Modern Masters 2017
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Creature — Human Knight First strike When Attended Knight enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token. The virtues of knighthood are best taught in the field. 2/2 |
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Instant Put target artifact, creature, or enchantment on the bottom of its owner's library.
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Creature — Phyrexian Human Artificer When Blade Splicer enters the battlefield, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token. Golems you control have first strike. "Flesh is a betrayal of the self." 1/1 |
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Sorcery Create X 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying.
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Instant Create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying, then populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.) "What root and branch cannot reach, our winged friends will attend to." —Zunak, Selesnya strategist |
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Creature — Elemental Flying When Flickerwisp enters the battlefield, exile another target permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. Its wings disturb more than air. 3/1 |
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Creature — Human Soldier
"The essence of a lawful society is swift deterrence." 1/1 |
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Instant When target creature dies this turn, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. "In my moment of death, I had a vision of the world, dark and unwelcoming. I wanted to hide in the deepest meander, but the light pulled me back." |
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Enchantment Creature tokens you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance. In life, they were a motley crew: farmers, lords, cutpurses, priests. In death, they are united in singular, benevolent purpose. |
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Creature — Kor Soldier When Kor Hookmaster enters the battlefield, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. "For us, a rope represents the ties that bind the kor. For you, it's more literal." 2/2 |
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Creature — Kor Soldier Flying When Kor Skyfisher enters the battlefield, return a permanent you control to its owner's hand. "Sometimes I snare the unexpected, but I know its purpose will be revealed in time." 2/3 |
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Sorcery Create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying.
Flashback The murdered inhabitants of Hollowhenge impart to the living the terror they felt in death. |
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Legendary Creature — Angel Flying Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated. Those who seek to disturb the harmony of life will see their instruments taken from them. 3/4 |
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Creature — Kor Monk When Lone Missionary enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life. His mission has become a grim pilgrimage, a tour of the Eldrazi-stricken outposts across Zendikar. But he marches on alone, stubborn as the daily dawn. 2/1 |
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Creature — Phyrexian Human Artificer When Master Splicer enters the battlefield, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token. Golems you control get +1/+1. With Phyrexia's victory at hand, each sect began perfecting its vision. 1/1 |
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Instant Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Flashback |
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Instant Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. |
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Instant — Trap If exactly one creature is attacking, you may pay Each spike is poisoned—the trapmaker's idea of mercy. |
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Creature — Human Soldier Ranger When Ranger of Eos enters the battlefield, you may search your library for up to two creature cards with mana value 1 or less, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. At his side, humble beasts become weapons more deadly than sharpened steel. 3/2 |
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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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Instant Populate. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. (To populate, create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.) |
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Enchantment At the beginning of each upkeep, you may exile target creature card from your graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a Spirit in addition to its other types. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. |
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Creature — Phyrexian Artificer When Sensor Splicer enters the battlefield, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token. Golem creatures you control have vigilance. With clarity of vision comes clarity of function. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Cleric Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. "One does not question the size or shape of the grains of sand in an hourglass. Nor do I question the temperament of the souls under my guidance." 1/1 |
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Enchantment Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated. The relic's purpose? Its design? Whatever the intent, it is now a mere curiosity that breaks up the horizon. |
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Sorcery Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries.
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Creature — Human Cleric When Urbis Protector enters the battlefield, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. "Guilds be damned. We can fend for ourselves." —Vennick of the Gateless 1/1 |
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Sorcery Populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.) "You see a bird, an oak, a packbeast. I see the potential for an army." —Lalia, Selesnya dryad |
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Creature — Human Knight First strike "Let no child be without a sword. We will all fight, for if we fail, we will certainly all die." —Oracle *en*-Vec 2/1 |
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Creature — Merfolk Wizard When Augur of Bolas enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. 1/3 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
"We draw our power from the infinite ocean of the mind, where all manner of things can be conceived." —Azure creed 2/1 |
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Instant Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
Flashback |
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Sorcery Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card. "Four parts molten bronze, yes . . . one part frozen mercury, yes, yes . . . but then what?" |
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Instant Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. Draw a card. One breath of the geist turns veins to rivers of ice and freezes hearts midbeat. |
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Instant Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload The Izzet specialize in unnatural disaster. |
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Creature — Spirit Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Deadeye Navigator is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has " 5/5 |
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Instant As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a creature you control to its owner's hand. Counter target spell. Because of their capricious nature, faeries can serve as living lenses for disruptive magic. |
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Instant Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
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Instant Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control. Sometimes it's useful to take a break from existence. |
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Instant Search your library for up to four cards with different names and reveal them. Target opponent chooses two of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your graveyard and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle. |
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Sorcery Put target creature on top of its owner's library.
