Introductory Two-Player Set

Image Card Info Mana cost
Alabaster Potion

Alabaster Potion

Instant

Choose one — • Target player gains X life. • Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity." —D'Avenant proverb

X W W
Circle of Protection: Black

Circle of Protection: Black

Enchantment

: The next time a black source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

1 W
Circle of Protection: Red

Circle of Protection: Red

Enchantment

: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

1 W
Healing Salve

Healing Salve

Instant

Choose one — • Target player gains 3 life. • Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

W
Mesa Pegasus

Mesa Pegasus

Creature — Pegasus

Flying; banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Before a woman marries in the village of Sursi, she must visit the land of the Mesa Pegasus. Legend has it that if the woman is pure of heart and her love is true, a Mesa Pegasus will appear, blessing her family with long life and good fortune.

1/1

1 W
Pearled Unicorn

Pearled Unicorn

Creature — Unicorn

"'Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!' 'Well, now that we *have* seen each other,' said the Unicorn, 'if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.'" —Lewis Carroll

2/2

2 W
Reverse Damage

Reverse Damage

Instant

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

1 W W
Energy Flux

Energy Flux

Enchantment

All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay ."

2 U
Feedback

Feedback

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant enchantment At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted enchantment's controller, Feedback deals 1 damage to that player.

2 U
Merfolk of the Pearl Trident

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident

Creature — Merfolk

Most human scholars believe that Merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from Merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier.

1/1

U
Phantom Monster

Phantom Monster

Creature — Illusion

Flying

"While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door, A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh—but smile no more." —Edgar Allan Poe, "The Haunted Palace"

3/3

3 U
Power Sink

Power Sink

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . If that player doesn't, they tap all lands with mana abilities they control and lose all unspent mana.

X U
Twiddle

Twiddle

Instant

You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

U
Unsummon

Unsummon

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

U
Zephyr Falcon

Zephyr Falcon

Creature — Bird

Flying, vigilance

Although greatly prized among falconers, the Zephyr Falcon is capricious and not easily tamed.

1/1

1 U
Bog Imp

Bog Imp

Creature — Imp

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

On guard for larger dangers, we underestimated the power and speed of the Imp's muck-crusted claws.

1/1

1 B
Bog Wraith

Bog Wraith

Creature — Wraith

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.

3/3

3 B
Cursed Land

Cursed Land

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant land At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted land's controller, Cursed Land deals 1 damage to that player.

2 B B
Dark Ritual

Dark Ritual

Instant

Add .

B
Lost Soul

Lost Soul

Creature — Spirit Minion

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

Her hand gently beckons, she whispers your name— But those who go with her are never the same.

2/1

1 B B
Murk Dwellers

Murk Dwellers

Creature — Zombie

Whenever Murk Dwellers attacks and isn't blocked, it gets +2/+0 until end of combat.

When Raganorn unsealed the catacombs, he found more than the dead and their treasures.

2/2

3 B
Raise Dead

Raise Dead

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

B
Scathe Zombies

Scathe Zombies

Creature — Zombie

"They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise." —Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

2/2

2 B
Sorceress Queen

Sorceress Queen

Creature — Human Wizard

: Target creature other than Sorceress Queen has base power and toughness 0/2 until end of turn.

1/1

1 B B
Terror

Terror

Instant

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

1 B
Vampire Bats

Vampire Bats

Creature — Bat

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) : Vampire Bats gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.

"For something is amiss or out of place When mice with wings can wear a human face." —Theodore Roethke, "The Bat"

0/1

B
Wall of Bone

Wall of Bone

Creature — Skeleton Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.) : Regenerate Wall of Bone. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.

1/4

2 B
Warp Artifact

Warp Artifact

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant artifact At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted artifact's controller, Warp Artifact deals 1 damage to that player.

B B
Weakness

Weakness

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

B
Detonate

Detonate

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact with mana value X. It can't be regenerated. Detonate deals X damage to that artifact's controller.

