Pyrrhic Revival

Sorcery

Each player returns each creature card from his or her graveyard to the battlefield with an additional -1/-1 counter on it.

They found themselves alive again, still bearing their mortal wounds.

Mindwrack Liege

Creature - Horror

Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.

Other red creatures you control get +1/+1.

: You may put a blue or red creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Nucklavee

Creature - Beast

When Nucklavee enters the battlefield, you may return target red sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

When Nucklavee enters the battlefield, you may return target blue instant card from your graveyard to your hand.

It loathes all tastes but two: spells and flesh.

Fable of Wolf and Owl

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a green spell, you may put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield.

Whenever you cast a blue spell, you may put a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

The forest grew fangs. The sky spread its wings.

Spitting Image

Sorcery

Put a token that's a copy of target creature onto the battlefield.

Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Spitting is the customary greeting between a creature and its magical impostor.

Trapjaw Kelpie

Creature - Beast

Flash

Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Travelers in these waters leave a bit of themselves behind.

Ward of Bones

Artifact

Each opponent who controls more creatures than you can't play creature cards. The same is true for artifacts, enchantments, and lands.

Mages dare not attempt magic in its grotesque presence.

Spectral Procession

Sorcery

( can be paid with any two mana or with . This card's converted mana cost is 6.)

Put three 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

"The dead have it easy. They suffer no more. If breaking their rest helps the living, so be it."
-Olka, mistmeadow witch

Twilight Shepherd

Creature - Angel

Flying, vigilance

When Twilight Shepherd enters the battlefield, return to your hand all cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Woeleecher

Creature - Elemental

, : Remove a -1/-1 counter from target creature. If you do, you gain 2 life.

One head senses the curse. The second loosens it from the soul. The third drinks it as an invigorating mist.

Advice from the Fae

Sorcery

( can be paid with any two mana or with . This card's converted mana cost is 6.)

Look at the top five cards of your library. If you control more creatures than each other player, put two of those cards into your hand. Otherwise, put one of them into your hand. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Deepchannel Mentor

Creature - Merfolk Rogue

Blue creatures you control are unblockable.

The rivers can no longer provide safe passage for travelers and commerce. They serve only as highways for raiders and channels for blood and woe.

Flow of Ideas

Sorcery

Draw a card for each Island you control.

"Beware the merrows, whose envy and covetousness surpasses even that of the ravenous whirlpools where they dwell."
-The Book of Other Folk

Ashenmoor Cohort

Creature - Elemental Warrior

Ashenmoor Cohort gets +1/+1 as long as you control another black creature.

"None will concede a place for us in this world. If it is not for us, neither shall it be for them. We rest not until they choke in its cold ashes."
-Illulia of Nighthearth

Beseech the Queen

Sorcery

( can be paid with any two mana or with . This card's converted mana cost is 6.)

Search your library for a card with converted mana cost less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Those who hear her go mad with inspiration.

Midnight Banshee

Creature - Spirit

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each nonblack creature.

Many have heard the beginning of its low, sustained shriek but few the end.

Wound Reflection

Enchantment

At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life he or she lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

The mission of the Nighthearth, Illulia's cult of murderous cinders, is to intensify every pain suffered in Shadowmoor.

Flame Javelin

Instant

( can be paid with any two mana or with . This card's converted mana cost is 6.)

Flame Javelin deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Gyara Spearhurler would have been renowned for her deadly accuracy, if it weren't for her deadly accuracy.

Inescapable Brute

Creature - Giant Warrior

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Inescapable Brute must be blocked if able.

If you think you made it past him alive, he's just teasing you.

Jaws of Stone

Sorcery

Jaws of Stone deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players, where X is the number of Mountains you control as you cast Jaws of Stone.

When giants find their mountain homes infested, they have a whole range of solutions.

Rage Reflection

Enchantment

Creatures you control have double strike.

Vengeance is a dish best served twice.

Foxfire Oak

Creature - Treefolk Shaman

: Foxfire Oak gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

"The brethren shall blaze with unnatural fire, and the flame shall consume and purify our rage."
-Treefolk catastrophe myth

Mana Reflection

Enchantment

If you tap a permanent for mana, it produces twice as much of that mana instead.

Despite its darkness, Shadowmoor doesn't want for growth. Legions of creeping things thrive in the shade.

