Fifth Edition
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Creature — Gargoyle Flying, protection from red "They don't move, do they?" "Only for the wrong sort of people." "Are *we* the wrong sort of people?" 3/4 |
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Creature — Giant Soldier Except for creatures named Akron Legionnaire and artifact creatures, creatures you control can't attack. 8/4 |
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Instant Choose one — • Target player gains X life. • Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. —D'Avenant proverb |
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Creature — Human Trample As long as it's your turn, Angry Mob's power and toughness are each equal to 2 plus the number of Swamps your opponents control. As long as it's not your turn, Angry Mob's power and toughness are each 2. 2+*/2+* |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant Wall Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender. "When you have been bitten with fangs of granite, you start to long for the ivory sabers of tigers." —Norin the Wary |
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Enchantment
"Cloak me in mystery, hide my names from my enemies, and let me draw from the well of power." —Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest |
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Sorcery Destroy all lands. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
"Keep your chain mail, warrior. I have my own form of protection." —Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest |
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Creature — Human Advisor
"When one's word is law, one's whim is equally binding." —Calmont, Aysen bureaucrat 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Soldier 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.) Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the Hero. 1/1 |
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Instant You gain 1 life. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. "Out there, there are spirits, but here, there is wine." —Blessing for the bounty of Kjeld |
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Creature — Spirit
"Don't look at it! Maybe it'll go away!" —Ib Halfheart, goblin tactician 2/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack unless its controller pays "They're not your friends; they despise you. I'm the only one you can count on. Trust me." |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant land you control
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Enchantment Untapped creatures you control get +0/+2. "Hang out our banners on the outward walls; / The cry is still, 'They come'; our castle's strength / Will laugh a siege to scorn." —William Shakespeare, *Macbeth* |
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Circle of Protection: Artifacts Enchantment
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Enchantment White creatures get +1/+1. |
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Creature — Human Soldier Archer
Avenant's archers are also trained as poets, so that each arrow is guided by a fragment of verse. 1/2 |
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Creature — Human Cleric Protection from black "The dead may be beyond the law, but speaking the wisdom of the dead will afford no protection!" —Calmont, Aysen bureaucrat 1/1 |
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Instant Regenerate target creature. |
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Instant Destroy target artifact or enchantment. |
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Instant Destroy target artifact. You gain life equal to its mana value. These tears of pain I weep to the skies, Not bitter drops, but water made divine. Each gem of sorrow slips, no longer mine, But proffered thus to echo other cries. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. Glory surged through her and radiance surrounded her. All things were possible with the blessing of the Divine. |
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Sorcery Exile two target artifacts. "All this nonsense made by mages Rusts and crumbles through the ages." —Aline Corralurn, "Inheritance" |
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Instant The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, instead that source deals that much damage to you and Eye for an Eye deals that much damage to that source's controller. |
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Enchantment
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Instant Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. "Sometimes even the smallest boon can save a life." —Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest |
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Instant Choose one — • Target player gains 3 life. • Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. |
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Creature — Horse Hipparion can't block creatures with power 3 or greater unless you pay "Someone once said that hipparions are to warriors what aesthir are to skyknights. Don't believe it." —General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox 1/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2. |
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Creature — Human Soldier 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.) Even after the wall was breached in half a dozen places, the phalanxes fought on, standing solidly against the onrushing raiders. Disciplined and dedicated, they held their ranks to the end, even in the face of tremendous losses. 2/4 |
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Creature — Human Soldier Scout
"In these, our final days, I offer this. Though we could not save Icatia, we gave our children time to grow, and love, before it fell." —Ailis Connaut, diary 1/1 |
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Sorcery Create four 1/1 white Citizen creature tokens. Icatia's once-peaceful towns faced increasing attacks from orcs and goblins as the climate cooled. By the time the empire fell, they were little more than armed camps. |
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Enchantment If you would draw a card during your draw step, instead you may skip that draw. If you do, until your next turn, you can't be attacked except by creatures with flying and/or islandwalk. |
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Creature — Giant Cleric Protection from red Creatures named Ivory Guardians get +1/+1 as long as an opponent controls a nontoken red permanent. "But who is to guard the guards themselves?" —Juvenal, *Satires* 3/3 |
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Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Justice unless you pay |
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Enchantment At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Karma deals damage to that player equal to the number of Swamps they control. |
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Enchantment Artifacts, creatures, and lands your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped. "Make people wait for what they want, and you have power over them. This is as true for merchants and militia as it is for cooks and couples." —Gwendlyn Di Corci |
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Creature — Human Soldier
Honorable in battle, generous in death. —Motto of the Kjeldoran Royal Guard 2/5 |
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Creature — Human Soldier Flying; first strike; 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.) The heartlink between soldier and steed is hatched with the aesthir struggling from its shell. 2/2 |
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Creature — Bird Flying
"The faith of Serra is borne on wings of hope." —Gulsen, abbey matron 1/1 |
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Creature — Pegasus 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.) Before a woman marries in the village of Sursi, she must visit the land of the mesa pegasus. Legend has it that if the woman is pure of heart and her love is true, a mesa pegasus will appear, blessing her family with long life and good fortune. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Knight
A blazing light to drive out the shadows. 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Knight Protection from black
A shield of light admits no shadow. 2/1 |
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Creature — Unicorn "'Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!' 'Well, now that we have seen each other,' said the Unicorn, 'if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.'" —Lewis Carroll, *Through the Looking-Glass* 2/2 |
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Creature — Avatar Incarnation
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Creature — Human Soldier First strike; 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.) "As the cavalry bore down, we faced them with swords drawn and pikes hidden in the grass at our feet. 'Don't lift your pikes 'til I give the word,' I said." —Maeveen O'Donagh, *Memoirs of a Soldier* 1/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature As Prismatic Ward enters the battlefield, choose a color. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature by sources of the chosen color. |
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Creature — Human Protection from red "For my confession they burned me with fire / And found that I was for endurance made." —*The Arabian Nights*, trans. Haddawy 1/2 |
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Instant The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way. |
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Instant Target blocking creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn. "I too shall be brought low by death, but until then let me win glory." —Homer, *Iliad, Book XVIII* |
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Instant Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn. At the beginning of the next end step, put a +0/+1 counter on that creature for each 1 damage prevented this way. "Divine gifts are granted to those who are worthy." —Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest |
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Creature — Human Cleric
Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others. 1/1 |
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Creature — Angel Flying Whenever a creature dealt damage by Seraph this turn dies, put that card onto the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step. Sacrifice the creature when you lose control of Seraph. 4/4 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Serra Bestiary unless you pay |
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Creature — Human Knight
One light, one blade, one purpose. —Vow of the Serra Paladins 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Soldier 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.) "You have almost completed your four years, my son. Soon you shall be a skyknight." —Arna Kennerüd, skyknight 0/3 |
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Instant Creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn. The strongest walls are made not of stone or steel but of the focused strength of warriors. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.) Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life. "I regret feeding Kaervek's hunger for power—far better to live with animals innocent of such ambitions." —Jolrael |
