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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

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

Bad Ass

Creature - Donkey Zombie

, Growl: Regenerate Bad Ass.

He wanders the land in search of Good Ass.

Mana:
Power: 3.5/1
Cardset: Unhinged #49 (Common)
Type: Creature

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

B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster)

Creature - The-Biggest-Baddest-Nastiest-Scariest-Creature-You'll-Ever-See

You must play both B.F.M. cards to put B.F.M. into play. If either B.F.M. card leaves play, sacrifice the other.

B.F.M. can be blocked only by three or more creatures.

"It was big. Really, really big. No, bigger than that. Even bigger. Keep going. More. No, more. Look, we're talking krakens and dreadnoughts for jewelry. It was big"
-Arna Kennerd, skyknight

Mana:
Power: 99/99
Cardset: Unglued #28 (Rare)
Unglued #29 (Rare)
Type: Creature

B-I-N-G-O

Creature - Hound

Trample

Whenever a player plays a spell, put a chip counter on its converted mana cost.

B-I-N-G-O gets +9/+9 for each set of three numbers in a row with chip counters on them.

There was a farmer, had a hound . . .

Mana:
Power: 1/1
Cardset: Unhinged #92 (Rare)
Type: Creature

Æthertow

Instant

Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)

Mana: {{/}}
Cardset: Shadowmoor #136 (Common)
Type: Instant

Ætherspouts

Instant

For each attacking creature, its owner puts it on the top or bottom of his or her library.

"Don't worry, there's plenty for everyone."
-Vickon, Eleventh Company battlemage

Mana:
Cardset: Magic 2015 #44 (Rare)
Type: Instant

Æthersnipe

Creature - Elemental

When Æthersnipe enters the battlefield, return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

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

Mana:
Power: 4/4
Cardset: Modern Masters #36 (Common)
Commander #39 (Common)
Jace vs. Chandra #17 (Common)
Lorwyn #50 (Common)
Type: Creature

Ætherplasm

Creature - Illusion

Whenever Ætherplasm blocks a creature, you may return Ætherplasm to its owner's hand. If you do, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield blocking that creature.

Its fickle form holds hints of a thousand former identities.

Mana:
Power: 1/1
Cardset: Guildpact #22 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

Æthermage's Touch

Instant

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. It has "At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to its owner's hand." Then put the rest of the cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Mana:
Cardset: Commander 2013 #176 (Rare)
Dissension #101 (Rare)
Type: Instant

Ætherling

Creature - Shapeshifter

: Exile Ætherling. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

: Ætherling can't be blocked this turn.

: Ætherling gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

: Ætherling gets -1/+1 until end of turn.

Mana:
Power: 4/5
Cardset: Dragon's Maze #11 (Rare)
Type: Creature

Ætherize

Instant

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

"You can come back once you've learned some manners-and figured out how to reconstitute your physical forms."

Mana:
Cardset: Gatecrash #29 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Ætherflame Wall

Creature - Wall

Defender

Ætherflame Wall can block creatures with shadow as though they didn't have shadow.

: Ætherflame Wall gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Mana:
Cardset: Time Spiral #142 (Common)
Type: Creature

Æther Web

Enchantment - Aura

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

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1, has reach, and can block creatures with shadow as though they didn't have shadow. (Creatures with reach can block creatures with flying.)

Mana:
Cardset: Time Spiral #189 (Common)
Type: Enchantment

Æther Vial

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Æther Vial.

: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Æther Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.

Mana:
Cardset: Modern Masters #197 (Rare)
Darksteel #91 (Uncommon)
Type: Artifact

Æther Tradewinds

Instant

Return target permanent you control and target permanent you don't control to their owners' hands.

"The wind smells of misfortune. Check your knots."
-Anitan, Ondu cleric

Mana:
Cardset: Conspiracy #89 (Common)
Worldwake #24 (Common)
Type: Instant

Æther Tide

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Æther Tide, discard X creature cards.

Return X target creatures to their owners' hands.

The tide of magic brought them here. Now it would take them home.

Mana:
Cardset: Exodus #27 (Common)
Type: Sorcery

Æther Storm

Enchantment

Creature spells can't be cast.

Pay 4 life: Destroy Æther Storm. It can't be regenerated. Any player may activate this ability.

Thunder in the wind / no rain / peace mourns its passing.

Mana:
Cardset: Fifth Edition #70 (Uncommon)
Homelands #26 (Uncommon)
Type: Enchantment

Æther Sting

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, Æther Sting deals 1 damage to that player.

When Gatha fell, he was called to account for each abomination he created.

Mana:
Cardset: Urza's Destiny #76 (Uncommon)
Type: Enchantment

Æther Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Æther Spellbomb: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

, Sacrifice Æther Spellbomb: Draw a card.

Mana:
Cardset: Modern Masters #196 (Common)
Elspeth vs. Tezzeret #61 (Common)
Archenemy #102 (Common)
Mirrodin #141 (Common)
Type: Artifact

Æther Snap

Sorcery

Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.

"May you wake to find you were only ever a dream."
-Mephidross curse

Mana:
Cardset: Commander 2014 #133 (Rare)
Darksteel #37 (Rare)
Type: Sorcery

Æther Shockwave

Instant

Choose one - Tap all Spirits; or tap all non-Spirit creatures.

"The strain upon the veil between worlds began to show near the end of the Kami War. Strange happenings that neither side could control lashed out across Kamigawa."
-Observations of the Kami War

Mana:
Cardset: Saviors of Kamigawa #1 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

Æther Searcher

Artifact Creature - Construct

Reveal Æther Searcher as you draft it. Reveal the next card you draft and note its name.

When Æther Searcher enters the battlefield, you may search your hand and/or library for a card with a name noted as you drafted cards named Æther Searcher. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you searched your library this way, shuffle it.

Mana:
Power: 6/4
Cardset: Conspiracy #53 (Rare)
Type: Artifact Creature

Æther Rift

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card at random. If you discard a creature card this way, return it from your graveyard to the battlefield unless any player pays 5 life.

Mana:
Cardset: Invasion #227 (Rare)
Type: Enchantment

Æther Mutation

Sorcery

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that creature's converted mana cost.

Mana:
Cardset: Apocalypse #91 (Uncommon)
Type: Sorcery
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