Fourth Edition Spoilers 378/0
Show TextAbomination
Whenever Abomination blocks or becomes blocked by a green or white creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.
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Air Elemental
Flying
These spirits of the air are winsome and wild and cannot be truly contained. Only marginally intelligent, they often substitute whimsy for strategy, delighting in mischief and mayhem.
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Alabaster Potion
Choose one —
• Target player gains X life.
• Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."—D'Avenant proverb
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Aladdin's Lamp
, : The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead look at the top X cards of your library, put all but one of them on the bottom of your library in a random order, then draw a card. X can't be 0.
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Aladdin's Ring
, : Aladdin's Ring deals 4 damage to any target.
"After these words the magician drew a ring off his finger, and put it on one of Aladdin's, saying: ‘It is a talisman against all evil, so long as you obey me.'"The Arabian Nights, Junior Classics trans.
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Ali Baba
: Tap target Wall.
"When he reached the entrance of the cavern, he pronounced the words, ‘Open, Sesame'"—The Arabian Nights, Junior Classics trans.
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Amrou Kithkin
Amrou Kithkin can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.
Quick and agile, Amrou Kithkin can usually escape from even the most fearsome opponents.
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Amulet of Kroog
, : Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
Among the first allies Urza gained were the people of Kroog. As a sign of friendship, Urza gave the healers of the city potent amulets; afterwards, thousands journeyed to Kroog in hope of healing.
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Angry Mob
Trample
As long as it's your turn, Angry Mob's power and toughness are each equal to 2 plus the number of Swamps your opponents control. As long as it's not your turn, Angry Mob's power and toughness are each 2.
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Animate Artifact
Enchant artifact
As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost.
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Animate Dead
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
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Animate Wall
Enchant Wall
Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.
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Ankh of Mishra
Whenever a land enters the battlefield, Ankh of Mishra deals 2 damage to that land's controller.
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Apprentice Wizard
, : Add .
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Armageddon
Destroy all lands.
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Armageddon Clock
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a doom counter on Armageddon Clock.
At the beginning of your draw step, Armageddon Clock deals damage equal to the number of doom counters on it to each player.
: Remove a doom counter from Armageddon Clock. Any player may activate this ability but only during any upkeep step.
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Ashes to Ashes
Exile two target nonartifact creatures. Ashes to Ashes deals 5 damage to you.
"All rivers eventually run to the sea. My job is to sort out who goes first."—Maeveen O'Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier
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Ashnod's Battle Gear
You may choose not to untap Ashnod's Battle Gear during your untap step.
, : Target creature you control gets +2/-2 for as long as Ashnod's Battle Gear remains tapped.
This invention shows why Ashnod was feared by her troops as well as her foes.
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Aspect of Wolf
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +X/+Y, where X is half the number of Forests you control, rounded down, and Y is half the number of Forests you control, rounded up.
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Backfire
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to you, Backfire deals that much damage to that creature's controller.
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Balance
Each player chooses a number of lands they control equal to the number of lands controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Players discard cards and sacrifice creatures the same way.
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Ball Lightning
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Haste (This creature can attack and
as soon as it comes under your control.)At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Ball Lightning.
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Battering Ram
At the beginning of combat on your turn, Battering Ram gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.)
Whenever Battering Ram becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.
By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.
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Benalish Hero
Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the Hero.
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Bird Maiden
Flying
Four things that never meet do here uniteTo shed my blood and to ravage my heart,A radiant brow and tresses that beguileAnd rosy cheeks and a glittering smile."—The Arabian Nights, trans. Haddawy
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Birds of Paradise
Flying
: Add one mana of any color.
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Black Knight
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)
Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.
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Black Mana Battery
, : Put a charge counter on Black Mana Battery.
, Remove any number of charge counters from Black Mana Battery: Add , then add an additional for each charge counter removed this way.
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Black Vise
As Black Vise enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, Black Vise deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.
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Black Ward
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has protection from black. This effect doesn't remove Black Ward.
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Blessing
Enchant creature
: Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
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Blight
Enchant land
When enchanted land becomes tapped, destroy it.
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Blood Lust
If target creature has toughness 5 or greater, it gets +4/-4 until end of turn. Otherwise, it gets +4/-X until end of turn, where X is its toughness minus 1.
illus. Anson Maddocks # ?/0
Blue Elemental Blast
Choose one —
• Counter target red spell.
• Destroy target red permanent.
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Blue Mana Battery
, : Put a charge counter on Blue Mana Battery.
, Remove any number of charge counters from Blue Mana Battery: Add , then add an additional for each charge counter removed this way.
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Blue Ward
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has protection from blue. This effect doesn't remove Blue Ward.
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Bog Imp
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
On guard for larger dangers, we underestimated the power and speed of the Imp's muck-crusted claws.
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Bog Wraith
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
'Twas in the bogs of CannelbraeMy mate did meet an early grave 'Twas nothing left for us to saveIn the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.
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Bottle of Suleiman
, Sacrifice Bottle of Suleiman: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, create a 5/5 colorless Djinn artifact creature token with flying. If you lose the flip, Bottle of Suleiman deals 5 damage to you.
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Brainwash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack unless its controller pays
."They're not your friends; they despise you. I'm the only one you can count on. Trust me."
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Brass Man
Brass Man doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay
. If you do, untap Brass Man.illus. Christopher Rush # ?/0
Bronze Tablet
Remove Bronze Tablet from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.
Bronze Tablet enters the battlefield tapped.
, : Exile Bronze Tablet and target nontoken permanent an opponent owns. That player may pay 10 life. If they do, put Bronze Tablet into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player owns Bronze Tablet and you own the other exiled card.
