Starter 1999
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Creature — Angel Flying, vigilance 3/3 |
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Creature — Angel Flying When Angel of Mercy enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life. 3/3 |
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Sorcery Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Only the warrior who can admit mortal weakness will be bolstered by immortal strength. |
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Creature — Angel Flying, vigilance 5/5 |
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Creature — Human Soldier Vigilance Some fight for honor and some for gold, but the militia fight for hearth and home. 2/5 |
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Sorcery Destroy all lands. |
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Sorcery Target opponent draws a card. You gain 7 life. Bargaining with a goblin is like trading with a child; both believe they already own everything. |
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Sorcery Tap all nonwhite creatures. Let the unjust avert their faces and contemplate their peril. |
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Creature — Human Soldier "Join the army, see foreign countries!" they'd said. 1/4 |
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Sorcery Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. |
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Creature — Human Knight Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Champion Lancer by creatures. The flash of his lance projects the pure radiance of his honor. 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Knight Whenever Charging Paladin attacks, it gets +0/+3 until end of turn. A true warrior's thoughts are of victory, not death. 2/2 |
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Creature — Elf Soldier The heart's courage is the soul's guardian. 1/2 |
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Creature — Human Monk Cleric When Devout Monk enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. Discipline wears many robes. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Soldier The enthusiasm of the young, sharpened by the discipline of a soldier. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Target player skips all combat phases of their next turn. Mutual consent is not required for war. |
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Creature — Human Soldier Infantry deployment is the art of putting your troops in the wrong place at the right time. 2/4 |
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Sorcery You gain 2 life for each card in your hand. "You'll lose a duel if your enemy comes expecting a war." |
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Creature — Human Knight ". . . Before honor is humility." —*The Bible*, Proverbs 15:33 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Soldier When Loyal Sentry blocks a creature, destroy that creature and Loyal Sentry. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Destroy target creature. Its owner gains 4 life. "You could die famous or you could die old. I chose old." —Former soldier |
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Sorcery Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn. Bravery shines brightest in a pure soul. |
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Sorcery Destroy all tapped creatures. You gain 2 life for each creature destroyed this way. |
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Creature — Bird Flying Hunter by instinct, weapon by training. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Soldier Whenever Royal Trooper blocks, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn. "Fortune does not side with the faint-hearted." —Sophocles, *Phaedra* 2/2 |
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Sorcery You gain 4 life. "For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise." —Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan" |
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Sorcery Creatures you control get +0/+3 until end of turn. Brute force wins the battles. Conviction wins the wars. |
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Creature — Human Monk Cleric When Venerable Monk enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life. Age wears the flesh but galvanizes the soul. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Destroy target tapped creature. Bitter as wormwood, sweet as mulled wine. |
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Creature — Human Knight Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) Spirit is the sword and experience the sharpening stone. —Arabian proverb 2/2 |
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Creature — Griffin Flying Two little goblins, out in the sun. Down came a griffin, and then there was one. 2/2 |
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Creature — Elemental Flying As insubstantial, and as powerful, as the wind that carries it. 4/4 |
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Creature — Fish Some fishers like to eat eels, and some eels like to eat fishers. 2/1 |
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Instant Counter target spell. |
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Creature — Serpent When Denizen of the Deep enters the battlefield, return each other creature you control to its owner's hand. 11/11 |
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Sorcery Creatures and lands target opponent controls don't untap during their next untap step. |
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Instant Counter target sorcery spell. |
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Sorcery Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card into their graveyard. |
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Creature — Octopus At the sight of the thing the calamari vendor's eyes went wide, but from fear or avarice none could tell. 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Rogue Flying When Ingenious Thief enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand. 1/1 |
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Creature — Jellyfish When Man-o'-War enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand. Beauty to the eye does not always translate to the touch. 2/2 |
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Creature — Merfolk Are merfolk humans with fins, or are humans merfolk with feet? 1/1 |
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Creature — Bird Flying When Owl Familiar enters the battlefield, draw a card, then discard a card. 1/1 |
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Creature — Illusion Warrior Phantom Warrior can't be blocked. The phantom warrior comes from nowhere and returns there just as quickly. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Until end of turn, you may tap lands you don't control for mana. Spend this mana only to cast spells. The sea gives, and the sea takes. Some just help with the taking. |
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Sorcery If the difference between your life total and target player's life total is 5 or less, exchange life totals with that player. |
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Sorcery Look at the top five cards of target player's library. Put any number of them on the bottom of that library in any order and the rest on top of the library in any order. |
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Sorcery Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. The hardest lessons to grasp are the ones you've already learned. |
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Instant Counter target creature spell. When your enemies are denied soldiers, they are denied victory. |
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Creature — Bird Flying Where air meets water, fish meets talon. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library. |
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Creature — Drake Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Drakes claim to be dragons—until the dragons show up. 3/2 |
