Iconic Masters
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Creature — Dragon Spirit Flying For hundreds of years Ugin slept, encased in the cocoon of stone and magic Sarkhan had created using a shard of a Zendikari hedron. As Ugin lay dormant, his spectral guardians kept vigil. 4/4 |
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Creature — Human Cleric Outlast "Wherever I walk, the ancestors walk too." 3/2 |
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Creature — Human Soldier Outlast The fastest way across the dunes is above. 2/3 |
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Creature — Dog Soldier Outlast "Hold the line, for family and the fallen!" 2/1 |
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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 — Angel Flying When Angel of Mercy enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life. Every tear shed is a drop of immortality. 3/3 |
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Enchantment At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 4 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. As demons are drawn to suffering, angels are drawn to acts of benevolence. |
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Creature — Angel Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Even the wicked have nightmares. 3/4 |
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Creature — Human Cleric Protection from black and from red Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may gain 1 life. Mirrodin's deepest caverns conceal its brightest hopes. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater. |
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Legendary Creature — Angel Flying, vigilance, indestructible Other permanents you control have indestructible. A golden helix streaked skyward from the Helvault. A thunderous explosion shattered the silver monolith and Avacyn emerged, free from her prison at last. 8/8 |
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Creature — Spirit Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Although the door is flimsy and the lock pathetically small, Josuri's family never fears the night outside. 0/4 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
"I carry the light of truth. Do not pity those it blinds, for they never had eyes to see." 1/2 |
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Creature — Kithkin Wizard Protection from red Sacrifice Burrenton Forge-Tender: Prevent all damage a red source of your choice would deal this turn. "We are a clachan of smiths. The forge is as comfortable to us as a small fire during a cool winter's evening." 1/1 |
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Instant Destroy target artifact or enchantment. "The tools of evil are mere things. And like all things, they cannot last forever." —*Song of All*, canto 881 |
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Creature — Human Soldier When Doomed Traveler dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Monk Vigilance Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) He has spent years training his eyes and ears to detect the subtle signs of a dragon's approach. 2/2 |
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Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor Vigilance Other creatures you control get +2/+2. Creatures your opponents control get -2/-2. "The Gitaxians whisper among themselves of other worlds. If they exist, we must bring Phyrexia's magnificence to them." 4/7 |
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Instant Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.) |
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Creature — Angel Flying Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying. When the earth shudders, the sky overflows. 3/3 |
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Sorcery Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.) |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature has defender. "I was told these were standard issue. Do I look standard to you?" |
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Instant Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Draw a card. "May the Ancestor strengthen my hand and guide my blade." —Nomad war prayer |
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Creature — Human Soldier
"Swords, to me! We must engage their line to protect our archers and mages. Let no one fail this task!" 1/1 |
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Sorcery Exile target creature or enchantment. Beneath the gaze of angels, only the righteous may stand without fear. |
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Enchantment As long as your life total is greater than or equal to your starting life total, creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever one or more creatures you control attack, you gain life equal to the number of attacking creatures. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature As Pentarch Ward enters the battlefield, choose a color. When Pentarch Ward enters the battlefield, draw a card. Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove Pentarch Ward. |
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Creature — Angel Flash Flying When Restoration Angel enters the battlefield, you may exile target non-Angel creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control. 3/4 |
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Creature — Human Warrior Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Seeker of the Way gains lifelink until end of turn. "I don't know where my destiny lies, but I know it isn't here." 2/2 |
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Creature — Angel Flying, vigilance Follow the light. In its absence, follow her. 4/4 |
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Creature — Human Monk Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) As long as you have 30 or more life, Serra Ascendant gets +5/+5 and has flying. Faith in Serra is its own reward. 1/1 |
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Creature — Bird Soldier Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Renown 1 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes renowned.) 1/3 |
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Creature — Human Monk Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you gain 2 life. "Human enlightenment is a firefly that sparks in the night. Dragon enlightenment is a beacon that disperses all darkness." 2/4 |
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Sorcery You gain 2 life. Then if you have more life than an opponent, draw a card. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.) |
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Creature — Angel Flying Whenever Sustainer of the Realm blocks, it gets +0/+2 until end of turn. You may break her shield, but you'll never break her spirit. 2/3 |
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Instant Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power. The smallest seed of regret can bloom into redemption. |
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Creature — Human Soldier Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) Renown 1 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes renowned.) "My scars are my sigils. I will wear them with pride long after you're gone." 2/2 |