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Instant Each player may draw up to two cards. For each card less than two a player draws this way, that player gains 2 life. Not all victories require defeat. —Onean idiom |
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Creature — Wolf First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) I heard their eerie howling, the wolves calling their kindred across the frozen plains. 1/1 |
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying Just as the evil ones approached to slay Justina, she cast a great spell, imbuing her weapons with her own life force. Thus she fulfilled the prophecy: "In the death of your savior will you find salvation." 3/5 |
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Creature — Human Knight First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from black (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything black.) Out of the blackness and stench of the engulfing swamp emerged a shimmering figure. Only the splattered armor and ichor-stained sword hinted at the unfathomable evil the knight had just laid waste. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. |
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Enchantment Creature spells can't be cast. Pay 4 life: Destroy Aether Storm. It can't be regenerated. Any player may activate this ability. Thunder in the wind / no rain / peace mourns its passing. |
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Creature — Elemental Flying These spirits of the air are winsome and wild and cannot be truly contained. Only marginally intelligent, they often substitute whimsy for strategy, delighting in mischief and mayhem. 4/4 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be the target of spells and can't be enchanted by other Auras. |
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Creature — Drake Flying Little dreamt could seem so cruel As waiting for the wings outspread, The jagged teeth, the burning eyes, And dagger-claws that clench to nerves. 2/4 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Binding Grasp unless you pay "What I want, I take." —Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran royal mage |
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Instant Return target permanent to its owner's hand. "O! call back yesterday, bid time return." —William Shakespeare, *King Richard the Second* |
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Instant Return target permanent to its owner's hand. |
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Instant Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. "I reeled from the blow, and then suddenly, I knew exactly what to do. Within moments, victory was mine." —Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran royal mage |
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Instant Counter target spell. |
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Enchantment When Dance of Many enters the battlefield, create a token that's a copy of target nontoken creature.
When Dance of Many leaves the battlefield, exile the token.
When the token leaves the battlefield, sacrifice Dance of Many.
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Creature — Fish Dandân can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice Dandân. "Catch good today. Start replacing crew tomorrow." —Faysal al-Mousa, fisher captain, log 4/1 |
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.)
"Stray not onto the path of darkness, or be lost forever." —Baki, wizard attendant 4/5 |
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Instant Change the target of target spell with a single target. Up and down, over and through, back around— the joke's on you. |
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Sorcery Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way. |
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Enchantment All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay "Nothing endures but change." —Heraclitus |
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Instant Tap target artifact, creature, or land. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. "Worlds turn in crucial moments of decision. Make your choice." —Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran royal mage |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant enchantment At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted enchantment's controller, Feedback deals 1 damage to that player. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying. |
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Enchantment
"A dash of cool water does wonders to clear a cluttered battlefield." —Vibekke Ragnild, *Witches and War* |
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Instant Counter target spell unless its controller pays "Unknown spears / Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes . . . ." —William Butler Yeats, "The Valley of the Black Pig" |
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Sorcery Target player discards two cards, then draws as many cards as they discarded this way. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by enchanted creature. ". . . [A]nd gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." —William Shakespeare, *A Midsummer-Night's Dream* |
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) "As we neared, Belfar proclaimed the wall to be made of glass and went forward to prove it. We had no choice but to pull his hands free from where he had touched it, leaving flesh palmprints on the icy wall." —Tross, Vainus Expedition leader 0/7 |
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Creature — Homarid Warrior
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Instant Return all artifacts target player owns to their hand. This spell, like many attributed to Drafna, was actually the work of his wife and former student, Hurkyl. |
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Instant Choose one — • Counter target spell if it's red. • Destroy target permanent if it's red. "Heed the lessons of our time: the forms of water may move the land itself and hold captive the fires within." —Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran royal mage |
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Sorcery You and target player exchange control of the creature you each control with the highest mana value. Then exchange control of artifacts the same way. If two or more permanents a player controls are tied for highest, their controller chooses one of them. |
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Creature — Human Wizard
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Creature — Minotaur Whenever Labyrinth Minotaur blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. "I doubt any labyrinth minotaurs still live—but then we minotaurs are stubborn beings." —Onatah, Anaba shaman 1/4 |
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Creature — Leviathan Trample Leviathan enters the battlefield tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice two Islands. If you do, untap Leviathan. Leviathan can't attack unless you sacrifice two Islands. (This cost is paid as attackers are declared.) 10/10 |
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Enchantment Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life. "Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come." —Chinese proverb |
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Creature — Merfolk Other Merfolk get +1/+1 and have islandwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) "'We have no legs,' the warrior spat, 'for we have finished running.'" —Vodalian folktale 2/2 |
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Instant Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one basic land type with another. (For example, you may change "swampwalk" to "plainswalk." This effect lasts indefinitely.) |
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Creature — Human Wizard
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Instant Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard. "Oh, I had a conscience once. But alas, I seem to have forgotten where I put it." —Chandler |
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Creature — Merfolk Most human scholars believe that merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Each player may discard up to three cards. Mind Bomb deals damage to each player equal to 3 minus the number of cards they discarded this way. |
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Creature — Illusion Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Phantasmal Forces unless you pay These beings embody the essence of true heroes long dead. Summoned from the dreamrealms, they rise to meet their enemies. 4/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant land As Phantasmal Terrain enters the battlefield, choose a basic land type. Enchanted land is the chosen type. |
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Creature — Illusion Flying "While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door, A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh—but smile no more." —Edgar Allan Poe, "The Haunted Palace" 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Pirate Pirate Ship can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
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Sorcery Look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. You may have that player shuffle. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. |
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Instant Counter target spell unless its controller pays |
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Creature — Human Wizard
Occasionally members of the Institute of Arcane Study acquire a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment. 1/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant land Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, Psychic Venom deals 2 damage to that land's controller. |
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Instant Untap target creature an opponent controls and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn. When you lose control of the creature, tap it. |
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Sorcery Discard X cards, then return a card from your graveyard to your hand for each card discarded this way. Exile Recall. |
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Creature — Zombie Pirate Whenever Reef Pirates deals damage to an opponent, that player mills a card. Relentless as the tides, souls dark as a moonless night. Bloodshed on their minds, and greed burning in their hearts like molten gold. 2/2 |
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Instant Counter target creature spell. Nethya stiffened suddenly, head cocked as if straining to hear some distant sound, then fell lifeless to the ground. |
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Creature — Serpent Sea Serpent can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice Sea Serpent. Legend has it that serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be? 5/5 |
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Creature — Elemental Spirit
"It rose above our heads, above the ship, and still higher yet. No foggy, ice-laden sea in the world could frighten me more." —General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox 2/3 |
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Creature — Faerie Flying, protection from red "No one can catch what won't be caught." —Kakra, sea troll 1/1 |
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Creature — Merfolk When you control no Islands, sacrifice Seasinger.
