Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas
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Legendary Planeswalker — Ajani [+1]: Target permanent doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. [−2]: Ajani Vengeant deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life. [−7]: Destroy all lands target player controls. |
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Creature — Ape Kird Ape gets +1/+2 as long as you control a Forest. Apes can be gentle, contemplative beasts—but context is everything. 1/1 |
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Creature — Elf Shaman Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. "The more our numbers grow, the more I gain hope that Volrath and his cursed stronghold will one day fall." —Eladamri, Lord of Leaves 1/1 |
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Creature — Cat Warrior Wild Nacatl gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Mountain. Wild Nacatl gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Plains. "The Cloud Nacatl sit and think, a bunch of soft paws. We are the Claws of Marisi, stalking, pouncing, drawing blood." 1/1 |
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Creature — Cat Loam Lion gets +1/+2 as long as you control a Forest. In Zendikar, today's grassland could be tomorrow's jungle, and hunting grounds change as quickly as the weather. 1/1 |
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Creature — Cat Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.) "Relative of yours?" Ertai teased. Mirri simply sneered. 2/1 |
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Creature — Human Shaman
"We are one with the wild things. Life blooms from our fingertips and nature responds to our summons." —Jade creed 2/1 |
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Creature — Elf Scout Ranger When Sylvan Ranger enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. "Not all paths are found on the forest floor." 1/1 |
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Creature — Cat Soldier Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Ajani's Pridemate. "When one of us prospers, the pride prospers." —Jazal Goldmane 2/2 |
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Creature — Cat Wizard Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
An elder in one pride, of the Sigiled caste in another. 2/2 |
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Creature — Antelope Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain 2 life. "Don't be fooled. If it were as docile as it looks, it would've died off long ago." —Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist 2/2 |
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Creature — Cat Flash When Fleetfoot Panther enters the battlefield, return a green or white creature you control to its owner's hand. 3/4 |
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Creature — Beast One of the most ferocious and deadly gargantuans, the thoctar never sees its worshippers, but it often awakens surrounded by gifts and sacrifices. 5/4 |
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Creature — Elemental Flash
When Briarhorn enters the battlefield, target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
Evoke 3/3 |
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Creature — Elephant Cleric When Loxodon Hierarch enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life.
"I have lived long, and I remember how this city once was. If my death serves to bring back the Ravnica in my memory, then so be it." 4/4 |
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Creature — Elemental Whenever Spitemare is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to any target. "I knew a creature carved from a dream of wild freedom. Any attempt to leash or exploit it failed, and at terrible cost." —Ashling 3/3 |
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Creature — Cat Warrior Double strike "Looks like we're completely outnumbered." "Lucky for us. I thought we'd be bored." 2/4 |
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Creature — Elemental Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on Ageless Entity. Tel-Jilad's sworn protectors are the trolls, yet more fearsome protectors were created by the Tangle itself. 4/4 |
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Creature — Cat You may have Pride of Lions assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked. There's only one thing worse than a hungry lion—many hungry lions. 4/4 |
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Creature — Cat Warrior Vigilance
"We must hunt and kill the dragon before it can return to raze our ancient city." 5/4 |
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Creature — Angel Flying, first strike
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Firemane Angel is in your graveyard or on the battlefield, you may gain 1 life.
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Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, you may gain 1 life. "He hasn't returned to the Cloud Forest. But I can still sense his calming presence." —Zaliki of Naya |
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Instant Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life. "Rage is not the answer. Rage followed by fitting vengeance is the answer." —Ajani |
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Sorcery Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal any number of creature cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying. When enchanted creature dies, create a 2/2 white Griffin creature token with flying. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may gain 1 life. Kithkin somnomancers enjoy the peaceful dreams wafting from their victims. |
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Enchantment Whenever you gain life, you may pay "When I meditate I see the world as it should be. All that does not fit, I remove." —Alovnek, Boros guildmage |
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Artifact — Equipment Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has trample and lifelink.
Equip "May this grant you all the strength of the behemoths and none of their serenity." —Ajani |
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Instant Choose one — • Naya Charm deals 3 damage to target creature. • Return target card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. • Tap all creatures target player controls. Deep in nature's core lies a potential unsullied by greed or civilization. |
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Instant Target player gains 8 life.
Basic landcycling Some who scouted new lands chose to stay. |
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Sorcery Until end of turn, creatures you control get +5/+5 and gain first strike, trample, and lifelink. "Retribution is best delivered by claws and rage, with both magnified." —Ajani |
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Land
Every world is an organism, able to grow new lands. Some just do it faster than others. |
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Land Graypelt Refuge enters the battlefield tapped.
When Graypelt Refuge enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
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Land Jungle Shrine enters the battlefield tapped.
