"Many must die for the one who should not have perished."

Akroma's Vengeance

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not.

Chainer's Edict

Target player sacrifices a creature.
Flashback {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.

If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.

To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.

You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.

You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.

“Flashback [cost]” means “You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost” and “If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack.”

Chameleon Colossus

Changeling (This card is every creature type at all times.)
Protection from black
{2}{G}{G}: Chameleon Colossus gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is its power.

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Protection from black
{2}{G}{G}: Chameleon Colossus gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is its power.

Izzet mages often acquire their magic reagents from dubious sources, so the potency of their spells is never predictable.

Char

Char deals 4 damage to target creature or player and 2 damage to you.

Char deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

Cruel Ultimatum

Target opponent sacrifices a creature, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life.

All of the actions for Cruel Ultimatum are performed sequentially, in the order listed. Earlier actions may affect how you perform later actions. For example, if the opponent sacrifices a creature that they control but you own, it will end up in your graveyard. When Cruel Ultimatum lets you return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, you can choose that one.

Cruel Ultimatum’s only target is an opponent. You don’t choose which creature card in your graveyard you’ll return to your hand until Cruel Ultimatum resolves.

If, as Cruel Ultimatum begins to resolve, your opponent’s life total is 5 or less and you have two or fewer cards in your library, the game will result in a draw. Your opponent’s life total will drop to 0 or less, but Cruel Ultimatum must finish resolving completely before state-based actions are performed. You’ll then be forced to draw three cards and fail to draw one. When state-based actions are finally performed, you and your opponent will both lose the game at the same time, which means the game is a draw.

"Leshrac, my liege, grant me the power I am due."
—Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Dark Ritual

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.

"We could no more abandon the forest than the stars could abandon the night sky."

Fyndhorn Elves

Over such beauty, wars are fought. With such power, wars are won.

Gilded Lotus

{T}: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool.

As the green sun crowned, Phyrexian prophecies glowed on the Tree of Tales.

Green Sun's Zenith

Search your library for a green creature card with converted mana cost X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

If this spell doesn’t resolve, none of its effects occur. In particular, it will go to the graveyard rather than to its owner’s library.

If Green Sun’s Zenith is countered, none of its effects will happen. Notably, it will be put into its owner’s graveyard rather than shuffled into its owner’s library.

If you own Green Sun’s Zenith, but an opponent casts it (due to Knowledge Pool’s effect, for example), that opponent searches their library for an appropriate creature card, then shuffles that library. That opponent then shuffles Green Sun’s Zenith into your library. You won’t shuffle any library in this case.

In most cases, if you own Green Sun’s Zenith and cast it, you’ll shuffle your library twice. In practice, shuffling once is sufficient, but effects that care about you shuffling your library (like Psychogenic Probe, for example) will see that you’ve shuffled twice.

Search your library for a green creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

The priests plead for your anguish and pray for your despair.

Hymn to Tourach

Target player discards two cards at random.

"You call it luck. I call it preparation."

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.

Due to errata, you no longer shuffle your library.

Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni

Ninjutsu {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni deals combat damage to a player, you may put target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
{1}{B}: Regenerate Ink-Eyes.

If, during the combat damage step, a creature is destroyed during combat and Ink-Eyes also deals combat damage to a player, the destroyed creature can be a legal target for Ink-Eyes’s ability.

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 his or her hand into his or her library.

If the target player for Jace's last ability has no cards in hand, that player shuffles nothing into their library, and that player's library will remain empty. That player won't lose the game until they try to draw from the empty library.

You draw three cards and put two cards back all while Jace's second ability is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions.

[+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.

When a werewolf changes for the first time, that first howl is said to echo through the wilds till moonset.

Kessig Wolf Run

{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.
{X}{R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

{T}: Add {C}.
{X}{R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

The smallest seed of regret can bloom into redemption.

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Use the power of the creature from when it was last on the battlefield to determine how much life is gained.

Tangle Wire

Fading 4 (This artifact enters the battlefield with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player taps an untapped artifact, creature, or land he or she controls for each fade counter on Tangle Wire.

Fading 4 (This artifact enters the battlefield with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player taps an untapped artifact, creature, or land they control for each fade counter on Tangle Wire.

Urza's metathran children were conceived, birthed, and nurtured by an integrated system of machines.

Thran Dynamo

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.

If Venser's triggered ability targets a spell cast with flashback, that spell will be exiled instead of returning to its owner's hand.

If a copy of a spell is returned to its owner's hand, it's moved there, then it will cease to exist as a state-based action. It can't be recast.

If a spell is returned to its owner's hand, it's removed from the stack and thus will not resolve. The spell isn't countered; it just no longer exists. This works against a spell that can't be countered.

If a spell is returned to its owner's hand, it's removed from the stack and thus will not resolve. The spell isn't countered; it just no longer exists. This works even against a spell that can't be countered.

Card (20)	Type	^{$0.00 (0.00)} Price
Akroma's Vengeance - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Chainer's Edict - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Chameleon Colossus - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Char - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cruel Ultimatum - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Dark Ritual - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Fact or Fiction - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Fyndhorn Elves - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Gilded Lotus - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Green Sun's Zenith - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Hymn to Tourach - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Impulse - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Jace, the Mind Sculptor - 2003	Planeswalker	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Kessig Wolf Run - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Swords to Plowshares - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Tangle Wire - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Thran Dynamo - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Venser, Shaper Savant - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Wall of Blossoms - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)

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