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Creature — Bird Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Storm crow descending, winter unending. Storm crow departing, summer is starting. 1/2 |
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Sorcery Draw four cards. "Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills." —William Shakespeare, *Hamlet* |
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Sorcery Put target creature on top of its owner's library. Like the tide, time both ebbs and flows. |
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Sorcery Target player takes an extra turn after this one. "Let's do it again!" —Squee, goblin cabin hand |
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Sorcery Draw two cards. "I don't want what I don't have. I want more of what I *do* have." |
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Sorcery Return two target creatures to their owners' hands. |
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Creature — Rabbit Beast Its swamp cousin may be meaner, but the vizzerdrix is much bigger. 6/6 |
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Creature — Elemental The water that a ship sails on is the same water that swallows it up. —Chinese proverb 5/4 |
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Creature — Drake Flying "No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." —William Blake, *The Marriage of Heaven and Hell* 2/2 |
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Sorcery One or two target creatures gain flying until end of turn. It pays to be at home both on the sea and in the sky. |
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Creature — Horror Flying When Abyssal Horror enters the battlefield, target player discards two cards. 2/2 |
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Sorcery You draw three cards and you lose 3 life. Knowledge demands sacrifice. |
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Creature — Imp Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Don't be fooled by their looks. Think of them as little knives with wings. 1/1 |
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Creature — Zombie Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Those who live amid decay must expect scavengers. 2/2 |
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Creature — Wraith Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) It moved through the troops leaving no footprints, save on their souls. 3/3 |
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Sorcery Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn. When nightstalkers sing, nothing in creation sleeps. |
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Sorcery Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card. "Human tenderness is simply weakness in a pretty package." |
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Creature — Zombie When Dakmor Ghoul enters the battlefield, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. "Cursed be the sickly forms that err from honest Nature's rule!" —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Locksley Hall" 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Knight When Dakmor Lancer enters the battlefield, destroy target nonblack creature. The darkness of his shield reflects the inky blackness of his soul. 3/3 |
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Sorcery Dakmor Plague deals 3 damage to each creature and each player. The tiniest cough can be deadlier than the fiercest dragon. |
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Creature — Scorpion A scorpion this big you won't find curled up in your boot. Maybe *around* your boot, but not *in* it. 2/1 |
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Creature — Human Wizard Dakmor Sorceress's power is equal to the number of Swamps you control. */4 |
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Sorcery Destroy target nonblack creature. You gain 3 life. "Our greatest hope has become our enemy's greatest triumph." —Court counselor |
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Creature — Horror Flying When Dread Reaper enters the battlefield, you lose 5 life. 6/5 |
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Creature — Nightstalker Flying Not all shadows are cast by light—some are cast by darkness. 2/1 |
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Creature — Zombie When Gravedigger enters the battlefield, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. One who goes unpunished never learns. —Greek proverb |
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Sorcery Destroy target nonblack creature. The touch of death is never gentle. |
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Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Dog Whenever Hollow Dogs attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn. A hollow dog is never empty. It is filled with thirst for the hunt. 3/3 |
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Sorcery Target creature gets +4/+0 until end of turn. I howl my soul to the moon, and the moon howls with me. |
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Sorcery Target player discards two cards. |
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Creature — Rat "Just as some fool said it couldn't get worse, the rats began to show up." —Foot soldier 1/1 |
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Sorcery Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. The earth cannot hold that which magic commands. |
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Creature — Rat When Ravenous Rats enters the battlefield, target opponent discards a card. 1/1 |
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Creature — Zombie Luckily for them, it doesn't take much brains to slaughter and maim. 2/2 |
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Creature — Snake Warrior When Serpent Warrior enters the battlefield, you lose 3 life. A hiss before dying. 3/3 |
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Creature — Specter Flying Whenever Shrieking Specter attacks, defending player discards a card. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life. Evil often dines alone. |
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Sorcery Destroy target land or nonblack creature. |
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Sorcery Destroy two target nonblack creatures. You lose 5 life. |
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Sorcery Cinder Storm deals 7 damage to any target. When the sky's rain has turned to fire, what will put it out? |
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Sorcery Destroy all creatures and lands. There is much talk about the art of creation. What about the art of destruction? |
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Creature — Elemental Its voice has the tremor of deafening thunder, its blow the force of an avalanche. 4/5 |
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Creature — Elemental You are drawn to your death as a moth to the flame. 5/4 |
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Sorcery Fire Tempest deals 6 damage to each creature and each player. |
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Creature — Goblin They get along so well with their goats because they're practically goats themselves. 3/2 |
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Creature — Goblin Warrior Haste (This creature can attack and They have to replace the wheels, they have to replace the boar, and sometimes they have to replace the goblin. 2/2 |
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Creature — Goblin When Goblin Commando enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to target creature. With a commando around, somebody's gonna get hurt. 2/2 |
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Creature — Goblin Warrior Whenever Goblin General attacks, Goblin creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Lead, follow, or run around like crazy. 1/1 |
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Creature — Goblin Flying Goblin Glider can't block. The goblins call the gliders "death from above." Everyone else calls them "clods in the clouds." 1/1 |
