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Name
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Cost
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Type
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P/T
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Rules Text
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Flavor Text
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Rarity
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Artist
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Æthermage's Touch
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Instant |
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Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them into play with “At the end of your turn, 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. |
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R |
Randy Gallegos |
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Anthem of Rakdos
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Enchantment |
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Whenever a creature you control attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn and Anthem of Rakdos deals 1 damage to you. Hellbent — As long as you have no cards in hand, if a source you control would deal damage to a creature or player, it deals double that damage to that creature or player instead. |
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R |
Ralph Horsley |
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Azorius Chancery
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Land |
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Azorius Chancery comes into play tapped. When Azorius Chancery comes into play, return a land you control to its owner’s hand.
: Add  to your mana pool. |
|
C |
John Avon |
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Azorius Ploy
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Instant |
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Prevent all combat damage target creature would deal this turn. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn. |
Azorius military tactics, like their legal tactics, capitalize on delay and nullification.
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U |
Michael Sutfin |
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Azorius Signet
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Artifact |
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, : Add  to your mana pool. |
The maze-like design embodies the core of Azorius law-strict structure designed to test wills and stall change.
|
C |
Greg Hildebrandt |
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Biomantic Mastery
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Sorcery |
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( can be paid with either or .)
Draw a card for each creature target player controls, then draw a card for each creature another target player controls. |
"Look beyond, to the vascular awareness that all life is a map to greater knowledge." -Momir Vig, Biomancy, vol. I
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R |
Dan Scott |
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Blessing of the Nephilim
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each of its colors. |
"Before the first stone was laid or the first elf-child born, the power of the nephilim was gathering. Let that power be spread by my hands."
|
U |
Greg Hildebrandt |
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Blood Crypt
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Land — Swamp Mountain |
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( : Add or to your mana pool.)
As Blood Crypt comes into play, you may pay 2 life. If you don’t, Blood Crypt comes into play tapped instead. |
|
R |
Rob Alexander |
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Bond of Agony
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Sorcery |
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As an additional cost to play Bond of Agony, pay X life. Each other player loses X life. |
The Rakdos are unique in designing torture equipment they can operate while "suffering" alongside their victims.
|
U |
Luca Zontini |
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Bound // Determined
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//

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Instant // Instant |
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Sacrifice a creature. Return up to X cards from your graveyard to your hand, where X is the number of colors that creature was. Then remove this card from the game. // Other spells you control can’t be countered by spells or abilities this turn. Draw a card. |
|
R |
Jim Nelson |
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Brace for Impact
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Instant |
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Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target multicolored creature this turn. For each 1 damage prevented this way, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. |
Flesh can be tempered by spellcraft and forged ever stronger by the hammers of foes.
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U |
Dan Scott |
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Brain Pry
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Sorcery |
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Name a nonland card. Target player reveals his or her hand. That player discards a card with that name. If he or she can’t, you draw a card. |
To the Rakdos, the fun is in the shakedown. The loot is usually discarded.
|
U |
Jim Nelson |
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Breeding Pool
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Land — Forest Island |
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( : Add or to your mana pool.)
As Breeding Pool comes into play, you may pay 2 life. If you don’t, Breeding Pool comes into play tapped instead. |
|
R |
Rob Alexander |
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Cackling Flames
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Instant |
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Cackling Flames deals 3 damage to target creature or player. Hellbent — Cackling Flames deals 5 damage to that creature or player instead if you have no cards in hand. |
"I like a little entertainment with my dinner." -Rakdos
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C |
Shishizaru |
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Carom
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Instant |
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The next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn is dealt to another target creature instead. Draw a card. |
Her enemy's strength is her own.
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C |
Alex Horley-Orlandelli |
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Condemn
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Instant |
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Put target attacking creature on the bottom of its owner’s library. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness. |
"No doubt the arbiters would put you away, after all the documents are signed. But I will have justice now!" -Alovnek, Boros guildmage
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U |
Daren Bader |
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Crime // Punishment
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//
 
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Sorcery // Sorcery |
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Put target creature or enchantment card in an opponent’s graveyard into play under your control. // Destroy each artifact, creature, and enchantment with converted mana cost X. |
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R |
Randy Gallegos |
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Cytoshape
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Instant |
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Choose a nonlegendary creature in play. Target creature becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn. |
"Though highly effective at reshaping flesh, these specially bred cytoplasts leave the subject reeking of omnibian mucus." -Simic research notes
|
R |
Alan Pollack |
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Delirium Skeins
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Sorcery |
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Each player discards three cards. |
There came a rush, a sudden fire in the mind. Then the two saw only the sooty fog of madness, heard only the crackling of their last thoughts burning away.
