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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Stinging Study

4B · Instant

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

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NameManaTypeText
Promise of Power 2BBBSorcery Choose one — • You draw five cards and you lose 5 life. • Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand. Entwine {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Steel Hellkite 6Artifact Creature — Dragon Flying {2}: Steel Hellkite gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by Steel Hellkite this turn. Activate only once each turn. 5/5
Path of Peril 1BBSorcery Cleave {4}{W}{B} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Destroy all creatures [with mana value 2 or less].
Shark Typhoon 5UEnchantment Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's mana value. Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle Shark Typhoon, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.
Profane Insight 2BInstant — Adventure You draw a card and you lose 1 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
Dread Whispers 1BSorcery — Adventure You draw a card and you lose 1 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
Sphinx of Clear Skies 3UUCreature — Sphinx Flying, ward {2} Domain — Whenever Sphinx of Clear Skies deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. (Piles can be empty.) 5/5
Necro-Impotence BBBEnchantment Skip your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay X life. If you do, untap X permanents. Pay ½ life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of the next end step.
Grove's Bounty XGSorcery — Adventure Distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
Arachnogenesis 2GInstant Create X 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach, where X is the number of creatures attacking you. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by non-Spider creatures.
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