12 cards where the name includes “overwhelm”
Daring Sleuth {1}{U}
Creature — Human Rogue
When you sacrifice a Clue, transform Daring Sleuth.
“No matter the cost, I must discover the source of these strange happenings.”
Bearer of Overwhelming Truths
Color Indicator: Blue Creature — Human Wizard
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever Bearer of Overwhelming Truths deals combat damage to a player, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It’s an artifact with “{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”)
Illustrated by Seb McKinnon
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Overwhelm {5}{G}{G}
Sorcery
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature’s color.)
Creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.
“Let the song of Selesnya be heard above the rhythm of our thundering hordes!”
Watermark: Selesnya
Illustrated by Wayne Reynolds
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
Overwhelmed Apprentice {U}
Creature — Human Wizard
When Overwhelmed Apprentice enters the battlefield, each opponent mills two cards. Then you scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)
Illustrated by Jason Rainville
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Overwhelmed Archivist {2}{U}
Creature — Human Wizard
When Overwhelmed Archivist enters the battlefield, draw a card, then discard a card.
Disturb {3}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
“Bah! As if I had time to preserve everything.”
Archive Haunt
Color Indicator: Blue Creature — Spirit Wizard
Flying
Whenever Archive Haunt attacks, draw a card, then discard a card.
If Archive Haunt would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Cleaning up his life’s work was his afterlife’s work.
Illustrated by Cristi Balanescu
- Standard
- Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Overwhelming Denial {2}{U}{U}
Instant
Surge {U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
This spell can’t be countered.
Counter target spell.
Illustrated by Jama Jurabaev
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
Overwhelming Encounter {3}{G}{G}
Sorcery
Creatures you control gain vigilance and trample until end of turn. Roll a d20.
1—9 | Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
10—19 | Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
20 | Put four +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
Illustrated by Darek Zabrocki
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Overwhelming Forces {6}{B}{B}
Sorcery
Destroy all creatures target opponent controls. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Illustrated by Gao Yan
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Overwhelming Instinct {2}{G}
Enchantment
Whenever you attack with three or more creatures, draw a card.
The biggest difference between a victory and a massacre is which side you’re on.
Illustrated by Ron Spears
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Overwhelming Intellect {4}{U}{U}
Instant
Counter target creature spell. Draw cards equal to that spell’s mana value.
“My brain hurts.”
Illustrated by Alex Horley-Orlandelli
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Overwhelming Remorse {4}{B}
Instant
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.
Tocasia’s face haunted his vision. The explosion still rung in his ears. Mishra kept running and never once looked back.
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Illustrated by Ryan Valle
- Standard
- Legal
- Alchemy
- Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
Overwhelming Splendor {6}{W}{W}
Enchantment — Aura Curse
Enchant player
Creatures enchanted player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 1/1.
Enchanted player can’t activate abilities that aren’t mana abilities or loyalty abilities.
Illustrated by Richard Wright
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Explorer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
Overwhelming Stampede {3}{G}{G}
Sorcery
Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
“I trust the instincts of any beast over the advice of any human who presumes to be an expert in the art of war.”
—Rinshel, elf insurgent
Illustrated by Steven Belledin
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
The message was clear to Sorin—time to search for something else.