When a land enters the battlefield under an opponents control, if Hidden Elf is an enchantment, it stops being an enchantment and becomes a 1/1 green Elf creature with ":symtap:: Add one G to your mana pool."
As an additional cost pay 3 life and sacrifice a land: Return target creature from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste until end of turn.
"The most powerful necromancers realize that raising the dead is a mere trick. The true art is to raise the angry ghost within the corpse."
Combined with Crystal Ball and Halimar Depths could provide relatively reliable card draw and the 4/4 flying body might make this a better choice than Scroll Thief.
Repopulate only shuffles creatures into the deck from the graveyard, not the whole graveyard. While this will deal with most reanimation targets, it doesn't help out against reanimation of other permanents types (artifacts probably the next most dangerous).
It was tough to decide, but I think my favourite card has to be Recurring Nightmare. I love graveyard recursion and reusable engines, and the Nightmare has to be one of the best ever engines for generating incremental advantage or just pulling a big monster from beyound the grave to harass my opponents. The art is at it's Lovecraftian best, all teeth and writhing tentacles, and it is so aptly named as it creates a nightmare for my opponents that goes on and on and on...
Creature - Human Wizard (R)
1WU
1/1
"Answer my call noble beasts! The kingdom requires your aid!" - Dolf, Griffin Keeper
Enchantment (C)
When a land enters the battlefield under an opponents control, if Hidden Elf is an enchantment, it stops being an enchantment and becomes a 1/1 green Elf creature with ":symtap:: Add one G to your mana pool."
Sorcery (R)
As an additional cost pay 3 life and sacrifice a land: Return target creature from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste until end of turn.
"The most powerful necromancers realize that raising the dead is a mere trick. The true art is to raise the angry ghost within the corpse."
Creature - Sphinx
Flying, Vigilance, Trample, Haste
B
5/5
Creature - Dwarf Lammasu
Flying
When ~ enters the battlefield, place two 1/1 red Goblin tokens with reach on the battlefield under target opponents control.
3/3
"Lucky as a Belchbeard chin whisker" - Dugger, Goblin Scout.
Next: Antelope --------- Harpy
Artifact - Equipment (R)
Equipped creature has Deathtouch
When equipped creature attacks, target creature must block it if able.
When a creature destroyed by equipped creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may untap target permanent.
Equip 3
"With your sacrifice we ensure that the sun will rise again" - Ahuitzotl, the Great Speaker
Instant (R)
Split second
Target player is dealt damage equal to the amount of mana in their manapool.
"The more powerful the spell, the more powerful the shock."
Creature - Human Beekeeper(R)
GG : Place a 1/1 green Bee creature token with flying onto the battlefield.
1/2
Next: Something from the industrial revolution
Spanish Inquisition
Miguel de Morillo, Inquisitor WWBB
Legendary creature - human inquisitor
Vigilance
W
B
2/2
"If the price to save your soul is the loss of your life, so be it."
Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger 1RW
Legendary creature - Human aristocrat
5: Destroy target legendary creature other than Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger. Any player may activate this ability.
1/2
"Sic semper tyrannis!"
Next: A great merchant.
Artifact
At the beginning your upkeep place a Peace counter on target creature without a Peace counter.
Creatures with Peace counters may not attack or block.
If all creatures on the battlefield have a Peace counter on them, destroy ~.
Next: An outlaw
Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature has Deathtouch
When equipped creature attacks, target creature must block it if able.
When a creature destroyed by equipped creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may untap target permanent.
Equip 3
"With your sacrifice we ensure that the sun will rise again" - Ahuitzotl, the Great Speaker
Next: a non-permanent card that references the first world war.
C.S. Lewis 3WWW
Legendary Creature - Human Scribe
W
1/1
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn." - C.S. Lewis
Poet:
Lord Byron 1UB
Legendary Creature - Human Poet
2UB:symtap:: Place a romance counter on target creature.
4UB:symtap:: Gain control of all creatures with a romance counter on them.
0/1
"Ah! Sure some stronger impulse vibrates here"
Next: something Aztec (perhaps an enchantment?)
Estevanico the Moor 2GG
Creature - human explorer
Forestwalk, Plainswalk
3/3
Next: Something from the Italian Renaissance
Combined with Crystal Ball and Halimar Depths could provide relatively reliable card draw and the 4/4 flying body might make this a better choice than Scroll Thief.