Urza's Destiny
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Creature — Human Cleric When Academy Rector dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. 1/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put an arrow counter on Archery Training.
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Creature — Human Knight First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Few warriors dare to challenge a knight of Capashen. Should one do so, there is one fewer. 1/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Benalia has no need for peacocks to serve as symbols of vanity. The Capashens strut more proudly than any bird. |
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Creature — Human Knight
Their shields are Benalia's outermost battlements. 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Cleric When False Prophet dies, exile all creatures. "You lived for Serra's love. Will you not die for it?" 2/2 |
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Instant Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target creature this turn.
Cycling The best defense is to not get hit. |
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Creature — Human Cleric Tap an untapped creature you control: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn. Commanders order soldiers to attack. Field surgeons order them to heal. Both are obeyed without question. 1/1 |
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Sorcery Exile target nontoken permanent, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. Who is truer: you who are, or you who are to be? |
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Creature — Human Wizard
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from black and from red. The archangels zealously drove Serra's light into every corner of their new home as if their creator still commanded them. |
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Creature — Human Cleric
Behind his eyes is the pain of every soldier his hands have healed. 1/4 |
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Enchantment Each other non-Aura enchantment is a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its mana value. |
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Creature — Human Monk Cleric When Reliquary Monk dies, destroy target artifact or enchantment. A thing of Serra's realm exists only by the grace of her followers' faith. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in your graveyard.) Treasures, trinkets, trash—the relics of the past are brought forth again. |
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Enchantment Whenever an opponent taps a Mountain for mana, you may gain 1 life. "To forgive our enemies is to forgive ourselves." |
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Instant Reveal any number of white cards in your hand. You gain 2 life for each card revealed this way. |
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Instant Exile target enchantment. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that enchantment and exile them. Then that player shuffles. |
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Creature — Angel Flying
An angel's touch can prepare a soldier for battle more than a thousand military drills. 2/2 |
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Instant Creatures you control get +0/+5 until end of turn. Their commitment to Serra is as solid as any shield. |
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Creature — Griffin Flying When you control no enchantments, sacrifice Tethered Griffin. Poorly trained griffins sometimes attack the noble audiences that gather to watch their progress. 2/3 |
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Creature — Angel Flying Falling from heaven is not as painful as surviving the impact. 1/5 |
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Creature — Angel Flying, protection from green "Next to Law is Duty, and Duty must be obeyed. If the frame of Duty is broken, none shall weave life's fabric." —*Song of All*, canto 167 2/2 |
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Creature — Angel Flying, protection from blue "Next to Grace is Reason, and Reason must be retained. If the web of Reason comes unwoven, madness will escape." —*Song of All*, canto 167 2/2 |
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Creature — Wall Defender (This creature can't attack.) Wall of Glare can block any number of creatures. The blinding barrier served Benalia better than a hundred shields. 0/5 |
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Creature — Illusion Flying When Aura Thief dies, you gain control of all enchantments. (You don't get to move Auras.) Illusion steals reality from the unwise. 2/2 |
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Creature — Elemental Flying
Students who had seen Rayne argue with Urza were certain she had summoned it to make him seem warmer by comparison. 5/5 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
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Creature — Beeble Bubbling Beebles can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an enchantment. "Chancellor Rayne canceled the annual beeble roast. I should have married a crueler woman." —Barrin 3/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
If at first you don't succeed, run away and hide. |
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Sorcery Target player gains control of target permanent you control. Campus pranksters initiate new students with the old "beeble bomb" routine. |
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Sorcery Target player skips their next draw step. "Mind if I just lie down right here for a few weeks?" |
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Creature — Bird Fledgling Osprey has flying as long as it's enchanted. It isn't truly born until its first flight. 1/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has flying.
