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Doc's Unfinished Study In Evolution
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Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius

Spells you cast from your graveyard or from exile cost {2} less to cast. Plotting cards from your hand costs {2} less.

Creature
Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius (otj) 201

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Bounce

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Mistbreath Elder

At the beginning of your upkeep, return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Otherwise, you may return this creature to its owner's hand.

Creature
Mistbreath Elder (blb) 184

Bounce

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Copy

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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) 61
Nascent Metamorph

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. This creature becomes a copy of that card until end of turn. Then that player puts all cards revealed this way on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Creature
Nascent Metamorph (c20) 36
Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch

Creature
Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time (lci) 67Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time (lci) 67
Spitting Image

Create a token that's a copy of target creature. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Sorcery
Spitting Image (c21) 229

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Counters

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Elusive Otter

Creature
Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty (woe) 225
Forgotten Ancient

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Creature
Forgotten Ancient (dmr) 341
Managorger Hydra

Trample Whenever a player casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Managorger Hydra (sld) 306
Railway Brawler

Reach, trample Whenever another creature you control enters, put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is its power. Plot {3}{G} (You may pay {3}{G} 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.)

Creature
Railway Brawler (potj) 175s
The Thirteenth Doctor

Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Team TARDIS — At the beginning of your end step, untap each creature you control with a counter on it.

Creature
The Thirteenth Doctor (who) 4

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Draw

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Battle Mammoth

Trample Whenever a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card. Foretell {2}{G}{G} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Creature
Battle Mammoth (khm) 298
Bonny Pall, Clearcutter

Reach When Bonny Pall enters, create Beau, a legendary blue Ox creature token with "Beau's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control." Whenever you attack, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.

Creature
Bonny Pall, Clearcutter (otj) 196
Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards. Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Deep Analysis (2x2) 44
Extraordinary Journey

When this enchantment enters, exile up to X target creatures. For each of those cards, its owner may play it for as long as it remains exiled. Whenever one or more nontoken creatures enter, if one or more of them entered from exile or was cast from exile, you draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Extraordinary Journey (pwoe) 48s
Fblthp, Lost on the Range

Ward {2} You may look at the top card of your library any time. The top card of your library has plot. The plot cost is equal to its mana cost. You may plot nonland cards from the top of your library.

Creature
Fblthp, Lost on the Range (otj) 48
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir

At the beginning of combat on your turn, up to one target land you control becomes an X/X green and blue Bird creature with flying and haste until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand. It's still a land. Whenever a land creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir (mat) 230
Keruga, the Macrosage

Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with mana value 3 or greater and land cards. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) When Keruga enters, draw a card for each other permanent you control with mana value 3 or greater.

Creature
Keruga, the Macrosage (mul) 48
Mischievous Catgeist

Creature
Mischievous Catgeist // Catlike Curiosity (vow) 69Mischievous Catgeist // Catlike Curiosity (vow) 69
Outcaster Trailblazer

When this creature enters, add one mana of any color. Whenever another creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card. Plot {2}{G} (You may pay {2}{G} 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.)

Creature
Outcaster Trailblazer (otj) 173
River Kelpie

Whenever this creature or another permanent enters from a graveyard, draw a card. Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
River Kelpie (c19) 93
Season of Gathering

Choose up to five {P} worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once. {P} — Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control. It gains vigilance and trample until end of turn. {P}{P} — Choose artifact or enchantment. Destroy all permanents of the chosen type. {P}{P}{P} — Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.

Sorcery
Season of Gathering (blb) 192
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
Tempest Hart

Creature
Tempest Hart // Scan the Clouds (woe) 238
The Temporal Anchor

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 2. Whenever you choose to put one or more cards on the bottom of your library while scrying, exile that many cards from the bottom of your library. During your turn, you may play cards exiled with The Temporal Anchor.

Artifact
The Temporal Anchor (bro) 82

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Land

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Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 60
Edgewall Inn

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target card that has an Adventure from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Edgewall Inn (woe) 255
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (drc) 155
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 291
Gemstone Mine

This land enters with three mining counters on it. {T}, Remove a mining counter from this land: Add one mana of any color. If there are no mining counters on this land, sacrifice it.

