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Damping Engine

Urza's Legacy — rare

Artifact

Damping Engine rulings:

2008-08-01: A player affected by this card can sacrifice a permanent any time they could cast an instant. This is a special action that doesn’t use the stack and can’t be responded to.

2008-08-01: A player can only sacrifice a permanent to end this effect if they have more permanents than any other player, and they haven’t already sacrificed a permanent to end the effect this turn. The ability to sacrifice a creature is granted by the same effect that is being ended.

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Vigilance
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The Argent Etchings

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Incubate 2 five times, then transform all Incubator tokens you control.
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Cabaretti Confluence

Sorcery

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
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Hit // Run

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Target player sacrifices an artifact or creature. Hit deals damage to that player equal to that permanent's mana value.

Run

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Sandswirl Wanderglyph

Flying
Whenever an opponent casts a spell during their turn, they can't attack you or planeswalkers you control this turn.
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Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary Artifact (3/3)

More Than Meets the Eye (You may cast this card converted for .)
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Blaster, Morale Booster

Modular 3
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More Than Meets the Eye (You may cast this card converted for .)
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Blitzwing, Adaptive Assailant

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Catch // Release

Sorcery // Sorcery

Gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Release

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Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

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Target creature you control gains myriad until end of turn. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token that's a copy of that creature that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

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Target player sacrifices half the permanents they control, rounded down.
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