Nemesis
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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. Cast this spell only during combat. Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
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Creature — Angel Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever Blinding Angel deals combat damage to a player, that player skips their next combat phase. "Their eyes will shrivel and blacken before faith's true light." 2/4 |
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Creature — Human Knight Whenever Chieftain en-Dal attacks, attacking creatures gain first strike until end of turn. The clearest commands are practical examples. 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Cleric Fading 4 (This creature enters the battlefield with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Remove a fade counter from Defender en-Vec: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. 2/4 |
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Creature — Rebel Bird Flying
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Creature — Human Rebel When Defiant Vanguard blocks, at end of combat, destroy it and all creatures it blocked this turn.
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Enchantment Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate target creature. The Oracle told Eladamri he would save his people by abandoning them. His followers adopted that ideal. |
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Enchantment — Aura If you control a Plains, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Enchant creature Enchanted creature has first strike. Those it won't scare, it scars. |
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Creature — Kor Rebel
One injustice starts a thousand riots. One law stops a thousand crimes. —Lawbringer creed 2/2 |
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Creature — Kor Rebel
One thought opens a thousand eyes. One sun brings a thousand dawns. —Lightbringer creed 2/2 |
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Legendary Creature — Human Rebel
1/3 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
The wizard's vocabulary of mogg profanities increased with every net she cast. 1/1 |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature you control blocks, you gain 2 life. Soldiers will always endanger their lives to defend many other lives. |
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Instant Target creature can't attack or block this turn. A heavy weapon deals plenty of damage—but it does have to hit. |
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Creature — Human Soldier
The future isn't sacred, but its speaker is. 1/5 |
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Enchantment Fading 5 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Remove a fade counter from Parallax Wave: Exile target creature. When Parallax Wave leaves the battlefield, each player returns to the battlefield all cards they own exiled with Parallax Wave. |
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Enchantment Sacrifice Seal of Cleansing: Destroy target artifact or enchantment. "I am the purifier, the light that clears all shadows." —Seal inscription |
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Creature — Kor Soldier Whenever Silkenfist Fighter becomes blocked, untap it. Simple wooden staff Made from life, protecting life, Stronger than cold steel. 1/3 |
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Creature — Kor Soldier Whenever Silkenfist Order becomes blocked, untap it. Hands weave life and death; Intertwining spirits knit Tapestries and shrouds. 3/5 |
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Instant If an opponent controls a Mountain and you control a Plains, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn to creatures you control. |
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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. All damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn is dealt to you instead. |
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Enchantment Creatures and lands you control have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.) When a creature you control attacks, sacrifice Spiritual Asylum. Trapped in safety is still trapped. |
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Sorcery Exile target creature with the greatest power among creatures on the battlefield. (If two or more creatures are tied for greatest power, target any one of them.) "Let all witness the fate of those who defy me." —Crovax |
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Creature — Angel Flying, protection from white "Above them all is Truth, and Truth must be set free. If the wings of Truth are clipped, the voices will fall silent." —*Song of All*, canto 167 2/2 |
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Instant Draw a card, then draw cards equal to the number of cards named Accumulated Knowledge in all graveyards. "I have seen and heard much here. There are secrets within secrets. Let me show you." —Takara, to Eladamri |
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Enchantment Whenever a player casts a creature spell, that player sacrifices a permanent unless they pay "Creatures fade in and out of existence. It's an unfortunate side effect. The losses are tolerable." —Belbe |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying. Enchanted creature can block only creatures with flying. Random mutations among Rootwater merfolk were common—and disturbing. |
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Creature — Illusion Flying Fading 3 (This creature enters the battlefield with three fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) 2/2 |
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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.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays |
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Instant Gain control of target creature with mana value X or less. "I've come to reclaim what is mine. And you, Greven, are mine." —Volrath |
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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. Tap all creatures. Rootwater has become as dangerous to its denizens as to its enemies. |
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Instant Target creature can't be blocked this turn. Getting in was the easy part. Getting out proved to be more difficult. |
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Creature — Merfolk Fading 4 (This creature enters the battlefield with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Remove a fade counter from Jolting Merfolk: Tap target creature. 2/2 |
