Mercadian Masques
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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. |
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Its mortar is mixed with waters straight from the Fountain of Cho. 0/4 |
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Enchantment
We all must profit for peace to last. —Mercadian saying |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated. Orim had no memory of the previous night—the first thing she could remember was waking up with the dead guard's blood on her hands. |
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Creature — Human Rebel
The perfect antidote for a tightly packed formation. 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
1/1 |
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Creature — Griffin Flying When Charmed Griffin enters the battlefield, each other player may put an artifact or enchantment card onto the battlefield from their hand. Are you sure you can afford such a luxury? 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
1/1 |
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Creature — Ogre Rebel Whenever Cho-Arrim Bruiser attacks, you may tap up to two target creatures. He doesn't know why the Cho-Arrim fight the Mercadians, but he's happy to bash heads for them anyway. 3/4 |
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Creature — Human Soldier If an opponent controls a Swamp and you control a Plains, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Protection from black 1/2 |
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Legendary Creature — Human Rebel Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Cho-Manno, Revolutionary. "Mercadia's masks can no longer hide the truth. Our day has come at last." —Cho-Manno 2/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Flash Enchant creature As Cho-Manno's Blessing enters the battlefield, choose a color. Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove Cho-Manno's Blessing. |
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Enchantment Nonartifact creatures get +2/+2 as long as they all share a color. Mercadia City's troops are at their best when they have no enemy to fight. |
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Enchantment Players can't cast spells with the same name as a nontoken permanent. Players can't play nonbasic lands with the same name as a nontoken permanent. Don't step on the livelihood of other vendors, or they may step on you. —Mercadian saying |
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Enchantment Nonwhite creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. "There is no place for mercy in defense of our lives." —Ta-Spon, Cho-Arrim executioner |
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Creature — Human Soldier Archer
The crossbow is the ideal weapon for the lazy Mercadians: just point and shoot. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
The Cho-Arrim fought Mercadia's decadence with more than just swords. 2/2 |
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Instant Destroy target artifact or enchantment. The scepter of power is fragile in a calloused hand. —Cho-Arrim saying |
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Creature — Human Cleric Artifacts and enchantments you control have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.) The Cho-Arrim didn't rely only on a secret location to protect their Fountain. 2/4 |
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Creature — Human Rebel Every Cho-Arrim villager is a potential warrior; when they are called, they abandon their peaceful way of life and take up arms to defend it. 2/2 |
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Instant Exile all creature cards from all graveyards. You gain 1 life for each card exiled this way. "May the River claim Cho-Manno's body, wherever it lies." —Ta-Karnst, Cho-Arrim healer |
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Creature — Human Soldier Whenever Ignoble Soldier becomes blocked, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by it this turn. Cowardice is a term invented by those with no cunning. 3/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Prevent all damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature. A soldier's faith is magic strong enough to protect against any blade. |
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Enchantment You have shroud. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities.) "I did not choose my role, Orim," said Cho-Manno patiently, "and I suspect Gerrard did not choose his." |
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Creature — Cat Rebel Vigilance War-trained jhovalls eat twice their weight in war-trained soldiers daily. 4/7 |
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Creature — Human Rebel Trample Don't be fooled by the riders' fluid grace—it takes years of practice to ride these beasts. 3/3 |
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Instant Exile target creature with power 2 or less. Its controller gains 4 life. "The River flows. My soul returns." |
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Instant Target player skips their next combat phase this turn. The silence commemorates not those who've died, but those about to. |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature dies, you gain 1 life. "As long as Rushwood glows, no life is ever truly lost." —Ta-Karnst, Cho-Arrim healer |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Prevent all damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature. Clenched teeth do not bite. —Cho-Arrim saying |
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Creature — Human Rebel Flying, protection from black Once you learn to float on the shadows, you'll never fear them again. 2/1 |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage, you gain that much life. Fighting for the right reason is itself a source of strength. |
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Instant If you control a Plains, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Prevent the next 4 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. |
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Creature — Human Rebel Warrior Whenever Pious Warrior is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life. The Cho-Arrim make no distinction between healers and soldiers. 2/3 |
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Creature — Human Rebel First strike
The Cho-Arrim believe in leading by example. 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Rebel
"Cho-Manno guides your spirit. I guide your sword." 2/4 |
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Creature — Human Rebel
"Give me your hand and I will give you victory." 1/2 |
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Instant If you control a Plains, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. |
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Creature — Human Rebel
Her commands are part rallying cry, part sermon, and wholly undeniable. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Rebel Flying
The Cho-Arrim fell from the sky onto Mercadia City like a vengeful rain. 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Rebel Scout Flying
1/4 |
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Instant Sacrifice any number of permanents. You gain 2 life for each permanent sacrificed this way. Gerrard offered no defense to Orim's condemnation; the mission was under his command, and he was responsible. |
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Creature — Human Cleric
The Cho-Arrim worship life and revere those who've experienced it longest. 1/2 |
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Instant You may exile a white card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Choose a color. All creatures gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn. |
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Enchantment
"There is a great difference between pain and injury." —Cho-Manno |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature blocks a black or red creature, the blocking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. "You are the disease that plagues Mercadia. I am the healer's knife that will cut you out." |
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Enchantment
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Instant Target player gains 5 life. Orim taught Ta-Karnst and the other Cho-Arrim healers a far less invasive method of healing. |
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Enchantment Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard a card, you gain 2 life and you may draw a card. |
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Creature — Human Rebel Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) The Mercadians were prepared for the guard, but the guard was even more prepared for the Mercadians. 2/2 |
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Enchantment As Story Circle enters the battlefield, choose a color.