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Creature — Kraken A spike and a maul are needed to crack their shells, but the taste is worth the effort. 0/4 |
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Creature — Bird Flying When Mist Raven enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand. "When you see a raven, head for the hills. It knows when the ghost-tide is headed in." —Sved, fisherman of Nephalia 2/2 |
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Instant Search your library for an instant card or a card with flash, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
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Instant Target player draws four cards. "Opportunity isn't something you wait for. It's something you create." |
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Creature — Illusion You may have Phantasmal Image enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it." 0/0 |
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Instant Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands. "The best denials are simply that: a beginning and end unchanged, a dream with no memory." |
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Creature — Human Wizard When Sea Gate Oracle enters the battlefield, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library. "The secret entrance should be near." 1/3 |
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Sorcery Draw a card. Scry 2. Serum was once derived from Mirrodin's blinkmoths, offering visions of inspiration. Now it is pulled from Phyrexian inkmoths, yielding visions of perfection. |
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Creature — Human Wizard Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.) 2/1 |
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Instant Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays "There's a hole in your plan." —Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage |
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Creature — Phyrexian Drake Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying Each monitor is given an eye for each spire it is to guard. 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Scout Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as Tandem Lookout is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card." 2/1 |
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Sorcery Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Mastery.
Miracle Time is a marvelous plaything. |
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Legendary Creature — Human Wizard Flash When Venser, Shaper Savant enters the battlefield, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand. His marvels of artifice pale in comparison to the developing machinery of his mind. 2/2 |
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Creature — Wall Defender Whenever Wall of Frost blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. "I welcome it. The pasture is cleared of weeds and the wolves are frozen solid." —Lumi, goatherd 0/7 |
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Creature — Phyrexian Human Artificer When Wing Splicer enters the battlefield, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token. Golem creatures you control have flying. "Progress is our great inheritance, perfection our ultimate destination." 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Wizard Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as Wingcrafter is paired with another creature, both creatures have flying. 1/1 |
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Creature — Specter Flying Whenever Abyssal Specter deals damage to a player, that player discards a card. It rides to a chorus of whispers that are more felt than heard. 2/3 |
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Sorcery As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Destroy target creature. Witches of the Split-Eye Coven speak of a future when Grixis will overflow with life energy. For now, they must harvest vis from the living to fuel their dark magics. |
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Creature — Zombie Wizard When Corpse Connoisseur enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a creature card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Unearth 3/3 |
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Instant Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. "You will fully understand fear when you discover it is the final thing you put your faith in." —Nicol Bolas |
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Sorcery Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. |
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Creature — Avatar Death's Shadow gets -X/-X, where X is your life total. The shadow of the candle looms tall even as its light grows dim. 13/13 |
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Sorcery Each player discards three cards. There came a rush, a sudden fire in the mind. Then the two saw only the sooty fog of madness, heard only the crackling of their last thoughts burning away. |
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Creature — Demon Flying At the beginning of each combat, any opponent may sacrifice a creature. If a player does, tap Desecration Demon and put a +1/+1 counter on it. 6/6 |
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Creature — Zombie Unearth The undead of Grixis are fueled by their hatred of the living. 2/1 |
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Creature — Phyrexian Cleric When Entomber Exarch enters the battlefield, choose one — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature card from it. That player discards that card. 2/2 |
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Creature — Demon Flying
Whenever another creature leaves the battlefield, you may have target player mill two cards.
