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Show TextAir Elemental
Flying
These spirits of the air are winsome and wild and cannot be truly contained. Only marginally intelligent, they often substitute whimsy for strategy, delighting in mischief and mayhem.
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Ancestral Recall
Target player draws three cards.
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Animate Artifact
Enchant artifact
As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost.
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Animate Dead
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
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Animate Wall
Enchant Wall
Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.
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Ankh of Mishra
Whenever a land enters the battlefield, Ankh of Mishra deals 2 damage to that land's controller.
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Armageddon
Destroy all lands.
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Aspect of Wolf
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +X/+Y, where X is half the number of Forests you control, rounded down, and Y is half the number of Forests you control, rounded up.
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Balance
Each player chooses a number of lands they control 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.
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Basalt Monolith
Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.
: Add .
: Untap Basalt Monolith.
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Benalish Hero
Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.
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Berserk
Cast this spell only before the combat damage step.
Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy that creature if it attacked this turn.
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Birds of Paradise
Flying
: Add one mana of any color.
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Black Knight
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)
Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.
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Black Lotus
, Sacrifice Black Lotus: Add three mana of any one color.
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Black Vise
As Black Vise enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, Black Vise deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.
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Black Ward
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has protection from black. This effect doesn't remove Black Ward.
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Blaze of Glory
Cast this spell only during combat before blockers are declared.
Target creature defending player controls can block any number of creatures this turn. It blocks each attacking creature this turn if able.
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Blessing
Enchant creature
: Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
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Blue Elemental Blast
Choose one —
• Counter target red spell.
• Destroy target red permanent.
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Blue Ward
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has protection from blue. This effect doesn't remove Blue Ward.
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Bog Wraith
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave'Twas nothing left for us to saveIn the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.
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Braingeyser
Target player draws X cards.
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Burrowing
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has mountainwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)
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Camouflage
Cast this spell only during your declare attackers step.
This turn, instead of declaring blockers, each defending player chooses any number of creatures they control and divides them into a number of piles equal to the number of attacking creatures for whom that player is the defending player. Creatures those players control that can block additional creatures may likewise be put into additional piles. Assign each pile to a different one of those attacking creatures at random. Each creature in a pile that can block the creature that pile is assigned to does so. (Piles can be empty.)
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Celestial Prism
, : Add one mana of any color.
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Channel
Until end of turn, any time you could activate a mana ability, you may pay 1 life. If you do, add .
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Chaos Orb
, : If Chaos Orb is on the battlefield, flip Chaos Orb onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If Chaos Orb turns over completely at least once during the flip, destroy all nontoken permanents it touches. Then destroy Chaos Orb.
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Chaoslace
Target spell or permanent becomes red. (Its mana symbols remain unchanged.)
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Circle of Protection: Black
: The next time a black source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
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Circle of Protection: Blue
: The next time a blue source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
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Circle of Protection: Green
: The next time a green source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
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Circle of Protection: Red
: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
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Circle of Protection: White
: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
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Clockwork Beast
Clockwork Beast enters the battlefield with seven +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Beast attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
, : Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast to be greater than seven. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.
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Clone
You may have Clone enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.
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Cockatrice
Flying
Whenever Cockatrice blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.
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Consecrate Land
Enchant land
Enchanted land has indestructible and can't be enchanted by other Auras.
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Conservator
, : Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.
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Contract from Below
Remove Contract from Below from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.
Discard your hand, ante the top card of your library, then draw seven cards.
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Control Magic
Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
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Conversion
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Conversion unless you pay .
All Mountains are Plains.
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Copper Tablet
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Copper Tablet deals 1 damage to that player.
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Copy Artifact
You may have Copy Artifact enter the battlefield as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield, except it's an enchantment in addition to its other types.
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Counterspell
Counter target spell.
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Craw Wurm
The most terrifying thing about the Craw Wurm is probably the horrible crashing sound it makes as it speeds through the forest. This noise is so loud it echoes through the trees and seems to come from all directions at once.