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Brothers of Fire
: Brothers of Fire deals 1 damage to any target and 1 damage to you.
Fire is never a gentle master.
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Burrowing
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has mountainwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)
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Carnivorous Plant
Defender
"It had a mouth like that of a great beast, and gnashed its teeth as it strained to reach us. I am thankful it possessed no means of locomotion."—Vervamon the Elder
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Carrion Ants
: Carrion Ants gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
"War is no picnic," my father liked to say. But the Ants seemed to disagree.
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Cave People
Whenever Cave People attacks, it gets +1/-2 until end of turn.
, : Target creature gains mountainwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)
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Celestial Prism
, : Add one mana of any color.
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Channel
Until end of turn, any time you could activate a mana ability, you may pay 1 life. If you do, add
.illus. Richard Thomas # ?/0
Chaoslace
Target spell or permanent becomes red. (Its mana symbols remain unchanged.)
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Circle of Protection: Artifacts
: The next time an artifact source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
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Circle of Protection: Black
: The next time a black source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
illus. Jesper Myrfors # ?/0
Circle of Protection: Blue
: The next time a blue source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
illus. Dameon Willich # ?/0
Circle of Protection: Green
: The next time a green source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
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Circle of Protection: Red
: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
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Circle of Protection: White
: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
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Clay Statue
: Regenerate Clay Statue.
Tawnos won fame as Urza's greatest assistant. After he created these warriors, Urza ended his apprenticeship, promoting him directly to the rank of master.
illus. Jesper Myrfors # ?/0
Clockwork Avian
Flying
Clockwork Avian enters the battlefield with four +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Avian attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
, : Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Avian. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Avian to be greater than four. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.
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Clockwork Beast
Clockwork Beast enters the battlefield with seven +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Beast attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
, : Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast to be greater than seven. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.
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Cockatrice
Flying
Whenever Cockatrice blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.
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Colossus of Sardia
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Colossus of Sardia doesn't untap during your untap step.
: Untap Colossus of Sardia. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.
From the Sardian mountains wakes ancient doom:Warrior born from a rocky womb.
illus. Jesper Myrfors # ?/0
Conservator
, : Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.
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Control Magic
Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
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Conversion
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Conversion unless you pay
.All Mountains are Plains.
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Coral Helm
, Discard a card at random: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
illus. Amy Weber # ?/0
Cosmic Horror
First strike
At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy Cosmic Horror unless you pay
. If Cosmic Horror is destroyed this way, it deals 7 damage to you.". . . Screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies."Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
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Counterspell
Counter target spell.
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Craw Wurm
The most terrifying thing about the Craw Wurm is probably the horrible crashing sound it makes as it speeds through the forest. This noise is so loud it echoes through the trees and seems to come from all directions at once.
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Creature Bond
Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, Creature Bond deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.
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Crimson Manticore
Flying
, : Crimson Manticore deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.
Noted neither for their good looks nor their charm, Manticores can be fearsome allies. As dinner companions, however, they are best left alone.
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Crumble
Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. That artifact's controller gains life equal to its converted mana cost.
The spirits of Argoth grant new life to those who repent the folly of enslaving their labors to devices.
illus. Jesper Myrfors # ?/0
Crystal Rod
Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay
. If you do, you gain 1 life.illus. Amy Weber # ?/0
Cursed Land
Enchant land
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted land's controller, Cursed Land deals 1 damage to that player.
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Cursed Rack
As Cursed Rack enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.
The chosen player's maximum hand size is four.
Ashnod invented several torture techniques that could make victims even miles away beg for mercy as if the End had come.
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Cyclopean Mummy
When Cyclopean Mummy dies, exile it.
The ritual of plucking out an eye to gain future sight is but a curse that enables the living to see their own deaths.
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Dancing Scimitar
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Bobbing merrily from opponent to opponent, the scimitar began adding playful little flourishes to its strokes; it even turned a couple of somersaults.
illus. Anson Maddocks # ?/0
Dark Ritual
Add
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Death Ward
Regenerate target creature.
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Deathlace
Target spell or permanent becomes black. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)
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Desert Twister
Destroy target permanent.
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Detonate
Destroy target artifact with converted mana cost X. It can't be regenerated. Detonate deals X damage to that artifact's controller.
illus. Randy Asplund-Faith # ?/0
Diabolic Machine
: Regenerate Diabolic Machine.
"The bolts of our ballistae smashed into the monstrous thing, but our hopes died in our chests as its gears continued turning."—Sevti Mukul, The Fall of Alsoor
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Dingus Egg
Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Dingus Egg deals 2 damage to that land's controller.
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Disenchant
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
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Disintegrate
Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.
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Disrupting Scepter
, : Target player discards a card. Activate this ability only during your turn.
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Divine Transformation
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.
Glory surged through her and radiance surrounded her. All things were possible with the blessing of the Divine.
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Dragon Engine
: Dragon Engine gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Those who believed the city of Kroog would never fall to Mishra's forces severely underestimated the might of his war machines.
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Dragon Whelp
Flying
: Dragon Whelp gets +1/+0 until end of turn. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice Dragon Whelp at the beginning of the next end step.
"O to be a dragon . . . of silkworm size or immense . . ."Marianne Moore, "O to Be a Dragon"
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Drain Life
Spend only black mana on X.
Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.
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Drain Power
Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.
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Drudge Skeletons
: Regenerate Drudge Skeletons. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)
Bones scattered around us joined to form misshapen bodies. We struck at them repeatedly—they fell, but soon formed again, with the same mocking look on their faceless skulls.
illus. Sandra Everingham # ?/0
Durkwood Boars
"And the unclean spirits went out, and entered the swine: and the herd ran violently . . . ."—Mark 5:13
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Dwarven Warriors
: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.
