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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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Audacious Swap 3RInstant Casualty 2 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy this spell and you may choose a new target for the copy.) The owner of target nonenchantment permanent shuffles it into their library, then exiles the top card of their library. If it's a land card, they put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, they may cast it without paying its mana cost.
Vivien, Monsters' Advocate 3GGLegendary Planeswalker — Vivien You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast creature spells from the top of your library. [+1]: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Put your choice of a vigilance counter, a reach counter, or a trample counter on it. [−2]: When you next cast a creature spell this turn, search your library for a creature card with lesser mana value, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Loyalty 3
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The Flux 2RREnchantment — Saga (As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after VI.) I — The Flux deals 4 damage to target creature an opponent controls. II, III, IV, V — Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. VI — Add six {R}.
The Parting of the Ways 4RREnchantment — Saga (As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Exile the top five cards of your library. For each nonland card exiled this way, put a number of time counters on that card equal to its mana value. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. II — Time travel, then time travel. III — For each opponent, destroy up to one target artifact that player controls.
Commander Liara Portyr 3RWLegendary Creature — Human Soldier Whenever you attack, spells you cast from exile this turn cost {X} less to cast, where X is the number of players being attacked. Exile the top X cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among those exiled cards. 5/3
Cryptolith Fragment 3Artifact Cryptolith Fragment enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Each player loses 1 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, if each player has 10 or less life, transform Cryptolith Fragment.
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