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Creature Bond
Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, Creature Bond deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.
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Crystal Rod
Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.
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Cursed Land
Enchant land
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted land's controller, Cursed Land deals 1 damage to that player.
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Cyclopean Tomb
, : Put a mire counter on target non-Swamp land. That land is a Swamp for as long as it has a mire counter on it. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.
When Cyclopean Tomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, remove all mire counters from a land that a mire counter was put onto with Cyclopean Tomb but that a mire counter has not been removed from with Cyclopean Tomb.
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Dark Ritual
Add .
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Darkpact
Remove Darkpact from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.
You own target card in the ante. Exchange that card with the top card of your library.
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Death Ward
Regenerate target creature.
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Deathlace
Target spell or permanent becomes black. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)
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Demonic Attorney
Remove Demonic Attorney from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.
Each player antes the top card of their library.
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Demonic Hordes
: Destroy target land.
At the beginning of your upkeep, unless you pay , tap Demonic Hordes and sacrifice a land of an opponent's choice.
Created to destroy Dominia, Demons can sometimes be bent to a more focused purpose.
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Demonic Tutor
Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
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Dingus Egg
Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Dingus Egg deals 2 damage to that land's controller.
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Disenchant
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
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Disintegrate
Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.
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Disrupting Scepter
, : Target player discards a card. Activate this ability only during your turn.
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Dragon Whelp
Flying
: Dragon Whelp gets +1/+0 until end of turn. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice Dragon Whelp at the beginning of the next end step.
"O to be a dragon . . . of silkworm size or immense . . ."—Marianne Moore, "O to Be a Dragon"
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Drain Life
Spend only black mana on X.
Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.
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Drain Power
Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.
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Drudge Skeletons
: Regenerate Drudge Skeletons. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)
Bones scattered around us joined to form misshapen bodies. We struck at them repeatedly—they fell, but soon formed again, with the same mocking look on their faceless skulls.
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Dwarven Demolition Team
: Destroy target Wall.
Foolishly, Najib retreated to his castle at El-Abar; the next morning he was dead. In just one night, the dwarven forces had reduced the mighty walls to mere rubble.
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Dwarven Warriors
: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.
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Earth Elemental
Earth Elementals have the eternal strength of stone and the endurance of mountains. Primordially connected to the land they inhabit, they take a long-term view of things, scorning the impetuous haste of short-lived mortal creatures.
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Earthbind
Enchant creature
When Earthbind enters the battlefield, if enchanted creature has flying, Earthbind deals 2 damage to that creature and Earthbind gains "Enchanted creature loses flying."
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Earthquake
Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.
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Elvish Archers
First strike
I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade"
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Evil Presence
Enchant land
Enchanted land is a Swamp.
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False Orders
Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step.
Remove target creature defending player controls from combat. Creatures it was blocking that had become blocked by only that creature this combat become unblocked. You may have it block an attacking creature of your choice.
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Farmstead
Enchant land
Enchanted land has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life."
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Fastbond
You may play any number of lands on each of your turns.
Whenever you play a land, if it wasn't the first land you played this turn, Fastbond deals 1 damage to you.
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Fear
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)
Enchanted creature has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
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Feedback
Enchant enchantment
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted enchantment's controller, Feedback deals 1 damage to that player.
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Fire Elemental
Fire Elementals are ruthless infernos, annihilating and consuming their foes in a frenzied holocaust. Crackling and blazing, they sear swift, terrible paths, leaving the land charred and scorched in their wake.
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Fireball
This spell costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.
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Firebreathing
Enchant creature
: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
"And topples round the dreary westA looming bastion fringed with fire."—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam"
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Flashfires
Destroy all Plains.
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Flight
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has flying.
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Fog
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
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Force of Nature
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, Force of Nature deals 8 damage to you unless you pay .
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Forcefield
: The next time an unblocked creature of your choice would deal combat damage to you this turn, prevent all but 1 of that damage.
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Fork
Copy target instant or sorcery spell, except that the copy is red. You may choose new targets for the copy.
