Mirage
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Instant Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. Facets of life, reflections of the soul. |
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Instant Untap target nonattacking creature. It gets +1/+3 until end of turn. "One timely cry of warning can save nine of surprise." —Sidar Jabari |
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Creature — Human Cleric When Auspicious Ancestor dies, you gain 3 life.
Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay 2/3 |
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Creature — Unicorn If a spell would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals that much damage minus 1 to that permanent or player instead. The best use for a unicorn's horn is to adorn a unicorn. —Femeref adage 1/2 |
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Sorcery Tap all nonwhite creatures. "My shield will bear a shining sun so you will always be with me. / Inlaid with gold, it will shine like glowing embers." —"Love Song of Night and Day" |
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Enchantment Lands you control are Plains. Nonland permanents you control are white. The same is true for spells you control and nonland cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. You may spend white mana as though it were mana of any color. You may spend other mana only as though it were colorless mana. |
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Creature — Human Wizard
To condemn the innocent you must first condemn yourself. —Civic Guild maxim 1/1 |
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Instant Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step. Target unblocked attacking creature becomes blocked. (This spell works on creatures that can't be blocked.) Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. |
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Instant Put target artifact or enchantment on top of its owner's library. "Mangara is gone. Who among you doubts that I have taken his power?" —Kaervek |
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Instant Destroy target artifact or enchantment. "There are harsher ways to learn the meaning of the word 'no.'" —Rashida Scalebane |
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Instant Destroy target artifact. You gain life equal to its mana value. "Suq'Ata believe in trade; Femeref, alms; Zhalfirins, steel. Be warned, Kaervek—now we are joined." —Sidar Jabari |
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Instant Divine Retribution deals damage to target attacking creature equal to the number of attacking creatures. "To the undiscerning eye, justice and vengeance can look the same." —Rashida Scalebane |
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Creature — Griffin Flying, first strike "My goat was a small price to pay for the chance to see the hunting griffin dive and seize it." —Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader 2/2 |
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Instant Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top. "I do not teach. I simply reveal." —Daudi, Femeref tutor |
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Creature — Avatar Pay 1 life: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Ethereal Champion this turn. "If I have learned anything as a wizard it is this: never fight your own battles." —Waffa, sorcerer of Nyomba 3/4 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2 as long as it's white. Enchanted creature has shroud as long as its controller controls another creature. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) |
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Creature — Human Cleric
"Faith is my shield, and hope is my armor; I am vulnerable only to myself." —Asmira, Holy Avenger 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Knight Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
"I will return / with lizard skins for your sandals. Paint your eyes black and wait for me." —"Love Song of Night and Day" 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Scout "The days before the war were filled with strange portents: scouts and herders spoke of villages reduced to ash, of farmers taken from their fields, and of foul beasts roaming the plains in packs. I know, for I spoke to them all." —Hakim, Loreweaver 1/4 |
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Instant Choose one — • Target player gains 3 life. • Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. "The Femeref look only to the Sun for healing; they have never truly understood life's cycle." —Kifimbo, Shadow Guildmage |
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Instant Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. Its controller gains life equal to its mana value. "A brilliant light can either illuminate or blind. How will you know which until you open your eyes?" —Asmira, Holy Avenger |
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Creature — Elephant Trample "The fury in the lion's eye; the patience in the hippo's yawn; the pride within the griffin's cry are one within the iron tusk's stride." —"Iron Tusk," Femeref song 3/3 |
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Instant Choose one — • All creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn. • Tap target creature. • Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. |
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Instant Cast this spell only after combat. Gain control of target nonartifact, nonblack creature that attacked you this turn and put a -1/-0 counter on it. "Common soldiers can't understand what a sidar knows: the enemy can be a resource." —Sidar Jabari |
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Instant You gain 5 life. When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Mangara's Blessing, you gain 2 life, and you return Mangara's Blessing from your graveyard to your hand at the beginning of the next end step. |
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Enchantment As Mangara's Equity enters the battlefield, choose black or red.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Mangara's Equity unless you pay |
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Creature — Angel Spirit Flying, protection from black Like a laughing knife, immaculate and sharp, is the Melesse. 3/3 |
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Creature — Griffin Flying
"Unlike Zhalfir, the griffin needs no council to keep harmony among its parts." —Asmira, Holy Avenger 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Scout Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) "All animals—even humans—can be herded. The trick is to make them think they choose their own destination." —Mangara 1/1 |
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Creature — Elephant Trample; 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.) "Proud am I, / strong am I, / courageous in defending my children / and fierce in punishing what stands in my way." —"So the Elephant Speaks," Zhalfirin song 2/2 |
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World Enchantment As Null Chamber enters the battlefield, you and an opponent each choose a card name other than a basic land card name. Spells with the chosen names can't be cast and lands with the chosen names can't be played. Discovered by Femeref mages, the Null Chamber is the ultimate testing ground for the uncreative. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block. For the first time in his life, Grakk felt a little warm and fuzzy inside. |
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Creature — Dragon Flying
"They knew Bantau was lost when, to hide the pearl he had found on the beach, he swallowed it—and soon grew wings." —Hakim, Loreweaver 4/4 |
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Enchantment Cumulative upkeep |
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Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
It is not by the blood of dragons that Rashida measures victories, but by the sum of children who no longer wake from nightmares of scales and fire. 3/4 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature When Ritual of Steel enters the battlefield, draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. Enchanted creature gets +0/+2. "Our soldiers are blessed with lizard scales as hard and cold as steel." —Sidar Jabari |
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Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Sacred Mesa unless you sacrifice a Pegasus.