Roughshod Mentor

Creature - Giant Warrior

Green creatures you control have trample.

He didn't hear the cries of the treefolk whose branches he snapped or of the elves caught underfoot. He had eyes only for the path ahead.

Tower Above

Sorcery

( can be paid with any two mana or with . This card's converted mana cost is 6.)

Until end of turn, target creature gets +4/+4 and gains trample, wither, and "When this creature attacks, target creature blocks it this turn if able." (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Witherscale Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Whenever Witherscale Wurm blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, that creature gains wither until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Whenever Witherscale Wurm deals damage to an opponent, remove all -1/-1 counters from it.

Thoughtweft Gambit

Instant

Tap all creatures your opponents control and untap all creatures you control.

The kithkin mind-bond is even tighter in Shadowmoor, reinforcing the unity of their community to the point of xenophobia.

Oona, Queen of the Fae

Legendary Creature - Faerie Wizard

Flying

: Choose a color. Target opponent exiles the top X cards of his or her library. For each card of the chosen color exiled this way, put a 1/1 blue and black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Grief Tyrant

Creature - Horror

Grief Tyrant enters the battlefield with four -1/-1 counters on it.

When Grief Tyrant dies, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature for each -1/-1 counter on Grief Tyrant.

Morselhoarder

Creature - Elemental

Morselhoarder enters the battlefield with two -1/-1 counters on it.

Remove a -1/-1 counter from Morselhoarder: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

It scours the hills for living matter, savoring even the tang of poisonous fungi.

Valleymaker

Creature - Giant Shaman

, Sacrifice a Mountain: Valleymaker deals 3 damage to target creature.

, Sacrifice a Forest: Choose a player. That player adds to his or her mana pool.

Their home uprooted by a giant, the gang of boggarts mourned their old stomping ground.

Wort, the Raidmother

Legendary Creature - Goblin Shaman

When Wort, the Raidmother enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 red and green Goblin Warrior creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Each red or green instant or sorcery spell you cast has conspire. (As you cast the spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose new targets for the copy.)

Rattleblaze Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Rattleblaze Scarecrow has persist as long as you control a black creature. (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Rattleblaze Scarecrow has haste as long as you control a red creature.

Thornwatch Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Thornwatch Scarecrow has wither as long as you control a green creature. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Thornwatch Scarecrow has vigilance as long as you control a white creature.

Feudkiller's Verdict

Tribal Sorcery - Giant

You gain 10 life. Then if you have more life than an opponent, put a 5/5 white Giant Warrior creature token onto the battlefield.

"There are all kinds of strengths, but if you have strength of soul, the others will follow."
-Galanda Feudkiller

Floodchaser

Creature - Elemental

Floodchaser enters the battlefield with six +1/+1 counters on it.

Floodchaser can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Floodchaser: Target land becomes an Island until end of turn.

Lunk Errant

Creature - Giant Warrior

Whenever Lunk Errant attacks alone, it gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

"One's plenty," observed the merrow.
"Way too plenty," agreed the boggart.

Spitebellows

Creature - Elemental

When Spitebellows leaves the battlefield, it deals 6 damage to target creature.

Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Disaster stalks with gaping jaws across unready lands.

Orchard Warden

Creature - Treefolk Shaman

Whenever another Treefolk creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

"After the Rising, a treefolk's mind is as limber and green as its limbs, and is at its most receptive to our teachings."

Lairwatch Giant

Creature - Giant Warrior

Lairwatch Giant can block an additional creature.

Whenever Lairwatch Giant blocks two or more creatures, it gains first strike until end of turn.

A giant can brood over a grudge for decades, and woe to those who interrupt him.

Purity

Creature - Elemental Incarnation

Flying

If noncombat damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

When Purity is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Forced Fruition

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player draws seven cards.

"Petals within petals within petals, tadpole. The truth lurks below an opulence of illusion."
-Neerdiv, fallowsage

Guile

Creature - Elemental Incarnation

Guile can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

If a spell or ability you control would counter a spell, instead exile that spell and you may play that card without paying its mana cost.

When Guile is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Wanderwine Prophets

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Champion a Merfolk (When this enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you exile another Merfolk you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.)