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Creature — Human Rebel Whenever Task Force becomes the target of a spell or ability, it gets +0/+3 until end of turn. They are the reflection of Rushwood's glow on the edge of a wooden sword. 1/3 |
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Creature — Human Rebel Flying, protection from red "The Mercadians are too busy looking down on us to see us coming." —Cho-Arrim rebel 2/1 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
"The price is written at the bottom of the cup." 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Soldier
"How could I catch her when the trees conspired to stop me?" 2/3 |
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Sorcery Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power. Inner conflict can defeat a soldier more quickly than any army. |
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Creature — Unicorn Monger
"It's not what you ask for, but how you ask for it." 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Soldier Flying
Successful delivery is *not* guaranteed. 4/3 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
The market festival turned out to be the high point of Jaffy's visit. 2/2 |
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Creature — Merfolk
"I need to get back to Mercadia City," said Sisay. "We can get you there," the vizier answered. "Easily." 2/2 |
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Instant Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. "I see more than others do because I know where to look." —Saprazzan vizier |
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Sorcery Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles. In Mercadia City, loyalties extend only as far as your purse can stretch. |
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Enchantment — Aura Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying. Saprazzan merfolk become legged on land, but some find it quicker to bring the water with them. |
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Creature — Nautilus Beast Whenever Chambered Nautilus becomes blocked, you may draw a card. What's merely a home for the nautilus can become exquisite jewelry in the hands of Saprazzan artisans. 2/2 |
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Creature — Illusion Spirit As Chameleon Spirit enters the battlefield, choose a color. Chameleon Spirit's power and toughness are each equal to the number of permanents of the chosen color your opponents control. */* |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a creature, gain control of the other creature for as long as Charisma remains on the battlefield. It was Gerrard's nature to lead and the Mercadians' to follow. |
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Creature — Faerie Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Cloud Sprite can block only creatures with flying. The delicate sprites carry messages for Saprazzans, but they refuse to land in Mercadia City's filthy markets. 1/1 |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card. "I don't like to think of myself as a pirate. I'm more like a stimulator of the local economy." |
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Instant Counter target spell. "Your attack has been rendered harmless. It is, however, quite pretty." —Saprazzan vizier |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, return that creature to its owner's hand. (It won't be affected by the spell or ability.) Gerrard was the Mercadian soldiers' greatest hero; they followed him blindly. When he left, they stumbled around blindly. |
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Enchantment Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay A bribe is always faster than filling out paperwork. |
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Creature — Merfolk
You might as well try to catch water with a net. 1/1 |
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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 doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. "You say Saprazzo is a city built on water? I hope they have enough to wash the dust from my throat." —Sisay |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Shroud (A permanent with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Enchanted creature has shroud. |
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Creature — Drake Flying
There is beauty in the space between learning to fly and taking it for granted. 1/3 |
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Enchantment Nonland permanents don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life. |
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Enchantment All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay Karn said nothing—he just grasped the powerstone and squeezed tightly. The wild flashing ceased. |
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Creature — Spirit Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Extravagant Spirit unless you pay The fewer your possessions, the fewer your worries. 4/4 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control. "Go down there and fish him out. Maybe his hide will fetch a price." |
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Creature — Jellyfish Beast When Glowing Anemone enters the battlefield, you may return target land to its owner's hand. Beautiful to behold, terrible to be held. 1/3 |
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Instant You may return two Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Draw two cards. Don't trust your secrets to the sea. |
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Enchantment Red creature spells and green creature spells cost Bend as the wave breaks or it will break you as well. —Saprazzan saying |
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Instant Return target artifact, enchantment, or land to its owner's hand. The youths of Rishada's marketplace are always ready for a quick footrace. |
