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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Distract the Hydra

· Sorcery

Each player may sacrifice a creature. Each player who sacrificed a creature this way chooses a Head and taps it. Each player who didn't sacrifice a creature loses 3 life.

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NameManaTypeText
Blessed Alliance 1WInstant Escalate {2} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.) Choose one or more — • Target player gains 4 life. • Untap up to two target creatures. • Target opponent sacrifices an attacking creature.
Misfortune 1BRGSorcery An opponent chooses one — • You put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and gain 4 life. • You put a -1/-1 counter on each creature that player controls and Misfortune deals 4 damage to that player.
The Motherlode, Excavator 3RRLegendary Artifact Creature — Robot When The Motherlode, Excavator enters the battlefield, choose target opponent. You get an amount of {E} (energy counters) equal to the number of nonbasic lands that player controls. Whenever The Motherlode attacks, you may pay {E}{E}{E}{E}. When you do, destroy target nonbasic land defending player controls, and creatures that player controls without flying can't block this turn. 5/5
Life Burst 1WInstant Target player gains 4 life, then gains 4 life for each card named Life Burst in each graveyard.
High Tide UInstant Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.
Curse of Chaos 2REnchantment — Aura Curse Enchant player Whenever a player attacks enchanted player with one or more creatures, that attacking player may discard a card. If the player does, they draw a card.
Phyrexian Unlife 2WEnchantment You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. As long as you have 0 or less life, all damage is dealt to you as though its source had infect. (Damage is dealt to you in the form of poison counters.)
Wretched Confluence 3BBInstant Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Target player draws a card and loses 1 life. • Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Emrakul's Evangel 2GCreature — Human Horror {T}, Sacrifice Emrakul's Evangel and any number of other non-Eldrazi creatures: Create a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token for each creature sacrificed this way. 3/2
Skyfisher Spider 2BGCreature — Spider Reach When Skyfisher Spider enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target nonland permanent. When Skyfisher Spider dies, you may gain 1 life for each creature card in your graveyard. If you do, exile Skyfisher Spider from your graveyard. 3/3
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