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C |
Aleksi Briclot |
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Demonfire
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Sorcery |
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Demonfire deals X damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would be put into a graveyard this turn, remove it from the game instead. Hellbent — If you have no cards in hand, Demonfire can’t be countered by spells or abilities and the damage can’t be prevented. |
|
R |
Greg Staples |
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Dovescape
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Enchantment |
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( can be paid with either or .)
Whenever a player plays a noncreature spell, counter that spell. That player puts X 1/1 white and blue Bird creature tokens with flying into play, where X is the spell’s converted mana cost. |
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R |
Shishizaru |
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Elemental Resonance
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant permanent At the beginning of your precombat main phase, add mana equal to enchanted permanent’s mana cost to your mana pool. (Mana cost includes color. If a mana symbol has multiple colors, choose one.) |
|
R |
Mark Tedin |
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Evolution Vat
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Artifact |
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, : Tap target creature and put a +1/+1 counter on it. Until end of turn, that creature gains “  : Double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.” |
The vats are self-contained worlds, bubbling and churning with unnatural speed, boiling down eons of change into moments.
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R |
John Avon |
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Fertile Imagination
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Sorcery |
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Choose a card type. Target opponent reveals his or her hand. Put two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens into play for each card of the chosen type revealed this way. (The card types are artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, and sorcery.) |
|
U |
Dan Scott |
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Flash Foliage
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Instant |
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Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token into play blocking target creature attacking you. Draw a card. |
"This undemanding vegetation takes root in a mote of dust but grows incredibly quickly." -Simic research notes
|
U |
Ron Spears |
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Ghost Quarter
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Land |
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: Add to your mana pool.
, Sacrifice Ghost Quarter: Destroy target land. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put it into play, then shuffle his or her library. |
Where wasted life cries out to be reborn.
|
U |
Heather Hudson |
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Govern the Guildless
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Sorcery |
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Gain control of target monocolored creature. Forecast —  , Reveal Govern the Guildless from your hand: Target creature becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn. (Play this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.) |
|
R |
Alex Horley-Orlandelli |
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Hallowed Fountain
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Land — Plains Island |
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( : Add or to your mana pool.)
As Hallowed Fountain comes into play, you may pay 2 life. If you don’t, Hallowed Fountain comes into play tapped instead. |
|
R |
Rob Alexander |
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Hide // Seek
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//

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Instant // Instant |
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Put target artifact or enchantment on the bottom of its owner’s library. // Search target opponent’s library for a card and remove that card from the game. You gain life equal to its converted mana cost. Then that player shuffles his or her library. |
|
R |
Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai |
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Hit // Run
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//
 
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Instant // Instant |
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Target player sacrifices an artifact or creature. Hit deals damage to that player equal to that permanent’s converted mana cost. // Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking creature. |
|
U |
Darrell Riche |
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Ignorant Bliss
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Instant |
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Remove all cards in your hand from the game face down. At end of turn, return those cards to your hand, then draw a card. |
"A quick step beyond oblivion lies a place so full of thoughts that it leaves no room for your own." -Quyzl, chronarch prodigy
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U |
Jeff Miracola |
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Infernal Tutor
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Sorcery |
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Reveal a card from your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. Hellbent — If you have no cards in hand, instead search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. |
|
R |
Kev Walker |
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Kindle the Carnage
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Sorcery |
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Discard a card at random. If you do, Kindle the Carnage deals damage equal to that card’s converted mana cost to each creature. You may repeat this process any number of times. |
"Start knockin' heads, boys, and don't stop 'til the ragamuffyn sings!"
|
U |
Dany Orizio |
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Leafdrake Roost
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant land Enchanted land has “ , : Put a 2/2 green and blue Drake creature token with flying into play.” |
"The best experiments are those whose successes replicate themselves." -Yolov, Simic bioengineer
|
U |
Nick Percival |
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Macabre Waltz
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Sorcery |
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Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card. |
"All dead move to the hollow rhythm of necromancy." -Savra
|
C |
Jim Murray |
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Magewright’s Stone
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Artifact |
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, : Untap target creature that has an activated ability with in its cost. |
The stones hark back to an age before civilization, when the living earth blessed all who trod its untamed wilds.
|
U |
Carl Critchlow |
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Might of the Nephilim
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Instant |
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Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each of its colors. |
"Send a runner to Tin Street, and tell 'em the delivery has been . . . uh . . . held up." -Bonmod, caravan rear guard
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U |
Parente |
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Muse Vessel
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Artifact |
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, : Target player removes a card in his or her hand from the game. Play this ability only any time you could play a sorcery.
