msem-instigator

Align X (Choose modes with total ★ less than or equal to X. You may choose modes multiple times.)
• ★ — Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
• ★★ — Draw three cards, then discard a card.
• ★★★★★ — You may cast a spell from your hand and from your graveyard without paying their mana costs.

Exile target creature, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on it.
• Put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Flash
When Decisive Arcanist enters, you may cast target modal instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. Exile that card instead of putting it into your graveyard as it resolves.

Draw a card. Investigate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with “{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”)

Vigilance
Whenever Disgruntled Student deals combat damage to a player, scry 2.

Flying
Foresight — Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Dreammender Sphinx.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Foresight — Whenever you draw your second card each turn, Elusive Sage can't be blocked this turn.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a blue Wizard creature with base power and toughness 1/1.

Choose one —
• Draw seven cards.
• End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities, including this. The player whose turn it is discards down to their max hand size. Damage wears off, and “this turn” and “until end of turn” effects end.)

Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
Whenever Ghostly Hounds mentors a creature, that creature can't be blocked this turn.

Search your library for a cryptic card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Artifacts, enchantments, and modal spells are cryptic.)

Prowess
When Maktali Visionary enters, investigate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with “{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”)

Flying
Whenever Naiala's Guide deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then discard a card.

Prowess
Foresight — When Outpost Merchant enters, if you've drawn two or more cards this turn, create two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying.

Flying
Whenever Phantasmal Owl attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each other creature you control with flying.

Whenever you cast a modal instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.
{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Copy target modal instant or sorcery spell. You may reselect modes and choose new targets for the copy, and you may choose an additional two modes and may choose the same modes more than once.

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Return target creature with mana value 2 or less to its owner's hand.
• Scry 1, then draw a card, then discard a card.
• Target creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn and attacks this turn if able.

Flying
{1}{U}, Sacrifice Scholar's Assistant: Draw a card.

As Secrets of the Orrery enters, choose fact or fiction.
Foresight — Whenever you draw your second card each turn,
• Fact — Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
• Fiction — You may tap target creature. If you do, put a stun counter on it.

This spell can't be countered.
Flying, protection from cryptic
Whenever you cast a cryptic spell, cast a Sphinx spell, or draw a card, investigate.
{T}, Sacrifice ten Clues: You win the game.

Flash
You may cast cryptic spells as though they had flash. (Artifacts, enchantments, and modal spells are cryptic.)

Enchant creature
When Sphinx's Advice enters, draw a card.
Enchanted creature has flying.

This spell costs {2} less to cast if you control a creature with flying.
Tap up to two target creatures. Put a stun counter on each of them. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Choose one —
• Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn.
• Target creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn.
• Scry 1, then draw a card.

Whenever you draw a card, put a dream counter on Stargazing.
Remove seven dream counters from Stargazing and exile it: Shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards.