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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
Feed the Swarm 1BSorcery Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Fevered Suspicion 6BRSorcery Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among those nonland cards without paying their mana costs. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Discreet Retreat 3BEnchantment — Aura Enchant land Enchanted land has "{T}: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast outlaw spells or activate abilities of outlaw sources." (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws.) Whenever you cast your first outlaw spell each turn, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Healing Technique 3GSorcery Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. Players may choose new targets for their copies.) Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. You gain life equal to that card's mana value. Exile Healing Technique.
Roilmage's Trick 3UInstant Converge — Creatures your opponents control get -X/-0 until end of turn, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell. Draw a card.
Eruth, Tormented Prophet 1URLegendary Creature — Human Wizard If you would draw a card, exile the top two cards of your library instead. You may play those cards this turn. 2/4
Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 2BRLegendary Creature — Demon Flying, trample Whenever one or more opponents each lose exactly 1 life, put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin. Exile the top card of your library. Until your next end step, you may play that card. 4/3
Oona, Queen of the Fae 3U/BU/BU/BLegendary Creature — Faerie Wizard Flying {X}{U/B}: Choose a color. Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library. For each card of the chosen color exiled this way, create a 1/1 blue and black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying. 5/5
Lurking Informant 1U/BCreature — Human Rogue ({U/B} can be paid with either {U} or {B}.) {2}, {T}: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card into that player's graveyard. 1/2
Utopia Sprawl GEnchantment — Aura Enchant Forest As Utopia Sprawl enters the battlefield, choose a color. Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of the chosen color.
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