: Choose a card removed from the game with Muse Vessel. You may play that card this turn. |
|
R |
Christopher Rush |
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Nettling Curse
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 3 life.
 : Enchanted creature attacks this turn if able. |
"I call them 'Poke' and 'Prod.'" -Chagrach, Rakdos cursemage
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C |
Jeremy Jarvis & Wayne Reynolds |
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Nightcreep
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Instant |
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Until end of turn, all creatures become black and all lands become Swamps. |
"Please tell me I'm hallucinating. I'd rather be crazy than here." -Gorev Hadszak, Wojek investigator
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U |
Jeff Miracola |
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Nihilistic Glee
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Enchantment |
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, Discard a card: Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. Hellbent — , Pay 2 life: Draw a card. Play this ability only if you have no cards in hand. |
"All ends in obliteration-love in hatred, life in death, and light in empty darkness."
|
R |
Ron Spears & Wayne Reynolds |
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Novijen, Heart of Progress
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Land |
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: Add to your mana pool.
 , : Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature that came into play this turn. |
"The unnatural pressures of life in this city are best withstood by lifeforms that adapt with unnatural swiftness." -Momir Vig
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U |
Martina Pilcerova |
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Ocular Halo
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant creature Enchanted creature has “ : Draw a card.”
: Enchanted creature gains vigilance until end of turn. |
While the soldier dreams, the eyes stand watch.
|
C |
Ralph Horsley |
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Odds // Ends
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//
 
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Instant // Instant |
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Flip a coin. If it comes up heads, counter target instant or sorcery spell. If it comes up tails, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy. // Target player sacrifices two attacking creatures. |
|
R |
Michael Sutfin |
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Overrule
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Instant |
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Counter target spell unless its controller pays . You gain X life. |
With one commanding word, the spell was put down and a fine collected for its casting.
|
C |
Alan Pollack |
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Pain Magnification
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Enchantment |
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Whenever an opponent is dealt 3 or more damage by a single source, that player discards a card. |
The Rakdos make sure their victims remember their pain-or at least give up a little bit of their sanity in order to forget.
|
U |
Aleksi Briclot |
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Palliation Accord
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Enchantment |
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Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes tapped, put a shield counter on Palliation Accord. Remove a shield counter from Palliation Accord: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you this turn. |
|
U |
William Simpson |
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Pillar of the Paruns
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Land |
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: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to play a multicolored spell. |
Built on the very ground where the Ten signed the Guildpact, the tower is a monument to the past and a reminder of who holds power in the present.
|
R |
Dany Orizio |
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Plumes of Peace
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant creature Enchanted creature doesn’t untap during its controller’s untap step. Forecast —  , Reveal Plumes of Peace from your hand: Tap target creature. (Play this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.) |
|
C |
Justin Sweet |
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Prahv, Spires of Order
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Land |
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: Add to your mana pool.
  , : Prevent all damage a source of your choice would deal this turn. |
Prahv, where much work is done to make sure nothing is accomplished.
|
U |
Martina Pilcerova |
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Proclamation of Rebirth
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Sorcery |
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Return up to three target creature cards with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to play. Forecast —  , Reveal Proclamation of Rebirth from your hand: Return target creature card with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to play. (Play this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.) |
|
R |
William Simpson |
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Proper Burial
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Enchantment |
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Whenever a creature you control is put into a graveyard from play, you gain life equal to that creature’s toughness. |
Properly honored dead gain the peace of the grave and freedom from the call of the Ghost Quarter.
|
R |
Luca Zontini |
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Psychic Possession
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant opponent Skip your draw step. Whenever enchanted opponent draws a card, you may draw a card. |
"You will do the thinking for the both of us!"
