Lotus Bloom (plst) TSP-259
Lotus Blossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a petal counter on this artifact. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of petal counters on this artifact.

Artifact
Lotus Blossom (dmr) 451
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 (eld) 54
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (clu) 226
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (40k) 250

Ramp

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Recursion

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Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (dmr) 428
Palace Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Dragons — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Palace Siege (frf) 79
Wildfire Devils

When this creature enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, choose a player at random. That player exiles an instant or sorcery card from their graveyard. Copy that card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Wildfire Devils (c21) 183

Recursion

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Removal

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Assassin's Ink

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control an artifact and {1} less to cast if you control an enchantment. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Assassin's Ink (neo) 87
Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Bitter Triumph (lci) 91
Blot Out

Target opponent exiles a creature or planeswalker they control with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant
Blot Out (mat) 12
Call In a Professional

Players can't gain life this turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn. Call In a Professional deals 3 damage to any target. (Shield counters don't prevent this damage as they're removed.)

Instant
Call In a Professional (snc) 103
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 (who) 225
Defabricate

Choose one — • Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. If a spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. • Counter target activated or triggered ability.

Instant
Defabricate (bro) 45
Disruption Protocol

As an additional cost to cast this spell, tap an untapped artifact you control or pay {1}. Counter target spell.

Instant
Disruption Protocol (neo) 51
Essence Capture

Counter target creature spell. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control.

Instant
Essence Capture (otp) 10
Join the Dead

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn. Descend 4 — That creature gets -10/-10 until end of turn instead if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard.

Instant
Join the Dead (lci) 110
Lightning Spear

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has trample. {2}{R}, Sacrifice this Equipment: It deals 3 damage to any target. Equip {1}

Artifact
Lightning Spear (mh2) 134
Murder

Destroy target creature.

Instant
Murder (snc) 88
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (plst) RIX-44
Sinister Concierge

When this creature dies, you may exile it and put three time counters on it. If you do, exile up to one target creature and put three time counters on it. Each card exiled this way that doesn't have suspend gains suspend. (For each card with suspend, its owner removes a time counter from it at the beginning of their upkeep. When the last is removed, they may cast it without paying its mana cost. Those creature spells have haste.)

Creature
Sinister Concierge (ncc) 131
Sword of Sinew and Steel

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from red. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy up to one target planeswalker and up to one target artifact. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of Sinew and Steel (mh1) 228
Torch the Witness

Torch the Witness deals twice X damage to target creature. If excess damage was dealt to that creature this way, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
Torch the Witness (mkm) 146
Wizard's Retort

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a Wizard. Counter target spell.

Instant
Wizard's Retort (dom) 75

Removal

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Theft

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Invoke the Winds

Gain control of target artifact or creature. Untap it.

Sorcery
Invoke the Winds (neo) 58

Theft

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Tokens

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Churning Reservoir

At the beginning of your upkeep, put an oil counter on another target nontoken artifact or creature you control. {2}, {T}: Create a 1/1 red Phyrexian Goblin creature token. Activate only if an oil counter was removed from a permanent you controlled this turn or a permanent with an oil counter on it was put into a graveyard this turn.

Artifact
Churning Reservoir (one) 127
Dragonmaster Outcast

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control six or more lands, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.

Creature
Dragonmaster Outcast (afc) 124
Urabrask's Forge

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put an oil counter on this artifact, then create an X/1 red Phyrexian Horror creature token with trample and haste, where X is the number of oil counters on this artifact. Sacrifice that token at the beginning of the next end step.

Artifact
Urabrask's Forge (one) 387

Tokens

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Tutor

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Case of the Stashed Skeleton

When this Case enters, create a 2/1 black Skeleton creature token and suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.) To solve — You control no suspected Skeletons. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — {1}{B}, Sacrifice this Case: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Case of the Stashed Skeleton (pmkm) 80p
Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two 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.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Profane Tutor (mh2) 97

Tutor

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Maybeboard

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Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (plst) UMA-93
Extravagant Replication

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of another target nonland permanent you control.

Enchantment
Extravagant Replication (fdn) 154
Samurai's Katana

Job select (When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has trample and haste, and is a Samurai in addition to its other types. Murasame — Equip {5}

Artifact
Samurai's Katana (fin) 154

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