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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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Can't Stay Away WBSorcery Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains "If this creature would die, exile it instead." Flashback {3}{W}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Their Number Is Legion XBBBBSorcery Create X tapped 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature tokens, then you gain life equal to the number of artifacts you control. Exile Their Number Is Legion. You may cast Their Number Is Legion from your graveyard.
Defiant Falcon 1WCreature — Rebel Bird Flying {4}, {T}: Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. 1/1
Appetite for Brains BSorcery Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it with mana value 4 or greater and exile that card.
Martyr of Spores GCreature — Human Shaman {1}, Reveal X green cards from your hand, Sacrifice Martyr of Spores: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn. 1/1
Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 3RWBLegendary Creature — Human Knight Vigilance, menace Whenever an equipped creature you control attacks, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Equipment you control have equip Knight {0}. 5/5
Choking Vines XGInstant Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step. X target attacking creatures become blocked. Choking Vines deals 1 damage to each of those creatures. (This spell works on creatures that can't be blocked.)
Entry Denied 1USorcery — Adventure Return target creature you don't control with mana value 3 or less to its owner's hand. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
Zhulodok, Void Gorger 5CLegendary Creature — Eldrazi Colorless spells you cast from your hand with mana value 7 or greater have "Cascade, cascade." (When you cast one, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order. Then do it again.) 7/4
Game of Chaos RRRSorcery Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 1 life and target opponent loses 1 life, and you decide whether to flip again. If you lose the flip, you lose 1 life and that opponent gains 1 life, and that player decides whether to flip again. Double the life stakes with each flip.
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