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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Hour of Need

2U · Instant

Strive — This spell costs {1}{U} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Exile any number of target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 4/4 blue Sphinx creature token with flying.

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