You may choose not to untap Seasinger during your untap step.
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Creature — Leviathan Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) "Leviathan, too! Can you catch him with a fish-hook or run a line round his tongue?" —*The Bible*, Job 41:1 3/3 |
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Creature — Spirit Flying Whenever Sibilant Spirit attacks, defending player may draw a card. She had expected death to roar, to thunder, to growl. She did not recognize it when it came hissing to her side. 5/6 |
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Instant Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (For example, you may change "target black spell" to "target blue spell." This effect lasts indefinitely.) |
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Enchantment Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, Soul Barrier deals 2 damage to that player unless they pay "The Soul selects her own Society— Then—shuts the Door—" —Emily Dickinson, "The Soul selects her own Society" |
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Instant Counter target spell with mana value X. (For example, if that spell's mana cost is |
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Enchantment Players skip their untap steps.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Stasis unless you pay |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant artifact You control enchanted artifact. |
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Creature — Elemental When Time Elemental attacks or blocks, at end of combat, sacrifice it and it deals 5 damage to you.
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Instant You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature. |
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Instant Return target creature to its owner's hand. |
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Instant Target creature gains flying until end of turn. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. "Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." —Sir Walter Scott, "The Lady of the Lake" |
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Creature — Merfolk Soldier "Vodalian rank is displayed by the colors and patterns of their skin. Beware the color red; that is the badge of the empress's favor." —Corbio, pearl diver 1/2 |
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Creature — Wall Defender, flying (This creature can't attack, and it can block creatures with flying.) When no falcons fly, beware the sky. —Femeref aphorism 1/5 |
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Creature — Elemental Spirit Flying Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) " . . . [W]hen the trees bow down their heads, / The wind is passing by." —Christina Rossetti, "Who Has Seen the Wind?" 3/2 |
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Creature — Bird Flying, vigilance Although greatly prized among falconers, the zephyr falcon is capricious and not easily tamed. 1/1 |
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Enchantment Players play with their hands revealed. If a player would draw a card, they reveal it instead. Then any other player may pay 2 life. If a player does, put that card into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player draws a card. |
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Creature — Specter Flying Whenever Abyssal Specter deals damage to a player, that player discards a card. "Mystic shadow, bending near me, / Who art thou? / Whence come ye?" —Stephen Crane, "Mystic shadow, bending near me" 2/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature card in a graveyard When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0. |
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Sorcery Exile two target nonartifact creatures. Ashes to Ashes deals 5 damage to you. "Kings and beggars, they end the same— Surrounded by stench, rot, and blame." —Aline Corralurn, "Legacy" |
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Sorcery Exile two target nonartifact creatures. Ashes to Ashes deals 5 damage to you. |
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Enchantment Black creatures get +1/+1. |
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Creature — Human Knight First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.) Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight. 2/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant land When enchanted land becomes tapped, destroy it. |
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Creature — Imp Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) On guard for larger dangers, we underestimated the power and speed of the imp's muck-crusted claws. 1/1 |
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Creature — Rat Bog Rats can't be blocked by Walls. Their stench was vile and strong enough, but not nearly as powerful as their hunger. 1/1 |
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Creature — Wraith Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) 'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave; 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae. 3/3 |
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Creature — Wraith Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) 3/3 |
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Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Breeding Pit unless you pay The thrulls bred at a terrifying pace. In the end, they overwhelmed the Order of the Ebon Hand. |
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Instant Destroy target nonartifact attacking creature. It can't be regenerated. Create a black Spirit creature token. Its power is equal to that creature's power and its toughness is equal to that creature's toughness. Sacrifice the token at the beginning of the next end step. |
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Creature — Insect
"War is no picnic," my father liked to say. But the ants seemed to disagree. 0/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature you control Whenever enchanted creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may have it assign no combat damage this turn. If you do, defending player discards a card at random. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant land At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted land's controller, Cursed Land deals 1 damage to that player. |
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Enchantment
"Every forest is carpeted with the corpses of a thousand trees." —Baron Sengir to Autumn Willow |
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Creature — Thrull Black spells you cast cost "The derelor's greatest contribution to the Ebon Hand was the inspirational effect its creator's execution had upon the other thrull breeders." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. II* 4/4 |
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Sorcery Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness. |
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Creature — Skeleton
"The dead make good soldiers. They can't disobey orders, they never surrender, and they don't stop fighting when a random body part falls off." —Nevinyrral, *Necromancer's Handbook* 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Warrior At the beginning of your end step, if Erg Raiders didn't attack this turn, Erg Raiders deals 2 damage to you unless it came under your control this turn. 2/3 |
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Creature — Eye Non-Eye creatures you control can't attack. Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore can't be blocked except by Walls. The highway of fear is the shortest route to defeat. 3/6 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant land Enchanted land is a Swamp. |
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Creature — Angel Flying Sacrifice a creature: Fallen Angel gets +2/+1 until end of turn. "Angels are simply extensions of truth upon the fabric of life—and there is far more dark than light." —Baron Sengir 3/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) |
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Creature — Shade
"There are some qualities, some incorporate things, / That have a double life, which thus is made / A type of twin entity which springs / From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence" 0/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature When enchanted creature leaves the battlefield, its controller sacrifices a creature. "Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed casket of my soul." —John Keats, "To Sleep" |
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Enchantment White spells cost |
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Creature — Werewolf At end of combat, put a -0/-2 counter on each creature blocking or blocked by Greater Werewolf. "Two legs by day, four legs by night, eyes raging in storm-gotten might." —Ancient Northland riddle 2/4 |
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Enchantment When Hecatomb enters the battlefield, sacrifice Hecatomb unless you sacrifice four creatures. Tap an untapped Swamp you control: Hecatomb deals 1 damage to any target. |
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Instant Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn. |
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Creature — Cleric
"We are no longer Nature's children, but her masters . . . ." —Oath of the Ebon Hand 1/1 |
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Creature — Cleric
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Creature — Skeleton When Kjeldoran Dead enters the battlefield, sacrifice a creature.