On Naya, ambition and treachery are scarce, hunted nearly to extinction by the awe owed to terrestrial gods. |
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Land Kazandu Refuge enters the battlefield tapped.
When Kazandu Refuge enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
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Land — Forest ( |
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Land
In the autumn, she casts her seeds across the streets below, and come spring, her children rise in service to the Conclave. |
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Basic Land — Forest ( |
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Basic Land — Forest ( |
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Basic Land — Plains ( |
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Basic Land — Mountain ( |
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Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas [+3]: Destroy target noncreature permanent. [−2]: Gain control of target creature. [−9]: Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker deals 7 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards seven cards, then sacrifices seven permanents. |
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Creature — Faerie Rogue Flying When Surveilling Sprite dies, you may draw a card. Their natural curiosity, combined with a knack for trespassing, makes sprites excellent spies. 1/1 |
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Creature — Zombie Blue spells and red spells you cast cost Nightscape masters don't stop at raising the spirit of a fallen battlemage. They raise the flesh along with it. 1/1 |
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Creature — Goblin Zombie Whenever Slavering Nulls deals combat damage to a player, if you control a Swamp, you may have that player discard a card. Having lost their minds, they now want yours. 2/1 |
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Creature — Elemental When Brackwater Elemental attacks or blocks, sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Unearth 4/4 |
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Creature — Frog Sacrifice Morgue Toad: Add "The toads of Urborg aren't fast, powerful, or pleasant, but they have their uses." —Ertai 2/2 |
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Creature — Elemental Dog At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has two or fewer cards in hand, Hellfire Mongrel deals 2 damage to that player. There is no fondness between the hound and its master. There is only a common appreciation of the hunt. 2/2 |
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Creature — Spirit Whenever Dimir Cutpurse deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you draw a card. Other guilds demand tolls from those who travel their territories, but not House Dimir. It takes its share secretly, one coin purse at a time. 2/2 |
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Creature — Weird When Steamcore Weird enters the battlefield, if Like many Izzet creations, weirds are based on wild contradictions yet somehow manage to work. 1/3 |
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Creature — Vampire Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life. "Touched by moroii" —Undercity slang meaning "to grow old" 4/4 |
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Creature — Specter Flying, haste Whenever Blazing Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card. 2/2 |
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Creature — Ogre Mutant First strike
Unearth 4/2 |
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Creature — Elemental Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When Shriekmaw enters the battlefield, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke 3/2 |
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Creature — Ogre Wizard When Ogre Savant enters the battlefield, if He's an oxymoron. 3/2 |
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Creature — Zombie Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Islandcycling 2/4 |
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Creature — Elemental Haste
Swampcycling 5/1 |
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Instant Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 1 life. "This creature is inadequate. Send it to the splicers for innovation." —Malcator, Executor of Synthesis |
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Instant Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life. "The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists." —Nicol Bolas |
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Artifact
Like most features of Grixis, the obelisks that remain from the time of Alara now exist only for dark exploitation. |
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Instant Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Then that player discards a card. Anything sent into a plagued world is bound to come back infected. |
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Instant Counter target spell. Its controller loses 3 life. "Which would you like first, the insult or the injury?" |
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Instant Choose one — • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. • Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. "So many choices. Shall I choose loathing, hate, or malice today?" —Eliza of the Keep |
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Artifact
In fire there is the spark of chaos and destruction, the seed of life. In ice there is perfect tranquility, perfect order, and the silence of death. |
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Sorcery Target player draws two cards.
Flashback— "No fact escapes me. Why do you think you can?" |
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Instant Kicker |
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Sorcery Gain control of target creature. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Nicol Bolas doesn't distinguish between servants and victims. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has flying. Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a player, that player discards two cards. Taste his power, hunger for his command. |
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Sorcery Target opponent sacrifices a creature, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life. There is always a greater power. |
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Sorcery Choose two — • Target player loses X life. • Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. • Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) |
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Instant Counter target noncreature spell. |
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Instant Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. |
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Sorcery Target player discards a card. |
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Sorcery Destroy target land. |
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Sorcery Return target creature card from a graveyard and target creature on the battlefield to their owners' hands. |
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Sorcery Target player reveals two cards at random from their hand, then discards each nonland card revealed this way. |
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Land Crumbling Necropolis enters the battlefield tapped.
"They say the ruins of Sedraxis were once a shining capital in Vithia. Now it is a blight, a place to be avoided by the living." —Olcot, Rider of Joffik |
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Land Rupture Spire enters the battlefield tapped.
When Rupture Spire enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you pay |
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Land
Take two steps north into the unsettled future, south into the unquiet past, east into the present day, or west into the great unknown. |
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Basic Land — Swamp ( |
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Basic Land — Swamp ( |
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Basic Land — Island ( |
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Basic Land — Mountain ( |
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