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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Cathartic Operation

3UB · Instant

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, then seek two noncreature, nonland cards.

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NameManaTypeText
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 1UBLegendary Creature — Vampire Detective Flying, vigilance Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on Mirko, Obsessive Theorist. At the beginning of your end step, you may return target creature card with power less than Mirko's from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If it would die, exile it instead.) 1/3
Phyrexian Gargantua 4BBCreature — Phyrexian Horror When Phyrexian Gargantua enters the battlefield, you draw two cards and you lose 2 life. 4/4
Mesmeric Fiend 1BCreature — Nightmare Horror When Mesmeric Fiend enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card. When Mesmeric Fiend leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand. 1/1
Waker of Waves 5UUCreature — Whale Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0. {1}{U}, Discard Waker of Waves: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard. 7/7
World Breaker 6GCreature — Eldrazi Devoid (This card has no color.) When you cast this spell, exile target artifact, enchantment, or land. Reach {2}{C}, Sacrifice a land: Return World Breaker from your graveyard to your hand. ({C} represents colorless mana.) 5/7
Sun Ce, Young Conquerer 3UULegendary Creature — Human Soldier Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.) When Sun Ce, Young Conquerer enters the battlefield, you may return target creature to its owner's hand. 3/3
Necrogenesis BGEnchantment {2}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Phyresis Roach GCreature — Phyrexian Insect Toxic 1 Whenever Phyresis Roach deals combat damage to a player, Insects you control and Insect cards in your graveyard, hand, and library perpetually gain toxic 1. 1/1
Gate to the Afterlife 3Artifact Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you gain 1 life. Then you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Gate to the Afterlife: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named God-Pharaoh's Gift and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Activate only if there are six or more creature cards in your graveyard.
Fork in the Road 1GSorcery Search your library for up to two basic land cards and reveal them. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.
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