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Instant Target player sacrifices an attacking creature. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.) |
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Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit Flying When Yosei, the Morning Star dies, target player skips their next untap step. Tap up to five target permanents that player controls. The caress of the morning star frees all from the clutch of darkness. 5/5 |
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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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Sorcery Draw three cards, then put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library. "I knew I'd find a use for all that newt spittle!" |
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Sorcery Suspend 4— |
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Instant Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn. Draw a card. "Teferi snapped his fingers, and the viashino started clucking like a chicken. Silly, yes, but exactly the thing we needed to break the stifling tension." —Jhoira, master artificer |
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Creature — Cephalid
Cephalids value the free exchange of ideas—except for the "free" part. 2/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature When Claustrophobia enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. |
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Instant Counter target spell unless its controller pays "Shame we'll never see what all the fuss was about." |
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Creature — Sphinx Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards. Blessed by the hands of Jin-Gitaxias. 4/6 |
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Instant Choose two — • Counter target spell. • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Tap all creatures your opponents control. • Draw a card. |
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Enchantment When Day of the Dragons enters the battlefield, exile all creatures you control. Then create that many 5/5 red Dragon creature tokens with flying. When Day of the Dragons leaves the battlefield, sacrifice all Dragons you control. Then return the exiled cards to the battlefield under your control. |
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Instant Target creature has base power and toughness 1/1 until end of turn. Everything seems a little less ferocious when it's running from a house cat. |
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Instant Counter target spell. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.) "You thought only the gods could stop you?" |
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Sorcery Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.) |
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Creature — Homunculus Defender
One piercing stare usually convinces thieves to go elsewhere. 0/4 |
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Creature — Human Monk Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Elusive Spellfist gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. "Learn to see an obstacle from a new perspective. Underneath, for example." —Chanyi, Ojutai monk 1/3 |
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Instant Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays |
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Creature — Wall Defender, flying Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by Fog Bank. "The union of sea and sky makes a perfect cover." —Talrand, sky summoner 0/2 |
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Creature — Elemental Cat When Frost Lynx enters the battlefield, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. It readily attacks much larger prey, knowing retaliation is impossible. 2/2 |
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Creature — Cat Illusion Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Whenever Illusory Ambusher is dealt damage, draw that many cards. "Violence is the food it craves. Feed it if you dare." —Doriel, mentor of Mistral Isle 4/1 |
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Creature — Angel Illusion Cast this spell only if you've cast another spell this turn. Flying "In a daze, I woke and looked upon the battlefield, where I could swear my dreams were laying waste to the enemy." —Letter from a soldier 4/4 |
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Creature — Illusion Flying Jace's Phantasm gets +4/+4 as long as an opponent has ten or more cards in their graveyard. In the abstract memories of the Iquati, Jace found interesting ideas to improve upon. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Rogue Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever Jhessian Thief deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. "Where's the fun in an escape if it's not at least a little daring?" 1/3 |
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Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor Flash At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards. Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven. "It is not a goal, but a process—the process of creating the perfect Phyrexia." 5/4 |
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Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit Flying When Keiga, the Tide Star dies, gain control of target creature. The pull of the tide star holds eternal sway. 5/5 |
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Creature — Djinn Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection. 5/6 |
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Instant Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of Enthusiasm is no match for preparation. |
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Instant Counter target spell unless its controller pays The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy. |
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Creature — Wall Defender When Mnemonic Wall enters the battlefield, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. "It augments anamnesis. What is so confusing about that?" —Perisophia the philosopher 0/4 |
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Instant Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.) |
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Creature — Illusion Flying Is it an amalgamation of faded memories or the projection of a half-remembered dream? Neither answer offers any comfort. 3/3 |
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Instant Return target nonland permanent with mana value X to its owner's hand. Draw a card. "Your deed cannot be undone. You, however, can be." —Agosto, Azorius imperator |
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Creature — Djinn Monk Flying Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Adepts of the Riverwheel Stronghold can run through rain and never get wet; masters use the raindrops as stepping stones. 4/5 |
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Creature — Spirit Flying Whenever Shriekgeist deals combat damage to a player, that player mills two cards. Wounds of the flesh are easy to heal. Wounds of the mind may never be undone. 1/1 |
