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Xanathar's guide to borrowing
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Commander

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Xanathar, Guild Kingpin

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose target opponent. Until end of turn, that player can't cast spells, you may look at the top card of their library any time, you may play the top card of their library, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast spells this way.

Creature
Xanathar, Guild Kingpin (sld) 1785

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Protection

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Dissipation Field

Whenever a permanent deals damage to you, return it to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Dissipation Field (clb) 718
Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Imp's Mischief (cmm) 167
Leyline of Anticipation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Enchantment
Leyline of Anticipation (clb) 726
Spellskite

{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Spellskite (clb) 873
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 (fdn) 355

Protection

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Theft

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Arcane Heist

You may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into their graveyard, exile it instead. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Arcane Heist (otc) 49
Arvinox, the Mind Flail

Arvinox isn't a creature unless you control three or more permanents you don't own. At the beginning of your end step, exile the bottom card of each opponent's library face down. For as long as those cards remain exiled, you may look at them, you may cast permanent spells from among them, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Creature Enchantment
Arvinox, the Mind Flail (sld) 340
Brainstealer Dragon

Flying At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of each opponent's library. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it. Whenever a nonland permanent an opponent owns enters the battlefield under your control, they lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Brainstealer Dragon (clb) 670
Bribery

Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Sorcery
Bribery (sld) 1786
Dazzling Sphinx

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then that player puts the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Creature
Dazzling Sphinx (c21) 352
Elder Brain

Menace Whenever this creature attacks a player, exile all cards from that player's hand, then they draw that many cards. You may play lands and cast spells from among the exiled cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Creature
Elder Brain (clb) 936
Extract Brain

Target opponent chooses X cards from their hand. Look at those cards. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Extract Brain (otc) 225
Gríma, Saruman's Footman

Gríma can't be blocked. Whenever Gríma deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then that player puts the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Creature
Gríma, Saruman's Footman (ltc) 464
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
Mind's Dilation

Whenever an opponent casts their first spell each turn, that player exiles the top card of their library. If it's a nonland card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.

Enchantment
Mind's Dilation (otc) 101
Mindleech Mass

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may look at that player's hand. If you do, you may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Mindleech Mass (rvr) 201
Siphon Insight

Look at the top two cards of target opponent's library. Exile one of them face down and put the other on the bottom of that library. You may play the exiled card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell. Flashback {1}{U}{B}

Instant
Siphon Insight (otp) 54
Thieving Amalgam

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you manifest the top card of that player's library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Whenever a creature you control but don't own dies, its owner loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Thieving Amalgam (otc) 150

Theft

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Copy

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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
Endless Evil

Enchant creature you control At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted creature, except the token is 1/1. When enchanted creature dies, if that creature was a Horror, return this card to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Endless Evil (clb) 665
Mockingbird

Flying You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield with mana value less than or equal to the amount of mana spent to cast this creature, except it's a Bird in addition to its other types and it has flying.

Creature
Mockingbird (blb) 305
Storm of Saruman

Ward {3} Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, copy it, except the copy isn't legendary. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Enchantment
Storm of Saruman (ltr) 413

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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 (blc) 127
Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Black Market (clb) 739
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (clu) 221
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (clb) 325
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (pip) 359
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (mkc) 242
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (lcc) 118

Ramp

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Draw

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Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (blc) 86
Contact Other Plane

Roll a d20. 1—9 | Draw two cards. 10—19 | Scry 2, then draw two cards. 20 | Scry 3, then draw three cards.

Instant
Contact Other Plane (clb) 62
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
Fallen Shinobi

Ninjutsu {2}{U}{B} ({2}{U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top two cards of their library. Until end of turn, you may play those cards without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Fallen Shinobi (otc) 226
Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, you may return it to its owner's hand. Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar (clb) 723
Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Sorcery
Syphon Mind (scd) 111
Tasha, the Witch Queen

Whenever you cast a spell you don't own, create a 3/3 black Demon creature token. +1: Draw a card. For each opponent, exile up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard and put a page counter on it. −3: You may cast a spell from among cards in exile with page counters on them without paying its mana cost. Tasha, the Witch Queen can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Tasha, the Witch Queen (clb) 364

Draw

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Recursion

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Extract from Darkness

Each player mills two cards. Then you put a creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Extract from Darkness (clb) 844
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) 297
Shadow of the Enemy

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You may cast spells from among those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast them.

