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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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Fanatical Offering 1BInstant As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")
Kayla's Command 1WWSorcery Choose two — • Create a 2/2 colorless Construct artifact creature token. • Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control. It gains double strike until end of turn. • Search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. • You gain 2 life and scry 2.
Fallaji Wayfarer 2GCreature — Human Scout Fallaji Wayfarer is all colors. This ability doesn't affect its color identity. (It can be in any deck whose commander's color identity includes green.) Multicolored spells you cast have convoke. (Your creatures can help cast those spells. Each creature you tap while casting a multicolored spell pays for {1} or one mana of a color that creature is.) 2/4
Tectonic Rift 3RSorcery Destroy target land. Creatures without flying can't block this turn.
Ricochet REnchantment Whenever a player casts a spell that targets a single player, each player rolls a six-sided die. Change the target of that spell to the player with the lowest result. Reroll to break ties, if necessary.
Surprise Party 2WEnchantment When Surprise Party enters the battlefield, yell "Surprise!" and put onto the battlefield any number of printed Clown Robot tokens that aren't touching each other, that you hid on the battlefield before you cast Surprise Party, and that weren't spotted by an opponent before you cast Surprise Party. Robots you control get +1/+0 and have vigilance.
Veiled Apparition 1UEnchantment When an opponent casts a spell, if Veiled Apparition is an enchantment, Veiled Apparition becomes a 3/3 Illusion creature with flying and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Veiled Apparition unless you pay {1}{U}."
Golgari Brownscale 1GGCreature — Lizard When Golgari Brownscale is put into your hand from your graveyard, you gain 2 life. Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.) 2/3
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Natural Emergence 2RGEnchantment When Natural Emergence enters the battlefield, return a red or green enchantment you control to its owner's hand. Lands you control are 2/2 creatures with first strike. They're still lands.
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