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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Author of Shadows

4B · Creature — Shade Warlock

When Author of Shadows enters the battlefield, exile all opponents' graveyards. Choose a nonland card exiled this way. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell. 3/3

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