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Enchantment Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may pay Ojutai's words must be translated from Draconic before his students can benefit from their wisdom. |
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Creature — Sphinx Flying When Sphinx of Uthuun enters the battlefield, reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. 5/6 |
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Legendary Creature — Human Wizard Flash Creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield have flash. Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery. To save this plane, he must forsake all others. 3/4 |
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Instant Target player mills two cards. Draw a card. "As you inject the *viscus vitae* into the brain stem, don't let the spastic moaning bother you. It will soon become music to your ears." —Stitcher Geralf |
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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. "Rich" is a relative term. |
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Creature — Demon Flying, trample You can't win the game and your opponents can't lose the game. His slaves crave death more than they desire freedom. He denies them both. 6/6 |
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Creature — Scorpion When Bala Ged Scorpion enters the battlefield, you may destroy target creature with power 1 or less. Fast and lethal, with a penchant for the weak and infirm. 2/3 |
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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 — Zombie Bladewing's Thrall has flying as long as you control a Dragon. When a Dragon enters the battlefield, you may return Bladewing's Thrall from your graveyard to the battlefield. A shadow of life chasing a husk of glory. 3/3 |
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Creature — Vampire Spirit Bloodghast can't block. Bloodghast has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life. Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may return Bloodghast from your graveyard to the battlefield. 2/1 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
"The hardest thing is finding the right ingredients." 1/3 |
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Instant Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains lifelink until end of turn. Regenerate it. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.) The Crave made Kneecleaver think she was bigger than the dragon. |
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Creature — Vampire Lifelink Sins that would be too gruesome in the light of day are made more pleasing in the dark of night. 2/1 |
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Creature — Zombie Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.) He's the unlife of the party. 2/3 |
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Instant Destroy target nonblack creature. The void is without substance but cuts like steel. |
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Sorcery Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card. "Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one." —Liliana Vess |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature has lifelink and "Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.) |
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Creature — Salamander When Festering Newt dies, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn. That creature gets -4/-4 instead if you control a creature named Bogbrew Witch. Its back bubbles like a witch's cauldron, and it smells just as vile. 1/1 |
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Instant As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand. Target player sacrifices a creature. If you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell, you gain 4 life. |
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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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Instant Target player discards two cards. If you cast this spell during your main phase, that player discards four cards instead. The hymn's melody has persisted since Tourach's time, but the words changed to invoke the phobias of each listener. |
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Creature — Demon Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature or pays 3 life. The promise of anguish is payment enough for services rendered. 5/3 |
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Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit Flying When Kokusho, the Evening Star dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. The fall of the evening star never heralds a gentle dawn. 5/5 |
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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. "My summoning begins your debt, Planeswalker." 7/7 |
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Creature — Orc Assassin Outlast 2/3 |
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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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Legendary Enchantment All creatures get -1/-1. "How can we wage war against ourselves? What happens when the kami of our very souls rise against us? I answer simply: We cannot. We die. There can be no victory in this war." —Sensei Hisoka, letter to Lord Konda |
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Creature — Dragon Flying When Noxious Dragon dies, you may destroy target creature with mana value 3 or less. Dragons of Silumgar's brood begin to digest their prey even before consuming it, letting their caustic breath do much of the work. 4/4 |
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Legendary Creature — Demon Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target player lose 3 life. If you do, put three +1/+1 counters on Ob Nixilis, the Fallen. His spark lost, he plots revenge upon the plane whose corrupting mana fractured his soul. 3/3 |
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Creature — Phyrexian Horror When Phyrexian Rager enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. "I believe many worlds will bow to Phyrexia. Mirrodin is merely the first." —Sheoldred, Whispering One 2/2 |
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Creature — Drake Flying Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.) Rakdos rioters paint their faces to resemble the drakes' bloodied muzzles. 1/2 |
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Sorcery Destroy target creature with power 3 or less. "I was not convinced you had a soul until I saw it for myself." —Liliana Vess |
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Creature — Insect When Rotfeaster Maggot enters the battlefield, exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain life equal to that card's toughness. Is it at the top of the food chain or the bottom? 3/5 |
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Creature — Demon Flying When Rune-Scarred Demon enters the battlefield, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. The litany of the infernal on his flesh pulses to the beating of his dark heart. 6/6 |
