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Instant Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains flying and first strike until end of turn. "When you put all of yourself into an attack, without fear or hesitation, in that instant you may attain greatness." —Predak, Gateless freemage |
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Sorcery Exile target creature or enchantment. The Boros built a prison in the sky where Azorius statutes couldn't restrict their sense of justice. |
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Creature — Angel Flying At the beginning of each combat, choose first strike, vigilance, or lifelink. Creatures you control gain that ability until end of turn. "A keen mind wields an army as a deft hand wields a sword." 4/4 |
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Creature — Griffin Flying "The Simic offer a prize to any biomancer who can breed a krasis to match a griffin in the air. It's never been claimed." —Libuse, Boros sergeant 3/2 |
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Creature — Human Soldier Defender
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay "None may pass . . . for free." 1/4 |
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Enchantment Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay "By the time your knees have worn through your robe, you may have begun to learn your place." |
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Creature — Human Soldier Battalion — Whenever Boros Elite and at least two other creatures attack, Boros Elite gets +2/+2 until end of turn. "First, you must fight among the rank and file. It is there I will discern your skills as a leader." —Aurelia, to Gideon Jura 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Soldier Whenever another white creature enters the battlefield under your control, tap target creature an opponent controls. "The Boros fight for justice. The Azorius fight for law. I hold the line between, and make sure the people are given both." 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Knight Battalion — Whenever Daring Skyjek and at least two other creatures attack, Daring Skyjek gains flying until end of turn. "The hard part isn't landing in the saddle. The hard part is leaping before you see it." 3/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant land
Enchanted land has " "You may not be able to pay. But you can still kneel." —Milana, Orzhov prelate |
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Creature — Thrull
"They are useful, but there's little satisfaction in supplication that throws itself under your heel." —Jozica, Orzhov enforcer 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Cleric Battalion — Whenever Frontline Medic and at least two other creatures attack, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Sacrifice Frontline Medic: Counter target spell with 3/3 |
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Legendary Planeswalker — Gideon [+1]: Put a loyalty counter on Gideon, Champion of Justice for each creature target opponent controls. [0]: Until end of turn, Gideon, Champion of Justice becomes a Human Soldier creature with power and toughness each equal to the number of loyalty counters on him and gains indestructible. He's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn. [−15]: Exile all other permanents. |
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Creature — Angel Flying Guardian of the Gateless can block any number of creatures. Whenever Guardian of the Gateless blocks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature it's blocking. 3/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from multicolored. "The Gateless have risen. The Ten shall fall." —Ninth District graffiti |
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Enchantment Creatures you control get +0/+1 for each Gate you control and have vigilance. "We grew up on these streets. We know them better than any Boros grunt from Zelzo." |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from creatures. "The guilds promise to provide safety. I prefer to make my own." —Briska, Ninth District freemage |
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Creature — Human Knight Vigilance
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay He can calculate interest to six decimal places even in the midst of a deadly duel. 2/4 |
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Sorcery Create two 2/2 white Knight creature tokens with vigilance. "We lost respect after the battle for Barbu Rooftop. Send the troops to mingle respectfully with the citizens." —Commander Yaszen of Boros |
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Creature — Avatar Vigilance When Luminate Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, exile up to one target creature that player controls and that player gains life equal to its power. 4/7 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature you control When enchanted creature dies, create X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens, where X is its power. "Every death has a web of consequences. Our job is to find the spider." |
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Creature — Human Soldier Battalion — Whenever Nav Squad Commandos and at least two other creatures attack, Nav Squad Commandos gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Untap it. Funded by the Azorius to keep current maps of the undercity, the Boros nav squads survey even the most unsavory areas. 3/5 |
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Sorcery Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn. "In the name of peace, moderation, and decency—wipe them all out!" |
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Instant Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn. Izzet delved into the depths of Ravnica's past, and Selesnya followed without fear. |
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Instant Destroy target blocked creature. "Sure, today of all days, he asked to borrow my boots!" —Darijo, Ivy Street ruffian |
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Creature — Human Cleric Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay "Entrance is free. Donations are required." —Notice outside Vizkopa Bank 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Cleric When Urbis Protector enters the battlefield, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. "I hear that Boros is losing its angels to the Gateless Movement. I'm sure this comes as no surprise to you." —Teysa, to Lazav 1/1 |
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Creature — Cat
"The taming and consecration of these creatures is evidence of our faith." —Resimir, Zarichi Temple priest 2/3 |
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Instant Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand. "You can come back once you've learned some manners—and figured out how to reconstitute your physical forms." |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -5/-0.
