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Desperate Research

1B · Sorcery

Choose a card name other than a basic land card name. Reveal the top seven cards of your library and put all of them with that name into your hand. Exile the rest.

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Recruitment Officer WCreature — Human Soldier {3}{W}: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card with mana value 3 or less from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. 2/1
Bag of Tricks 1GArtifact {4}{G}, {T}: Roll a d8. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card with mana value equal to the result. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Audacious Reshapers 2RCreature — Human Artificer {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal an artifact card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Audacious Reshapers deals damage to you equal to the number of cards revealed this way. 3/3
Greatest Show in the Multiverse 7Artifact Enchantment — Saga (As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile five instant and/or sorcery cards you own with the same artist and different names from outside the game. I, II, III — Choose one of the exiled cards at random. You may cast it without paying its mana cost.
Nissa, Steward of Elements XGULegendary Planeswalker — Nissa [+2]: Scry 2. [0]: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card or a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of loyalty counters on Nissa, Steward of Elements, you may put that card onto the battlefield. [−6]: Untap up to two target lands you control. They become 5/5 Elemental creatures with flying and haste until end of turn. They're still lands. Loyalty X
Kiora, Master of the Depths 2GULegendary Planeswalker — Kiora [+1]: Untap up to one target creature and up to one target land. [−2]: Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card and/or a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard. [−8]: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may have it fight target creature." Then create three 8/8 blue Octopus creature tokens. Loyalty 4
Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign 4UULegendary Creature — Sphinx Flying Sphinx spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Whenever Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign or another Sphinx enters the battlefield under your control, reveal the top four cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. 4/4
Warm Welcome 2GInstant Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token.
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Mind Spike BSorcery Target opponent reveals each noncreature, nonland card in their hand. You choose a card revealed this way. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life. If they didn't reveal a card this way, you draw a card.
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