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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
Abundance 2GGEnchantment If you would draw a card, you may instead choose land or nonland and reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and put all other cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.
Lagoon Breach 1UInstant — Adventure The owner of target attacking creature you don't control puts it on the top or bottom of their library.
Scroll Rack 2Artifact {1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.
Aether Gust 1UInstant Choose target spell or permanent that's red or green. Its owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library.
Emergent Ultimatum BBGGGUUSorcery Search your library for up to three monocolored cards with different names and exile them. An opponent chooses one of those cards. Shuffle that card into your library. You may cast the other cards without paying their mana costs. Exile Emergent Ultimatum.
Capricious Hellraiser 3RRRCreature — Phyrexian Dragon This spell costs {3} less to cast if you have nine or more cards in your graveyard. Flying When Capricious Hellraiser enters the battlefield, exile three cards at random from your graveyard. Choose a noncreature, nonland card from among them and copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. 4/4
Calibrated Blast 2RInstant Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in a random order. When you reveal a nonland card this way, Calibrated Blast deals damage equal to that card's mana value to any target. Flashback {3}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Coral Fighters 1UCreature — Merfolk Soldier Whenever Coral Fighters attacks and isn't blocked, look at the top card of defending player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 1/1
Conspiracy Unraveler 5UUCreature — Sphinx Detective Flying You may collect evidence 10 rather than pay the mana cost for spells that you cast. (To collect evidence 10, exile cards with total mana value 10 or greater from your graveyard.) 6/6
Thief of Sanity 1UBCreature — Specter Flying Whenever Thief of Sanity deals combat damage to a player, look at the top three cards of that player's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest into their graveyard. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell. 2/2
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