"Everyone in this city is choosing sides. I choose inside." |
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Creature — Jellyfish Defender Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) 1/4 |
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Creature — Bird Mutant Flying Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) 0/1 |
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Creature — Avatar Flying When Diluvian Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead. 5/5 |
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Sorcery Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your library, then put a card from your hand on top of your library. You have no maximum hand size until your next turn. "Don't just have an idea—have all of them." —Niv-Mizzet |
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Creature — Homunculus
"Understand the Simic? That's about as easy as winning a staring contest with a homunculus." —Dars Gostok, Firefist captain 1/3 |
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Instant Tap X target nonland permanents. "One tiny peg pulled from a single wagon wheel, and an entire district grinds to a halt." —Lazav |
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Sorcery Tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.) |
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Creature — Human Wizard Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, Incursion Specialist gets +2/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. "Work for the Dimir again? That depends. Tell me more about this maze." 1/3 |
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Creature — Human Rogue Keymaster Rogue can't be blocked. When Keymaster Rogue enters the battlefield, return a creature you control to its owner's hand. "This one opens the grate outside Zelzo Base. This one is for Ismeri Library. This one is for an invisible door . . . No, I've said too much." 3/2 |
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Sorcery Draw a card. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.) |
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Creature — Illusion When Leyline Phantom deals combat damage, return it to its owner's hand. (Return it only if it survived combat.) "Is the maze itself a phantom? Or is one as real as the other? Perhaps I am as mad as the dragon." —Jace Beleren, journal 5/5 |
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Creature — Faerie Rogue Flying
"Well, if that goblin didn't want his tongue pierced, he shouldn't have stuck it out at me." 1/2 |
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Creature — Drake Flying When Mindeye Drake dies, target player mills five cards. They can map both the cityscape and the minds of its architects. 2/5 |
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Instant Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token. "We've merged your life essence with that of several creatures at once. You're welcome." —Speaker Trifon |
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Creature — Vedalken Wizard As Realmwright enters the battlefield, choose a basic land type. Lands you control are the chosen type in addition to their other types. There is not a single inch of Ravnica that hasn't been altered at one point or another to fit someone's whims. 1/1 |
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Creature — Vedalken Wizard Whenever another blue creature enters the battlefield under your control, target player mills two cards. "I offer you wisdom untainted by false loyalty, learning free of any guild's agenda." 2/3 |
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Creature — Drake Flying Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying. Sapphire drakes can communicate over great distances, their calls resonating in the gems fixed in their skulls. 4/4 |
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Instant Counter target noncreature spell. Draw a card. "Should your chosen emissary be able to fluctuate triharmonic pentodes, however unlikely, I shall shunt excess negavolt radicals." |
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Creature — Merfolk Wizard Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
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Creature — Mutant Wizard Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant land
Enchanted land has " Both Boros and Azorius scout the games in hopes of recruiting the finest athletes. |
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Instant Counter target spell unless its controller pays "Like water, mana will drain from an inferior vessel." —Jalan Tosk, Simic forcemage |
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Sorcery Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.) |
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Instant Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library. Fblthp had always hated crowds. |
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Sorcery Exile target creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.) |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2. Enchanted creature can't be blocked as long as you control a Gate. A true shortcut isn't a way other people don't know; it's a way other people can't go. |
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Creature — Vampire Rogue Flying When Balustrade Spy enters the battlefield, target player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard. 2/3 |
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Creature — Bat Flying
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay A screech in the night is all it takes for Orzhov debtors to clutch at their coin purses. 1/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant land Enchanted land is a Swamp. Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller loses 2 life. "No one cares about pollution until they can see it." —Gurras, Golgari rot farmer |
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Creature — Zombie Defender Sacrifice another creature: Corpse Blockade gains deathtouch until end of turn. There are laws against it, but the dead have no one to complain to and the living are too frightened to investigate. 1/4 |
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Creature — Spirit Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay 2/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -X/-X, where X is the number of creature cards in its controller's graveyard. "It's cold in the grave, and the dead crave your warmth. Who are you to deny them?" —Strava, Dimir mage |
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Instant Target player sacrifices a creature, then gains life equal to that creature's toughness. His twisted mind concluded that if he was what he ate, and he wanted to stay human, . . . |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature you control When enchanted creature dies, target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is its power. "I wish I could rewrite my every deed and kill you with my first breath instead of my last." |
