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Instant
Populate. Creatures you control are indestructible this turn. (To populate, put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy indestructible creatures.)
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Creature - Elemental
Vigilance
When one of the great guardians arises, it sweeps enemies aside like chaff yet takes care not to crush a single insect underfoot.
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Sorcery
Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Another target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
Don't cross a Devkarin elf unless you long for an early grave.
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Creature - Human Shaman
: Target blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
: Target player who lost life this turn loses 1 life.
Insatiable, irresistible, and insane.
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Sorcery
Target player reveals his or her hand. You gain life equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.
"And would you care to explain why your satchel is radiating an aura of unstable energy?"
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Instant
Choose one - Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn; or exile target creature with power 5 or greater; or put a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.
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Sorcery
Skull Rend deals 2 damage to each opponent. Those players each discard two cards at random.
"We could never accept anyone with a face that pretty or a mind that sane." -Nyoser, Gore-House ringleader
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Creature - Bird
Flying
Whenever Skymark Roc attacks, you may return target creature defending player controls with toughness 2 or less to its owner's hand.
"Try not to look guilty. Or delicious." -Thorpe, street urchin
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Sorcery
Slaughter Games can't be countered by spells or abilities.
Name a nonland card. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
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Creature - Scorpion
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Scavenge (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)
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Creature - Horror
Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)
"Straight from the blood-drenched imagination of our illustrious parun!" -Nyoser, Gore-House ringleader
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Creature - Giant Soldier
Armory Guard has vigilance as long as you control a Gate.
The Dimir agents watched from the shadows. "Eight hours, and I've yet to see him blink," Nefara hissed. "I suggest we find another way in."
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Enchantment - Aura
Enchant land
When Security Blockade enters the battlefield, put a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.
Enchanted land has ": Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you this turn."
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Instant
You gain X life and draw X cards.
"Let the knowledge of absolute law inspire you to live a life of absolute order."
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Sorcery
Supreme Verdict can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.
Leonos had no second thoughts about the abolishment edict. He'd left skyrunes warning of the eviction, even though it was cloudy.
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Sorcery
Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.
Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")
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Instant
Draw four cards, then discard two cards.
"If this is thinking, I don't know what I was doing before."
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Sorcery
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Treasured Find.
Gorgons crave beautiful things: gems, exquisite amulets, the alabaster corpses of the petrified dead . . .
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Creature - Troll
Defender
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
: Regenerate Trestle Troll.
Unwelcome in Golgari colonies, he found his own dark place from which to represent the Swarm.
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Legendary Creature - Dryad
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.
, : Populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)
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Creature - Dryad Shaman
: Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield.
: Populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)
"Preachers of freedom forget that conformity can be beautiful."
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Planeswalker - Vraska (Loyalty: 5)
+1: Until your next turn, whenever a creature deals combat damage to Vraska the Unseen, destroy that creature.
-3: Destroy target nonland permanent.
-7: Put three 1/1 black Assassin creature tokens onto the battlefield with "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
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Creature - Elemental
Wayfaring Temple's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control.
Whenever Wayfaring Temple deals combat damage to a player, populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)
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Creature - Elephant Soldier
: Regenerate Selesnya Sentry.
Ravnicans still tell tales about the Battle of Sumala where four Selesnya sentries held off an entire clan of Gruul warriors.
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Creature - Human Advisor
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a filibuster counter on Azor's Elocutors. Then if Azor's Elocutors has five or more filibuster counters on it, you win the game.
Whenever a source deals damage to you, remove a filibuster counter from Azor's Elocutors.
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Creature - Weird
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Blistercoil Weird gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Untap it.
Azorius lawmages would like to outlaw the creation of weirds, but first they'd have to settle their long-standing debate on how to classify them.
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Creature - Horror
Trample
Cryptborn Horror enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total life lost by your opponents this turn.
Although Cryptwitch Merree vanished after a spat with Rakdos, her playthings lingered.
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Creature - Elf Shaman
: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
, : Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life.
, : Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.
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Creature - Dryad Soldier
If an instant or sorcery card would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
"We will defend the Worldsoul from Izzet ‘progress' at any cost."
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Creature - Weird
: Frostburn Weird gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
Many chemisters are oblivious to the innumerable machinations of their guild, instead focusing obsessively on creating the perfect weird.
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Creature - Insect
Despite its enormous stature, it can fold itself into a tunnel with startling quickness, vanishing back into the undercity.
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Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)
"We will grow an army large enough to withstand the Izzet's madness." -Trostani
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Creature - Bird
Flying
Sacrifice Judge's Familiar: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays .
