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Balance of Power

Sorcery

If target opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.

"To empty your mind is to fill your grave."
-Lat-Nam teaching

Mana:
Cardset: Eighth Edition #62 (Rare)
Type: Sorcery

Balancing Act

Sorcery

Each player chooses a number of permanents he or she controls equal to the number of permanents controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Each player discards cards the same way.

Mana:
Cardset: Odyssey #10 (Rare)
Type: Sorcery

Balduvian Barbarians

Creature - Human Barbarian

"From the snowy slopes of Kaelor,
To the canyons of Bandu,
We drink and fight and feast and die
As we were born to do."
-Balduvian tavern song

Mana:
Power: 3/2
Cardset: Ninth Edition #174 (Common)
Eighth Edition #176 (Common)
Seventh Edition #173 (Common)
Sixth Edition #166 (Unknown)
Ice Age #172 (Common)
Type: Creature

Balduvian Bears

Creature - Bear

"They're a hardy bunch, but I'd still bet that they just slept through the worst of the cold times."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Mana:
Power: 2/2
Cardset: Ice Age #114 (Common)
Type: Creature

Balduvian Conjurer

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target snow land becomes a 2/2 creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

"The very lands of Balduvia are alive."
-Arna Kennerüd, Skyknight

Mana:
Cardset: Ice Age #58 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

Balduvian Dead

Creature - Zombie

, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Put a 3/1 black and red Graveborn creature token with haste onto the battlefield. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Mana:
Power: 2/3
Cardset: Alliances #1 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

Balduvian Fallen

Creature - Zombie

Cumulative upkeep (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Whenever Balduvian Fallen's cumulative upkeep is paid, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each or spent this way.

Mana:
Power: 3/5
Cardset: Coldsnap #51 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

Balduvian Frostwaker

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Target snow land becomes a 2/2 blue Elemental creature with flying. It's still a land.

"Whether frozen or fertile, the land is our ally. It awaits the call to battle."

Mana:
Power: 1/1
Cardset: Coldsnap #28 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

Balduvian Horde

Creature - Human Barbarian

When Balduvian Horde enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you discard a card at random.

Mana:
Power: 5/5
Cardset: Sixth Edition #167 (Unknown)
Alliances #96 (Rare)
Type: Creature

Balduvian Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Balduvian Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+0 counters on it.

Remove a +1/+0 counter from Balduvian Hydra: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Balduvian Hydra this turn.

: Put a +1/+0 counter on Balduvian Hydra. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Mana:
Cardset: Ice Age #173 (Rare)
Type: Creature

Balduvian Rage

Instant

Target attacking creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

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

"Let your heartbeat be the thunder in the valley. Let your swords be the lightning on the peaks."
-Lothar Lovisason, Balduvian chieftain

Mana:
Cardset: Coldsnap #76 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Balduvian Shaman

Creature - Human Cleric Shaman

: Change the text of target white enchantment you control that doesn't have cumulative upkeep by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (For example, you may change "black creatures can't attack" to "blue creatures can't attack.") That enchantment gains "Cumulative upkeep ." (At the beginning of its controller's upkeep, that player puts an age counter on it, then sacrifices it unless he or she pays its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Mana:
Power: 1/1
Cardset: Ice Age #59 (Common)
Type: Creature

Balduvian Trading Post

Land

If Balduvian Trading Post would enter the battlefield, sacrifice an untapped Mountain instead. If you do, put Balduvian Trading Post onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Balduvian Trading Post deals 1 damage to target attacking creature.

Cardset: Alliances #182 (Rare)
Type: Land

Balduvian War-Makers

Creature - Human Barbarian

Haste

Rampage 1 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

"Those mewling Barbarians will cower before my righteous steel!"
-General Varchild

Mana:
Power: 3/3
Cardset: Alliances #97 (Common)
Alliances #98 (Common)
Type: Creature

Balduvian Warlord

Creature - Human Barbarian

: Remove target blocking creature from combat. Creatures it was blocking that hadn't become blocked by another creature this combat become unblocked, then it blocks an attacking creature of your choice. Activate this ability only during the declare blockers step.

Mana:
Power: 3/2
Cardset: Coldsnap #77 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

Balefire Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever Balefire Dragon deals combat damage to a player, it deals that much damage to each creature that player controls.

If it comes for you, die boldly or die swiftly-for die you will.

Mana:
Power: 6/6
Cardset: Innistrad #129 (Mythic Rare)
Type: Creature

Balefire Liege

Creature - Spirit Horror

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

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

Whenever you cast a red spell, Balefire Liege deals 3 damage to target player.

Whenever you cast a white spell, you gain 3 life.

Mana: {{/}}{{/}}{{/}}
Power: 2/4
Cardset: Eventide #132 (Rare)
Type: Creature

Baleful Eidolon

Enchantment Creature - Spirit

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch.

Mana:
Power: 1/1
Cardset: Theros #78 (Common)
Type: Enchantment

Baleful Force

Creature - Elemental

At the beginning of each upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

"As with any malevolent being, the trick is knowing how long you can afford to keep it in your service."-Liliana Vess

Mana:
Power: 7/7
Cardset: Commander 2013 #70 (Rare)
Type: Creature

Baleful Stare

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You draw a card for each Mountain and red card in it.

"Though there is little to be learned from your dust and stones, I shall wring them dry nevertheless."