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Creature — Shade
Tireless and merciless, shades are harnessed as spies by the Dimir. 1/1 |
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Instant Destroy target nonartifact creature. Its controller mills cards equal to that creature's power. "Watch people flock to a murder scene. Then tell me we're not all a little sick in the head." —Juri, proprietor of the Juri Revue |
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Creature — Zombie Rat Upon finding his warehouse infested, Gaven didn't know whether to get an exterminator or an exorcist. 2/2 |
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Creature — Horror
"Lesser minds can scarcely imagine such a marriage of necromancy and mind magic." —Strava, Dimir mage 3/4 |
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Enchantment Creature tokens get -1/-1. "Selesnya denied us tribute. Let's show them the error of their ways." —Milana, Orzhov prelate |
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Instant Destroy target creature with power X or less. A casual glance into a dark corner may be your last. |
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Creature — Demon Flying Whenever Lord of the Void deals combat damage to a player, exile the top seven cards of that player's library, then put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield under your control. 7/7 |
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Sorcery Target player discards a card. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.) |
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Sorcery Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.) |
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Creature — Ogre Rogue Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may create a 1/1 black Rat creature token. Rats you control have deathtouch. "His tenement is filled with the most vile, disgusting vermin. It's infested with rats, too." —Branko One-Ear 3/3 |
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Creature — Avatar Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) When Sepulchral Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. 5/4 |
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Creature — Vampire Rogue Whenever another black creature enters the battlefield under your control, target creature gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) 1/1 |
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Sorcery Target opponent loses 3 life. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.) |
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Creature — Human Warrior Whenever Slate Street Ruffian becomes blocked, defending player discards a card. "Merciless to the point of psychosis. Let's give him a job." —Zelinas, Orzhov recruiter 2/2 |
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Creature — Elemental Flying Creatures with flying your opponents control get -1/-1. "The skies used to be my refuge, a place of peace away from the chaos below. Now, with every flight, death seems to follow me like a shadow." —Writings of Cica, Skyjek scout 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Rogue Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay Even the darkest corners of Ravnica still lie in the shadow of the Church. 3/2 |
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Creature — Thrull Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay The hunger of a vampire and the subtlety of a tax collector. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Rogue
"Scandal and slander are never welcome news. That's why I'm never the messenger." 2/3 |
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Sorcery Target player loses 1 life, discards a card, then sacrifices a permanent. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.) |
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Creature — Zombie Wight of Precinct Six gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your opponents' graveyards. Even the lost and undead need a protector. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and Each day uncertainty and rumors spread, and each night attendance at the Juri Revue increases. |
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Creature — Human Soldier Battalion — Whenever Bomber Corps and at least two other creatures attack, Bomber Corps deals 1 damage to any target. "Subtlety is for lawmages and spies." 1/2 |
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Creature — Elemental
"The old gods awoke and sent fingers of fire to see what was left of the old ways under the endless city." —Daiva, Gruul storyteller 2/2 |
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Enchantment Tap an untapped Gate you control: Crackling Perimeter deals 1 damage to each opponent. As the path he sought came into focus, Niv-Mizzet took steps to prevent others from approaching it. |
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Creature — Beast Ember Beast can't attack or block alone. The only livestock that will survive for long in the Smelting District, ember beasts serve many functions—none of them willingly. 3/4 |
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Creature — Human Soldier Battalion — Whenever Firefist Striker and at least two other creatures attack, target creature can't block this turn. The flaming fist of Boros holds the promise of both protection and destruction in its grasp. 2/1 |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage, put a blaze counter on Five-Alarm Fire. Remove five blaze counters from Five-Alarm Fire: It deals 5 damage to any target. |
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Creature — Goblin Warrior Whenever another red creature enters the battlefield under your control, Foundry Street Denizen gets +1/+0 until end of turn. After the Foundry Street riot, Arrester Hulbein tried to ban bludgeons. Which, inevitably, resulted in another riot. 1/1 |
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Instant Target blocking creature gets +3/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. "At least the Gateless rebels have ideals. Rakdos just mocks, defiles, and kills all we hold dear." —Libuse, Boros sergeant |
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Creature — Dragon Flying, trample Whenever Hellkite Tyrant deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game. 6/5 |
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Creature — Goblin Berserker Creatures you control have haste and attack each combat if able. Don't let him lead the soldiers, but by all means let him lead the way. 2/2 |
