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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Black Market Connections

2B · Enchantment

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

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NameManaTypeText
The Mightstone and Weakstone 5Legendary Artifact — Powerstone When The Mightstone and Weakstone enters the battlefield, choose one — • Draw two cards. • Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn. {T}: Add {C}{C}. This mana can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells. (Melds with Urza, Lord Protector.)
Deadly Plot 3BInstant Choose one — • Destroy target creature or planeswalker. • Return target Zombie creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Alley Evasion WInstant Choose one — • Target creature you control gets +1/+2 until end of turn. • Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.
Ojutai Exemplars 2WWCreature — Human Monk Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, choose one — • Tap target creature. • Ojutai Exemplars gains first strike and lifelink until end of turn. • Exile Ojutai Exemplars, then return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control. 4/4
Dreadhound 4BBCreature — Demon Dog When Dreadhound enters the battlefield, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.) Whenever a creature dies or a creature card is put into a graveyard from a library, each opponent loses 1 life. 6/6
A Good Thing 4WBEnchantment Spells and abilities you control can't destroy, exile, target, or cause you to sacrifice A Good Thing. At the beginning of your upkeep, double your life total. Then, if you have 1,000 or more life, you lose the game.
Collective Effort 1WWSorcery Escalate—Tap an untapped creature you control. (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.) Choose one or more — • Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. • Destroy target enchantment. • Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature target player controls.
You're Ambushed on the Road WInstant Choose one — • Make a Retreat — Return target creature you control to its owner's hand. • Stand and Fight — Target creature gets +1/+3 until end of turn.
Defiant Bloodlord 5BBCreature — Vampire Flying Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. 4/5
Sea of Sand Plane — Rabiah Players reveal each card they draw. Whenever a player draws a land card, that player gains 3 life. Whenever a player draws a nonland card, that player loses 3 life. Whenever chaos ensues, put target permanent on top of its owner's library.
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