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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

The Countdown Is at One

3RR · Sorcery

Players play a Magic subgame, starting at 1 life and using their libraries as their decks. For the rest of the main game, if a source would deal damage to a player who didn't win the subgame, it deals double that damage to that player instead.

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Last Stand WUBRGSorcery Target opponent loses 2 life for each Swamp you control. Last Stand deals damage to target creature equal to the number of Mountains you control. Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each Forest you control. You gain 2 life for each Plains you control. Draw a card for each Island you control, then discard that many cards.
Doomsday Specter 2UBCreature — Specter Flying When Doomsday Specter enters the battlefield, return a blue or black creature you control to its owner's hand. Whenever Doomsday Specter deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand and choose a card from it. The player discards that card. 2/3
Cackling Flames 3RInstant Cackling Flames deals 3 damage to any target. Hellbent — Cackling Flames deals 5 damage instead if you have no cards in hand.
Capricious Sliver 3RCreature — Sliver Sliver creatures you control have "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn." 3/3
Alhammarret's Archive 5Legendary Artifact If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.
Skullcrack 1RInstant Players can't gain life this turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn. Skullcrack deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.
Balduvian Berserker 2RCreature — Kor Berserker Enlist (As this creature attacks, you may tap a nonattacking creature you control without summoning sickness. When you do, add its power to this creature's until end of turn.) When Balduvian Berserker dies, it deals damage equal to its power to any target. 1/3
Simulacrum 1BInstant You gain life equal to the damage dealt to you this turn. Simulacrum deals damage to target creature you control equal to the damage dealt to you this turn.
Research Thief 4UArtifact Creature — Moonfolk Wizard Flash Flying Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. 3/3
Illusionary Mask 2Artifact {X}: You may choose a creature card in your hand whose mana cost could be paid by some amount of, or all of, the mana you spent on {X}. If you do, you may cast that card face down as a 2/2 creature spell without paying its mana cost. If the creature that spell becomes as it resolves has not been turned face up and would assign or deal damage, be dealt damage, or become tapped, instead it's turned face up and assigns or deals damage, is dealt damage, or becomes tapped. Activate only as a sorcery.
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