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Creature — Djinn Flying When Indentured Djinn enters the battlefield, each other player may draw up to three cards. It's not always clear who's the master and who's the servant. 4/4 |
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Instant Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value until end of turn. (It retains its abilities.) |
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Instant You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Change the target of target spell with a single target. |
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Sorcery Creatures target player controls don't untap during that player's next untap step. The feet have no eyes. —Saprazzan saying |
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Creature — Merfolk Spellshaper
"It's no challenge to master a Mercadian." 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Whenever Port Inspector becomes blocked, you may look at defending player's hand. "There may be a few minor additional fees, levies, duties, surtaxes, tariffs, imposts, tolls . . . ." 1/2 |
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Creature — Human Pirate Flying Rishadan Airship can block only creatures with flying. The view is truly spectacular—as long as you don't look at Rishada itself. 3/1 |
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Creature — Human Pirate Flying
When Rishadan Brigand enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a permanent unless they pay 3/2 |
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Creature — Human Pirate When Rishadan Cutpurse enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a permanent unless they pay The bigger the purse, the greater the fool. —Rishadan saying 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Pirate When Rishadan Footpad enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a permanent unless they pay "The best things in life are free. Money, for instance." 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Monger
Clients who cheat the sailmonger make an impact on the rest. 3/3 |
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Creature — Squid Beast Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
You may choose not to untap Sand Squid during your untap step.
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Creature — Merfolk When Saprazzan Bailiff enters the battlefield, exile all artifact and enchantment cards from all graveyards. When Saprazzan Bailiff leaves the battlefield, return all artifact and enchantment cards from all graveyards to their owners' hands. 2/2 |
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Creature — Beast
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Creature — Merfolk Whenever Saprazzan Heir becomes blocked, you may draw three cards. Within the walls of the floating city, Saprazzan wealth is like Saprazzan water: abundant, free-flowing, and accessible to all. 1/1 |
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Creature — Merfolk Soldier If an opponent controls a Mountain and you control an Island, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Flying 1/3 |
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Creature — Merfolk When Saprazzan Outrigger attacks or blocks, put it on top of its owner's library at end of combat. The Saprazzans excel at both tactics: hit *and* run. 5/5 |
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Creature — Merfolk When Saprazzan Raider becomes blocked, return it to its owner's hand. Some quick dagger work and then back to the sea—that's the Saprazzan way. 1/2 |
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Instant Until end of turn, all creatures gain " Rishadan barkeeps know something the Mercadians have yet to learn: if you keep pushing, someone will eventually push back. |
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Enchantment
The vizier's wisdom proved invaluable in untangling the Mercadian knot of lies. |
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Enchantment Sorcery spells cost Any pirate would prefer Rishada's swift and cruel justice to Saprazzo's patient punishments. |
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Enchantment Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by creatures you control. "Inside these walls, peace; outside, sharks. You choose." —Saprazzan vizier |
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.)
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Instant You may return three Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell. |
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Instant You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. You may tap or untap target creature. The dry riverbed became a raging torrent, and the Cho-Arrim claimed their prize. |
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Creature — Kraken Tidal Kraken can't be blocked. To merfolk, pirates are a nuisance. To pirates, merfolk are a threat. To the kraken, they're both appetizers. 6/6 |
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Creature — Drake Flying When another creature enters the battlefield, return Timid Drake to its owner's hand. It flees from anything that isn't shaped like a cloud. 3/3 |
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Enchantment
Like the price of goods, the value of the routes was renegotiated daily. |
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Enchantment
The worst thing about being a depraved pirate is having to work with a bunch of depraved pirates. |
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Creature — Merfolk Spellshaper
Closing time comes earlier to some than to others. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Mercenary Whenever Alley Grifters becomes blocked, defending player discards a card. One distracts the victim, the other extracts the valuables. 2/2 |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market.
