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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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Commune with Lava XRRInstant Exile the top X cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.
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Novice Occultist 1BCreature — Human Wizard When Novice Occultist dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. 1/2
Phyrexian Rebirth 4WWSorcery Destroy all creatures, then create an X/X colorless Phyrexian Horror artifact creature token, where X is the number of creatures destroyed this way.
Phyrexian Unlife 2WEnchantment You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. As long as you have 0 or less life, all damage is dealt to you as though its source had infect. (Damage is dealt to you in the form of poison counters.)
Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator 3BBLegendary Planeswalker — Ashiok If you would pay life while your library has at least that many cards in it, exile that many cards from the top of your library instead. [+1]: Look at the top two cards of your library. Exile one of them and put the other into your hand. [−2]: Create two 1/1 black Nightmare creature tokens with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, if a card was put into exile this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." [−7]: Target player exiles the top X cards of their library, where X is the total mana value of cards you own in exile. Loyalty 5
Seek WBInstant Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it. You gain life equal to its mana value. Then that player shuffles.
Erratic Mutation 2UInstant Choose target creature. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. That creature gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is that card's mana value. Put all cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.
The War in Heaven 3BBBEnchantment — Saga (As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — You draw three cards and you lose 3 life. II — Mill three cards. III — Choose up to three target creature cards with total mana value 8 or less in your graveyard. Return each of them to the battlefield with a necrodermis counter on it. They're artifacts in addition to their other types.
Sudden Demise XRSorcery Choose a color. Sudden Demise deals X damage to each creature of the chosen color.
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