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Abstruse Archaic
Abstruse Archaic 4 (4)
Creature — Avatar (3/4)

Vigilance

1, Tap: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control from a colorless source. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Commander Masters (Rare)
Adric, Mathematical Genius
Adric, Mathematical Genius 1Blue (2)
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer (1/1)

2Blue, Tap: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Ultimate Sacrifice — 1Blue, Sacrifice Adric: Counter target activated or triggered ability.

Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

Doctor Who Commander (Rare)
Ayesha Tanaka
Ayesha Tanaka WhiteWhiteBlueBlue (4)
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer (2/2)

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Tap: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source unless that ability's controller pays White. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Chronicles (Rare)
Other Versions
Legends (Rare)
Azorius Guildmage
Azorius Guildmage White or BlueWhite or Blue (2)
Creature — Vedalken Wizard (2/2)

2White: Tap target creature.

2Blue: Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Ravnica Remastered (Uncommon)
Other Versions
Dissension (Uncommon)
Magic: The Gathering-Commander (Uncommon)
Guild Kit: Azorius (Uncommon)
Battlemage's Bracers
Battlemage's Bracers 2Red (3)
Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has haste.

Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay 1. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Equip 2

Commander 2021 (Rare)
Bind
Bind 1Green (2)
Instant

Counter target activated ability. <I>(Mana abilities can't be targeted.)</I>

Draw a card.

Invasion (Rare)
Bind//Liberate (playtest)
Bind//Liberate (playtest) 1Green (2)
Instant

Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)<i/>

Draw a card.

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Liberate

1White

Instant

Exile target creature you control. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Mystery Booster (Common)
Brokers Confluence
Brokers Confluence 2GreenWhiteBlue (5)
Instant

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

• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

• Target creature phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)

• Counter target activated or triggered ability.

Streets of New Capenna Commander (Rare)
Brown Ouphe
Brown Ouphe Green (1)
Creature — Ouphe (1/1)

1Green, Tap: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Mirrodin (Uncommon)
Other Versions
Ice Age (Common)
Convergence of Dominion
Convergence of Dominion 3 (3)
Artifact

Dynastic Command Node — As long as you control your commander, activated abilities of cards in your graveyard cost 2 less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that ability's activation cost to less than one mana.

Translocation Protocols — 3, Tap: Mill three cards.

Warhammer 40,000 Commander (Rare)
Defabricate
Defabricate 1Blue (2)
Instant

Choose one —

• Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. If a spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

• Counter target activated or triggered ability.

The Brothers' War (Uncommon)
Deny the Witch
Deny the Witch 1WhiteBlueBlack (4)
Instant

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. Its controller loses life equal to the number of creatures you control.

Warhammer 40,000 Commander (Uncommon)
Detention Vortex
Detention Vortex White (1)
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant nonland permanent

Enchanted permanent can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

3: Destroy Detention Vortex. Only your opponents may activate this ability and only as a sorcery.

Strixhaven: School of Mages (Uncommon)
Disallow
Disallow 1BlueBlue (3)
Instant

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Kaladesh Remastered (Rare)
Other Versions
Aether Revolt (Rare)
Emerald Dragon (Dissonant Wave)
Emerald Dragon (Dissonant Wave) 2Green (3)
Instant — Adventure

Counter target activated or triggered ability from a noncreature source. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate (Uncommon)
Other Versions
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (Uncommon)
Dragon Whelp
Dragon Whelp 2RedRed (4)
Creature — Dragon (2/3)

Flying

Red: Dragon Whelp gets +1/+0 until end of turn. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice Dragon Whelp at the beginning of the next end step.

Dominaria Remastered (Uncommon)
Other Versions
Limited Edition Alpha (Uncommon)
Limited Edition Beta (Uncommon)
Unlimited Edition (Uncommon)
Revised Edition (Uncommon)
Fourth Edition (Uncommon)
Time Spiral "Timeshifted" (Special)
From the Vault: Dragons (Rare)
Magic 2010 (Uncommon)
Archenemy (Uncommon)
Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons (Uncommon)
Magic: The Gathering-Commander (Uncommon)
Commander Anthology (Uncommon)
Dominaria United (Uncommon)
Emerald Dragon
Emerald Dragon 4GreenGreen (6)
Creature — Dragon (4/4)

Flying, trample

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate (Uncommon)
Other Versions
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (Uncommon)
Ertai Resurrected
Ertai Resurrected 2BlueBlack (4)
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Human Wizard (3/2)

Flash

When Ertai Resurrected enters the battlefield, choose up to one —

• Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. Its controller draws a card.

• Destroy another target creature or planeswalker. Its controller draws a card.

Dominaria United (Rare)
Farrelite Priest
Farrelite Priest 1WhiteWhite (3)
Creature — Human Cleric (1/3)

1: Add White. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice Farrelite Priest at the beginning of the next end step.

Fallen Empires (Uncommon)
Green Slime
Green Slime 2Green (3)
Creature — Ooze (2/2)

Flash

When Green Slime enters the battlefield, counter target activated or triggered ability from an artifact or enchantment source. If a permanent's ability is countered this way, destroy that permanent.