At the beginning of your precombat main phase, add |
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Creature — Human Mercenary Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) They slide over the bog like oil across glass. 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
The world is the body. The mana is the blood. The witch is the surgeon. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
The touch of his madness can drive anyone into a killing frenzy. 1/1 |
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Creature — Horror Mercenary
The Cateran guild prefers to call them "public relations." 2/2 |
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Creature — Horror Mercenary Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
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Creature — Human Mercenary
Recruits aren't always volunteers. 4/2 |
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Creature — Horror Mercenary Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate Cateran Overlord.
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Creature — Human Mercenary
2/1 |
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Creature — Horror Mercenary Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
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Sorcery Search your library for a Mercenary card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Even when recruitment is slow, the guild can always cook something up. |
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Enchantment As Conspiracy enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. Creatures you control are the chosen type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. |
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Creature — Human Minion
His favor comes at a high price. 3/1 |
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Instant Add "Eye of twilight, give us sight. Take our offer, give us might. Make our power tears of night." |
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Creature — Lizard Whenever Deathgazer blocks or becomes blocked by a nonblack creature, destroy that creature at end of combat. 2/2 |
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Creature — Zombie Pay 2 life: Regenerate Deepwood Ghoul. They feed on the living to stay undead. 2/1 |
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Creature — Shade If an opponent controls a Forest and you control a Swamp, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
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Creature — Horror You may sacrifice three black creatures rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Trample It wears the souls of its victims like jewels on a chain. 6/6 |
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Creature — Horror When Enslaved Horror enters the battlefield, each other player may return a creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield. 4/4 |
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Sorcery Look at target player's hand and choose up to two cards from it. That player discards those cards. The enforcers make no effort to distinguish gold from flesh. |
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Sorcery Destroy all creatures with mana value X or less. The Caterans call it a screening process. The dead are in no condition to argue. |
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Instant Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. Mercadians not wealthy enough to buy a tomb are thrown into a bog called "the Ghoul's Larder." |
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Enchantment
It seemed as if no one wanted them to reach the Henge of Ramos—not even the dead. |
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Creature — Human Mercenary When Highway Robber enters the battlefield, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. "Tonight, madam, it's your money *and* your life." 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
The desecration of their dead makes even the Saprazzans careless. 1/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature At the beginning of the end step of enchanted creature's controller, Insubordination deals 2 damage to that player unless that creature attacked this turn. |
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Enchantment Creatures you control have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) "If they move, kill them. In fact, kill one now to make sure the other understands." |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card. |
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Enchantment Whenever a nontoken permanent is put into a player's graveyard from the battlefield, that player loses 1 life. Gerrard realized that the helpless woman they'd rescued from Rath was nothing of the sort. |
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Enchantment — Aura Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/-2. "If this is the cure, I'd hate to see the disease." —Orim |
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Sorcery Exile X target creature cards from your graveyard. For each creature card exiled this way, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Bury old friends deeply, lest they return bearing worms. |
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Creature — Horror Mercenary Flying You'd scarcely believe they could fly until they drop out of the sky onto you. 1/1 |
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Creature — Harpy Mercenary Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Molting Harpy unless you pay Shed harpy feathers leave painful wounds—which explains the harpies' mood. 2/1 |
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Creature — Spirit At the beginning of your upkeep, if Nether Spirit is the only creature card in your graveyard, you may return Nether Spirit to the battlefield. It roams in both the worlds of the living and the dead but belongs to neither. 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper Assassin
He wears his infamy like a fine silk shirt. 2/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature becomes blocked, tap all lands defending player controls. The surest way to lose your holdings is to plead for them in Mercadia City's courts. |
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Creature — Horror Mercenary
His mind, like his body, is made up of the swamp's flotsam. 3/3 |
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Enchantment Whenever a player casts a green or white spell, that player discards a card. "Do you want to be alive or whole?" —Ta-Karnst, Cho-Arrim healer |
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Creature — Fish Whenever Quagmire Lamprey becomes blocked by a creature, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Destroy target land. Mercadian elitism is reinforced daily by physical position: their neighbors are literally beneath them and are treated accordingly. |
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Creature — Lizard Mercenary Rampart Crawler can't be blocked by Walls. "Not even the magistrate in his lofty tower is out of our reach." —Cateran overlord 1/1 |
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Instant If you control a Swamp, you may pay 2 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. |
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Creature — Boar Monger
Silence costs extra. Breaking it costs extra still. 3/3 |
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Sorcery Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You gain life equal to its toughness. "With the proper tools, even the Great River can be dammed." —Ta-Spon, Cho-Arrim executioner |
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Creature — Human Mercenary Assassin
She feels no need to disturb her victim's slumber. 2/1 |
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Creature — Horror Mercenary When Skulking Fugitive becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it. In the Cateran guild, being caught is a capital offense. 3/4 |
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Instant If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. Squee watched his Kyren cousins fall with a mixture of sympathy and relief. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Pay 2 life: Regenerate enchanted creature. Driven by masters more terrible than the Mercadians could imagine, the dark overseers would pay any price to keep their shipwrights working. |
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Sorcery Target player discards a card at random. As he gritted his teeth to focus through the pain, Tahngarth glanced at Takara. She seemed completely unaffected. |
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Creature — Human Mercenary When Strongarm Thug enters the battlefield, you may return target Mercenary card from your graveyard to your hand. "No, I insist—let *me* carry all that heavy jewelry." 1/1 |
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Creature — Beast
Young wumpuses are malevolent and vicious—but they grow out of it. 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
The weight of death is heavy but not immovable. 1/1 |
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Sorcery You may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Unnatural Hunger deals damage equal to that creature's power to that player unless they sacrifice another creature. |
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Instant Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness. Starke knew the voice was Takara's, but the venom was Volrath's. |
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.)
