Secrets of Strixhaven Commander

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Faithless Looting
Sorcery

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"Avacyn has abandoned us! We have nothing left except what we can take!"

Goldspan Dragon
Creature — Dragon

Flying, haste

Whenever this creature attacks or becomes the target of a spell, create a Treasure token.

Treasures you control have ", Sacrifice this artifact: Add two mana of any one color."

4/4
Laelia, the Blade Reforged
Legendary Creature — Spirit Warrior

Haste

Whenever Laelia attacks, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.

Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from your library and/or your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Laelia.

2/2
Mana Geyser
Sorcery

Add for each tapped land your opponents control.

The Quicksilver Sea hissed and bubbled at the indignity. The Vulshok shaman just smiled.

Manaform Hellkite
Creature — Dragon

Flying

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X red Dragon Illusion creature token with flying and haste, where X is the amount of mana spent to cast that spell. Exile that token at the beginning of the next end step.

4/4
Mirrorwing Dragon
Creature — Dragon

Flying

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell that targets only this creature, that player copies that spell for each other creature they control that the spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those creatures.

4/5
Plargg and Nassari
Legendary Creature — Orc Efreet

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. An opponent chooses a nonland card exiled this way. You may cast up to two spells from among the other cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

5/4
Redoubled Stormsinger
Creature — Orc Wizard

First strike

Whenever this creature attacks, for each creature token you control that entered this turn, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of that token. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice those tokens.

"Blink or don't. You'll get hit either way."

3/3
Rionya, Fire Dancer
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create X tokens that are copies of another target creature you control, where X is one plus the number of instant and sorcery spells you've cast this turn. They gain haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.

3/4
Rousing Refrain
Sorcery

Add for each card in target opponent's hand. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end. Exile Rousing Refrain with three time counters on it.

Suspend 3 (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Squee, Goblin Nabob
Legendary Creature — Goblin

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Some goblins are expendable. Some are impossible to get rid of. But he's both—at the same time!"

—Starke

1/1
Storm-Kiln Artist
Creature — Dwarf Shaman

This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

A captured elemental makes for a potent, albeit unstable, power source.

2/2
Surge to Victory
Sorcery

Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. Creatures you control get +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that card's mana value. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player this turn, copy the exiled card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Throes of Chaos
Sorcery

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Twinflame
Sorcery

Strive — This spell costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Choose any number of target creatures you control. For each of them, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it has haste. Exile those tokens at the beginning of the next end step.

Volcanic Salvo
Sorcery

This spell costs less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.

Volcanic Salvo deals 6 damage to each of up to two target creatures and/or planeswalkers.

Seeing it coming a mile away is little comfort if you can't get out of range in time.

Volcanic Torrent
Sorcery

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Volcanic Torrent deals X damage to each creature and planeswalker your opponents control, where X is the number of spells you've cast this turn.

Animist's Awakening
Sorcery

Reveal the top X cards of your library. Put all land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, untap those lands.

Awakening Zone
Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add ."

The ground erupted in time with the hedron's thrum, a dirge of the last days.

Beast Within
Instant

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Monsters dwell in every heart. We only think civilization tames them."

―Euphemia, Nexus watcher

Blossoming Bogbeast
Creature — Beast

Whenever this creature attacks, you gain 2 life. Then creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

As subtle as a bogbeast

—Witherbloom expression meaning "crude and clumsy"

3/3
Cultivate
Sorcery

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Elvish Mystic
Creature — Elf Druid

: Add .

"Life grows everywhere. My kin merely find those places where it grows strongest."

—Nissa Revane

1/1
Forgotten Ancient
Creature — Elemental

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Its blood is life. Its body is growth.

0/3
Fractal Harness
Artifact — Equipment

When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it and attach this Equipment to it.

Whenever equipped creature attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on it.

Equip

Gilded Goose
Creature — Bird

Flying

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

, : Create a Food token.

, Sacrifice a Food: Add one mana of any color.

0/2
Goldvein Hydra
Creature — Hydra

Vigilance, trample, haste

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

When this creature dies, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to its power.

The key is to slay it before it sprouts so many heads that your fear outpaces your greed.

0/0
Guardian Augmenter
Creature — Troll Wizard

Flash

Commander creatures you control get +2/+2.

Commanders you control have hexproof.

After years of research, he finally unlocked the formula for the perfect punch.

2/2
Hardened Scales
Enchantment

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

"Naga shed their scales. We wear ours with pride."

—Golran, dragonscale captain

Kami of Whispered Hopes
Creature — Spirit

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead.

