Stronghold
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Instant Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Draw a card. Takara shook with guilt. She knew the last image her father had seen was her sword flashing toward him. |
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Creature — Licid
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Enchantment Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life. "How fascinating it is to watch the machinations of one's own mind play themselves out." —Volrath |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.
It was not the minotaur's shoulders but his soul that bore the heaviest weight. |
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Enchantment Put a card from your hand on top of your library: Prevent all damage that would be dealt by target instant or sorcery spell this turn. After an hour in the hidey-hole, Squee seriously pondered the advantages of danger over boredom. |
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Creature — Human Soldier
"It is not a choice I make, to have this guard. It is the choice of my people, and my duty to them." —Oracle *en*-Vec 1/1 |
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Creature — Kor Soldier Trample
Nearly all sets of Kor twins are trained as lancers. 3/3 |
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Creature — Kor Nomad Soldier
The Kor forsake roots for the winding of the path; forsake voices for the silence of the mind; forsake all else for the poverty of isolation. 1/1 |
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Enchantment If you would draw a card, you may put a study counter on Pursuit of Knowledge instead. Remove three study counters from Pursuit of Knowledge, Sacrifice Pursuit of Knowledge: Draw seven cards. |
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Enchantment Wall creatures can attack as though they didn't have defender. Walls collapse and kill people all the time. Some are just more aggressive about it. |
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Enchantment Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes a land to be put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return that card to the battlefield. "That which knows itself cannot be shaped to another's will." —Oracle *en*-Vec |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has " Knit bone, darn flesh, Stitch skin, weave breath. —Samite healing ritual |
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Instant As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Return any number of target creatures you control to their owner's hand. "Enjoy your deception, Vuel," Gerrard said as Volrath's features melted from the dead shapeshifter. "I'll count this one as practice." |
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Creature — Kor Cleric Shaman
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Creature — Bird Flying, vigilance The falcon slits the sky to let the light drip through. —Kor saying 1/1 |
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Instant Destroy target blocked creature. "You've got your childhood wish at last. Now you get to die." —Gerrard, to Volrath |
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Creature — Soltari Soldier Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever Soltari Champion attacks, other creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. 2/2 |
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Creature — Kor Spirit Flying
Death free throat from thirst, mouth from speech, feet from earth. —Kor requiem 2/2 |
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Instant Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn. For each 1 damage prevented this way, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. "I don't need a plan, just a goal. The rest will follow on its own." —Gerrard |
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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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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever Wall of Essence is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life. The ceiling and the floor fell in love, but only the wall knew. —Dal saying 0/4 |
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Creature — Kor Warrior Knight
Only a matter as vital as destroying Volrath could bring together the reclusive Kor people. 2/2 |
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Creature — Angel Warrior Flying Whenever Warrior Angel deals damage, you gain that much life. She represents not hope, but hope's desperate fury. 3/4 |
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Creature — Human Knight First strike "Let no child be without a sword. We will all fight, for if we fail, we will certainly all die." —Oracle *en*-Vec 2/1 |
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Creature — Spirit Flying Cloud Spirit can block only creatures with flying. Clouds are the soil, dreams are the crop. —Kor saying 3/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature When enchanted creature attacks, return it and Contempt to their owners' hands at end of combat. "Predictable little man. In all these years you taught me so much yet learned so little." —Volrath, to Starke |
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Enchantment Rather than pay the mana cost for a spell, its controller may discard a card that shares a color with that spell. Within without. |
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Creature — Illusion Dream Prowler can't be blocked as long as it's attacking alone. "To think that some find sleep a restful state." —Volrath 1/5 |
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Instant Return all creatures to their owners' hands. The first step of every exodus is from the blood and the fire onto the trail. |
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Creature — Licid