It reflects only nightmares. 1/3 |
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Creature — Goblin Rogue
He has the weapons, he has the connections, and he knows the hangar's dark secret. 1/1 |
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Creature — Wall Defender
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Creature — Goblin Flying Battle Squadron's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control. The goblins made an unruly pile with military precision. */* |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
"Don't get up. I'll show myself out." 2/2 |
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Creature — Dog Whenever you're dealt damage, you may put that many +1/+1 counters on Blood Hound. At the beginning of your end step, remove all +1/+1 counters from Blood Hound. 1/1 |
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Instant Choose a card type. Target opponent reveals their hand. Blood Oath deals 3 damage to that player for each card of the chosen type revealed this way. (Artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal are card types.) |
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Instant Until end of turn, all creatures gain " Anything can happen when patience is scarce and wine is abundant. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has mountainwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.) |
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Sorcery You may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Cave-In deals 2 damage to each creature and each player. One fleet was gone; others were poised. |
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Creature — Insect Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)
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Creature — Human Soldier When Ceremonial Guard attacks or blocks, destroy it at end of combat. "These guards are the most disciplined military unit in the city. They couldn't fight their way out of a broom closet, but they've got discipline." —Gerrard, to Sisay 3/4 |
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Creature — Elemental
Their rage can grow to such proportions that they explode in a cloud of fire. 2/2 |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, Close Quarters deals 1 damage to any target. The Mercadians' ineptitude in close combat sometimes accidentally pays off. |
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Creature — Lizard Whenever a source deals damage to Crag Saurian, that source's controller gains control of Crag Saurian. It follows the strongest leader—the one with the longest whip. 4/4 |
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Instant You may sacrifice a Mountain rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target artifact. Gerrard shook his head as the ground rushed to meet him. "This," he thought, "is not the start I was hoping for." |
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Creature — Manticore Flying, first strike
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Creature — Human Soldier
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Enchantment — Aura Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike. "It's not Talruum crystal, but I must admit—it gets the job done." —Tahngarth |
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Enchantment Whenever you cast a creature spell, Furious Assault deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. "Does it burn, Saprazzan? Do you wish you had never raised arms against us?" —Kyren overseer |
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Creature — Human Soldier Trample, haste Had Gerrard realized he'd end up fighting against them, he might not have trained them so well. 4/2 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
When he's holding the hammers, everything looks like a nail. 1/1 |
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Creature — Giant When Hired Giant enters the battlefield, each other player may search their library for a land card and put that card onto the battlefield. Then each player who searched their library this way shuffles. 4/4 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
Her blade draws blood without ever touching its target. 1/1 |
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Creature — Goblin Flying Kyren Glider can't block. Mercadia's Kyren goblins are the opposite of Dominarian goblins: they're smart and cowardly. 1/1 |
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Creature — Goblin If an opponent controls a Plains and you control a Mountain, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Haste 1/1 |
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Enchantment Tap an untapped creature you control: Kyren Negotiations deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. Kyren goblins always speak in questions and never allow wrong answers. |
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Creature — Goblin At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have Kyren Sniper deal 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. Kyren goblins always act behind the scenes—even in battle. 1/1 |
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Creature — Lizard Haste Whenever Lava Runner becomes the target of a spell or ability, that spell or ability's controller sacrifices a land. 2/2 |
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Creature — Dog First strike Quick enough to avoid jhovalls when alone and fierce enough to attack them in packs, the hounds were as at home in the mountains as the Mercadians were atop theirs. 3/2 |
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Creature — Insect At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Lithophage unless you sacrifice a Mountain. It's viciously territorial, destroying every creature on the mountain it has chosen to consume. 7/7 |
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Instant Lunge deals 2 damage to target creature and 2 damage to target player or planeswalker. Cho-Arrim righteousness was no match for Benalish combat training. |
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Enchantment White creatures and blue creatures can't block. The magistrate had been the goblins' puppet for so long that he made the right decisions with little prompting. |
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Instant Each attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each nonbasic land defending player controls. With an explosion that shook the foundation of the city, the *Weatherlight* burst from the underground hangar. |
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Creature — Ogre Ogre Taskmaster can't block. He doesn't have to be smart—his masters only ever give him one command. 4/3 |
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Sorcery You may sacrifice two Mountains rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy all artifacts. |
