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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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Scattering Stroke 2UUInstant Counter target spell. Clash with an opponent. If you win, at the beginning of your next main phase, you may add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value. (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.)
Palantír of Orthanc 3Legendary Artifact At the beginning of your end step, put an influence counter on Palantír of Orthanc and scry 2. Then target opponent may have you draw a card. If that player doesn't, you mill X cards, where X is the number of influence counters on Palantír of Orthanc, and that player loses life equal to the total mana value of those cards.
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Lurking Spinecrawler 3BCreature — Horror When Lurking Spinecrawler enters the battlefield, you may choose a nonland card in your hand. If you do, that card perpetually incorporates {1}{B} and gains "When you cast this spell, each opponent sacrifices a creature. Each opponent who can't discards a card." Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, for each of that spell's colors, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. 5/4
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