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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

For the Ancestors

2G · Instant

Choose a creature type. Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal any number of cards of the chosen type from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Flashback {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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Tidehollow Sculler WBArtifact Creature — Zombie When Tidehollow Sculler enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card. When Tidehollow Sculler leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand. 2/2
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Scuttling Sentinel 1G/UG/UCreature — Crab Elf Flash Vigilance When Scuttling Sentinel enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control. Until end of turn, that creature becomes a blue Crab in addition to its other types and gains hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) 3/2
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