Kjeldoran Dead

Creature - Skeleton

When Kjeldoran Dead enters the battlefield, sacrifice a creature.

: Regenerate Kjeldoran Dead.

"They shall drink sorrow's dregs. They shall kill those whom once they loved."
-Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Leshrac's Rite

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has swampwalk.

"Bind me to thee, my soul to thine. I am your servant and your slave. Blood for blood, flesh for flesh, Leshrac, my lord."
-Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Thrull Retainer

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

Sacrifice Thrull Retainer: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"Until the Rebellion, thrulls served their masters faithfully-even at the cost of their own lives."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. II

Force Spike

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

"Unknown spears / Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes . . . ."
-William Butler Yeats,
"The Valley of the Black Pig"

Hydroblast

Instant

Choose one - Counter target spell if it's red; or destroy target permanent if it's red.

"Heed the lessons of our time: the forms of water may move the land itself and hold captive the fires within."
-Gustha Ebbasdotter,
Kjeldoran royal mage

Portent

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. You may have that player shuffle his or her library.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Recall

Sorcery

Discard X cards, then return a card from your graveyard to your hand for each card discarded this way. Exile Recall.

Carapace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2.

Sacrifice Carapace: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"Now that's a fashion statement."
-Devin, faerie noble

Ghazbán Ogre

Creature - Ogre

At the beginning of your upkeep, if a player has more life than each other player, the player with the most life gains control of Ghazbán Ogre.

"We were holding our own-until the ogre guiding us suddenly grinned and turned on our commander."
-Ivra Jursdotter, Sarpadian mercenary

Scavenger Folk

Creature - Human

, , Sacrifice Scavenger Folk: Destroy target artifact.

"Stoop, pick, turn, toss.
This is the way we mourn our loss."
-Scavenger dirge

Shrink

Instant

Target creature gets -5/-0 until end of turn.

"May you decrease like coal upon the hearth . . . Evaporate like water in a pail, Become as little as a linseed-grain . . . And so diminish that you come to nothing."
-Anglo-Saxon curse

Tarpan

Creature - Horse

When Tarpan dies, you gain 1 life.

"A good tarpan will serve you, faithful and true. A bad one will kick you in the head."
-General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Dwarven Catapult

Instant

Dwarven Catapult deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among all creatures target opponent controls.

"Often greatly outnumbered in battle, dwarves relied on catapults as one means of damaging a large army."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV

Goblin Digging Team

Creature - Goblin

, Sacrifice Goblin Digging Team: Destroy target Wall.

"From down here we can make the whole wall collapse!"
"Uh, yeah, boss, but how do we get out?"

Imposing Visage

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.

With the horrible mask, Lagfrak the Low terrorized the countryside. But then he met Il-Chunt, the mask's model . . . .

Ironclaw Curse

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -0/-1.

Enchanted creature can't block creatures with power equal to or greater than the enchanted creature's toughness.

Mountain Goat

Creature - Goat

Mountainwalk

"Folklore has it that to capture a mountain goat is a sign of divine blessing. I just know it's a sign that dinner is on the way."
-Klazina Jansdotter,
Leader of the Order of the Sacred Torch

Orcish Captain

Creature - Orc Warrior

: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, target Orc creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. If you lose the flip, it gets -0/-2 until end of turn.

There's a chance to win every battle.

Orcish Conscripts

Creature - Orc

Orcish Conscripts can't attack unless at least two other creatures attack.

Orcish Conscripts can't block unless at least two other creatures block.

Panic

Instant

Cast Panic only during combat before blockers are declared.

Target creature can't block this turn.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Primordial Ooze

Creature - Ooze

Primordial Ooze attacks each turn if able.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on Primordial Ooze. Then you may pay , where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on it. If you don't, tap Primordial Ooze and it deals X damage to you.

Pyroblast

Instant

Choose one - Counter target spell if it's blue; or destroy target permanent if it's blue.

