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Commander

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Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
Flying, vigilance
Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on Mirko.
At the beginning of your end step, you may return target creature card with power less than Mirko's from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If it would die, exile it instead.)
Legendary Creature - Vampire Detective
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist (mkc) 2

Commander

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Draw Surveil

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Consider
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Consider (mid) 44
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.
Instant
Curate (stx) 40
Discovery
Surveil 2, then draw a card. (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.)
Sorcery
Discovery // Dispersal (grn) 223
Drag the Canal
Create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token. If a creature died this turn, you gain 2 life, surveil 2, then investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Instant
Drag the Canal (mkm) 199
Follow the Bodies
Gravestorm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each permanent put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn.)
Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Sorcery
Follow the Bodies (mkc) 23
Notion Rain
Surveil 2, then draw two cards. Notion Rain deals 2 damage to you. (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.)
Sorcery
Notion Rain (grn) 193
Ransom Note
When this artifact enters, surveil 1.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Choose one —
• Cloak the top card of your library.
• Goad target creature.
• Draw a card.
Artifact - Clue
Ransom Note (mkc) 47
Start the TARDIS
Surveil 2, then draw a card. You may planeswalk. (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.)
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)
Sorcery
Start the TARDIS (who) 56

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Land

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Agadeem's Awakening
Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different mana value X or less.
Sorcery
Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90
Bloodstained Mire
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Bloodstained Mire (ons) 313
Cephalid Coliseum
: Add
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold —
,
, Sacrifice this land: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Land
Cephalid Coliseum (ody) 317
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (cmd) 269
Creeping Tar Pit
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature. It's still a land. It can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Creeping Tar Pit (wwk) 134
Dakmor Salvage
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Land
Dakmor Salvage (fut) 169
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (m10) 224
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (roe) 228
Fabled Passage
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
Land
Fabled Passage (eld) 244
Flooded Strand
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Flooded Strand (ons) 316
Marsh Flats
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Marsh Flats (zen) 219
Memorial to Folly
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Land
Memorial to Folly (dom) 242
Misty Rainforest
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Misty Rainforest (zen) 220
Mystic Sanctuary
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Land - Island
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
Polluted Delta
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Polluted Delta (ons) 321
Prismatic Vista
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Prismatic Vista (mh1) 244
Scalding Tarn
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Scalding Tarn (zen) 223
Snow-Covered Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Snow Land - Island
Snow-Covered Island (ice) 371
Snow-Covered Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Snow Land - Swamp
Snow-Covered Swamp (ice) 372
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 278
Tocasia's Dig Site
: Add
.
,
: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land
Tocasia's Dig Site (bro) 266
Undercity Sewers
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Island Swamp
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270
Underground River
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Underground River (ice) 362
Verdant Catacombs
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Verdant Catacombs (zen) 229
Witch's Cottage
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Land - Swamp
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

Land

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Mass Graveyard Interaction

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King Narfi's Betrayal
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Each player mills four cards. Then you may exile a creature or planeswalker card from each graveyard.
II, III — Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among cards exiled with this Saga, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.
Enchantment - Saga
King Narfi's Betrayal (khm) 219
Mnemonic Betrayal
Exile all opponents' graveyards. You may cast spells from among those cards this turn, and mana of any type can be spent to cast them. At the beginning of the next end step, if any of those cards remain exiled, return them to their owners' graveyards.
Exile Mnemonic Betrayal.
Sorcery
Mnemonic Betrayal (grn) 189
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

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (eld) 331
Crucible of Worlds
You may play lands from your graveyard.
Artifact
Crucible of Worlds (5dn) 114
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (rav) 260
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (mrd) 253
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (c15) 55

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Recurring Surveil

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Candlestick
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, 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.)
, Sacrifice this Equipment: Draw a card.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment Clue
Candlestick (mkm) 43
Case of the Shifting Visage
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1.
To solve — There are fifteen or more cards in your graveyard. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — Whenever you cast a nonlegendary creature spell, copy that spell. (The copy becomes a token.)
Enchantment - Case
Case of the Shifting Visage (mkc) 19
Clandestine Meddler
When this creature enters, suspect up to one other target creature you control. (A suspected creature has menace and can't block.)
Whenever one or more suspected creatures you control attack, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Vampire Rogue
Clandestine Meddler (mkm) 82
Coastal Bulwark
Defender
This creature gets +2/+0 as long as you control an Island.
,
: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Coastal Bulwark (bro) 76
Cruel Witness
Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Bird Horror
Cruel Witness (vow) 55
Dogged Detective
When this creature enters, 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.)
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Rogue
Dogged Detective (ncc) 35
Doom Whisperer
Flying, trample
Pay 2 life: 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.)
Creature - Demon Nightmare
Doom Whisperer (grn) 69
House Guildmage
,
: Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
,
: 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.)
Creature - Human Wizard
House Guildmage (grn) 177
Laser Screwdriver
: Add one mana of any color.
,
: Tap target artifact.
,
: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
,
: Goad target creature. (Until your next turn, it attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
Artifact
Laser Screwdriver (who) 178
Nightveil Sprite
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Nightveil Sprite (grn) 48
Rummaging Wizard
: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Creature - Human Wizard
Rummaging Wizard (ons) 110
Sinister Starfish
: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Starfish
Sinister Starfish (mh2) 99
Snarling Gorehound
Menace
Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Dog
Snarling Gorehound (mkm) 105
The Grim Captain's Locker
: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
: Until end of turn, each creature card in your graveyard gains "Escape—
, Exile four other cards from your graveyard." (You may cast a card with escape from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Legendary Artifact
The Grim Captain's Locker (lcc) 82
Think Tank
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Enchantment
Think Tank (ody) 104
Watcher of Hours
Flying, ward