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Instant Flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy all creatures with power 2 or less. If you lose the flip, destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater. "What was heads again?" —Mercadian magistrate |
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Creature — Insect Flying Whenever Robber Fly becomes blocked, defending player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards. In pursuit of the juicy fly, Squee stumbled on the hidden hangar. 1/1 |
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Creature — Badger Beast Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.) The Kyren goblins created most of the inverted mountain's tunnels simply by driving the beast before them. 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
The ground shakes when he walks. His customers shake if they're late with his fee. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Soldier Sacrifice Shock Troops: It deals 2 damage to any target. When goblins blow themselves up, it's called stupidity. When humans do, it's called heroism. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Sizzle deals 3 damage to each opponent. Explosions ripped through the ship overhead, and those unfortunate enough to be directly below scrambled to find cover. |
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Legendary Creature — Goblin At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return Squee, Goblin Nabob from your graveyard to your hand. "General?!" Tahngarth roared. "General *nuisance*, maybe." 1/1 |
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Sorcery Destroy target land. The return of Ramos was foretold by devastating natural disasters and unnatural storms. |
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Sorcery Each player sacrifices X lands. Only the foolish and the rich build their houses where the land is thin and the ocean is near. |
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Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Territorial Dispute unless you sacrifice a land. Players can't play lands. Bit by bit, Mercadia City had forced the Cho-Arrim from their ancestral lands. They would be pushed no further. |
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Sorcery Exile all nontoken permanents. Starting with you, each player chooses one of the exiled cards and puts it onto the battlefield tapped under their control. Repeat this process until all cards exiled this way have been chosen. |
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Instant You may sacrifice a Mountain rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Thunderclap deals 3 damage to target creature. |
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Sorcery Tremor deals 1 damage to each creature without flying. Without a word, Gerrard and Sisay ran deeper into the mountain. Neither of them intended to leave Mercadia without the *Weatherlight* and its crew. |
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Creature — Dragon Flying
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Two-Headed Dragon can block an additional creature each combat.
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Enchantment Creatures played by your opponents enter the battlefield tapped. Cho-Manno knew he had no choice but to ally with Gerrard. If that's what it took to free his people, he'd pay the price. |
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Sorcery Volcanic Wind deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield as you cast this spell. The Cho-Arrim call it "the fury of Ramos." |
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Enchantment
The rhythm isn't a call to arms, but a signal that the goblins have made a new enemy. |
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Creature — Minotaur Monger
Funny how money and war travel so well together. 3/3 |
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Instant Warpath deals 3 damage to each blocking creature and each blocked creature. Cho-Manno had never seen Mercadia City's forces fight so well. The magistrate must have hired a new hero. |
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Creature — Cat Jhovalls sharpen their claws on trees—or on Mercadians, if no trees are handy. 3/3 |
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Instant Destroy target Wall. It can't be regenerated. Word of Blasting deals damage equal to that Wall's mana value to the Wall's controller. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 for each other enchantment on the battlefield. The masks, like the ancient trees they're grown from, lend strength to the dryads. |
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Sorcery Search your library for a permanent card with the same name as target nontoken creature, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. |
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Creature — Snake
Its eyes are bigger than its stomach, but its mouth is larger still. 3/3 |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature attacks you, it gets -1/-0 until end of turn. As easily as the dryads could close a fist, so could the branches and underbrush entangle. |
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Creature — Human As an additional cost to cast this spell, choose a creature type. Caller of the Hunt's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures of the chosen type on the battlefield. */* |
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Creature — Insect Flying Whenever Caustic Wasps deals combat damage to a player, you may destroy target artifact that player controls. Even the wasp knows how to pay the magistrate his due respect. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Each player reveals the top five cards of their library, puts all land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield tapped, and exiles the rest. |
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Sorcery Draw a card for each creature you control. Gerrard knew little of Ramos, the sky god they worshiped. But he felt the power of the chant. |
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Creature — Dryad Spellshaper
Morning's mists can hide many things. 1/1 |
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Creature — Insect Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) With his newfound sense of self-importance, Squee set his sights on ever-bigger bugs. 6/1 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
His drums echo Deepwood's heartbeat. 1/1 |
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Creature — Dryad Spellshaper
They'd guarded the Henge so long that they were as attuned to the powerstones as they were to the trees. 2/2 |
