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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Sudden Setback

2UU · Instant

The owner of target spell or nonland permanent puts it on the top or bottom of their library.

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Nefarious Imp 2BCreature — Imp Flying Whenever one or more permanents you control leave the battlefield, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.) 2/1
Soldevi Excavations Land If Soldevi Excavations would enter the battlefield, sacrifice an untapped Island instead. If you do, put Soldevi Excavations onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. {T}: Add {C}{U}. {1}, {T}: Scry 1.
Brainstealer Dragon 5BBCreature — Dragon Horror Flying At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of each opponent's library. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it. Whenever a nonland permanent an opponent owns enters the battlefield under your control, they lose life equal to its mana value. 6/6
Research the Deep 1USorcery Draw a card. Clash with an opponent. If you win, return Research the Deep to its owner's hand. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.)
Sarevok's Tome 4Artifact When Sarevok's Tome enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. {T}: Add {C}. If you have the initiative, add {C}{C} instead. {3}, {T}: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if you've completed a dungeon.
Trove Warden 2WWCreature — Cat Beast Vigilance Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, exile target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. When Trove Warden dies, put each permanent card exiled with it onto the battlefield under the control of that card's owner. 3/4
Curse of the Cabal 9BSorcery Target player sacrifices half the permanents they control, rounded down. Suspend 2—{2}{B}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{B}{B} and exile it with two 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.) At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if Curse of the Cabal is suspended, that player may sacrifice a permanent. If the player does, put two time counters on Curse of the Cabal.
Ral Zarek 2URLegendary Planeswalker — Ral [+1]: Tap target permanent, then untap another target permanent. [−2]: Ral Zarek deals 3 damage to any target. [−7]: Flip five coins. Take an extra turn after this one for each coin that comes up heads. Loyalty 4
Hollowhenge Huntmaster Creature — Werewolf Hexproof Other permanents you control have hexproof. At the beginning of combat on your turn, put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control. Nightbound (If a player casts at least two spells during their own turn, it becomes day next turn.) 6/6
Selective Memory 3USorcery Search your library for any number of nonland cards, exile them, then shuffle.
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