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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
Drown in Dreams X2UInstant Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both. • Target player draws X cards. • Target player mills twice X cards.
Ghoulcaller's Harvest BGSorcery Create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens with decayed, where X is half the number of creature cards in your graveyard, rounded up. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.) Flashback {3}{B}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Morbid Bloom 4BGSorcery Exile target creature card from a graveyard, then create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is the exiled card's toughness.
Underdark Rift Land {T}: Add {C}. {5}, {T}, Exile Underdark Rift: Roll a d10. Put target artifact, creature, or planeswalker into its owner's library just beneath the top X cards of that library, where X is the result. Activate only as a sorcery.
Better Offer XUSorcery Put a random creature card with mana value X or less from target opponent's library onto the battlefield under your control. It perpetually has base power and toughness X/X and perpetually gains ward {1}.
Mishra's Command XRSorcery Choose two — • Choose target player. They may discard up to X cards. Then they draw a card for each card discarded this way. • This spell deals X damage to target creature. • This spell deals X damage to target planeswalker. • Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.
Nantuko Shrine 1GGEnchantment Whenever a player casts a spell, that player creates X 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens, where X is the number of cards in all graveyards with the same name as that spell.
A-Thornmantle Striker 3BCreature — Elf Rogue When Thornmantle Striker enters the battlefield, choose one — • Remove X counters from target permanent, where X is the number of Elves you control. • Target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Elves you control. 4/3
Pest Infestation XXGSorcery Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."
Descent into Madness 3BBEnchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, put a despair counter on Descent into Madness, then each player exiles X permanents they control and/or cards from their hand, where X is the number of despair counters on Descent into Madness.
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