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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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Reap the Past XRGSorcery Return X cards at random from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Reap the Past.
Invasion of Tolvada 3WBBattle — 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 Tolvada enters the battlefield, return target nonbattle permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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