"They shall drink sorrow's dregs. They shall kill those whom once they loved." —Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer 3/1 |
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Creature — Human Knight Protection from white
"Kjeldorans should rule supreme, and to the rest, death!" —Avram Garrisson, Leader of the Knights of Stromgald 2/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature When Krovikan Fetish enters the battlefield, draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. Some Krovikans find strength in the ears and eyes of their victims and wear such fetishes into battle. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature has swampwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) "Bind me to thee, my soul to thine. I am your servant and your slave. Blood for blood, flesh for flesh, Leshrac, my lord." —Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer |
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Creature — Demon Flying, trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than Lord of the Pit. If you can't, Lord of the Pit deals 7 damage to you. 7/7 |
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Creature — Spirit Minion Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Her hand gently beckons, she whispers your name—but those who go with her are never the same. 2/1 |
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Sorcery Target player discards a card. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. An end to reason, an end to order. Forget all that has been. |
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Sorcery Look at target player's hand and choose X cards from it. That player discards those cards. The hardest of wizards can have the softest of minds. |
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Creature — Thrull Whenever Mindstab Thrull attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, defending player discards three cards. 2/2 |
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Creature — Thrull Whenever Mindstab Thrull attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, defending player discards three cards. 2/2 |
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Creature — Worm You may choose not to untap Mole Worms during your untap step.
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Creature — Zombie Whenever Murk Dwellers attacks and isn't blocked, it gets +2/+0 until end of combat. When Raganorn unsealed the catacombs, he found more than the dead and their treasures. 2/2 |
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Creature — Thrull Whenever Necrite attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, destroy target creature defending player controls. It can't be regenerated. Necrites killed Jherana Rure, ending the counterinsurgency. 2/2 |
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Creature — Thrull Whenever Necrite attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, destroy target creature defending player controls. It can't be regenerated. 2/2 |
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Enchantment Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step. |
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Creature — Spirit Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if Nether Shadow is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put Nether Shadow onto the battlefield. 1/1 |
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Creature — Nightmare Horse Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Nightmare's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control. The nightmare arises from its lair in the swamps. As the poisoned land spreads, so does the nightmare's rage and terrifying strength. */* |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
When Paralyze enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.
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Enchantment At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Pestilence.
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Creature — Scorpion Whenever Pit Scorpion deals damage to a player, that player gets a poison counter. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.) Sometimes the smallest nuisance can be the greatest pain. 1/1 |
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Creature — Rat Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield. "Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you . . . ." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation" */* |
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Sorcery Each player loses a third of their life, then discards a third of the cards in their hand, then sacrifices a third of the creatures they control, then sacrifices a third of the lands they control. Round up each time. |
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Creature — Human Minion
"Aw, he's just a silly, dirty little man. What's to be afraid of?" 2/1 |
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Sorcery Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. |
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Creature — Zombie "They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise." —Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 2/2 |
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Creature — Human When Sengir Autocrat enters the battlefield, create three 0/1 black Serf creature tokens. When Sengir Autocrat leaves the battlefield, exile all Serf tokens. "Evil is relative. Do sheep think any better of the shepherd?" —Baron Sengir 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
"We have always counted time with sand; this pinch is your meaningless life." —Nailah, self-proclaimed Queen of Rabiah 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Knight
When the alliance between Balduvia and Kjeldor deprived Stromgald of easy victories, its agents were forced to fuel their rituals with their own flesh. 2/2 |
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Instant Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. |
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Creature — Demon At end of combat, gain control of all creatures blocking The Wretched for as long as you control The Wretched. Once I had the strength but no wisdom; now I have the wisdom but no strength. —Persian proverb 2/5 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. Sacrifice Thrull Retainer: Regenerate enchanted creature. "Until the Rebellion, thrulls served their masters faithfully—even at the cost of their own lives." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. II* |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
"It helps pass the time until you die." —Grandmother Sengir |
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Sorcery Touch of Death deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. You gain 1 life. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. "What was yours is mine. Your land, your people, and now your life." —Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1. |
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Creature — Bat Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
"For something is amiss or out of place / When mice with wings can wear a human face." —Theodore Roethke, "The Bat" 0/1 |
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Creature — Skeleton Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.)
"Good neighbors make good walls." —Jakkarak the Maimer 1/4 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant artifact At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted artifact's controller, Warp Artifact deals 1 damage to that player. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1. |
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Creature — Spirit
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Creature — Zombie Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Other Zombies have " He controlled the zombies even before his own death; now nothing can make them betray him. 2/3 |
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Creature — Human Rogue First strike, haste "Fair fight? I'll take survival over chivalry any day!" —Tor Wauki, Bandit King 3/1 |
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Creature — Atog Sacrifice an artifact: Atog gets +2/+2 until end of turn. The bane of all artificers, the legendary atogs devoured intricate tools to further their own twisted growth. 1/2 |
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Creature — Elemental Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Haste (This creature can attack and 6/1 |
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Creature — Human Bird Flying "Four things that never meet do here unite To shed my blood and to ravage my heart, A radiant brow and tresses that beguile And rosy cheeks and a glittering smile." —*The Arabian Nights*, trans. Haddawy 1/2 |
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Instant If target creature has toughness 5 or greater, it gets +4/-4 until end of turn. Otherwise, it gets +4/-X until end of turn, where X is its toughness minus 1. |
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Creature — Orc Brassclaw Orcs can't block creatures with power 2 or greater. "Modern Sarpadia's swarming with thrulls. It's a testament to the orcs that they've survived there so long." —Elbieta, Argivian scholar 3/2 |
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Creature — Human Shaman
Fire is never a gentle master. 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Whenever Cave People attacks, it gets +1/-2 until end of turn.