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Earth Elemental
Earth Elementals have the eternal strength of stone and the endurance of mountains. Primordially connected to the land they inhabit, they take a long-term view of things, scorning the impetuous haste of short-lived mortal creatures.
illus. Dan Frazier # ?/0
Earthquake
Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.
illus. Dan Frazier # ?/0
Ebony Horse
, : Untap target attacking creature you control. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.
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Elder Land Wurm
Defender, trample
When Elder Land Wurm blocks, it loses defender.
Sometimes it's best to let sleeping dragons lie.
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El-Hajjâj
Whenever El-Hajjâj deals damage, you gain that much life.
illus. Dameon Willich # ?/0
Elven Riders
Elven Riders can't be blocked except by Walls and/or creatures with flying.
"Sometimes it is better to be swift of foot than strong of swordarm."—Elven proverb
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Elvish Archers
First strike
I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade"
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Energy Flux
All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay
."illus. Kaja Foglio # ?/0
Energy Tap
Tap target untapped creature you control. If you do, add an amount of
equal to that creature's converted mana cost.illus. Daniel Gelon # ?/0
Erg Raiders
At the beginning of your end step, if Erg Raiders didn't attack this turn, Erg Raiders deals 2 damage to you unless it came under your control this turn.
illus. Dameon Willich # ?/0
Erosion
Enchant land
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted land's controller, destroy that land unless that player pays
or 1 life.illus. Pete Venters # ?/0
Eternal Warrior
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has vigilance.
Warriors of the Tsunami-nito School spend years in training to master the way of effortless effort.
illus. Anson Maddocks # ?/0
Evil Presence
Enchant land
Enchanted land is a Swamp.
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Eye for an Eye
The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, instead that source deals that much damage to you and Eye for an Eye deals that much damage to that source's controller.
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Fear
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)
Enchanted creature has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
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Feedback
Enchant enchantment
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted enchantment's controller, Feedback deals 1 damage to that player.
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Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
"What do you have that I cannot obtain?"—Mairsil, called the Pretender
illus. Quinton Hoover # ?/0
Fire Elemental
Fire Elementals are ruthless infernos, annihilating and consuming their foes in a frenzied holocaust. Crackling and blazing, they sear swift, terrible paths, leaving the land charred and scorched in their wake.
illus. Melissa A. Benson # ?/0
Fireball
This spell costs
more to cast for each target beyond the first.Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.
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Firebreathing
Enchant creature
: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
"And topples round the dreary west A looming bastion fringed with fire."—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam"
illus. Dan Frazier # ?/0
Fissure
Destroy target creature or land. It can't be regenerated.
"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?"—Plato
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Flashfires
Destroy all Plains.
illus. Dameon Willich # ?/0
Flood
: Tap target creature without flying.
"A dash of cool water does wonders to clear a cluttered battlefield."—Vibekke Ragnild, Witches and War
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Flying Carpet
, : Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
illus. Mark Tedin # ?/0
Force of Nature
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, Force of Nature deals 8 damage to you unless you pay
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Fortified Area
Wall creatures you control get +1/+0 and have banding. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
illus. Randy Asplund-Faith # ?/0
Frozen Shade
: Frozen Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
"There are some qualities, some incorporate things, / That have a double life, which thus is made / A type of twin entity which springs / From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade."—Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"
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Fungusaur
Whenever Fungusaur is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Rather than sheltering her young, the female Fungusaur often injures her own offspring, thereby ensuring their rapid growth.
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Gaea's Liege
As long as Gaea's Liege isn't attacking, its power and toughness are each equal to the number of Forests you control. As long as Gaea's Liege is attacking, its power and toughness are each equal to the number of Forests defending player controls.
: Target land becomes a Forest until Gaea's Liege leaves the battlefield.
illus. Dameon Willich # ?/0
Gaseous Form
Enchant creature
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by enchanted creature.
" . . . And gives to airy nothingA local habitation and a name."—William Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
illus. Phil Foglio # ?/0
Ghost Ship
Flying
: Regenerate Ghost Ship.
"That phantom prow split the storm as lightning cast its long shadow on the battlefield below."—Mireille Gaetane, The Valeriad
illus. Tom Wänerstrand # ?/0
Giant Growth
Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
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Giant Spider
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
While it possesses potent venom, the Giant Spider often chooses not to paralyze its victims. Perhaps the creature enjoys the gentle rocking motion caused by its captives' struggles to escape its web.
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Giant Strength
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.
"O it is excellentTo have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannousTo use it like a giant."—William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
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Giant Tortoise
Giant Tortoise gets +0/+3 as long as it's untapped.
illus. Kaja Foglio # ?/0
Glasses of Urza
: Look at target player's hand.
illus. Douglas Shuler # ?/0
Gloom
White spells cost
more to cast.Activated abilities of white enchantments cost
more to activate.illus. Dan Frazier # ?/0
Goblin Balloon Brigade
: Goblin Balloon Brigade gains flying until end of turn.
"From up here we can drop rocks and arrows and more rocks""Uh, yeah boss, but how do we get down?"
illus. Andi Rusu # ?/0
Goblin King
Other Goblin creatures get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)
To become king of the Goblins, one must assassinate the previous king. Thus, only the most foolish seek positions of leadership.
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Goblin Rock Sled
Trample
Goblin Rock Sled doesn't untap during your untap step if it attacked during your last turn.
Goblin Rock Sled can't attack unless defending player controls a Mountain.
