Magic 2012 — Rare
Sorcery
Monomania 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: Not legal
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Creature — Sphinx (3/4)
: Target player chooses a card name, then reveals the top card of their library. If that card has the chosen name, that player puts it into their hand. If it doesn't, the player puts it into their graveyard.
Artifact
, : Target player chooses a card name, then reveals the top card of their library. If that card has the chosen name, that player puts it into their hand. Otherwise, they put it into their graveyard and Vexing Arcanix deals 2 damage to them.
Creature — Demon (5/5)
Flying
Whenever Balor attacks or dies, choose one or more. Each mode must target a different player.
• Target opponent draws three cards, then discards three cards at random.
• Target opponent sacrifices a nontoken artifact of their choice.
• Balor deals damage to target opponent equal to the number of cards in their hand.
Creature — Demon (4/5)
Flying
Whenever Chaos Balor attacks or dies, choose two. Each mode must target a different player.
• Target player discards all the cards in their hand, then seeks that many nonland cards.
• Chaos Balor deals 2 damage to target player and they create two Treasure tokens.
• Chaos Balor deals 2 damage to each creature target player controls. Those creatures perpetually get +2/+0.
Sorcery
Escalate (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Target player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards.
• Collective Defiance deals 4 damage to target creature.
• Collective Defiance deals 3 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
Sorcery
Target player reveals their hand. That player discards all nonland cards with the same name as another card in their hand.
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