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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
Criminal Past 2BLegendary Enchantment — Background Commander creatures you own have menace and "This creature gets +X/+0, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard." (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Keruga, the Macrosage 3G/UG/ULegendary Creature — Dinosaur Hippo Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with mana value 3 or greater and land cards. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) When Keruga, the Macrosage enters the battlefield, draw a card for each other permanent you control with mana value 3 or greater. 5/4
Gruesome Menagerie 3BBSorcery Choose a creature card with mana value 1 in your graveyard, then do the same for creature cards with mana value 2 and 3. Return those cards to the battlefield.
Revenge 4WBSorcery Double your life total. Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up.
Ad Nauseam 3BBInstant Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.
Wildcall XGGSorcery Manifest the top card of your library, then put X +1/+1 counters on it. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Archery Training WEnchantment — Aura Enchant creature At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put an arrow counter on Archery Training. Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals X damage to target attacking or blocking creature, where X is the number of arrow counters on Archery Training."
Rampant Rejuvenator 3GCreature — Plant Hydra Rampant Rejuvenator enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. When Rampant Rejuvenator dies, search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is Rampant Rejuvenator's power, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle. 0/0
Suffer the Past XBInstant Exile X target cards from target player's graveyard. For each card exiled this way, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Storybook Ride Artifact — Attraction Visit — Exile the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of Attractions you've visited this turn (including this one). You may play those cards this turn. At the beginning of the next end step, if any of those cards remain exiled, put them on the bottom of your library in any order.
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