"Just the thing for those pesky water mages."
-Jaya Ballard, task mage

Armor of Faith

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

: Enchanted creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"Keep your chain mail, warrior. I have my own form of protection."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Death Speakers

Creature - Human Cleric

Protection from black

"The dead may be beyond the law, but speaking the wisdom of the dead will afford no protection!"
-Calmont, Aysen bureaucrat

Heal

Instant

Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Sometimes even the smallest boon can save a life."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Icatian Scout

Creature - Human Soldier Scout

, : Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"In these, our final days, I offer this. Though we could not save Icatia, we gave our children time to grow, and love, before it fell."
-Ailis Connaut, diary

Ashnod's Transmogrant

Artifact

, Sacrifice Ashnod's Transmogrant: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonartifact creature. That creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.

Ashnod found few willing to trade their humanity for the power she offered.

Barbed Sextant

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Barbed Sextant: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Feldon's Cane

Artifact

, Exile Feldon's Cane: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Feldon found the first of these canes frozen in the Ronom Glacier.

Obelisk of Undoing

Artifact

, : Return target permanent you both own and control to your hand.

The Battle of Tomakul taught Urza not to rely on fickle reinforcements.

Enlightened Tutor

Instant

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

"I do not teach. I simply reveal."
-Daudi, Femeref tutor

Resistance Fighter

Creature - Human Soldier

Sacrifice Resistance Fighter: Prevent all combat damage target creature would deal this turn.

"My soldiers fought without hesitation, died without doubt."
-Sidar Jabari

Mystical Tutor

Instant

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

"To the tutors, a ‘poem of sand' was of little account, a ‘poem of ivory,' priceless."
-Afari, Tales

Prosperity

Sorcery

Each player draws X cards.

"Wealth is a good thing, compared to poverty-your food is better, your robes are softer, and your companions have bathed more recently."
-Kukemssa pirate

Blood Pet

Creature - Thrull

Sacrifice Blood Pet: Add to your mana pool.

"You are wrong," Volrath said. "I do not hate the living. They often prove quite useful to me." And then he laughed.

Dread of Night

Enchantment

White creatures get -1/-1.

"These moonless, foreign skies keep me in thrall. Dark whispers echo in the night, and I cannot resist."
-Selenia, dark angel

Fatal Blow

Instant

Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn. It can't be regenerated.

"What is crueler? To let a wound of the heart fester, or to simply cut it out?"
-Crovax

Vampiric Tutor

Instant

Search your library for a card, then shuffle your library and put that card on top of it. You lose 2 life.

"I write upon clean white parchment with a sharp quill and the blood of my students, divining their secrets."
-Shauku, Endbringer

Tremor

Sorcery

Tremor deals 1 damage to each creature without flying.

"Where do you run when the earth becomes your enemy?"
-Naimag, Femeref philosopher

Vertigo

Instant

Vertigo deals 2 damage to target creature with flying. That creature loses flying until end of turn.

"I saw the wizard gesturing, but I didn't guess his plan until my aesthir cried out and went into a dive."
-Arna Kennerüd, skyknight

Vitalize

Instant

Untap all creatures you control.

"After waking to the magic of Llanowar, no dreams can compare."
-Mirri of the Weatherlight

Worldly Tutor

Instant

Search your library for a creature card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.

"Aselbo soon had the rhino eating from his palm and the snake waiting at his heels."
-Afari, Tales

Eager Cadet

Creature - Human Soldier

"Training? Seeing my crops burnt to cinders was all the ‘training' I needed."

Darkest Hour

Enchantment

All creatures are black.

The eclipse made it clear whose side the sky was on.

Ostracize

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a creature card from it. That player discards that card.

"You won't be needing this."

Elvish Lyrist

Creature - Elf

, , Sacrifice Elvish Lyrist: Destroy target enchantment.

To an elf, magic and music are the same.

Peach Garden Oath

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each creature you control.

"We three, though of separate ancestry, join in brotherhood. . . . We dare not hope to be together always but hereby vow to die the selfsame day."
-Peach Garden Oath

Maggot Carrier

Creature - Zombie

When Maggot Carrier enters the battlefield, each player loses 1 life.