For a moment, Urza thought not of war and destruction, but of the freedom of the skies. |
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Creature — Drake Flying When Iridescent Drake enters the battlefield, put target Aura card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control attached to Iridescent Drake. 2/2 |
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Creature — Bird Flying When Kingfisher dies, draw a card. It's tastiest when served with the fish it stole. 2/2 |
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Enchantment
Barrin drowned his doubts about Urza's project by delving ever deeper into its details. |
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Creature — Metathran Soldier Metathran Elite can't be blocked as long as it's enchanted. If the eyes are windows to the soul, their souls are not of this world. 2/3 |
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Creature — Metathran Soldier Metathran Soldier can't be blocked. Just as Serra crafted angels of light and faith, Urza constructed an army of sorcery and power to resist the coming invasion. 1/1 |
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Enchantment Tap an untapped creature you control: Tap target artifact, creature, or land. "Urza says he's sane. Perhaps, but measures of sanity among planeswalkers are hard to come by." —Barrin |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a page counter on Private Research. When enchanted creature dies, draw a card for each page counter on Private Research. |
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Instant Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that spell and exile them. Then that player shuffles. |
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Legendary Creature — Human Wizard Whenever you or a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card. You may draw an additional card if Rayne, Academy Chancellor is enchanted. 1/1 |
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Instant Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand. "Urza, I've discovered more promising students than you and my husband have, combined. And I haven't lost a single one." —Rayne, Academy Chancellor |
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Instant Reveal any number of blue cards in your hand. Counter target spell unless its controller pays |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a player, return target creature that player controls to its owner's hand. Arrows are only one way to remove an enemy. |
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Creature — Human Wizard When Telepathic Spies enters the battlefield, look at target opponent's hand. "Do try to keep an open mind, would you?" 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
"Of course she's at the head of her class. All her classmates have disappeared." —Gatha, Tolarian renegade 1/1 |
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Creature — Bird Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever Thieving Magpie deals damage to an opponent, draw a card. Rayne once made several unkind comparisons between the bird's naked opportunism and Urza's. 1/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature When Treachery enters the battlefield, untap up to five lands. You control enchanted creature. "The academy educates; I employ. It's a perfect arrangement." —Gatha, Tolarian renegade |
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Creature — Zombie Wizard
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Enchantment
"I will trade life for life with the insurgents. Our resources, unlike theirs, are limitless." —Davvol, Evincar of Rath |
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Creature — Phyrexian Minion When Body Snatcher enters the battlefield, exile it unless you discard a creature card. When Body Snatcher dies, exile Body Snatcher and return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional The muck claims a hundred living things for each meager treasure it spews forth. |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you lose 1 life and add "'Davvol, blast those elves.' 'Davvol, transport those troops.' No one cares that today is my birthday." |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature When Chime of Night is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, destroy target nonblack creature. Many sent to serve Davvol carried such instruments, as if to remind him who their true masters were. |
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Creature — Rat When Disease Carriers dies, target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Rath is a disease all its inhabitants carry. 2/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, target player discards two cards. This is a world of spiteful wasps that sting and kill even as they die. |
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Sorcery Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonbasic land card from it. That player discards that card. "The rate of spread in this region is unacceptable. Start again." —Davvol, Evincar of Rath |
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Sorcery Exile target nonblack creature. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that creature and exile them. Then that player shuffles. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put an infection counter on Festering Wound. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Festering Wound deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of infection counters on Festering Wound. |
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Enchantment When an opponent has 10 or less life, if Lurking Jackals is an enchantment, it becomes a 3/2 Jackal creature. Often it's not the hunter or the hunted but the opportunist who thrives in Rath. |
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Creature — Human Wizard
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Creature — Phyrexian Skeleton
Being one would be an honor, if the word "honor" had any meaning in Phyrexia. 2/2 |
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Creature — Phyrexian Horror Trample Whenever Phyrexian Negator is dealt damage, sacrifice that many permanents. They exist to cease. 5/5 |
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Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Dog When Plague Dogs dies, all creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.
They're not just retrievers, they're carriers. 3/3 |
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Instant Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.