Whenever Wanderwine Prophets deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice a Merfolk. If you do, take an extra turn after this one.

Bog Hoodlums

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Bog Hoodlums can't block.

When Bog Hoodlums enters the battlefield, clash with an opponent. If you win, put a +1/+1 counter on Bog Hoodlums. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Dread

Creature - Elemental Incarnation

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

When Dread is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Nettlevine Blight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature or land

Enchanted permanent has "At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice this permanent and attach Nettlevine Blight to a creature or land you control."

Thorntooth Witch

Creature - Treefolk Shaman

Whenever you cast a Treefolk spell, you may have target creature get +3/-3 until end of turn.

The crone's boughs creaked as she spoke. "You look peaked, little one. Come, sip from my warm brew. It'll have you blooming in no time."

Axegrinder Giant

Creature - Giant Warrior

The angriest of giants are often the most skillful weaponsmiths. Their grudges fuel endless sessions at the forge, all the while growling ferociously to themselves.

Hostility

Creature - Elemental Incarnation

Haste

If a spell you control would deal damage to an opponent, prevent that damage. Put a 3/1 red Elemental Shaman creature token with haste onto the battlefield for each 1 damage prevented this way.

When Hostility is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Sunrise Sovereign

Creature - Giant Warrior

Other Giant creatures you control get +2/+2 and have trample.

A hundred generations has he mentored, a hundred armies has he crushed beneath his feet, yet only a hundred words has he ever spoken, each more revered than a hundred books.

Cloudthresher

Creature - Elemental

Flash

Reach (This can block creatures with flying.)

When Cloudthresher enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to each creature with flying and each player.

Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Epic Proportions

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +5/+5 and has trample.

From mite to mighty.

Vigor

Creature - Elemental Incarnation

Trample

If damage would be dealt to a creature you control other than Vigor, prevent that damage. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each 1 damage prevented this way.

When Vigor is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Beacon of Immortality

Instant

Double target player's life total. Shuffle Beacon of Immortality into its owner's library.

The cave floods with light. A thousand rays shine forth and meld into one.

Arcanis the Omnipotent

Legendary Creature - Wizard

: Draw three cards.

: Return Arcanis the Omnipotent to its owner's hand.

"Do not concern yourself with my origin, my race, or my ancestry. Seek my record in the pits, and then make your wager."

Mahamoti Djinn

Creature - 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.

Sea Monster

Creature - Serpent

Sea Monster can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

It's easy to believe the monster is a myth-until you feel three hundred thousand pounds of myth crashing down on your ship.

Time Stop

Instant

End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities on the stack, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to his or her maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

Ascendant Evincar

Legendary Creature - Vampire

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Other black creatures get +1/+1.

Nonblack creatures get -1/-1.

His soul snared by an angel's curse, Crovax twisted heroism into its purest shadow.

Dragon Roost

Enchantment

: Put a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Dragons erupt from peaks of chaos and flow from rivers of molten rage.

Soulblast

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Soulblast, sacrifice all creatures you control.

Soulblast deals damage to target creature or player equal to the total power of the sacrificed creatures.

Rhox

Creature - Rhino Beast

You may have Rhox assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.

: Regenerate Rhox. (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.)

It's as solid as the club in its hand-and about as subtle.

Tangle Spider

Creature - Spider

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Only rumors have ever escaped its web.

Composite Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Sacrifice Composite Golem: Add to your mana pool.

An artificer's experiment in cross-material engineering found its own purpose as an interpreter between cultures.

Confiscate

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant permanent (Target a permanent as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that permanent.)

You control enchanted permanent.

Phyrexian Gargantua

Creature - Horror

When Phyrexian Gargantua enters the battlefield, you draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Other Phyrexians have nightmares about the gargantua.

Yawgmoth Demon

Creature - Demon

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice an artifact. If you don't, tap Yawgmoth Demon and it deals 2 damage to you.

Thundermare

Creature - Elemental Horse

Haste (This creature can attack the turn it comes under your control.)

When Thundermare enters the battlefield, tap all other creatures.

Its hooves strike lightning and the thunder follows quickly after.

Wildfire

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices four lands. Wildfire deals 4 damage to each creature.

Fire is always at the top of the food chain, and it has a big appetite.

Ancient Silverback

Creature - Ape

: Regenerate Ancient Silverback. (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.)