Foretell Green (During your turn, you may pay 2 and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (Rare)
Ice Cage
Ice Cage 1Blue (2)
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

When enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy Ice Cage.

Magic 2012 (Common)
Other Versions
Magic 2010 (Common)
Magic 2011 (Common)
Illusionist's Bracers
Illusionist's Bracers 2 (2)
Artifact — Equipment

Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Equip 3

Ravnica Remastered (Rare)
Other Versions
Gatecrash (Rare)
Initiates of the Ebon Hand
Initiates of the Ebon Hand Black (1)
Creature — Cleric (1/1)

1: Add Black. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice Initiates of the Ebon Hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Fallen Empires (Common)
Other Versions
Fifth Edition (Common)
Interdict
Interdict 1Blue (2)
Instant

Counter target activated ability from an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land. That permanent's activated abilities can't be activated this turn. <I>(Mana abilities can't be targeted.)</I>

Draw a card.

Tempest (Uncommon)
Laboratory Drudge
Laboratory Drudge 3Blue (4)
Creature — Zombie Horror (3/4)

At the beginning of each end step, draw a card if you've cast a spell from a graveyard or activated an ability of a card in a graveyard this turn.

Commander Legends (Rare)
Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate
Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate 1WhiteBlue (3)
Legendary Creature — Angel Wizard (3/3)

Flying

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you have a full party, choose target nonland permanent an opponent controls. Until your next turn, it can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Sacrifice Linvala: Choose hexproof or indestructible. Creatures you control gain that ability until end of turn.

Zendikar Rising (Rare)
Lithoform Engine
Lithoform Engine 4 (4)
Legendary Artifact

2, Tap: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

3, Tap: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

4, Tap: Copy target permanent spell you control. (The copy becomes a token.)

The Brothers' War Commander (Mythic Rare)
Other Versions
Zendikar Rising (Mythic Rare)
Locus of Enlightenment
Locus of Enlightenment (0)
Legendary Artifact

Locus of Enlightenment has each activated ability of the exiled cards used to craft it. You may activate each of those abilities only once each turn.

Whenever you activate an ability that isn't a mana ability, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (Mythic Rare)
Magewright's Stone
Magewright's Stone 2 (2)
Artifact

1, Tap: Untap target creature that has an activated ability with Tap in its cost.

Ravnica Remastered (Uncommon)
Other Versions
Dissension (Uncommon)
Nalathni Dragon
Nalathni Dragon 2RedRed (4)
Creature — Dragon (1/1)

Flying; banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Red: Nalathni Dragon gets +1/+0 until end of turn. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice Nalathni Dragon at the beginning of the next end step.

Promo set for Gatherer (Special)
Nimble Obstructionist
Nimble Obstructionist 2Blue (3)
Creature — Bird Wizard (3/1)

Flash

Flying

Cycling 2Blue (2Blue, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

When you cycle Nimble Obstructionist, counter target activated or triggered ability you don't control.

Amonkhet Remastered (Rare)
Other Versions
Hour of Devastation (Rare)
Ikoria Commander (Rare)
Ouphe Vandals
Ouphe Vandals 2Green (3)
Creature — Ouphe Rogue (2/2)

Green, Sacrifice Ouphe Vandals: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source and destroy that artifact if it's on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Fifth Dawn (Uncommon)
Overcharged Amalgam
Overcharged Amalgam 2BlueBlue (4)
Creature — Zombie Horror (3/3)

Flash

Flying

Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.)

When Overcharged Amalgam exploits a creature, counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability.

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (Rare)
Other Versions
Innistrad: Crimson Vow (Rare)
Ravager Wurm
Ravager Wurm 3RedGreenGreen (6)
Creature — Wurm (4/5)

Riot (This creature enters the battlefield with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.)

When Ravager Wurm enters the battlefield, choose up to one —

• Ravager Wurm fights target creature you don't control.

• Destroy target land with an activated ability that isn't a mana ability.

Ravnica Allegiance (Mythic Rare)
Repudiate // Replicate (Replicate)
Repudiate // Replicate (Replicate) 1GreenBlue (3)
Sorcery

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.

Ravnica Remastered (Rare)
Other Versions
Ravnica Allegiance (Rare)
Repudiate // Replicate (Repudiate)
Repudiate // Replicate (Repudiate) Green or BlueGreen or Blue (2)
Instant

Counter target activated or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Ravnica Remastered (Rare)
Other Versions
Ravnica Allegiance (Rare)
Reroute
Reroute 1Red (2)
Instant

Change the target of target activated ability with a single target. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Draw a card.

Ravnica: City of Guilds (Uncommon)
Return the Favor
Return the Favor RedRed (2)
Instant

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)

+ 1 — Copy target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

+ 1 — Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction (Uncommon)
Rimewind Cryomancer
Rimewind Cryomancer 3Blue (4)
Creature — Human Wizard (2/3)

1, Tap: Counter target activated ability. Activate only if you control four or more snow permanents. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Coldsnap (Uncommon)
Rust
Rust Green (1)
Instant

Counter target activated ability from an artifact source. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Legends (Common)
Sister of Silence
Sister of Silence 4Blue (5)
Creature — Human Knight (3/3)

Flash

Psychic Abomination — When Sister of Silence enters the battlefield, counter target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability.