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Grapeshot Catapult
: Grapeshot Catapult deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.
Recent research suggests these creatures were invented by Urza's and Mishra's original master, Tocasia, and that both brothers used them.
illus. Dan Frazier # ?/0
Gray Ogre
The Ogre philosopher Gnerdel believed the purpose of life was to live as high on the food chain as possible. She refused to eat vegetarians, preferring to live entirely on creatures that preyed on sentient beings.
illus. Dan Frazier # ?/0
Greed
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
"There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. . . . And there is no greater disaster than greed."—Tao Tê Ching 46
illus. Phil Foglio # ?/0
Green Mana Battery
, : Put a charge counter on Green Mana Battery.
, Remove any number of charge counters from Green Mana Battery: Add , then add an additional for each charge counter removed this way.
illus. Christopher Rush # ?/0
Green Ward
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has protection from green. This effect doesn't remove Green Ward.
illus. Dan Frazier # ?/0
Grizzly Bears
Don't try to outrun one of Dominia's Grizzlies; it'll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you'll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you.
illus. Jeff A. Menges # ?/0
Healing Salve
Choose one —
• Target player gains 3 life.
• Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
illus. Dan Frazier # ?/0
Helm of Chatzuk
, : Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
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Hill Giant
Fortunately, Hill Giants have large blind spots in which a human can easily hide. Unfortunately, these blind spots are beneath the bottoms of their feet.
illus. Dan Frazier # ?/0
Holy Armor
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2.
: Enchanted creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
illus. Melissa A. Benson # ?/0
Holy Strength
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.
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Howl from Beyond
Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.
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Howling Mine
At the beginning of each player's draw step, if Howling Mine is untapped, that player draws an additional card.
illus. Mark Poole # ?/0
Hurkyl's Recall
Return all artifacts target player owns to their hand.
This spell, like many attributed to Drafna, was actually the work of his wife and former student, Hurkyl.
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Hurloon Minotaur
The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.
illus. Anson Maddocks # ?/0
Hurr Jackal
: Target creature can't be regenerated this turn.
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Hurricane
Hurricane deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player.
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Hypnotic Specter
Flying
Whenever Hypnotic Specter deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.
". . . There was no traceOf aught on that illumined face . . . ."—Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"
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Immolation
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/-2.
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Inferno
Inferno deals 6 damage to each creature and each player.
"Any scrap of compassion that still existed in my soul was permanently snuffed out when they cast me out into the flames."—Mairsil, called the Pretender
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Instill Energy
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can attack as though it had haste.
: Untap enchanted creature. Activate this ability only during your turn and only once each turn.
illus. Dameon Willich # ?/0
Iron Star
Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay
. If you do, you gain 1 life.illus. Dan Frazier # ?/0
Ironclaw Orcs
Ironclaw Orcs can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.
Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan. To say that Orcs in general are vicious, depraved, and ignoble does not do justice to the Ironclaw.
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Ironroot Treefolk
The mating habits of Treefolk, particularly the stalwart Ironroot Treefolk, are truly absurd. Molasses comes to mind. It's amazing the species can survive at all given such protracted periods of mate selection, conjugation, and gestation.
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Island Fish Jasconius
Island Fish Jasconius doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay
. If you do, untap Island Fish Jasconius.Island Fish Jasconius can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice Island Fish Jasconius.
illus. Jesper Myrfors # ?/0
Island Sanctuary
If you would draw a card during your draw step, instead you may skip that draw. If you do, until your next turn, you can't be attacked except by creatures with flying and/or islandwalk.
illus. Mark Poole # ?/0
Ivory Cup
Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay
. If you do, you gain 1 life.illus. Anson Maddocks # ?/0
Ivory Tower
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.
Valuing scholarship above all else, the inhabitants of the Ivory Tower reward those who sacrifice power for knowledge.
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Jade Monolith
: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.
illus. Anson Maddocks # ?/0
Jandor's Saddlebags
, : Untap target creature.
Each day of their journey, Jandor opened the saddlebags and found them full of mutton, quinces, cheese, date rolls, wine, and all manner of delicious and satisfying foods.
illus. Dameon Willich # ?/0
Jayemdae Tome
, : Draw a card.
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Junún Efreet
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Junún Efreet unless you pay
.illus. Christopher Rush # ?/0
Karma
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Karma deals damage to that player equal to the number of Swamps they control.
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Keldon Warlord
Keldon Warlord's power and toughness are each equal to the number of non-Wall creatures you control.
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Killer Bees
Flying
: Killer Bees gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
The communal mind produces a savage strategy, yet no one could predict that this vicious crossbreed would unravel the secret of steel.
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Kismet
Artifacts, creatures, and lands your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.
illus. Kaja Foglio # ?/0
Kormus Bell
All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.
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Land Leeches
First strike
"The standard cure for leeches requires the application of burning embers. Alternative methods must be devised should an ember of sufficient size prove more harmful than the leech."—Vervamon the Elder
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Land Tax
At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.
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Leviathan
Trample
Leviathan enters the battlefield tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice two Islands. If you do, untap Leviathan.
Leviathan can't attack unless you sacrifice two Islands. (This cost is paid as attackers are declared.)
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Ley Druid
: Untap target land.
After years of training, the Druid becomes one with nature, drawing power form the land and returning it when needed.
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Library of Leng
You have no maximum hand size.
If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.
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Lifelace
Target spell or permanent becomes green. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)
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Lifetap
Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.
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Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.
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Living Artifact
Enchant artifact
Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on Living Artifact.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from Living Artifact. If you do, you gain 1 life.
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Living Lands
All Forests are 1/1 creatures that are still lands.