Unearth 5/5 |
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Creature — Vampire Noble Flying Whenever Falkenrath Noble or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. "I often think on how excited they must feel to be chosen as my prey." 2/2 |
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Creature — Zombie
On still nights you can hear its rotted teeth grinding tirelessly on scavenged bones. 1/3 |
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Legendary Creature — Demon Flying, lifelink Pay 7 life: Draw seven cards. "Avacyn emerged from the broken Helvault, but her freedom came at a price—him." —Thalia, Knight-Cathar 7/7 |
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Instant Destroy target nonartifact creature. Its controller mills cards equal to that creature's power. |
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Creature — Zombie Giant When Grixis Slavedriver leaves the battlefield, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Unearth 4/4 |
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Sorcery Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card. After the awakening of the Eldrazi, some vampires took it upon themselves to remind the others where their loyalty should lie. |
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Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana [+1]: Each player discards a card. [−2]: Target player sacrifices a creature. [−6]: Separate all permanents target player controls into two piles. That player sacrifices all permanents in the pile of their choice. |
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Sorcery Target player discards X cards at random. Dark thoughts hatch and twist within the mind, straining to take wing. |
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Creature — Insect Whenever a player sacrifices a creature, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Mortician Beetle. To the soldier, war is famine; to the scavenger, a feast. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card. Innistrad is a place where dreams invade the mind and mere shadows exact a terrible toll. |
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Creature — Ogre Rogue Defender Ogre Jailbreaker can attack as though it didn't have defender as long as you control a Gate. It took three years for it to occur to him to use the chain as a weapon, but once it did, he made up for lost time. 4/4 |
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Creature — Human Wizard When Pit Keeper enters the battlefield, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. "The undead are not 'awakened.' They are evicted when there is no room left in the pit for more bodies." 2/1 |
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Sorcery Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Draw a card. "Wisdom from the past is best gathered directly from the source." |
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Enchantment Sacrifice Seal of Doom: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. "A basilisk's gaze is effective, but disposing of physical remains is a tiresome task. It's far more discreet to dissolve one's victim entirely." —Szadek |
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Sorcery Exile target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature.
Flashback |
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Sorcery Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback All crave the Blessed Sleep. Few receive it. |
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Creature — Vampire Rogue Noble Sacrifice a creature: Vampire Aristocrat gets +2/+2 until end of turn. "I admit, I am a creature of the city. The sights, the nightly excitement, the abundance of fine drink . . ." 2/2 |
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Creature — Vampire Shaman Flying, deathtouch, lifelink As they fought the Eldrazi, many vampires learned to live among humans. Others were unable to make the adjustment. 2/3 |
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Instant Destroy target artifact.
Flashback If there's anything a werewolf hates, it's a collar—especially Avacyn's Collar, the symbol of her church. |
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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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Enchantment Nonbasic lands are Mountains. Heavy light flooded across the landscape, cloaking everything in deep crimson. |
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Sorcery Bonfire of the Damned deals X damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.
Miracle |
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Instant Chandra's Outrage deals 4 damage to target creature and 2 damage to that creature's controller. Chandra never believed in using her "inside voice." |
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Sorcery Create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens. Goblins journey to the sacrificial peaks in pairs so that the rare survivor might be able to relate the details of the other's grisly demise. |
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Instant Target creature you control gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
Overload Nothing evens the odds like a little lightning. |
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Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token with haste. Goblin creatures attack each combat if able. A goblin raid is a delicate gambit—a blend of stealth, precision, and screaming death. |
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Creature — Goblin Scout Haste Whenever Goblin Guide attacks, defending player reveals the top card of their library. If it's a land card, that player puts it into their hand. "I've been all over this world. I even remember some of those places." 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Knight Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as Hanweir Lancer is paired with another creature, both creatures have first strike. 2/2 |
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Creature — Devil Haste Whenever a creature you control attacks, Hellrider deals 1 damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking. "Behind every devil's mayhem lurks a demon's scheme." —Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors 3/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 and has menace. The larger the crowd, the harder it is for them to run away. |
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Instant Magma Jet deals 2 damage to any target. Scry 2. Some Akroans make the dangerous pilgrimage to the volcanic temples of Purphoros, where oracles known as flamespeakers glean omens from lava. |
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Sorcery Mizzium Mortars deals 4 damage to target creature you don't control.