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Enchantment Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. "Blood is constant. Every drop I drink, someone must bleed." —Vradeen, vampire nocturnus |
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Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature. 6/6 |
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Creature — Human Rogue
Rakdos cultists are her best customers. They never flinch at pain and are seldom good at math. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life. "Any dream is a robust harvest. Still, I prefer the timeworn dreams, heavy with import, that haunt the obsessive mind." |
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Creature — Human Assassin Deathtouch Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.) As the bounty on Massacre Girl rose, so did the number of imitators. 1/2 |
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Instant Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You lose 3 life. "If it were merely lethal, that would be sufficient. The art, however, is in maximizing the suffering it causes." —Liliana Vess |
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Instant Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile 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 Target player discards two cards unless they discard an artifact card. What is the sound of one head snapping? |
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Sorcery Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead. There was no reason to pray. This was already an act of the gods. |
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Creature — Goblin Shaman At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have target creature get +2/+0 until end of turn. The shaman rattles not to inspire a battle fury but to drown out the shrieks of those fleeing the Eldrazi. 2/2 |
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Creature — Dragon Flash Flying When Bogardan Hellkite enters the battlefield, it deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. 5/5 |
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Creature — Human Warrior Whenever Borderland Marauder attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Though she is rightly feared, there are relatively few tales of her deeds in battle, for few survive her raids. 1/2 |
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Creature — Devil At the beginning of your upkeep, return an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard to your hand. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Charmbreaker Devils gets +4/+0 until end of turn. 4/4 |
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Instant Up to two target creatures each get +1/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn. It's hard to shout "Shields up!" with a javelin in your chest. |
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Enchantment Dragon creatures you control get +3/+3. "The dragon is a perfect marriage of power and the will to use it." —Sarkhan Vol |
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Instant As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand. Draconic Roar deals 3 damage to target creature. If you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell, Draconic Roar deals 3 damage to that creature's controller. |
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Creature — Dragon Egg Defender
When Dragon Egg dies, create a 2/2 red Dragon creature token with flying and " Dragon birth lairs are littered with treasure to entice the young from their eggs. 0/2 |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature with flying enters the battlefield under your control, it gains haste until end of turn. Whenever a Dragon enters the battlefield under your control, it deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of Dragons you control. |
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Creature — Goblin Shaman Dragon spells you cast cost Atarka serving-goblins coat themselves with grease imbued with noxious herbs, hoping to discourage their ravenous masters from adding them to the meal. 1/3 |
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Creature — Elemental Earth elementals have the eternal strength of stone and the endurance of mountains. Primordially connected to the land they inhabit, they take a long-term view of things, scorning the impetuous haste of short-lived mortal creatures. 4/5 |
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Sorcery This spell costs The spell fell upon the crowd like a dragon, ancient and full of death. |
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Creature — Dragon Flying
Baby dragons can't figure out humans—if they didn't want to be killed, why were they made of meat and treasure? 2/2 |
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Instant Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn. • Remove two time counters from target permanent or suspended card. |
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Creature — Goblin Shaman Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Guttersnipe deals 2 damage to each opponent. "I found a new toy. Wanna play?" 2/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature When Hammerhand enters the battlefield, target creature can't block this turn. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has haste. |
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Instant Heat Ray deals X damage to target creature. "There was clearly a scream. I'm not sure if there was a mouth." —Sachir, Akoum Expeditionary House |
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Creature — Dragon Flying When Hoarding Dragon enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card, exile it, then shuffle. When Hoarding Dragon dies, you may put the exiled card into its owner's hand. 4/4 |
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Creature — Human Warrior First strike
Suspend 4— 4/1 |
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Legendary Creature — Goblin Shaman Haste
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Creature — Elemental Beast Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Kiln Fiend gets +3/+0 until end of turn. It traps an explosion within its stony skin. 1/2 |
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Creature — Human Wizard Nonbasic lands are Mountains. Tidal forces of the blood moon wrench and buckle the land, drawing monoliths of stone and soil toward the flaming orb. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it and untap it. That creature gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and The flame of anger is hard to douse once lit. |
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Creature — Human Monk Haste Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) The calligraphy of combat is written with strokes of sudden blood. 1/2 |
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Sorcery Pillar of Flame deals 2 damage to any target. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead. "May the worthy spend an eternity in Blessed Sleep. May the wicked find the peace of oblivion." |
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Creature — Human Wizard
"What am I looking at? Ashes, dead man." 1/1 |
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Sorcery Rift Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.