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Llanowar Elves
: Add .
Hardened by their life in the haunted Llanowar Forest, these fierce beings are outcasts among elvenkind.
illus. Anson Maddocks # ?/0
Lord of Atlantis
Other Merfolk creatures get +1/+1 and have islandwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
A master of tactics, the Lord of Atlantis makes his people bold in battle merely by arriving to lead them.
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Lord of the Pit
Flying, trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than Lord of the Pit. If you can't, Lord of the Pit deals 7 damage to you.
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Lost Soul
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Her hand gently beckons, she whispers your name—But those who go with her are never the same.
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Lure
Enchant creature
All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.
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Magical Hack
Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one basic land type with another. (For example, you may change "swampwalk" to "plainswalk." This effect lasts indefinitely.)
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Magnetic Mountain
Blue creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may choose any number of tapped blue creatures they control and pay
for each creature chosen this way. If the player does, untap those creatures.illus. Susan Van Camp # ?/0
Mahamoti Djinn
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti Djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection.
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Mana Clash
You and target opponent each flip a coin. Mana Clash deals 1 damage to each player whose coin comes up tails. Repeat this process until both players' coins come up heads on the same flip.
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Mana Flare
Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.
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Mana Short
Tap all lands target player controls and that player loses all unspent mana.
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Mana Vault
Mana Vault doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay
. If you do, untap Mana Vault.At the beginning of your draw step, if Mana Vault is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
: Add .
illus. Mark Tedin # ?/0
Manabarbs
Whenever a player taps a land for mana, Manabarbs deals 1 damage to that player.
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Marsh Gas
All creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn.
"Comes right outta th' ground. If ya can smell it, it's too late."—Keevy Bogsbury
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Marsh Viper
Whenever Marsh Viper deals damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)
"All we had left were their black and bloated bodies."—Maeveen O'Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier
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Meekstone
Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
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Merfolk of the Pearl Trident
Most human scholars believe that Merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from Merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier.
illus. Jeff A. Menges # ?/0
Mesa Pegasus
Flying; banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
Before a woman marries in the village of Sursi, she must visit the land of the Mesa Pegasus. Legend has it that if the woman is pure of heart and her love is true, a Mesa Pegasus will appear, blessing her family with long life and good fortune.
illus. Melissa A. Benson # ?/0
Millstone
, : Target player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.
More than one mage was driven insane by the sound of the Millstone relentlessly grinding away.
illus. Kaja Foglio # ?/0
Mind Bomb
Each player may discard up to three cards. Mind Bomb deals damage to each player equal to 3 minus the number of cards they discarded this way.
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Mind Twist
Target player discards X cards at random.
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Mishra's Factory
: Add .
: Mishra's Factory becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
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Mishra's War Machine
Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, Mishra's War Machine deals 3 damage to you unless you discard a card. If Mishra's War Machine deals damage to you this way, tap it.
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Mons's Goblin Raiders
The intricate dynamics of Rundvelt Goblin affairs are often confused with anarchy. The chaos, however, is the chaos of a thundercloud, and direction will sporadically and violently appear. Pashalik Mons and his Raiders are the thunderhead that leads in the storm.
illus. Jeff A. Menges # ?/0
Morale
Attacking creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.
"After Lacjsi's speech, the Knights grew determined to crush their ancient enemies clan by clan."—Tivadar of Thorn, History of the Goblin Wars
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Murk Dwellers
Whenever Murk Dwellers attacks and isn't blocked, it gets +2/+0 until end of combat.
When Raganorn unsealed the catacombs, he found more than the dead and their treasures.
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Nafs Asp
Whenever Nafs Asp deals damage to a player, that player loses 1 life at the beginning of their next draw step unless they pay
before that draw step.illus. Christopher Rush # ?/0
Nether Shadow
Haste
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Nether Shadow is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put Nether Shadow onto the battlefield.
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Nevinyrral's Disk
Nevinyrral's Disk enters the battlefield tapped.
, : Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.
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Nightmare
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Nightmare's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.
The Nightmare arises from its lair in the swamps. As the poisoned land spreads, so does the Nightmare's rage and terrifying strength.
illus. Melissa A. Benson # ?/0
Northern Paladin
, : Destroy target black permanent.
"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort."The Book of Tal
illus. Douglas Shuler # ?/0
Oasis
: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.
illus. Brian Snoddy # ?/0
Obsianus Golem
"The foot stone is connected to the ankle stone, the ankle stone is connected to the leg stone . . . ."—Song of the Artificer
illus. Jesper Myrfors # ?/0
Onulet
When Onulet dies, you gain 2 life.
An early inspiration for Urza, Tocasia's Onulets contained magical essences that could be cannibalized after they stopped functioning.
illus. Anson Maddocks # ?/0
Orcish Artillery
: Orcish Artillery deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.
In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.
illus. Anson Maddocks # ?/0
Orcish Oriflamme
Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.
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Ornithopter
Flying
Many scholars believe that these creatures were the result of Urza's first attempt at mechanical life, perhaps created in his early days as an apprentice to Tocasia.
illus. Amy Weber # ?/0
Osai Vultures
Flying
At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a carrion counter on Osai Vultures.
Remove two carrion counters from Osai Vultures: Osai Vultures gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
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Paralyze
Enchant creature
When Paralyze enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay
. If the player does, untap the creature.illus. Anson Maddocks # ?/0
Pearled Unicorn
"‘Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before' ‘Well, now that we have seen each other,' said the Unicorn, ‘if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.'"—Lewis Carroll
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Personal Incarnation
: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to Personal Incarnation this turn is dealt to its owner instead. Only Personal Incarnation's owner may activate this ability.