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Creature — Crab Beast Protection from red "I'm constantly amazed by the tenacity of living creatures on this plane. Even in the stronghold's white-hot core, life persists." —Ertai 2/3 |
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Instant Until end of turn, if a player taps a nonbasic land for mana, it produces colorless mana instead of any other type. Denizens of Rath had never seen the moon before. It was a symbol of change, not constancy. |
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Enchantment Fading 5 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Remove a fade counter from Parallax Tide: Exile target land. When Parallax Tide leaves the battlefield, each player returns to the battlefield all cards they own exiled with Parallax Tide. |
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Enchantment Lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player untaps a land they control. Rising waters, sinking hope. |
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Creature — Merfolk Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Rootwater merfolk are seldom seen these days, but elf corpses are as numerous as ever. 2/2 |
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Creature — Merfolk Rogue
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Creature — Human Mercenary
"They can't feel pain. They just wiggle 'cause they're scared." 2/2 |
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Enchantment Sacrifice Seal of Removal: Return target creature to its owner's hand. "I am the unraveler, the loosened thread that will not hold." —Seal inscription |
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Creature — Serpent
It's futile to fight something you can see only in the corner of your eye. 4/4 |
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Creature — Homunculus Illusion Sneaky Homunculus can't block or be blocked by creatures with power 2 or greater. Keep watch only for the giants and you'll be eaten by the ants. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
He twists the laws of nature until they scream. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
She stretches the laws of physics until they snap. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Flying Stronghold Zeppelin can block only creatures with flying. As long as the stronghold controlled the sky, the rebels were doomed. 3/3 |
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Instant If an opponent controls a Forest and you control an Island, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Put target creature on top of its owner's library. |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
"If it ain't broke, I'll break it. If it *is* broke, I'll fix it." 1/1 |
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Creature — Illusion Flying Players play with their hands revealed. The evincar has many ways of keeping track of his subjects. 1/3 |
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Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Vampire Noble Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Other black creatures get +1/+1. Nonblack creatures get -1/-1. "Things are going to change around here." —Crovax 3/3 |
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Creature — Bird Flying
Battlefield Percher can block only creatures with flying.
2/2 |
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Creature — Bird Flying Belbe's Percher can block only creatures with flying. Long and powerful, these birds were used to carry messages to and from the evincar. 2/2 |
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.)
A wall built from the bodies of the enemy will never lack building material in times of war. 3/2 |
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Instant If you control a Swamp, you may sacrifice a creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. All that's left is the coronation. |
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Enchantment When Death Pit Offering enters the battlefield, sacrifice all creatures you control. Creatures you control get +2/+2. "Kill them all and feed them to the new recruits." —Crovax |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
1/1 |
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Sorcery If an opponent controls a Plains and you control a Swamp, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. |
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Enchantment
"I can't think with all that screaming." |
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Sorcery If you control a Swamp, you may sacrifice a creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Each player exiles two cards from their hand. |
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Enchantment
In darkness, the assassin sneaked into the village and destroyed what Eladamri loved most: his daughter. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Fading 1 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with one fade counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Enchanted creature gets +3/+2. When Parallax Dementia leaves the battlefield, destroy enchanted creature. That creature can't be regenerated. |
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Enchantment Fading 5 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Remove a fade counter from Parallax Nexus: Target opponent exiles a card from their hand. Activate only as a sorcery. When Parallax Nexus leaves the battlefield, each player returns to their hand all cards they own exiled with Parallax Nexus. |
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Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Mercenary When Phyrexian Driver enters the battlefield, other Mercenary creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn. Although the abuse was initially effective, the troops soon became numb to it. 1/1 |
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Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Mercenary Fading 3 (This creature enters the battlefield with three fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Remove a fade counter from Phyrexian Prowler: Phyrexian Prowler gets +1/+1 until end of turn. 3/3 |
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Creature — Elf Spellshaper
"I can ail what cures you." 1/1 |
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Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Mercenary Assassin
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Creature — Phyrexian Horror Mercenary When Rathi Fiend enters the battlefield, each player loses 3 life.
