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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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Veiled Ascension 3WEnchantment When Veiled Ascension enters the battlefield, put a flying counter on each face-down creature you control. Face-down creatures you control enter the battlefield with a flying counter on them. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may cloak the top card of your library.
Midnight Ritual X2BSorcery Exile X target creature cards from your graveyard. For each creature card exiled this way, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
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Hallowed Respite WUSorcery Exile target nonlegendary creature, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. If it entered under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Otherwise, tap it. Flashback {1}{W}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Descendants' Fury 3REnchantment Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice one of them. If you do, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card that shares a creature type with the sacrificed creature. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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Pheres-Band Brawler 4GGCreature — Centaur Warrior When Pheres-Band Brawler enters the battlefield, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.) 4/4
Undercity Informer 2BCreature — Human Rogue {1}, Sacrifice a creature: Target player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard. 2/3
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