Retriever Phoenix

Flying, haste
When Retriever Phoenix enters, if you cast it, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
As long as Retriever Phoenix is in your graveyard, if you would learn, you may instead return Retriever Phoenix to the battlefield.

Wandering Archaic

Whenever an opponent casts an instant or sorcery spell, they may pay {2}. If they don't, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Explore the Vastlands

Each player looks at the top five cards of their library and may reveal a land card and/or an instant or sorcery card from among them. Each player puts the cards they revealed this way into their hand and the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order. Each player gains 3 life.

Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands

Crackle with Power

Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.

Sparring Regimen

When Sparring Regimen enters, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
Whenever you attack, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature and untap it.

Efreet Flamepainter

Double strike
Whenever Efreet Flamepainter deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Semester's End

Exile any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers you control. At the beginning of the next end step, return each of them to the battlefield under its owner's control. Each of them enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.

Dragonsguard Elite

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Dragonsguard Elite.
{4}{G}{G}: Double the number of +1/+1 counters on Dragonsguard Elite.

Poet's Quill

When Poet's Quill enters, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.
Equip {1}{B}

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 creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Illuminate History

Discard any number of cards, then draw that many cards. Then if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.

Torrent Sculptor

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)
When Torrent Sculptor enters, exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on Torrent Sculptor equal to half that card's mana value, rounded up.

Flamethrower Sonata

Discard a card, then draw a card. When you discard an instant or sorcery card this way, Flamethrower Sonata deals damage equal to that card's mana value to target creature or planeswalker you don't control.

Torrent Sculptor // Flamethrower Sonata

Hofri Ghostforge

Spirits you control get +1/+1 and have trample and haste.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's a Spirit in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's graveyard."

Uvilda, Dean of Perfection

{T}: You may exile an instant or sorcery card from your hand and put three hone counters on it. It gains "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is exiled, remove a hone counter from it" and "When the last hone counter is removed from this card, if it's exiled, you may cast it. It costs {4} less to cast this way."

Nassari, Dean of Expression

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of each opponent's library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among those exiled cards, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.
Whenever you cast a spell from exile, put a +1/+1 counter on Nassari, Dean of Expression.

Uvilda, Dean of Perfection // Nassari, Dean of Expression

Symmetry Sage

Flying
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature you control has base power 2 until end of turn.

Hall of Oracles

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you've cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn.

Dream Strix

Flying
When Dream Strix becomes the target of a spell, sacrifice it.
When Dream Strix dies, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Callous Bloodmage

When Callous Bloodmage enters, choose one —
• Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Exile target player's graveyard.

Elite Spellbinder

Flying
When Elite Spellbinder enters, look at target opponent's hand. You may exile a nonland card from it. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may play it. A spell cast this way costs {2} more to cast.

Fervent Mastery

You may pay {2}{R}{R} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the {2}{R}{R} cost was paid, an opponent discards any number of cards, then draws that many cards.
Search your library for up to three cards, put them into your hand, shuffle, then discard three cards at random.

Double Major

Copy target creature spell you control, except it isn't legendary if the spell is legendary. (A copy of a creature spell becomes a token.)

Professor Onyx

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
+1: You lose 1 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
−3: Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.
−8: Each opponent may discard a card. If they don't, they lose 3 life. Repeat this process six more times.

Tanazir Quandrix

Flying, trample
When Tanazir Quandrix enters, double the number of +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.
Whenever Tanazir Quandrix attacks, you may have the base power and toughness of other creatures you control become equal to Tanazir Quandrix's power and toughness until end of turn.

Valentin, Dean of the Vein

Menace, lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. When you do, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Lisette, Dean of the Root

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and those creatures gain trample until end of turn.

Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root

Quandrix Apprentice

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a land card from among them and put that card into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Elemental Expressionist

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, choose target creature you control. Until end of turn, it gains "If this creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else" and "When this creature is put into exile, create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token." (Each instance of that ability triggers separately.)

