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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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Whisperwood Elemental 3GGCreature — Elemental At the beginning of your end step, manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Sacrifice Whisperwood Elemental: Until end of turn, face-up nontoken creatures you control gain "When this creature dies, manifest the top card of your library." 4/4
Shaman's Trance 2RInstant Other players can't play lands or cast spells from their graveyards this turn. You may play lands and cast spells from other players' graveyards this turn as though those cards were in your graveyard.
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Mindwrack Demon 2BBCreature — Demon Flying, trample When Mindwrack Demon enters the battlefield, mill four cards. Delirium — At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 4 life unless there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard. 4/5
Vraska's Scorn 2BBSorcery Target opponent loses 4 life. You may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Vraska, Scheming Gorgon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
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