Overload |
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Creature — Goblin Mogg Flunkies can't attack or block alone. They'll attack whatever's in front of them—as long as you tell them where that is. 3/3 |
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Sorcery Destroy target land. If that land was nonbasic, Molten Rain deals 2 damage to the land's controller. It came as a cruel answer to the farmers' prayers. |
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Creature — Goblin Warrior When Mudbutton Torchrunner dies, it deals 3 damage to any target. The oil sloshes against his skull as he nears his destination: the Frogtosser Games and the lighting of the Flaming Boggart. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost.
Flashback |
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Creature — Goblin Shaman Bloodrush — 3/1 |
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Sorcery Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature. "Who'd want to ignite things one at a time?" —Chandra Nalaar |
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Enchantment Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that has the same name as a card in your graveyard, you may put a quest counter on Pyromancer Ascension. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell while Pyromancer Ascension has two or more quest counters on it, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. |
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Creature — Cat Bloodrush — "The maaka remain loyal to us in this time of strife. We don't even have to feed them—our enemies do." —Nedja, Gruul shaman 3/3 |
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Creature — Spirit
Each small blaze she sets jogs her memory, letting her piece together the mystery of her own fiery end. 1/1 |
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Creature — Devil When Scourge Devil enters the battlefield, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.
Unearth 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Shaman
"Within blood is life. Within life is fire. Within fire is the path to our masters' glory!" 2/2 |
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Instant Thunderous Wrath deals 5 damage to any target.
Miracle |
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Sorcery Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. Until end of turn, it gets +2/+0 and gains haste. The horror lurched about like a puppet from a madman's nightmare, squeezing the life from its own kind. |
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Creature — Human Shaman
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Creature — Human Warrior Haste When Zealous Conscripts enters the battlefield, gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap that permanent. It gains haste until end of turn. 3/3 |
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Creature — Spider Reach Tap an untapped Spider you control: Search your graveyard and/or library for a card named Arachnus Web and put it onto the battlefield attached to target creature. If you search your library this way, shuffle. 5/7 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated. At the beginning of the end step, if enchanted creature's power is 4 or greater, destroy Arachnus Web. |
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Creature — Human Monk
"Avacyn's protection is everywhere. From the holy church to the sacred glade, all that we see is under her blessed watch." 1/1 |
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Instant — Trap If an opponent had an artifact enter the battlefield under their control this turn, you may pay |
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Sorcery Create a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Flashback |
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Creature — Beast Haste When Craterhoof Behemoth enters the battlefield, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control. 5/5 |
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Creature — Phyrexian Snake
"Size alone does not guarantee survival." —Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger 2/2 |
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Instant Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn. Populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.) "So many oppose us, but we are the reed that bends without breaking." |
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Sorcery You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card. An explorer's reward is a view of tomorrow's possibilities. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature When Fists of Ironwood enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens. Enchanted creature has trample. |
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Enchantment Creatures you control get +1/+1. "To those who can hear it, Gaea's battle song brings power as swift as sunlight and as enduring as the deep roots of the forest." —Gamelen, Citanul elder |
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Sorcery Draw three cards. "Life's greatest lessons don't come from focus or concentration. They come from breathing and simply noticing." —Seton, centaur druid |
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Creature — Goblin Warrior Trample Whenever Hungry Spriggan attacks, it gets +3/+3 until end of turn. If a spriggan's eyes are larger than its stomach, it has ways to remedy the situation. 1/1 |
