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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
Hurl into History 3UUInstant Counter target artifact or creature spell. Discover X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Academy Loremaster UUCreature — Human Wizard At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player may draw an additional card. If they do, spells they cast this turn cost {2} more to cast. 2/3
Jon Irenicus, the Exile 2UBLegendary Creature — Elf Wizard At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if your library has more cards in it than target opponent's library. Otherwise, each opponent mills five cards. 3/5
Araumi of the Dead Tide 1UBLegendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard {T}, Exile cards from your graveyard equal to the number of opponents you have: Target creature card in your graveyard gains encore until end of turn. The encore cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile the creature card and pay its mana cost: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.) 1/4
Screamer-Killer 4RCreature — Tyranid Trample Bio-Plasmic Scream — Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 5 or greater, Screamer-Killer deals 5 damage to any target. 5/5
Invasion of Pyrulea GUBattle — Siege (As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.) When Invasion of Pyrulea enters the battlefield, scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land or double-faced card, draw a card.
Wagon Wrecker 1RCreature — Ogre Mercenary Menace Whenever Wagon Wrecker deals combat damage to a player, a random nonland card in that player's hand perpetually gains "When you cast this spell, you lose 2 life." 2/1
Check for Traps 1BSorcery Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card. If an instant card or a card with flash is exiled this way, they lose 1 life. Otherwise, you lose 1 life.
Ascend from Avernus XWWWSorcery Return all creature and planeswalker cards with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile Ascend from Avernus.
Moonveil Regent 3RCreature — Dragon Flying Whenever you cast a spell, you may discard your hand. If you do, draw a card for each of that spell's colors. When Moonveil Regent dies, it deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of colors among permanents you control. 4/4
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