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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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Hide in Plain Sight 3GSorcery Look at the top five cards of your library, cloak two of them, and put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Aerialephant 3WCreature — Elephant Performer Flying When Aerialephant enters the battlefield, you get {TK}, then you may put a sticker on a nonland permanent you own. 3/2
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Devourer of Destiny 5CCCreature — Eldrazi You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of your first upkeep, look at the top four cards of your library. You may put one of those cards back on top of your library. Exile the rest. When you cast this spell, exile target permanent that's one or more colors. 6/6
Deputy of Detention 1WUCreature — Vedalken Wizard When Deputy of Detention enters the battlefield, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls and all other nonland permanents that player controls with the same name as that permanent until Deputy of Detention leaves the battlefield. 1/3
Displacer Kitten 3UCreature — Cat Beast Avoidance — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. 2/2
Lim-Dûl's Vault UBInstant Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle and put the last cards you looked at this way on top in any order.
Ancestral Knowledge 1UEnchantment Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When Ancestral Knowledge enters the battlefield, look at the top ten cards of your library, then exile any number of them and put the rest back on top of your library in any order. When Ancestral Knowledge leaves the battlefield, shuffle your library.
Mercenary Informer 2WCreature — Human Rebel Mercenary Mercenary Informer can't be the target of black spells or abilities from black sources. {2}{W}: Put target nontoken Mercenary on the bottom of its owner's library. 2/1
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