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Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit Flying When Ryusei, the Falling Star dies, it deals 5 damage to each creature without flying. The course of the falling star always ends in ruin. 5/5 |
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Creature — Dragon Flying
Whenever Scourge of Valkas or another Dragon enters the battlefield under your control, it deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of Dragons you control.
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Creature — Human Warrior First strike Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.) The mask isn't meant to hide his identity. It's meant to keep the viscera out of his eyes. 2/2 |
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Instant Staggershock deals 2 damage to any target. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.) |
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Sorcery Return an instant card at random from your graveyard to your hand. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.) |
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Creature — Dragon Flying
Haste (This creature can attack and 5/5 |
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Sorcery As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards. "Unwelcome thoughts crowd my mind. Are they my own madness, or the whispers of another?" —Sarkhan Vol |
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Instant Attacking creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn. "Do you hear that, Sarkhan? The glory of the horde! I made a legend from what you abandoned." —Zurgo, khan of the Mardu |
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Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor Creatures you control have haste. Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped. When the Mirran resistance arrived, the furnace dwellers looked to Urabrask for guidance. His decree stunned the others: "Let them be." 4/4 |
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Creature — Elemental Defender
"Zendikar fortifies itself against the Great Threat, making sentries of sky, sea, and stone." —*The War Diaries* 2/4 |
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Instant Destroy target creature with flying. You gain 2 life. In the towering trees of the Samok Stand and the predators that guard them, the might of the Ravnican wild has returned. |
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Enchantment Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
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Creature — Spirit Defender (This creature can't attack.) When Carven Caryatid enters the battlefield, draw a card. So-called "old wood" is rare in deforested Ravnica. Statues carved from it are said to house the last of the ancient nature spirits. 2/5 |
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Sorcery Until end of turn, any time you could activate a mana ability, you may pay 1 life. If you do, add To some mages, the meaning of life is less important than how much is left. |
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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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Enchantment — Aura Curse Enchant player Whenever a creature attacks enchanted player, put a +1/+1 counter on it. "Hunters feed on the fear of their prey." —Garruk Wildspeaker |
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Creature — Beast Suspend 5— 5/5 |
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Creature — Wurm Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) "Last time, it tore up the Wilt-Leaf, turned Mistmeadow into a mudhole, and made the river jump its banks. On the bright side, we were eating venison for weeks." —Donal Alloway, cenn of Kinscaer 7/7 |
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Sorcery Target creature gets +7/+7 and gains trample until end of turn. It must be blocked this turn if able. (A creature with trample can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) For Mittens, it was just another day at the beach. |
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Creature — Plant Hydra When you cast this spell, reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle the rest into your library. Genesis Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. 0/0 |
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Sorcery Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard. |
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Creature — Basilisk Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Bone, stone . . . both taste the same to a hungry basilisk. 3/5 |
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Creature — Hydra Heroes' Bane enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.
Travelers' tales claim that hydras bite off their own heads to make themselves deadlier. 0/0 |
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Sorcery Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then that creature fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.) Dragons scorn the weak, even among their own kind. |
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Instant Create a 4/4 green Beast creature token. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.) |
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Instant Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.) "Now is the hour. Ours is the duty. For victory and family—charge!" |
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Creature — Elemental Ivy Elemental enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. In the gardens of the centaurs, many travelers have mysteriously vanished while admiring the elaborate topiaries. 0/0 |
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Creature — Plant Defender Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life. On Murasa, even the trees grow trees. 0/3 |
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Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit Flying When Jugan, the Rising Star dies, you may distribute five +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures. The light of the rising star empowers the champions of tomorrow. 5/5 |
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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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Creature — Snake Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, add one mana of any color. Its scales contain the essence of thousands of lotus blooms. 2/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so. It makes the insignificant conspicuous, the repulsive alluring, and the deadly irresistible. |
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Creature — Insect Shaman When Nantuko Shaman enters the battlefield, if you control no tapped lands, draw a card.
