Octavia, Living Thesis

This spell costs {8} less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Ward {8}
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.

Defy Gravity

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Flashback {U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Brain Freeze

Target player mills three cards.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

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.

Cloudseeder

Flying
{U}, {T}, Discard a card: Create a 1/1 blue Faerie creature token named Cloud Sprite. It has flying and "Cloud Sprite can block only creatures with flying."

Ornithopter

Fellwar Stone

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

Thought Vessel

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

Arcane Signet

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

Sol Ring

Counterspell

Negate

Thousand-Faced Shadow

Ninjutsu {2}{U}{U} ({2}{U}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Flying
When Thousand-Faced Shadow enters from your hand, if it's attacking, create a token that's a copy of another target attacking creature. The token enters tapped and attacking.

Spectral Adversary

Flash
Flying
When Spectral Adversary enters, you may pay {1}{U} any number of times. When you pay this cost one or more times, put that many +1/+1 counters on Spectral Adversary, then up to that many other target artifacts, creatures, and/or enchantments phase out.

High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

You Come to a River

Choose one —
• Fight the Current — Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Find a Crossing — Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Perplexing Test

Choose one —
• Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands.
• Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.

Snapback

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Unsubstantiate

Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand.

Occult Epiphany

Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying for each card type among cards discarded this way.

Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Recalibrate

Return target creature to its owner's hand. If you've discarded a card this turn, draw a card.

Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Chain of Vapor

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Then that permanent's controller may sacrifice a land. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Spellstutter Sprite

Flash
Flying
When Spellstutter Sprite enters, counter target spell with mana value X or less, where X is the number of Faeries you control.

Faerie Vandal

Flash
Flying
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Faerie Vandal.

Rattlechains

Flash
Flying
When Rattlechains enters, target Spirit gains hexproof until end of turn.
You may cast Spirit spells as though they had flash.

Subtlety

Flash
Flying
When Subtlety enters, choose up to one target creature spell or planeswalker spell. Its owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library.
Evoke—Exile a blue card from your hand.

Spectral Sailor

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
{3}{U}: Draw a card.

Faerie Duelist

Flash
Flying
When Faerie Duelist enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-0 until end of turn.

Dimensional Infiltrator

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Flash
Flying
{1}{C}: Target opponent exiles the top card of their library. If it's a land card, you may return Dimensional Infiltrator to its owner's hand. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Geistwave

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If you controlled that permanent, draw a card.

Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

Engulf the Shore

Return to their owners' hands all creatures with toughness less than or equal to the number of Islands you control.

Whispering Wizard

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip {2}

Millikin

{T}, Mill a card: Add {C}. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Murmuring Mystic

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.

Champion of Wits

When Champion of Wits enters, you may draw cards equal to its power. If you do, discard two cards.
Eternalize {5}{U}{U} ({5}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Wizard with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Minn, Wily Illusionist

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token with "This creature gets +1/+0 for each other Illusion you control."
Whenever an Illusion you control dies, you may put a permanent card with mana value less than or equal to that creature's power from your hand onto the battlefield.

Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Deekah, Fractal Theorist

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is that spell's mana value.
{3}{U}: Target creature token can't be blocked this turn.

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.

Looter il-Kor

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever Looter il-Kor deals damage to an opponent, draw a card, then discard a card.

Strategic Planning

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Deranged Assistant

Court of Cunning

When Court of Cunning enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, any number of target players each mill two cards. If you're the monarch, each of those players mills ten cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Nightveil Sprite

Flying
Whenever Nightveil Sprite attacks, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Windrider Wizard

Flying
Whenever you cast an instant, sorcery, or Wizard spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Chart a Course

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

Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Chasm Skulker.
When Chasm Skulker dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Chasm Skulker. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

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.)

The Magic Mirror

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror, then draw a card for each knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror.

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.)

Cloak of Feathers

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Careful Study

Obsessive Search

Draw a card.
Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Quiet Speculation

Search target player's library for up to three cards with flashback and put them into that player's graveyard. Then the player shuffles.

Mausoleum Wanderer

Flying
Whenever another Spirit you control enters, Mausoleum Wanderer gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Sacrifice Mausoleum Wanderer: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is Mausoleum Wanderer's power.

Primal Amulet

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a charge counter on Primal Amulet. Then if there are four or more charge counters on it, you may remove those counters and transform it.

Primal Wellspring

(Transforms from Primal Amulet.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color. When that mana is spent to cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.

Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring

Dowsing Dagger

When Dowsing Dagger enters, target opponent creates two 0/2 green Plant creature tokens with defender.
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may transform Dowsing Dagger.
Equip {2}

Lost Vale

(Transforms from Dowsing Dagger.)
{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale

Search for Azcanta

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

(Transforms from Search for Azcanta.)
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}, {T}: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

Network Disruptor

Flying
When Network Disruptor enters, tap target permanent.

Siren Stormtamer

Flying
{U}, Sacrifice Siren Stormtamer: Counter target spell or ability that targets you or a creature you control.

Artificer's Assistant

Flying
Whenever you cast a historic spell, scry 1. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic. To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.)

Wingcrafter

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Wingcrafter is paired with another creature, both creatures have flying.

Dream Twist

Target player mills three cards.
Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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.)

Think Twice

Draw a card.
Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
{1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Signal Pest

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)
Signal Pest can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.

Spellweaver Volute

Enchant instant card in a graveyard
Whenever you cast a sorcery spell, copy the enchanted instant card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. If you do, exile the enchanted card and attach Spellweaver Volute to another instant card in a graveyard.

Demilich

This spell costs {U} less to cast for each instant and sorcery spell you've cast this turn.
Whenever Demilich attacks, exile up to one target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. Copy it. You may cast the copy.
You may cast Demilich from your graveyard by exiling four instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard in addition to paying its other costs.

Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Visions of Duplicity

Exchange control of two target creatures you don't control.
Flashback {8}{U}{U}. This spell costs {X} less to cast this way, where X is the greatest mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Swarm Intelligence

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

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.)

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Energy Tap

Tap target untapped creature you control. If you do, add an amount of {C} equal to that creature's mana value.

Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.

Island

Serum Visions

Consider

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

Thought Scour

Target player mills two cards.
Draw a card.

Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Mental Note

Visions of Beyond

Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.

Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Flux

Each player discards any number of cards, then draws that many cards.
Draw a card.

Tolarian Winds

Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.

Sword of Feast and Famine

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control.
Equip {2}

Sword of Fire and Ice

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, Sword of Fire and Ice deals 2 damage to any target and you draw a card.
Equip {2}

Covert Technician

Ninjutsu {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Covert Technician deals combat damage to a player, you may put an artifact card with mana value less than or equal to that damage from your hand onto the battlefield.

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