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1W · Instant
Escalate {2} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.) Choose one or more — • Target player gains 4 life. • Untap up to two target creatures. • Target opponent sacrifices an attacking creature.
| Name | Mana | Type | Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ob Nixilis, the Adversary | 1BR | Legendary Planeswalker — Nixilis | Casualty X. The copy isn't legendary and has starting loyalty X. (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power X. When you do, copy this spell. The copy becomes a token.) [+1]: Each opponent loses 2 life unless they discard a card. If you control a Demon or Devil, you gain 2 life. [−2]: Create a 1/1 red Devil creature token with "When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target." [−7]: Target player draws seven cards and loses 7 life. Loyalty 3 |
| Live Fast | 2B | Sorcery | You draw two cards, lose 2 life, and get {E}{E} (two energy counters). |
| Gitaxian Probe | U/P | Sorcery | ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card. |
| Peek | U | Instant | Look at target player's hand. Draw a card. |
| Sorcerous Sight | U | Sorcery | Look at target opponent's hand. Draw a card. |
| Volatile Arsonist | 3RR | Creature — Human Werewolf | Menace, haste Whenever Volatile Arsonist attacks, it deals 1 damage to each of up to one target creature, up to one target player, and/or up to one target planeswalker. Daybound (If a player casts no spells during their own turn, it becomes night next turn.) 4/4 |
| Staff of Compleation | 3 | Artifact | {T}, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color. {T}, Pay 3 life: Proliferate. {T}, Pay 4 life: Draw a card. {5}: Untap Staff of Compleation. |
| Authority of the Consuls | W | Enchantment | Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped. Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you gain 1 life. |
| Court of Cunning | 1UU | Enchantment | When Court of Cunning enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, any number of target players each mill two cards. If you're the monarch, each of those players mills ten cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.) |
| Glacial Grasp | 2U | Instant | Tap target creature. Its controller mills two cards. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.) Draw a card. |