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Magar of the Magic Strings
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Est deck cost: $209.38
Salt sum: 32.1
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Commander

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Magar of the Magic Strings

{1}{B}{R}: Note the name of target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard and put it onto the battlefield face down. It's a 3/3 creature with "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may create a copy of the card with the noted name. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost" and "If this creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else."

Creature
Magar of the Magic Strings (unf) 263

Commander

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Evasion

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Filth

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Swamp, creatures you control have swampwalk.

Creature
Filth (plst) JUD-66
Key to the City

{T}, Discard a card: Up to one target creature can't be blocked this turn. Whenever this artifact becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Key to the City (c19) 216
Psychic Paper

As this Equipment becomes attached to a creature, choose a creature card name and a creature type. Equipped creature has ward {1}, it can't be blocked, and its name and creature type are the last chosen name and creature type. Equip {2}

Artifact
Psychic Paper (who) 181
Thieves' Tools

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 can't be blocked as long as its power is 3 or less. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Thieves' Tools (clb) 152
Trailblazer's Boots

Equipped creature has nonbasic landwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a nonbasic land.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Trailblazer's Boots (ltr) 398

Evasion

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Removal

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Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant
Bedevil (otp) 37
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
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 (drc) 48
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (otc) 134
In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (pm15) 100
Quag Feast

Choose target creature, planeswalker, or Vehicle. Mill two cards, then destroy the chosen permanent if its mana value is less than or equal to the number of cards in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Quag Feast (dft) 100
Rakdos Charm

Choose one — • Exile target player's graveyard. • Destroy target artifact. • Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant
Rakdos Charm (lcc) 284
Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Terminate (c20) 231

Removal

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Anthem

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Anger

Haste As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

Creature
Anger (plst) JUD-77
Rising of the Day

Creatures you control have haste. Legendary creatures you control get +1/+0.

Enchantment
Rising of the Day (ltr) 427
Urabrask the Hidden

Creatures you control have haste. Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Creature
Urabrask the Hidden (ima) 152

Anthem

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Land

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Access Tunnel

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Access Tunnel (ltc) 294
Blackcleave Cliffs

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

Land
Blackcleave Cliffs (one) 248
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (dmc) 199
Canyon Slough

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Canyon Slough (pip) 256
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (who) 266
Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (who) 272
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (lcc) 329
Foreboding Ruins

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

Land
Foreboding Ruins (lcc) 330
Geier Reach Sanitarium

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

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (lcc) 335
Geothermal Bog

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Geothermal Bog (dsc) 278
Graven Cairns

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

Land
Graven Cairns (ima) 237
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (lci) 400
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (lcc) 349
Shadowblood Ridge

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

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (dsc) 296
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (ltc) 332
Sulfurous Springs

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

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dmu) 256
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mh3) 315
Tainted Peak

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

Land
Tainted Peak (otc) 327
Temple of Malice

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 {B} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Malice (pip) 307

Land

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Tutor

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Entomb

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

Instant
Entomb (dmr) 304
Lively Dirge

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. + {2} — Return up to two creature cards with total mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Lively Dirge (otj) 93
Oriq Loremage

{T}: Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. If it's an instant or sorcery card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Oriq Loremage (stx) 80
Unmarked Grave

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

Sorcery
Unmarked Grave (mh2) 106
Vile Entomber

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Creature
Vile Entomber (fdn) 616

Tutor

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Army of the Damned

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Army of the Damned (c18) 113
Blood for the Blood God!

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature that died this turn. Discard your hand, then draw eight cards. Blood for the Blood God! deals 8 damage to each opponent. Exile Blood for the Blood God!

Instant
Blood for the Blood God! (40k) 108
Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Sorcery
Breach the Multiverse (mom) 358
Call Forth the Tempest

Cascade, 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 of your library in a random order. Then do it again.) Call Forth the Tempest deals damage to each creature your opponents control equal to the total mana value of other spells you've cast this turn.

Sorcery
Call Forth the Tempest (ltc) 509
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 (c17) 25
Elemental Eruption

Create a 4/4 red Dragon Elemental creature token with flying and prowess. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Sorcery
Elemental Eruption (otc) 63
Fevered Suspicion

Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among those nonland cards without paying their mana costs. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Fevered Suspicion (afc) 47
Hit the Mother Lode

Discover 10. If the discovered card's mana value is less than 10, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to the difference. (To discover 10, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 10 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Sorcery
Hit the Mother Lode (lci) 404
Rise of the Eldrazi

This spell can't be countered. Destroy target permanent. Target player draws four cards. Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Rise of the Eldrazi.

Sorcery
Rise of the Eldrazi (cmm) 749
Savage Beating

Cast this spell only during combat on your turn. Choose one — • Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. • Untap all creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Entwine {1}{R} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant
Savage Beating (cmm) 252
Skull Storm

When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. Each opponent who can't loses half their life, rounded up.

Sorcery
Skull Storm (c18) 18

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Protection

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Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (mb2) 225
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 (lcc) 314
Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Whispersilk Cloak (ltc) 292

Protection

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Draw

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Big Score

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Big Score (plst) SNC-102
Bitter Reunion

When this enchantment enters, you may discard a card. If you do, draw two cards. {1}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Enchantment
Bitter Reunion (plst) BRO-127
Cathartic Pyre

Choose one — • Cathartic Pyre deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker. • Discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards.

