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Gather Specimens

Shards of Alara — rare

Instant

Gather Specimens legal formats:

Standard: Not legal
Future: Not legal
Historic: Not legal
Timeless: Not legal
Gladiator: Not legal
Pioneer: Not legal
Explorer: Not legal
Modern: Legal
Legacy: Legal
Pauper: Not legal
Vintage: Legal
Penny: Legal
Commander: Legal
Oathbreaker: Legal
Standardbrawl: Not legal
Brawl: Not legal
Alchemy: Not legal
Pauper Commander: Not legal
Duel: Legal
Old School: Not legal
Premodern: Not legal
PreDH: Legal

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Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
Choose one or both —
• Counter target spell.
• Draw two cards, then discard a card.

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Complete the Circuit

Instant

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
You may cast sorcery spells this turn as though they had flash.
When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell twice. You may choose new targets for the copies.

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Flow of Knowledge

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Draw a card for each Island you control, then discard two cards.

8.4 /10

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Hurl into History

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Counter target artifact or creature spell. Discover X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

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Intrude on the Mind

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Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Create a 0/0 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying, then put a +1/+1 counter on it for each card put into your graveyard this way.

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Reality Heist

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This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.
Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal up to two artifact cards from among them and put them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

7.4 /10

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Rowdy Research

Instant

This spell costs less to cast for each creature that attacked this turn.
Draw three cards.

5.2 /10

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Desynchronize

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Target nonland permanent's owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library. Scry 2.

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Hurkyl's Final Meditation

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As long as it's not your turn, this spell costs more to cast.
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

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Horned Loch-Whale // Lagoon Breach

Creature — Whale // Instant — Adventure (6/6)

Flash
Ward
Horned Loch-Whale enters the battlefield tapped unless it's your turn.

Lagoon Breach

The owner of target attacking creature you don't control puts it on the top or bottom of their library.

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Burn the Accursed

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Burn the Accursed deals 5 damage to target creature and 2 damage to that creature's controller. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

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Gingerbread Hunter // Puny Snack

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When Gingerbread Hunter enters the battlefield, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Puny Snack

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

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Planar Incision

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Exile target artifact or creature, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

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Succumb to the Cold

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Tap one or two target creatures an opponent controls. Put a stun counter on each of them. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

6.4 /10

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Out Cold

Instant

This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.)
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Rona's Vortex

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Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
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Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions

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If a permanent entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Vantress Visions

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Wicked Slumber

Instant

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
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An Offer You Can't Refuse

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Assimilate Essence

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Counter target creature or battle spell unless its controller pays . If they do, you incubate 2. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and ": Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

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