Arclight Phoenix

Because the beginning of combat step is before attackers are declared, you can attack with Arclight Phoenix during the same combat it returns to the battlefield.

Flying, haste
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've cast three or more instant and sorcery spells this turn, return Arclight Phoenix from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Birthing Pod

A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid.

A creature's mana value is determined solely by the mana symbols printed in its upper right corner (unless that creature is copying something else; see below). If its mana cost includes {X}, X is considered to be 0. If it has no mana symbols in its upper right corner (because it's an animated land, for example), its mana value is 0. Ignore any alternative costs or additional costs (such as kicker) paid when the creature was cast.

A token has a mana value of 0, unless it is copying something else.

As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X.

If a creature is copying something else, its mana value is the mana value of whatever it's copying.

If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.

Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.

To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.)
{1}{G/P}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Bloodbraid Elf

A spell's mana value is determined only by its mana cost. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions.

Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade.

Due to a 2021 rules change to cascade, not only do you stop exiling cards if you exile a nonland card with lesser mana value than the spell with cascade, but the resulting spell you cast must also have lesser mana value. Previously, in cases where a card's mana value differed from the resulting spell, such as with some modal double-faced cards or cards with an Adventure, you could cast a spell with a higher mana value than the exiled card.

If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally.

If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the card.

The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves.

When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled.

You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.

Haste
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Bogardan Hellkite

If some of the creatures or players are illegal targets as Bogardan Hellkite's triggered ability tries to resolve, the original division of damage still applies and the damage that would have been dealt to the illegal targets is lost. It won't be dealt instead to a legal target.

You choose how many targets Bogardan Hellkite's triggered ability has and how the damage is divided as you put the ability onto the stack. Each target must receive at least 1 damage.

Flash
Flying
When Bogardan Hellkite enters, it deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

Chrome Mox

If no card is imprinted on Chrome Mox, it can't add mana. It can never add {C}, even if the imprinted card has a colorless mana symbol in its mana cost.

If you imprinted a multicolored card, you choose one of that card's colors each time you tap Chrome Mox for mana.

Imprint — When Chrome Mox enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.
{T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Deathrite Shaman

Because the first ability requires a target, it is not a mana ability. It uses the stack and can be responded to.

If the target of any of Deathrite Shaman's three abilities is an illegal target when that ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't add mana, no opponent will lose life, or you won't gain life, as appropriate.

{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color.
{B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life.
{G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.

Dragonlord Ojutai

Flying
Dragonlord Ojutai has hexproof as long as it's untapped.
Whenever Dragonlord Ojutai deals combat damage to a player, 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.

Elite Spellbinder

If the exiled card is a modal double-faced card and its back face is a land, its owner may play it as a land. (Note that if the front face is also a land, you couldn’t have exiled it to begin with.)

Playing the exiled card follows all normal timing restrictions.

Flying
When Elite Spellbinder enters, look at target opponent's hand. You may exile a nonland card from it. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may play it. A spell cast this way costs {2} more to cast.

Elspeth, Sun's Champion

[+1]: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
[−3]: Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater.
[−7]: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have flying."

Emry, Lurker of the Loch

Casting the target card causes it to leave your graveyard and become a new object. You can't cast it again if it returns to your graveyard this turn.

If Emry's last ability targets an artifact land card, you can't play it. Effects that allow you to “cast” a card don't allow you to play a land card.

Once you announce that you're casting a spell, no player may take actions until the spell has been paid for. Notably, opponents can't try to change by how much Emry's cost is reduced.

The cost reduction ability reduces only the generic mana in Emry's cost. The colored mana must still be paid.

To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Emry). The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions for the target artifact card. Unless it has flash, you'll most likely only be able to cast it during your main phase while the stack is empty.

You'll still pay all costs for a spell cast this way, including additional costs. You may also pay alternative costs if any are available.