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Frozen Shade
: Frozen Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
"There are some qualities—some incorporate things,/ That have a double life, which thus is made/ A type of twin entity which springs/ From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade."—Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"
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Fungusaur
Whenever Fungusaur is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Rather than sheltering her young, the female Fungusaur often injures her own offspring, thereby ensuring their rapid growth.
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Gaea's Liege
As long as Gaea's Liege isn't attacking, its power and toughness are each equal to the number of Forests you control. As long as Gaea's Liege is attacking, its power and toughness are each equal to the number of Forests defending player controls.
: Target land becomes a Forest until Gaea's Liege leaves the battlefield.
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Gauntlet of Might
Red creatures get +1/+1.
Whenever a Mountain is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional .
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Giant Growth
Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
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Giant Spider
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
While it possesses potent venom, the Giant Spider often chooses not to paralyze its victims. Perhaps the creature enjoys the gentle rocking motion caused by its captives' struggles to escape its web.
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Glasses of Urza
: Look at target player's hand.
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Gloom
White spells cost more to cast.
Activated abilities of white enchantments cost more to activate.
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Goblin Balloon Brigade
: Goblin Balloon Brigade gains flying until end of turn.
"From up here we can drop rocks and arrows and more rocks" "Uh, yeah boss, but how do we get down?"
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Goblin King
Other Goblin creatures get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)
To become king of the Goblins, one must assassinate the previous king. Thus, only the most foolish seek positions of leadership.
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Granite Gargoyle
Flying
: Granite Gargoyle gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
"While most overworlders fortunately don't realize this, Gargoyles can be most delicious, providing you have the appropriate tools to carve them."—The Underworld Cookbook by Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar
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Gray Ogre
The Ogre philosopher Gnerdel believed the purpose of life was to live as high on the food chain as possible. She refused to eat vegetarians, and preferred to live entirely on creatures that preyed on sentient beings.
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Green Ward
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has protection from green. This effect doesn't remove Green Ward.
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Grizzly Bears
Don't try to outrun one of Dominia's Grizzlies; it'll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you'll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you.
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Guardian Angel
Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that permanent or player this turn.
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Healing Salve
Choose one —
• Target player gains 3 life.
• Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
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Helm of Chatzuk
, : Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
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Hill Giant
Fortunately, Hill Giants have large blind spots in which a human can easily hide. Unfortunately, these blind spots are beneath the bottoms of their feet.
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Holy Armor
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2.
: Enchanted creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
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Holy Strength
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.
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Howl from Beyond
Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.
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Howling Mine
At the beginning of each player's draw step, if Howling Mine is untapped, that player draws an additional card.
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Hurloon Minotaur
The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.
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Hurricane
Hurricane deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player.
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Hypnotic Specter
Flying
Whenever Hypnotic Specter deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.
"...There was no trace/ Of aught on that illumined face..."—Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"
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Icy Manipulator
, : Tap target artifact, creature, or land.
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Illusionary Mask
: You may choose a creature card in your hand whose mana cost could be paid by some amount of, or all of, the mana you spent on . If you do, you may cast that card face down as a 2/2 creature spell without paying its mana cost. If the creature that spell becomes as it resolves has not been turned face up and would assign or deal damage, be dealt damage, or become tapped, instead it's turned face up and assigns or deals damage, is dealt damage, or becomes tapped. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
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Instill Energy
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can attack as though it had haste.
: Untap enchanted creature. Activate this ability only during your turn and only once each turn.
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Invisibility
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by Walls.
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Iron Star
Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.
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Ironclaw Orcs
Ironclaw Orcs can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.
Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan. To say that Orcs in general are vicious, depraved, and ignoble does not do justice to the Ironclaw.
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Ironroot Treefolk
The mating habits of Treefolk, particularly the stalwart Ironroot Treefolk, are truly absurd. Molasses comes to mind. It's amazing the species can survive at all given such protracted periods of mate selection, conjugation, and gestation.
