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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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NameManaTypeText
Phantom Centaur 2GGCreature — Centaur Spirit Protection from black Phantom Centaur enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it. If damage would be dealt to Phantom Centaur, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from Phantom Centaur. 2/0
Dragon Shadow 1BEnchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When a creature with mana value 6 or greater enters the battlefield, you may return Dragon Shadow from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.
Embersmith 1RCreature — Human Artificer Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, Embersmith deals 1 damage to any target. 2/1
Siphon Insight UBInstant Look at the top two cards of target opponent's library. Exile one of them face down and put the other on the bottom of that library. You may play the exiled card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell. Flashback {1}{U}{B}
Culmination of Studies XURSorcery Exile the top X cards of your library. For each land card exiled this way, create a Treasure token. For each blue card exiled this way, draw a card. For each red card exiled this way, Culmination of Studies deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Rise of the Dread Marn 2BInstant Create X 2/2 black Zombie Berserker creature tokens, where X is the number of nontoken creatures that died this turn. Foretell {B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
M'Odo, the Gnarled Oracle BUGLegendary Creature — Zombie Elf Wizard Eminence — {X}, Discard a card: Target player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card with converted mana cost X or less. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control, then that player shuffles the rest into their library. Activate this ability only if M'Odo, the Gnarled Oracle is on the battlefield or in the command zone. 0/3
Unbreathing Horde 2BCreature — Zombie Unbreathing Horde enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie you control and each Zombie card in your graveyard. If Unbreathing Horde would be dealt damage, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from it. 0/0
Spit Flame 2RInstant Spit Flame deals 4 damage to target creature. Whenever a Dragon enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay {R}. If you do, return Spit Flame from your graveyard to your hand.
Ghostly Castigator Creature — Spirit Flying When Ghostly Castigator enters the battlefield, you may shuffle up to three target cards from your graveyard into your library. If Ghostly Castigator would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead. 3/4
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