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Damping Engine

4 · Artifact

A player who controls more permanents than each other player can't play lands or cast artifact, creature, or enchantment spells. That player may sacrifice a permanent for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.

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NameManaTypeText
Chaos Wrap 2RInstant The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library. Then they may look at the top card of their library and may wrap it. If it's a permanent card, they may put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, they may put it onto the battlefield face down as a 4/4 red Present creature. (To wrap a card, put it inside lots of sleeves. If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a sleeve from it instead.)
Excavator 2Artifact {T}, Sacrifice a basic land: Target creature gains landwalk of each of the land types of the sacrificed land until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a land of any of those types.)
Clockspinning UInstant Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Choose a counter on target permanent or suspended card. Remove that counter from that permanent or card or put another of those counters on it.
Stick Together 3WWSorcery Each player chooses a party from among creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest. (To choose a party, choose up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)
Skittering Cicada 3Creature — Insect Flash You may cast colorless spells as though they had flash. Whenever you cast a colorless spell, until end of turn, Skittering Cicada gains trample and gets +X/+X, where X is that spell's mana value. 2/2
Trickster Mage UCreature — Human Spellshaper {U}, {T}, Discard a card: You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land. 1/1
Statue 2BGInstant Destroy target artifact, creature, or enchantment.
Coastal Hornclaw 4UCreature — Bird Sacrifice a land: Coastal Hornclaw gains flying until end of turn. 3/3
Predators' Hour 1BSorcery Until end of turn, creatures you control gain menace and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library face down. You may look at and play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell."
A-Split the Spoils 1GSorcery Exile up to five target permanent cards from your graveyard and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. (Piles can be empty.)
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