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Creature — Shark Hammerhead Shark can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. Cross the eyes of a hammerhead and you'll dot its teeth. 2/3 |
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Enchantment When a player casts a spell, sacrifice Hesitation and counter that spell. Gerrard hesitated, looking up at the enemy ship. The future hesitated with him, changed forever by the pause. |
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Enchantment Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, untap all creatures. Mirri was startled by Volrath's apparition—it had no scent. |
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Instant Target creature gains flying until end of turn. Draw a card. Mirri leapt quickly and silently. The guard died likewise. |
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Instant Counter target spell unless its controller pays "The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy." —Volrath |
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Instant As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a card with the same name as target nontoken creature, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. |
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Instant Buyback |
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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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Instant Change the target of target spell that targets only a player. The new target must be a player. Insult, like an arrow, is beyond control once loosed. |
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Instant Untap all creatures you control and all creatures target opponent controls. You and that opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn. |
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Sorcery Draw three cards, then discard a card. "Twice I have let the Legacy slip away. Never again." —Karn, silver golem |
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Creature — Drake Flying
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Creature — Drake Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Spindrift Drake unless you pay Sea brine for blood, washing foam for laughter. 2/1 |
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Creature — Thalakos Wizard Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever Thalakos Deceiver attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, gain control of target creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) 1/1 |
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Sorcery Tap up to three target creatures without flying. "It is nature that gives us our boundaries and nature that enforces them." —Eladamri, Lord of Leaves |
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Creature — Merfolk Warrior
The tide of battle favors those who can swim. 1/1 |
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Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter As long as the top card of your graveyard is a creature card, Volrath's Shapeshifter has the full text of that card and has the text " 0/1 |
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Creature — Illusion Walking Dream can't be blocked. Walking Dream doesn't untap during your untap step if an opponent controls two or more creatures. Dreams, by definition, live shorter lives than those who dream them. 3/3 |
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever Wall of Tears blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat. "Many have been lost to pity." —Karn, silver golem 0/4 |
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Enchantment At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card at random. "I'm sure it came with the place. I don't think you build one on purpose." —Gerrard |
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Sorcery Buyback |
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Sorcery Choose two target creatures controlled by the same player. Exile one of those creatures and put two +1/+1 counters on the other. "Mine." |
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Creature — Licid
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Legendary Creature — Vampire Noble Crovax the Cursed enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Crovax. If you don't, remove a +1/+1 counter from Crovax.
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Creature — Dauthi Minion
Merfolk tell their young of Dandân, humans of Rag Man. Dal tell tales of the Dauthi, and they are far worse. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Destroy target tapped creature. For a sharp second, Selenia froze, and Crovax's blade found home. As the angel shattered like glass, Crovax felt his mind collapse—the curse had been fulfilled. |
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Creature — Shade Spirit Flying
A sickness stirs in its eyes, a nightmare born in darkened wails. 1/1 |
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Creature — Imp Flying When Foul Imp enters the battlefield, you lose 2 life. The imp, unaware of its own odor, paused to catch its breath . . . and promptly died. 2/2 |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature. "The bonds of loyalty can tie one to the grave." —Crovax |
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Sorcery Buyback |
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Enchantment Whenever an opponent discards a card, Megrim deals 2 damage to that player. "You can run from your pain," explained Gerrard to Crovax, "but take it from experience: you will tire before it does." |
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Sorcery Buyback |
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Creature — Spirit Mindwarper enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.
