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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

The Ruinous Powers

2BR · Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose an opponent at random. Exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may play that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it. When you cast a spell this way, its owner loses life equal to its mana value.

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NameManaTypeText
Kaya, Orzhov Usurper 1WBLegendary Planeswalker — Kaya [+1]: Exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard. You gain 2 life if at least one creature card was exiled this way. [−1]: Exile target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less. [−5]: Kaya, Orzhov Usurper deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards that player owns in exile and you gain that much life. Loyalty 3
Exsanguinate XBBSorcery Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
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Wildcall XGGSorcery Manifest the top card of your library, then put X +1/+1 counters on it. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Loxodon Peacekeeper 1WCreature — Elephant Soldier At the beginning of your upkeep, the player with the lowest life total gains control of Loxodon Peacekeeper. If two or more players are tied for lowest life total, you choose one of them, and that player gains control of Loxodon Peacekeeper. 4/4
Deathbonnet Hulk Creature — Fungus Horror At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile a card from a graveyard. If a creature card was exiled this way, put a +1/+1 counter on Deathbonnet Hulk. 3/3
Atzocan Seer 1GWCreature — Human Druid {T}: Add one mana of any color. Sacrifice Atzocan Seer: Return target Dinosaur card from your graveyard to your hand. 2/3
Sentry Oak 4WCreature — Treefolk Warrior Defender At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may clash with an opponent. If you win, Sentry Oak gets +2/+0 and loses defender until end of turn. (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.) 3/5
Choice of Damnations 5BSorcery — Arcane Target opponent chooses a number. You may have that player lose that much life. If you don't, that player sacrifices all but that many permanents.
Goblin Dark-Dwellers 3RRCreature — Goblin Menace When Goblin Dark-Dwellers enters the battlefield, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. 4/4
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