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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Counterbalance

UU · Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, counter that spell if it has the same mana value as the revealed card.

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NameManaTypeText
Cabaretti Ascendancy RGWEnchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature or planeswalker card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it on the bottom of your library.
Runadi, Behemoth Caller 2GLegendary Creature — Cat Shaman Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 5 or greater, that creature enters the battlefield with X additional +1/+1 counters on it, where X is its mana value minus 4. Creatures you control with three or more +1/+1 counters on them have haste. {T}: Add {G}. 1/3
Neoform GUSorcery As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it, then shuffle.
Anchor to Reality 2UUSorcery As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Search your library for an Equipment or Vehicle card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If it has mana value less than the sacrificed permanent's mana value, scry 2.
Mystic Genesis 2GUUInstant Counter target spell. Create an X/X green Ooze creature token, where X is that spell's mana value.
Tracker's Instincts 1GSorcery Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put a creature card from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
TARDIS Bay Plane — Gallifrey The first spell you cast during each of your turns with mana value 2 or greater has cascade. (When you cast that spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) When chaos ensues, gain control of target artifact. Then planeswalk.
Vitality Salve Artifact At the beginning of the Horde's precombat main phase, reveal an additional card from the top of the Horde's library. The Horde casts that card. Hero's Reward — When Vitality Salve is put into a graveyard from anywhere, each player returns a creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield.
Denied! UInstant Choose a card name, then target spell's controller reveals their hand. If a card with the chosen name is revealed this way, counter that spell.
Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle 3WLegendary Creature — Bird Cleric Flying Whenever you cast a historic spell, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.) 2/2
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