Cryptic Command

Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.

Mindcrank

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

Glacial Fortress

Glacial Fortress enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Kindred Discovery

As Kindred Discovery enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.

Fractured Identity

Exile target nonland permanent. Each player other than its controller creates a token that's a copy of it.

Fell the Mighty

Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.

Fraying Sanity

Enchant player
At the beginning of each end step, enchanted player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards put into their graveyard from anywhere this turn.

Disallow

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

Inspiring Statuary

Nonartifact spells you cast have improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast those spells. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Sphere of Safety

Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {X} for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

Keening Stone

{5}, {T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards in that player's graveyard.

Enlightened Tutor

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

Startled Awake

Target opponent mills thirteen cards.
{3}{U}{U}: Put Startled Awake from your graveyard onto the battlefield transformed. Activate only as a sorcery.

Persistent Nightmare

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
When Persistent Nightmare deals combat damage to a player, return it to its owner's hand.

Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare

Altar of the Brood

Whenever another permanent you control enters, each opponent mills a card.

Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Brago's Representative

While voting, you get an additional vote. (The votes can be for different choices or for the same choice.)

Custodi Squire

Flying
Will of the council — When Custodi Squire enters, starting with you, each player votes for an artifact, creature, or enchantment card in your graveyard. Return each card with the most votes or tied for most votes to your hand.

Split Decision

Will of the council — Choose target instant or sorcery spell. Starting with you, each player votes for denial or duplication. If denial gets more votes, counter the spell. If duplication gets more votes or the vote is tied, copy the spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Council of the Absolute

As Council of the Absolute enters, choose a noncreature, nonland card name.
Your opponents can't cast spells with the chosen name.
Spells with the chosen name you cast cost {2} less to cast.

Psychic Spiral

Shuffle all cards from your graveyard into your library. Target player mills that many cards.

Azor's Elocutors

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a filibuster counter on Azor's Elocutors. Then if Azor's Elocutors has five or more filibuster counters on it, you win the game.
Whenever a source deals damage to you, remove a filibuster counter from Azor's Elocutors.

Angel of Glory's Rise

Flying
When Angel of Glory's Rise enters, exile all Zombies, then return all Human creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Norn's Annex

({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)
Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {W/P} for each of those creatures.

Fieldmist Borderpost

You may pay {1} and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Fieldmist Borderpost enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Archive Trap

If an opponent searched their library this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Target opponent mills thirteen cards.

Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Distant Melody

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Thrumming Stone

Spells you cast have ripple 4. (Whenever you cast a spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as that spell from among the revealed cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker

Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you, that player sacrifices a permanent of your choice.

Trusted Advisor

Your maximum hand size is increased by two.
At the beginning of your upkeep, return a blue creature you control to its owner's hand.

Masako the Humorless

Flash
Tapped creatures you control can block as though they were untapped.

Intruder Alarm

Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.

Faces of the Past

Whenever a creature dies, tap all untapped creatures that share a creature type with it or untap all tapped creatures that share a creature type with it.

Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Dust Bowl

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Remembrance

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you may search your library for a card with the same name as that creature, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Peacekeeper

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Peacekeeper unless you pay {1}{W}.
Creatures can't attack.

Soldevi Excavations

If Soldevi Excavations would enter, sacrifice an untapped Island instead. If you do, put Soldevi Excavations onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add {C}{U}.
{1}, {T}: Scry 1.

Tundra

Detection Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Until end of turn, your opponents and creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

Psychic Corrosion

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.

Sea of Clouds

Sea of Clouds enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Ever-Watching Threshold

Whenever an opponent attacks, if they attacked you and/or a planeswalker you control, draw a card.

Drowned Secrets

Whenever you cast a blue spell, target player mills two cards.

Mistveil Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)
Mistveil Plains enters tapped.
{W}, {T}: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Activate only if you control two or more white permanents.

Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Persistent Petitioners

{1}, {T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Tap four untapped Advisors you control: Target player mills twelve cards.
A deck can have any number of cards named Persistent Petitioners.

Tomik, Distinguished Advokist

Flying
Lands on the battlefield and land cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.
Your opponents can't play land cards from graveyards.

Hall of Heliod's Generosity

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{W}, {T}: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Unsettled Mariner

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Whenever you or a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays {1}.

Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Echoing Truth

Return target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent to their owners' hands.

Dusk

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.

Dawn

Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)
Return all creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

Dusk // Dawn

Castle Vantress

Castle Vantress enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.)
Mystic Sanctuary enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When Mystic Sanctuary enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Didn't Say Please

Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.

Memory Erosion

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player mills two cards.

Expropriate

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for time or money. For each time vote, take an extra turn after this one. For each money vote, choose a permanent owned by the voter and gain control of it. Exile Expropriate.

Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.

Grasp of Fate

When Grasp of Fate enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until Grasp of Fate leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

Temple of Enlightenment

Temple of Enlightenment enters tapped.
When Temple of Enlightenment enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Flawless Maneuver

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Command Tower

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

Sol Ring

Secluded Steppe

Secluded Steppe enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Remote Isle

Remote Isle enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Prairie Stream enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Reliquary Tower

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

Lonely Sandbar

Lonely Sandbar enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Irrigated Farmland

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Irrigated Farmland enters tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Drifting Meadow

Drifting Meadow enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Desert of the True

Desert of the True enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
Cycling {1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Desert of the Mindful

Desert of the Mindful enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Bruvac the Grandiloquent

If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill twice that many cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Island

Plains

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Council's Judgment

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Spells your opponents cast cost {1} more to cast.

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