Frost Trickster

Flying
When Frost Trickster enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Kasmina, Enigma Sage

Each other planeswalker you control has the loyalty abilities of Kasmina, Enigma Sage.
+2: Scry 1.
−X: Create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it.
−8: Search your library for an instant or sorcery card that shares a color with this planeswalker, exile that card, then shuffle. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

Silverquill Silencer

As Silverquill Silencer enters, choose a nonland card name.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell with the chosen name, they lose 3 life and you draw a card.

Frostboil Snarl

As Frostboil Snarl enters, you may reveal an Island or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, Frostboil Snarl enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Returned Pastcaller

Flying
When Returned Pastcaller enters, return target Spirit, instant, or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Furycalm Snarl

As Furycalm Snarl enters, you may reveal a Mountain or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, Furycalm Snarl enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Ecological Appreciation

Search your library and graveyard for up to four creature cards with different names that each have mana value X or less and reveal them. An opponent chooses two of those cards. Shuffle the chosen cards into your library and put the rest onto the battlefield. Exile Ecological Appreciation.

Kianne, Dean of Substance

{T}: Exile the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, put a study counter on it.
{4}{G}: Create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put a +1/+1 counter on it for each different mana value among nonland cards you own in exile with study counters on them.

Imbraham, Dean of Theory

Flying
{X}{U}{U}, {T}: Exile the top X cards of your library and put a study counter on each of them. Then you may put a card you own in exile with a study counter on it into your hand.

Kianne, Dean of Substance // Imbraham, Dean of Theory

Flamescroll Celebrant

Whenever an opponent activates an ability that isn't a mana ability, Flamescroll Celebrant deals 1 damage to that player.
{1}{R}: Flamescroll Celebrant gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Revel in Silence

Your opponents can't cast spells or activate planeswalkers' loyalty abilities this turn.
Exile Revel in Silence.

Flamescroll Celebrant // Revel in Silence

Rowan, Scholar of Sparks

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
+1: Rowan, Scholar of Sparks deals 1 damage to each opponent. If you've drawn three or more cards this turn, she deals 3 damage to each opponent instead.
−4: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay {2}. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy."

Will, Scholar of Frost

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
+1: Up to one target creature has base power and toughness 0/2 until your next turn.
−3: Draw two cards.
−7: Exile up to five target permanents. For each permanent exiled this way, its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Rowan, Scholar of Sparks // Will, Scholar of Frost

Leonin Lightscribe

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios

Discard a card: Return Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios to its owner's hand.
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a nonland card, you may cast it by paying {1} rather than paying its mana cost. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield.

Journey to the Oracle

You may put any number of land cards from your hand onto the battlefield. Then if you control eight or more lands, you may discard a card. If you do, return Journey to the Oracle to its owner's hand.

Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle

Rushed Rebirth

Choose target creature. When that creature dies this turn, search your library for a creature card with lesser mana value, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Dramatic Finale

Creature tokens you control get +1/+1.
Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Mavinda, Students' Advocate

Flying
{0}: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell doesn't target a creature you control, it costs {8} more to cast this way. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only once each turn. (You still pay the spell's costs. Timing rules for the spell still apply.)

Radiant Scrollwielder

Instant and sorcery spells you control have lifelink.
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Mascot Exhibition

Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying, a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token, and a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Archmage Emeritus

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

Exponential Growth

Until end of turn, double target creature's power X times.

Pestilent Cauldron

{T}, Discard a card: Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."
{1}, {T}: Each opponent mills cards equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.
{4}, {T}: Exile four target cards from a single graveyard. Draw a card.

Restorative Burst

Return up to two target creature, land, and/or planeswalker cards from your graveyard to your hand. Each player gains 4 life. Exile Restorative Burst.

Pestilent Cauldron // Restorative Burst

Mila, Crafty Companion

Whenever an opponent attacks one or more planeswalkers you control, put a loyalty counter on each planeswalker you control.
Whenever a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card.

Lukka, Wayward Bonder

+1: You may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. If a creature card was discarded this way, draw two cards instead.
−2: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of your next upkeep.
−7: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target."

