Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari Spoilers 90/0
Show TextBarren Moor
Barren Moor enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add .
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
illus. Heather Hudson # 78/0
Boneyard Wurm
Boneyard Wurm's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
The only thing it likes more than discovering a pit of bones is adding to it.
illus. Jaime Jones # 51/0
Brain Weevil
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Sacrifice Brain Weevil: Target player discards two cards. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
illus. Anthony Jones # 58/0
Brainstorm
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
The mizzium-sphere array drove her mind deep into the thought field, where only the rarest motes of genius may be plucked.
illus. Willian Murai # 13/0
Call to Heel
Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller draws a card.
On Bant, a sigil is both a prize of honor and a bond of duty. The one who bears it may be called to fulfill that charge at any moment.
illus. Randy Gallegos # 18/0
Dakmor Salvage
Dakmor Salvage enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add .
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly two cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
illus. John Avon # 79/0
Dissipate
Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
"This abomination never belonged in our world. I'm merely setting it free."—Dierk, geistmage
illus. Tomasz Jedruszek # 25/0
Djinn Illuminatus
( can be paid with either or .)
Flying
Each instant and sorcery spell you cast has replicate. The replicate cost is equal to its mana cost. (When you cast it, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
illus. Carl Critchlow # 12/0
Doomgape
Trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.
It eats and eats until the juiciest morsel it can find is itself.
illus. Dave Allsop # 65/0
Dreg Mangler
Haste
Scavenge (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)
illus. Peter Mohrbacher # 56/0
Elves of Deep Shadow
: Add . Elves of Deep Shadow deals 1 damage to you.
Cast out of the Conclave generations ago, these elves found a home in the corrupted districts of the Golgari.
illus. Justin Sweet # 47/0
Eternal Witness
When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.
illus. Terese Nielsen # 55/0
Feast or Famine
Choose one —
• Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
• Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
"The living cannot understand the benefits of death."—Chaeska, Keeper of Tresserhorn
illus. Chase Stone # 72/0
Fire // Ice
Fire deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets.
illus. Dan Scott # 32/0
Force Spike
Counter target spell unless its controller pays .
"I don't think so."
illus. Nelson DeCastro # 14/0
Forgotten Cave
Forgotten Cave enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add .
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
illus. Tony Szczudlo # 33/0
Galvanoth
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.
It chews open Mirrodin's husk and feeds on the outpouring of energy.
illus. Kev Walker # 10/0
Gelectrode
: Gelectrode deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may untap Gelectrode.
"Diametrically opposing energies in self-sealed plasmodermic bubbles make great pets!"—Trivaz, Izzet mage
illus. Dan Scott # 5/0
Ghoul's Feast
Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
Mercadians not wealthy enough to buy a tomb are thrown into a bog called "the Ghoul's Larder."
illus. Alan Pollack # 67/0
Gleancrawler
( can be paid with either or .)
Trample
At the beginning of your end step, return to your hand all creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.
illus. Jeremy Jarvis # 64/0
Goblin Electromancer
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost less to cast.
When asked how much power is required, Izzet mages always answer "more."
illus. Svetlin Velinov # 3/0
Golgari Germination
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
The Golgari don't bury their dead. They plant them.
illus. Thomas M. Baxa # 70/0
Golgari Grave-Troll
Golgari Grave-Troll enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Golgari Grave-Troll: Regenerate Golgari Grave-Troll.
Dredge 6 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly six cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
illus. Greg Hildebrandt # 60/0
Golgari Rot Farm
Golgari Rot Farm enters the battlefield tapped.
When Golgari Rot Farm enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add .
illus. John Avon # 80/0
Golgari Rotwurm
, Sacrifice a creature: Target player loses 1 life.
Like corpse-worms through a carapace, rotwurms slide through the hollowed bones of the undercity.
illus. Wayne England # 63/0
Golgari Signet
, : Add .
