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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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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

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

Balance

Sorcery

Each player chooses a number of lands he or she controls 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.

Mana:
Cardset: Fourth Edition #256 (Rare)
Revised Edition #187 (Rare)
Unlimited Edition #187 (Rare)
Beta Edition #188 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #187 (Unknown)
Type: Sorcery

Bala Ged Thief

Creature - Human Rogue Ally

Whenever Bala Ged Thief or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, target player reveals a number of cards from his or her hand equal to the number of Allies you control. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.

Mana:
Power: 2/2
Cardset: Zendikar #79 (Rare)
Type: Creature

Bala Ged Scorpion

Creature - Scorpion

When Bala Ged Scorpion enters the battlefield, you may destroy target creature with power 1 or less.

Fast and lethal, with a penchant for the weak and infirm.

Mana:
Power: 2/3
Cardset: Rise of the Eldrazi #95 (Common)
Type: Creature

Baku Altar

Artifact

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on Baku Altar.

, , Remove a ki counter from Baku Altar: Put a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token onto the battlefield.

Mana:
Cardset: Betrayers of Kamigawa #152 (Rare)
Type: Artifact

Baki's Curse

Sorcery

Baki's Curse deals 2 damage to each creature for each Aura attached to that creature.

"Those who fling spells too quickly should have reason to regret it."
-Baki, Wizard Attendant

Mana:
Cardset: Homelands #27 (Rare)
Type: Sorcery

Badlands

Land - Swamp Mountain

(: Add or to your mana pool.)

Mana:
Cardset: Revised Edition #282 (Rare)
Unlimited Edition #278 (Rare)
Beta Edition #139 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #277 (Unknown)
Type: Land

Bad River

Land

Bad River enters the battlefield tapped.

, Sacrifice Bad River: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Cardset: Mirage #289 (Uncommon)
Type: Land

Bad Moon

Enchantment

Black creatures get +1/+1.

Mana:
Cardset: Commander 2014 #135 (Rare)
Garruk vs. Liliana #48 (Rare)
Time Spiral "Timeshifted" #38 (Special)
Fifth Edition #4 (Rare)
Fourth Edition #4 (Rare)
Revised Edition #2 (Rare)
Unlimited Edition #2 (Rare)
Beta Edition #2 (Unknown)
Alpha Edition #2 (Unknown)
Type: Enchantment

Backup Plan

Conspiracy

(Start the game with this conspiracy face up in the command zone.)

Draw an additional hand of seven cards as the game begins. Before taking mulligans, shuffle all but one of your hands into your library.

"In the market for an alternative, friend?"

Mana:
Cardset: Conspiracy #2 (Rare)
Type: Conspiracy

Backslide

Instant

Turn target creature with morph face down.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Some things are better left unknown.

Mana:
Cardset: Onslaught #70 (Common)
Type: Instant

Backlash

Instant

Tap target untapped creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to its controller.

Darigaaz decided his foe would be more useful as a weapon.

Mana:
Cardset: Invasion #234 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Backfire

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to you, Backfire deals that much damage to that creature's controller.

Mana:
Cardset: Fourth Edition #62 (Uncommon)
Legends #47 (Uncommon)
Type: Enchantment

Backdraft

Instant

Choose a player who cast one or more sorcery spells this turn. Backdraft deals damage to that player equal to half the damage dealt by one of those sorcery spells this turn, rounded down.

Mana:
Cardset: Legends #132 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Back to Nature

Instant

Destroy all enchantments.

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

Mana:
Cardset: Magic 2015 #169 (Uncommon)
Magic 2011 #164 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Back to Basics

Enchantment

Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

"A ruler wears a crown while the rest of us wear hats, but which would you rather have when it's raining?"
-Barrin, Principia

Mana:
Cardset: Urza's Saga #62 (Rare)
Type: Enchantment

Back from the Brink

Enchantment

Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of that card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

On Innistrad, death is just a career change.

Mana:
Cardset: Innistrad #44 (Rare)
Type: Enchantment
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