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Instant Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life. "The timeless, tireless jaws of nature shall one day devour us all." —Sildark, artificer of Omu |
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Creature — Spider Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Whenever Netcaster Spider blocks a creature with flying, Netcaster Spider gets +2/+0 until end of turn. It is an expert at culling individuals who stray too far from the herd. 2/3 |
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Creature — Beast When Obstinate Baloth enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life. If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Obstinate Baloth, put it onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your graveyard. 4/4 |
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Creature — Wall Defender
"Our enemy is nothing less than the end of all life. We shall not want for allies." —*The War Diaries* 0/4 |
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Creature — Cat Spirit Phantom Tiger enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. If damage would be dealt to Phantom Tiger, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from Phantom Tiger. 1/0 |
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Instant Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.) |
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Creature — Giant Trample Whenever Primeval Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, you may search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When nature calls, *run*. 6/6 |
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Creature — Beast Trample Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token. "When the land is angry, so are they." —Nissa Revane 6/6 |
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Sorcery Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
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Creature — Naga Shaman Whenever a creature you control with toughness 4 or greater dies, you gain 4 life. "You can have the body, necromancer. I just want the skin." 3/4 |
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Creature — Human Scout When Timberland Guide enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. "Can you build a fire? Track a deer? Identify killer trees? Then you'll never survive Kessig without me." 1/1 |
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Creature — Troll Renown 1 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes renowned.)
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Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor Trample Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced. Whenever an opponent taps a land for mana, that land doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. 7/6 |
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Creature — Plant Wall Defender
Put a -0/-1 counter on Wall of Roots: Add "Mana grows and changes like the roots of a plant. Like a plant, it must be nurtured." —Nissa Revane 0/5 |
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Instant Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn. Draw a card. Two times the size, four times the smell. |
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Instant Choose one — • Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn. • Draw a card. • Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library. |
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Legendary Creature — Zombie Dragon Flying
When Bladewing the Risen enters the battlefield, you may return target Dragon permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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Snow Creature — Specter Flying Whenever Blizzard Specter deals combat damage to a player, choose one — • That player returns a permanent they control to its owner's hand. • That player discards a card. 2/3 |
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Creature — Vampire Lifelink, protection from white and from black As long as you have 30 or more life and an opponent has 10 or less life, Blood Baron of Vizkopa gets +6/+6 and has flying. 4/4 |
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Creature — Centaur Wizard When Chronicler of Heroes enters the battlefield, draw a card if you control a creature with a +1/+1 counter on it. She paints pictures with words, though not all pictures show the truth. 3/3 |
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Creature — Fungus If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on it instead. Weakness is not in the nature of the Swarm. 4/4 |
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Instant Electrolyze deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets. Draw a card. The Izzet learn something from every lesson they teach. |
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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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Sorcery Target player mills ten cards. "I am confident that if anyone actually penetrates our facades, even the most perceptive would still be fundamentally unprepared for the truth of House Dimir." —Szadek |
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Creature — Dragon Flying, haste You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash. (You may cast them any time you could cast an instant.) "Even this primitive specimen of my kind is impressive." —Niv-Mizzet 4/4 |
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Creature — Plant Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) When Jungle Barrier enters the battlefield, draw a card. Within silent clearings guarded by living palisades, the natural world guards its most precious secrets. 2/6 |
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Creature — Human Knight Knight of the Reliquary gets +1/+1 for each land card in your graveyard.
"Knowledge of Bant's landscape and ruins is a weapon that the invaders can't comprehend." —Elspeth Tirel 2/2 |
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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 Goldmane |
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Legendary Creature — Demon Dragon Flying When Malfegor enters the battlefield, discard your hand. Each opponent sacrifices a creature for each card discarded this way. A demon cannot be trusted, and a dragon will not be ruled. 6/6 |
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Legendary Creature — Giant Shaman
Night after night, Rosheen babbled about a bygone sunlit world, her every word dismissed as a madwoman's ravings. 4/4 |
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Creature — Hydra Double strike
Savageborn Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
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Creature — Leviathan Flying, trample Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) "We've bred out the shortcomings of the species' natural form and replaced them with assets of our own design." —Momir Vig 6/6 |
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Creature — Beast Whenever Spiritmonger deals damage to a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Spiritmonger.