Whenever you remove a time counter from this card while it's exiled, surveil 1.
Suspend 6—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay
and exile it with six time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Creature - Sphinx
Watcher of Hours (mkc) 25

Recurring Surveil

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Removal Surveil

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Deadly Visit
Destroy target creature.
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.)
Sorcery
Deadly Visit (grn) 68
Eat to Extinction
Exile target creature or planeswalker. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Instant
Eat to Extinction (thb) 90
Ephara's Dispersal
This spell costs
less to cast if it targets an attacking creature.
Return target creature to its owner's hand. 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.)
Instant
Ephara's Dispersal (mom) 55
Pile On
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. 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.)
Instant
Pile On (mom) 122
Price of Fame
This spell costs
less to cast if it targets a legendary creature.
Destroy target creature.
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.)
Instant
Price of Fame (grn) 83
Sinister Sabotage
Counter target spell.
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Instant
Sinister Sabotage (grn) 54
Thought Erasure
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Sorcery
Thought Erasure (grn) 206
Unauthorized Exit
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Instant
Unauthorized Exit (mkm) 298
Unexplained Disappearance
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Instant
Unexplained Disappearance (grn) 56

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Surveil Matters Cards

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Broodrage Mycoid
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, create a 1/1 black Fungus creature token with "This token can't block." (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)
Creature - Fungus
Broodrage Mycoid (lci) 95
Canonized in Blood
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)
, Sacrifice this enchantment: Create a 4/3 white and black Vampire Demon creature token with flying.
Enchantment
Canonized in Blood (lci) 96
Charnel Serenade
Surveil 3, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Exile Charnel Serenade with three time counters on it.
Suspend 3—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay
and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Charnel Serenade (mkc) 26
Colfenor's Urn
Whenever a creature with toughness 4 or greater is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may exile it.
At the beginning of the end step, if three or more cards have been exiled with this artifact, sacrifice it. If you do, return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.
Artifact
Colfenor's Urn (lrw) 254
Confession Dial
When this artifact enters, surveil 3.
: Target legendary creature card in your graveyard gains escape until end of turn. The escape cost is equal to its mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast it from your graveyard for its escape cost this turn.)
Artifact
Confession Dial (who) 173
Copy Catchers
Flying
Whenever you surveil, you may pay
. If you do, create a token that's a copy of this creature.
Creature - Faerie
Copy Catchers (mkc) 20
Deep Goblin Skulltaker
Menace
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)
Creature - Goblin Warrior
Deep Goblin Skulltaker (lci) 101
Dimir Spybug
Flying
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Insect
Dimir Spybug (grn) 166
Disinformation Campaign
When this enchantment enters, you draw a card and each opponent discards a card.
Whenever you surveil, return this enchantment to its owner's hand.
Enchantment
Disinformation Campaign (grn) 167
Dreadhound
When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Whenever a creature dies or a creature card is put into a graveyard from a library, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Demon Dog
Dreadhound (mid) 97
Enhanced Surveillance
You may look at an additional two cards each time you surveil.
Exile this enchantment: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.
Enchantment
Enhanced Surveillance (grn) 40
Eye of Duskmantle
Flying, lifelink
You may play lands and cast spells from among cards in your graveyard you've surveilled this turn. If you cast a spell this way, you pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.
Creature - Eye
Eye of Duskmantle (mkc) 27
Laboratory Maniac
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
Creature - Human Wizard
Laboratory Maniac (isd) 61
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.)
Instant
Mission Briefing (grn) 44
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.)
Legendary Enchantment
Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (xln) 74Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (xln) 74
Stalactite Stalker
Menace
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)
, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power.
Creature - Goblin Rogue
Stalactite Stalker (lci) 122
Sword of Once and Future
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from blue and from black.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 2. Then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Sword of Once and Future (mom) 265
Thoughtbound Phantasm
Defender
Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
As long as this creature has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Creature - Spirit
Thoughtbound Phantasm (grn) 55
Unshakable Tail
When this creature enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1.
Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from your library, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
, Sacrifice a Clue: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Zombie Detective
Unshakable Tail (mkc) 29
Whispering Snitch
Whenever you surveil for the first time each turn, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Rogue
Whispering Snitch (grn) 90

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