|
R |
Mark Tedin |
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Psychotic Fury
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Instant |
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Target multicolored creature gains double strike until end of turn. Draw a card. |
"Rage, my servants. Our ancient power is renewed in blood." -Rakdos
|
C |
Kev Walker |
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Pure // Simple
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//
 
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Sorcery // Sorcery |
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Destroy target multicolored permanent. // Destroy all Auras and Equipment. |
|
U |
Parente |
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Rain of Gore
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Enchantment |
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If a spell or ability would cause its controller to gain life, that player loses that much life instead. |
"Stay indoors, away from what seeps over the thresholds. This is the Demon's work, and only ill can come of it." -Belko, owner of Titan's Keg tavern
|
R |
Fred Hooper |
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Rakdos Carnarium
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Land |
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Rakdos Carnarium comes into play tapped. When Rakdos Carnarium comes into play, return a land you control to its owner’s hand.
: Add  to your mana pool. |
|
C |
John Avon |
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Rakdos Riteknife
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Artifact — Equipment |
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Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each blood counter on Rakdos Riteknife and has “ , Sacrifice a creature: Put a blood counter on Rakdos Riteknife.”
 , Sacrifice Rakdos Riteknife: Target player sacrifices a permanent for each blood counter on Rakdos Riteknife. Equip  |
|
R |
Jim Nelson |
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Rakdos Signet
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Artifact |
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, : Add  to your mana pool. |
Made of bone and boiled in blood, a Rakdos signet is not considered finished until it has been used as a murder weapon.
|
C |
Greg Hildebrandt |
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Research // Development
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//
 
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Instant // Instant |
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Choose up to four cards you own from outside the game and shuffle them into your library. // Put a 3/1 red Elemental creature token into play unless any opponent lets you draw a card. Repeat this process two more times. |
|
R |
Greg Staples |
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Riot Spikes
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Enchantment — Aura |
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( can be paid with either or .)
Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/-1. |
Most auramancers would have let the spikes hover just above the skin. Having the spikes rip through the skin from beneath was a touch added by Rakdos himself.
|
C |
Christopher Moeller |
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Rise // Fall
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//

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Sorcery // Sorcery |
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Return target creature card in a graveyard and target creature in play to their owners’ hands. // Target player reveals two cards at random from his or her hand, then discards each nonland card revealed this way. |
|
U |
Pete Venters |
|
Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
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Land |
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: Add to your mana pool.
  , : Each player discards a card. Play this ability only any time you could play a sorcery. |
Even miles away, if you put your ear to the sewer vents, you can hear the screams and the tempestuous laughter.
|
U |
Martina Pilcerova |
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Seal of Doom
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Enchantment |
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Sacrifice Seal of Doom: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can’t be regenerated. |
"A basilisk's gaze is effective, but disposing of physical remains is a tiresone task. It's far more discrete to dissolve one's victim entirely." -Szadek
|
C |
Ralph Horsley |
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Seal of Fire
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Enchantment |
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Sacrifice Seal of Fire: Seal of Fire deals 2 damage to target creature or player. |
"If it breathes, it will burn." -Rakdos pyromancers' creed
|
C |
Ralph Horsley |
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Shielding Plax
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Enchantment — Aura |
|
( can be paid with either or .)
Enchant creature When Shielding Plax comes into play, draw a card. Enchanted creature can’t be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. |
|
C |
Brian Hagan |
|
Simic Growth Chamber
|
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Land |
|
Simic Growth Chamber comes into play tapped. When Simic Growth Chamber comes into play, return a land you control to its owner’s hand.
: Add  to your mana pool. |
|
C |
John Avon |
|
Simic Signet
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Artifact |
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, : Add  to your mana pool. |
For the Simic Combine, its sigil serves not as an emblem of honor but as a trademark. Its familiar image on any biological commodity attests to superb craftsmanship, ingenious innovation, and higher cost.
|
C |
Greg Hildebrandt |
|
Skullmead Cauldron
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Artifact |
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: You gain 1 life.