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Instant Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If you cast this spell during your main phase, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn instead. "Krosa the great. Krosa the enduring. Look to the forest, and it will share its bounty." —Zyd, Kamahlite druid |
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Creature — Spider Reach When Penumbra Spider dies, create a 2/4 black Spider creature token with reach. When it snared a passing cockatrice, its own soul darkly doubled. 2/4 |
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Sorcery Choose two — • Target player gains 7 life. • Put target noncreature permanent on top of its owner's library. • Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library. • Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. |
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Sorcery Return target green card from your graveyard to your hand. Even what is lost beyond recall returns when coaxed by a dryad's hand. |
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Creature — Ooze
In nature, not a single bone or scrap of flesh goes to waste. 2/2 |
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Enchantment Sacrifice Seal of Primordium: Destroy target artifact or enchantment. "I am the simplifier, the root that drags all artifice to earth." —Seal inscription |
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Creature — Beast Bloodrush — The Orzhov clergy would never cross its path, but sending thrull couriers to do so is cheap and entertaining. 3/2 |
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Sorcery Create an X/X green Ooze creature token. "Give me enough refuse and mana and I will summon an ooze that can engulf all of Ravnica." —Cevraya, Golgari shaman |
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Instant Until end of turn, target creature gains trample and gets +X/+X, where X is the number of attacking creatures. "The hermit dies. The outcast dies. The lone wolf dies. Only those who stick together survive this world." —Uros, Pendelhaven elder |
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Instant — Trap If a creature spell you cast this turn was countered by a spell or ability an opponent controlled, you may pay |
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Creature — Elf Scout Ranger When Sylvan Ranger enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. "Not all paths are found on the forest floor." 1/1 |
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Creature — Lhurgoyf Tarmogoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1. What doesn't grow, dies. And what dies grows the tarmogoyf. */1+* |
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Creature — Elf Wizard Kicker 2/2 |
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Creature — Beast When Thragtusk enters the battlefield, you gain 5 life. When Thragtusk leaves the battlefield, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. "Always carry two spears." —Mokgar, Kalonian hunter 5/3 |
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Creature — Human Shaman
"Peace will come to Innistrad, but only after all abominations have been dealt with, one by one." 1/1 |
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Creature — Phyrexian Human Artificer When Vital Splicer enters the battlefield, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token.
"For every one that falls, ten shall rise. The revelation of New Phyrexia is at hand." —Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger 1/1 |
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Instant This spell can't be countered. Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less. The Izzet quickly suspended their policy of lifetime guarantees. |
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Instant Create a 5/5 green Wurm creature token with trample. The consciousness of Mat'Selesnya does not always spread in peaceful ways. |
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Instant Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. It gains "At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to its owner's hand." Then put the rest of the cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order. |
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Creature — Human Advisor At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. "Two-faced" is an understatement. 2/3 |
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Instant Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn. Target creature gets -0/-3 until end of turn. Life's circle has become inverted in Grixis. The same energy is endlessly recycled and becomes more stagnant with each pass. |
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Instant Target creature gets +4/-4 until end of turn. "Finally, a weapon the Boros can't confiscate!" —Juri, proprietor of the Juri Revue |
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Creature — Bird Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, Bronzebeak Moa gets +3/+3 until end of turn. They fight for their home with more loyalty than any conscript. 2/2 |
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Creature — Dragon Flying When Broodmate Dragon enters the battlefield, create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying. Frozen in fear, the goblins stared upward at the circling hunter—and were promptly eaten by its diving mate. 4/4 |
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Sorcery Create a 3/3 green Centaur creature token. Centaurs are sent to evangelize in Gruul territories where words of war speak louder than prayers of peace. |
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Creature — Skeleton Warrior Whenever a creature blocks, that creature's controller loses 1 life.
