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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
Biomancer's Familiar GUCreature — Mutant Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana. {T}: The next time target creature adapts this turn, it adapts as though it had no +1/+1 counters on it. 2/2
Spellgorger Weird 2RCreature — Weird Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Spellgorger Weird. 2/2
Primeval Bounty 5GEnchantment Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 3 life.
Magmatic Channeler 1RCreature — Human Wizard As long as there are four or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, Magmatic Channeler gets +3/+1. {T}, Discard a card: Exile the top two cards of your library, then choose one of them. You may play that card this turn. 1/3
Swell of Growth 1GInstant Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Haughty Djinn 1UUCreature — Djinn Flying Haughty Djinn's power is equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. */4
Ghastly Remains BBBCreature — Zombie Amplify 1 (As this creature enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each Zombie card you reveal in your hand.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if Ghastly Remains is in your graveyard, you may pay {B}{B}{B}. If you do, return Ghastly Remains to your hand. 0/0
Horizon Stone 5Artifact If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes colorless instead.
Screaming Swarm 5UCreature — Bird Horror Flying Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, target player mills that many cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.) {2}{U}: Put Screaming Swarm from your graveyard into your library second from the top. 4/4
Hall of the Bandit Lord Legendary Land Hall of the Bandit Lord enters the battlefield tapped. {T}, Pay 3 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste.
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