, Discard a card: You gain 3 life. |
Once tasted, the flavor of skullmead lingers in the throat, a secret brand of guilt for those who partake in forbidden pleasures.
|
U |
Martina Pilcerova |
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Skyscribing
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Sorcery |
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Each player draws X cards. Forecast —  , Reveal Skyscribing from your hand: Each player draws a card. (Play this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.) |
|
U |
Luca Zontini |
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Spell Snare
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Instant |
|
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2. |
Every culture has its unlucky numbers. In a city where you're either alone, in a crowd, or being stabbed in the back, two is the worst number of all.
|
U |
Hideaki Takamura |
|
Steeling Stance
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Instant |
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Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Forecast — , Reveal Steeling Stance from your hand: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. (Play this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.) |
|
C |
Randy Gallegos |
|
Stomp and Howl
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Sorcery |
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Destroy target artifact and target enchantment. |
"Mizzium may be impervious to fire, but obviously certain other things can . . . modify its form." -Ivos Koba, indrik handler
|
U |
Carl Critchlow |
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Street Savvy
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and can block creatures with landwalk abilities as though they didn’t have those abilities. |
"It takes more than swift feet and dark shadows to slip by me unnoticed."
|
C |
Kev Walker |
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Supply // Demand
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//
 
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Sorcery // Sorcery |
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Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens into play. // Search your library for a multicolored card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. |
|
U |
Daren Bader |
|
Swift Silence
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Instant |
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Counter all other spells. Draw a card for each spell countered this way. |
"This world may not know peace, but in my presence you will know quiet." -Augustin IV
|
R |
Greg Staples |
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Taste for Mayhem
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0. Hellbent — Enchanted creature gets an additional +2/+0 as long as you have no cards in hand. |
The taste of blood breaks down what little self-control the Rakdos possess.
|
C |
Greg Hildebrandt |
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Thrive
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Sorcery |
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Put a +1/+1 counter on each of X target creatures. |
The most successful of Simic creations is cytoplasm, a living, symbiotic substance that feeds off genetic rhythms and strengthens its host in return.
|
C |
Daren Bader |
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Trial // Error
|
//

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Instant // Instant |
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Return all creatures blocking or blocked by target creature to their owner’s hand. // Counter target multicolored spell. |
|
U |
Ron Spears & Wayne Reynolds |
|
Twinstrike
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Instant |
|
Twinstrike deals 2 damage to each of two target creatures. Hellbent — Destroy those creatures instead if you have no cards in hand. |
They're dying left and right.
|
U |
Christopher Rush |
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Utopia Sprawl
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant Forest As Utopia Sprawl comes into play, choose a color. Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of the chosen color to his or her mana pool. |
|
C |
Ron Spears |
|
Valor Made Real
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Instant |
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Target creature can block any number of creatures this turn. |
"As my father taught, 'Training will raise your shield to the blow, but courage fills the gaps the shield leaves open.'"
|
C |
Jeff Miracola |
|
Vigean Intuition
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Instant |
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Choose a card type, then reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all cards of the chosen type revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. (The card types are artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, and sorcery.) |
|
U |
Alex Horley-Orlandelli |
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Vision Skeins
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Instant |
|
Each player draws two cards. |
"I could see in the other mage's eyes that he'd thought of it too. Then it became a race to exploit the knowledge first."
|
C |
Aleksi Briclot |
|
Voidslime
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Instant |
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Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can’t be targeted.) |
"It is technically an ooze, but its lifespan measures only seconds. In that short time, its appetite for magic is extraordinary." -Simic research notes
|
R |
Jim Murray |
|
War’s Toll
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Enchantment |
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Whenever an opponent taps a land for mana, tap all lands that player controls. If a creature an opponent controls attacks, all creatures that opponent controls attack if able. |
Razia, archangel of war, demands total commitment.
|
R |
Dana Knutson |
|
Weight of Spires
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Instant |
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Weight of Spires deals damage to target creature equal to the number of nonbasic lands that creature’s controller controls. |
"Finally, a good use for an Azorius courthouse." -Ghut Rak, Gruul guildmage
|
U |
Michael Sutfin |
|
Wit’s End
|
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Sorcery |
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Target player discards his or her hand. |
"Some images are so powerful that one glance burns them into your mind forever. Come, let us gaze on nothingness." -Szadek
|
R |
Kev Walker |
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Wrecking Ball
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Instant |
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Destroy target creature or land. |
Rakdos festivals almost leave enough rubble in their wake to hide the bodies.
|
C |
Ron Spears |
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Writ of Passage
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature attacks, if its power is 2 or less, it’s unblockable this turn. Forecast —  , Reveal Writ of Passage from your hand: Target creature with power 2 or less is unblockable this turn. (Play this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.) |
|
C |
Luca Zontini |
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Aquastrand Spider
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Creature — Spider Mutant |
0/0 |
Graft 2 (This creature comes into play with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature comes into play, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)
: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it can block as though it had flying this turn. |
|
C |
Dany Orizio |
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Cytoplast Manipulator
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Creature — Human Wizard Mutant |
0/0 |
Graft 2 (This creature comes into play with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature comes into play, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)
, : Gain control of target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it as long as Cytoplast Manipulator remains in play. |
|
R |
Dan Scott |
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Cytoplast Root-Kin
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Creature — Elemental Mutant |
0/0 |
Graft 4 (This creature comes into play with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature comes into play, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) When Cytoplast Root-Kin comes into play, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control that has a +1/+1 counter on it.