"It misses nothing and it has no sense of humor." -Barvisa, courtroom scribe
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Creature - Elemental
Exile an instant or sorcery spell you control: Put two +1/+1 counters on Nivmagus Elemental. (That spell won't resolve.)
When it escaped, the experimenters hesitated. It would cause untold havoc, yet they wished to see it in action.
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Creature - Human
When Seller of Songbirds enters the battlefield, put a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield.
"Lady Wren is the one merchant in Keyhole Downs who isn't running a scam." -Mirela, Azorius hussar
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Creature - Devil
Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Devil-blades and dripping blood make music Rakdos never tires of hearing.
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Creature - Human Berserker
Haste
"If there were such a thing as a soul, I think it would be behind the gallbladder but above the kidneys."
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Creature - Plant Zombie
Scavenge (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)
"It makes better use of Uncle Dragi's head than he ever did." -Pesha, retired blacksmith
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Instant
Destroy target artifact or enchantment, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)
"One day every pillar will be a tree and every hall a glade." -Trostani
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Creature - Spirit
Flying
For the Azorius, the opportunity to serve the law is too great an honor for death to interrupt.
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Artifact
: Add or to your mana pool.
: Azorius Keyrune becomes a 2/2 white and blue Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.
"The higher the mind soars, the greater its understanding of the law." -Isperia
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Artifact
Lands you control have ": Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."
: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
Dimir mages put the lanterns to good use, creating shapeshifters and sleeper agents from mana foreign to them.
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Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each of its colors.
Equip
Those without a guild signet often display a different form of protection.
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Artifact
: Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
, , Sacrifice Codex Shredder: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
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Artifact
: Add or to your mana pool.
: Golgari Keyrune becomes a 2/2 black and green Insect artifact creature with deathtouch until end of turn.
Like a single ant, it only hints at the colony below.
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Enchantment - Aura
Enchant nonland permanent
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted permanent's controller, that player sacrifices it unless he or she pays , where X is its converted mana cost.
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Artifact
: Add or to your mana pool.
: Until end of turn, Izzet Keyrune becomes a 2/1 blue and red Elemental artifact creature.
Whenever Izzet Keyrune deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
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Artifact
As Pithing Needle enters the battlefield, name a card.
Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.
The fearful want the procedure before a blood festival. The guilty seek it afterward.
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Artifact
: Add or to your mana pool.
: Rakdos Keyrune becomes a 3/1 black and red Devil artifact creature with first strike until end of turn.
The Rakdos use it for everything you can think of and plenty more than that.
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Artifact
: Add or to your mana pool.
: Selesnya Keyrune becomes a 3/3 green and white Wolf artifact creature until end of turn.
A mark of unity when you want one; a fierce guardian when you need one.
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Artifact Creature - Construct
Whenever Street Sweeper attacks, destroy all Auras attached to target land.
The sweepers roam endlessly, scrubbing away the refuse-and anything else too slow or too clumsy to get out of their way.
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Artifact
As Tablet of the Guilds enters the battlefield, choose two colors.
Whenever you cast a spell, if it's at least one of the chosen colors, you gain 1 life for each of the chosen colors it is.
It is rumored the Azorius paid an exorbitant sum to ensure its symbol would appear at the top.
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Artifact Creature - Construct
Trample
Volatile Rig attacks each turn if able.
Whenever Volatile Rig is dealt damage, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, sacrifice Volatile Rig.
When Volatile Rig dies, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, it deals 4 damage to each creature and each player.
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Land - Gate
Azorius Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add or to your mana pool.
Enter the Senate, the seat of justice and the foundation of Ravnican society.
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Land - Swamp Mountain
(: Add or to your mana pool.)
As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Blood Crypt enters the battlefield tapped.
Where the dead serve as diversion, decor, and dessert.
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Land - Gate
Golgari Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add or to your mana pool.
Enter those who are starving and sick. You are welcome among the Swarm when the rest of Ravnica rejects you.
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Enchantment
Creatures can't attack you or a planeswalker you control unless their controller pays for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.
The Rakdos believe that all are eager to join their revels, even when told otherwise.
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Land
: Add to your mana pool.
, , Tap two untapped creatures you control, Sacrifice Grove of the Guardian: Put an 8/8 green and white Elemental creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.
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Land - Plains Island
(: Add or to your mana pool.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield tapped.
A place to relax, if you have the proper permit.
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Land - Gate
Izzet Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add or to your mana pool.
Enter those with the vision to create and the daring to release their creations.
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Land - Swamp Forest
(: Add or to your mana pool.)
As Overgrown Tomb enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Overgrown Tomb enters the battlefield tapped.
The best funeral shroud is the fabric of new life.
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Land - Gate
Rakdos Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add or to your mana pool.
Enter and indulge your darkest fantasies, for you may never pass this way again.