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.
When Emry, Lurker of the Loch enters, mill four cards.
{T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

"First through the Riftstone was Genesis—and the world was lifeless no more."
—*Scroll of Beginnings*

Genesis

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Genesis is in your graveyard, you may pay {2}{G}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Dosan sat in repose for many hours. He made no motion, no sound at all. And as he sat, nature revealed itself to him.

Glimpse of Nature

Whenever you cast a creature spell this turn, draw a card.

"Study the great spirits of our age and those of the past. Prune secrets from the branching traceries of our lineage."
—Twila, Gilt-Leaf archdruid

Heritage Druid

Since Heritage Druid’s activated ability doesn’t have a tap symbol in its cost, you can tap creatures that haven’t been under your control since your most recent turn began (including Heritage Druid itself) to pay the cost.

Tap three untapped Elves you control: Add {G}{G}{G}.

Though lesser well-known than its army of soldiers, the Boros Legion's mage-priests are as respected by the innocent as they are hated by the ghosts of the guilty.

Lightning Helix

If the chosen target is illegal when Lightning Helix tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't gain 3 life.

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

Lim-Dûl's Vault

If you have five or fewer cards in your library, you can pay 1 life as many times as you like, but you’ll keep seeing the same cards.

If you pay no life, you shuffle the rest of your library and then put the top five cards back on top in any order.

In other words: — Step 1: Look at the top five cards of your library. — Step 2: If you like them, proceed to step 3a. If you don’t like them, proceed to step 3b. — Step 3a: Shuffle the rest of your library, then put those five cards back on top of your library in the order you want. The spell has finished resolving. — Step 3b: Put those five cards on the bottom of your library in the order you want. Pay 1 life. Return to step 1.

Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle and put the last cards you looked at this way on top in any order.

Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero

You do not have to find a Rebel card if you do not want to.

{X}, {T}: Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
{3}: Put target Rebel card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library.

Lotus Field

If Lotus Field enters the battlefield while you control fewer than two other lands, you must sacrifice each land you control, including Lotus Field.

Hexproof
Lotus Field enters tapped.
When Lotus Field enters, sacrifice two lands.
{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Mishra's Factory

A noncreature permanent that becomes a creature can attack, and its {T} abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn't matter how long the permanent has been a creature. Notably, if you turn Mishra's Factory into a creature on the turn it entered the battlefield, you won't be able to then activate its first or last abilities.

After it becomes a creature, Mishra's Factory will still have all its abilities.

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mishra's Factory becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion

Although the Ninja is attacking, it was never declared as an attacking creature (for purposes of abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks, for example).

As you activate a ninjutsu ability, you reveal the Ninja card in your hand and return the attacking creature. The Ninja card stays revealed and isn't put onto the battlefield until the ability resolves. If it leaves your hand before then, it won't enter the battlefield at all.

If a creature in combat has first strike or double strike, you can activate the ninjutsu ability during the first-strike combat damage step. The Ninja will deal combat damage during the regular combat damage step, even if it has first strike.

If you cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost this way, the only legal choice for X is 0.

The creature with ninjutsu enters the battlefield attacking the same player or planeswalker that the returned creature was attacking. This is a rule specific to ninjutsu; in other cases, when a creature is put onto the battlefield attacking, that creature's controller chooses which player or planeswalker it's attacking.

The ninjutsu ability can be activated during the declare blockers step, combat damage step, or end of combat step. In most cases (see below), if you wait until the combatdamage step or end of combat step, it will be after combat damage has been dealt, so the Ninja won't deal combat damage.

The ninjutsu ability can be activated only after blockers have been declared. Before then, attacking creatures are neither blocked nor unblocked.

You may only cast a spell this way by paying the appropriate amount of life. You may not pay its normal cost and may not pay any other alternative costs. You may still pay for additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the spell has mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.

You must follow all normal timing rules when casting a spell or playing a land this way. For example, you cannot normally play a land card this way if you have already played a land this turn.

