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Cards like Top, Scroll Rack, and the works. I have all of the already common ones that are played already.

Keep in mind this is for my Maelstrom Wanderer land destruction deck.

I've found Cream of the Crop to be very useful in my Wanderer deck. Sure, you don't get to Cream for 7 when you cast Wanderer until after both cascades, but assuming you have a fair number of creatures, you can dig for the cards you want really well. (And if your first cascade is a creature, you can Cream before doing the second cascade.)

Mirri's Guile lets you Sensei's Top on your upkeep for free. Sylvan Library lets you sort-of Brainstorm every turn (you can't put back cards you didn't draw this turn, but you can also pay life to draw extra cards).

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I've found Cream of the Crop to be very useful in my Wanderer deck. Sure, you don't get to Cream for 7 when you cast Wanderer until after both cascades, but assuming you have a fair number of creatures, you can dig for the cards you want really well. (And if your first cascade is a creature, you can Cream before doing the second cascade.)

Mirri's Guile lets you Sensei's Top on your upkeep for free. Sylvan Library lets you sort-of Brainstorm every turn (you can't put back cards you didn't draw this turn, but you can also pay life to draw extra cards).

Cream of the Crop won't work my deck has max of 5-6 creatures. I also have the other 2 cards in the deck already.

I don't know what you consider common? If you already run the best the alternatives are all super mediocre, but there is Soothsaying, Crystal Ball, Thassa, God of the Sea, Sunset Pyramid, and Gilt-leaf Seer. If part of your land destruction includes cycling/wheeling, maybe Curator of Mysteries would help?

proteus staff will let you order your entire deck in any order, assuming you just have one creature in the deck (or zero if you intend on using your general or something like blinkmoth nexus to activate). It's a moderately casual trick to set up easy-storm/combo win's with either future sight and/or melek, izzet paragon.

Mystic Speculation lets you scry 3 for 3 mana, even repeatedly during one turn.

aladdin's lamp the jank is strong, especially if you run the original.

ancestral knowledge
browse lets you exile what you dont want
descendant of soramaro
orcish librarian
prognostic sphinx
windrider patrol

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aladdin's lamp the jank is strong, especially if you run the original.

orcish librarian

There's no "original" Aladdin's lamp: the old expression "mono artifact" means that you have to tap it to use it (opposed to "poly artifacts").

Orcish librarian is random but digs very deeply and can be incredibly useful. It is very underrated and I always get scoffed at for using it, but it works wonderfully.

Speaking of other cards, I don't know if you might like Rowen. It doesn't manipulate, but will accelerate finding useful cards (even if you have to reveal the drawn cards to the opponents).
And Abundance lets you decide if you will draw a land or a non-land card each turn, thus effectively manipulating the draw at the cost of revealing the drawn card.

I had built a Temur "top of the deck matters" deck at one point, and I used Sensei's Divining Top, Scroll Rack, Sylvan Library, Mirri's Guile, Mystic Speculation, and Jace, the Mind Sculptor to manipulate the top of my deck. Coupled with a ton of shuffle effects, I found that I didn't need much more than that.

Some of the other ones I toyed around with that might interest you were Descendant of Soramaro, Soothsaying, Ancestral Knowledge, and Crystal Ball.

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aladdin's lamp the jank is strong, especially if you run the original.

orcish librarian

There's no "original" Aladdin's lamp: the old expression "mono artifact" means that you have to tap it to use it (opposed to "poly artifacts").

Orcish librarian is random but digs very deeply and can be incredibly useful. It is very underrated and I always get scoffed at for using it, but it works wonderfully.

Speaking of other cards, I don't know if you might like Rowen. It doesn't manipulate, but will accelerate finding useful cards (even if you have to reveal the drawn cards to the opponents).
And Abundance lets you decide if you will draw a land or a non-land card each turn, thus effectively manipulating the draw at the cost of revealing the drawn card.

I know that it works the same.
If you're gonna play it, you might as well run the original printing was my point.

Forgot about darksteel pendant and soldevi excavations

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aladdin's lamp the jank is strong, especially if you run the original.

orcish librarian

There's no "original" Aladdin's lamp: the old expression "mono artifact" means that you have to tap it to use it (opposed to "poly artifacts").

Orcish librarian is random but digs very deeply and can be incredibly useful. It is very underrated and I always get scoffed at for using it, but it works wonderfully.

I know that it works the same.
If you're gonna play it, you might as well run the original printing was my point.

Sorry, it sounded differently, also since the art is the same in all editions, and I can imagine someone getting confused.

Lifecrafter's Bestiary let's yu scry every upkeep, and even though you said you don't run many creatures, whenever you cast one commander, you can get a draw off of it.

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Sorry, it sounded differently, also since the arte is the same in all editions, and I can imagine someone getting confused.

When the original Aladdin's Lamp was printed with a casting cost of , people actually thought that the casting cost was 55 and not 10... They didn't have a symbol at the time and somehow somebody thought it was a good idea to go with rather than just reducing the mana cost to ... It goes to show you that this game is sufficiently complex enough that if there is any chance for confusion people will be confused.

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When the original Aladdin's Lamp was printed with a casting cost of , people actually thought that the casting cost was 55 and not 10... They didn't have a symbol at the time and somehow somebody thought it was a good idea to go with rather than just reducing the mana cost to

Honestly, it might as well cost 55 mana. It's amazing they though 10 was a fair price for a bit of library manipulation.

Long-Term Plans puts a cascade target near the top of your deck.

Mana Severance and Abundance sorts your deck however you want.

Ancestral Knowledge could be bounced and replayed for set up a few cascades.

Soothsaying is a card I like, as it comes down early, it's flexible in that it just let's you use any excess mana EOT, and while I hardly ever shuffle it can come in handy if you look at the top 5 and see 5 lands in turn 10.