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant land You control enchanted land. "Every field watered in warriors' blood is sacred ground. Lay it not to waste, but claim it for our own—for glory, and for Stromgald!" —Avram Garrisson, Leader of the Knights of Stromgald |
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Creature — Manticore Flying
Manticores divide all beings into two categories: other manticores and dinner. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Destroy target artifact with mana value X. It can't be regenerated. Detonate deals X damage to that artifact's controller. |
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Sorcery Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead. |
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Instant Dwarven Catapult deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among all creatures target opponent controls. "Often greatly outnumbered in battle, dwarves relied on catapults as one means of damaging a large army." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV* |
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Creature — Dwarf Soldier Whenever Dwarven Soldier blocks or becomes blocked by one or more Orcs, Dwarven Soldier gets +0/+2 until end of turn. "Orc must die / Orc must die / Not an orc? / March on by." —Dwarven marching song 2/1 |
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Creature — Dwarf Warrior
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Sorcery Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 and can only attack alone. "There is no shame in solitude. The lone knight may succeed where a hundred founder." —Arna Kennerüd, skyknight |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature has vigilance. Warriors of the Tsunami-nito School spend years in training to master the way of effortless effort. |
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Creature — Drake Flying
Brimstone marks this drake's territory. Unfortunately for travelers, all of the Burning Isles smell likewise. 1/2 |
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Sorcery This spell costs |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
"And topples round the dreary west A looming bastion fringed with fire." —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam" |
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Creature — Elemental Spirit
"The spirit of the flame is the spirit of change." —Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian chieftain 2/3 |
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Instant Flare deals 1 damage to any target. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. The secret of destruction is simple: everything burns. |
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Sorcery Destroy all Plains. |
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Sorcery Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 1 life and target opponent loses 1 life, and you decide whether to flip again. If you lose the flip, you lose 1 life and that opponent gains 1 life, and that player decides whether to flip again. Double the life stakes with each flip. |
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Sorcery Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 1 life and target opponent loses 1 life, and you decide whether to flip again. If you lose the flip, you lose 1 life and that opponent gains 1 life, and that player decides whether to flip again. Double the life stakes with each flip. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2. "O! it is excellent / To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant." —William Shakespeare, *Measure for Measure* |
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Creature — Goblin
"From down here we can make the whole wall collapse!" "Uh, yeah, boss, but how do we get out?" 1/1 |
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Creature — Goblin "When you're a goblin, you don't have to step forward to be a hero—everyone else just has to step back!" —Biggum Flodrot, goblin veteran 2/2 |
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Creature — Goblin Other Goblins get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk. To be king, Numsgil did in Blog, who did in Unkful, who did in Viddle, who did in Loll, who did in Alrok . . . . 2/2 |
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Enchantment Creatures you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) "Goblins charge with a deafening war cry. The cry doesn't mean anything—it just drowns out the drums!" —Reod Dai, mercenary |
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Enchantment
"Goblins bred underground, their numbers hidden from the enemy until it was too late." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV* |
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Creature — Giant Fortunately, hill giants have large blind spots in which a human can easily hide. Unfortunately, these blind spots are beneath the bottoms of their feet. 3/3 |
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Creature — Minotaur The minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds. 2/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) With the horrible mask, Lagfrak the Low terrorized the countryside. But then he met Il-Chunt, the mask's model . . . . |
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Instant Incinerate deals 3 damage to any target. A creature dealt damage this way can't be regenerated this turn. "Yes, I think 'toast' is an appropriate description." —Jaya Ballard, task mage |
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Instant Inferno deals 6 damage to each creature and each player. "Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They're dead." —Jaya Ballard, task mage |
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Instant Inferno deals 6 damage to each creature and each player. "Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They're dead." —Jaya Ballard, task mage |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -0/-1. Enchanted creature can't block creatures with power equal to or greater than the enchanted creature's toughness. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -0/-1. Enchanted creature can't block creatures with power equal to or greater than the enchanted creature's toughness. |
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Creature — Orc Ironclaw Orcs can't block creatures with power 2 or greater. Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and lands. They can't be regenerated. "The raging waters had swept away trees, bridges, and even houses. My healers had much work to do." —Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest |
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Creature — Human Barbarian Keldon Warlord's power and toughness are each equal to the number of non-Wall creatures you control. What if they threw a war, and *everybody* came? */* |
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Sorcery You and target opponent each flip a coin. Mana Clash deals 1 damage to each player whose coin comes up tails. Repeat this process until both players' coins come up heads on the same flip. |
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Enchantment Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced. |
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Enchantment Whenever a player taps a land for mana, Manabarbs deals 1 damage to that player. |
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Enchantment Whenever a player taps a land for mana, Manabarbs deals 1 damage to that player. |
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Creature — Goblin The intricate dynamics of Rundvelt goblin affairs are often confused with anarchy. The chaos, however, is the chaos of a thundercloud, and direction will sporadically and violently appear. Pashalik Mons and his raiders are the thunderhead that leads in the storm. 1/1 |
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Creature — Goat Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.) "Folklore has it that to capture a mountain goat is a sign of divine blessing. I just know it's a sign that dinner is on the way." —Klazina Jansdotter, Leader of the Order of the Sacred Torch 1/1 |
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Creature — Orc Warrior
In a rare display of ingenuity, the orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness. 1/3 |
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Creature — Orc Warrior
There's a chance to win every battle. 1/1 |
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Creature — Orc Orcish Conscripts can't attack unless at least two other creatures attack. Orcish Conscripts can't block unless at least two other creatures block. 2/2 |
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Creature — Orc
There is no natural disaster quite like orcish farming. 2/2 |
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Enchantment Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0. |
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Creature — Orc Whenever Orcish Squatters attacks and isn't blocked, you may gain control of target land defending player controls for as long as you control Orcish Squatters. If you do, Orcish Squatters assigns no combat damage this turn. 2/3 |
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Creature — Orgg Trample Orgg can't attack if defending player controls an untapped creature with power 3 or greater. Orgg can't block creatures with power 3 or greater. It's bigger than it thinks. 6/6 |