Not the foulest or bloodiest act at Rix Maadi by a stretch. 4/2 |
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Creature — Centaur Cleric When Centaur Healer enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life. Instructors at the Kasarna training grounds are capable healers in case their students fail to grasp the subtleties of combat. 3/3 |
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Creature — Snake Elf Druid When Coiling Oracle enters the battlefield, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand. Snaking remnants of nature directed by a body of thought and progress, the oracles embody all that is Simic. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Target opponent sacrifices a creature, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life. There is always a greater power. |
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Creature — Human Wizard Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Deputy of Acquittals enters the battlefield, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand. "Everyone deserves a day in court." 2/2 |
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Creature — Horror When Dinrova Horror enters the battlefield, return target permanent to its owner's hand, then that player discards a card. "Welcome to the Dimir Public Offices. Not responsible for death or loss of property. Basement off-limits." —Sign outside Dinrova Building 4/4 |
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Legendary Planeswalker — Domri [+1]: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. [−2]: Target creature you control fights another target creature. [−7]: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control have double strike, trample, hexproof, and haste." |
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Creature — Shapeshifter You may have Evil Twin enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has " You can always tell the evil one by the dagger he's sticking in you. 0/0 |
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Creature — Vampire Noble Flying, haste Sacrifice a creature: Falkenrath Aristocrat gains indestructible until end of turn. If the sacrificed creature was a Human, put a +1/+1 counter on Falkenrath Aristocrat. "Your blood is quite pleasing. A pity there's not enough for both of us." 4/1 |
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Sorcery Fiery Justice deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. Target opponent gains 5 life. When the rebels couldn't breach the castle to kill Lalor the Obstinate, they tried a more internal approach to depose the pretender king. |
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Creature — Beast Trample
Bloodrush — "The Simic come from the cold slow depths. How could they understand the fire in a wild heart?" —Kroshkar, Gruul shaman 4/4 |
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Creature — Goblin Wizard Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost When asked how much power is required, Izzet mages always answer "more." 2/2 |
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Enchantment Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. The Golgari don't bury their dead. They plant them. |
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Creature — Zombie Wurm
Like corpse-worms through a carapace, rotwurms slide through the hollowed bones of the undercity. 5/4 |
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Sorcery Ground Assault deals damage to target creature equal to the number of lands you control. "Taking down a dragon is easy. All you need is enough space to get in a good swing." —Narbulg Nine Fingers |
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Enchantment Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0 and have menace. "We are the heart of the wild, the fire in its eyes, and the howl in its throat. Come, join the battle to which you were born." —Kroshkar, Gruul shaman |
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Instant Choose one —
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Creature — Bird Shaman Flying
When Kathari Bomber deals combat damage to a player, create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens and sacrifice Kathari Bomber.
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Creature — Vampire Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life. "Touched by moroii" —Undercity slang meaning "to grow old" 4/4 |
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Instant Counter target spell. Create an X/X green Ooze creature token, where X is that spell's mana value. "The Simic can grow anything out of a puddle of sludge. I just hope they never join forces with the Golgari." —Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov |
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Legendary Creature — Dragon Wizard Flying
Whenever Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius deals damage to a player, you may draw a card.
He has no patience for minds that do not inspire him or explode by trying. 5/5 |
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Legendary Creature — Spirit Advisor When Obzedat, Ghost Council enters the battlefield, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. At the beginning of your end step, you may exile Obzedat. If you do, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of your next upkeep. It gains haste. 5/5 |
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Legendary Creature — Vampire Flying
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Sorcery Target player mills two cards. Draw two cards. Mirko Vosk hunted anyone with knowledge of the maze, draining the chances of the other guilds. |
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Instant Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated. "We are all decaying, always in a state of near-death. One moment without breath and we begin to break down." —Cevraya, Golgari shaman |
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Creature — Rhino Monk Lifelink Rhox monks are dedicated to spiritual growth and learning, and most bear the sigils of many students. However, they do not gladly suffer fools or those who disagree with their carefully wrought dogma. 3/4 |
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Creature — Specter Flying
Whenever Sedraxis Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.
