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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Shining Shoal

XWW · Instant — Arcane

You may exile a white card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. The next X damage that a source of your choice would deal to you and/or creatures you control this turn is dealt to any target instead.

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