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4U · Enchantment
When Search the City enters the battlefield, exile the top five cards of your library. Whenever you play a card with the same name as one of the exiled cards, you may put one of those cards with that name into its owner's hand. Then if there are no cards exiled with Search the City, sacrifice it. If you do, take an extra turn after this one.
| Name | Mana | Type | Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tainted Pact | 1B | Instant | Exile the top card of your library. You may put that card into your hand unless it has the same name as another card exiled this way. Repeat this process until you put a card into your hand or you exile two cards with the same name, whichever comes first. |
| Jester's Scepter | 3 | Artifact | When Jester's Scepter enters the battlefield, exile the top five cards of target player's library face down. You may look at those cards for as long as they remain exiled. {2}, {T}, Put a card exiled with Jester's Scepter into its owner's graveyard: Counter target spell if it has the same name as that card. |
| Sheoldred's Assimilator | 1B | Creature — Phyrexian Horror | Menace Whenever Sheoldred's Assimilator enters the battlefield or attacks, exile up to one target card from a graveyard. If a card is exiled this way, you may conjure a duplicate of that card into the top five cards of your library at random. 3/1 |
| Deicide | 1W | Instant | Exile target enchantment. If the exiled card is a God card, search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles. |
| Expressive Iteration | UR | Sorcery | Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn. |
| Memory Test | Artifact — Attraction | When Memory Test enters the battlefield, target opponent exiles cards from the bottom of their library until they exile five nonland cards, then turn those nonland cards face down. Visit — Name the exiled face-down cards, then look at them. If you named them correctly, turn them face up, then claim the prize! Prize — Create three 1/1 red Balloon creature tokens with flying, then sacrifice Memory Test and open an Attraction. | |
| The Stone Brain | 2 | Legendary Artifact | {2}, {T}, Exile The Stone Brain: Choose a card name. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for up to four cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way. Activate only as a sorcery. |
| The Temporal Anchor | 3UUU | Legendary Artifact | At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 2. Whenever you choose to put one or more cards on the bottom of your library while scrying, exile that many cards from the bottom of your library. During your turn, you may play cards exiled with The Temporal Anchor. |
| Desperate Research | 1B | Sorcery | 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. |
| Grimoire Thief | UU | Creature — Merfolk Rogue | Whenever Grimoire Thief becomes tapped, exile the top three cards of target opponent's library face down. You may look at cards exiled with Grimoire Thief. {U}, Sacrifice Grimoire Thief: Turn all cards exiled with Grimoire Thief face up. Counter all spells with those names. 2/2 |