"Do not go there, do not go / unless you rise on wings, unless you walk on hooves." —"Song to the Sun," Femeref song |
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Instant The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you and/or creatures you control this turn, prevent that damage. If damage from a black source is prevented this way, you gain that much life. Light creates shadow; light destroys shadow. Such is the transience of darkness. |
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Legendary Creature — Human Knight Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) Whenever Sidar Jabari attacks, tap target creature defending player controls. "Prophecy is whatever one makes of it, but destiny cannot be changed." —Sidar Jabari 2/2 |
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Enchantment Soul Echo enters the battlefield with X echo counters on it. You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Soul Echo if there are no echo counters on it. Otherwise, target opponent may choose that for each 1 damage that would be dealt to you until your next upkeep, you remove an echo counter from Soul Echo instead. |
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Creature — Spirit As long as Spectral Guardian is untapped, noncreature artifacts have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.) "A treasure to guard other treasures is worth the highest price." —Mtai, Civic Guildmage 2/3 |
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying Sunweb can't block creatures with power 2 or less. "There is no sweeter music than the wails of a dying dragon." —Rashida Scalebane 5/6 |
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Creature — Griffin 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.) "When we're aloft, I love to lean over the *Weatherlight*'s railing and watch the patterns the griffins' shadows make on the clouds below." —Sisay, Captain of the *Weatherlight* 2/2 |
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Creature — Griffin Flying Sacrifice Unyaro Griffin: Counter target red instant or sorcery spell. The griffin's shadow gives courage to the righteous and dread to the idle. 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Cleric Sacrifice Vigilant Martyr: Regenerate target creature.
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying At the beginning of each end step, if Wall of Resistance was dealt damage this turn, put a +0/+1 counter on it. Telim'Tor could no longer recall the exact number of assaults—but his troops could. 0/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura You may cast Ward of Lights as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. Enchant creature As Ward of Lights enters the battlefield, choose a color. Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove Ward of Lights. |
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Instant Target creature defending player controls gets +3/+0 until end of turn. That creature can block up to two additional creatures this turn. |
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Creature — Human Knight Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
"Command is the act of balancing on a vine and convincing others that it is firm ground." —Sidar Jabari 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Knight Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
"You returned a warrior. . . . Your hair was cut, your eye tattooed with the red triangle of war." —"Love Song of Night and Day" 2/2 |
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Legendary Creature — Griffin Flying Other Griffin creatures get +1/+1. "If the griffins tell of their gods, perhaps they speak of feathers bright as the Sun." —Afari, *Tales* 3/3 |
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Sorcery Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. "Even the ancient storytellers proclaimed Zhalfir to be dominant over all Jamuraa. Kaervek's invasion shocked us all." —Hakim, Loreweaver |
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Creature — Drake Flying
"A vizier's dish, best served drenched in honey and almonds." —Suq'Ata royal recipe 1/3 |
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Creature — Bird Flying, vigilance "Wear the falcon's feathers in your hair— be fast as the falcon, bright as the Sun." —"Rise on Wings," Zhalfirin song 1/1 |
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World Enchantment When Bazaar of Wonders enters the battlefield, exile all graveyards. Whenever a player casts a spell, counter it if a card with the same name is in a graveyard or a nontoken permanent with the same name is on the battlefield. |
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Instant Return target permanent to its owner's hand. A lie always returns; be careful how you catch it. |
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Creature — Drake Flying, protection from green "Once, a Quirion asked why I was so cautious when the day was clear. I told him of the sky-blue hide of the cerluean wyvern, and he offered me double if I could conjure a strong tailwind!" —Sisay, Captain of the *Weatherlight* 3/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature has phasing and can't be blocked except by Walls. (It phases in or out before its controller untaps during each of their untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.) "Useful . . . if you can find it." —Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader |
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Creature — Merfolk Soldier Whenever Coral Fighters attacks and isn't blocked, look at the top card of defending player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
In front of every great wizard is a doomed apprentice. 1/1 |
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Instant Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. "If you weren't born with it, you don't need it." —Grahilah, former trader of Amiqat |
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Sorcery Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand both on top of your library or both on the bottom of your library. Dreams' riches are easily spent. —Suq'Ata adage |
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Creature — Human Soldier Whenever Dream Fighter blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, Dream Fighter and that creature phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.) Not only the sleeping should fear dreams. 1/1 |
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Enchantment As Energy Vortex enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove all vortex counters from Energy Vortex.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, Energy Vortex deals 3 damage to that player unless they pay |
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Instant Put target creature on top of its owner's library. If that creature is red, you may put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead. "Whoa—my tail will *never* fit through that hole!" |
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Instant You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you do, sacrifice it unless you pay its mana cost reduced by up to |
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) When Floodgate has flying, sacrifice it. When Floodgate leaves the battlefield, it deals damage equal to half the number of Islands you control, rounded down, to each nonblue creature without flying. "Quick, Rhirhok—teach me to swim!" —Makht, goblin casualty 0/5 |
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Legendary Creature — Human Wizard Flying
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Creature — Efreet Flying
"One moment I was walking along the beach, and the next I was high in the air, staring into a hideous smiling face." —Tarub, Suq'Ata sailor 2/2 |
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Instant You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. "There's nothing like a sudden shock to clarify one's thoughts." —Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader |
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Creature — Human Pirate Whenever Kukemssa Pirates attacks and isn't blocked, you may gain control of target artifact defending player controls. If you do, Kukemssa Pirates assigns no combat damage this turn. ". . . pirates gambled with a djinn and lost the thing more dear than gold." —"Love Song of Night and Day" 2/2 |
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Creature — Serpent Kukemssa Serpent can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