Depending on your point of view, the seal represents a proud guardian of the natural cycle or one who has sold her soul to darkness for eternal life.
illus. Raoul Vitale # 66/0
Golgari Thug
When Golgari Thug dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly four cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
illus. Johann Bodin # 48/0
Greater Mossdog
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
Man's best fungus.
illus. Chippy # 59/0
Grim Flowering
Draw a card for each creature card in your graveyard.
"Nothing in nature goes to waste, not even the rotting corpse of a good-for-nothing, blood-sucking vampire."—Halana of Ulvenwald
illus. Adam Paquette # 75/0
Invoke the Firemind
Choose one —
• Draw X cards.
• Invoke the Firemind deals X damage to any target.
To those in tune with the Firemind, there is no difference between knowledge and flame.
illus. Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai # 31/0
Isochron Scepter
Imprint — When Isochron Scepter enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant card with converted mana cost 2 or less from your hand.
, : You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
illus. Mark Harrison # 16/0
Izzet Boilerworks
Izzet Boilerworks enters the battlefield tapped.
When Izzet Boilerworks enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add .
illus. John Avon # 34/0
Izzet Charm
Choose one —
• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays .
• Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature.
• Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
illus. Zoltan Boros # 21/0
Izzet Chronarch
When Izzet Chronarch enters the battlefield, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
He ensures not only whether but also when and where the lightning strikes twice.
illus. Steven Belledin # 11/0
Izzet Guildmage
( can be paid with either or .)
: Copy target instant spell you control with converted mana cost 2 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.
: Copy target sorcery spell you control with converted mana cost 2 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.
illus. Jim Murray # 4/0
Izzet Signet
, : Add .
The Izzet signet is redesigned often, each time becoming closer to a vanity portrait of Niv-Mizzet.
illus. Raoul Vitale # 17/0
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return Jarad from your graveyard to your hand.
illus. Svetlin Velinov # 45/0
Kiln Fiend
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Kiln Fiend gets +3/+0 until end of turn.
It traps an explosion within its stony skin.
illus. Adi Granov # 2/0
Korozda Guildmage
: Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
, Sacrifice a nontoken creature: Create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.
illus. Ryan Pancoast # 52/0
Life // Death
All lands you control become 1/1 creatures until end of turn. They're still lands.
illus. Ryan Barger # 77/0
Life from the Loam
Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
illus. Terese Nielsen # 69/0
Lonely Sandbar
Lonely Sandbar enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add .
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
illus. Heather Hudson # 35/0
Magma Spray
Magma Spray deals 2 damage to target creature. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.
"Jund is a wounded world. Beware its searing blood spilling out onto the surface."—Rakka Mar
illus. Jarreau Wimberly # 15/0
Nightmare Void
Target player reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card.
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly two cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
illus. Chippy # 73/0
Nivix, Aerie of the Firemind
: Add .
, : Exile the top card of your library. Until your next turn, you may cast that card if it's an instant or sorcery card.
Niv-Mizzet's genius and vanity reverberate throughout the mirrored halls of Nivix.
illus. Martina Pilcerova # 36/0
Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind deals 1 damage to any target.
: Draw a card.
illus. Svetlin Velinov # 1/0
Ogre Savant
When Ogre Savant enters the battlefield, if was spent to cast Ogre Savant, return target creature to its owner's hand.
He's an oxymoron.
illus. Parente # 9/0
Overwhelming Intellect
Counter target creature spell. Draw cards equal to that spell's converted mana cost.
"My brain hurts."
illus. Alex Horley-Orlandelli # 28/0
Plagued Rusalka
, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
"Look at her, once filled with innocence. Death has a way of wringing away such . . . deficiencies."—Savra
illus. Alex Horley-Orlandelli # 46/0
Prophetic Bolt
Prophetic Bolt deals 4 damage to any target. Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
illus. Slawomir Maniak # 27/0
Putrefy
Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.
"All matter, animate or not, rots when exposed to time. We merely speed up the process."—Ezoc, Golgari rot farmer
illus. Clint Cearley # 71/0
Putrid Leech
Pay 2 life: Putrid Leech gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.