Cycling The grave robbers arrived the day after the burial. They were a day too late. |
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Creature — Rat When Ravenous Rats enters the battlefield, target opponent discards a card. "For all the priceless tomes they have destroyed, one would think they would taste better." —Davvol, Evincar of Rath 1/1 |
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Instant Reveal any number of black cards in your hand. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards revealed this way. |
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Creature — Phyrexian Horror When you cast a creature spell, sacrifice Skittering Horror. "This monstrosity will do—for now." —Davvol, Evincar of Rath 4/3 |
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Creature — Phyrexian Imp Flying
Davvol encouraged the skirges; they made excellent sentries and were quite edible if properly seasoned. 2/1 |
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Sorcery Target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life. As no one has ever accepted a second invitation to Davvol's table, the evincar often dines alone. |
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Creature — Horror Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Only the coldest hearts and the strongest stomachs can stand against it. 1/1 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/-1. Gatha showed remarkable prowess in increasing his subjects' stature. Their lifespans, however, were another matter. |
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Enchantment Skip your draw step. Pay 1 life: Draw a card. He craves only one commodity. |
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Enchantment Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, Aether Sting deals 1 damage to that player. When Gatha fell, he was called to account for each abomination he created. |
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Creature — Cyclops Giant
After their first encounter, the goblins named him Chuck. 4/4 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
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Creature — Goat Beast Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)
A steed grows with its rider. 1/1 |
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Creature — Dragon Flying When you control no artifacts, sacrifice Covetous Dragon. Gatha survived as long as he did by giving all Keld's predators exactly what they wanted. 6/5 |
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Sorcery Flame Jet deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.
Cycling Did the land make the Keldons? Did the Keldons make the land? Or were they simply meant for each other? |
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Creature — Goblin Berserker First strike, haste Goblins don't know the meaning of the word "tactics" —or the word "meaning," for that matter. 2/2 |
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Enchantment
"What are we celebratin' again?" |
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Creature — Goblin When Goblin Gardener dies, destroy target land. "Grow food in dirt? Save time—eat dirt." 2/1 |
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Creature — Goblin Warrior Echo 3/3 |
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Creature — Goblin When Goblin Masons dies, destroy target Wall. "Goblins build with true zeal—and anything else within arm's reach." 2/1 |
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Creature — Ogre Hulking Ogre can't block. "The Keldons' ogre campaign provided more body parts than my meager facility could properly use." —Gatha, Tolarian renegade 3/3 |
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Enchantment At the beginning of each player's end step, if that player didn't cast a spell this turn, Impatience deals 2 damage to that player. Ask a Keldon to hold his temper and you'll be left holding your guts. |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fuse counter on Incendiary. When enchanted creature dies, Incendiary deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of fuse counters on Incendiary. |
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Creature — Human Barbarian Haste
Echo 3/2 |
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Creature — Human Rogue Echo Keldons divide all their spoils into two groups: trophies and catapult ammunition. 4/1 |
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Sorcery Sacrifice any number of Mountains. Landslide deals that much damage to target player or planeswalker. Sometimes the mountain takes. —Keldon saying |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature has haste. At the beginning of the end step, return Mark of Fury to its owner's hand. Many Keldon warriors bear the mark of intentional insanity. |
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Sorcery As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Reckless Abandon deals 4 damage to any target. The climax of a warlord's career is always death. |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature is dealt damage, Repercussion deals that much damage to that creature's controller. Not all Keld's warriors are found on the battlefield. |
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Sorcery Reveal any number of red cards in your hand. Scent of Cinder deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of cards revealed this way. |
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Sorcery Exile target nonbasic land. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that land and exile them. Then that player shuffles. |
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Instant Attacking creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn. Keldon warriors don't need signals to tell them when to attack, but when to stop. |
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Sorcery Destroy target land and all other lands with the same name as that land. Land charred black, rivers boiled, Crops and wells alike despoiled, Mountains leveled, forests felled— Footprints of the beasts of Keld. |
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Creature — Goat Beast Haste You'll never get a Keldon's goat. 2/2 |
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Creature — Ape
The Phyrexian killing machines couldn't have known the seriousness of their mistake in wounding the ape—they'd never seen it angry. 6/5 |
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Enchantment Whenever a black card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may draw a card. A fruit must rot before its seed can sprout. —Yavimaya saying |
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Creature — Elf Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Like a masterful quilter, Yavimaya stitches together patches of color to warn its denizens of threats. 1/1 |
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Creature — Elf Shaman
From Gaea grew the world, and the world was silent. From Gaea grew the world's elves, and the world was silent no more. —Elvish teaching 1/1 |