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Instant If target spell has only one target and that target is a creature, change that spell's target to another creature. "Shadimir was as surprised as he was relieved when the blow turned aside." —Afari, *Tales* |
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Instant Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard. "The caliph was so intelligent he could not remember what he knew." —Azeworai, "Three Riddles" |
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Creature — Merfolk Soldier Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.) "Turn your back for a second and they just vanish! As if they weren't shifty enough before." —Rhirhok, goblin archer 2/3 |
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Creature — Merfolk Wizard When Merfolk Seer dies, you may pay The sea leaves no room for tears. —Zhalfirin adage 2/2 |
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Instant Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another. (For example, you may change "nonblack creature" to "nongreen creature" or "forestwalk" to "islandwalk." This effect lasts indefinitely.) |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant red or green creature
Cumulative upkeep Centuries ago, Mangara won the loyalty of the Quirion not by ruling their minds but by supporting their independence. |
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Creature — Dragon
"Across the plains, farmers who braved the mists began to vanish. Most blamed the goblins; none guessed the truth." —Hakim, Loreweaver 4/4 |
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Instant Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top. "To the tutors, a 'poem of sand' was of little account, a 'poem of ivory,' priceless." —Afari, *Tales* |
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Sorcery Exchange control of target land you control and target land an opponent controls. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) "Politics is a game—move a stone here, move a stone there—except sometimes the stones bleed." —Shauku, Endbringer |
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Sorcery Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. The player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles all other cards revealed this way into their library. "Ahh! Opposable digits!" |
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Instant Counter target spell unless its controller pays |
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Instant Target permanent becomes the color or colors of your choice. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) |
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Sorcery If the difference between your life total and target player's life total is 5 or less, exchange life totals with that player. "The memory of your existence will fade like the final stars of morning." —Kaervek |
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Instant Untap target creature an opponent controls and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn. When you lose control of the creature, tap it. "Heel." |
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Instant Target artifact, creature, or land phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.) "Can you prepare for the unexpected? No, you cannot. You can prepare only to be surprised." —Teferi |
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Instant Target artifact, creature, or land phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.) |
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Creature — Crocodile Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.) "We've run aground sandbars before, but today, a sandbar ran aground us." —Kipkemboi, Kukemssa pirate 6/5 |
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Instant Choose one — • Target player draws a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. • Target creature gains flying until end of turn. • Target creature an opponent controls phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.) |
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Creature — Merfolk Wizard
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Creature — Human Wizard
Shape this world in Zhalfir's image. —Shaper Guild maxim 1/1 |
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Enchantment As Shimmer enters the battlefield, choose a land type. Each land of the chosen type has phasing. (It phases in or out before its controller untaps during each of their untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.) To buy unseen land, pay in unseen coin. —Suq'Ata maxim |
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Enchantment — Aura You may cast Soar as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+1 and has flying. "Would you give up your hands to fly? That is what the birds have done." —*The One Thousand Questions* |
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Creature — Human Wizard Suq'Ata Firewalker can't be the target of red spells or abilities from red sources.
"Comfortable even in a furnace? I've never met one who'd accept my wager." —Talibah, embermage 0/1 |
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Legendary Creature — Serpent Trample Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.) At the beginning of your upkeep, all lands you control phase out. (They phase in before you untap during your next untap step.) "Taniwha rolls in its sleep, and the land is awash with the waves." —Poetics of Hanan 7/7 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant artifact or creature Enchanted permanent has phasing. (It phases in or out before its controller untaps during each of their untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.) "Stepping through time is like riding a camel. It may get you where you want to go, but the ride is rarely pleasant." —Teferi |
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Creature — Drake Flying Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.) "We threw dried fruit to the drakes that rode the air, streaming along the *Weatherlight'*s side as we sailed amidst the clouds." —Sisay, Captain of the *Weatherlight* 3/2 |
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Creature — Imp Flying Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.) Whenever Teferi's Imp phases out, discard a card. Whenever Teferi's Imp phases in, draw a card. Made you look. 1/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
When Thirst enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Thirst unless you pay The first of the Thousand Deaths. |
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Instant Create a 5/5 blue Wall creature token with defender. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. When mountains ride the sea, waves live upon the fields. |
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Creature — Djinn Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, Vaporous Djinn phases out unless you pay "What is taking them so long to fill the waterskins?" —Mwani, Mtenda goatherd 3/4 |
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Creature — Elemental
"Consider the wave: how weak the mother yet how strong the child." —Tywanna, Shaper Guildmage 2/3 |
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Creature — Human Assassin
Some smiles show cheer; some merely show teeth. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. "What you call decay, I call ripening. You'll gain no sustenance from this harvest." —Kaervek |
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Creature — Wurm
"The Mwonvuli Jungle has given the darkness teeth for tearing the gift of life from the weak." —Jolrael 4/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, Binding Agony deals that much damage to that creature's controller. A crash of rhinos in my head —Femeref expression meaning "a severe head pain" |
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Creature — Human Cleric Shaman
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Instant Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. "Only fools believe they will face my armies but once." —Kaervek |
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Creature — Nightstalker
"As a child, I slept with a cloth over my face, to hide from the spirits that might pull the air from my lungs." —Mosi, Femeref weaver 2/2 |
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Creature — Zombie Knight Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