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Instant Homing Lightning deals 4 damage to target creature and each other creature with the same name as that creature. "I see countless worlds. What makes them think I can't find them in just one?" —Ral Zarek |
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Creature — Goblin Soldier Haste Battalion — Whenever Legion Loyalist and at least two other creatures attack, creatures you control gain first strike and trample until end of turn and can't be blocked by creature tokens this turn. 1/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 and has menace. The larger the crowd, the harder it is for them to run away. |
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Sorcery Target creature an opponent controls blocks this turn if able. Untap that creature. Other creatures that player controls can't block this turn. Everyone roots for the little guy, but nobody bets on him. |
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Instant Massive Raid deals damage to any target equal to the number of creatures you control. "The Boros lack vision. Give them a convenient scapegoat and they'll be blind to the true threats." —Lazav |
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Creature — Avatar Haste When Molten Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, gain control of up to one target creature that player controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn. 6/4 |
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Sorcery Mugging deals 2 damage to target creature. That creature can't block this turn. Scream: muffled. Pockets: emptied. Neck function: never the same again. |
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Creature — Dinosaur Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) As Ravnica's wilds expanded, even advocates for nature had to confront fiercer natural threats. 6/5 |
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Creature — Elemental Bloodrush — "Borborygmos's elemental launched an assault, but the Izzet wards held and experiments continue." —Skyknight report on the Rubblebelt 5/1 |
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Creature — Goblin Warrior Bloodrush — "These Gruul skin-runes—discern whether their patterns evoke streets, leylines, or both. You have four days." —Niv-Mizzet, to his assistant 2/1 |
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Instant Players can't gain life this turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn. Skullcrack deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. The lawmage's argument was clever and well reasoned, but Blunk's response proved irrefutable. |
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Sorcery Target player sacrifices an artifact and a land. Structural Collapse deals 2 damage to that player. The Gruul holiday of Rauck-Chauv always ends the same way. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant land
Enchanted land has " "Sometimes I stroll along Tin Street and watch citizens busy with their daily lives. It reminds me why I do my job." —Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct |
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Creature — Giant Soldier
"Nothing ruins a party like one of those big killjoys bursting through the door and setting all the guests free." —Ruba, Rakdos cultist 4/4 |
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Creature — Viashino Warrior First strike
Bloodrush — The Slizt Clan's battle cry is an impressive display of fury, defiance, and spit. 3/1 |
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Creature — Elemental Soldier Battalion — Whenever Warmind Infantry and at least two other creatures attack, Warmind Infantry gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Before Aurelia denounced Niv-Mizzet, the two guilds had collaborated on the Warmind Initiative in pursuit of the ultimate soldier. 2/3 |
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Creature — Ogre Warrior Double strike
Bloodrush — If no opponent can be found, ogres of the Bolrac Clan will often pick fights with buildings. 3/3 |
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Creature — Lizard Beast Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) "Eh, needs more toad." —Gulistan, Simic biomancer 6/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature has hexproof and can't be blocked by more than one creature. Even the bitterest enemies of the Burning-Tree Clan respect the strength of Borborygmos's rule. |
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Instant Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature and untap it. "Our fight is not about territory or revenge. It is about freedom, plain and simple." —Ruric Thar, Ghor-Clan chieftain |
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Creature — Crocodile Frog Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) 1/3 |
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Creature — Rhino Trample Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample. The best way to calm a rampaging ceratok is to wait until it dies of natural causes. 4/3 |
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Creature — Human Warrior
"Selesnya thinks nature is a pretty plaything. True nature would rip their faces off and wear their skins as trophies." 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Ooze Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Remove two +1/+1 counters from Experiment One: Regenerate Experiment One. (The next time this creature would be destroyed, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.) 1/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature. "We're planting the seeds of change. Sometimes, we plant them in people." —Vorel of the Hull Clade |
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Creature — Insect Trample Whenever Giant Adephage deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of Giant Adephage. "To a creature like that, we must seem like, well, bugs." —Dars Gostok, Firefist captain 7/7 |
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Creature — Elf Druid
"The Izzet may incite war, but my duty is here. I will not abandon the wild." 2/1 |
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Creature — Elf Druid Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
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Instant Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures with no +1/+1 counters on them. "Woodlands and laws. Both grow faster than the Azorius's ability to manage them." —Suniel the Woodwise |
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Creature — Elf Warrior Whenever another green creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. "Skyknight gear? Well, I have drake-skin gauntlets, supple and fireproof. Or a ceratok chestplate that'll stop a crossbow bolt." 2/3 |