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Creature — Goblin When you're a goblin, you don't have to step forward to be a hero—everyone else just has to step back. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Draw four cards, then discard three cards at random. "I done forgot more than you'll ever know, pipsqueak." "Yeah—that's your problem." |
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Creature — Goblin Scout Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.) Goblin mountaineer, barely keeps his family fed. 1/1 |
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Creature — Goblin When Goblin Settler enters the battlefield, destroy target land. Be it ever so crumbled, there's no place like home. 1/1 |
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Creature — Goblin Hulking Goblin can't block. The bigger they are, the harder they avoid work. 2/2 |
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Creature — Ogre Hulking Ogre can't block. Once they realized the ogre had more size than speed, the soldiers simply went around it. 3/3 |
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Sorcery Jagged Lightning deals 3 damage to each of two target creatures. |
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Sorcery Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game. |
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Sorcery Lava Axe deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker. Meant to cut through the body and burn straight to the soul. |
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Creature — Goblin Just because they have a club doesn't mean they're organized. 1/1 |
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Creature — Ogre Warrior Assault and battery included. 3/3 |
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Creature — Goblin Berserker Haste (This creature can attack and He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. |
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Sorcery Scorching Spear deals 1 damage to any target. Lift your spear as you might lift your glass, and toast your enemy. |
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Sorcery Spitting Earth deals damage to target creature equal to the number of Mountains you control. |
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Sorcery Destroy target land. |
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Creature — Dragon Flying When Thunder Dragon enters the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to each creature without flying. 5/5 |
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Creature — Orgg All orggs know how to kill; training teaches them *what* to kill. 6/6 |
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Sorcery Tremor deals 1 damage to each creature without flying. One little goblin shook up the ground. When the dust cleared, no one was found. |
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Creature — Dragon Flying, haste Speed and fire are always a deadly combination. 4/4 |
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Sorcery Volcanic Hammer deals 3 damage to any target. Fire finds its form in the heat of the forge. |
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Sorcery All creatures able to block target creature this turn do so. No earthly armor is protection against this sweetness. |
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Creature — Wurm In its lair lies a carpet of bones. 6/4 |
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Creature — Hippo Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Stay alert: his lumbering may shake the ground itself, but in water, he glides. 3/3 |
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Creature — Boar "And the unclean spirits went out, and entered the swine: and the herd ran violently . . . ." —*The Bible*, Mark 5:13 4/4 |
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Creature — Ape Warrior They were formidable even before they learned the use of weapons. 3/2 |
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Creature — Bear Don't worry about provoking grizzly bears; they come that way. 2/2 |
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Creature — Wolf You may have Lone Wolf assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked. 2/2 |
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Creature — Cat Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.) Rarely seen, hardly heard, never caught. 2/1 |
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Sorcery Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. The nightstalkers' little game of tease-the-squirrel suddenly took an unexpected turn. |
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Creature — Faerie Flying "I am that merry wanderer of the night." —William Shakespeare, *A Midsummer Night's Dream* 1/1 |
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Sorcery Target player gains 8 life. The dying ask for water because they know it contains life. |
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Sorcery Green creatures you control gain forestwalk until end of turn. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.) |
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Sorcery Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Every seed planted is another lesson the forest can teach us. |
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Creature — Elf Archer Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) "'Air superiority?' Not while our archers scan the skies." —Elvish scout 3/3 |
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Creature — Elf Scout Ranger Some trees bear deadly fruit. 1/2 |
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Creature — Cat You may have Pride of Lions assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked. 4/4 |
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Sorcery Shuffle any number of target creature cards from your graveyard into your library. Death just encourages life the more. |
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Creature — Ape His true majesty is not in his silver, but in his size. 5/5 |
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Creature — Elephant Neither predator nor prey, the elephant chooses its place in the battle. 3/4 |
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Sorcery Squall deals 2 damage to each creature with flying. "To-night the winds begin to rise . . . The rooks are blown about the skies . . . ." —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, *In Memoriam* |
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Sorcery You may play up to three additional lands this turn. Summer sends its kiss with warmth and blooming life. |
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Creature — Basilisk Whenever Sylvan Basilisk becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature. 2/4 |
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Creature — Yeti Sylvan Yeti's power is equal to the number of cards in your hand. The deeper the wood, the greater its strength. */4 |
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Creature — Elemental You may have Thorn Elemental assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked. 7/7 |
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Sorcery Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. |
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Creature — Wurm It's hard to say for certain which end is more dangerous. 8/5 |
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Sorcery Destroy all creatures with flying. |
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Creature — Ox Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) It has the run of the swamps, and it knows it. 3/3 |
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Creature — Elf The forest lives in the elf as the elf lives in the forest. 1/1 |
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Creature — Elf Scout When Wood Elves enters the battlefield, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. 1/1 |
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as soon as it comes under your control.)