Land
Gemstone Mine (dmr) 455
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 281
Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Land
Mosswort Bridge (dsc) 288
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (cmm) 661
Simic Growth Chamber

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

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (dsc) 298
Temple of Mystery

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 {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (dsc) 311
Thornwood Falls

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

Land
Thornwood Falls (dft) 266

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Lifegain

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Spinewoods Paladin

Trample When this creature enters, you gain 3 life. Plot {3}{G} (You may pay {3}{G} 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.)

Creature
Spinewoods Paladin (otj) 183

Lifegain

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Protection

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Dread Linnorm

Creature
Dread Linnorm // Scale Deflection (clb) 225
Elephant Grass

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Black creatures can't attack you. Nonblack creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Elephant Grass (plst) VIS-104
Eon Frolicker

Flying When this creature enters, if you cast it, target opponent takes an extra turn after this one. Until your next turn, you and planeswalkers you control gain protection from that player. (You and planeswalkers you control can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything controlled by that player.)

Creature
Eon Frolicker (c20) 33
High Fae Trickster

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Creature
High Fae Trickster (fdn) 40
Tidal Barracuda

Any player may cast spells as though they had flash. Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn.

Creature
Tidal Barracuda (c20) 39

Protection

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Ramp

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Beanstalk Wurm

Creature
Beanstalk Wurm // Plant Beans (woe) 161
Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (dmr) 439
Bramble Familiar

Creature
Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest (woe) 283
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (pw23) 6
Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Growth Spiral (sta) 61
Monster Manual

Artifact
Monster Manual // Zoological Study (clb) 242
Planar Genesis

Look at the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't, put a card from among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Instant
Planar Genesis (mh3) 198
Poison Dart Frog

Reach {T}: Add one mana of any color. {2}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Poison Dart Frog (lci) 207
Rosethorn Acolyte

Creature
Rosethorn Acolyte // Seasonal Ritual (eld) 300
Sage of the Beyond

Flying Spells you cast from anywhere other than your hand cost {2} less to cast. Foretell {4}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Creature
Sage of the Beyond (otc) 111
Spring

Sorcery
Spring // Mind (akh) 219
Tender Wildguide

Offspring {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) {T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Tender Wildguide (blb) 325

Ramp

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Recursion

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Archmage's Newt

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. That card gains flashback {0} until end of turn instead if this creature is saddled. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.) Saddle 3

Creature
Archmage's Newt (otj) 39
Colossal Skyturtle

Flying, ward {2} Channel — {2}{G}, Discard this card: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Channel — {1}{U}, Discard this card: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature Enchantment
Colossal Skyturtle (neo) 216
Snapcaster Mage

Flash When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creature
Snapcaster Mage (isd) 78
Timeless Witness

When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Eternalize {5}{G}{G} ({5}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Shaman with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Timeless Witness (mh2) 179

Recursion

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Removal

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Amphibian Downpour

Flash Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies. Copies become tokens.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a blue Frog creature with base power and toughness 1/1.

Enchantment
Amphibian Downpour (mh3) 51
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 281
Exchange of Words

When this enchantment enters, choose two target creatures. For as long as this enchantment remains on the battlefield, exchange the text boxes of those creatures.

Enchantment
Exchange of Words (unf) 45
Froghemoth

Trample, haste Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile up to that many target cards from their graveyard. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each creature card exiled this way. You gain 1 life for each noncreature card exiled this way.

Creature
Froghemoth (afr) 184
Horned Loch-Whale

Creature
Horned Loch-Whale // Lagoon Breach (woe) 53
Mass Diminish

Until your next turn, creatures target player controls have base power and toughness 1/1. Flashback {3}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Mass Diminish (c19) 10
Mystic Reflection

Choose target nonlegendary creature. The next time one or more creatures or planeswalkers enter this turn, they enter as copies of the chosen creature. Foretell {U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Mystic Reflection (khm) 69
Ovinize

Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 0/1.

