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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Desertion

3UU · Instant

Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

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NameManaTypeText
Spelljack 3UUUInstant Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may play it without paying its mana cost for as long as it remains exiled. (If it has X in its mana cost, X is 0.)
Broken Ambitions XUInstant Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. Clash with an opponent. If you win, that spell's controller mills four cards. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.)
Circular Logic 2UInstant Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard. Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Rakshasa's Disdain 2UInstant Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard.
Ionize 1URInstant Counter target spell. Ionize deals 2 damage to that spell's controller.
Countervailing Winds 2UInstant Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Decree of Silence 6UUEnchantment Whenever an opponent casts a spell, counter that spell and put a depletion counter on Decree of Silence. If there are three or more depletion counters on Decree of Silence, sacrifice it. Cycling {4}{U}{U} ({4}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle Decree of Silence, you may counter target spell.
Scatter Arc 3UInstant Counter target noncreature spell. Draw a card.
Perplex 1UBInstant Counter target spell unless its controller discards their hand. Transmute {1}{U}{B} ({1}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Dovin's Veto WUInstant This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.
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