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Creature — Beast Whenever Deepwood Tantiv becomes blocked, you gain 2 life. A single tantiv is just as dangerous as a herd. 2/4 |
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Creature — Wolverine Whenever Deepwood Wolverine becomes blocked, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn. The jhovalls are depleting its food sources, the Mercadians are eroding its home, and you're wondering why it's angry? 1/1 |
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Sorcery Destroy target permanent. The magical dust clouds Mercadian mages use to traverse the plane generate storms that devastate the surrounding terrain. But as long as the storms don't touch the mountain, the nobles simply don't care. |
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Creature — Beast Whenever Erithizon attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature of defending player's choice. Unlike scorpions, the erithizon isn't immune to its own weaponry. 4/4 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature blocks or becomes blocked, you may put a +1/+1 counter on it. "You lot go on ahead. I'll keep killing them until it sticks." —Tahngarth |
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Enchantment Exile a creature you control: Add X mana of any one color, where X is 1 plus the exiled creature's mana value. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells. |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay |
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Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, each player reveals the top card of their library. If all cards revealed this way are creature cards, put those cards onto the battlefield under their owners' control. |
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Creature — Insect
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Creature — Human Druid
Whereas the rebels fight to defend the land, they work to renew it. 1/1 |
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Creature — Troll
"If I says it's a troll, it's a troll. Goblins is always right in Mercadia." —Squee 2/2 |
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Creature — Wolf When Howling Wolf enters the battlefield, you may search your library for up to three cards named Howling Wolf, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. 2/2 |
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Creature — Beast When Hunted Wumpus enters the battlefield, each other player may put a creature card from their hand onto the battlefield. Just one can feed a dozen people for a month. 6/6 |
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Instant If you control a Forest, rather than pay this spell's mana cost, you may have an opponent gain 3 life. Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. |
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Sorcery If you have no land cards in hand, you may reveal your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Search your library for a Forest card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. |
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Enchantment At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may put a +1/+1 counter on target creature of their choice. "I can feel the strength of the entire forest." —Gerrard |
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Creature — Satyr Beast All creatures have forestwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.) The satyr carves the path that all of Rushwood follows. —Cho-Arrim saying 5/4 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so. Deepwood's reach is not long, so it invites its enemies in. |
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Creature — Beast Trample
When Megatherium enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you pay 4/4 |
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Instant All lands become 2/2 creatures until end of turn. They're still lands. As long as the dryads are a part of the forest, the forest is a part of the army. |
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Creature — Dinosaur Whenever a player plays a land, return Pangosaur to its owner's hand. Only Rushwood is vast enough to swallow this creature whole. 6/6 |
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Sorcery Return target green card from your graveyard to your hand. Gerrard's heart ached, recalling the living wreath Mirri laid for her dead kin. No such memorial was left for her in Rath. |
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Creature — Dryad Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.) Rushwood is a living jewel that reflects its dwellers' hearts. 2/1 |
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Creature — Elemental Trample At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Rushwood Elemental. 4/4 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
When generals gather their armies, healers gather their herbs. 2/2 |
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Creature — Dryad If an opponent controls an Island and you control a Forest, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. 2/1 |
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Creature — Insect Whenever Saber Ants is dealt damage, you may create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens. They stay on the battlefield only long enough to consume the losers. 2/3 |
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Creature — Horse Whenever Sacred Prey becomes blocked, you gain 1 life. To see one is a good omen to the Cho-Arrim. 1/1 |
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Creature — Elemental When Silverglade Elemental enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. 4/4 |
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Creature — Dryad Spellshaper
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Enchantment Whenever an opponent casts a blue or black spell, you may create a 1/1 green Snake creature token. If the ground is smooth, the way will be rough. —Deepwood saying |
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Creature — Rhino Beast Whenever Snorting Gahr becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn. There's little advantage to surprising the gahr. 3/3 |
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Enchantment Creatures you control get +0/+1 and have reach. (They can block creatures with flying.) It hardly weighs anything, but it takes all day to remove. |
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Sorcery Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each card in your hand. Saprolings always thrive on the ruins of others, and Mercadia ruins more than most. |
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Sorcery Squall deals 2 damage to each creature with flying. The air that holds them aloft can just as easily put them down. |