Instant
Ovinize (dmr) 63
Sapphire Dragon

Creature
Sapphire Dragon // Psionic Pulse (clb) 94
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
Silverback Elder

Whenever you cast a creature spell, choose one — • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • You gain 4 life.

Creature
Silverback Elder (dmu) 177
Stormkeld Vanguard

Creature
Stormkeld Vanguard // Bear Down (woe) 187
Sword Coast Serpent

Creature
Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave (clb) 99
Three Steps Ahead

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1}{U} — Counter target spell. + {3} — Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control. + {2} — Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Three Steps Ahead (potj) 75s

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Tokens

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Alrund's Epiphany

Create two 1/1 blue Bird creature tokens with flying. Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Alrund's Epiphany. Foretell {4}{U}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Sorcery
Alrund's Epiphany (khm) 295
Curious Herd

Choose target opponent. You create X 3/3 green Beast creature tokens, where X is the number of artifacts that player controls.

Instant
Curious Herd (c20) 59

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Untap

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Murkfiend Liege

Other green creatures you control get +1/+1. Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1. Untap all green and/or blue creatures you control during each other player's untap step.

Creature
Murkfiend Liege (2x2) 259

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Maybeboard

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Behold the Multiverse

Scry 2, then draw two cards. Foretell {1}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Behold the Multiverse (khm) 46
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Croaking Counterpart

Create a token that's a copy of target non-Frog creature, except it's a 1/1 green Frog. Flashback {3}{G}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Croaking Counterpart (mid) 215
Dream-Thief's Bandana

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, look at the top card of their library, then exile it face down. For as long as it remains exiled, you may play it, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell. Equip {1}

Artifact
Dream-Thief's Bandana (otc) 38
Durnan of the Yawning Portal

Whenever Durnan attacks, look at the top four cards of your library. You may exile a creature card from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may cast it. That spell has undaunted. (It costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.) Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Durnan of the Yawning Portal (clb) 657
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
Grolnok, the Omnivore

Whenever a Frog you control attacks, mill three cards. Whenever a permanent card is put into your graveyard from your library, exile it with a croak counter on it. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards you own in exile with croak counters on them.

Creature
Grolnok, the Omnivore (vow) 238
Harmonious Emergence

Enchant land you control Enchanted land is a 4/5 green Spirit creature with vigilance and haste. It's still a land. If enchanted land would be destroyed, instead sacrifice this Aura and that land gains indestructible until end of turn.

Enchantment
Harmonious Emergence (neo) 190
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (cmm) 295
Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Spells can't be countered. Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost.

Creature
Lier, Disciple of the Drowned (mid) 59
Owlbear Cub

Mama's Coming — Whenever this creature attacks a player who controls eight or more lands, look at the top eight cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield tapped and attacking that player. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Owlbear Cub (clb) 246
Plan the Heist

Surveil 3 if you have no cards in hand. Then draw three cards. (To 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.) Plot {3}{U} (You may pay {3}{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
Plan the Heist (otj) 62
Rampant Frogantua

Trample This creature gets +10/+10 for each player who has lost the game. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may mill that many cards. Put any number of land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Rampant Frogantua (m3c) 118
Rootcoil Creeper

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast spells from your graveyard. {G}{U}, {T}, Exile this creature: Return target card with flashback you own from exile to your hand.

Creature
Rootcoil Creeper (mid) 238
Savvy Trader

When this creature enters, exile target permanent card from your graveyard. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. Spells you cast from anywhere other than your hand cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Savvy Trader (otc) 33
Sisterhood of Karn

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature
Sisterhood of Karn (who) 109
Slickshot Lockpicker

When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.) Plot {2}{U} (You may pay {2}{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.)

Creature
Slickshot Lockpicker (otj) 67
Visage Bandit

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature you control, except it's a Shapeshifter Rogue in addition to its other types. Plot {2}{U} (You may pay {2}{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.)

Creature
Visage Bandit (otj) 76
Volo, Guide to Monsters

Whenever you cast a creature spell that doesn't share a creature type with a creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, copy that spell. (A copy of a creature spell becomes a token.)

Creature
Volo, Guide to Monsters (afr) 238

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