Grieve for the soul in death dishonored. —Shadow Guild saying 2/2 |
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Instant As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Create X 0/1 black Insect creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power. King or herder, the maggots care not. |
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Creature — Dragon Flying Whenever Catacomb Dragon becomes blocked by a nonartifact, non-Dragon creature, that creature gets -X/-0 until end of turn, where X is half the creature's power, rounded down. 4/4 |
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Sorcery Destroy target non-Swamp land. If that land was nonbasic, Choking Sands deals 2 damage to the land's controller. "The people wiped the sand from their eyes and cursed—and left the barren land to the hyenas and vipers." —Afari, *Tales* |
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Creature — Snake Whenever Crypt Cobra attacks and isn't blocked, defending player gets a poison counter. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.) 3/3 |
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Instant Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. "Femeref was guided by the wisdom of the Council of Voices. But in one terrible instant, they were slain, leaving Asmira as the sole voice of leadership." —Hakim, Loreweaver |
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Instant Add "The ceremony ended with a voice from the shadows, a voice with vast, ominous power." —Kifimbo, Shadow Guildmage |
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Creature — Wraith Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
"The foul entities of the Uuserk swamp had never before dared to spread their influence to the very heart of Zhalfir." —Hakim, Loreweaver 1/3 |
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Sorcery Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness. |
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Creature — Specter Whenever Dread Specter blocks or becomes blocked by a nonblack creature, destroy that creature at end of combat. Whatever follows life is incurable. —Zhalfirin aphorism 2/2 |
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Instant Choose one — • Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. • Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard. • Target creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature gets -2/-2. "If it is weak, either kill it or ignore it. Anything else honors it." —Kaervek |
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Creature — Nightstalker Flying "The night stalkers are such a minor power in Urborg. Their sad eagerness to elevate themselves makes them willing tools in the plundering of little Femeref." —Kaervek 2/1 |
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Creature — Shade Horror
"Of the six who went down the Uuserk Trail to scout ahead, one returned. She clawed at her eyes and nostrils and sobbed with horror. I was curious about what she saw, but we chose another path." —Scout Ekemet, final journal 1/2 |
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Enchantment If you would draw a card, return a card from your graveyard to your hand instead. If you can't, you lose the game. If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile that card instead. |
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World Enchantment Players can't gain life. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life. Whenever Forsaken Wastes becomes the target of a spell, that spell's controller loses 5 life. |
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Enchantment — Aura You may cast Grave Servitude as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/-1 and is black. "I no longer believe in a final resting place." —Shauku, Endbringer |
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Creature — Zombie If Gravebane Zombie would die, put Gravebane Zombie on top of its owner's library instead. "A zombie's bed must be a lumpy one or he wouldn't leave it so often." —Rana, Suq'Ata market fool 3/2 |
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Creature — Spirit At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature. Embrace the Harbinger —Suq'Ata expression meaning "abandon hope" 2/3 |
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Sorcery Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up. "But I signed nothing!" —Taraneh, Suq'Ata mage |
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Sorcery Kaervek's Hex deals 1 damage to each nonblack creature and an additional 1 damage to each green creature. "If the curse does not strike you dead, question your soul." —Kaervek |
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Creature — Shade
"We realized the bog had not given up a soul but had come to claim a new one." —Scout Ekemet, final journal 1/1 |
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Instant Black creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn. "The finest offering of night is not stealth but daring." —Tetlok, Breathstealer |
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Sorcery Look at target opponent's hand and choose a card from it. Put that card on top of that player's library. "It is terrible how one brief action can live forever in memory." —Jolrael |
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Sorcery As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice two creatures. Destroy target artifact. "In your final breath you still have something to offer Phyrexia." —Afari, *Tales* |
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Legendary Creature — Cat Warrior Purraj of Urborg has first strike as long as it's attacking.
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay 2/3 |
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Creature — Vampire Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice a nonartifact creature. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Ravenous Vampire. If you don't, tap Ravenous Vampire. Eternal life brings eternal hunger. 3/3 |
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Sorcery Destroy all green creatures or all white creatures. They can't be regenerated. You lose 2 life for each creature that died this way. "I don't know what takes them; they die around me without time to scream." —Scout Ekemet, final journal |
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Creature — Skeleton
The rich's heirs often thank them after death . . . but preferably not in person. —Suq'Ata epigram 1/1 |
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Creature — Rat
You lie down with rats, and the rats run away. —Suq'Ata insult 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
To keep the dead so others may live. —Shadow Guild maxim 1/1 |
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Instant Return the top creature card of your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. Good help is hard to dig up. |
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Legendary Creature — Vampire Flying
Shauku, Endbringer can't attack if there's another creature on the battlefield.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 3 life.
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Creature — Spirit Flying When Skulking Ghost becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it. "They exist only so long as the living take no notice." —Kifimbo, Shadow Guildmage 2/1 |
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Instant Destroy target creature if it's white. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. "Since I cannot stop death, I choose to stop life." —Kaervek |
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Instant Target creature you control gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step. "The flesh is a casket for the soul." —Shauku, Endbringer |
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Legendary Creature — Demon Spirit Flying, trample, haste, protection from black Spirit of the Night has first strike as long as it's attacking. 6/5 |
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Sorcery Target opponent discards a card at random, then discards a card. There are medicines for all afflictions but idleness. —Suq'Ata saying |
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Creature — Specter Flying
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World Enchantment Cumulative upkeep |
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Creature — Nightstalker Cat
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.)