Instant
Cathartic Pyre (mid) 133
Cathartic Reunion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard two cards. Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Cathartic Reunion (acr) 94
Demand Answers

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Demand Answers (mkm) 306
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (inr) 151
Hostile Negotiations

Exile the top three cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top three cards of your library in another face-down pile. Look at the cards in each pile, then turn a pile of your choice face up. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Hostile Negotiations (pbro) 105p
Seize the Spoils

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

Sorcery
Seize the Spoils (khm) 149
Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Thrill of Possibility (thb) 159
Tormenting Voice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Tormenting Voice (akh) 151
Unexpected Windfall

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Unexpected Windfall (plst) AFR-164
Witch's Mark

You may discard a card. If you do, draw two cards. Create a Wicked Role token attached to up to one target creature you control. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Sorcery
Witch's Mark (woe) 158

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Ramp

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Agility Bobblehead

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {3}, {T}: Up to X target creatures you control each gain haste until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste, where X is the number of Bobbleheads you control as you activate this ability.

Artifact
Agility Bobblehead (pip) 126
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (lcc) 299
Charcoal Diamond

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

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 442
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (lcc) 301
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (mir) 116
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (cm2) 189
Fire Diamond

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

Artifact
Fire Diamond (clb) 445
Liquimetal Torque

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact
Liquimetal Torque (mh2) 428
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (blc) 280
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (dis) 165
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 57
Sonic Screwdriver

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Untap another target artifact. {2}, {T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Artifact
Sonic Screwdriver (who) 186
Storm-Kiln Artist

This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token.

Creature
Storm-Kiln Artist (otc) 181
Talisman of Indulgence

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

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (m3c) 312

Ramp

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Maybeboard

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All Is Dust

Each player sacrifices all permanents they control that are one or more colors.

Sorcery Kindred
All Is Dust (plst) MM2-1
Azra Oddsmaker

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may discard a card. If you do, choose a creature. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player this turn, you draw two cards.

Creature
Azra Oddsmaker (bbd) 75
Bedlam

Creatures can't block.

Enchantment
Bedlam (plst) USG-175
Berserkers' Onslaught

Attacking creatures you control have double strike.

Enchantment
Berserkers' Onslaught (blc) 192
Brass's Bounty

For each land you control, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Brass's Bounty (fdn) 190
Chainer, Nightmare Adept

Discard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.

Creature
Chainer, Nightmare Adept (plst) MH2-289
Collector's Vault

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Artifact
Collector's Vault (woe) 244
Dance with Calamity

Shuffle your library. As many times as you choose, you may exile the top card of your library. If the total mana value of the cards exiled this way is 13 or less, you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

Sorcery
Dance with Calamity (moc) 29
Dragon's Rage Channeler

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) Delirium — As long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+2, has flying, and attacks each combat if able.

Creature
Dragon's Rage Channeler (mb2) 56
Dualcaster Mage

Flash When this creature enters, copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature
Dualcaster Mage (c14) 34
Ensnared by the Mara

Each opponent faces a villainous choice — They exile cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card, then you may cast that card without paying its mana cost, or that player exiles the top four cards of their library and Ensnared by the Mara deals damage equal to the total mana value of those exiled cards to that player.

Sorcery
Ensnared by the Mara (who) 84
Explosive Singularity

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may tap any number of untapped creatures you control. This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature tapped this way. Explosive Singularity deals 10 damage to any target.

Sorcery
Explosive Singularity (neo) 140
Final Parting

Search your library for two cards. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

Sorcery
Final Parting (cmm) 160
Goblin War Drums

Creatures you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Enchantment
Goblin War Drums (fem) 58d
Grave Upheaval

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. Basic landcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Sorcery
Grave Upheaval (c16) 31
Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. • Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery
Jeska's Will (clb) 799
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
Mana Geyser

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

Sorcery
Mana Geyser (cns) 147
Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sorcery
Peer into the Abyss (plst) M21-117
Pirate's Pillage

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Pirate's Pillage (rix) 109
Plague Wind

Destroy all creatures you don't control. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Plague Wind (9ed) 155
Prisoner's Dilemma

Each opponent secretly chooses silence or snitch, then the choices are revealed. If each opponent chose silence, Prisoner's Dilemma deals 4 damage to each of them. If each opponent chose snitch, Prisoner's Dilemma deals 8 damage to each of them. Otherwise, Prisoner's Dilemma deals 12 damage to each opponent who chose silence. Flashback {5}{R}{R}

Sorcery
Prisoner's Dilemma (mkc) 34
Prowler's Helm

Equipped creature can't be blocked except by Walls. Equip {2}

Artifact
Prowler's Helm (ths) 219
Rakdos Carnarium

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

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (2x2) 329
Razaketh's Rite

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Razaketh's Rite (hou) 74
Relentless Assault

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

Sorcery
Relentless Assault (mb2) 132
Roar of Resistance

Creature tokens you control have haste. Whenever one or more creatures attack, you may pay {1}{R}. If you do, creatures attacking your opponents and/or planeswalkers they control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Roar of Resistance (onc) 53
Sedgemoor Witch

Menace Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.) Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Creature
Sedgemoor Witch (plst) STX-86
Sorin's Vengeance

Sorin's Vengeance deals 10 damage to target player or planeswalker and you gain 10 life.

Sorcery
Sorin's Vengeance (m12) 111
Storm-Kiln Artist

This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token.

Creature
Storm-Kiln Artist (stx) 115
Sulfurous Mire

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Sulfurous Mire (khm) 270
The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}, {T}: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Land
The Black Gate (ltc) 80
Wake the Dragon

Create a 6/6 black and red Dragon creature token with flying, menace, and "Whenever this token deals combat damage to a player, gain control of target artifact that player controls." Flashback {6}{B}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Wake the Dragon (ltc) 74
Worst Fears

You control target player during that player's next turn. Exile Worst Fears. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for the player.)

Sorcery
Worst Fears (mb2) 52
Young Pyromancer

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

Creature
Young Pyromancer (j25) 618

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