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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
Mistvein Borderpost 1UBArtifact You may pay {1} and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Mistvein Borderpost enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.
Veinfire Borderpost 1BRArtifact You may pay {1} and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Veinfire Borderpost enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.
Wildfield Borderpost 1GWArtifact You may pay {1} and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Wildfield Borderpost enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 4B/PB/PB/PLegendary Creature — Phyrexian Horror Minion ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Lifelink For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana. Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth. 2/2
Cruel Deceiver 1BCreature — Spirit {1}: Look at the top card of your library. {2}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, Cruel Deceiver gains "Whenever Cruel Deceiver deals damage to a creature, destroy that creature" until end of turn. Activate only once each turn. 2/1
Commandeer 5UUInstant You may exile two blue cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker, the permanent enters the battlefield under your control.)
Wu Spy 1UCreature — Human Soldier Rogue When Wu Spy enters the battlefield, look at the top two cards of target player's library. Put one of them into their graveyard. 1/1
Paradigm Shift 1USorcery Exile all cards from your library. Then shuffle your graveyard into your library.
Desperate Research 1BSorcery Choose a card name other than a basic land card name. Reveal the top seven cards of your library and put all of them with that name into your hand. Exile the rest.
Saheeli's Silverwing 4Artifact Creature — Drake Flying When Saheeli's Silverwing enters the battlefield, look at the top card of target opponent's library. 2/3
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