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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Shining Shoal

XWW · Instant — Arcane

You may exile a white card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. The next X damage that a source of your choice would deal to you and/or creatures you control this turn is dealt to any target instead.

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Magma Pummeler XRRCreature — Elemental Magma Pummeler enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. If damage would be dealt to Magma Pummeler while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove that many +1/+1 counters from it. When one or more counters are removed from Magma Pummeler this way, it deals that much damage to any target. 0/0
Rathi Assassin 2BBCreature — Phyrexian Zombie Mercenary Assassin {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Destroy target tapped nonblack creature. {3}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. 2/2
Wondrous Crucible 7Artifact Permanents you control have ward {2}. At the beginning of your end step, mill two cards, then exile a nonland card at random from your graveyard. Copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
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Auriok Steelshaper 1WCreature — Human Soldier Equip costs you pay cost {1} less. As long as Auriok Steelshaper is equipped, each creature you control that's a Soldier or a Knight gets +1/+1. 1/1
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Stronghold Arena 1BEnchantment Kicker {G} and/or {W} (You may pay an additional {G} and/or {W} as you cast this spell.) When Stronghold Arena enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life for each time it was kicked. Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, you may reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. If you do, you lose life equal to its mana value.
Cabal Shrine 1BBEnchantment Whenever a player casts a spell, that player discards X cards, where X is the number of cards in all graveyards with the same name as that spell.
Quicksilver Elemental 3UUCreature — Elemental {U}: Quicksilver Elemental gains all activated abilities of target creature until end of turn. (If any of the abilities use that creature's name, use this creature's name instead.) You may spend blue mana as though it were mana of any color to pay the activation costs of Quicksilver Elemental's abilities. 3/4
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