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Creature — Monger
"Squall, gale, hurricane—it's all a matter of size . . . and price." 3/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature has vigilance. Sacrifice Stamina: Regenerate enchanted creature. |
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Like the dryads, the forest itself willingly gives up some of its life for the sake of the future. |
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Enchantment — Aura Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has trample. Cho-Arrim martial artists emulate the beasts of their home. |
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Sorcery Destroy all enchantments. Sisay had been restored to her place on the ship, the Legacy had been recovered, and the *Weatherlight* was sailing home to Dominaria. Gerrard focused on the debts he'd settled . . . and on those he'd soon collect. |
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Instant Choose target creature. At this turn's next end of combat, destroy all creatures that blocked or were blocked by it this turn. The dryads need neither size nor strength to defeat their enemies in battle. |
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Creature — Insect Flying Whenever Venomous Dragonfly blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature at end of combat. A pretty little death is still death. 1/1 |
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Enchantment Any player may cast creature and enchantment spells as though they had flash. |
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Creature — Dryad You may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Flash Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.) 1/3 |
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Creature — Plant Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.)
"We protect our own with our own." 0/4 |
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Artifact At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Barbed Wire deals 1 damage to that player.
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Although it looks like a game, business around the table is deadly serious. |
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Artifact Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Mercadian soldiers excel at finding things to stand behind. 0/4 |
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Artifact If damage would be dealt to a player, that player exiles that many cards from the top of their library instead. |
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The magistrate seems to prefer a distorted perspective of reality. |
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Artifact
Ramos wept, and there were seas. |
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A uniform fit for a goblin. |
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Ramos bled, and there was fire. |
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Artifact Creature — Dragon Wurm
Like so many Thran relics, the wurm engine kept operating long after its creators were gone. 3/4 |
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Artifact Whenever a player casts a spell, they may pay "This horn is an exact replica of the fabled Horn of Ramos, except mine is more lavish." —Mercadian magistrate |
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Ramos touched, and there was life. |
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"The only way to get Mercadians to fight on the front lines is to give them really long weapons." —Gerrard |
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Artifact As Jeweled Torque enters the battlefield, choose a color.
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Artifact At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile the top card of your library face down.
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Artifact At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't play a land this turn, you may draw a card. One may as well chart the clouds as try to map Mercadia. |
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Artifact When a creature enters the battlefield, sacrifice Monkey Cage and create X 2/2 green Monkey creature tokens, where X is that creature's mana value. |
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A drop numbs the tongue. A sip sends the heart racing. A draught reforges the body. |
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As he repaired the ship's planeswalking engine, Karn saw for the first time how he could catalyze the *Weatherlight*'s evolution. |
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The puffer's flesh is the deadliest in the sea—and therefore the most useful. |
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Everything comes to the waterfront eventually, on the tide or on credit. |
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Ramos fell, and there was night. |
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Ramos smiled, and there was day. |
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Artifact Creature — Spellshaper
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Artifact At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player mills a card. |
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Land Fountain of Cho enters the battlefield tapped.
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It is the hub. We are the wheel. —Dryad saying |
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Land Hickory Woodlot enters the battlefield tapped with two depletion counters on it.
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If it can't be had here, it can't be had on any world. |
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Land Mercadian Bazaar enters the battlefield tapped.
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Land Peat Bog enters the battlefield tapped with two depletion counters on it.
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Land Remote Farm enters the battlefield tapped with two depletion counters on it.
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Rishada is the gateway to free trade—but the key will cost you. |
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Land Rushwood Grove enters the battlefield tapped.
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Land Sandstone Needle enters the battlefield tapped with two depletion counters on it.
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Land Saprazzan Cove enters the battlefield tapped.
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Land Saprazzan Skerry enters the battlefield tapped with two depletion counters on it.
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Land Subterranean Hangar enters the battlefield tapped.
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