It reacted to Naya's overabundant food supply by growing additional mouths.
illus. Dave Allsop # 53/0
Pyromatics
Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Pyromatics deals 1 damage to any target.
illus. Glen Angus # 20/0
Quicksilver Dagger
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has ": This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. You draw a card."
The dwarves call their quicksilver techniques "improvisational weaponsmithing."
illus. Alex Horley-Orlandelli # 26/0
Ravenous Rats
When Ravenous Rats enters the battlefield, target opponent discards a card.
Devouring books is only the beginning. The librarian's next.
illus. Carl Critchlow # 49/0
Reassembling Skeleton
: Return Reassembling Skeleton from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
"They may show up with the wrong thigh bone or mandible, but they always show up."—Zul Ashur, lich lord
illus. Austin Hsu # 50/0
Reminisce
Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.
Leave the door to the past even slightly ajar and it could be blown off its hinges.
illus. Ralph Horsley # 22/0
Sadistic Hypnotist
Sacrifice a creature: Target player discards two cards. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
"Victory in the pits is almost as rewarding as the methods I use to achieve it."
illus. Parente # 62/0
Shambling Shell
Sacrifice Shambling Shell: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
illus. Joel Thomas # 57/0
Shrewd Hatchling
Shrewd Hatchling enters the battlefield with four -1/-1 counters on it.
: Target creature can't block Shrewd Hatchling this turn.
Whenever you cast a blue spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from Shrewd Hatchling.
Whenever you cast a red spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from Shrewd Hatchling.
illus. Carl Frank # 8/0
Sphinx-Bone Wand
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put a charge counter on Sphinx-Bone Wand. If you do, Sphinx-Bone Wand deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to any target.
Its host's final curse lies captured within.
illus. Franz Vohwinkel # 29/0
Steamcore Weird
When Steamcore Weird enters the battlefield, if was spent to cast Steamcore Weird, it deals 2 damage to any target.
Like many Izzet creations, weirds are based on wild contradictions yet somehow manage to work.
illus. Justin Norman # 7/0
Stingerfling Spider
Reach
When Stingerfling Spider enters the battlefield, you may destroy target creature with flying.
The juiciest prey is that which grows lazy, thinking itself beyond the reach of danger.
illus. Dave Allsop # 61/0
Stinkweed Imp
Flying
Whenever Stinkweed Imp deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature.
Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly five cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
illus. Nils Hamm # 54/0
Street Spasm
Street Spasm deals X damage to target creature without flying you don't control.
Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")
illus. Raymond Swanland # 30/0
Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
: Add .
: Until end of turn, Svogthos, the Restless Tomb becomes a black and green Plant Zombie creature with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard." It's still a land.
illus. Martina Pilcerova # 81/0
Thunderheads
Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost.)
Create a 3/3 blue Weird creature token with defender and flying. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
The clouds grew thick, and then they grew teeth.
illus. Hideaki Takamura # 23/0
Train of Thought
Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost.)
Draw a card.
"But then . . . oh, but . . . which means . . . which would lead to . . . exactly!"
illus. Matt Thompson # 19/0
Tranquil Thicket
Tranquil Thicket enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add .
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
illus. Heather Hudson # 82/0
Twilight's Call
You may cast Twilight's Call as though it had flash if you pay more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
Each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard to the battlefield.
Twilight falls. We rise.—Necropolis inscription
illus. Mark Romanoski # 76/0
Vacuumelt
Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
illus. Nottsuo # 24/0
Vigor Mortis
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If was spent to cast Vigor Mortis, that creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
After fear and weakness rot away, that which remains is stronger than its living form.
illus. Dan Scott # 74/0
Wee Dragonauts
Flying
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Wee Dragonauts gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
"The blazekite is a simple concept, really—just a vehicular application of dragscoop ionics and electropropulsion magnetronics."—Juzba, Izzet tinker
illus. Greg Staples # 6/0
Yoke of the Damned
Enchant creature
When a creature dies, destroy enchanted creature.
The demon's yoke is part leash, part noose.
illus. Paul Bonner # 68/0