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Sorcery Create an X/X green Ooze creature token, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. "We paid the Simic very well for this capability, but we should quickly recoup our expenses in saved wages." —Milana, Orzhov prelate |
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Instant Destroy target artifact or enchantment. "And if you threaten me again, your shiny steel trousers will be sprouting daggerthorn vines." —Iveta, rooftop runner |
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Instant Choose target creature you control. You gain life equal to that creature's power plus its toughness. "Other guilds say the Gruul are savages, no better than the beasts we live with. I say we've found friends who won't stab us in the back." —Domri Rade |
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Creature — Insect Whenever Rust Scarab becomes blocked, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls. "Behold nature's answer to the problem of society." —Nikya of the Old Ways 4/5 |
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Creature — Centaur Warrior Bloodrush — "The only roads I wish to see are those beaten flat by wild hooves." 2/4 |
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Sorcery Shuffle Serene Remembrance and up to three target cards from a single graveyard into their owners' libraries. While Lazav schemed and Niv-Mizzet researched, Trostani sought the future in the whispers of the past. |
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Creature — Beast Trample
Bloodrush — "They bind us with their laws. We free ourselves with nature's fist." —Nikya of the Old Ways 9/9 |
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Creature — Beast Bloodrush — The Orzhov clergy would never cross its path, but sending thrull couriers to do so is cheap and entertaining. 3/2 |
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Creature — Elf Scout Spire Tracer can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach. Cartographers on Ravnica chart not just the horizontal, but also the vertical. 1/1 |
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Creature — Avatar Reach When Sylvan Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, destroy target noncreature permanent that player controls. For each permanent destroyed this way, search your library for a Forest card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle. 6/8 |
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Instant Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn. "The drakes are practice. We may one day need to bring down a sky swallower, or maybe even Rakdos himself." —Korun Nar, Rubblebelt hunter |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant land When Verdant Haven enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life. Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color. |
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Creature — Snake Deathtouch
Bloodrush — "The Gruul embrace all things poisonous and living in the cracks of society." —Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov 1/2 |
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Instant Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. In Ravnica, there are maladies far more difficult to treat than death. |
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Creature — Beast Creatures blocking or blocked by Alms Beast have lifelink. Alms-coins are only redeemable at Orzhov businesses. 6/6 |
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Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, put a muster counter on Assemble the Legion. Then create a 1/1 red and white Soldier creature token with haste for each muster counter on Assemble the Legion. |
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Legendary Creature — Angel Flying, vigilance, haste Whenever Aurelia, the Warleader attacks for the first time each turn, untap all creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Where Razia was aloof and untouchable, Aurelia is on the frontlines, calling for war. 3/4 |
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Instant Aurelia's Fury deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. Tap each creature dealt damage this way. Players dealt damage this way can't cast noncreature spells this turn. |
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Creature — Human Rogue
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Creature — Human Wizard At the beginning of the end step, if you control four or more creatures named Biovisionary, you win the game. He tired of his fellow researchers and their useless prattling, so he decided to make a network of scholars with whom he could carry a conversation. 2/3 |
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Legendary Creature — Cyclops Trample Whenever Borborygmos Enraged deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Discard a land card: Borborygmos Enraged deals 3 damage to any target. 7/6 |
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Instant Choose one — • Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. • Target creature gains double strike until end of turn. "Practice compassion and mercy. But know when they must end." —Aurelia |
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Sorcery Create a 1/1 blue and black Horror creature token with flying. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.) |
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Creature — Human Advisor Sacrifice another creature: Cartel Aristocrat gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. "Your life serves a higher purpose now: ensuring the continuation of my own." 2/2 |
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Sorcery Choose one or more — • Clan Defiance deals X damage to target creature with flying. • Clan Defiance deals X damage to target creature without flying. • Clan Defiance deals X damage to target player or planeswalker. |
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Creature — Horror Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards. Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard. */* |
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Creature — Angel Flying
When Deathpact Angel dies, create a 1/1 white and black Cleric creature token. It has " 5/5 |
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Instant Choose one — • Counter target sorcery spell. • Destroy target creature with power 2 or less. • Look at the top three cards of target player's library. Put one back and the rest into that player's graveyard. "Dangerous to recognize. Deadly not to." —Lazav |
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Creature — Horror When Dinrova Horror enters the battlefield, return target permanent to its owner's hand, then that player discards a card. "Welcome to the Dimir Public Offices. Not responsible for death or loss of property. Basement off-limits." —Sign outside Dinrova Building 4/4 |
