When defeat is near and guidance is scarce, all eyes look in one direction.

Command Tower

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

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield 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 of your library.)

Mystic Sanctuary

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

Halimar Depths

Halimar Depths enters the battlefield tapped.
When Halimar Depths enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Add {U}.

The Sun Empire bends nature— rivers, mountainsides, dinosaurs— to its unyielding will.

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Take two steps north into the unsettled future, south into the unquiet past, east into the present day, or west into the great unknown.

Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Lonely Sandbar

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

Remote Isle

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

Island

The crystal pulsed with the power of Teferi's Planeswalker spark. Had Jhoira given him a blessing or a curse?

The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy.

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

"Slimefoot, I know I said I wanted to grow our repository of knowledge, but this isn't what I had in mind."

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Countless delights drift on the surface while dark schemes run below.

Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Draw three cards.

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

"The best denials are simply that: a beginning and end unchanged, a dream with no memory."

Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Teferi gave them time. Karn gave them a chance. But it was Melira who paid the ultimate price to free Ajani from Phyrexia's grasp.

Negate

"Words of power never disappear. They sleep, awaiting those with the will to rouse them."

Archaeomancer

When Archaeomancer enters the battlefield, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

"It augments anamnesis. What is so confusing about that?"
—Perisophia the philosopher

Mnemonic Wall

Defender
When Mnemonic Wall enters the battlefield, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Talrand's Invocation

Drake

After Talrand conquered the depths of Shandalar, his ambitions drove him skyward, joined by servants whose drive and curiosity equaled his own.

Create two 2/2 blue Drake creature tokens with flying.

Bird Illusion

Murmuring Mystic

Rumors float through the city like crows, alighting on citizens seemingly at random.

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

"Every thought is a star illuminating the darkness. Inspiration comes from finding the constellations that link them."

Stroke of Genius

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.)

"I do things in my own time."
—Etha, initiate of Rhet crop

Pull from Tomorrow

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

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

"I've always made snap decisions. I'm just better at making the right ones now that I'm older and wiser."
—Teferi

Impulse

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Magic written across the sky falls like rain on thirsty ground, bringing forth wisdom in its season.

Winged Words

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a creature with flying.
Draw two cards.

Reality Shift

Manifest

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.)

"The Core is not a simple trove to be plundered by intruders from the surface. It will reject those who do not accord it respect."
—Akal Pakal, First Steward of Oteclan

Out of Air

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a creature spell.
Counter target spell.

It is ill-advised to swim where even the River Heralds do not.

Eaten by Piranhas

Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a black Skeleton creature with base power and toughness 1/1. (It loses all other card types and creature types.)

Bonder and bonded move in unison, intuiting each other's next move.

Anticipate

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

At first, Johann was annoyed that the library had decided to reorganize itself. But he had to admit that storing the cookbooks in the cauldron made a certain kind of sense.

Quick Study

"The second mage learned to dissipate blasts of lightning. Threat and response: thus did the study of magic progress."
—Naban, dean of iteration

Wizard's Retort

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a Wizard.
Counter target spell.

Hidden Strings

You may tap or untap target permanent, then you may tap or untap another target permanent.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Niblis of Frost

Flying
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"A problem is only a problem if you don't have the tools to correct it."
—Jhoira

Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Proft's Eidetic Memory

When Proft's Eidetic Memory enters the battlefield, draw a card.
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've drawn more than one card this turn, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn minus one.

Precognition Field

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast instant and sorcery spells from the top of your library.
{3}: Exile the top card of your library.

Jace tumbled down the waterfall and plunged deep into his past.

Flood of Recollection

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Flood of Recollection.

The glistening oil had been rendered inert, but planes wouldn't begin to truly heal until every last drop was purged.

Filter Out

Return all noncreature, nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

"You're not so special, Karn. Anything that has been assembled can be disassembled."

Ertai's Scorn

This spell costs {U} less to cast if an opponent cast two or more spells this turn.
Counter target spell.

Birthday Escape

The Ring // The Ring Tempts You

As Bilbo finished his speech, he slipped the ring on his finger, and he was never seen by any Hobbit in Hobbiton again.

Wrenn reached out to Teferi through the Blind Eternities, and an impossible connection flared across the vast emptiness.

Transcendent Message

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Draw X cards.

