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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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Hostage Taker 2UBCreature — Human Pirate When Hostage Taker enters the battlefield, exile another target creature or artifact until Hostage Taker leaves the battlefield. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell. 2/3
Tenacious Underdog 1BCreature — Human Warrior Blitz—{2}{B}{B}, Pay 2 life. (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.) You may cast Tenacious Underdog from your graveyard using its blitz ability. 3/2
Booster Tutor BInstant Open a sealed Magic booster pack, reveal the cards, and put one of them into your hand. (Remove that card from your deck before beginning a new game.)
Sunglasses of Urza 3Artifact You may spend white mana as though it were red mana.
Haunted Crossroads 2BEnchantment {B}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Jester's Scepter 3Artifact When Jester's Scepter enters the battlefield, exile the top five cards of target player's library face down. You may look at those cards for as long as they remain exiled. {2}, {T}, Put a card exiled with Jester's Scepter into its owner's graveyard: Counter target spell if it has the same name as that card.
Semblance Anvil 3Artifact Imprint — When Semblance Anvil enters the battlefield, you may exile a nonland card from your hand. Spells you cast that share a card type with the exiled card cost {2} less to cast.
Grolnok, the Omnivore 2GULegendary Creature — Frog Whenever a Frog you control attacks, mill three cards. Whenever a permanent card is put into your graveyard from your library, exile it with a croak counter on it. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards you own in exile with croak counters on them. 3/3
Forge Anew 2WEnchantment When Forge Anew enters the battlefield, return target Equipment card from your graveyard to the battlefield. As long as it's your turn, you may activate equip abilities any time you could cast an instant. You may pay {0} rather than pay the equip cost of the first equip ability you activate during each of your turns.
Push Your Luck Artifact — Attraction Visit — Reveal cards from the top of your library until you decide to stop. If the total mana value of the cards revealed this way is 7 or less, create a 2/2 pink Teddy Bear creature token. If the total is exactly 7, claim the prize! Shuffle the revealed cards into your library. Prize — Put five +1/+1 counters on a Teddy Bear you control. It gains haste. Sacrifice Push Your Luck and open an attraction.
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