"I shall make walls of their flesh, and their blood will be my mortar." —Kaervek 0/2 |
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Instant As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life. Counter target creature spell. "Life for life: this is the immutable law." —Panya, Granger Guildmage |
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Creature — Zombie Zombie Mob enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard. When Zombie Mob enters the battlefield, exile all creature cards from your graveyard. 2/0 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flanking. (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) |
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Instant Cast this spell only during combat after blockers are declared. Flip a coin. If you win the flip, target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. |
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Creature — Human Wizard
Zhalfir's destiny rings in tempered steel. —Armorer Guild maxim 1/1 |
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Instant Target creature gains trample until end of turn. When that creature becomes blocked this turn, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it. "The trollish game of push-fall inspired this impressive tactic." —Sidar Jabari |
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Instant All creatures lose trample until end of turn. If a creature would deal combat damage to a creature this turn, it deals double that damage to that creature instead. "Tell me . . . have you ever sung the Song of Blood?" —Purraj of Urborg |
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) I live without food, stand without leg, wound without force, and am harder to fight than to kill. What am I? —Femeref riddle 5/2 |
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Sorcery Destroy X target artifacts. Builder's Bane deals damage to each player equal to the number of artifacts they controlled that were put into a graveyard this way. There is only so much a person may be buried with. |
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Creature — Efreet
Even the lion envies the lark. 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Knight Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
"Any day that I ride my horse up to my ankles in the remains of my enemies is a good day." —Akin, seasoned askari 2/2 |
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Instant Choose one — • Destroy target Wall. • Chaos Charm deals 1 damage to target creature. • Target creature gains haste until end of turn. |
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World Enchantment Creatures with flying can block only creatures with flying. Creatures without flying have reach. (They can block creatures with flying.) "I dance the nothing dance, / Feet in the air, knives in the ground." —Femeref chant |
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Instant Destroy target creature. If a white creature dies this way, Cinder Cloud deals damage to that creature's controller equal to the creature's power. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant non-Wall creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+0. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+0 counter on enchanted creature. If that creature has three or more +1/+0 counters on it, it deals damage equal to its power to its controller, then destroy that creature and it can't be regenerated. |
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Creature — Dragon Flying
"Dragonfire forged me a warrior." —Rashida Scalebane 6/6 |
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Creature — Bird Flying Whenever Crimson Roc blocks a creature without flying, Crimson Roc gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. 2/2 |
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Creature — Dwarf
"Fetch the pestridder, Paka—we've got dwarves in the rutabagas!" —Jamul, Femeref farmer 1/2 |
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Creature — Dwarf Nomad
A dwarf's life belongs as much to the land as to the dwarf. —Creed of the Stonethrow Clan 1/1 |
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Creature — Cyclops If a creature you control attacks, Ekundu Cyclops also attacks if able. "Big one I, One big eye. One-eye see Two-eye die!" —Traditional cyclops chant 3/4 |
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Creature — Djinn Flying
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may pay A hefty price is no guarantee of quality merchandise. 5/4 |
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Instant Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game. Want all, lose all. —Zhalfirin aphorism |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
"Magic's only part of it, my friend. Diet does the rest." —Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader |
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Creature — Elemental
Storyteller: By my hand in the fire, this story is a tale of power. Listeners: May it give you strength. 3/2 |
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Instant Flare deals 1 damage to any target. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. "In the forest, fires light the sky as black clouds unfold their weight." —"Love Song of Night and Day" |
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Creature — Goblin Warrior Whenever Goblin Elite Infantry blocks or becomes blocked, it gets -1/-1 until end of turn. They talk a good fight. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Create three 1/1 red Goblin Scout creature tokens with mountainwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.) "Pathetic—like I wouldn't know a goblin painted up to look like a dwarf!" —Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader |
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Creature — Goblin Shaman
"I see a great victory and rivers of blood. And . . . hmm, looks like a spleen." —Grishnak, goblin soothsayer 1/1 |
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Creature — Goblin Artificer
"Can they *do* that?" —Imwita, Zhalfirin artificer, last words 1/2 |
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Sorcery Hammer of Bogardan deals 3 damage to any target.
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Legendary Creature — Viashino Shaman You may choose not to untap Hivis of the Scale during your untap step.
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Sorcery Each player may bid life for control of target creature. You start the bidding with a bid of 0. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and gains control of the creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) |
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Instant Incinerate deals 3 damage to any target. A creature dealt damage this way can't be regenerated this turn. "Never taunt an embermage, 'What are you going to do about it?'" —Akin, seasoned askari |
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Sorcery As long as Kaervek's Torch is on the stack, spells that target it cost The pulsing heat of the midday Sun burns in the Lion's eye. —Stone inscription, source unknown |
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Enchantment — Aura You may cast Lightning Reflexes as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike. "Inhale. Kill. Exhale." |
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Creature — Salamander
When you've been chased by a dragon, you run from every lizard. —Suq'Ata saying 1/1 |
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Creature — Spirit
"Its burning power is more elusive than shade on the Unyaro Plains, more perilous than the horn of a rhino." —Akin, seasoned askari 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
Many mages have been consumed by their work. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Choose one — • Destroy target Plains and target white creature. • Destroy target Island and target blue creature. "The Burning Isles are the home to a dozen lords who claim dominion. Jamuraa will look to only one leader: me." —Kaervek |
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Creature — Human Knight Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
When the other soldiers of Zhalfir fall, the askaris will yet stand. 2/2 |
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Instant Target player reveals their hand. For each blue instant card revealed this way, that player discards that card unless they pay 4 life. "Blow, fiery wind, / strip illusion from the eye. / Blow, fiery wind of truth." —Femeref chant |
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Sorcery Spitting Earth deals damage to target creature equal to the number of Mountains you control. "There are times solid ground gives precious little comfort." —Talibah, embermage |
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Sorcery Destroy target land. "What rainbow could possibly come of this rain?" —Asmira, Holy Avenger |
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Creature — Elemental Spirit Protection from red
"Air hot with sulfur. / Earth heaves beneath me. / Could it be the mountain / ate something bad?" —Dwarven mining song 3/3 |
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Creature — Minotaur Berserker Haste Don't insult a Talruum unless your mount is swift. —Suq'Ata saying 3/3 |
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Legendary Creature — Human Knight Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) Whenever Telim'Tor attacks, all attacking creatures with flanking get +1/+1 until end of turn. "The curious merely amass knowledge. The ambitious use it." —Telim'Tor 2/2 |
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Instant Exile target permanent you own or control. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. "Execution awaits the dissenter." —Kasib ibn Naji, *Letters* |
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Sorcery Torrent of Lava deals X damage to each creature without flying.
