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Confiscation Coup (Kaladesh #41)

Confiscation Coup {3}{U}{U}

Sorcery

Choose target artifact or creature. You get {E}{E}{E}{E} (four energy counters), then you may pay an amount of {E} equal to that permanent’s mana value. If you do, gain control of it.

“Citizens, do not resist. This is for your safety. Tezzeret bids you to surrender your inventions. Now.”

Watermark: Planeswalker

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Illustrated by Joseph Meehan

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Consulate Crackdown (Aether Revolt #11)

Consulate Crackdown {3}{W}{W}

Enchantment

When Consulate Crackdown enters the battlefield, exile all artifacts your opponents control until Consulate Crackdown leaves the battlefield.

“The workshops are silent. Our creations have been seized. They have killed what made us alive.”
—Pia Nalaar

Watermark: Planeswalker

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Illustrated by Jonas De Ro

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Convenient Target (Murders at Karlov Manor #119)

Convenient Target {R}

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

When Convenient Target enters the battlefield, suspect enchanted creature. (It has menace and can’t block.)

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

{2}{R}: Return Convenient Target from your graveyard to your hand.

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Illustrated by Gaboleps

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Corrupt (The Brothers' War #88)

Corrupt {5}{B}

Sorcery

Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

“Most wise, most thoughtful, most powerful qadir,” said the Gixian, “we offer whatever help we may give in your illustrious name.”

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Illustrated by Julie Dillon

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Corrupted Conviction (March of the Machine #98)

Corrupted Conviction {B}

Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.

Draw two cards.

“For the good of all, those who stand against the harmony of Phyrexia must be cut down.”
—Ajani Goldmane

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Illustrated by Joseph Weston

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Crackle with Power (Strixhaven: School of Mages #95)

Crackle with Power {X}{X}{X}{R}{R}

Sorcery

Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.

Will gasped as Rowan drew from the raw power of the Strixhaven Snarl. For a moment, she was luminous, transcendent, terrible.

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Illustrated by Micah Epstein

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Cruel Reality (Amonkhet #84)

Cruel Reality {5}{B}{B}

Enchantment — Aura Curse

Enchant player

At the beginning of enchanted player’s upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. If the player can’t, they lose 5 life.

As Gideon watched the initiate murder his crop-mate, his admiration of the city of Naktamun gave way to horror.

Watermark: Planeswalker

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Illustrated by Kieran Yanner

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Culmination of Studies (Strixhaven: School of Mages #173)

Culmination of Studies {X}{U}{R}

Sorcery

Exile the top X cards of your library. For each land card exiled this way, create a Treasure token. For each blue card exiled this way, draw a card. For each red card exiled this way, Culmination of Studies deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Will’s quick thinking meshed with Rowan’s raw power to bring down the Blood Avatar.

Watermark: Prismari

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Illustrated by Bryan Sola

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Daring Escape (Streets of New Capenna #104)

Daring Escape {R}

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Scry 1.

As the Adversary’s forces descended upon the gala, Elspeth whispered to Giada, “I can get you out of here, but we have to go now.”

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Illustrated by Ekaterina Burmak

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Dark Intimations (Aether Revolt #128)

Dark Intimations {2}{U}{B}{R}

Sorcery

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker, then discards a card. You return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand, then draw a card.

When you cast a Bolas planeswalker spell, exile Dark Intimations from your graveyard. That planeswalker enters the battlefield with an additional loyalty counter on it.

Watermark: Planeswalker

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Illustrated by Chase Stone

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Dawnhart Wardens (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt #216)

Dawnhart Wardens {1}{G}{W}

Creature — Human Warlock

Vigilance

Coven — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control three or more creatures with different powers, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

“The balance of day and night is shattered. We must find the Moonsilver Key.”

3/3

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Illustrated by Joshua Raphael

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Deadlock Trap (Kaladesh #204)

Deadlock Trap {3}

Artifact

Deadlock Trap enters the battlefield tapped.

When Deadlock Trap enters the battlefield, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters).

{T}, Pay {E}: Tap target creature or planeswalker. Its activated abilities can’t be activated this turn.

Watermark: Planeswalker

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Illustrated by Jason Rainville

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Deadly Complication (Murders at Karlov Manor #195)

Deadly Complication {1}{B}{R}

Sorcery

Choose one or both —

• Destroy target creature.

• Put a +1/+1 counter on target suspected creature you control. You may have it become no longer suspected.

Teysa’s security was unrivaled. Etrata was locked up. Kaya was left with nothing but multiplying questions… and a dead friend.

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Illustrated by Jodie Muir

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Deduce (Murders at Karlov Manor #52)

Deduce {1}{U}

Instant

Draw a card. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It’s an artifact with “{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”)

Proft lit up like a man who had just been handed a glorious and unexpected gift. “I know who’s responsible for this,” he said. “And I can prove it.”

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Illustrated by Quintin Gleim

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Defend the Campus (Strixhaven: School of Mages #12)

Defend the Campus {3}{W}

Instant

Choose one —

• Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

• Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.

Professors scrambled to push the mage hunters back, leaving the heart of Strixhaven undefended.

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Illustrated by Izzy

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Defend the Celestus (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt #182)

Defend the Celestus {2}{G}{G}

Instant

Distribute three +1/+1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures you control.

Witch, werewolf, and cathar stood shoulder to shoulder around the Sungold Lock at the center of the ritual, ready to stop Tovolar’s assault—or die trying.

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Illustrated by Andrey Kuzinskiy

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Deliver Unto Evil (War of the Spark #85)

Deliver Unto Evil {2}{B}

Sorcery

Choose up to four target cards in your graveyard. If you control a Bolas planeswalker, return those cards to your hand. Otherwise, an opponent chooses two of them. Leave the chosen cards in your graveyard and put the rest into your hand.

Exile Deliver Unto Evil.

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Illustrated by Seb McKinnon

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Demand Answers (Murders at Karlov Manor #122)

Demand Answers {1}{R}

Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or discard a card.

Draw two cards.

After the attempt on Aurelia’s life, she gave the Agency an ultimatum: solve the case in twenty-four hours, or the Boros Legion would declare war on the Cult of Rakdos.

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Illustrated by Justyna Dura

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Despark (War of the Spark #190)

Despark {W}{B}

Instant

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Liliana whispered to whatever consciousness Oketra and Bontu had left. “You are the gods. He is the usurper. You know what to do.”

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Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak

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Desynchronize (The Brothers' War #46)

Desynchronize {4}{U}

Instant

Target nonland permanent’s owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library. Scry 2.

Before Kaya could pull Teferi’s spirit back, the overloaded temporal anchor failed, and he was set adrift in the currents of time.

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Illustrated by Rovina Cai

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