When Personal Incarnation dies, its owner loses half their life, rounded up.
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Pestilence
At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Pestilence.
: Pestilence deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
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Phantasmal Forces
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Phantasmal Forces unless you pay
.These beings embody the essence of true heroes long dead. Summoned from the dreamrealms, they rise to meet their enemies.
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Phantasmal Terrain
Enchant land
As Phantasmal Terrain enters the battlefield, choose a basic land type.
Enchanted land is the chosen type.
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Phantom Monster
Flying
"While, like a ghastly rapid river,Through the pale door,A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh—but smile no more."—Edgar Allan Poe, "The Haunted Palace"
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Piety
Blocking creatures get +0/+3 until end of turn.
"Whoever obeys God and His Prophet, fears God and does his duty to Him, will surely find success."—The Qur'an, 24:52
illus. Mark Poole # ?/0
Pikemen
First strike; banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
"As the cavalry bore down, we faced them with swords drawn and pikes hidden in the grass at our feet. ‘Don't lift your pikes 'til I give the word,' I said."—Maeveen O'Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier
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Pirate Ship
Pirate Ship can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
: Pirate Ship deals 1 damage to any target.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice Pirate Ship.
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Pit Scorpion
Whenever Pit Scorpion deals damage to a player, that player gets a poison counter. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)
Sometimes the smallest nuisance can be the greatest pain.
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Plague Rats
Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.
During the dark times, the rats seemed to grow ever stronger.
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Power Leak
Enchant enchantment
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted enchantment's controller, that player may pay any amount of mana. Power Leak deals 2 damage to that player. Prevent X of that damage, where X is the amount of mana that player paid this way.
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Power Sink
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
. If that player doesn't, they tap all lands with mana abilities they control and lose all unspent mana.illus. Richard Thomas # ?/0
Power Surge
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Power Surge deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.
illus. Douglas Shuler # ?/0
Pradesh Gypsies
, : Target creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn.
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Primal Clay
As Primal Clay enters the battlefield, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 artifact creature, a 2/2 artifact creature with flying, or a 1/6 Wall artifact creature with defender in addition to its other types. (A creature with defender can't attack.)
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Prodigal Sorcerer
: Prodigal Sorcerer deals 1 damage to any target.
Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.
illus. Douglas Shuler # ?/0
Psionic Entity
: Psionic Entity deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to itself.
Creatures of the Æther are notorious for neglecting their own well-being.
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Psychic Venom
Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, Psychic Venom deals 2 damage to that land's controller.
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Purelace
Target spell or permanent becomes white. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)
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Pyrotechnics
Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.
"Hi ni ya Behold the man of flint, that's meFour lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return."—Navajo war chant
illus. Anson Maddocks # ?/0
Radjan Spirit
: Target creature loses flying until end of turn.
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Rag Man
, : Target opponent reveals their hand and discards a creature card at random. Activate this ability only during your turn.
"Aw, he's just a silly, dirty little man. What's to be afraid of?"
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Raise Dead
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
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Rebirth
Remove Rebirth from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.
Each player may ante the top card of their library. If a player does, that player's life total becomes 20.
illus. Mark Tedin # ?/0
Red Elemental Blast
Choose one —
• Counter target blue spell.
• Destroy target blue permanent.
illus. Richard Thomas # ?/0
Red Mana Battery
, : Put a charge counter on Red Mana Battery.
, Remove any number of charge counters from Red Mana Battery: Add , then add an additional for each charge counter removed this way.
illus. Mark Tedin # ?/0
Red Ward
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has protection from red. This effect doesn't remove Red Ward.
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Regeneration
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)
: Regenerate enchanted creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)
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Relic Bind
Enchant artifact an opponent controls
Whenever enchanted artifact becomes tapped, choose one —
• Relic Bind deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Target player gains 1 life.
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Reverse Damage
The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.
illus. Dameon Willich # ?/0
Righteousness
Target blocking creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.
illus. Douglas Shuler # ?/0
Rod of Ruin
, : Rod of Ruin deals 1 damage to any target.
illus. Christopher Rush # ?/0
Royal Assassin
: Destroy target tapped creature.
Trained in the arts of stealth, the Royal Assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.
illus. Tom Wänerstrand # ?/0
Samite Healer
: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.
illus. Tom Wänerstrand # ?/0
Sandstorm
Sandstorm deals 1 damage to each attacking creature.
Even the landscape turned against Sarsour, first rising up and pelting him, then rearranging itself so he could no longer find his way.
illus. Brian Snoddy # ?/0
Savannah Lions
The traditional kings of the jungle command a healthy respect in other climates as well. Relying mainly on their stealth and speed, Savannah Lions can take a victim by surprise, even in the endless, flat plains of their homeland.
illus. Daniel Gelon # ?/0
Scathe Zombies
"They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;It had been strange, even in a dream,To have seen those dead men rise."—Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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Scavenging Ghoul
At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on Scavenging Ghoul for each creature that died this turn.
Remove a corpse counter from Scavenging Ghoul: Regenerate Scavenging Ghoul.
illus. Jeff A. Menges # ?/0
Scryb Sprites
Flying
The only sound was the gentle clicking of the Faeries' wings. Then those intruders who were still standing turned and fled. One thing was certain: they didn't think the Scryb were very funny anymore.
illus. Amy Weber # ?/0
Sea Serpent
Sea Serpent can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice Sea Serpent.
Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?
illus. Jeff A. Menges # ?/0
Seeker
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or white creatures.