As long as Torrent of Lava is on the stack, each creature has " The mountain's voice shouts us all down. |
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Creature — Viashino Warrior "When traveling the Great Desert avoid wearing the scales of lizards, for the Viashino rule the sands and look poorly on the skinning of their cousins." —*Zhalfirin Guide to the Desert* 4/2 |
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Creature — Dragon Flying, haste Speed and fire are always a deadly combination. 4/4 |
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Instant Volcanic Geyser deals X damage to any target. My thunder comes before the lightning; my lightning comes before the clouds; my rain dries all the land it touches. What am I? —Femeref riddle |
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Creature — Efreet Protection from white
"The efreet is a striding storm with a voice that crackles like fire." —Qhattib, Vizier of Amiqat 2/4 |
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Legendary Creature — Viashino Shaman
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Enchantment Afiya Grove enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, move a +1/+1 counter from Afiya Grove onto target creature. When Afiya Grove has no +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice it. |
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Enchantment — Aura You may cast Armor of Thorns as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. Enchant nonblack creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2. |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature attacks you, it loses flanking until end of turn. Whenever a creature without flying attacks you, Barbed Foliage deals 1 damage to it. |
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Creature — Brushwagg Whenever Brushwagg blocks or becomes blocked, it gets -2/+2 until end of turn. "Defiantly, the young cyclops popped the brushwagg into his mouth. His cheeks suddenly puffed, his eye bulged, and he was forced to agree with his elder." —Afari, *Tales* 3/2 |
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Creature — Dragon Trample
"In the Mwonvuli you must divide your attention between what hangs overhead and what lies underfoot." —Sidar Jabari 4/4 |
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Creature — Rhino Trample Love is like a rhino, short-sighted and hasty; if it cannot find a way, it will make a way. —Femeref adage 8/4 |
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Enchantment Return Cycle of Life to its owner's hand: Target creature you cast this turn has base power and toughness 0/1 until your next upkeep. At the beginning of your next upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. Thus does nature assert herself. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant black creature Enchanted creature has "Cumulative upkeep—Pay 1 life." (At the beginning of its controller's upkeep, that player puts an age counter on it, then sacrifices it unless they pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When enchanted creature dies, its controller loses 2 life. |
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Instant Target player untaps all basic lands they control. "Tonight we'll eat a farewell feast. Cold corn porridge is not enough. / Let's peel papayas, pineapples, and mangoes, drink coconut milk, / and bake bananas." —"Love Song of Night and Day" |
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Sorcery Put target land on top of its owner's library. ". . . and when the farmer awoke the next morning, all the seeds from his field were once again in their sacks." —Afari, *Tales* |
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Creature — Human Archer
"They say a Zhalfirin archer can split the eye of a griffin. Nonsense, of course: they have no faith to guide their darts." —Nuru, Femeref archer 2/2 |
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Instant Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. "More armies have been lost in the confusion of the jungle mists than to any battle." —Jolrael |
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Creature — Atog
Five hundred years to grow—barely a minute to eat. 1/2 |
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Creature — Insect Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) "I hate insects of every sort. The only mercy is that they are generally small." —Mwani, Mtenda goatherd 2/4 |
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Creature — Hyena Gibbering Hyenas can't block black creatures. Hyenas laughing—what's the joke? —Femeref phrase meaning "that's not funny" 3/2 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
Leave no mouth agape, no stomach unfilled. —Granger Guild maxim 1/1 |
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World Enchantment At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses a color. Until end of turn, lands tapped for mana produce mana of the chosen color instead of any other color. |
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Creature — Centaur Archer Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) "What need have I for cavalry when I can have horse and rider both in one?" —Jolrael 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Soldier
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Creature — Wurm Whenever Jungle Wurm becomes blocked, it gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first. Broad as a baobab—and about as smart. 5/5 |
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Creature — Mongoose Protection from blue "Be like the meerkat, my daughters: ever vigilant, true to your own, and wary of strangers." —Nabil Alamat, Suq'Ata merchant 2/1 |
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Creature — Insect Flying
Better a fierce thunderhead than a sky filled with locusts. 1/1 |
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Instant Cast this spell only if an opponent cast a creature spell this turn. You may put a green creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. |
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Creature — Elemental Maro's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. No two see the same Maro. */* |
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Creature — Fungus Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying Whenever Mindbender Spores blocks a creature, put four fungus counters on that creature. The creature gains "This creature doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a fungus counter on it" and "At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fungus counter from this creature." 0/1 |
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Creature — Cat Whenever Mtenda Lion attacks, defending player may pay "The lion drank that lake right up! In thanks, he gave Siti the power to speak with lions and make them leave the goats alone." —Afari, *Tales* 2/1 |
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Sorcery Each player who controls six or more lands chooses five lands they control and sacrifices the rest. Each player who controls four or fewer lands may search their library for up to X basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield, where X is five minus the number of lands they control. Then each player who searched their library this way shuffles. |
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Creature — Djinn At the beginning of your upkeep, Nettletooth Djinn deals 1 damage to you. "The few of us who survived were denied entry to our camp for two days—so like the pox were the marks we bore." —*Travelogue of Najat* 4/4 |
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Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top two cards of your library. You may sacrifice Preferred Selection and pay |
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Creature — Elf Druid As Quirion Elves enters the battlefield, choose a color.