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Creature — Thrull Sacrifice Morgue Thrull: Mill three cards. It's so hard to find good help these days. 2/2 |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put that card on top of your library. "Think of them not as failures but as works in progress." —Volrath |
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Creature — Rat
Every sentence in Volrath's prisons ends the same way. 1/1 |
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Creature — Spirit Flying Revenant's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard. "Not again." —Hans */* |
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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 — Skeleton Skeleton Scavengers enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
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Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Assassin
The assassin sees only throats and hears only heartbeats. 2/1 |
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Creature — Giant Minion Other black creatures get -1/-1. "With the completion of each joyous task, we are closer to Yawgmoth's divine vision." —Stronghold architect, journal 4/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -3/-0. "Volrath has killed me. All that remains of me is the scar!" —Tahngarth |
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Enchantment
"There are terrors lurking in the unseen corners of us all." —Crovax |
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever Wall of Souls is dealt combat damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent or planeswalker. "It is the nature of evil to turn you against yourself." —Starke 0/4 |
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Enchantment
Crovax's rage was horrifying. Within moments only blood and shreds of flesh remained of the shapeshifter. |
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Creature — Licid
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Creature — Giant Craven Giant can't block. What is high as a mountain and low as a snake? —Dal riddle 4/1 |
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Creature — Insect
"The mountain's ducts will be like organ pipes, amplifying the glorious roar of the dying." —Stronghold architect, journal 1/1 |
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Sorcery Buyback |
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Sorcery Flame Wave deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. "I hear the roaring of a wave whose waters are red and whose mists are black." —Oracle *en*-Vec |
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Instant As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Fling deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to any target. It's raining rats and moggs. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
"Remember the fable of the elf who came upon a cave of gold. In trying to free the largest piece, she was crushed by its weight." —Karn, silver golem |
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Creature — Hellion Beast Haste
Volrath leaves no stone untrained. 3/3 |
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Creature — Beast Trample
Once these horrifying creatures were perfected, there was no need for armodons. 4/5 |
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Creature — Beast
Flowstone troops are notoriously difficult to keep in formation. 2/2 |
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Creature — Spirit Haste
If it can survive the Furnace, you don't want it near you. 1/1 |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature blocks, Heat of Battle deals 1 damage to that creature's controller. "Takara, it's me!" shouted Starke. It was no use—she obeyed Volrath. |
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Enchantment All creatures block each combat if able. The attacking player chooses how each creature blocks each combat. Gerrard studied the globe as Mirri kept watch. Suddenly, his eyes widened. "This is Dominaria!" |
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Sorcery Mob Justice deals damage to target player or planeswalker equal to the number of creatures you control. A single stone can start an avalanche. |
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Creature — Goblin When another creature enters the battlefield, sacrifice Mogg Bombers and it deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. Behind every great mogg bomber is another mogg with a shovel and a basket. 3/4 |
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Creature — Goblin Mogg Flunkies can't attack or block alone. They'll attack whatever's in front of them—as long as you tell them where that is. 3/3 |
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Sorcery Destroy all creatures target player controls. For each creature that died this way, that player creates two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens. |
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Creature — Goblin Whenever Mogg Maniac is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent or planeswalker. Stand clear if he gets an itch. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Destroy all nonbasic lands. "We have built a wall upon sand. The wall will vanish. The sand will remain." —Oracle *en*-Vec |
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Sorcery Buyback |
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Creature — Phoenix Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Sacrifice Shard Phoenix: It deals 2 damage to each creature without flying.
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Instant Shock deals 2 damage to any target. Lightning tethers souls to the world. —Kor saying |
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Creature — Hydra Spitting Hydra enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) First strike "In this blessed structure let the very walls baptize themselves in the blood of intruders." —Stronghold architect, journal 4/1 |
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Enchantment At the beginning of each upkeep, untap all creatures and lands. "There are times when destiny calls forth a people and demands an action. *Now* is the time. *We* are the people. *This* is our action. Charge!" —Eladamri, Lord of Leaves |
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Enchantment Whenever an opponent plays a land, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. "The plants said, 'We will fight the stone with root and stem and seed. We are patient. We will win.'" —Skyshroud myth of the forest |
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Creature — Beast Trample
The hunter would never forget the time or place where he first met the carnassid, for they buried him there. 5/4 |
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Instant Buyback—Sacrifice a land. (You may sacrifice a land in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. |
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Instant Creatures you control gain reach until end of turn. (They can block creatures with flying.) There is no drake that flies faster than a crossbow bolt. —Vec saying |
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Sorcery Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures. As the bough stretches, so shall you grow. As the roots spread, so shall you thrive. |
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Creature — Elephant When you control a creature with toughness 2 or less, sacrifice Endangered Armodon. These are its last days. Its doom to be remembered only until the hunters hunger again. 4/5 |
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Creature — Human Druid
Seeking the company of plants ensures that your wits will go to seed. 1/1 |
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Creature — Basilisk Whenever Lowland Basilisk deals damage to a creature, destroy that creature at end of combat. Unlike their cousins, Rathi basilisks turn their victims into puddles of flowstone. 1/3 |
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Sorcery Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Hope is the one crop that can grow in any climate. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional Life needs no encouragement. |
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Enchantment Creatures you control have trample. (A creature with trample can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) "Charge!" A great cry went out, and countless elves and Vec soldiers charged up the mountain. Their fury and passion hid the fact that they were horribly outnumbered. |
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Instant Untap target creature you don't control. That creature blocks this turn if able. Draw a card. Mirri did not have time to think, only to react. |
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Creature — Elf Archer
In Rath, arrows are guided not by virtue but by necessity. 1/1 |
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Creature — Elf Druid Warrior
"We were not made for war. Like flowstone, Volrath shaped us to it." —Eladamri, Lord of Leaves 3/3 |
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Creature — Spike Spike Breeder enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.
