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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Illusionist's Stratagem

3U · Instant

Exile up to two target creatures you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control. Draw a card.

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NameManaTypeText
Guard Change 1GInstant — Adventure Create a Monster Role token attached to target creature you control. (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has trample.)
Shared Fate 4UEnchantment If a player would draw a card, that player exiles the top card of one of their opponents' libraries face down instead. Each player may look at cards they exiled with Shared Fate, and they may play lands and cast spells from among those cards.
Callous Dismissal 1USorcery Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
Necrotic Plague 2BBEnchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature." When enchanted creature dies, its controller chooses target creature one of their opponents controls. Return Necrotic Plague from its owner's graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.
Crushing Disappointment 3BInstant Each player loses 2 life. You draw two cards.
Haunting Echoes 3BBSorcery Exile all cards from target player's graveyard other than basic land cards. For each card exiled this way, search that player's library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
Grave Betrayal 5BBEnchantment Whenever a creature you don't control dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with an additional +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.
Syphon Sliver 2BCreature — Sliver Sliver creatures you control have lifelink. (Damage dealt by a Sliver creature you control also causes you to gain that much life.) 2/2
Skyswimmer Koi 3UCreature — Fish Flying Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. 3/3
Roots of Wisdom 1GSorcery Mill three cards, then return a land card or Elf card from your graveyard to your hand. If you can't, draw a card. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
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