X R
Disintegrate

Disintegrate

Sorcery

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

X R
Fireball

Fireball

Sorcery

This spell costs more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

X R
Hill Giant

Hill Giant

Creature — Giant

Fortunately, Hill Giants have large blind spots in which a human can easily hide. Unfortunately, these blind spots are beneath the bottoms of their feet.

3/3

3 R
Ironclaw Orcs

Ironclaw Orcs

Creature — Orc

Ironclaw Orcs can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.

Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan. To say that Orcs in general are vicious, depraved, and ignoble does not do justice to the Ironclaw.

2/2

1 R
Mons's Goblin Raiders

Mons's Goblin Raiders

Creature — Goblin

The intricate dynamics of Rundvelt Goblin affairs are often confused with anarchy. The chaos, however, is the chaos of a thundercloud, and direction will sporadically and violently appear. Pashalik Mons and his Raiders are the thunderhead that leads in the storm.

1/1

R
Orcish Artillery

Orcish Artillery

Creature — Orc Warrior

: Orcish Artillery deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

1/3

1 R R
Orcish Oriflamme

Orcish Oriflamme

Enchantment

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

3 R
Pyrotechnics

Pyrotechnics

Sorcery

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

"Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me! Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return." —Navajo war chant

4 R
Durkwood Boars

Durkwood Boars

Creature — Boar

"And the unclean spirits went out, and entered the swine: and the herd ran violently . . . ." —Mark 5:13

4/4

4 G
Elven Riders

Elven Riders

Creature — Elf

Elven Riders can't be blocked except by Walls and/or creatures with flying.

"Sometimes it is better to be swift of foot than strong of swordarm." —Elven proverb

3/3

3 G G
Elvish Archers

Elvish Archers

Creature — Elf Archer

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

2/1

1 G
Grizzly Bears

Grizzly Bears

Creature — Bear

Don't try to outrun one of Dominia's Grizzlies; it'll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you'll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you.

2/2

1 G
Scryb Sprites

Scryb Sprites

Creature — Faerie

Flying

The only sound was the gentle clicking of the Faeries' wings. Then those intruders who were still standing turned and fled. One thing was certain: they didn't think the Scryb were very funny anymore.

1/1

G
Untamed Wilds

Untamed Wilds

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

2 G
War Mammoth

War Mammoth

Creature — Elephant

Trample

I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.

3/3

3 G
Whirling Dervish

Whirling Dervish

Creature — Human Monk

Protection from black At the beginning of each end step, if Whirling Dervish dealt damage to an opponent this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

1/1

G G
Winter Blast

Winter Blast

Sorcery

Tap X target creatures. Winter Blast deals 2 damage to each of those creatures with flying.

"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!" —William Shakespeare, King Lear

X G
Battering Ram

Battering Ram

Artifact Creature — Construct

At the beginning of combat on your turn, Battering Ram gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.) Whenever Battering Ram becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

1/1

2
Clockwork Beast

Clockwork Beast

Artifact Creature — Beast

Clockwork Beast enters the battlefield with seven +1/+0 counters on it. At end of combat, if Clockwork Beast attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it. , : Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast to be greater than seven. Activate only during your upkeep.

0/4

6
Glasses of Urza

Glasses of Urza

Artifact

: Look at target player's hand.

1
Jayemdae Tome

Jayemdae Tome

Artifact

, : Draw a card.

4
Rod of Ruin

Rod of Ruin

Artifact

, : Rod of Ruin deals 1 damage to any target.

4
Plains

Plains

Basic Land — Plains

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Plains

Plains

Basic Land — Plains

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Plains

Plains

Basic Land — Plains

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Island

Island

Basic Land — Island

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Island

Island

Basic Land — Island

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Island

Island

Basic Land — Island

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Swamp

Swamp

Basic Land — Swamp

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Swamp

Swamp

Basic Land — Swamp

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Swamp

Swamp

Basic Land — Swamp

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Mountain

Mountain

Basic Land — Mountain

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Mountain

Mountain

Basic Land — Mountain

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Mountain

Mountain

Basic Land — Mountain

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Forest

Forest

Basic Land — Forest

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Forest

Forest

Basic Land — Forest

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Forest

Forest

Basic Land — Forest

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