Card Codex

M:tG card similarity search

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.

Similar cards

Color identity:
NameManaTypeText
Arm-Mounted Anchor 3Artifact — Equipment Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has menace. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, draw two cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a Pirate card. Equip {2}. This ability costs {2} less to activate if you have one or fewer cards in hand.
Questionable Cuisine 3BSorcery Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. Create a Food token for each trash can you can see from your seat. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
Hakim, Loreweaver 3UULegendary Creature — Human Wizard Flying {U}{U}: Return target Aura card from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to Hakim, Loreweaver. Activate only during your upkeep and only if Hakim isn't enchanted. {U}{U}, {T}: Destroy all Auras attached to Hakim. 2/4
Grixis Battlemage 2BCreature — Human Wizard {U}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {R}, {T}: Target creature can't block this turn. 2/2
Stand Together 3GGInstant Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature and two +1/+1 counters on another target creature.
Impulsive Return Sorcery Return two cards named Ecstatic Piper from Xenagos's graveyard to the battlefield. At the beginning of combat this turn, Impulsive Return deals damage to each player equal to the number of Revelers on the battlefield.
Your Temple Is Under Attack 2WInstant Choose one — • Pray for Protection — Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. • Strike a Deal — You and target opponent each draw two cards.
Ray of Ruin 4BSorcery Exile target creature, Vehicle, or nonbasic land. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge 1RWBLegendary Creature — Human Knight Menace Other legendary creatures you control have menace. Whenever you play a legendary land or cast a legendary spell, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. 2/4
Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might 2RRLegendary Creature — God Trample If a red source you control would deal an amount of noncombat damage less than Ojer Axonil's power to an opponent, that source deals damage equal to Ojer Axonil's power instead. When Ojer Axonil dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control. 4/4
Page 247