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Legendary Planeswalker — Domri [+1]: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. [−2]: Target creature you control fights another target creature. [−7]: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control have double strike, trample, hexproof, and haste." |
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Creature — Lizard Drake Flying, trample Cautious not to repeat Vig's mistakes, the Simic fuse life essences using magic alone. Each result is called a krasis. 3/1 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
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Creature — Vampire Wizard Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each player reveals the top card of their library, loses life equal to that card's mana value, then puts it into their hand. 4/4 |
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Creature — Fish Mutant Elusive Krasis can't be blocked. Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) 0/4 |
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Instant Target creature that dealt damage this turn gets -5/-5 until end of turn. "The contract specified an appendage for a missed payment. Read the fine print: the head is an appendage." |
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Creature — Human Wizard Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever a +1/+1 counter is put on Fathom Mage, you may draw a card. 1/1 |
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Creature — Angel Flying Battalion — Whenever Firemane Avenger and at least two other creatures attack, Firemane Avenger deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life. Firemane Nevena led the victorious assault on the Barbu Rooftop rebels. Now the Gateless have marked her for death. 3/3 |
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Creature — Cyclops Soldier Whenever Fortress Cyclops attacks, it gets +3/+0 until end of turn. Whenever Fortress Cyclops blocks, it gets +0/+3 until end of turn. "They think they tamed him, but he will always be a wild titan, a force of nature." —Nedja, Gruul shaman 3/3 |
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Creature — Elemental Soldier When Foundry Champion enters the battlefield, it deals damage to any target equal to the number of creatures you control.
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Sorcery Destroy target land. Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. "Izzet contraptions pollute our lands. Burn them down, kill the makers, cleanse the earth." —Nedja, Gruul shaman |
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Creature — Beast Trample
Bloodrush — "The Simic come from the cold slow depths. How could they understand the fire in a wild heart?" —Kroshkar, Gruul shaman 4/4 |
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Sorcery Ground Assault deals damage to target creature equal to the number of lands you control. "Taking down a dragon is easy. All you need is enough space to get in a good swing." —Narbulg Nine Fingers |
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Instant Choose one — • Creatures without flying can't block this turn. • Gain control of all permanents you own. • Gruul Charm deals 3 damage to each creature with flying. "Not Gruul? Then die!" —Borborygmos |
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Creature — Beast Whenever Gruul Ragebeast or another creature enters the battlefield under your control, that creature fights target creature an opponent controls. "If the other guilds want a war, they should know we've been ready the whole time." —Ruric Thar, Ghor-Clan chieftain 6/6 |
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Creature — Human Cleric Whenever High Priest of Penance is dealt damage, you may destroy target nonland permanent. "All I require is faith, loyalty, obedience, trust, and complete and utter devotion." 1/1 |
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Instant Target land becomes a 3/3 Elemental creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land. "While the sea may be our home, the sky is our destiny." —Prime Speaker Zegana |
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Creature — Thrull Flying
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay "Debt and death sound so similar, and thrulls are so hard of hearing. Mistakes are inevitable." —Milana, Orzhov prelate 2/2 |
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Legendary Creature — Shapeshifter Hexproof Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may have Lazav, Dimir Mastermind become a copy of that card, except its name is Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has hexproof and this ability. 3/3 |
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Instant Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn. Target creature gets +0/+3 until end of turn. "Yes, Boros tactics are unparalleled. But when your comrades are dying around you, inner strength must carry the day." —Gideon Jura, to Aurelia |
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Creature — Elf Wizard Each other creature you control enters the battlefield with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to Master Biomancer's power and as a Mutant in addition to its other types. "Nature is a wonderful engineer but works far too slowly for my tastes." 2/4 |
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Sorcery Choose one — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all planeswalkers. "I once saw the Obzedat moved to action. Since that day, I've been thankful that they're mainly lazy, and dead." —Aurelia, to Gideon Jura |
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Sorcery Each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal X land cards, then puts all cards revealed this way into their graveyard. X can't be 0. |
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Creature — Skeleton When Mortus Strider dies, return it to its owner's hand. Dimir's best agents hide from death itself. 1/1 |
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Instant Counter target spell. Create an X/X green Ooze creature token, where X is that spell's mana value. "The Simic can grow anything out of a puddle of sludge. I just hope they never join forces with the Golgari." —Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov |
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Creature — Leviathan Flying Nimbus Swimmer enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. The Simic soon discovered that the sky offered as few constraints on size as the sea. 0/0 |