Mila, Crafty Companion // Lukka, Wayward Bonder

Strict Proctor

Flying
Whenever a permanent entering causes a triggered ability to trigger, counter that ability unless its controller pays {2}.

Ingenious Mastery

You may pay {2}{U} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the {2}{U} cost was paid, you draw three cards, then an opponent creates two Treasure tokens and they scry 2. If that cost wasn't paid, you draw X cards.

Shadrix Silverquill

Flying, double strike
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may choose two. Each mode must target a different player.
• Target player creates a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.
• Target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
• Target player puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature they control.

Galazeth Prismari

Flying
When Galazeth Prismari enters, create a Treasure token.
Artifacts you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell."

Multiple Choice

If X is 1, scry 1, then draw a card.
If X is 2, you may choose a player. They return a creature they control to its owner's hand.
If X is 3, create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.
If X is 4 or more, do all of the above.

Gnarled Professor

Trample
When Gnarled Professor enters, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Plargg, Dean of Chaos

{T}, Discard a card: Draw a card.
{4}{R}, {T}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonlegendary, nonland card with mana value 3 or less. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put all revealed cards not cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Augusta, Dean of Order

Other tapped creatures you control get +1/+0.
Other untapped creatures you control get +0/+1.
Whenever you attack, untap each creature you control, then tap any number of creatures you control.

Plargg, Dean of Chaos // Augusta, Dean of Order

Extus, Oriq Overlord

Double strike
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Awaken the Blood Avatar

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each creature sacrificed this way.
Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. Create a 3/6 black and red Avatar creature token with haste and "Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 3 damage to each opponent."

Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar

Shaile, Dean of Radiance

Flying, vigilance
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature that entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

Embrose, Dean of Shadow

{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature, then Embrose, Dean of Shadow deals 2 damage to that creature.
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, draw a card.

Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow

Harness Infinity

Exchange your hand and graveyard.
Exile Harness Infinity.

Magma Opus

Magma Opus deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. Tap two target permanents. Create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token. Draw two cards.
{U/R}{U/R}, Discard Magma Opus: Create a Treasure token.

Manifestation Sage

When Manifestation Sage enters, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Quandrix Command

Choose two —
• Return target creature or planeswalker to its owner's hand.
• Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
• Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library.

Vanishing Verse

Vineglimmer Snarl

As Vineglimmer Snarl enters, you may reveal a Forest or Island card from your hand. If you don't, Vineglimmer Snarl enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Shineshadow Snarl

As Shineshadow Snarl enters, you may reveal a Plains or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, Shineshadow Snarl enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

The Biblioplex

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Look at the top card of your library. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard. Activate only if you have exactly zero or seven cards in hand.

Necroblossom Snarl

As Necroblossom Snarl enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, Necroblossom Snarl enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Tempted by the Oriq

For each opponent, gain control of up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls with mana value 3 or less.

Verdant Mastery

You may pay {3}{G} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Search your library for up to four basic land cards and reveal them. Put one of them onto the battlefield tapped under an opponent's control if the {3}{G} cost was paid. Put two of them onto the battlefield tapped under your control and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle.

Silverquill Command

Choose two —
• Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn.
• Return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
• Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Witherbloom Command

Choose two —
• Target player mills three cards, then you return a land card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Destroy target noncreature, nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less.
• Target creature gets -3/-1 until end of turn.
• Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Strixhaven Stadium

{T}: Add {C}. Put a point counter on Strixhaven Stadium.
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, remove a point counter from Strixhaven Stadium.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, put a point counter on Strixhaven Stadium. Then if it has ten or more point counters on it, remove them all and that player loses the game.

Doom Blade

Inquisition of Kozilek

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card.

Demonic Tutor

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

Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Mizzix's Mastery

Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery.
Overload {5}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

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.

Increasing Vengeance

Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies.
Flashback {3}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Tendrils of Agony

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Dark Ritual

Crux of Fate

Choose one —
• Destroy all Dragon creatures.
• Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

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.

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Abundant Harvest

Choose land or nonland. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Electrolyze

Electrolyze deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets.
Draw a card.

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