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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
Wake to Slaughter 3BRSorcery Choose up to two target creature cards in your graveyard. An opponent chooses one of them. Return that card to your hand. Return the other to the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. Flashback {4}{B}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Littjara Glade-Warden 3GCreature — Shapeshifter Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {2}{G}, {T}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery. 3/3
Moratorium Stone 1Artifact {2}, {T}: Exile target card from a graveyard. {2}{W}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Moratorium Stone: Exile target nonland card from a graveyard, all other cards from graveyards with the same name as that card, and all permanents with that name.
Artisan of Kozilek 9Creature — Eldrazi When you cast this spell, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents.) 10/9
Loamcrafter Faun 2GCreature — Satyr Druid When Loamcrafter Faun enters the battlefield, you may discard one or more land cards. When you do, return up to that many target nonland permanent cards from your graveyard to your hand. 3/3
Tainted Indulgence UBInstant Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard.
Gather the Pack 1GSorcery Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, put up to two creature cards from among the revealed cards into your hand instead of one.
Corpse Churn 1BInstant Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Invasion of Shandalar 3GGBattle — Siege (As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.) When Invasion of Shandalar enters the battlefield, return up to three target permanent cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Phyrexian Grimoire 3Artifact {4}, {T}: Target opponent chooses one of the top two cards of your graveyard. Exile that card and put the other one into your hand.
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