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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Cryptic Command

1UUU · Instant

Choose two — • Counter target spell. • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Tap all creatures your opponents control. • Draw a card.

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NameManaTypeText
Spell Crumple 1UUInstant Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard. Put Spell Crumple on the bottom of its owner's library.
Tidal Bore 1UInstant You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. You may tap or untap target creature.
Whims of the Fates 5RSorcery Starting with you, each player separates all permanents they control into three piles. Then each player chooses one of their piles at random and sacrifices those permanents. (Piles can be empty.)
Depths of Desire 2UInstant Return target creature to its owner's hand. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
Time Elemental 2UCreature — Elemental When Time Elemental attacks or blocks, at end of combat, sacrifice it and it deals 5 damage to you. {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Return target permanent that isn't enchanted to its owner's hand. 0/2
Grave Scrabbler 3BCreature — Zombie Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.) When Grave Scrabbler enters the battlefield, if its madness cost was paid, you may return target creature card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. 2/2
Linessa, Zephyr Mage 3ULegendary Creature — Human Wizard {X}{U}{U}, {T}: Return target creature with mana value X to its owner's hand. Grandeur — Discard another card named Linessa, Zephyr Mage: Target player returns a creature they control to its owner's hand, then repeats this process for an artifact, an enchantment, and a land. 3/3
Mortus Strider 1UBCreature — Skeleton When Mortus Strider dies, return it to its owner's hand. 1/1
Kazandu Stomper 5GCreature — Beast Trample When Kazandu Stomper enters the battlefield, return up to two lands you control to their owner's hand. 6/5
Essence Scatter 1UInstant Counter target creature spell.
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