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Creature — Crocodile When you control no other creatures, sacrifice Emperor Crocodile. The king of Yavimaya's waters pays constant attention to his subjects . . . and thrives on their adulation. 5/5 |
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Creature — Elf When Gamekeeper dies, you may exile it. If you do, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card onto the battlefield and put all other cards revealed this way into your graveyard. 2/2 |
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Creature — Insect Trample The balance of nature dictates that one day humans will be stepped on by bugs. 3/1 |
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Creature — Elf Druid
"In Llanowar, we tend the forest's boughs and branches. In Yavimaya, we are a part of them." —Rofellos of Llanowar 1/1 |
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Creature — Bird Beast Echo 3/2 |
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Creature — Elf Wizard
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Instant All creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn. The seed torches' pollen gives off light, but the elves find it heightens their senses as well. |
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Creature — Insect When Marker Beetles dies, target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
In case of emergency, crush bug. 2/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a growth counter on Momentum. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each growth counter on Momentum. |
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Sorcery Destroy all enchantments. You gain 2 life for each enchantment destroyed this way. "This is my place of power. Nothing can take root here unless I allow it." —Multani, maro-sorcerer |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller may search their library for a creature card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. |
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Creature — Spider Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Most spiders wait patiently for their prey to arrive. Most spiders aren't forty feet tall. 4/4 |
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Sorcery Put two target lands on top of their owners' libraries. To renew the land, plow the land. To destroy the land, do nothing. —Druids' saying |
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Legendary Creature — Elf Druid
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Sorcery Reveal any number of green cards in your hand. Return an enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand for each card revealed this way. "Rise, elf. We are both of Gaea, and thus we are equal." —Multani, to Rofellos |
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Instant Reveal any number of green cards in your hand. Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards revealed this way. |
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Sorcery Exile target artifact. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that artifact and exile them. Then that player shuffles. |
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Creature — Elf All creatures able to block Taunting Elf do so. Much to Multani's chagrin, Rofellos gleefully tutored Yavimaya's elves on the rudest and most vulgar words spoken in Llanowar. 0/1 |
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Creature — Elemental You may have Thorn Elemental assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked. Rain from this storm leaves you pinned to the ground like an insect. 7/7 |
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Creature — Human Druid When Yavimaya Elder dies, you may search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
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Creature — Human Druid Yavimaya Enchantress gets +1/+1 for each enchantment on the battlefield. From each seed, a world. From each world, a thousand seeds. 2/2 |
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Artifact
"I think it no accident that every civilized people has discovered the art of distillation." —Rofellos of Llanowar |
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Artifact Creature — Construct
The students disliked the secretary for its unfailing memory—until they discovered it couldn't dodge thrown objects. 2/1 |
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Artifact Whenever a creature attacks, Caltrops deals 1 damage to it. Toward the end, Gatha struggled to keep his experiments in and his patrons out. |
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Artifact Creature — Juggernaut Echo As the invasion drew closer, Urza's means began to resemble Phyrexia's end. 4/3 |
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Artifact
Step 1: Find your cousin. Step 2: Get your cousin in the cannon. Step 3: Find another cousin. |
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Artifact Creature — Bird Flying When Junk Diver dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. Garbage in, treasure out. 1/1 |
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Artifact Creature — Insect
Tawnos left a legacy of animal designs in many of Urza's creations. 3/3 |
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Artifact Creature — Masticore At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Masticore unless you discard a card.
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Artifact Creature — Construct
"At this rate I fully expect to be replaced by a clockwork golem by year's end." —Barrin 1/2 |
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Artifact At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fuse counter on Powder Keg.
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Artifact As long as Storage Matrix is untapped, each player chooses artifact, creature, or land during their untap step. That player can untap only permanents of the chosen type this step. |
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Artifact
Urza's metathran children were conceived, birthed, and nurtured by an integrated system of machines. |
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Artifact
"What we do not use up, we use again." —Urza |
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Artifact Creature — Golem As long as Thran Golem is enchanted, it gets +2/+2 and has flying, first strike, and trample. Karn felt more secure about his value to Urza when he realized he didn't need regular trimming. 3/3 |
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Artifact As Urza's Incubator enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Creature spells of the chosen type cost "Stop thinking like an artificer, Urza, and start thinking like a father!" —Rayne, Academy Chancellor |
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Legendary Land
For all its traps and defenses, Yavimaya has its havens, too. |
: This creature deals X damage to target attacking or blocking creature, where X is the number of arrow counters on Archery Training."