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Creature — Phyrexian Horror Mercenary Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
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Enchantment Sacrifice Seal of Doom: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. "I am the banisher, the ill will that snuffs the final candle." —Seal inscription |
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Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Mercenary Spineless Thug can't block. These troops are only as strong as the evincar's control. 2/2 |
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Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Mercenary At the beginning of your upkeep, Spiteful Bully deals 3 damage to target creature you control. Like most creatures bent on total destruction, they rarely bother to double-check their targets. 3/3 |
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Sorcery Each player loses 1 life for each creature they control. "Crovax never passes up an opportunity to cause widespread misery." —Belbe |
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Sorcery Vicious Hunger deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life. "Blood is foul, the flesh dross. My ascendance thirsts for life itself." —Crovax |
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Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter
"I stepped out. I did not step down." 6/4 |
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Creature — Hydra Fading 5 (This creature enters the battlefield with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
2/2 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper Warrior
The ingredients for panic include equal parts danger, uncertainty, and helplessness. 1/1 |
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Instant You may sacrifice a Mountain rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of Mountains you control. |
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Sorcery Flame Rift deals 4 damage to each player. Crovax hungered for power, and the stronghold devoured the sky. |
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Creature — Beast
"Someone must have done something very bad to make a rock that angry." —Rebel scout 4/4 |
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Creature — Beast
The rebels couldn't see where the roar was coming from. Then they saw it was coming from everywhere. 4/4 |
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Sorcery All creatures get +X/-X until end of turn. It may look like soil, but its nature is malice. |
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Instant Target creature gets +1/-1 and gains haste until end of turn. Aggression exacts its toll. |
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Enchantment Creatures you control get +1/-1. The army was never at a loss for weapons; Crovax was their forge. |
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.)
The rebels assaulted the wall, never suspecting the wall would assault back. 0/6 |
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Creature — Beast Whenever Laccolith Grunt becomes blocked, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature. If you do, Laccolith Grunt assigns no combat damage this turn. They leave a trail of ash and sorrow. 2/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature becomes blocked, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature. If you do, the first creature assigns no combat damage this turn. |
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Creature — Beast Whenever Laccolith Titan becomes blocked, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature. If you do, Laccolith Titan assigns no combat damage this turn. Proximity guarantees injury or death. 6/6 |
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Creature — Beast Warrior Whenever Laccolith Warrior becomes blocked, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature. If you do, Laccolith Warrior assigns no combat damage this turn. The screams are brief. The silence lingers. 3/3 |
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Creature — Beast Whenever Laccolith Whelp becomes blocked, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature. If you do, Laccolith Whelp assigns no combat damage this turn. They don't feed; they stoke. 1/1 |
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Enchantment At the beginning of each player's end step, put a charge counter on Mana Cache for each untapped land that player controls.
Remove a charge counter from Mana Cache: Add |
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Sorcery You may sacrifice two Mountains rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens. They make mountains into mogg holes. |
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Instant If an opponent controls an Island and you control a Mountain, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Destroy target artifact. Three moggs, one treasure, too bad. |
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Creature — Goblin Mogg Toady can't attack unless you control more creatures than defending player. Mogg Toady can't block unless you control more creatures than attacking player. 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Mercenary
"They're not worth much, but they're easy to catch." 2/2 |
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Sorcery Sacrifice a creature. Rupture deals damage equal to that creature's power to each creature without flying and each player. All creatures have an inner fire. Releasing it can be dangerous. |
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Enchantment Sacrifice Seal of Fire: It deals 2 damage to any target. "I am the romancer, the passion that consumes the flesh." —Seal inscription |
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Creature — Goblin Haste When Shrieking Mogg enters the battlefield, tap all other creatures. You have to admire its enthusiasm. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Each player chooses a card in their hand. Then each player reveals their chosen card. The owner of each creature card revealed this way with the lowest mana value puts it onto the battlefield. |
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Instant Until end of turn, target land becomes a 3/3 creature that's still a land. Irony is getting walked on by the earth instead of the other way around. |
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Creature — Beast Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Fading 3 (This creature enters the battlefield with three fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) 5/5 |
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Creature — Insect Worm Coiling Woodworm's power is equal to the number of Forests on the battlefield. Only the elves know where the woods end and the woodworm begins. */1 |
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Instant Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step. Attacking creatures become blocked. (This spell works on creatures that can't be blocked.) Realizing they weren't getting past the fog, the elves did the only thing they could do: wait. |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
"Why should one limit oneself to the resources at hand?" 1/1 |
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Creature — Plant Dog Whenever Mossdog becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, put a +1/+1 counter on Mossdog. The more you look at it, the more dangerous it becomes. 1/1 |
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Creature — Wurm Trample When Nesting Wurm enters the battlefield, you may search your library for up to three cards named Nesting Wurm, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. 4/3 |
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Enchantment As Overlaid Terrain enters the battlefield, sacrifice all lands you control.