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Island Sanctuary
If you would draw a card during your draw step, instead you may skip that draw. If you do, until your next turn, you can't be attacked except by creatures with flying and/or islandwalk.
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Ivory Cup
Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.
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Jade Monolith
: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.
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Jade Statue
: Jade Statue becomes a 3/6 Golem artifact creature until end of combat. Activate this ability only during combat.
"Some of the other guys dared me to touch it, but I knew it weren't no ordinary hunk o' rock."Norin the Wary
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Jayemdae Tome
, : Draw a card.
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Juggernaut
Juggernaut attacks each combat if able.
Juggernaut can't be blocked by Walls.
We had taken refuge in a small cave, thinking the entrance was too narrow for it to follow. To our horror, its gigantic head smashed into the mountainside, ripping itself a new entrance.
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Karma
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Karma deals damage to that player equal to the number of Swamps they control.
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Keldon Warlord
Keldon Warlord's power and toughness are each equal to the number of non-Wall creatures you control.
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Kormus Bell
All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.
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Kudzu
Enchant land
When enchanted land becomes tapped, destroy it. That land's controller attaches Kudzu to a land of their choice.
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Lance
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has first strike.
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Ley Druid
: Untap target land.
After years of training, the Druid becomes the one with nature, drawing power from the land and returning it when needed.
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Library of Leng
You have no maximum hand size.
If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.
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Lich
As Lich enters the battlefield, you lose life equal to your life total.
You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
If you would gain life, draw that many cards instead.
Whenever you're dealt damage, sacrifice that many nontoken permanents. If you can't, you lose the game.
When Lich is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you lose the game.
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Lifelace
Target spell or permanent becomes green. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)
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Lifetap
Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.
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Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.
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Living Artifact
Enchant artifact
Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on Living Artifact.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from Living Artifact. If you do, you gain 1 life.
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Living Lands
All Forests are 1/1 creatures that are still lands.
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Living Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Regenerate Living Wall.
Some fiendish mage had created a horrifying wall of living flesh, patched together from a jumble of still-recognizable body parts. As we sought to hew our way through it, some unknown power healed the gaping wounds we cut, denying us passage.
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Llanowar Elves
: Add .
Whenever the Llanowar Elves gather the fruits of their forest, they leave one plant of each type untouched, considering that nature's portion.
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Lord of Atlantis
Other Merfolk creatures get +1/+1 and have islandwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
A master of tactics, the Lord of Atlantis makes his people bold in battle merely by arriving to lead them.
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Lord of the Pit
Flying, trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than Lord of the Pit. If you can't, Lord of the Pit deals 7 damage to you.
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Lure
Enchant creature
All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.
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Magical Hack
Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one basic land type with another. (For example, you may change "swampwalk" to "plainswalk." This effect lasts indefinitely.)
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Mahamoti Djinn
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Of royal blood amongst the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti Djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection.
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Mana Flare
Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.
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Mana Short
Tap all lands target player controls and that player loses all unspent mana.
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Mana Vault
Mana Vault doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, untap Mana Vault.
At the beginning of your draw step, if Mana Vault is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
: Add .
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Manabarbs
Whenever a player taps a land for mana, Manabarbs deals 1 damage to that player.
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Meekstone
Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
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Merfolk of the Pearl Trident
Most human scholars believe that Merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from Merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier.
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Mesa Pegasus
Flying; banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
Before a woman marries in the village of Sursi, she must visit the land of the Mesa Pegasus. Legend has it that if the woman is pure of heart and her love is true, a Mesa Pegasus will appear, blessing her family with long life and good fortune.
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Mind Twist
Target player discards X cards at random.
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Mons's Goblin Raiders
The intricate dynamics of Rundvelt Goblin affairs are often confused with anarchy. The chaos, however, is the chaos of a thundercloud, and direction will sporadically and violently appear. Pashalik Mons and his raiders are the thunderhead that leads in the storm.
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Mox Emerald
: Add .
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Mox Sapphire
: Add .