Unearth 3/2 |
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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 — Human Cleric When Sin Collector enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it and exile that card. "That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you." 2/1 |
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Creature — Human Knight Flying, haste "I do not know which gives me more pride: the legions of soldiers marching in thunderous lockstep, or the cry of the skyknights riding their rocs like jagged lightning overhead." —Razia 2/2 |
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Instant Choose one or both — • Counter target creature spell. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. "Birth and death are both reversible." —Nicol Bolas |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature You control enchanted creature. Discard two cards: Soul Ransom's controller sacrifices it, then draws two cards. Only your opponents may activate this ability. |
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Instant You gain X life and draw X cards. "Let the knowledge of absolute law inspire you to live a life of absolute order." |
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Creature — Goblin Warrior Haste For the Rakdos, "suicidal charge" and "good showmanship" are one and the same. 3/1 |
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Creature — Lizard When Sprouting Thrinax dies, create three 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens. The vast network of predation on Jund has actually caused some strange creatures to adapt to being eaten. 3/3 |
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Creature — Angel Flying, vigilance Players can't untap more than one creature during their untap steps. Even the most battle-hardened soldiers pause in her presence for a moment of introspection. 3/4 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
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Creature — Bird Scout Flying "The volcanic winds make a maze of the skies of Jund. If we mean to invade, we must first learn their invisible paths." 2/3 |
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Sorcery Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.
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Instant Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. All suns must set. |
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Creature — Human Soldier
"Hear that? Those notes mean we've arrived at Sunhome! Let our allies' hearts soar and our enemies' hearts shatter at the sound!" —Klattic, Boros legionnaire 2/1 |
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Artifact Creature — Gargoyle Flying "Esper, like any work of art, can be truly appreciated only from a distance." —Tezzeret 4/4 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has trample and lifelink. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.) As Trostani's influence grew, vitality spread through the Conclave—much to the other guilds' dismay. |
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Sorcery Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn. As the Simic released more of their krasis experiments, they required new habitats, always at the expense of the locals. |
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Instant Exile target creature. You draw cards equal to that creature's power. At the beginning of your next upkeep, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If you do, discard cards equal to that creature's toughness. Out of sight, into mind. |
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Creature — Elemental Whenever an opponent casts a spell during your turn or when Voice of Resurgence dies, create a green and white Elemental creature token with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control." 2/2 |
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Creature — Wall Defender, flying Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) It provides what every discerning mage requires—time to think. 0/8 |
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Creature — Elemental Wayfaring Temple's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control. Whenever Wayfaring Temple deals combat damage to a player, populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.) */* |
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Creature — Beast One of the most ferocious and deadly gargantuans, the thoctar never sees its worshippers, but it often awakens surrounded by gifts and sacrifices. 5/4 |
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Legendary Creature — Human Wizard Flying Whenever Zur the Enchanter attacks, you may search your library for an enchantment card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Zur remained aloof from Terisiare's suffering, intent only on his own perfection. 1/4 |
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Instant Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library. Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.) |
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Creature — Minotaur Wizard Whenever Boros Reckoner is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to any target.
"Imagine a thunderstorm that's also a tactical genius. That's him." —Dars Gostok, Firefist captain 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Shaman When Burning-Tree Emissary enters the battlefield, add Those who regard the Gruul as savage simpletons underestimate the subtle power of their shamans. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Create a 4/4 red and green Giant Warrior creature token with haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it.) |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying and lifelink. "Remember by whose gift you ascend." —Milana, Orzhov prelate |
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Creature — Kithkin Wizard
Olka collected the evening mist for years, studying its secrets. Once she learned its essence, she could vanish with a thought. 1/1 |
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Instant Destroy target artifact or enchantment, then populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.) "One day every pillar will be a tree and every hall a glade." —Trostani |
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Creature — Goblin Shaman
The Tattermunge gang has no words for the spell that whips their instinctual rage into a frenzy. They only know they like it. 2/1 |
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Sorcery Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield if |
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Legendary Creature — Goblin Shaman When Wort, the Raidmother enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 red and green Goblin Warrior creature tokens. Each red or green instant or sorcery spell you cast has conspire. (As you cast the spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose new targets for the copy.) 3/3 |
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The maze-like design embodies the core of Azorius law—strict structure designed to test wills and stall change. |
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Artifact — Equipment Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink.