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Sorcery Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. "I've never *heard* growth before." —Gowon, Femeref herder |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)
"Death is not a debt I am yet willing to pay." —Purraj of Urborg |
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Enchantment As Roots of Life enters the battlefield, choose Island or Swamp. Whenever a land of the chosen type an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life. |
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Creature — Snake Whenever Sabertooth Cobra deals damage to a player, that player gets a poison counter. The player gets another poison counter at the beginning of their next upkeep unless they pay 2/2 |
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Instant Sandstorm deals 1 damage to each attacking creature. Better to fight the sand for a few hours than to sleep beneath it forever. —Suq'Ata truism |
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Instant Choose one — • Return target Aura attached to a creature to its owner's hand. • Regenerate target green creature. • Target creature gains trample until end of turn. |
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Sorcery Destroy all artifacts. They can't be regenerated. The controller of each of those artifacts gains life equal to its mana value. "I have hidden from the machinations of Zhalfir for centuries. Why should I join *your* campaign?" —Jolrael |
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Instant Destroy all Auras. "If magic is your crutch, cast it aside and learn to walk without it." —Teferi |
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Creature — Cat Stalking Tiger can't be blocked by more than one creature. In the Jamuraan jungles, there is often no separating beauty from danger. 3/3 |
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Sorcery Superior Numbers deals damage to target creature equal to the number of creatures you control in excess of the number of creatures target opponent controls. |
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Instant Destroy all non-Aura enchantments. "An ancient court mage unified the houses into guilds to serve Zhalfir above their own interests. Even during the civil war, the guilds stood together, a testament to the wisdom of Teferi." —Afari, *Tales* |
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Sorcery Tropical Storm deals X damage to each creature with flying and 1 additional damage to each blue creature. "After the storm, I found a sea turtle dying on the sands, a blade of grass driven through its shell." —*Travelogue of Najat* |
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Creature — Faerie Flying
Victim of the two-toed faerie —Suq'Ata expression meaning "broken" 1/1 |
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Creature — Cat Uktabi Wildcats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Forests you control.
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Creature — Dryad Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
"To pass through the jungle: silence, courtesy, ferocity, as the occasion demands." —Kamau, "Proper Passage" 1/1 |
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Sorcery Unyaro Bee Sting deals 2 damage to any target. "Much can be learned from the bees about dying for a cause." —Asmira, Holy Avenger |
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Creature — Human Druid
"Enchant me with your tale-telling. Tell about Tree, Grass, River, and Wind. / Tell why Truth must fight with Falsehood, and why Truth will always win." —"Love Song of Night and Day" 1/1 |
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Sorcery Each player creates a 1/1 green Cat creature token for each untapped Forest they control. The trees have ears, eyes, and teeth. |
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Creature — Plant Wall Defender
Put a -0/-1 counter on Wall of Roots: Add Sometimes the wise ones wove their magic into living plants; as the plant grew, so grew the magic. 0/5 |
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Creature — Elephant Trample "I will tell my father's stories . . . . How the elephants trampled the leopard cub, and its father, though he knew, killed nine goats instead." —"Love Song of Night and Day" 3/3 |
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Instant Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top. "Aselbo soon had the rhino eating from his palm and the snake waiting at his heels." —Afari, *Tales* |
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Legendary Creature — Human Cleric Flying At the beginning of each end step, put a +1/+1 counter on Asmira, Holy Avenger for each creature put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn. "Omens lie in this early harvest's fruit." —Asmira, Holy Avenger 2/3 |
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Creature — Djinn Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life. "In all my years I've only met one mage who successfully trapped a djinn—and none who tried and failed." —Talibah, embermage 5/3 |
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Enchantment Exile a card from your hand: Add "It's filthy work, planting them." —Kifimbo, Shadow Guildmage |
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Enchantment
"Life is a resource that should belong only to the strong." —Shauku, Endbringer |
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Instant Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn. Tap target creature that player controls. That creature deals damage equal to its power to the player. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by the creature this turn. |
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Creature — Spirit At the beginning of each end step, if it's an opponent's turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Discordant Spirit for each 1 damage dealt to you this turn. At the beginning of your end step, remove all +1/+1 counters from Discordant Spirit. 2/2 |
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Creature — Djinn Flying, trample Emberwilde Caliph attacks each combat if able. Whenever Emberwilde Caliph deals damage, you lose that much life. The fire breathes while the air burns. 4/4 |
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Sorcery Choose one — • Energy Bolt deals X damage to target player or planeswalker. • Target player gains X life. Life and death are two faces of the same coin. |
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Creature — Efreet Flying
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Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, Grim Feast deals 1 damage to you. Whenever a creature is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, you gain life equal to its toughness. "Hmmm—midnight snack." |
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Creature — Gargoyle Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Whenever Harbor Guardian attacks, defending player may draw a card. "Our guardian levies a tax on all traders. Wise travelers pay with a minimum of fuss." —Qhattib, Vizier of Amiqat 3/4 |
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Creature — Spirit Flying As Haunting Apparition enters the battlefield, choose an opponent. Haunting Apparition's power is equal to 1 plus the number of green creature cards in the chosen player's graveyard. Like some foul herdbeast, it grazes on the dead. 1+*/2 |
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Creature — Drake Flying, protection from red "The hazerider danced in the thunderstorm and sang to its music." —Afari, *Tales* 2/3 |
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Creature — Troll
"You eat plants; I eat plants. You eat beasts; I eat you." —Drulvurg, troll king 2/1 |
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Sorcery Destroy target creature with mana value X. If that creature dies this way, Kaervek's Purge deals damage equal to the creature's power to the creature's controller. |
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Creature — Gargoyle Flying
"Only a gargoyle would take such delight in a thunderstorm." —Qhattib, Vizier of Amiqat 2/2 |
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Enchantment Cumulative upkeep |
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Sorcery This spell costs 3 life more to cast for each target. Destroy any number of target creatures. Only those who have nothing have nothing to fear. |
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Instant Choose a color. X target creatures gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn. "How ironic that the greatest forge of civilization is battle." —Mangara |
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Enchantment Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, exile that card.
