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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
Entry Denied 1USorcery — Adventure Return target creature you don't control with mana value 3 or less to its owner's hand. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
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Papercraft Decoy 2Artifact Creature — Frog When Papercraft Decoy leaves the battlefield, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card. 2/1
Furnace Skullbomb 1Artifact {1}, Sacrifice Furnace Skullbomb: Draw a card. {1}{R}, Sacrifice Furnace Skullbomb: Put two oil counters on target artifact or creature you control. Draw a card. Activate only as a sorcery.
Pearl Lake Ancient 5UUCreature — Leviathan Flash This spell can't be countered. Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Return three lands you control to their owner's hand: Return Pearl Lake Ancient to its owner's hand. 6/7
Surrakar Banisher 4UCreature — Surrakar When Surrakar Banisher enters the battlefield, you may return target tapped creature to its owner's hand. 3/3
Faithful Mending WUInstant You gain 2 life, draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {1}{W}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Uba Mask 4Artifact If a player would draw a card, that player exiles that card face up instead. Each player may play lands and cast spells from among cards they exiled with Uba Mask this turn.
Gerrymandering 2GSorcery Exile all lands. Give each player a number of those cards chosen at random equal to the number of those cards the player controlled. Each player returns those cards to the battlefield under their control.
Quickling 1UCreature — Faerie Rogue Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying When Quickling enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you return another creature you control to its owner's hand. 2/2
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