"We do not suddenly fall on death, but advance towards it by slight degrees; we die every day."
-Seneca, Epistles, trans. Gummere

Cinder Wall

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

When Cinder Wall blocks, destroy it at end of combat.

"The smell of roasted flesh hung over the valley for hours."
-Onean sergeant

Orcish Spy

Creature - Orc Rogue

: Look at the top three cards of target player's library.

"You idiot Never let the spies mingle with the orcish regulars after completing a mission. Now we'll never get them to fight"
-General Khurzog

Elvish Pioneer

Creature - Elf Druid

When Elvish Pioneer enters the battlefield, you may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

"Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime."

Elvish Scrapper

Creature - Elf

, , Sacrifice Elvish Scrapper: Destroy target artifact.

"The stories tell of a distant time when machines overran the forests, destroying everything that lived. That time will not come again."

Spreading Algae

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant Swamp

When enchanted land becomes tapped, destroy it.

When Spreading Algae is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Spreading Algae to its owner's hand.

Stone-Throwing Devils

Creature - Devil

First strike

Sometimes those with the most sin cast the first stones.

Flying Men

Creature - Human

Flying

Saffiyah clapped her hands and twenty flying men appeared at her side, each well trained in the art of combat.

Merchant Ship

Creature - Human

Merchant Ship can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

Whenever Merchant Ship attacks and isn't blocked, you gain 2 life.

When you control no Islands, sacrifice Merchant Ship.

Drop of Honey

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy the creature with the least power. It can't be regenerated. If two or more creatures are tied for least power, you choose one of them.

When there are no creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice Drop of Honey.

Metamorphosis

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Metamorphosis, sacrifice a creature.

Add X mana of any one color to your mana pool, where X is one plus the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.

Abu Ja'far

Creature - Human

When Abu Ja'far dies, destroy all creatures blocking or blocked by it. They can't be regenerated.

Camel

Creature - Camel

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 long as Camel is attacking, prevent all damage Deserts would deal to Camel and to creatures banded with Camel.

Everyone knew Walid was a pious man, for he had been blessed with many sons, many jewels, and a great many Camels.

Jeweled Bird

Artifact

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

: Put Jeweled Bird into the ante. If you do, put all other cards you own from the ante into your graveyard, then draw a card.

Candelabra of Tawnos

Artifact

, : Untap X target lands.

Tawnos learned quickly from Urza that utter simplicity often led to wondrous, yet subtle utility.

Tablet of Epityr

Artifact

Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.

Originally considered the work of Urza, this tablet was created by forgers seeking to imitate Urza's masterpieces.

Urza's Chalice

Artifact

Whenever a player casts an artifact spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.

When sorely wounded or tired, Urza would often retreat to the workshops of his apprentices. They were greatly amazed at how much better he looked each time he took a sip of water.

Drafna's Restoration

Sorcery

Return any number of target artifact cards from target player's graveyard to the top of his or her library in any order.

Drafna, founder of the College of Lat-Nam, could create a working model from even the smallest remnants of a newly unearthed artifact.

Artifact Blast

Instant

Counter target artifact spell.

The first line of defense against Urza and Mishra, the Artifact Blast achieved widespread fame until an unlucky mage discovered it was useless on the devices the brothers had already created.

Goblin Artisans

Creature - Goblin Artificer

: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, draw a card. If you lose the flip, counter target artifact spell you control that isn't the target of an ability from another creature named Goblin Artisans.

Artifact Ward

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be blocked by artifact creatures.

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature by artifact sources.

Enchanted creature can't be the target of abilities from artifact sources.

Darkness

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride,/ And hug it in my arms." -William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Glyph of Doom

Instant

At end of combat, destroy all creatures that were blocked by target Wall this turn.

"He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion . . ." -William Faulkner

Hell Swarm

Instant

All creatures get -1/-0 until end of turn.

The brightness of day turned in an instant to dusk as the swarm descended upon the battlefield.