"They can't even comprehend nature. How could they improve it?"
—Venser

Mitotic Manipulation

Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put one of those cards onto the battlefield if it has the same name as a permanent. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"You thought only the gods could stop you?"

Dissolve

Counter target spell. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

A-Mentor's Guidance

Mentor's Guidance

Kasmina had encouraged the twins to apply. Strixhaven would test not only their magical potential, but also their character.

When you cast this spell, copy it if you control a planeswalker, Cleric, Druid, Shaman, Warlock, or Wizard.
Scry 1, then draw a card.

Cancel

The Vodalian Empire tends to be insular. The scholarly Volshe caste are the exception, using education as an antidote to xenophobia.

Vodalian Arcanist

{T}: Add {C}. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.

Sometimes you have to read between the minds.

Peek

Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.

"May the ocean take it"
—Nephalia expression meaning
"good riddance"

Wash Away

Cleave {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Counter target spell [that wasn't cast from its owner's hand].

"Four parts molten bronze, yes ... one part frozen mercury, yes, yes ... but then what?"

Compulsive Research

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.

"It's not the darkness I fear but dull and numbing shades of gray."
—Sydri, galvanic genius

Wash Out

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

"I can't see all that the future holds, but I can keep us one step ahead of death."

Deliberate

It started as a mere drop of water. The Magic Mirror crystallized it into much more.

Arcane Signet

Boar

Curse of the Swine

Another imminent battle subsided in busy snuffling and carefree rooting.

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

"The most disappointing thing about learning telepathy is finding out how boring people really are."
—Teferi, fourth-level student

Telepathy

Your opponents play with their hands revealed.

A capable mage can tune its focus, refracting mana through each disk in turn to cast any spell they desire.

Prismatic Lens

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, you may cast up to one target card of the other type from your graveyard. If a spell cast from your graveyard this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Witness Protection

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)

"Look at me, everyone! I'm a High Fae! Watch me do important High Fae things!"

Mocking Sprite

Flying
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

"I've tried so many variations on how to get rid of annoying things that it's hard to decide which one I like best."
—Ashurel, voidmage

Void Snare

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

In retrospect, using storm magic against a storm giant was not the wisest strategy.

Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Scourge of Fleets

When Scourge of Fleets enters the battlefield, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Mercurial Spelldancer

Mercurial Spelldancer can't be blocked.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on Mercurial Spelldancer.
Whenever Mercurial Spelldancer deals combat damage to a player, you may remove two oil counters from it. If you do, when you cast your next instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"I said we should destroy the Eldrazi. Ugin wanted to return them to stasis. Ugin's arguments were . . . unconvincing."
—Jace Beleren

Dispel

"Focus your mind. Do you hold a piece of the ocean or a thousand drops of rain?"
—Hurkyl

Flow of Knowledge

Draw a card for each Island you control, then discard two cards.

"Always a welcome sight breaking through the clouds."
—Talrand, sky summoner

Peregrine Drake

Flying
When Peregrine Drake enters the battlefield, untap up to five lands.

Supreme Will

Choose one —
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
• Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Whispering Wizard

Spirit

Ivold was aghast when his device revealed the full scope of the geist infestation.

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

Wavebreak Hippocamp

Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.

"If something seems impossible, you probably haven't tried asking for help."
—Niambi, cleric of Dominaria

Meeting of Minds

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Draw two cards.

Talrand, Sky Summoner

"The seas are vast, but the skies are even more so. Why be content with one kingdom when I can rule them both?"

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

Jodah, the Unifier

Legendary creatures you control get +X/+X, where X is the number of legendary creatures you control.
Whenever you cast a legendary spell from your hand, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a legendary nonland card with lesser mana value. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Purphoros, God of the Forge

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control enters, Purphoros deals 2 damage to each opponent.
{2}{R}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Gornog, the Red Reaper

Haste
Cowards can't block Warriors.
Whenever one or more Warriors you control attack a player, target creature that player controls becomes a Coward.
Attacking Warriors you control get +X/+0, where X is the number of Cowards your opponents control.

"Chronicles across the ages describe Jodah. They likely refer not to one mage, but to a family or an arcane title."
—Arkol, Argivian scholar

Jodah, Archmage Eternal

Flying
You may pay {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast.

Deadpool, Trading Card

As Deadpool enters, you may exchange his text box and another creature's.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 3 life.
{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Each other player draws a card.

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