: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature you control onto Cytoplast Root-Kin. |
|
R |
Thomas M. Baxa |
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Cytospawn Shambler
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Creature — Elemental Mutant |
0/0 |
Graft 6 (This creature comes into play with six +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature comes into play, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)
: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains trample until end of turn. |
|
C |
Anthony S. Waters |
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Helium Squirter
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Creature — Beast Mutant |
0/0 |
Graft 3 (This creature comes into play with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature comes into play, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)
: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains flying until end of turn. |
|
C |
Hideaki Takamura |
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Novijen Sages
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Creature — Human Advisor Mutant |
0/0 |
Graft 4 (This creature comes into play with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature comes into play, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)
, Remove two +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Draw a card. |
|
R |
Luca Zontini |
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Plaxcaster Frogling
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Creature — Frog Mutant |
0/0 |
Graft 3 (This creature comes into play with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature comes into play, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)
: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it can’t be the target of spells or abilities this turn. |
|
U |
Greg Staples |
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Simic Basilisk
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Creature — Basilisk Mutant |
0/0 |
Graft 3 (This creature comes into play with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature comes into play, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)
 : Until end of turn, target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains “Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.” |
|
U |
Luca Zontini |
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Simic Initiate
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Creature — Human Mutant |
0/0 |
Graft 1 (This creature comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever another creature comes into play, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) |
Simic initiates begin their training as experimental subjects. Failures are flushed to the undersewers.
|
C |
Dany Orizio |
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Sporeback Troll
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Creature — Troll Mutant |
0/0 |
Graft 2 (This creature comes into play with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature comes into play, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)
 : Regenerate target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it. |
|
C |
Dan Scott |
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Vigean Graftmage
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Creature — Vedalken Wizard Mutant |
0/0 |
Graft 2 (This creature comes into play with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature comes into play, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)
 : Untap target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it. |
|
U |
Alan Pollack |
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Vigean Hydropon
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Creature — Plant Mutant |
0/0 |
Graft 5 (This creature comes into play with five +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature comes into play, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) Vigean Hydropon can’t attack or block. |
Fruits of magic, roots in science.
|
C |
Anthony S. Waters |
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Slithering Shade
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Creature — Shade |
0/1 |
Defender (This creature can’t attack.)
: Slithering Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Hellbent — Slithering Shade can attack as though it didn’t have defender as long as you have no cards in hand. |
|
U |
Daren Bader |
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Sprouting Phytohydra
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Creature — Plant Hydra |
0/2 |
Defender (This creature can’t attack.) Whenever Sprouting Phytohydra is dealt damage, you may put a token into play that’s a copy of Sprouting Phytohydra. |
A hydra tender's problem isn't having enough defenses but enough pots.
|
R |
Heather Hudson |
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Unliving Psychopath
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Creature — Zombie Assassin |
0/4 |
: Unliving Psychopath gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
, : Destroy target creature with power less than Unliving Psychopath’s power. |
"The victim bears the marks of the 'Ktozok Impaler'. . . but he was executed years ago!" -Gorev Hadszak, Wojek investigator
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R |
Greg Staples |
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Azorius Æthermage
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Creature — Human Wizard |
1/1 |
Whenever a permanent is returned to your hand, you may pay . If you do, draw a card. |
In her single metasphere are bound the records of every Ætheric transaction since the time of Azor.
|
U |
Heather Hudson |
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Beacon Hawk
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Creature — Bird |
1/1 |
Flying Whenever Beacon Hawk deals combat damage to a player, you may untap target creature.