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Sorcery This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures. Leonos had no second thoughts about the abolishment edict. He'd left skyrunes warning of the eviction, even though it was cloudy. |
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Creature — Human Wizard
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Artifact At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Aether Vial.
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Artifact — Equipment Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.)
Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Equip Heavier than it looks, tricky to wield, guaranteed to last. |
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Artifact Creature — Gargoyle As long as you control a Dragon, Dragonloft Idol gets +1/+1 and has flying and trample. The idols were forged during the time of the Khanfall, when the dragons came to rule Tarkir and its people aligned themselves with the five dragonlords. 3/3 |
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Artifact Guardian Idol enters the battlefield tapped.
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Artifact
Kolaghan has no lasting home, but her disciples leave relics to mark her conquests. |
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Artifact Creature — Construct
"Each night, the artificer tucked the little doll into a locked drawer. Each morning, she awoke to find it waiting beside her with some new bauble." —"The Artificer's Apprentice" 1/1 |
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Artifact
"What is mana but possibility, an idea not yet given form?" —Jhoira, master artificer |
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Artifact Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.) "Let go of your memories and be reborn." —Argent Etchings, plate 106, passage 27 |
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Artifact
"Arcum is a babbling fool! Phyrexian technology is our greatest blessing. Take this delightful trinket for instance . . ." —Heidar, Rimewind master |
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Artifact Sacrifice Moonglove Extract: It deals 2 damage to any target. Diluted, moonglove can etch living tissue. Concentrated, a drop will kill a giant. |
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Artifact Creature — Myr
The myr are like the Glimmervoid: blank canvases on which to build grand creations. 2/2 |
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Artifact
"Tools and artisans can be destroyed, but the act of creation is inviolate." —Elspeth Tirel |
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Artifact Creature — Construct When Runed Servitor dies, each player draws a card. Scholars had puzzled for centuries over the ruins at Tal Terig. Its secrets had always lived within one rune-carved head. 2/2 |
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Artifact Creature — Sphinx Flying When Sandstone Oracle enters the battlefield, choose an opponent. If that player has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference. 4/4 |
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Artifact Star Compass enters the battlefield tapped.
It doesn't point north. It points home. |
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Artifact
Urza's metathran children were conceived, birthed, and nurtured by an integrated system of machines. |
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Artifact — Equipment Whenever equipped creature attacks, defending player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card. The creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each card revealed this way. That player puts the revealed cards into their graveyard.
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Land Azorius Chancery enters the battlefield tapped.
When Azorius Chancery enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
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Land Boros Garrison enters the battlefield tapped.
When Boros Garrison enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
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Land Dimir Aqueduct enters the battlefield tapped.
When Dimir Aqueduct enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
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Land
The land is ever resilient. Should it die, it will be reborn. |
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Land Golgari Rot Farm enters the battlefield tapped.
When Golgari Rot Farm enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
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Land
Shamans of Kar-Sengir claim that their sun sets because it can no longer bear the gaze of those pain-carved cliffs. |
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Land
Spring is the most beautiful season in the grove, when the new leaves open from their ember-buds in a race of leaping flames. |
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Land Gruul Turf enters the battlefield tapped.
When Gruul Turf enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
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Land
The day is born within its branches. |
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Land Izzet Boilerworks enters the battlefield tapped.
When Izzet Boilerworks enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
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Land
To find its center is to find one's own. |
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Land Orzhov Basilica enters the battlefield tapped.
When Orzhov Basilica enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
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Land When Radiant Fountain enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.
"All peoples treasure a place where the weary traveler may drink in peace." —Ajani Goldmane |
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Land Rakdos Carnarium enters the battlefield tapped.
When Rakdos Carnarium enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
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Land
"The Westfolk wept, and their tears wore winding rivers into the cheek of the world." —Glem the Lonebard, "Origins of Kholon" |
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Land Selesnya Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped.
When Selesnya Sanctuary enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
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Land
Untold riches await those who forsake the bustling world to search the secret, silent places. |
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Land Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield tapped.
When Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
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: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has lifelink.
equal to that spell's mana value.
: Put a +1/+1 counter on Savageborn Hydra. Activate only as a sorcery.
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