Imprison

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever a player activates an ability of enchanted creature with in its activation cost that isn't a mana ability, you may pay . If you do, counter that ability. If you don't, destroy Imprison.

Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, you may pay . If you do, tap the creature, remove it from combat, and creatures it was blocking that had become blocked by only that creature this combat become unblocked. If you don't, destroy Imprison.

Touch of Darkness

Instant

Any number of target creatures become black until end of turn.

"Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,/ Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may." -Thomas Middleton, The Witch

Dream Coat

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

: Enchanted creature becomes the color or colors of your choice. Activate this ability only once each turn.

"Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue." -Theognis, Elegies 1, 215

Enchantment Alteration

Instant

Attach target Aura attached to a creature or land to another permanent of that type.

Field of Dreams

World Enchantment

Players play with the top card of their libraries revealed.

Some people say that the world is round, and if you travel far enough you'll come to the other side, where everything is upside down.

Flash Flood

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target red permanent; or return target Mountain to its owner's hand.

Many people say that no power can bring the mountains low. Many people are fools.

Glyph of Delusion

Instant

Put X glyph counters on target creature that target Wall blocked this turn, where X is the power of that blocked creature. The creature gains "This creature doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a glyph counter on it" and "At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a glyph counter from this creature."

Part Water

Sorcery

X target creatures gain islandwalk until end of turn.

". . . and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left." -Exodus, 14:22

Psychic Purge

Sorcery

Psychic Purge deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Psychic Purge, that player loses 5 life.

Sea Kings' Blessing

Instant

Any number of target creatures become blue until end of turn.

Aisling Leprechaun

Creature - Faerie

Whenever Aisling Leprechaun blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, that creature becomes green. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Avoid Fate

Instant

Counter target instant or Aura spell that targets a permanent you control.

Cocoon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

Enchanted creature doesn't untap during your untap step if Cocoon has a pupa counter on it.

When Cocoon enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature and put three pupa counters on Cocoon.

At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a pupa counter from Cocoon. If you can't, sacrifice it, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature, and that creature gains flying. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Concordant Crossroads

World Enchantment

All creatures have haste.

Glyph of Reincarnation

Instant

Cast Glyph of Reincarnation only after combat.

Destroy all creatures that were blocked by target Wall this turn. They can't be regenerated. For each creature that died this way, put a creature card from the graveyard of the player who controlled that creature the last time it became blocked by that Wall onto the battlefield under its owner's control.

Revelation

World Enchantment

Players play with their hands revealed.

"Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are revealed unto the meek." -Ecclesiastes 3:19

Rust

Instant

Counter target activated ability from an artifact source. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

"How dull it is to pause, to make an end,/ To rust unburnished, not to shine in use,/ As though to breathe were life!" -Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses"

Subdue

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target creature this turn. That creature gets +0/+X until end of turn, where X is its converted mana cost.

Sylvan Paradise

Instant

Any number of target creatures become green until end of turn.

Active Volcano

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target blue permanent; or return target Island to its owner's hand.

Chain Lightning

Sorcery

Chain Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature or player. Then that player or that creature's controller may pay . If the player does, he or she may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Dwarven Song

Instant

Any number of target creatures become red until end of turn.

Feint

Instant

Tap all creatures blocking target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by that creature and each creature blocking it.

Glyph of Destruction

Instant

Target blocking Wall you control gets +10/+0 until end of combat. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to it this turn. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step.

Storm World

World Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Storm World deals X damage to that player, where X is 4 minus the number of cards in his or her hand.

Clergy of the Holy Nimbus

Creature - Human Cleric

If Clergy of the Holy Nimbus would be destroyed, regenerate it.

: Clergy of the Holy Nimbus can't be regenerated this turn. Only any opponent may activate this ability.

Equinox

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ": Counter target spell if it would destroy a land you control."

Glyph of Life

Instant

Until end of turn, whenever an attacking creature deals damage to target Wall creature, you gain that much life.

Any wall can be battered down, but at what cost?

Great Defender

Instant

Target creature gets +0/+X until end of turn, where X is its converted mana cost.