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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

The Animus

2 · Legendary Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target legendary creature card from a graveyard with a memory counter on it. {T}: Until your next turn, target legendary creature you control becomes a copy of target creature card in exile with a memory counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery.

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NameManaTypeText
Lazav, Wearer of Faces UBLegendary Creature — Shapeshifter Detective Whenever Lazav, Wearer of Faces attacks, exile target card from a graveyard, then investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, you may have Lazav become a copy of a creature card exiled with it until end of turn. 2/3
Patchwork Crawler 1UCreature — Zombie Horror {2}{U}: Exile target creature card from your graveyard and put a +1/+1 counter on Patchwork Crawler. Patchwork Crawler has all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with it. 1/2
Goryo's Vengeance 1BInstant — Arcane Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. Splice onto Arcane {2}{B} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)
Mimic Vat 3Artifact Imprint — Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile that card. If you do, return each other card exiled with Mimic Vat to its owner's graveyard. {3}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of a card exiled with Mimic Vat. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Lazav, Familiar Stranger 1UBLegendary Creature — Shapeshifter Whenever you commit a crime, put a +1/+1 counter on Lazav, Familiar Stranger. Then you may exile a card from a graveyard. If a creature card was exiled this way, you may have Lazav become a copy of that card until end of turn. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) 1/4
Volrath, the Shapestealer 2BGULegendary Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature. {1}: Until your next turn, Volrath, the Shapestealer becomes a copy of target creature with a counter on it, except it's 7/5 and it has this ability. 7/5
Gut, Brutal Fanatic 4BRRLegendary Creature — Goblin Shaman When this creature specializes, create a token that's a copy of a creature card exiled with this creature, except it's 4/4 and has menace and haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of your next end step. 5/4
Retrieve 2GSorcery Return up to one target creature card and up to one target noncreature permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Retrieve.
Conjurer's Closet 5Artifact At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.
Arcane Artisan 2UCreature — Human Wizard {2}{U}, {T}: Target player draws a card, then exiles a card from their hand. If a creature card is exiled this way, that player creates a token that's a copy of that card. When Arcane Artisan leaves the battlefield, exile all tokens created with it at the beginning of the next end step. 0/3
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