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Natural Selection
Look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. You may have that player shuffle their library.
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Nether Shadow
Haste
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Nether Shadow is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put Nether Shadow onto the battlefield.
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Nettling Imp
: Choose target non-Wall creature the active player has controlled continuously since the beginning of the turn. That creature attacks this turn if able. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step if it didn't attack this turn. Activate this ability only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared.
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Nevinyrral's Disk
Nevinyrral's Disk enters the battlefield tapped.
, : Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.
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Nightmare
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Nightmare's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.
The Nightmare arises from its lair in the swamps. As the poisoned land spreads, so does the Nightmare's rage and terrifying strength.
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Northern Paladin
, : Destroy target black permanent.
"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort."—The Book of Tal
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Obsianus Golem
"The foot stone is connected to the ankle stone, the ankle stone is connected to the leg stone . . ."—Song of the Artificer
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Orcish Artillery
: Orcish Artillery deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.
In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.
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Orcish Oriflamme
Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.
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Paralyze
Enchant creature
When Paralyze enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay . If the player does, untap the creature.
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Pearled Unicorn
"‘Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before' ‘Well, now that we have seen each other,' said the Unicorn, ‘if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.'"—Lewis Carroll
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Personal Incarnation
: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to Personal Incarnation this turn is dealt to its owner instead. Only Personal Incarnation's owner may activate this ability.
When Personal Incarnation dies, its owner loses half their life, rounded up.
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Pestilence
At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Pestilence.
: Pestilence deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
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Phantasmal Forces
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Phantasmal Forces unless you pay .
These beings embody the essence of true heroes long dead. Summoned from the dreamrealms, they rise to meet their enemies.
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Phantasmal Terrain
Enchant land
As Phantasmal Terrain enters the battlefield, choose a basic land type.
Enchanted land is the chosen type.
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Phantom Monster
Flying
"While, like a ghastly rapid river,Through the pale door,A hideous throng rush out forever,And laugh—but smile no more."—Edgar Allan Poe, "The Haunted Palace"
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Pirate Ship
Pirate Ship can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
: Pirate Ship deals 1 damage to any target.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice Pirate Ship.
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Plague Rats
Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.
"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..."—Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"
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Power Leak
Enchant enchantment
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted enchantment's controller, that player may pay any amount of mana. Power Leak deals 2 damage to that player. Prevent X of that damage, where X is the amount of mana that player paid this way.
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Power Sink
Counter target spell unless its controller pays . If that player doesn't, they tap all lands with mana abilities they control and lose all unspent mana.
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Power Surge
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Power Surge deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.
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Prodigal Sorcerer
: Prodigal Sorcerer deals 1 damage to any target.
Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.
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Psionic Blast
Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.
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Psychic Venom
Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, Psychic Venom deals 2 damage to that land's controller.
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Purelace
Target spell or permanent becomes white. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)
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Raging River
Whenever one or more creatures you control attack, each defending player divides all creatures without flying they control into a "left" pile and a "right" pile. Then, for each attacking creature you control, choose "left" or "right." That creature can't be blocked this combat except by creatures with flying and creatures in a pile with the chosen label.
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Raise Dead
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
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Red Elemental Blast
Choose one —
• Counter target blue spell.
• Destroy target blue permanent.
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Red Ward
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has protection from red. This effect doesn't remove Red Ward.
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Regeneration
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)
: Regenerate enchanted creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)
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Regrowth
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
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Resurrection
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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Reverse Damage
The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.
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Righteousness
Target blocking creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.
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Roc of Kher Ridges
Flying
We encountered a valley topped with immense boulders and eerie rock formations. Suddenly one of these boulders toppled from its perch and spread gargantuan wings, casting a shadow of darkness and sending us fleeing in terror.
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Rock Hydra
Rock Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
For each 1 damage that would be dealt to Rock Hydra, if it has a +1/+1 counter on it, remove a +1/+1 counter from it and prevent that 1 damage.
: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Rock Hydra this turn.