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Segovian Leviathan
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
"Leviathan, too Can you catch him with a fish-hook or run a line round his tongue?"—Job 40:25
illus. Melissa A. Benson # ?/0
Sengir Vampire
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Sengir Vampire this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Sengir Vampire.
illus. Anson Maddocks # ?/0
Serra Angel
Flying, vigilance
Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.
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Shanodin Dryads
Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.
illus. Anson Maddocks # ?/0
Shapeshifter
As Shapeshifter enters the battlefield, choose a number between 0 and 7.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may choose a number between 0 and 7.
Shapeshifter's power is equal to the last chosen number and its toughness is equal to 7 minus that number.
illus. Dan Frazier # ?/0
Shivan Dragon
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
: Shivan Dragon gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
While it's true most Dragons are cruel, the Shivan Dragon seems to take particular glee in the misery of others, often tormenting its victims much like a cat plays with a mouse before delivering the final blow.
illus. Melissa A. Benson # ?/0
Simulacrum
You gain life equal to the damage dealt to you this turn. Simulacrum deals damage to target creature you control equal to the damage dealt to you this turn.
illus. Mark Poole # ?/0
Sindbad
: Draw a card and reveal it. If it isn't a land card, discard it.
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Siren's Call
Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared.
Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able.
At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.
illus. Anson Maddocks # ?/0
Sisters of the Flame
: Add .
We are many wicks sharing a common tallow; we feed the skies with the ashes of our prey.
illus. Jesper Myrfors # ?/0
Sleight of Mind
Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (For example, you may change "target black spell" to "target blue spell." This effect lasts indefinitely.)
illus. Mark Poole # ?/0
Smoke
Players can't untap more than one creature during their untap steps.
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Sorceress Queen
: Target creature other than Sorceress Queen has base power and toughness 0/2 until end of turn.
illus. Kaja Foglio # ?/0
Soul Net
Whenever a creature dies, you may pay
. If you do, you gain 1 life.illus. Dameon Willich # ?/0
Spell Blast
Counter target spell with converted mana cost X. (For example, if that spell's mana cost is
, X is 5.)illus. Brian Snoddy # ?/0
Spirit Link
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.
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Spirit Shackle
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature becomes tapped, put a -0/-2 counter on it.
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Stasis
Players skip their untap steps.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Stasis unless you pay
.illus. Fay Jones # ?/0
Steal Artifact
Enchant artifact
You control enchanted artifact.
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Stone Giant
: Target creature you control with toughness less than Stone Giant's power gains flying until end of turn. Destroy that creature at the beginning of the next end step.
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Stone Rain
Destroy target land.
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Stream of Life
Target player gains X life.
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Strip Mine
: Add .
, Sacrifice Strip Mine: Destroy target land.
Unlike previous conflicts, the war between Urza and Mishra made Dominia itself a casualty of war.
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Sunglasses of Urza
You may spend white mana as though it were red mana.
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Sunken City
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Sunken City unless you pay
.Blue creatures get +1/+1.
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Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
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Sylvan Library
At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.
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Tawnos's Wand
, : Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.
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Tawnos's Weaponry
You may choose not to untap Tawnos's Weaponry during your untap step.
, : Target creature gets +1/+1 for as long as Tawnos's Weaponry remains tapped.
When war machines became too costly, Tawnos's Weaponry replaced them.
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Tempest Efreet
Remove Tempest Efreet from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.
, Sacrifice Tempest Efreet: Target opponent may pay 10 life. If that player doesn't, they reveal a card at random from their hand. Exchange ownership of the revealed card and Tempest Efreet. Put the revealed card into your hand and Tempest Efreet from anywhere into that player's graveyard. This change in ownership is permanent.
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Terror
Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
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Tetravus
Flying
Tetravus enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from Tetravus. If you do, create that many 1/1 colorless Tetravite artifact creature tokens. They each have flying and "This creature can't be enchanted."
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile any number of tokens created with Tetravus. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on Tetravus.
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The Brute
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0.
: Regenerate enchanted creature.
"Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed."—Samuel Butler
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The Hive
, : Create a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying named Wasp. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
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The Rack
As The Rack enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, The Rack deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in their hand.
Invented in Mishra's earlier days, the Rack was once his most feared creation.
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Thicket Basilisk
Whenever Thicket Basilisk blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.
Moss-covered statues littered the area, a macabre monument to the Basilisk's power.
illus. Dan Frazier # ?/0
Thoughtlace
Target spell or permanent becomes blue. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)
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Throne of Bone
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay
. If you do, you gain 1 life.illus. Anson Maddocks # ?/0
Timber Wolves
Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
Though many think of Wolves as solitary predators, they are actually extremely social animals. During a hunt they often call to each other, which can be quite unsettling for their prey.
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Time Elemental
When Time Elemental attacks or blocks, at end of combat, sacrifice it and it deals 5 damage to you.
, : Return target permanent that isn't enchanted to its owner's hand.
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Titania's Song
Each noncreature artifact loses all abilities and becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost. If Titania's Song leaves the battlefield, this effect continues until end of turn.
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Tranquility
Destroy all enchantments.
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Triskelion
Triskelion enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Triskelion: It deals 1 damage to any target.
A brainchild of Tawnos, the Triskelion later proved both versatile and useful.
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Tundra Wolves
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
I heard their eerie howling, the wolves calling their kindred across the frozen plains.
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Twiddle
You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.
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Uncle Istvan
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Uncle Istvan by creatures.
Solitude drove the old hermit insane. Now he only keeps company with those he can catch.
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Unholy Strength
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.
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Unstable Mutation
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.
illus. Douglas Shuler # ?/0
Untamed Wilds
Search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.