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Instant Cast this spell only during combat before blockers are declared. Target creature can't block this turn. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. |
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Creature — Ooze Primordial Ooze attacks each combat if able.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on Primordial Ooze. Then you may pay 1/1 |
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Instant Choose one — • Counter target spell if it's blue. • Destroy target permanent if it's blue. "Just the thing for those pesky water mages." —Jaya Ballard, task mage |
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Sorcery Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. "Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me! / Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return." —Navajo war chant |
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Creature — Cat First strike "I fear anything with teeth measured in handspans!" —Norin the Wary 2/1 |
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Instant Destroy target artifact. |
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Sorcery Destroy all artifacts. They can't be regenerated. Chains of leaping fire and sizzling lightning laid waste the artificers' handiwork, sparing not a single device. |
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Creature — Dragon Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
While it's true most dragons are cruel, the Shivan dragon seems to take particular glee in the misery of others, often tormenting its victims much like a cat plays with a mouse before delivering the final blow. 5/5 |
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Creature — Dragon Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
While it's true most dragons are cruel, the Shivan dragon seems to take particular glee in the misery of others, often tormenting its victims much like a cat plays with a mouse before delivering the final blow. 5/5 |
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Enchantment Players can't untap more than one creature during their untap steps. |
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Creature — Giant
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Sorcery Destroy target land. |
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Creature — Elemental Spirit Stone Spirit can't be blocked by creatures with flying. "The spirit of the stone is the spirit of strength." —Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian chieftain 4/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0.
After years of being bullied, Fergo reaped the benefits of his newfound strength: he never met a man he didn't want to fight. |
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.)
"Struggle, and you will only fan the flames." —Talibah, embermage 0/5 |
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) The ground itself lends its strength to these walls of living stone, which possess the stability of ancient mountains. These mighty bulwarks thwart ground-based troops, providing welcome relief for weary warriors who defend the land. 0/8 |
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Sorcery Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards. "'Tis the set of sails, and not the gales, Which tells us the way to go." —Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Winds of Fate" |
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Instant Destroy target Wall. It can't be regenerated. Word of Blasting deals damage equal to that Wall's mana value to the Wall's controller. "Walls? What walls?" —Jaya Ballard, task mage |
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Creature — Human An-Havva Constable's toughness is equal to 1 plus the number of green creatures on the battlefield. "Joskun and the other constables serve with passion, if not with grace." —Devin, faerie noble 2/1+* |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +X/+Y, where X is half the number of Forests you control, rounded down, and Y is half the number of Forests you control, rounded up. |
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Creature — Aurochs Trample Whenever Aurochs attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking Aurochs. One auroch may feed a village, but a herd will flatten it. 2/3 |
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Creature — Bird Flying
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+2. Sacrifice Carapace: Regenerate enchanted creature. "Now *that's* a fashion statement." —Devin, faerie noble |
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Creature — Cat Warrior Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.) These stealthy felines have survived so many battles that some believe they must possess many lives. 2/2 |
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Creature — Frog Whenever Chub Toad blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Chub toad, chub toad At the door. Run away quick Or you'll run no more. —Traditional children's rhyme 1/1 |
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Creature — Cockatrice Flying Whenever Cockatrice blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat. 2/4 |
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Creature — Giant Trample Rampage 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.) Harthag gave a jolly laugh as he surveyed the army before him. "Ho ho ho! Midgets! You think you can stand in my way?" 6/4 |
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Creature — Wurm The most terrifying thing about the craw wurm is probably the horrible crashing sound it makes as it speeds through the forest. This noise is so loud it echoes through the trees and seems to come from all directions at once. 6/4 |
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Instant Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. That artifact's controller gains life equal to its mana value. "Ashes and dust; dust and ashes. Hope it works before it smashes." —Argivian children's rhyme |
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Sorcery Destroy target permanent. |
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Creature — Boar "And the unclean spirits went out, and entered the swine: and the herd ran violently . . . ." —*The Bible*, Mark 5:13 4/4 |
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Creature — Elf Cleric Druid
"Did clouds dance in his eyes, did thorns play at his fingertips?" —Shesul Fass, faerie bard 2/2 |
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Creature — Elf Elven Riders can't be blocked except by Walls and/or creatures with flying. Sometimes it is better to be swift of foot than strong of swordarm. —Elven proverb 3/3 |
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Creature — Elf Archer First strike I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!" 2/1 |
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Instant Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. |
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Creature — Elemental Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, Force of Nature deals 8 damage to you unless you pay "It blinked, and flower petals fell like tears. Harthar, sensing weakness, attacked—and his blood fell like petals." —Shesul Fass, faerie bard 8/8 |
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Instant Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. "Only the foolish fear foxfire." —Kolbjörn, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order |
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Creature — Fungus Dinosaur Whenever Fungusaur is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Rather than sheltering her young, the female fungusaur often injures her own offspring, thereby ensuring their rapid growth. 2/2 |
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Creature — Elf Druid
"Do we know what we're doing? Yes—the will of Freyalise." —Laina of the Elvish Council 1/1 |
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Creature — Ogre At the beginning of your upkeep, if a player has more life than each other player, the player with the most life gains control of Ghazbán Ogre. "We were holding our own—until the ogre guiding us suddenly grinned and turned on our commander." —Ivra Jursdotter, Sarpadian mercenary 2/2 |
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Instant Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. |
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Creature — Spider Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) While it possesses potent venom, the giant spider often chooses not to paralyze its victims. Perhaps the creature enjoys the gentle rocking motion caused by its captives' struggles to escape its web. 2/4 |
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Creature — Bear Don't try to outrun one of Dominaria's grizzlies; it'll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you'll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you. 2/2 |
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Creature — Elemental At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Hungry Mist unless you pay "All things must eat, after all. Even the air can hunger." —Gemma, Willow priestess 6/2 |
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Sorcery Hurricane deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player. "The raging winds . . . , settling on the sea, the surges sweep, / Raise liquid mountains, and disclose the deep." —Virgil, *Aeneid, Book I*, trans. Dryden |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can attack as though it had haste.
