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Hallowed Fountain Land — Plains Island ({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don’t, it enters tapped. Illustrated by Min Yum
Worzel, the Protector {1}{W}{W}{W} Legendary Planeswalker — Worzel 0: Create a 1/1 white Cat creature token with “{T}: Put a loyalty counter on each planeswalker you control.” −1: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a planeswalker or basic Plains card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. −8: Create ten Scryb Sprites tokens. (They’re {G} 1/1 Faerie creatures with flying.) Worzel, the Protector can be your commander. Loyalty: 4 Illustrated by Anna Steinbauer
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker {2}{R}{R}{R} Legendary Creature — Goblin Shaman Haste {T}: Create a token that’s a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control, except it has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. 2/2 Illustrated by Pete Venters
Life Finds a Way {2}{G} Enchantment Whenever a nontoken creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, populate. (Create a token that’s a copy of a creature token you control.) “Life breaks free. It expands to new territories and crashes through barriers. Painfully, maybe even dangerously. But, uh, well there it is.” —Ian Malcolm Illustrated by Inkognit
Blades of Velis Vel {1}{R} Kindred Instant — Shapeshifter Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Up to two target creatures each get +2/+0 and gain all creature types until end of turn. “The changing kind suffers as we do. We must join as one to quench our tyrants!” Illustrated by Ron Spencer
A foil copy of the Magic: the Gathering card Timesifter.
Divine Intervention {6}{W}{W} Enchantment This enchantment enters with two intervention counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an intervention counter from this enchantment. When you remove the last intervention counter from this enchantment, the game is a draw. Illustrated by Amy Weber Part of the Reserved List
Everybody Lives! {1}{W} Instant All creatures gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Players gain hexproof until end of turn. Players can’t lose life this turn and players can’t lose the game or win the game this turn. “Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once, everybody lives!” —The Ninth Doctor Illustrated by Alice Xia Zhang
Archon of Emeria {2}{W} Creature — Archon Flying Each player can’t cast more than one spell each turn. Nonbasic lands your opponents control enter tapped. “Archons dispense justice according to an ancient, and flawed, premise.” —Nissa Revane 2/3 Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast
Gilded Lotus {5} Artifact {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Illustrated by Merlin G.G
Elda, Conjurer of Spectacle {2}{G}{W} Legendary Creature — Human Wizard The first nonlegendary creature spell you cast each turn has demonstrate. (When you cast that spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. Each copy becomes a token.) “Definitely try this at home, kids!” 2/2 Illustrated by Raluca Marinescu
Maular, the Next Evolution {5}{G}{G} Legendary Creature — Dinosaur Mutant Rulebreaker — A deck with this commander can have creature cards with mana value 7 or greater of any color identity and any basic land cards. Whenever a creature you control with mana value 7 or greater attacks, double its power and toughness until end of turn. An unnatural ruler for the natural world. 10/10 Illustrated by Jesper Ejsing
Old Man Yells at Cloud
Elda, Conjurer of Spectacle 2{G}{W} Legendary Creature - Human Wizard The first nonlegendary creature spell you cast each turn has demonstrate. (When you cast that spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. Each copy becomes a token.) "Definitely try this at home, kids!" 2/2 Art by Raluca Marinescu
Awakening {2}{G}{G} Enchantment At the beginning of each upkeep, untap all creatures and lands. “There are times when destiny calls forth a people and demands an action. Now is the time. We are the people. This is our action. Charge!” —Eladamri, Lord of Leaves Illustrated by Dan Frazier
Elda, Conjurer of Spectacle 2{G}{W} Legendary Creature - Human Wizard The first nonlegendary creature spell you cast each turn has demonstrate. (When you cast that spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. Each copy becomes a token.) "Definitely try this at home, kids!" 2/2 Art by Raluca Marinescu
Gandalf, Wandering Wizard {4}{U} Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard Ward {3} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {3}.) {6}: Gandalf’s owner shuffles him into their library and draws three cards. “May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.” 4/5 Illustrated by Irvin Rodriguez
Patrolling Peacemaker {2}{W} Artifact Creature — Robot Soldier This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever an opponent commits a crime, proliferate. (They commit a crime if they target an opponent, anything an opponent controls, and/or cards in an opponent’s graveyard. To proliferate, you choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) 0/0 Illustrated by Michal Ivan
Silverquill Lecturer {4}{W} Creature — Kor Wizard Creature spells you cast have demonstrate. (Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. Each copy becomes a token.) “Did you bring enough to share with the rest of the class?” 3/3 Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast
Grip of Chaos {4}{R}{R} Enchantment Whenever a spell or ability is put onto the stack, if it has a single target, reselect its target at random. (Select from among all legal targets.) When the world is consumed by chaos, the skilled and the foolish are on equal footing. Illustrated by Mark Tedin
Fable of Wolf and Owl {3}{G/U}{G/U}{G/U} Enchantment Whenever you cast a green spell, you may create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token. Whenever you cast a blue spell, you may create a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying. The forest grew fangs. The sky spread its wings. Illustrated by Heather Hudson
