Island

Mass Polymorph

Exile all creatures you control, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal that many creature cards. Put all creature cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then shuffle the rest of the revealed cards into your library.

Thassa's Oracle

When Thassa's Oracle enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Once a century, the levelers rip through every corner of Mirrodin, obeying the commands of an unseen master.

Leveler

When Leveler enters, exile all cards from your library.

To Jin-Gitaxias, perfection is not a goal, but a process.

Synthetic Destiny

Exile all creatures you control. At the beginning of the next end step, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal that many creature cards, put all creature cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then shuffle the rest of the revealed cards into your library.

The mizzium-sphere array drove her mind deep into the thought field, where only the rarest motes of genius may be plucked.

Brainstorm

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

"When you learn to read the tides of fate, it's easy to catch the outcomes you desire."

Ponder

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

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.)

"My flesh holds no secrets, monster. The spirit of Mirrodin will fight on."
—Vy Covalt, Mirran resistance

Gitaxian Probe

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

Misdirection

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Change the target of target spell with a single target.

Swan Song

Bird

"The most enlightened mages create beauty from violence."
—Medomai the Ageless

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

"Your artillery will burn itself out before I allow my focus to waver."

Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Those who expect betrayal at every turn are seldom disappointed.

Pact of Negation

Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}{U}{U}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Counterspell

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Well, at least all of that arm-waving and arcane babbling you did was impressive."

Remand

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it into its owner's hand instead of into that player's graveyard.
Draw a card.

Muddle the Mixture

Counter target instant or sorcery spell.
Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

The student searches the world for meaning. The master finds worlds of meaning in the search.

Mystical Tutor

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

"The secret to invention is to see something in your mind, then find where it hides in the world."

Fabricate

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

Lat-Nam wizards trade knowledge on scrolls made of magic so they can better guard against thieves and spies.

Merchant Scroll

Search your library for a blue instant card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Rhystic Study

Archival Whorl

Friends teach what you want to know. Enemies teach what you *need* to know.

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

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.

Ancestral Vision

Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {U} and exile it with four 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.)
Target player draws three cards.

Time Spiral

Exile Time Spiral. Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. You untap up to six lands.

Windfall

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

Timetwister

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. (Then put Timetwister into its owner's graveyard.)

The Izzet specialize in unnatural disaster.

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.")

"Let's do it again!"
—Squee, goblin cabin hand

Time Warp

Target player takes an extra turn after this one.

"I swear, I just wanted a few extra hours to do my homework!"
—Petra, novice chronomancer

Time Stretch

Target player takes two extra turns after this one.

Temporal Mastery

Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Mastery.
Miracle {1}{U} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Copy

Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.)
Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

Phantasmal Image

You may have Phantasmal Image enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

"Our own selves are the greatest obstacles to enlightenment."
—Narset, khan of the Jeskai

Clever Impersonator

You may have Clever Impersonator enter as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.

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

Archaeomancer

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

Snapcaster Mage

Flash
When Snapcaster Mage enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Magic Origins Checklist

Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound

Jace, Telepath Unbound Emblem

"People's thoughts just come to me. Sometimes I don't know if it's them or me thinking."

Jace, Vryn's Prodigy

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are five or more cards in your graveyard, exile Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control.

Jace, Telepath Unbound

+1: Up to one target creature gets -2/-0 until your next turn.
−3: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
−9: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, target opponent mills five cards."

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.)

"What do you have that I cannot obtain?"
—Mairsil, the Pretender

Fellwar Stone

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

"I'm not saying I'm sure it's a trap. I'm just saying it wasn't there yesterday and I'm pretty sure I heard it whisper my name. If you're so curious, you touch it."
—Angus, survivor scout

Sol Ring

Naban, Dean of Iteration

If a Wizard entering under your control causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

"Close the walls! Retract the docks! The homarids are coming!"
—Benson, Argivian sentry

High Tide

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

Sometimes it's useful to take a break from existence.