Mana:
Cardset: Ninth Edition #64 (Uncommon)
Seventh Edition #62 (Uncommon)
Type: Sorcery

Baleful Strix

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying, deathtouch

When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Mana:
Power: 1/1
Cardset: Commander 2013 #177 (Uncommon)
Planechase 2012 #82 (Uncommon)
Type: Artifact Creature

Ball Lightning

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.)

Haste (This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Ball Lightning.

Mana:
Power: 6/1
Cardset: Fire and Lightning #12 (Unknown)
Magic 2010 #125 (Rare)
Fifth Edition #210 (Rare)
Fourth Edition #194 (Rare)
The Dark #56 (Rare)
Type: Creature

Ballista Squad

Creature - Human Rebel

, : Ballista Squad deals X damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

The perfect antidote for a tightly packed formation.

Mana:
Power: 2/2
Cardset: Tenth Edition #8 (Uncommon)
Ninth Edition #5 (Uncommon)
Mercadian Masques #5 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

Balloon Peddler

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

The market festival turned out to be the high point of Jaffy's visit.

Mana:
Power: 2/2
Cardset: Mercadian Masques #59 (Common)
Type: Creature

Ballynock Cohort

Creature - Kithkin Soldier

First strike

Ballynock Cohort gets +1/+1 as long as you control another white creature.

A kithkin's worst enemy is solitude.

Mana:
Power: 2/2
Cardset: Shadowmoor #3 (Common)
Type: Creature

Ballynock Trapper

Creature - Kithkin Soldier

: Tap target creature.

Whenever you cast a white spell, you may untap Ballynock Trapper.

No matter how large or small, fierce or fleeting, the kithkin have a trap for it.

Mana:
Power: 2/2
Cardset: Eventide #2 (Common)
Type: Creature

Ballyrush Banneret

Creature - Kithkin Soldier

Kithkin spells and Soldier spells you cast cost less to cast.

Only wool from the side of the springjack turned most often to the sun can be woven into kithkin battle standards. Jackherds record every movement of their woolly-jacks until shearing.

Mana:
Power: 2/1
Cardset: Morningtide #1 (Common)
Type: Creature

Balm of Restoration

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Balm of Restoration: Choose one - You gain 2 life; or prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

"Not all armies enjoyed the services of a medic. For them, Balm of Restoration was that much more valuable."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. I

Mana:
Cardset: Fallen Empires #167 (Rare)
Type: Artifact

Baloth Cage Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent had an artifact enter the battlefield under his or her control this turn, you may pay rather than pay Baloth Cage Trap's mana cost.

Put a 4/4 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.

Mana:
Cardset: Zendikar #156 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Baloth Null

Creature - Zombie Beast

When Baloth Null enters the battlefield, return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

"Humans use pigs to hunt for mushrooms, don't they? It's like that."
-Harak, Malakir bloodwitch

Mana:
Power: 4/5
Cardset: Oath of the Gatewatch #152 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

Baloth Pup

Creature - Beast

Baloth Pup has trample as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.

A young baloth channels its energy into playful destructiveness. Over time, it becomes less playful but no less destructive.

Mana:
Power: 3/1
Cardset: Oath of the Gatewatch #127 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

Baloth Woodcrasher

Creature - Beast

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Baloth Woodcrasher gets +4/+4 and gains trample until end of turn.

Its insatiable hunger quickly depletes a region of prey. It must migrate from place to place to feed its massive bulk.

Mana:
Power: 4/4
Cardset: Commander 2013 #136 (Uncommon)
Commander #143 (Uncommon)
Zendikar #157 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

Balshan Beguiler

Creature - Human Wizard

Whenever Balshan Beguiler deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals the top two cards of his or her library. You choose one of those cards and put it into his or her graveyard.

Mana:
Power: 1/1
Cardset: Odyssey #66 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

Balshan Collaborator

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

: Balshan Collaborator gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Power, gold, crackers-every bird has its price."
-Chainer, dementia master

Mana:
Power: 2/2
Cardset: Torment #25 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

Balshan Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

, Discard a card: Return Balshan Griffin to its owner's hand.

It helps to have an extra direction in which to run.

Mana:
Power: 3/2
Cardset: Odyssey #67 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

Balthor the Defiled

Legendary Creature - Zombie Dwarf

Minion creatures get +1/+1.

, Exile Balthor the Defiled: Each player returns all black and all red creature cards from his or her graveyard to the battlefield.

He remembers enough of his life to weep for what he has lost.

Mana:
Power: 2/2
Cardset: Judgment #61 (Rare)
Type: Creature

Balthor the Stout

Legendary Creature - Dwarf Barbarian

Other Barbarian creatures get +1/+1.

: Another target Barbarian creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"I like to think of him as concentrated barbarian."
-Kamahl, pit fighter

Mana:
Power: 2/2
Cardset: Torment #91 (Rare)
Type: Creature

Balustrade Spy

Creature - Vampire Rogue

Flying

When Balustrade Spy enters the battlefield, target player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a land card, then puts those cards into his or her graveyard.

Mana:
Power: 2/3
Cardset: Gatecrash #57 (Common)
Type: Creature

Bamboozle

Sorcery

Target player reveals the top four cards of his or her library. You choose two of those cards and put them into his or her graveyard. Put the rest on top of his or her library in any order.

Mana:
Cardset: Odyssey #68 (Uncommon)
Type: Sorcery

Bandage

Instant

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

Draw a card.

Life is measured in inches. To a healer, every one of those inches is precious.

Mana:
Cardset: Tenth Edition #9 (Common)
Stronghold #101 (Common)
Type: Instant
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