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Legendary Creature — Spirit Advisor When Obzedat, Ghost Council enters the battlefield, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. At the beginning of your end step, you may exile Obzedat. If you do, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of your next upkeep. It gains haste. 5/5 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player loses 1 life. |
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Creature — Minotaur Soldier Battalion — Whenever Ordruun Veteran and at least two other creatures attack, Ordruun Veteran gains double strike until end of turn. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.) "My father was Gruul, but I chose the precision of the legion over the fury of the pack." 3/1 |
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Instant Choose one — • Return target creature you control and all Auras you control attached to it to their owner's hand. • Destroy target creature and you lose life equal to its toughness. • Return target creature card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. |
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Sorcery Target player mills three cards. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.) |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has haste. Gruul shamans believe all sentient beings have the soul of savagery inside them, an animal form clawing to escape. |
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Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard Prime Speaker Zegana enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the greatest power among other creatures you control. When Prime Speaker Zegana enters the battlefield, draw cards equal to its power. 1/1 |
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Instant Counter target spell. Its controller mills two cards. Until more information could be gleaned about Niv-Mizzet's intentions, Lazav took every opportunity to stall his experiments. |
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Sorcery Target opponent discards two cards and you gain 2 life. The Orzhov hear the plans of the other guilds through the guilty thoughts of the disloyal. |
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Creature — Elemental Rubblehulk's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.
Bloodrush — */* |
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Creature — Wurm When the architects of Ravnica claim a structure will stand against a wurm, they never mention for how long. 7/6 |
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Creature — Shark Crab Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) 2/1 |
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Instant Search your library for three creature cards and reveal them. If you reveal three cards with different names, choose one of them at random and put that card into your hand. Shuffle the rest into your library. Gruul clanfolk obey few rules, but all feel bound to answer the call of the horn. |
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Instant Choose one — • Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. • Permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. • Return target creature to its owner's hand. "We measure our progress in heartbeats." —Prime Speaker Zegana |
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Creature — Human Shaman
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Creature — Human Knight Flying, haste Millennium Platform, once a monument to peace, was quickly seized by the skyknights for its strategic aerial location. 2/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature You control enchanted creature. Discard two cards: Soul Ransom's controller sacrifices it, then draws two cards. Only your opponents may activate this ability. |
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Creature — Elemental Soldier Trample, lifelink, haste At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Spark Trooper. Izzet-designed conductors atop Sunhome charge empty sets of armor that give form to the fluctuating elementals. 6/1 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
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Creature — Thrull Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay 4/4 |
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Creature — Human Knight Vigilance
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Sorcery Shuffle your library, then reveal the top card. If it's a nonland card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield and return Unexpected Results to its owner's hand. |
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Sorcery Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn. As the Simic released more of their krasis experiments, they required new habitats, always at the expense of the locals. |
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Creature — Human Cleric Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay 1/3 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
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Sorcery Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.) |
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Creature — Human Soldier Battalion — Whenever Wojek Halberdiers and at least two other creatures attack, Wojek Halberdiers gains first strike until end of turn. Tired of Boros interference, the Rakdos unleashed hellraiser goblins, hoping their corpses would weigh down the halberds. 3/2 |
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Creature — Elf Wizard
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Creature — Boar Bloodrush — Gurley was the first to domesticate one, though his widow didn't take much solace in that accomplishment. 5/4 |
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Instant Arrows of Justice deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. Archers from the Horizon Military Academy hone their skills by targeting pickpockets blocks away. |
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Instant Exile target card from a graveyard. Create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying. The foyer is littered with the coins it demands but can no longer hold. |
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Instant Creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X until end of turn. "A regression to ancient forms? A glimpse of future evolutions? Or a fleeting alteration of the present?" —Vorel of the Hull Clade |
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Instant Move any number of +1/+1 counters from target creature onto another target creature with the same controller. "It's all right if you change your mind. There's always a chance we can rearrange parts later." —Zija, Simic mutationist |
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Creature — Minotaur Wizard Whenever Boros Reckoner is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to any target.
