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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Defense Grid

2 · Artifact

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

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NameManaTypeText
Beseech the Mirror 1BBBSorcery Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.
Unified Will 1UInstant Counter target spell if you control more creatures than that spell's controller.
Slickshot Lockpicker 2UCreature — Human Rogue When Slickshot Lockpicker enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.) Plot {2}{U} (You may pay {2}{U} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.) 2/3
Towashi Guide-Bot 4Artifact Creature — Construct When Towashi Guide-Bot enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. {4}, {T}: Draw a card. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each modified creature you control. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.) 2/1
Baral and Kari Zev 1URLegendary Creature — Human First strike, menace Whenever you cast your first instant or sorcery spell each turn, you may cast a spell with lesser mana value that shares a card type with it from your hand without paying its mana cost. If you don't, create First Mate Ragavan, a legendary 2/1 red Monkey Pirate creature token. It gains haste until end of turn. 2/4
Batwing Brume 1W/BInstant Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn if {W} was spent to cast this spell. Each player loses 1 life for each attacking creature they control if {B} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {W}{B} was spent.)
Gaddock Teeg GWLegendary Creature — Kithkin Advisor Noncreature spells with mana value 4 or greater can't be cast. Noncreature spells with {X} in their mana costs can't be cast. 2/2
Otaria Plane — Dominaria Instant and sorcery cards in graveyards have flashback. The flashback cost is equal to the card's mana cost. (Its owner may cast the card from their graveyard for its mana cost. Then they exile it.) Whenever chaos ensues, take an extra turn after this one.
Sarah Jane Smith 1WLegendary Creature — Human Detective Whenever you cast a historic spell, investigate. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic. To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.) 2/1
The Skullspore Nexus 6GGLegendary Artifact This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, create a green Fungus Dinosaur creature token with base power and toughness each equal to the total power of those creatures. {2}, {T}: Double target creature's power until end of turn.
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