: Add X mana of any one color, where X is this creature's power.

Nashi knelt reverently before the kami and envisioned his family reunited.

1/1
Lifeblood Hydra
Creature — Hydra

Trample

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

When this creature dies, you gain life and draw cards equal to its power.

Pharika has written her secrets on its bones so that only the worthy may discover them.

0/0
Mana Bloom
Enchantment

This enchantment enters with X charge counters on it.

Remove a charge counter from this enchantment: Add one mana of any color. Activate only once each turn.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if this enchantment has no charge counters on it, return it to its owner's hand.

Mycoloth
Creature — Fungus

Devour 2 (As this creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.

4/4
Nature's Lore
Sorcery

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

From the cracks in the stone, she reads stories of the past. From the swirling vines, she glimpses visions of the future.

Ohran Frostfang
Snow Creature — Snake

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch.

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Silent as a snowdrift. Inexorable as an avalanche.

2/6
Open the Way
Sorcery

X can't be greater than the number of players in the game.

Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X land cards. Put those land cards onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
Legendary Artifact

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

, : Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact or creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Pest Infestation
Sorcery

Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

A thousand years of history undone by one juvenile prank.

Primal Might
Sorcery

Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn. Then it fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

The shaman looked at the world through Ghalta's eyes and understood that everything else was his prey.

Primordial Hydra
Creature — Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.

This creature has trample as long as it has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it.

0/0
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Creature — Snake Shaman

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

He'd chosen a sunlit clearing with open skies and an ample brook. All that remained was to find a worthy sapling.

1/1
Silkguard
Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to X target creatures you control.

Auras, Equipment, and modified creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Springbloom Druid
Creature — Elf Druid

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Regrowth is as inevitable as the tragedy that necessitates it."

1/1
Steelbane Hydra
Creature — Turtle Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Many an ancient treasure has been reduced to jagged caltrops by its snapping jaws.

0/0
Three Visits
Sorcery

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Those who love the woods only wish to spread its majesty.

Trudge Garden
Enchantment

Whenever you gain life, you may pay . If you do, create a 4/4 green Fungus Beast creature token with trample.

"Sure, trudges smell like soggy death, but the mushrooms on their backs are the tastiest delicacy in Sedgemoor!"

—Gyome, Witherbloom chef

Tyvar's Stand
Instant

Target creature you control gets +X/+X and gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

"When they write songs about this battle, I will make sure your name is forgotten, devil."

Altered Ego
Creature — Shapeshifter

This spell can't be countered.

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it.

0/0
Anguished Unmaking
Instant

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Sorin had created Avacyn, so it was a cruelty beyond imagining, a pain beyond description, that it fell upon him to end her forever.

Assassin's Trophy
Instant

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"Not just any floriculturist can grow this caliber of nightbloom. We're looking for a rooftop hothouse with quite particular conditions."

—Dr. A of the Foundway Associates

Balefire Liege
Creature — Spirit Horror

Other red creatures you control get +1/+1.

Other white creatures you control get +1/+1.

Whenever you cast a red spell, this creature deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Whenever you cast a white spell, you gain 3 life.

2/4
Beledros Witherbloom
Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon

Flying

At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.

4/4
Biomass Mutation
Instant

Creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X until end of turn.

"A regression to ancient forms? A glimpse of future evolutions? Or a fleeting alteration of the present?"

—Vorel of the Hull Clade

Breena, the Demagogue
Legendary Creature — Bird Warlock

Flying

Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents, if that opponent has more life than another of your opponents, that attacking player draws a card and you put two +1/+1 counters on a creature you control.

1/3
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
Legendary Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Artificer

Creature tokens you control have haste.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 2/1 blue Phyrexian Myr artifact creature token. Then you may choose a token you control. If you do, each other token you control becomes a copy of that token.

4/4
Casualties of War
Sorcery

Choose one or more —

• Destroy target artifact.

• Destroy target creature.

• Destroy target enchantment.

• Destroy target land.

• Destroy target planeswalker.

Creakwood Liege
Creature — Horror

Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.

Other green creatures you control get +1/+1.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a 1/1 black and green Worm creature token.

2/2
Culling Ritual
Sorcery

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add or for each permanent destroyed this way.

"Great power requires great sacrifice. But it need not be my own."

Deadly Brew
Sorcery

Each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. If you sacrificed a permanent this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

No one ever asked what was in Dina's concoctions, so long as they worked.

Decisive Denial
Instant

Choose one —

• Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays .

"I've heard enough."