"Imagine a thunderstorm that's also a tactical genius. That's him." —Dars Gostok, Firefist captain 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Shaman When Burning-Tree Emissary enters the battlefield, add Those who regard the Gruul as savage simpletons underestimate the subtle power of their shamans. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Target player mills four cards. You draw a card for each creature card put into their graveyard this way. "Ask the right questions in the right way and truth is inevitable." —Lazav |
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Creature — Human Rogue Deathcult Rogue can't be blocked except by Rogues. "The hussars can't catch him, and he evades our traps with ease. I fear he walks unseen even in the halls of New Prahv." —Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct 2/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying and lifelink. "Remember by whose gift you ascend." —Milana, Orzhov prelate |
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Sorcery Return each creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. "The fine print of countless contracts has ensured we are never defenseless." —Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov |
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Creature — Merfolk Soldier Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When giant sinkholes opened across Ravnica, they revealed buried oceans and the merfolk, once thought to be extinct. 4/2 |
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Creature — Specter Flying Whenever Nightveil Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with Nightveil Specter. 2/3 |
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Instant Target creature you control fights another target creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.) "All the coins in Ravnica can't save his soul now." —Narbulg Nine Fingers |
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Creature — Human Warrior Whenever Rubblebelt Raiders attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each attacking creature you control. "This city will perish, and the Gruul will cheer as the boar-god crushes the last bricks into dust." —Nikya of the Old Ways 3/3 |
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Instant Exile target artifact. "Aurelia seems too eager to solve her problems by delivering them to oblivion." —Prime Speaker Zegana |
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Artifact Creature — Construct Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Armored Transport by creatures blocking it. "If only our jails were as secure." —Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct 2/1 |
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A key that slips through every lock. |
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Artifact Creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.
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Artifact
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Artifact — Equipment Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Equip It's easy to believe you're a god when you're twice as powerful as everyone else. |
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Artifact Creature — Gargoyle Flying "You've got to keep your wits about you on the roofs. Not all stones are compliant handholds." —Iveta, rooftop runner 2/2 |
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Artifact
You only need to wield it once to appreciate the power of control. |
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Artifact When Prophetic Prism enters the battlefield, draw a card.
To understand Ravnica, one must first understand how each guild contributes to its stability. |
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"It no longer surprises me what shows up in our raid of a Rakdos revue." —Janik Bara, Wojek captain |
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Artifact — Equipment Equipped creature gets +1/+2.
Equip Any meeting between guilds requires proper equipment. |
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Artifact — Equipment Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked by creatures with flying.
Equip "If bats are the only thing between me and a mountain of Orzhov coins, then I'm about to be a very rich thief." |
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Land — Gate Boros Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
Enter with merciful hearts. Exit with battle cries. |
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Land — Forest Island ( Uncharted depths. Unbounded hopes. Unfathomable mysteries. |
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Land — Gate Dimir Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
Enter and become a mastermind of spies, lies, and deception. |
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Land — Plains Swamp ( Judgment without hope. |
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Land — Gate Gruul Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
Enter and leave the shackles of society behind. |
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Land — Gate Orzhov Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
Enter to find wealth, security, and eternal life . . . for just a small price up front. |
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Land — Mountain Plains ( Burning fervor and fearsome skill create a lethal beauty terrible to behold. |
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Land — Gate Simic Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
Enter and comprehend the perfection of orchestrated life. |
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Land — Mountain Forest ( "Roots, ruins, and room to fight. All the comforts of home." —Domri Rade |
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Amid rumors of war, the third act of *The Absolution of the Guildpact* was quickly rewritten as a tragedy. |
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Land — Island Swamp ( "I fear that as we scurry after phantoms, the Dimir pull nine puppet strings." —Ral Zarek |
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