: Beacon Hawk gets +0/+1 until end of turn. |
|
C |
William Simpson |
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Coiling Oracle
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Creature — Snake Elf Druid |
1/1 |
When Coiling Oracle comes into play, reveal the top card of your library. If it’s a land card, put it into play. Otherwise, put that card into your hand. |
Snaking remnants of nature directed by a body of thought and progress, the oracles embody all that is Simic.
|
C |
Mark Zug |
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Haazda Exonerator
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Creature — Human Cleric |
1/1 |
, Sacrifice Haazda Exonerator: Destroy target Aura. |
"This aura threatens the sanctity of your soul. Wrenching it free won't be easy on either of us. If you're ready, we'll begin."
|
C |
Kev Walker |
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Haazda Shield Mate
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Creature — Human Soldier |
1/1 |
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Haazda Shield Mate unless you pay  .
: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. |
The Haazda shield is broad, protecting both the free and the guilded.
|
R |
Ron Spears |
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Kill-Suit Cultist
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Creature — Goblin Berserker |
1/1 |
Kill-Suit Cultist attacks each turn if able.
, Sacrifice Kill-Suit Cultist: The next time damage would be dealt to target creature this turn, destroy that creature instead. |
Dressed to kill.
|
C |
Alex Horley-Orlandelli |
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Minister of Impediments
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|
Creature — Human Advisor |
1/1 |
( can be paid with either or .)
: Tap target creature. |
When it takes forever to learn all the rules, no time is left for breaking them.
|
C |
Brian Hagan |
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Pride of the Clouds
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Creature — Elemental Cat |
1/1 |
Flying Pride of the Clouds gets +1/+1 for each other creature in play with flying. Forecast —   , Reveal Pride of the Clouds from your hand: Put a 1/1 white and blue Bird creature token with flying into play. (Play this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.) |
|
R |
Rebecca Guay |
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Rakdos Ickspitter
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Creature — Thrull |
1/1 |
: Rakdos Ickspitter deals 1 damage to target creature and that creature’s controller loses 1 life. |
"Our thrulls dissolve from the inside out in a matter of days. Shoddy work, but they're a scream while they last." -Uzric, Rakdos guildmage
|
C |
Christopher Rush |
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Vesper Ghoul
|
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Creature — Zombie Druid |
1/1 |
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. |
"Nature's exceptions remind us not to think in absolutes. Just as the orchid blossoms on blackened stone, so does the gift of mana occasionally manifest in the undead." -Bougrat, druid of the Cult of Yore
|
C |
Thomas M. Baxa |
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Walking Archive
|
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Artifact Creature — Golem |
1/1 |
Defender (This creature can’t attack.) Walking Archive comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it. At the beginning of each player’s upkeep, that player draws a card for each +1/+1 counter on Walking Archive.
  : Put a +1/+1 counter on Walking Archive. |
|
R |
Heather Hudson |
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Utvara Scalper
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Creature — Goblin Scout |
1/2 |
Flying Utvara Scalper attacks each turn if able. |
He wages war wherever the wind carries him.
|
C |
Christopher Rush |
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Court Hussar
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Creature — Vedalken Knight |
1/3 |
Vigilance When Court Hussar comes into play, look at the top three cards of your library, then put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. When Court Hussar comes into play, sacrifice it unless was spent to play it. |
|
U |
Ron Spears |
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Windreaver
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|
Creature — Elemental |
1/3 |
Flying
: Windreaver gains vigilance until end of turn.
: Windreaver gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
: Switch Windreaver’s power and toughness until end of turn.
: Return Windreaver to its owner’s hand. |
|
R |
Aleksi Briclot |
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Soulsworn Jury
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|
Creature — Spirit |
1/4 |
Defender (This creature can’t attack.)
 , Sacrifice Soulsworn Jury: Counter target creature spell. |
In death, as in life, they protect the Grand Arbiter from exposure to contrary points of view.
|
C |
Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai |
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Azorius Herald
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|
Creature — Spirit |
2/1 |
Azorius Herald is unblockable. When Azorius Herald comes into play, you gain 4 life. When Azorius Herald comes into play, sacrifice it unless was spent to play it. |
"As peace should be-gentle yet unstoppable." -Augustin IV
|
U |
Justin Sweet |
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Mistral Charger
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|
Creature — Pegasus |
2/1 |
Flying |
Some sky steeds break from the thundering herd to ride free on the open winds.