: Put a +1/+1 counter on Rock Hydra. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.
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Rod of Ruin
, : Rod of Ruin deals 1 damage to any target.
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Royal Assassin
: Destroy target tapped creature.
Trained in the arts of stealth, the royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.
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Sacrifice
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add an amount of equal to the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost.
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Samite Healer
: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.
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Savannah Lions
The traditional kings of the jungle command a healthy respect in other climates as well. Relying mainly on their stealth and speed, Savannah Lions can take a victim by surprise, even in the endless flat plains of their homeland.
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Scathe Zombies
"They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,/ Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;/ It had been strange, even in a dream,/To have seen those dead men rise."/Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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Scavenging Ghoul
At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on Scavenging Ghoul for each creature that died this turn.
Remove a corpse counter from Scavenging Ghoul: Regenerate Scavenging Ghoul.
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Scryb Sprites
Flying
The only sound was the gentle clicking of the Faeries' wings. Then those intruders who were still standing turned and fled. One thing was certain: they didn't think the Scryb were very funny anymore.
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Sea Serpent
Sea Serpent can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice Sea Serpent.
Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?
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Sedge Troll
Sedge Troll gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp.
: Regenerate Sedge Troll.
The stench in the hovel was overpowering; something loathsome was cooking. Occasionally something surfaced in the thick paste, but my host would casually push it down before I could make out what it was.
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Sengir Vampire
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Sengir Vampire this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Sengir Vampire.
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Serra Angel
Flying, vigilance
Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.
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Shanodin Dryads
Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.
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Shivan Dragon
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
: Shivan Dragon gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
While it's true most Dragons are cruel, the Shivan Dragon seems to take particular glee in the misery of others, often tormenting its victims much like a cat plays with a mouse before delivering the final blow.
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Simulacrum
You gain life equal to the damage dealt to you this turn. Simulacrum deals damage to target creature you control equal to the damage dealt to you this turn.
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Siren's Call
Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared.
Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able.
At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.
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Sleight of Mind
Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (For example, you may change "target black spell" to "target blue spell." This effect lasts indefinitely.)
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Smoke
Players can't untap more than one creature during their untap steps.
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Soul Net
Whenever a creature dies, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.
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Spell Blast
Counter target spell with converted mana cost X. (For example, if that spell's mana cost is , X is 5.)
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Stasis
Players skip their untap steps.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Stasis unless you pay .
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Steal Artifact
Enchant artifact
You control enchanted artifact.
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Stone Giant
: Target creature you control with toughness less than Stone Giant's power gains flying until end of turn. Destroy that creature at the beginning of the next end step.
What goes up, must come down.
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Stone Rain
Destroy target land.
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Stream of Life
Target player gains X life.
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Sunglasses of Urza
You may spend white mana as though it were red mana.
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Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
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Terror
Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
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The Hive
, : Create a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying named Wasp. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
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Thicket Basilisk
Whenever Thicket Basilisk blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.
Moss-covered statues littered the area, a macabre monument to the Basilisk's power.
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Thoughtlace
Target spell or permanent becomes blue. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)
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Throne of Bone
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.
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Timber Wolves
Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
Though many think of Wolves as solitary predators, they are actually extremely social animals. During a hunt they often call to each other, which can be quite unsettling for their prey.
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Time Vault
Time Vault enters the battlefield tapped.
Time Vault doesn't untap during your untap step.
If you would begin your turn while Time Vault is tapped, you may skip that turn instead. If you do, untap Time Vault.
: Take an extra turn after this one.
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Timetwister
Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. (Then put Timetwister into its owner's graveyard.)
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Tranquility
Destroy all enchantments.
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Tropical Island
(: Add or .)
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Twiddle
You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.
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Two-Headed Giant of Foriys
Trample
Two-Headed Giant of Foriys can block an additional creature each combat.
None know if this Giant is the result of aberrant magics, Siamese twins, or a mentalist's schizophrenia.
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Underground Sea
(: Add or .)
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Unholy Strength
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.
