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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
Chandra, Flamecaller 4RRLegendary Planeswalker — Chandra [+1]: Create two 3/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step. [0]: Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards plus one. [−X]: Chandra, Flamecaller deals X damage to each creature. Loyalty 4
Fungal Behemoth 3GCreature — Fungus Fungal Behemoth's power and toughness are each equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on creatures you control. Suspend X—{X}{G}{G}. X can't be 0. (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {X}{G}{G} and exile it with X time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.) Whenever a time counter is removed from Fungal Behemoth while it's exiled, you may put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. */*
Torrent of Fire 3RRSorcery Torrent of Fire deals damage to any target equal to the highest mana value among permanents you control.
Law-Rune Enforcer WCreature — Human Soldier {1}, {T}: Tap target creature with mana value 2 or greater. 1/2
Aluren 2GGEnchantment Any player may cast creature spells with mana value 3 or less without paying their mana costs and as though they had flash.
Runechanter's Pike 2Artifact — Equipment Equipped creature has first strike and gets +X/+0, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Equip {2}
Forsaken Wastes 2BWorld Enchantment Players can't gain life. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life. Whenever Forsaken Wastes becomes the target of a spell, that spell's controller loses 5 life.
Alexander Clamilton 2ULegendary Creature — Clamfolk Advisor Rebel Whenever you cast a wordy spell, scry 2. (A spell is wordy if it has four or more lines of rules text.) {1}{R}, {T}: Choose target creature you don't control. Reveal the top card of your library. Alexander Clamilton gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of lines of rules text of the revealed card. Alexander Clamilton fights that creature. 0/4
Quarum Trench Gnomes 3RCreature — Gnome {T}: If target Plains is tapped for mana, it produces colorless mana instead of white mana. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) 1/1
Wake the Dead XBBInstant Cast this spell only during combat on an opponent's turn. Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice those creatures at the beginning of the next end step.
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