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Creature — Spike Spike Colony enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.
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Creature — Spike Spike Feeder enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.
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Creature — Spike Soldier Spike Soldier enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.
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Creature — Spike Spike Worker enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.
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Creature — Wurm "As it moved, the wurm's spines gathered up bits of flowstone, which took the shapes of dead villagers' heads. Each head spoke a single sound, but if taken together, they said, 'Alas for the living.'" —Dal myth of the wurm 5/4 |
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Creature — Licid
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Sorcery Buyback |
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Enchantment
"Watch yourself," warned Starke. "These plants aren't nice when they're hungry." |
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Creature — Plant Wall Defender When Wall of Blossoms enters the battlefield, draw a card. Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact. 0/4 |
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Creature — Sliver All Slivers have " The first sliver burst against the cave wall, and others piled in behind to deepen the new tunnel. 2/2 |
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Creature — Sliver All Slivers have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.) Bred as living shields, these slivers have proven unruly—they know they cannot be caught. 2/2 |
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Creature — Sliver All Slivers have "Pay 2 life: Return this permanent to its owner's hand." Mogglings have been known to play ball with hibernating slivers, completely unaware of their true nature. 2/2 |
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Legendary Creature — Sliver
Her children are ever part of her. 7/7 |
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Creature — Sliver Whenever a Sliver becomes blocked, that Sliver gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it. "Slivers are evil and slivers are sly; And if you get eaten, then no one will cry." —Mogg children's rhyme 2/2 |
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Creature — Sliver All Slivers have " "We are kinfolk," explained Karn to the sliver queen. "Just as you need your progeny to complete you, so do I need the pieces of the Legacy to make me whole." 2/2 |
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Artifact
"Pain is a crude way to enforce obedience, but it is cheap and plentiful." —Volrath |
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Artifact Creatures with power greater than the number of cards in your hand can't attack. "I expected a fight, but I didn't expect it from the building itself." —Gerrard |
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Artifact Activated abilities of creatures cost "Finding a true heartstone is even harder than finding a true heart." —Hanna |
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Artifact Whenever a player plays a land, that player draws a card. "Rath grows, and I am nourished." —Volrath |
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Artifact Whenever a nontoken permanent is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, Jinxed Ring deals 1 damage to you. Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent gains control of Jinxed Ring. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) |
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Artifact If Mox Diamond would enter the battlefield, you may discard a land card instead. If you do, put Mox Diamond onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
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Artifact Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, if there are two or more other creatures on the battlefield, exile that creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control when Portcullis leaves the battlefield. |
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Artifact Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) Shifting Wall enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. "You'd almost think Volrath doesn't want me here." —Gerrard 0/0 |
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Legendary Artifact
One shard of Selenia yet remained. |
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Artifact As Volrath's Laboratory enters the battlefield, choose a color and a creature type.
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Legendary Land
The seed of a world's evil. |
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