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Uthden Troll
: Regenerate Uthden Troll.
"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ereOi oi oi, me smell a ting is near,Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n dahurt'll disappear."—Traditional
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Verduran Enchantress
Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may draw a card.
Some say magic was first practiced by women, who have always felt strong ties to the land.
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Vesuvan Doppelganger
You may have Vesuvan Doppelganger enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it doesn't copy that creature's color and it gains "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have this creature become a copy of target creature except it doesn't copy that creature's color. If you do, this creature gains this ability."
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Veteran Bodyguard
As long as Veteran Bodyguard is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to Veteran Bodyguard instead.
Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.
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Volcanic Eruption
Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.
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Volcanic Island
(: Add or .)
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Wall of Air
Defender, flying (This creature can't attack, and it can block creatures with flying.)
"This ‘standing windstorm' can hold us off indefinitely? Ridiculous" Saying nothing, she put a pinch of salt on the table. With a bang she clapped her hands, and the salt disappeared, blown away.
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Wall of Bone
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Regenerate Wall of Bone. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)
The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.
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Wall of Brambles
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Regenerate Wall of Brambles.
"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf."Conrad Aiken
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Wall of Fire
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Wall of Fire gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Conjured from the bowels of hell, the fiery wall forms an impassable barrier, searing the soul of any creature attempting to pass through its terrible bursts of flame.
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Wall of Ice
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
"And through the drifts the snowy cliffs/ Did send a dismal sheen:/ Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—/ The ice was all between."/Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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Wall of Stone
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
The Earth herself lends her strength to these walls of living stone, which possess the stability of ancient mountains. These mighty bulwarks thwart ground-based troops, providing welcome relief for weary warriors who defend the land.
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Wall of Swords
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Just as the evil ones approached to slay Justina, she cast a great spell, imbuing her weapons with her own life force. Thus she fulfilled the prophecy: "In the death of your savior will you find salvation."
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Wall of Water
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: Wall of Water gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
A deafening roar arose as the fury of an enormous vertical river supplanted our serenity. Eddies turned into whirling geysers, leveling everything in their path.
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Wall of Wood
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Everybody knows that to ward off trouble, you knock on wood. But usually it's better to make a wall out of the wood and let trouble do the knocking.
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Wanderlust
Enchant creature
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Wanderlust deals 1 damage to that player.
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War Mammoth
Trample
I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.
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Warp Artifact
Enchant artifact
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted artifact's controller, Warp Artifact deals 1 damage to that player.
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Water Elemental
Unpredictable as the sea itself, Water Elementals shift without warning from tranquility to tempest. Capricious and fickle, they flow restlessly from one shape to another, expressing their moods with their physical forms.
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Weakness
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.
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Web
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)
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Wheel of Fortune
Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.
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White Knight
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Protection from black (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything black.)
Out of the blackness and stench of the engulfing swamp emerged a shimmering figure. Only the splattered armor and ichor-stained sword hinted at the unfathomable evil the knight had just laid waste.
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White Ward
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has protection from white. This effect doesn't remove White Ward.
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Wild Growth
Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional .
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Will-o'-the-Wisp
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
: Regenerate Will-o'-the-Wisp. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)
"About, about in reel and routThe death-fires danced at night;The water, like a witch's oils,Burnt green, and blue and white."—Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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Winter Orb
As long as Winter Orb is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.
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Wooden Sphere
Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may pay . If you do, you gain 1 life.
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Word of Command
Look at target opponent's hand and choose a card from it. You control that player until Word of Command finishes resolving. The player plays that card if able. While doing so, the player can activate mana abilities only if they're from lands that player controls and only if mana they produce is spent to activate other mana abilities of lands the player controls and/or to play that card. If the chosen card is cast as a spell, you control the player while that spell is resolving.
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Wrath of God
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.
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Zombie Master
Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Other Zombies have ": Regenerate this permanent."
They say the Zombie Master controlled these foul creatures even before his own death, but now that he is one of them, nothing can make them betray him.
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