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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Apex Observatory

· Artifact

Apex Observatory enters the battlefield tapped. As it enters, choose a card type shared among two exiled cards used to craft it. {T}: The next spell you cast this turn of the chosen type can be cast without paying its mana cost.

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