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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Forbidden Alchemy

2U · Instant

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Flashback {6}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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