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Demonic Tutor

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

True power is achieved through blood and sweat. But mostly blood.

Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

"I'll return once you've ripened."
—Ghoulcaller Gisa

Entomb

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

"Death is a small price to pay for immortality."
—Baron Sengir

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Necromancy

You may cast Necromancy as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When Necromancy enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach Necromancy to it. When Necromancy leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

The scrape of shovels and the tumble of cold dirt soon muffled their pleas.

Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Ashiok, Dream Render

Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause their controller to search their library.
−1: Target player mills four cards. Then exile each opponent's graveyard.

Jace, the Mind Sculptor

+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library.
0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
−1: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles their hand into their library.

Tezzeret the Seeker

+1: Untap up to two target artifacts.
−X: Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
−5: Artifacts you control become artifact creatures with base power and toughness 5/5 until end of turn.

"Knowledge is the universal currency of the Multiverse. It is power. It is freedom. It is possibility itself."

Thirst for Knowledge

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.

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.

Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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.)

"Any dream is a robust harvest. Still, I prefer the timeworn dreams, heavy with import, that haunt the obsessive mind."

Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

You will scream out your innermost secrets just to make it stop.

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.

"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.

"To fill your mind with knowledge, we must start by emptying it."
—Barrin, master wizard

Windfall

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

Whispering Madness

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

"I am confident that if anyone actually penetrates our facades, even the most perceptive would still be fundamentally unprepared for the truth of House Dimir."
—Szadek

Glimpse the Unthinkable

"The soul is only as eternal as I say it is."
—Sharuum the Hegemon

Mind Funeral

Target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until four land cards are revealed. That player puts all cards revealed this way into their graveyard.

Consuming Aberration

Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards.
Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Phenax, God of Deception

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue and black is less than seven, Phenax isn't a creature.
Creatures you control have "{T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is this creature's toughness."

Words describing it fail. Pages relating it shrivel. Tales recounting it end.

Nemesis of Reason

Whenever Nemesis of Reason attacks, defending player mills ten cards.

A step in one direction is two steps away from another.

Mesmeric Orb

Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.

"The Filigree Texts do not compel you to act in accordance with their precepts. They only specify the consequences should you fail."
—Lodus of the Ethersworn

Memory Erosion

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

He was left with just enough memory to understand what he had lost.

Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Cryptic Command

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

The pyromancer summoned up her mightiest onslaught of fire and rage. Jace feigned interest.

Counterspell

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.

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.

Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

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}.

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.

Thassa's Oracle

When Thassa's Oracle enters the battlefield, 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.)

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.")

"It's a difficult task to quarantine a plague that moves with the clouds."
—Esara, healer adept

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Lost to time is the artificer's art of trapping light from a distant star in a ring of purest gold.

Sol Ring

Mana Crypt

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Mana Crypt deals 3 damage to you.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

An emblem of a secret guild, the Dimir insignia is seen only by its own members—and the doomed.

Dimir Signet

Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

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

Dimir Keyrune

{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{U}{B}: Dimir Keyrune becomes a 2/2 blue and black Horror artifact creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

"Wear this, and take your place among the shadows—wise, lethal, and unseen."
—Ivrelya, Dimir spymaster

Dimir Locket

{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{U/B}{U/B}{U/B}{U/B}, {T}, Sacrifice Dimir Locket: Draw two cards.

"Be logical in all things. Do not allow instinct or passion to cloud your mind."
—*Volume II, The Book of Insight*

Words of Wind

{1}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, each player returns a permanent they control to its owner's hand instead.

"The Knowledge Pool knows. Memnarch understands."
—Janus, speaker of the synod

Vedalken Archmage

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, draw a card.

Reminders of Memnarch's reign still skirr across Mirrodin, reminiscent of his form if not his power.

Memnite

Those wound tightest are first to unravel.

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.

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

Venser, Shaper Savant

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

"Isn't she the cutest thing you've almost seen?"
—Doen, purveyor of exotic pets

Displacer Kitten

Avoidance — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

A-Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Beneath the waves, lost gods stir in their slumber.

Spells can't be countered.
Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost.

Tainted Pact

Exile the top card of your library. You may put that card into your hand unless it has the same name as another card exiled this way. Repeat this process until you put a card into your hand or you exile two cards with the same name, whichever comes first.

Visitors marvel at its design, unaware of the other world that inspired it.

Chromatic Orrery

You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}{C}{C}.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card for each color among permanents you control.

The Chain Veil

At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't activate a loyalty ability of a planeswalker this turn, you lose 2 life.
{4}, {T}: For each planeswalker you control, you may activate one of its loyalty abilities once this turn as though none of its loyalty abilities have been activated this turn.

In the final days before the disaster, all the crabs on Tolaria migrated from inlets, streams, and ponds back to the sea. No one took note.

Horseshoe Crab

"It contains the wisdom of generations of our people. We permit only a chosen few to don the raiment."
—Imran, Viridian elder

Paradise Mantle

Equipped creature has "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
Equip {1}

Likeness Looter

Flying
{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
{X}: Likeness Looter becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except it has flying and this ability. Activate only as a sorcery.

Restless Reef

Restless Reef enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{2}{U}{B}: Until end of turn, Restless Reef becomes a 4/4 blue and black Shark creature with deathtouch. It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Reef attacks, target player mills four cards.

Drown in the Loch

Choose one —
• Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
• Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

No one is as dedicated to perfection as a stitcher working on their latest masterpiece.

Obsessive Stitcher

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
{2}{U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Obsessive Stitcher: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Wail of the Forgotten

Descend 8 — Choose one. If there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard as you cast this spell, choose one or more instead.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Target opponent discards a card.
• Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

After lightning struck the cliffs, the ore became iron, the iron became steel, and the steel became greaves. The lightning never left.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

For those who survived, being prepared for the next crisis became one of the greatest virtues.

Training Grounds

Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

The Ancient One

Descend 8 — The Ancient One can't attack or block unless there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard.
{2}{U}{B}: Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a card this way, target player mills cards equal to its mana value.

"I shall walk in the darkness and strike swiftly. No one will stop me in my hunt."

Shao Jun

Leap Strike — During your turn, Shao Jun has flying and first strike.
Rope Dart — Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Shao Jun deals 1 damage to each opponent.

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.)

Arcades, the Strategist

Flying, vigilance
Whenever a creature you control with defender enters, draw a card.
Each creature you control with defender assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

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.)

The sacred Anima's eyes are blind to all but the grandest truths.

Mayael the Anima

{3}{R}{G}{W}, {T}: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature card with power 5 or greater from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

A-Satoru Umezawa

Satoru Umezawa

Whenever you activate a ninjutsu ability, 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. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Each creature card in your hand has ninjutsu {2}{U}{B}.

Gyruda, Doom of Depths

Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with even mana values. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)
When Gyruda enters, each player mills four cards. Put a creature card with an even mana value from among the milled cards onto the battlefield under your control.

His name means "he who paints the earth red."

Thraximundar

Haste
Whenever Thraximundar attacks, defending player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Whenever a player sacrifices a creature, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Thraximundar.

Alhammarret, High Arbiter

Flying
As Alhammarret enters, each opponent reveals their hand. You choose the name of a nonland card revealed this way.
Your opponents can't cast spells with the chosen name (as long as this creature is on the battlefield).

Progenitus

Protection from everything
If Progenitus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Progenitus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Ravos, Soultender

Flying
Other creatures you control get +1/+1.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

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