Ninjutsu {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of each player's library. Until end of turn, you may play one of those cards. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

Necropotence

If a discarded card isn't put into your graveyard (due to an effect such as that of Obstinate Baloth) or leaves your graveyard (perhaps because another effect returned it to your hand), it won't be exiled.

If you discard a card with madness and wish to cast it, Necropotence's ability won't exile that card. If you don't wish to cast it, you choose whether it ends up exiled or in your graveyard.

Necropotence's last ability creates a delayed triggered ability that will put the exiled card into your hand. That ability still triggers even if Necropotence is removed from the battlefield before your end step.

You can't look at the cards exiled by the last ability while they're face down.

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh

Casting the card exiled with Nicol Bolas’s first ability follows the normal timing rules for casting that card. For example, if the card is a creature card, you can cast that card only during your main phase while the stack is empty.

If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as emerge costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Tormenting Voice, you must pay those to cast the card.

If you don’t cast the card exiled by Nicol Bolas’s first ability that turn, it will remain exiled.

In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any spell or permanent cards you control from Nicol Bolas’s first ability are exiled.

The cards exiled by Nicol Bolas’s first and second abilities are exiled face up.

While resolving Nicol Bolas’s second ability, each opponent chooses which cards to exile from their hand. Any opponent with two or fewer cards exiles their entire hand.

You may cast the nonland card exiled by Nicol Bolas’s first ability that turn even if Nicol Bolas is no longer on the battlefield or under your control.

[+2]: Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost.
[+1]: Each opponent exiles two cards from their hand.
[−4]: Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh deals 7 damage to target opponent, creature an opponent controls, or planeswalker an opponent controls.
[−12]: Exile each nonland permanent your opponents control.

"We see the same sky as you, just through a different lens."

Ponder

If you choose to shuffle your library, that includes the three cards you just looked at and put back on top of it.

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

Shark Typhoon

An ability that triggers when a player casts a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.

For spells with {X} in their mana costs, use the value chosen for X to determine the spell's mana value.

Some cards with cycling have an ability that triggers when you cycle them, and some cards have an ability that triggers whenever you cycle any card. These triggered abilities resolve before you draw from the cycling ability.

Triggered abilities from cycling a card and the cycling ability itself aren't spells. Effects that interact with spells (such as that of Cancel) won't affect them.

You can choose 0 as the value of X in Shark Typhoon's cycling cost. The last ability will trigger, and you'll create a 0/0 blue Shark creature token with flying. Unless something else is raising its toughness, the Shark will then immediately die.

You can cycle a card even if it has a triggered ability from cycling that won't have a legal target. This is because the cycling ability and the triggered ability are separate. This also means that if either ability is countered (with Disallow, for example), the other ability will still resolve.

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.
Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Shark Typhoon, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.

While it's true most Dragons are cruel, the Shivan Dragon seems to take particular glee in the misery of others, often tormenting its victims much like a cat plays with a mouse before delivering the final blow.

Shivan Dragon

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
{R}: Shivan Dragon gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

The mere approach of an Abzan war beast is enough to send enemies fleeing in panic.

Siege Rhino

Trample
When Siege Rhino enters, each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

Smokestack

Adding a counter is optional. If you forget to add one during your upkeep, you cannot back up and add one later.

If a player does not have enough permanents, they sacrifice all the ones they have.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on Smokestack.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent for each soot counter on Smokestack.

"General?!" Tahngarth roared. "General *nuisance*, maybe."

Squee, Goblin Nabob

If Squee isn’t in your graveyard as your upkeep begins, its ability won’t trigger. You can’t take any actions during your turn before your upkeep begins.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return Squee, Goblin Nabob from your graveyard to your hand.

Sun Titan

A permanent card is an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card.

If a card in your graveyard has no mana symbols in its upper right corner (because it's a land card, for example), its mana value is 0.