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Urza's Avenger
: Urza's Avenger gets -1/-1 and gains your choice of banding, flying, first strike, or trample until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
Unable to settle on just one design, Urza decided to create one versatile being.
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Uthden Troll
: Regenerate Uthden Troll.
"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere,Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near,Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh'n da hurt'll disappear."—Troll chant
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Vampire Bats
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
: Vampire Bats gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate this ability no more than twice each turn.
"For something is amiss or out of place When mice with wings can wear a human face."—Theodore Roethke, "The Bat"
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Venom
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy the other creature at end of combat.
"I told him it was just a flesh wound, but the next time I looked at him, poor Tadhg was dead and gone."—Maeveen O'Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier
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Verduran Enchantress
Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may draw a card.
Some say magic was first practiced by women, who have always felt strong ties to the land.
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Visions
Look at the top five cards of target player's library. You may then have that player shuffle that library.
"Visions of glory, spare my aching sight,Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul"—Thomas Gray, "The Bard"
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Volcanic Eruption
Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.
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Wall of Air
Defender, flying (This creature can't attack, and it can block creatures with flying.)
"This ‘standing windstorm' can hold us off indefinitely? Ridiculous" Saying nothing, she put a pinch of salt on the table. With a bang she clapped her hands, and the salt disappeared, blown away.
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Wall of Bone
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Regenerate Wall of Bone. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)
The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.
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Wall of Brambles
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Regenerate Wall of Brambles.
"What else, when chaosdraws all forces inwardto shape a single leaf."—Conrad Aiken
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Wall of Dust
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever Wall of Dust blocks a creature, that creature can't attack during its controller's next turn.
An ever-moving swarm of dust engulfs and disorients anything that comes near.
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Wall of Fire
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Wall of Fire gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Conjured from the bowels of hell, the fiery wall forms an impassable barrier, searing the soul of any creature attempting to pass through its terrible bursts of flame.
illus. Richard Thomas # ?/0
Wall of Ice
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
"And through the drifts the snowy cliffsDid send a dismal sheen:Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—The ice was all between."—Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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Wall of Spears
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
First strike
Even the most conservative generals revised their tactics after the Battle of Sarinth, during which a handful of peasant-pikemen held off a trio of rampaging Craw Wurms.
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Wall of Stone
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
The Earth herself lends her strength to these walls of living stone, which possess the stability of ancient mountains. These mighty bulwarks thwart ground-based troops, providing welcome relief for weary warriors who defend the land.
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Wall of Swords
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Just as the evil ones approached to slay Justina, she cast a great spell, imbuing her weapons with her own life force. Thus she fulfilled the prophecy: "In the death of your savior will you find salvation."
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Wall of Water
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Wall of Water gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
A deafening roar arose as the fury of an enormous vertical river supplanted our serenity. Eddies turned into whirling geysers, leveling everything in their path.
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Wall of Wood
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Everybody knows that to ward off trouble, you knock on wood. But usually it's better to make a wall out of the wood and let trouble do the knocking.
illus. Mark Tedin # ?/0
Wanderlust
Enchant creature
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Wanderlust deals 1 damage to that player.
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War Mammoth
Trample
I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.
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Warp Artifact
Enchant artifact
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted artifact's controller, Warp Artifact deals 1 damage to that player.
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Water Elemental
Unpredictable as the sea itself, Water Elementals shift without warning from tranquility to tempest. Capricious and fickle, they flow restlessly from one shape to another, expressing their moods with their physical forms.
illus. Jeff A. Menges # ?/0
Web
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)
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Whirling Dervish
Protection from black
At the beginning of each end step, if Whirling Dervish dealt damage to an opponent this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
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White Knight
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Protection from black (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything black.)
Out of the blackness and stench of the engulfing swamp emerged a shimmering figure. Only the splattered armor and ichor-stained sword hinted at the unfathomable evil the Knight had just laid waste.
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White Mana Battery
, : Put a charge counter on White Mana Battery.
, Remove any number of charge counters from White Mana Battery: Add , then add an additional for each charge counter removed this way.
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White Ward
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has protection from white. This effect doesn't remove White Ward.
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Wild Growth
Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional
.illus. Mark Poole # ?/0
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
: Regenerate Will-o'-the-Wisp. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)
"About, about in reel and routThe death-fires danced at night;The water, like a witch's oils,Burnt green, and blue and white."—Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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Winds of Change
Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.
"'Tis the set of sails, and not the gales, Which tells us the way to go."—Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Winter Blast
Tap X target creatures. Winter Blast deals 2 damage to each of those creatures with flying.
"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks rage blow"—William Shakespeare, King Lear
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Winter Orb
As long as Winter Orb is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.
illus. Mark Tedin # ?/0
Wooden Sphere
Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may pay
. If you do, you gain 1 life.illus. Mark Tedin # ?/0
Word of Binding
Tap X target creatures.
"That was the worst experience of my days: standing there helpless as they killed my whole troop."—Maeveen O'Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier
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Wrath of God
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.
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Xenic Poltergeist
: Until your next upkeep, target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost.
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Yotian Soldier
Vigilance
After Kroog was destroyed while most of its defenders were at his side, Urza vowed that none of his allies would ever need to fear for their own defense again, even while laying siege to a city far from their homes.
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Zephyr Falcon
Flying, vigilance
Although greatly prized among falconers, the Zephyr Falcon is capricious and not easily tamed.
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Zombie Master
Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Other Zombies have "
: Regenerate this permanent."They say the Zombie Master controlled these foul creatures even before his own death, but now that he is one of them, nothing can make them betray him.
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