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Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists

2GWU · Legendary Creature — Human Scientist

{T}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Discover X, where X is the mana value of the exiled card. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) 2/5

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Chthonian Nightmare 1BEnchantment When Chthonian Nightmare enters the battlefield, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). Pay X {E}, Sacrifice a creature, Return Chthonian Nightmare to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
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