If the mana cost of a card in your graveyard includes {X}, X is considered to be 0.

The mana value of a card in your graveyard is determined solely by the mana symbols printed in its upper right corner. The mana value is the total amount of mana in that cost, regardless of color. For example, a card with mana cost {3}{U}{U} has mana value 5.

Vigilance
Whenever Sun Titan enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"Salvation will not be granted by the Lunarch Council. It must be earned—at the edge of a sword, if necessary."

Thalia, Heretic Cathar

If Thalia enters the battlefield at the same time as an opponent’s creatures or nonbasic lands, those creatures and lands aren’t affected by Thalia’s last ability.

If an effect states that a creature or land enters the battlefield tapped unless a condition is met, Thalia’s last ability has it enter tapped even if that condition is true. For example, your opponent may reveal a Plains while playing Port Town (from the Shadows over Innistrad set), but Port Town will still enter tapped.

First strike
Creatures and nonbasic lands your opponents control enter tapped.

It is said that the wind will blow the world past if you wait long enough.

Tradewind Rider

Flying
{T}, Tap two untapped creatures you control: Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Wild Mongrel

Discard a card: Wild Mongrel gets +1/+1 and becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

Card (31)	Type	^{$169.91 (444.86)} Price
Arclight Phoenix - borderless - inverted	Creature	$5.00 ^(11.00)
Birthing Pod - borderless - inverted	Artifact	$9.00 ^(20.00)
Bloodbraid Elf - borderless - inverted	Creature	$0.75 ^(2.25)
Bogardan Hellkite - borderless - inverted	Creature	$0.15 ^(0.65)
Chrome Mox - 1997	Artifact	$80.00 ^(190.00)
Deathrite Shaman - borderless - inverted	Creature	$7.50 ^(21.50)
Dragonlord Ojutai - borderless - inverted	Creature	$6.00 ^(12.00)
Elite Spellbinder - borderless - inverted	Creature	$0.50 ^(0.65)
Elspeth, Sun's Champion - 1997	Planeswalker	$2.50 ^(8.50)
Emry, Lurker of the Loch - borderless - inverted	Creature	$2.00 ^(4.50)
Genesis - borderless - inverted	Creature	$1.00 ^(3.00)
Glimpse of Nature - borderless - inverted	Sorcery	$4.00 ^(9.00)
Heritage Druid - borderless - inverted	Creature	$3.00 ^(8.00)
Lightning Helix - borderless - inverted	Instant	$0.75 ^(2.75)
Lim-Dûl's Vault - borderless - inverted	Instant	$9.00 ^(24.00)
Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero - borderless - inverted	Creature	$0.08 ^(0.23)
Lotus Field - borderless - inverted	Land	$0.00 ^(18.00)
Mishra's Factory - borderless - inverted	Land	$0.50 ^(3.00)
Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion - borderless - inverted	Creature	$3.00 ^(7.00)
Necropotence - borderless	Enchantment	$11.00 ^(29.00)
Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh - borderless	Planeswalker	$4.00 ^(8.00)
Ponder - borderless - inverted	Sorcery	$6.00 ^(21.00)
Shark Typhoon - borderless	Enchantment	$6.00 ^(16.00)
Shivan Dragon - borderless - inverted	Creature	$0.15 ^(0.90)
Siege Rhino - borderless - inverted	Creature	$0.15 ^(0.65)
Smokestack - borderless - inverted	Artifact	$2.50 ^(5.50)
Squee, Goblin Nabob - borderless - inverted	Creature	$0.15 ^(0.90)
Sun Titan - borderless - inverted	Creature	$2.00 ^(9.00)
Thalia, Heretic Cathar - borderless - inverted	Creature	$3.00 ^(7.00)
Tradewind Rider - borderless - inverted	Creature	$0.08 ^(0.23)
Wild Mongrel - borderless - inverted	Creature	$0.15 ^(0.65)

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