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Creature — Spirit Radiant Essence gets +1/+2 as long as an opponent controls a black permanent. "Her beauty was the beauty of the Sun at midday, deadly to those who underestimated her strength." —Azeworai, "Kenechi's Dream" 2/3 |
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Instant The next time a source of your choice would deal damage this turn, that damage is dealt to that source's controller instead. From you to me, so me to you. —Femeref children's taunt |
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Enchantment Whenever an opponent casts a spell that targets you or a creature you control, you may draw a card. "Sorry I burned down your village. Here's some gold." |
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Creature — Basilisk Whenever Rock Basilisk blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat. In the eastern reaches of Jamuraa are arrangements of massive stones. No one knows their origins—for certain. 4/5 |
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Sorcery Savage Twister deals X damage to each creature. "Frozen, we watched the funnel pluck up three of the goats—pook! pook! pook!—before we ran for the wadi." —*Travelogue of Najat* |
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Sorcery Savage Twister deals X damage to each creature. "Frozen, we watched the funnel pluck up three of the goats—pook! pook! pook!—before we ran for the wadi." —*Travelogue of Najat* |
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Creature — Manticore
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Sorcery Look at the top X cards of target opponent's library. Exile one of those cards and put the rest back on top of that player's library in any order. It's good to know more about your enemy's fate than your enemy does. |
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Creature — Human Minion
"My minions serve me in the light; I serve no one." —Shauku, Endbringer 2/2 |
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Enchantment Pay 1 life: Until your next upkeep, target permanent can't phase out. Time is the one shackle you can't break. —Zhalfirin aphorism |
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Enchantment
"Like Day from Night, / I'll live my life apart from you, just glimpsing you across the sky, / because you cannot change, my dear, and nor can I." —"Love Song of Night and Day" |
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Instant You gain X plus 3 life. "Water is like breathing—necessary for life." —Asmira, Holy Avenger |
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Creature — Wurm Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, Warping Wurm phases out unless you pay Even wurms start out small. 1/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant land When Wellspring enters the battlefield, gain control of enchanted land until end of turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, untap enchanted land. You gain control of that land until end of turn. |
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Creature — Bird Flying, protection from blue Watching the windreaper —Zhalfirin phrase meaning "daydreaming" 1/1 |
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Creature — Unicorn Whenever Zebra Unicorn deals damage, you gain that much life. "I'll capture gentle zebras / for your steeds and fill the stable with every kind of unicorn." —"Love Song of Night and Day" 2/2 |
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Artifact You may choose not to untap Amber Prison during your untap step.
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Artifact
Trade to trade, not to keep. —Suq'Ata motto |
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Artifact Creature — Golem Basalt Golem can't be blocked by artifact creatures. Whenever Basalt Golem becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller sacrifices it at end of combat. If the player does, they create a 0/2 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender. 2/4 |
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Artifact
"The protection offered comes at a price. How numerous are your kin?" —Purraj of Urborg |
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Artifact Charcoal Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.
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Artifact
"Sun follows Moon until she tires, then carries her until she's strong / and runs ahead of him again." —"Love Song of Night and Day" |
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Artifact Creature — Golem At the beginning of your end step, Crystal Golem phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before you untap during your next untap step.) "Once, a wealthy king commissioned an artificial creature to be crafted from the royal treasury, thinking it a clever ploy to have the jewels guard themselves." —Azeworai, "The Golem's Wish" 3/3 |
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Artifact Activated abilities of creatures can't be activated. Pass me from soul to soul / soldier to herder, herder to beast, beast to soil / until I am everywhere. / Then pass me those souls. —Totem inscription (translated) |
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Artifact Elixir of Vitality enters the battlefield tapped.
"Eternal life or your money back." —Unnamed Suq'Ata merchant, deceased |
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Artifact Creature — Gnome
From jungle to sea, from sea to stone, from stone to field, from field to bone. What am I? —Zhalfirin riddle 1/1 |
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Artifact Fire Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.
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Artifact Creature — Spirit Rampage 1 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.) Few are able to underestimate the hordes. 2/2 |
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Artifact Creature — Golem
"The creature rose from the mountain, its body weeping fire." —Afari, *Tales* 3/4 |
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Artifact Creature — Golem Whenever Lead Golem attacks, it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. Slow and heavy swings the club. 3/5 |
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Artifact Discard your hand, Sacrifice Lion's Eye Diamond: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only as an instant. Held in the lion's eye —Zhalfirin saying meaning "caught in the moment of crisis" |
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Artifact When Mangara's Tome enters the battlefield, search your library for five cards, exile them in a face-down pile, and shuffle that pile. Then shuffle your library.
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Artifact Marble Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.
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Artifact At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has five or more cards in hand, Misers' Cage deals 2 damage to that player. "Let him be imprisoned while his possessions wander free." —Suq'Ata legal decree |
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Artifact Moss Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.
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Artifact Creature — Golem
It scattered falcons like a lion hunting among jackals. 2/3 |
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Artifact At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has two or fewer cards in hand, Paupers' Cage deals 2 damage to that player. A cage may keep you in, but it does not keep the stones out. |
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Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Dreadnought Trample When Phyrexian Dreadnought enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice any number of creatures with total power 12 or greater. 12/12 |
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Artifact
"The secrets of Phyrexia are expensive. You will pay in brass and bone, steel and sinew." —Kaervek |
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Artifact At the beginning of each player's end step, if that player has 5 or less life, Razor Pendulum deals 2 damage to that player. "Amazing thing, gravity. It seems to work every time." —Telim'Tor |
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Artifact Creature — Golem When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Sand Golem, return Sand Golem from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step. 3/3 |
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Artifact Sky Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.
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Artifact Creature — Dragon Flying; trample; rampage 4 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +4/+4 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.) 5/5 |
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"People laughed at my darts—once." —Telim'Tor |
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Land Bad River enters the battlefield tapped.
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Land Flood Plain enters the battlefield tapped.
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Land Grasslands enters the battlefield tapped.
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Land Mountain Valley enters the battlefield tapped.
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Land Rocky Tar Pit enters the battlefield tapped.
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Legendary Land Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)
Teferi's Isle enters the battlefield tapped.
The three wizards knew only that this isle held a great mystery—and that patience alone would solve it. |
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