Sorcery
Shadow of the Enemy (ltr) 107
Wishing Well

{T}: Put a coin counter on this artifact. When you do, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value equal to the number of coin counters on this artifact from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Wishing Well (blb) 81

Recursion

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Land

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Choked Estuary

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

Land
Choked Estuary (mkc) 254
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 659
Creeping Tar Pit

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {1}{U}{B}: This land becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. It's still a land.

Land
Creeping Tar Pit (clb) 888
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (otc) 282
Dimir Aqueduct

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

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (otc) 288
Dungeon Descent

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Tap an untapped legendary creature you control: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Land
Dungeon Descent (afr) 352
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 (afr) 353
Gloomlake Verge

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

Land
Gloomlake Verge (dsk) 331
Hall of Storm Giants

If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {5}{U}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 7/7 blue Giant creature with ward {3}. It's still a land. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {3}.)

Land
Hall of Storm Giants (afr) 354
Hive of the Eye Tyrant

If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {3}{B}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/3 black Beholder creature with menace and "Whenever this creature attacks, exile target card from defending player's graveyard." It's still a land.

Land
Hive of the Eye Tyrant (afr) 355
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mid) 270
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (pf23) 3
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mid) 272
Tainted Isle

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

Land
Tainted Isle (mkc) 300
Treasure Vault

{T}: Add {C}. {X}{X}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Create X Treasure tokens.

Artifact Land
Treasure Vault (afr) 358

Land

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Removal

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Agent of Treachery

When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent. At the beginning of your end step, if you control three or more permanents you don't own, draw three cards.

Creature
Agent of Treachery (m20) 43
Baleful Beholder

When this creature enters, choose one — • Antimagic Cone — Each opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice. • Fear Ray — Creatures you control gain menace until end of turn. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Creature
Baleful Beholder (afr) 311
Blood Money

Destroy all creatures. For each nontoken creature destroyed this way, you create a tapped Treasure token.

Sorcery
Blood Money (sld) 1789
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Instant
Defile (sld) 1793
Delay

Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Instant
Delay (sld) 1788
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 (sld) 1790
Eyes of the Beholder

Target creature gets -11/-11 until end of turn.

Instant
Eyes of the Beholder (afr) 101
Gelatinous Cube

Engulf — When this creature enters, exile target non-Ooze creature an opponent controls until this creature leaves the battlefield. Dissolve — {X}{B}: Put target creature card with mana value X exiled with this creature into its owner's graveyard.

Creature
Gelatinous Cube (afr) 105
Mind Flayer

Dominate Monster — When this creature enters, gain control of target creature for as long as you control this creature.

Creature
Mind Flayer (clb) 728
Oubliette

When this enchantment enters, target creature phases out until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. Tap that creature as it phases in this way. (Auras and Equipment phase out with it. While permanents are phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist.)

Enchantment
Oubliette (sld) 1794
Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Snuff Out (sld) 1792
Stifle

Counter target activated or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Instant
Stifle (sld) 1787

Removal

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Mill

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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) 94
Captain N'ghathrod

Horrors you control have menace. Whenever a Horror you control deals combat damage to a player, that player mills that many cards. At the beginning of your end step, choose target artifact or creature card in an opponent's graveyard that was put there from their library this turn. Put it onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Captain N'ghathrod (clb) 640
Consuming Aberration

Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards. Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Creature
Consuming Aberration (clb) 840
Fractured Sanity

Each opponent mills fourteen cards. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, each opponent mills four cards.

Sorcery
Fractured Sanity (clb) 722
Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Mindcrank (clb) 866
Nemesis of Reason

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player mills ten cards.

Creature
Nemesis of Reason (clb) 850
Ruin Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, each opponent mills three cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Ruin Crab (znr) 295
Sewer Nemesis

As this creature enters, choose a player. Sewer Nemesis's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in the chosen player's graveyard. Whenever the chosen player casts a spell, that player mills a card.

Creature
Sewer Nemesis (clb) 771
Zellix, Sanity Flayer

Hive Mind — Whenever a player mills one or more creature cards, you create a 1/1 black Horror creature token. {1}, {T}: Target player mills three cards. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Zellix, Sanity Flayer (clb) 652

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Stax

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Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it. {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Dauthi Voidwalker (mh2) 450

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