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Creature — Treefolk "'I'll show you how to handle the treefolk!' the giant bragged, and he strode off into the forest. Two days later he returned, his face masked in sap and a nest behind his ear. None dared ask who won." —Azeworai, "The Treeling" 3/5 |
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Creature — Wurm Whenever Johtull Wurm becomes blocked, it gets -2/-1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first. "To bring her down we must be on all sides at once—leave one avenue open and we'll all be dead." —Taaveti of Kelsinko, elvish hunter 6/6 |
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Creature — Insect Flying
The communal mind produces a savage strategy, yet no one could predict that this vicious crossbreed would unravel the secret of steel. 0/1 |
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Creature — Human Druid
After years of training, the druid becomes one with nature, drawing power from the land and returning it when needed. 1/1 |
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Creature — Lhurgoyf Lhurgoyf's power is equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1. "Ach! Hans, run! It's the lhurgoyf!" —Saffi Eriksdotter, last words */1+* |
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Enchantment
"Every fallen tree nourishes a thousand seedlings." —Autumn Willow to Baron Sengir |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on Living Artifact. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from Living Artifact. If you do, you gain 1 life. |
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Enchantment All Forests are 1/1 creatures that are still lands. |
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Creature — Elf Druid
One bone broken for every twig snapped underfoot. —Llanowar penalty for trespassing 1/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so. "When setting a snare, success depends not on the quality of the trap, but the quality of the bait." —Geyadrone Dihada |
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Creature — Snake Whenever Marsh Viper deals damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.) "And the seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued." —Edgar Allan Poe, "The Conqueror Wurm" 1/2 |
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Sorcery Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. "It is in our nature to recognize beauty, but to repeat it—ah, that is another feat altogether." —Hannah of Verdura |
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Creature — Human Nomad
"A mysterious people indeed. Their origins are as secret as their traditions." —Lord Magnus of Llanowar 1/1 |
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Enchantment At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Primal Order deals damage to that player equal to the number of nonbasic lands they control. "My sorrow: to dream of simple times, and wake in mine . . . ." —Ola DaRiol, "Regrets" |
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Creature — Wombat Vigilance Rabid Wombat gets +2/+2 for each Aura attached to it. 0/1 |
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Creature — Spirit
"Crawing, crawing, For my crowse crawing, I lost the best feather i' my wing For my crowse crawing." —Anonymous Scottish ballad 3/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)
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Creature — Wurm "Flourishing during the Ice Age, these wurms were the bane of all Kjeldorans. Their great size and ferocity made them the subject of countless nightmares—they embodied the worst of the Ice Age." —*Kjeldor: Ice Civilization* 7/6 |
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Creature — Human
"Stoop, pick, turn, toss. This is the way we mourn our loss." —Scavenger dirge 1/1 |
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Creature — Faerie Flying The only sound was the gentle clicking of the faeries' wings. Then those intruders who were still standing turned and fled. One thing was certain: they didn't think the Scryb were very funny anymore. 1/1 |
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Creature — Nymph Dryad Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.) Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be. 1/1 |
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Instant Target creature gets -5/-0 until end of turn. "May you decrease like coal upon the hearth . . . Evaporate like water in a pail, Become as little as a linseed-grain . . . And so diminish that you come to nothing." —Anglo-Saxon curse |
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Instant Attacking creatures get +1/+0 and gain trample until end of turn. "When are beasts like a river?" —*The One Thousand Questions* |
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Sorcery Target player gains X life. |
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Enchantment At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library. |
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Creature — Horse When Tarpan dies, you gain 1 life. "A good tarpan will serve you, faithful and true. A bad one will kick you in the head." —General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox 1/1 |
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Creature — Basilisk Whenever Thicket Basilisk blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat. Moss-covered statues littered the area, a macabre monument to the basilisk's terrible power. 2/4 |
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Enchantment Each noncreature artifact loses all abilities and becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value. If Titania's Song leaves the battlefield, this effect continues until end of turn. |
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Sorcery Destroy all enchantments. |
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Sorcery Destroy all Islands. |
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Sorcery Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy the other creature at end of combat. "I told him it was just a flesh wound, but the next time I looked at him, poor Tadhg was dead and gone." —Maeveen O'Donagh, *Memoirs of a Soldier* |
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Creature — Human Druid Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may draw a card. "Weave the magic so that it sings to you, and will always fly home . . . ." —Verduran teaching 0/2 |
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Creature — Plant Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Sleeping in brambles —Elven phrase meaning "plagued by guilt" 2/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Wanderlust deals 1 damage to that player. "How terrible to wander wishing only to escape oneself." —Taysir |
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Creature — Elephant Trample I didn't think mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters. 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Monk Protection from black At the beginning of each end step, if Whirling Dervish dealt damage to an opponent this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it. 1/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant land
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Sorcery Tap X target creatures. Winter Blast deals 2 damage to each of those creatures with flying. "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!" —William Shakespeare, *King Lear* |
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Creature — Wolverine Rampage 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.) "Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils." —William Shakespeare, *King Henry V* 2/4 |
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Creature — Wolf
"When one wolf calls, others follow. Who wants to fight creatures that eat scorpions?" —Maimun al-Wyluli, diary 1/1 |
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Artifact
". . . [T]he magician drew a ring off his finger . . . , saying: 'It is a talisman against all evil, so long as you obey me.'" —*The Arabian Nights*, Junior Classics trans. |
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Artifact
Among the first allies Urza gained were the people of Kroog. As a sign of friendship, Urza gave the healers of the city potent amulets; afterwards, thousands journeyed to Kroog in hope of healing. |
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Artifact Whenever a land enters the battlefield, Ankh of Mishra deals 2 damage to that land's controller. Tawnos finally cracked the puzzle: the strange structures did not house Mishra's malevolent creations but were themselves among his creations. |
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Artifact Sacrifice a creature: Add The Brothers' War scarred the land, but Ashnod left her mark in the bloodlines of those she tortured. |
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Ashnod found few willing to trade their humanity for the power she offered. |
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For a dozen years the cage had held Lord Ith, but as the Pretender Mairsil's power weakened, so did the bars. |
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Artifact Creature — Construct At the beginning of combat on your turn, Battering Ram gains banding until end of combat. (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 being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.) Whenever Battering Ram becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat. By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls. 1/1 |
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Artifact Creature — Golem
Tawnos won fame as Urza's greatest assistant. After he created these warriors, Urza ended his apprenticeship, promoting him directly to the rank of master. 3/1 |
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Artifact Creature — Beast Clockwork Beast enters the battlefield with seven +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Beast attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
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Artifact Creature — Horse Clockwork Steed enters the battlefield with four +1/+0 counters on it.