Force of Nature

Creature - Elemental

Trample (If this creature would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, Force of Nature deals 8 damage to you unless you pay .

Beast of Burden

Artifact Creature - Golem

Beast of Burden's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures on the battlefield.

Though it was built as an instrument of labor, it wasn't long before it became an instrument of war.

Booby Trap

Artifact

As Booby Trap enters the battlefield, name a card other than a basic land card and choose an opponent.

The chosen player reveals each card he or she draws.

When the chosen player draws the named card, sacrifice Booby Trap. If you do, Booby Trap deals 10 damage to that player.

Demonic Hordes

Creature - Demon

: Destroy target land.

At the beginning of your upkeep, unless you pay , tap Demonic Hordes and sacrifice a land of an opponent's choice.

Created to destroy Dominia, Demons can sometimes be bent to a more focused purpose.

Sea Serpent

Creature - 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?

Gaea's Liege

Creature - Avatar

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.

Personal Incarnation

Creature - Avatar Incarnation

: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to Personal Incarnation this turn is dealt to its owner instead. Any player may activate this ability, but only if he or she owns Personal Incarnation.

When Personal Incarnation dies, its owner loses half his or her life, rounded up.

Clockwork Beast

Artifact Creature - 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.

Obsianus Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

"The foot stone is connected to the ankle stone, the ankle stone is connected to the leg stone . . ."
-Song of the Artificer

Desert Twister

Sorcery

Destroy target permanent.

Armageddon Clock

Artifact

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.

Jandor's Ring

Artifact

, , Discard the last card you drew this turn: Draw a card.

Cosmic Horror

Creature - 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.

". . . [S]creams of horror rend th' affrighted skies." -Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

Rebirth

Sorcery

Remove Rebirth from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.

Each player may put the top card of his or her library into the ante. If a player does, his or her life total becomes 20.

Bronze Tablet

Artifact

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 he or she does, put Bronze Tablet into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player owns Bronze Tablet and you own the other exiled card.

Shapeshifter

Artifact Creature - 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.

Tetravus

Artifact Creature - Construct

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, put that many 1/1 colorless Tetravite artifact creature tokens onto the battlefield. They each have flying and "This creature can't be enchanted."

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile any number of tokens put onto the battlefield with Tetravus. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on Tetravus.

Urza's Avenger

Artifact Creature - Shapeshifter

: 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.

Sibilant Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Whenever Sibilant Spirit attacks, defending player may draw a card.

She had expected death to roar, to thunder, to growl. She did not recognize it when it came hissing to her side.

Johtull Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Whenever Johtull Wurm becomes blocked, it gets -2/-1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.

"To bring her down we must be on all sides at once-leave one avenue open and we'll all be dead."
-Taaveti of Kelsinko, elvish hunter

Jokulhaups

Sorcery

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and lands. They can't be regenerated.

"The raging waters had swept away trees, bridges, and even houses. My healers had much work to do."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Icatian Town

Sorcery

Put four 1/1 white Citizen creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Icatia's once-peaceful towns faced increasing attacks from orcs and goblins as the climate cooled. By the time the empire fell, they were little more than armed camps.

Ivory Guardians

Creature - Giant Cleric

Protection from red

Creatures named Ivory Guardians get +1/+1 as long as an opponent controls a nontoken red permanent.

"But who is to guard the guards themselves?"
-Juvenal, Satires

Feroz's Ban

Artifact

Creature spells cost more to cast.

"Without the protection of Feroz's Ban, I fear the Homelands are lost."
-Daria

Joven's Tools

Artifact

, : Target creature can't be blocked this turn except by Walls.

"If that thief Joven ever shows his head around here again, make sure he leaves without it."
-Eron the Relentless

Serpent Generator

Artifact

, : Put a 1/1 colorless Snake artifact creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player gets a poison counter." (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Pearl Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Pearl Dragon gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"They knew Bantau was lost when, to hide the pearl he had found on the beach, he swallowed it-and soon grew wings."
-Hakim, Loreweaver

Necrosavant

Creature - Zombie Giant

, Sacrifice a creature: Return Necrosavant from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Elite Archers

Creature - Human Soldier Archer

: Elite Archers deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

They fletch their arrows with the feathers of angels.