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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Stymied Hopes

1U · Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

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Brighthearth Banneret 1RCreature — Elemental Warrior Elemental spells and Warrior spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Reinforce 1—{1}{R} ({1}{R}, Discard this card: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.) 1/1
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Thunder-Thrash Elder 2RCreature — Viashino Warrior Devour 3 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with three times that many +1/+1 counters on it.) 1/1
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Subversive Acolyte 1BCreature — Human {2}, Pay 2 life: Choose one. Activate only once. • Subversive Acolyte becomes a Human Cleric. It gets +1/+1 and gains lifelink. • Subversive Acolyte becomes a Phyrexian. It gets +3/+2 and gains trample and "Whenever this creature is dealt damage, sacrifice that many permanents." 2/3
Shambling Swarm 1BBBCreature — Horror When Shambling Swarm dies, distribute three -1/-1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures. For each -1/-1 counter you put on a creature this way, remove a -1/-1 counter from that creature at the beginning of the next end step. 3/3
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Solemnity 2WEnchantment Players can't get counters. Counters can't be put on artifacts, creatures, enchantments, or lands.
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