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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Cephalid Shrine

1UU · Enchantment

Whenever a player casts a spell, counter that spell unless that player pays {X}, where X is the number of cards in all graveyards with the same name as the spell.

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Liege of the Hollows 2GGCreature — Spirit When Liege of the Hollows dies, each player may pay any amount of mana. Then each player creates a number of 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens equal to the amount of mana they paid this way. 3/4
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Voidstone Gargoyle 3WWCreature — Gargoyle Flying As Voidstone Gargoyle enters the battlefield, choose a nonland card name. Spells with the chosen name can't be cast. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated. 3/3
Necropolis 5Artifact Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Put X +0/+1 counters on Necropolis, where X is the exiled card's mana value. 0/1
Graywater's Fixer 2BRCreature — Lizard Mercenary Each outlaw creature card in your graveyard has encore {X}, where X is its mana value. (Exile it and pay its encore 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.) 4/4
Talon Gates Plane — Dominaria Any time you could cast a sorcery, you may exile a nonland card from your hand with X time counters on it, where X is its mana value. If the exiled card doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, the player may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.) Whenever chaos ensues, remove two time counters from each suspended card you own.
A-Mentor's Guidance 1USorcery When you cast this spell, copy it if you control a planeswalker, Cleric, Druid, Shaman, Warlock, or Wizard. Scry 1, then draw a card.
Mentor's Guidance 2USorcery When you cast this spell, copy it if you control a planeswalker, Cleric, Druid, Shaman, Warlock, or Wizard. Scry 1, then draw a card.
Cinder Pyromancer 2RCreature — Elemental Shaman {T}: Cinder Pyromancer deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. Whenever you cast a red spell, you may untap Cinder Pyromancer. 0/1
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