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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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NameManaTypeText
Scrying Sheets Snow Land {T}: Add {C}. {1}{S}, {T}: Look at the top card of your library. If that card is snow, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)
Talent of the Telepath 2UUSorcery Target opponent reveals the top seven cards of their library. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Then that player puts the rest into their graveyard. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, you may cast up to two instant and/or sorcery spells from among the revealed cards instead of one.
Write into Being 2USorcery Look at the top two cards of your library. Manifest one of those cards, then put the other on the top or bottom of your library. (To manifest a card, 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.)
Sanity Grinding UUUSorcery Chroma — Reveal the top ten cards of your library. For each blue mana symbol in the mana costs of the revealed cards, target opponent mills a card. Then put the cards you revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.
Sage of Days 2UCreature — Human Wizard When Sage of Days enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library. You may put one of those cards back on top of your library. Put the rest into your graveyard. 3/2
S.N.E.A.K. Dispatcher 1UCreature — Human Spy {2}{U}, {T}: Look at the top card of target player's library. If it has an Agents of S.N.E.A.K. watermark, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. Otherwise, put it on the top or bottom of its owner's library. 2/1
Etali, Primal Storm 4RRLegendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur Whenever Etali, Primal Storm attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs. 6/6
A-Demon's Due 3BInstant Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 2 life.
Bitter Revelation 3BSorcery Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 2 life.
Misleading Motes 3UInstant Target creature's owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library.
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