Naya Hushblade {R/W}{G} Creature — Elf Rogue As long as you control another multicolored permanent, this creature gets +1/+1 and has shroud. (It can’t be the target of spells or abilities.) 2/1 Illustrated by Jason Chan
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death {2}{R} Legendary Creature — Human Warrior First strike Whenever Alesha attacks, you may pay {W/B}{W/B}. If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking. “Our history is one hand reaching out to another.” 3/2 Illustrated by Winona Nelson
Bearscape {1}{G}{G} Enchantment {1}{G}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 green Bear creature token. They built a refuge with their bear hands. Illustrated by Ricardo Bessa
Beorn the Fierce {3}{G}{G} Legendary Creature — Bear Shapeshifter Warrior Trample Other Bears you control get +2/+2. At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a trample counter on up to one target creature you control. It becomes a Bear in addition to its other types. Then if you control three or more Bears, draw two cards. 6/6 Illustrated by Nia Kovalevski
Balmor, Battlemage Captain {U}{R} Legendary Creature — Bird Wizard Flying Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain trample until end of turn. “Even the most hardened armies are ill-equipped to defend against an onslaught from the sky.” 1/3 Illustrated by Bram Sels
Knowledge Pool {6} Artifact Imprint — When this artifact enters, each player exiles the top three cards of their library. Whenever a player casts a spell from their hand, that player exiles it. If the player does, they may cast a spell from among other cards exiled with this artifact without paying its mana cost. Watermark: Mirran Illustrated by Mike Bierek
Timesifter {5} Artifact At the beginning of each upkeep, each player exiles the top card of their library. The player who exiled the card with the greatest mana value takes an extra turn after this one. If two or more players’ cards are tied for greatest, the tied players repeat this process until the tie is broken. Illustrated by Dany Orizio
Coveted Jewel {6} Artifact When this artifact enters, draw three cards. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren’t blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of this artifact. Untap it. Illustrated by Jason A. Engle
The dive loop on Banshee at Kings Island
Possibility Storm {3}{R}{R} Enchantment Whenever a player casts a spell from their hand, that player exiles it, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a card that shares a card type with it. That player may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put all cards exiled with this enchantment on the bottom of their library in a random order. Illustrated by Jason Felix
Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar {5}{U} Legendary Creature — Spirit If you would draw a card, look at the top three cards of your library instead. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. 1/5 Illustrated by Christopher Rush
Trygon Predator {1}{G}{U} Creature — Beast Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls. Held aloft by metabolized magic, trygons are ravenous for sources of mystic fuel. 2/3 Watermark: Simic Illustrated by Carl Critchlow
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Heartwood Storyteller {1}{G}{G} Creature — Treefolk Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, each of that player’s opponents may draw a card. His roots reach deep, nurtured not by soil and rain, but by millennia of experience. 2/3 Illustrated by Anthony S. Waters
The Court today takes the extraordinary step of holding facially unconstitutional the President’s Order excluding from citizenship the children of foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens. In doing so, the Court adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support. Because many potential applications of the President’s Order are consistent with the original public meaning of the Citizenship Clause, I respectfully dissent.
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River Hoopoe {G}{U} Creature — Bird Flying {3}{G}{U}: You gain 2 life and draw a card. “It’s a cruel thing to give such a sad song to such a colorful creature.” —Sana, former Ahn-crop initiate 1/3 Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast
Defense of the Heart {3}{G} Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls three or more creatures, sacrifice this enchantment, search your library for up to two creature cards, put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle. “And as the rose began to bloom, the curse of Redtooth Keep began, at last, to wither.” —Curse of the Werefox Illustrated by Olena Richards
Heartwood Storyteller {1}{G}{G} Creature — Treefolk Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, each of that player’s opponents may draw a card. His roots reach deep, nurtured not by soil and rain, but by millennia of experience. 2/3 Illustrated by Anthony S. Waters
Starfield Vocalist {3}{U} Creature — Human Bard If a permanent entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. Warp {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.) 3/4 Illustrated by Nathaniel Himawan
Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth {3}{U}{B} Legendary Creature — Human Rogue Whenever another creature you control dies, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It’s an artifact with “{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.”) Whenever you sacrifice a token, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) 4/4 Illustrated by Jarel Threat
Hive Mind {5}{U} Enchantment Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, each other player copies that spell. Each of those players may choose new targets for their copy. “All consciousness is one, separated only by a thin veil of the physical.” —Jace Beleren Illustrated by Steve Argyle
Hell's Kitchen Land This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. “Where else would the devil live?” —Daredevil, Matt Murdock Illustrated by Shahab Alizadeh
Magistrate's Veto {2}{R} Enchantment White creatures and blue creatures can’t block. The magistrate had been the goblins’ puppet for so long that he made the right decisions with little prompting. Illustrated by Brian Snõddy