Lands you control have " One must reap before one can sow. |
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Sorcery Search your library for up to three cards with the same name as target creature, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. The one you see is just a diversion. |
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Instant If an opponent controls a Swamp and you control a Forest, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Target player gains 6 life. |
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Sorcery If you control a Forest, rather than pay this spell's mana cost, you may have each other player gain 6 life. Destroy all enchantments. |
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Creature — Rhino Beast You may have Rhox assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.
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Enchantment Fading 7 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with seven fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Remove a fade counter from Saproling Burst: Create a green Saproling creature token. It has "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of fade counters on Saproling Burst." When Saproling Burst leaves the battlefield, destroy all tokens created with Saproling Burst. They can't be regenerated. |
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Enchantment Sacrifice Seal of Strength: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. "I am the feeder, the morsel that revives the starving." —Seal inscription |
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Creature — Beast Fading 2 (This creature enters the battlefield with two fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Skyshroud Behemoth enters the battlefield tapped. 10/10 |
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Sorcery Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle. The forest's constant struggle is to keep the spreading flowstone at bay. |
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Creature — Beast If you control a Forest, rather than pay this spell's mana cost, you may have each other player gain 5 life. 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Rebel
"It's OK. They're just elves." 2/2 |
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Creature — Beast Fading 2 (This creature enters the battlefield with two fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) 2/3 |
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Creature — Elf When Skyshroud Sentinel enters the battlefield, you may search your library for up to three cards named Skyshroud Sentinel, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Spellshaper
"The thunder of hooves is music to my ears." 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 gets +1/+1 and can't be blocked except by creatures with flying. Gravity is truly what you make of it. |
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Creature — Elephant At the beginning of your upkeep, if a player controls more creatures than each other player, the player who controls the most creatures gains control of Wild Mammoth. "Sit. Heel! Down! HELP!" 3/4 |
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Creature — Beast Fading 3 (This creature enters the battlefield with three fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
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Artifact
It protects her from the ravages of Phyrexia and the savages of Rath. |
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Artifact As Belbe's Portal enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
The fight will continue on a new battlefield. |
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Artifact Creature — Golem At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more permanents, return Complex Automaton to its owner's hand. "This wasteful design cannot possibly be Phyrexian." —Belbe 4/4 |
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Artifact
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Artifact Creature — Golem Whenever Flint Golem becomes blocked, defending player mills three cards. 2/3 |
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Artifact You may choose not to untap Flowstone Armor during your untap step.
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Artifact Creature — Thopter
Airborne flowstone isn't less dangerous, only less common. 4/4 |
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Artifact
Success is largely a matter of knowing which lever to pull. |
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Artifact
"The best I can offer is a temporary reprieve." —Belbe |
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Legendary Artifact
"The scourge of Skyshroud is airborne once more." —Oracle *en*-Vec |
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Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Construct At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Rackling deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in their hand. "This may hurt a little." 2/2 |
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Artifact Fading 2 (This artifact enters the battlefield with two fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
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Artifact Creature — Golem Fading 5 (This creature enters the battlefield with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Rusting Golem's power and toughness are each equal to the number of fade counters on it. */* |
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Artifact Fading 4 (This artifact enters the battlefield with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player taps an untapped artifact, creature, or land they control for each fade counter on Tangle Wire. |
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Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Construct At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Viseling deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4. "This may hurt a lot." 2/2 |
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Legendary Land
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Legendary Land
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, Discard a card: Exile target attacking creature. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness.
. Any player may activate this ability but only during their turn before the end step.