Equip During their endless travels, the mages of the Goma Fada caravan have learned ways to harness both life and death. |
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Artifact
"Have you ever held a Boros signet? There's a weight to it that belies its size—a weight of strength and of pride." —Agrus Kos |
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Artifact Activated abilities of artifacts and creatures can't be activated unless they're mana abilities. The priests tried cursing it. The mages tried dispelling it. In the end, they all obeyed it. |
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Artifact
An emblem of a secret guild, the Dimir insignia is seen only by its own members—and the doomed. |
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Artifact
Depending on your point of view, the seal represents a proud guardian of the natural cycle or one who has sold her soul to darkness for eternal life. |
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Artifact Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries. "If you wind up in one of mine, you can be sure as silver it will be your last." —Grafdigger Wulmer |
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Artifact
Gruul territorial markings need not be legible. The blood, snot, and muck used to smear them are unmistakably Gruul. |
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The Izzet signet is redesigned often, each time becoming closer to a vanity portrait of Niv-Mizzet. |
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The form of the sigil is just as important as the sigil itself. If it's carried on a medallion, its bearer is a master. If it's tattooed on the body, its bearer is a slave. |
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Made of bone and boiled in blood, a Rakdos signet is not considered finished until it has been used as a murder weapon. |
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The symbol of the Conclave is one of unity, with tree supporting sun and sun feeding tree. |
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For the Simic Combine, its sigil serves not as an emblem of honor but as a trademark. Its familiar image on any biological commodity attests to superb craftsmanship, ingenious innovation, and higher cost. |
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Land Arcane Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped.
"We must rely on our own knowledge, not on the dogma of the seekers or the mutterings of the sphinxes." —Tullus of Palandius |
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Land — Gate Azorius Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
The Azorius symbol stares down like a great eye, reminding visitors of the watchful presence of Isperia and her lawmages. |
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Land — Gate Boros Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
It promises protection to those in need and proclaims a warning to any who would threaten Ravnican law. |
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Land As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
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Land Crumbling Necropolis enters the battlefield tapped.
"They say the ruins of Sedraxis were once a shining capital in Vithia. Now it is a blight, a place to be avoided by the living." —Olcot, Rider of Joffik |
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Land — Gate Dimir Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
In the cold corridors of the undercity, misinformation unfurls from Duskmantle like a spreading stain. |
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Land — Gate Golgari Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
Every part of the gate was reclaimed from forgotten ruins and imbued with new purpose by the Swarm. |
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Land — Gate Gruul Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
The scarred rubble around the gate is testament to past meetings of the Clans, summits that inevitably devolved into brawls. |
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Land — Gate Izzet Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
Beyond lies the culmination of all Izzet projects, a grand experiment led by the dragon Niv-Mizzet himself. |
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Land Jungle Shrine enters the battlefield tapped.
On Naya, ambition and treachery are scarce, hunted nearly to extinction by the awe owed to terrestrial gods. |
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Land — Gate Orzhov Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
"We do not believe in hiding our wealth in the shadows. This is Orzhov, and this is how we reward greatness." —Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov |
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Land — Gate Rakdos Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
Maze-runners who pass through the Rakdos gate leave behind their scruples and a significant amount of skin. |
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Land Savage Lands enters the battlefield tapped.
Jund is a world as cruel as those who call it home. Their brutal struggles scar the land even as it carves them in its image, a vicious circle spiraling out of control. |
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Land Seaside Citadel enters the battlefield tapped.
For wisdom's sake, it was built high to gaze on all things. For glory's sake, it was built high as a testament of power. For strength's sake, it was built high to repel all attacks. |
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Land — Gate Selesnya Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
The Selesyna welcome all to help them heal the city's wounds. The price, however, is devotion to the guild and a selfless belief in Trostani. |
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Untold riches await those who forsake the bustling world to search the secret, silent places. |
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Land — Gate Simic Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
Simic biomancers don't concern themselves with guarding a gate. Their ever-present creations are enough to ward off trespassers. |
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Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
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