Warhammer 40,000 Commander (Rare)
Squelch
Squelch 1Blue (2)
Instant

Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Draw a card.

Champions of Kamigawa (Uncommon)
Stifle
Stifle Blue (1)
Instant

Counter target activated or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Historic Anthology 5 (Rare)
Other Versions
Scourge (Rare)
Magic: The Gathering—Conspiracy (Rare)
Masterpiece Series: Amonkhet Invocations (Special)
Sublime Epiphany
Sublime Epiphany 4BlueBlue (6)
Instant

Choose one or more —

• Counter target spell.

• Counter target activated or triggered ability.

• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

• Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.

• Target player draws a card.

Core Set 2021 (Rare)
Tale's End
Tale's End 1Blue (2)
Instant

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

Core Set 2020 (Rare)
Tawnos, Urza's Apprentice
Tawnos, Urza's Apprentice BlueRed (2)
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer (1/3)

Haste

BlueRed, Tap: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control from an artifact source. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Commander 2018 (Mythic Rare)
Tazri, Stalwart Survivor
Tazri, Stalwart Survivor 2White (3)
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior (3/3)

Each creature you control has "Tap: Add one mana of any of this creature's colors. Spend this mana only to activate an ability of a creature. Activate only if this creature has another activated ability."

WhiteBlueBlackRedGreen, Tap: Mill five cards. Put all creature cards with activated abilities that aren't mana abilities from among the milled cards into your hand.

March of the Machine: The Aftermath (Rare)
Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh
Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh 2BlueBlue (4)
Legendary Planeswalker — Tezzeret (4)

The first activated ability of an artifact you activate each turn costs 2 less to activate.

+1: Draw two cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.

−2: Target artifact becomes an artifact creature. If it isn't a Vehicle, it has base power and toughness 4/4.

−6: You get an emblem with "Whenever an artifact you control becomes tapped, draw a card."

Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (Mythic Rare)
Other Versions
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (Mythic Rare)
The Chain Veil
The Chain Veil 4 (4)
Legendary Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't activate a loyalty ability of a planeswalker this turn, you lose 2 life.

4, Tap: For each planeswalker you control, you may activate one of its loyalty abilities once this turn as though none of its loyalty abilities have been activated this turn.

Commander Masters (Mythic Rare)
Other Versions
Magic 2015 Core Set (Mythic Rare)
The Peregrine Dynamo
The Peregrine Dynamo 3 (3)
Legendary Artifact Creature — Construct (1/5)

Haste

1, Tap: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control from another legendary source that's not a commander. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Dominaria United Commander (Rare)
Tishana's Tidebinder
Tishana's Tidebinder 2Blue (3)
Creature — Merfolk Wizard (3/2)

Flash

When Tishana's Tidebinder enters the battlefield, counter up to one target activated or triggered ability. If an ability of an artifact, creature, or planeswalker is countered this way, that permanent loses all abilities for as long as Tishana's Tidebinder remains on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (Rare)
Trickbind
Trickbind 1Blue (2)
Instant

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

Counter target activated or triggered ability. If a permanent's ability is countered this way, activated abilities of that permanent can't be activated this turn. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Time Spiral (Rare)
Tsabo's Web
Tsabo's Web 2 (2)
Artifact

When Tsabo's Web enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Each land with an activated ability that isn't a mana ability doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Invasion (Rare)
Virtue of Knowledge (Vantress Visions)
Virtue of Knowledge (Vantress Visions) 1Blue (2)
Instant — Adventure

Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Wilds of Eldraine (Mythic Rare)
Virtue of Knowledge
Virtue of Knowledge 4Blue (5)
Enchantment

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

Wilds of Eldraine (Mythic Rare)
Voidmage Husher
Voidmage Husher 3Blue (4)
Creature — Human Wizard (2/2)

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

When Voidmage Husher enters the battlefield, counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Whenever you cast a spell, you may return Voidmage Husher to its owner's hand.

Time Spiral (Uncommon)
Voidslime
Voidslime GreenBlueBlue (3)
Instant

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Breaking News (Rare)
Other Versions
Dissension (Rare)
Guild Kit: Simic (Rare)
Secret Lair Drop (Rare)
Ravnica Remastered (Rare)
Weaver of Harmony
Weaver of Harmony 1Green (2)
Enchantment Creature — Snake Druid (2/2)

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

Green, Tap: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control from an enchantment source. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (Rare)
Zirda, the Dawnwaker
Zirda, the Dawnwaker 1Red or WhiteRed or White (3)
Legendary Creature — Elemental Fox (3/3)

Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has an activated ability. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for 3 as a sorcery.)

Abilities you activate that aren't mana abilities cost 2 less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

1, Tap: Target creature can't block this turn.

March of the Machine Multiverse Legends (Rare)
Other Versions
Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (Rare)
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