Ghostly Flicker

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

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

Mnemonic Wall

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

"In Barrin's name!" cried Lyna as Hanna's sword passed through her, "Ertai sends word that the portal is open—but not for long!"

Erratic Portal

{1}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

Cast Through Time

Instant and sorcery spells you control have rebound. (Exile the spell as it resolves if you cast it from your hand. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast that card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

His marvels of artifice pale in comparison to the developing machinery of his mind.

Venser, Shaper Savant

Flash
When Venser, Shaper Savant enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

"If you need to disappear for a while, I know a place."
—Bilivus, master archivist

Portal of Sanctuary

{1}, {T}: Return target creature you control and each Aura attached to it to their owners' hands. Activate only during your turn.

Phantom Steed

Flash
When Phantom Steed enters, exile another target creature you control until Phantom Steed leaves the battlefield.
Whenever Phantom Steed attacks, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of the exiled card, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types. Sacrifice that token at end of combat.

Lost at sea doesn't have to mean lost forever.

Shipwreck Dowser

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
When Shipwreck Dowser enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

The vedalken know it is not of this world, so they know that this world is not the only one.

Crystal Shard

{3}, {T} or {U}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

Eluge, the Shoreless Sea

Eluge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Islands you control.
Whenever Eluge enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. It's an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it.
The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs {U} (or {1}) less to cast for each land you control with a flood counter on it.

Maintaining brilliant plumage isn't just a statement. It's a tactic.

Dazzling Denial

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}. If you control a Bird, counter that spell unless its controller pays {4} instead.

Some emeritus professors return from their wanderings periodically to share tales of the mystical wonders of Arcavios.

Archmage Emeritus

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

With thistle, quill, twig, and beak, the finest artisans of each animalfolk society stitched unique quilts, patched together as a symbol of harmony.

Patchwork Banner

As Patchwork Banner enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Enduring Curiosity

Flash
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
When Enduring Curiosity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

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.

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.

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.)

It took the banning of temporal manipulation at Tolaria West to teach its students the value of time.

Frantic Search

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

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.

Drake

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.

Tymna the Weaver

Lifelink
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, you may pay X life, where X is the number of opponents that were dealt combat damage this turn. If you do, draw X cards.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Marina Vendrell

When Marina Vendrell enters, reveal the top seven cards of your library. Put all enchantment cards from among them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
{T}: Lock or unlock a door of target Room you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

Flying, vigilance, deathtouch, lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Optimus Prime, Hero

More Than Meets the Eye {2}{U}{R}{W} (You may cast this card converted for {2}{U}{R}{W}.)
At the beginning of each end step, bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
When Optimus Prime dies, return it to the battlefield converted under its owner's control.

Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader

Living metal (During your turn, this Vehicle is also a creature.)
Trample
Whenever you attack, bolster 2. The chosen creature gains trample until end of turn. When that creature deals combat damage to a player this turn, convert Optimus Prime.

Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader

Maralen sent Veesa, Endry, and Iliona—the Vendilion clique—on the gravest of tasks.

Maralen of the Mornsong

Players can't draw cards.
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player loses 3 life, searches their library for a card, puts it into their hand, then shuffles.

Melek, Izzet Paragon

Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may cast instant and sorcery spells from the top of your library.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your library, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"The walls of Argive were built by a peaceful dynastic union that has guarded us against war for fifteen centuries. The lesson is clear."

Baird, Steward of Argive

Vigilance
Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

Chulane, Teller of Tales

Vigilance
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Ramos, Dragon Engine

Flying
Whenever you cast a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Ramos, Dragon Engine for each of that spell's colors.
Remove five +1/+1 counters from Ramos: Add {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}. Activate only once each turn.

Zur remained aloof from Terisiare's suffering, intent only on his own perfection.

Zur the Enchanter

Flying
Whenever Zur the Enchanter attacks, you may search your library for an enchantment card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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