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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Once Upon a Time

1G · Instant

If this spell is the first spell you've cast this game, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

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Managorger Phoenix RRCreature — Phoenix Flying Managorger Phoenix can't block. Whenever you cast a spell, if Managorger Phoenix is in your graveyard, put a flame counter on Managorger Phoenix for each {R} in that spell's mana cost. If Managorger Phoenix has five or more flame counters on it, return it to the battlefield and it perpetually gets +1/+1. 2/2
Graveyard Dig 1B/GSorcery Return up to two target [black or green] creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. You may cast this spell for {2}{B/G}{B/G}. If you do, ignore the bracketed text.
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Ravenous Gigamole 3BCreature — Mole Horror When Ravenous Gigamole enters the battlefield, mill three cards. You may put a creature card from among the cards milled this way into your hand. If you don't, put a +1/+1 counter on Ravenous Gigamole. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.) 2/3
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Defiler of Instinct 2RRCreature — Phyrexian Kavu First strike As an additional cost to cast red permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {R} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of red mana you pay. Whenever you cast a red permanent spell, Defiler of Instinct deals 1 damage to any target. 4/4
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