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Land
: Add to your mana pool.
, : Target creature is unblockable this turn.
Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.
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Land - Gate
Selesnya Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add or to your mana pool.
Enter and rejoice! The Conclave stands united, open to one and all.
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Land - Island Mountain
(: Add or to your mana pool.)
As Steam Vents enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Steam Vents enters the battlefield tapped.
Crafted with genius, energized with madness.
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Land - Forest Plains
(: Add or to your mana pool.)
As Temple Garden enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Temple Garden enters the battlefield tapped.
In the gardens of the Conclave, order and beauty are the roots of power.
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Land
Transguild Promenade enters the battlefield tapped.
When Transguild Promenade enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you pay .
: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
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Creature - Griffin
Flying
"For each griffin wounded by an arrow, there's a corpse with a bow nearby." -Pel Javya, Wojek investigator
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Basic Land - Plains
(: Add to your mana pool.)
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Basic Land - Island
(: Add to your mana pool.)
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Instant
Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike and lifelink.
"Having conviction is more important than being righteous." -Aurelia
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Basic Land - Swamp
(: Add to your mana pool.)
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Basic Land - Mountain
(: Add to your mana pool.)
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Creature - Cat
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Some Ravnicans consider carrying a sword to be beneath them, preferring instead a tooth-and-claw escort.
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Basic Land - Forest
(: Add to your mana pool.)
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Instant
Exile target creature, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)
"Some cannot be saved as they are, but all can serve the Worldsoul." -Trostani
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Creature - Beast
, : Target creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn.
In water, it's as graceful as a dolphin. On land, it darts and jerks so unpredictably that few can ride it for long.
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Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
"We will prove your guilt. We don't arrest the innocent, you know." -Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct
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Instant
Tap target creature you don't control.
Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")
Weather is more predictable than the Izzet.
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Instant
Counter target spell.
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Enchantment - Aura
Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
With the Izzet occupied elsewhere, many of their public works fell into disrepair.
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Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exchange control of Conjured Currency and target permanent you neither own nor control.
A bargain in Keyhole Downs is always too good to be true.
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Creature - Vedalken
Whenever Crosstown Courier deals combat damage to a player, that player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
Information travels quickly through Ravnica's network of messengers and thought agents.
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Instant
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")
The Izzet specialize in unnatural disaster.
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Instant
Counter target instant spell.
"Civilization will subsume us unless we overwhelm it instead." -Speaker Zegana
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Creature - Homunculus
Defender
, : Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the number of creatures with defender you control.
One piercing stare usually convinces thieves to go elsewhere.
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Instant
Target creature you don't control gets -4/-0 until end of turn.
Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")
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Creature - Faerie Rogue
Flying
When Faerie Impostor enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you return another creature you control to its owner's hand.
Many Tin Street shops display a sign on the door: "No cloaks allowed."
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Instant
Destroy target creature that dealt damage this turn.
"Forgive the theft. Punish the deception." -Alcarus, Selesnya archer
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Creature - Illusion Wall
Defender, flying
As whispers and rumors increased, so did the demand for fail-safe barriers.
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Sorcery
Detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)
Draw a card.
"To prevent action is to prevent transgression." -Azorius Arrester motto
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Instant
Target player draws two cards.
"Day 31: I finally succeeded in my time reversal experiment! "Day 30: I might have a problem here." -Journal of the Prime Izmagnus
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Creature - Vedalken Knight
Flying
When Isperia's Skywatch enters the battlefield, detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)
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Planeswalker - Jace (Loyalty: 4)
+1: Until your next turn, whenever a creature an opponent controls attacks, it gets -1/-0 until end of turn.
-2: Reveal the top three cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library in any order.
-8: For each player, search that player's library for a nonland card and exile it, then that player shuffles his or her library. You may cast those cards without paying their mana costs.
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Instant
Target creature you control gets +0/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn.
Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")
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Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
"Obviously, the Firemind's mission is worth more than a few goblins." -Pelener, chamberlain of Niv-Mizzet
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Instant
Shuffle all cards from your graveyard into your library. Target player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
An elocutor forces criminals to confess to the laws they merely intended to break.
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Creature - Bird
Flying
When Runewing dies, draw a card.
In the hands of the open-minded, a runewing quill writes wisdom of its own.
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Enchantment
When Search the City enters the battlefield, exile the top five cards of your library.
Whenever you play a card with the same name as one of the exiled cards, you may put one of those cards with that name into its owner's hand. Then if there are no cards exiled with Search the City, sacrifice it. If you do, take an extra turn after this one.
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Creature - Human Soldier
When Azorius Arrester enters the battlefield, detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)
"You have the right to remain silent. Mostly because I tire of your excuses."
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