Clockwork Steed can't be blocked by artifact creatures.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Steed attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
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Artifact Creature — Golem Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Colossus of Sardia doesn't untap during your untap step.
From the Sardian mountains wakes ancient doom: / Warrior born from a rocky womb. 9/9 |
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Artifact Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay |
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Artifact Creature — Spirit Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Bobbing merrily from opponent to opponent, the scimitar began adding playful little flourishes to its strokes; it even turned a couple of somersaults. 1/5 |
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Artifact Creature — Construct
"The bolts of our ballistae smashed into the monstrous thing, but our hopes died in our chests as its gears continued turning." —Sevti Mukul, *The Fall of Alsoor* 4/4 |
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Artifact Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Dingus Egg deals 2 damage to that land's controller. |
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Artifact Creature — Construct
"How is it the legged engines seem so much more alive than their wheeled counterparts? Simply, they were born, not made." —Mishra 1/3 |
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Feldon found the first of these canes frozen in the Ronom Glacier. |
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Throw stones, and throw away the world. —Dwarven proverb |
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Artifact Creature spells cost "Without the protection of Feroz's Ban, I fear the Homelands are lost." —Daria |
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The fountain had stood in the town square for centuries, but only the pigeons knew its secret. |
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Artifact Creature — Construct
Recent research suggests these creatures were invented by Urza's and Mishra's original master, Tocasia, and that both brothers used them. 2/3 |
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Artifact
Whether inspired by fear or by honor, all loyalty lends might. |
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Artifact At the beginning of each player's draw step, if Howling Mine is untapped, that player draws an additional card. |
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Artifact At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on Infinite Hourglass.
All creatures get +1/+0 for each time counter on Infinite Hourglass.
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Artifact Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay |
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Artifact Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay |
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This timeworn relic was responsible for many of Urza's victories, though he never fully comprehended its mystic runes. |
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Each day of their journey, Jandor opened the saddlebags and found them full of mutton, quinces, cheese, date rolls, wine, and all manner of delicious and satisfying foods. |
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"Know your foes' strengths as well as their weaknesses." —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi machinist |
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"If that thief Joven ever shows his head around here again, make sure he leaves without it." —Eron the Relentless |
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Artifact You have no maximum hand size. If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard. |
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Artifact Mana Vault doesn't untap during your untap step.
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Artifact Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. When the mighty sleep, the lowly prowl. |
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More than one mage has been driven insane by the sound of the millstone relentlessly grinding away. |
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Artifact Nevinyrral's Disk enters the battlefield tapped.
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The Battle of Tomakul taught Urza not to rely on fickle reinforcements. |
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Artifact Creature — Thopter Flying "It has been my honor to improve on Thran's original design. Perhaps history will remember me in some small part for my work." —Urza, in his apprenticeship 0/2 |
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A mirror, a shield, a promise, a great distance, and a kind word—five ways to avoid harm. |
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Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter As Primal Clay enters the battlefield, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 artifact creature, a 2/2 artifact creature with flying, or a 1/6 Wall artifact creature with defender in addition to its other types. (A creature with defender can't attack.) */* |
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Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter As Shapeshifter enters the battlefield, choose a number between 0 and 7. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may choose a number between 0 and 7. Shapeshifter's power is equal to the last chosen number and its toughness is equal to 7 minus that number. */7-* |
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"Let any who doubt the evil of using the ancient devices look at this infernal machine. What manner of fiend would design such a sadistic device?" —Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi heretic |
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Artifact Whenever a creature dies, you may pay |
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Artifact You may choose not to untap Tawnos's Weaponry during your untap step.
When war machines became too costly, Tawnos's weaponry replaced them. |
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Mouths and wings beyond numbering, but a single mind to guide them. |
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Artifact Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay |
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Artifact At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on Time Bomb.
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Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter
Unable to settle on just one design, Urza decided to create one versatile being. 4/4 |
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Artifact Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) First strike Even the most conservative generals revised their tactics after the Battle of Sarinth, during which a handful of peasant-pikemen held off a trio of rampaging craw wurms. 2/3 |
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Artifact As long as Winter Orb is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps. "When once winter has ahold, Not willingly does she withdraw Her icy touch, wistfully caressing— The deepened air sleeps its cold." —Aline Corralurn, "Late Thaw" |
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Artifact Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may pay |
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Land Bottomless Vault enters the battlefield tapped.
You may choose not to untap Bottomless Vault during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Bottomless Vault is tapped, put a storage counter on it.
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Land Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
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Land Dwarven Hold enters the battlefield tapped.
You may choose not to untap Dwarven Hold during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Dwarven Hold is tapped, put a storage counter on it.
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Land Dwarven Ruins enters the battlefield tapped.
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Land Ebon Stronghold enters the battlefield tapped.
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Land Havenwood Battleground enters the battlefield tapped.
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Land Hollow Trees enters the battlefield tapped.
You may choose not to untap Hollow Trees during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Hollow Trees is tapped, put a storage counter on it.
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Land Icatian Store enters the battlefield tapped.
You may choose not to untap Icatian Store during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Icatian Store is tapped, put a storage counter on it.
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Land You may choose not to untap Ice Floe during your untap step.
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Land Ruins of Trokair enters the battlefield tapped.
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Land Sand Silos enters the battlefield tapped.
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At the beginning of your upkeep, if Sand Silos is tapped, put a storage counter on it.
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Land Svyelunite Temple enters the battlefield tapped.
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Land — Urza's Mine
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Land — Urza's Power-Plant
Artifact construction required immense resources. |
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Land — Urza's Tower
Urza always put Tocasia's lessons on resource-gathering to effective use. |
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