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17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Unexplained Absence

3W · Instant

For each player, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls. For each permanent exiled this way, its controller cloaks the top card of their library. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

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Thought-String Analyst UBCreature — Human Wizard At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of target opponent's library face down. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may look at and play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell. 2/2
Ethereal Ambush 3GUInstant Manifest the top two cards of your library. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
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Demonic Bargain 2BSorcery Exile the top thirteen cards of your library, then search your library for a card. Put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Cranial Archive 2Artifact {2}, Exile Cranial Archive: Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library. Draw a card.
Indestructibility 3WEnchantment — Aura Enchant permanent Enchanted permanent has indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy that permanent. A creature with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)
Temporal Distortion 3UUEnchantment Whenever a creature or land becomes tapped, put an hourglass counter on it. Each permanent with an hourglass counter on it doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, remove all hourglass counters from permanents that player controls.
Lobelia, Defender of Bag End 2BLegendary Creature — Halfling Citizen When Lobelia enters the battlefield, look at the top card of each opponent's library and exile those cards face down. {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Choose one — • Until end of turn, you may play a card exiled with Lobelia without paying its mana cost. • Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. 2/2
Commander Liara Portyr 3RWLegendary Creature — Human Soldier Whenever you attack, spells you cast from exile this turn cost {X} less to cast, where X is the number of players being attacked. Exile the top X cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among those exiled cards. 5/3
Helvault 3Legendary Artifact {1}, {T}: Exile target creature you control. {7}, {T}: Exile target creature you don't control. When Helvault is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners' control.
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