|
U |
Terese Nielsen |
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Patagia Viper
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Creature — Snake |
2/1 |
Flying When Patagia Viper comes into play, put two 1/1 green and blue Snake creature tokens into play. When Patagia Viper comes into play, sacrifice it unless was spent to play it. |
|
U |
Christopher Moeller |
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Silkwing Scout
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|
Creature — Faerie Scout |
2/1 |
Flying
, Sacrifice Silkwing Scout: Search your library for a basic land card and put that card into play tapped. Then shuffle your library. |
|
C |
Rebecca Guay |
|
Squealing Devil
|
|
Creature — Devil |
2/1 |
Fear When Squealing Devil comes into play, you may pay . If you do, target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn. When Squealing Devil comes into play, sacrifice it unless was spent to play it. |
|
U |
Matt Cavotta |
|
Aurora Eidolon
|
|
Creature — Spirit |
2/2 |
, Sacrifice Aurora Eidolon: Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn. Whenever you play a multicolored spell, you may return Aurora Eidolon from your graveyard to your hand. |
|
C |
Justin Sweet |
|
Azorius First-Wing
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|
Creature — Griffin |
2/2 |
Flying, protection from enchantments |
With a steady diet of lawbreakers, Azorius griffins inevitably develop a resistance to the contraband magic that taints much of their prey.
|
C |
Alex Horley-Orlandelli |
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Azorius Guildmage
|
|
Creature — Vedalken Wizard |
2/2 |
( can be paid with either or .)
: Tap target creature.
 : Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can’t be targeted.) |
|
U |
Christopher Moeller |
|
Crypt Champion
|
|
Creature — Zombie |
2/2 |
Double strike When Crypt Champion comes into play, each player puts a creature card with converted mana cost 3 or less from his or her graveyard into play. When Crypt Champion comes into play, sacrifice it unless was spent to play it. |
|
U |
Pete Venters |
|
Demon’s Jester
|
|
Creature — Imp |
2/2 |
Flying Hellbent — Demon’s Jester gets +2/+1 as long as you have no cards in hand. |
They knock 'em dead, with or without the punch line.
|
C |
Pete Venters |
|
Enigma Eidolon
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|
Creature — Spirit |
2/2 |
, Sacrifice Enigma Eidolon: Target player puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Whenever you play a multicolored spell, you may return Enigma Eidolon from your graveyard to your hand. |
|
C |
Shishizaru |
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Entropic Eidolon
|
|
Creature — Spirit |
2/2 |
, Sacrifice Entropic Eidolon: Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. Whenever you play a multicolored spell, you may return Entropic Eidolon from your graveyard to your hand. |
|
C |
Aleksi Briclot |
|
Flaring Flame-Kin
|
|
Creature — Elemental Warrior |
2/2 |
As long as Flaring Flame-Kin is enchanted, it gets +2/+2, has trample, and has “ : Flaring Flame-Kin gets +1/+0 until end of turn.” |
A flame-kin is always formidable, but feeding its fire with a sorcerous gift grants it the power to devastate armies.
|
U |
Brian Hagan |
|
Freewind Equenaut
|
|
Creature — Human Archer |
2/2 |
Flying As long as Freewind Equenaut is enchanted, it has “ : Freewind Equenaut deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.” |
Confront her, and feel the hooves of her steed. Ignore her, and feel the sting of her arrow.
|
C |
Rebecca Guay |
|
Gobhobbler Rats
|
|
Creature — Rat |
2/2 |
Hellbent — Gobhobbler Rats gets +1/+0 and has “ : Regenerate Gobhobbler Rats” as long as you have no cards in hand. |
Lyzolda's pet rats eat better than the average citizen. In fact, they can usually be found eating the average citizen.
|
C |
Michael Sutfin |
|
Hellhole Rats
|
|
Creature — Rat |
2/2 |
Haste When Hellhole Rats comes into play, target player discards a card. Hellhole Rats deals damage to that player equal to that card’s converted mana cost. |
"I must speak with Momir Vig about creating a water-spouting watchdog." -Mathvan, Prahv scrollwarden
|
U |
Kev Walker |
|
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
|
|
Legendary Creature — Elf Wizard |
2/2 |
Whenever you play a green creature spell, you may search your library for a creature card and reveal it. If you do, shuffle your library and put that card on top of it. Whenever you play a blue creature spell, reveal the top card of your library. If it’s a creature card, put that card into your hand. |
|
R |
Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai |
|
Plaxmanta
|
|
Creature — Beast |
2/2 |
You may play Plaxmanta any time you could play an instant. When Plaxmanta comes into play, creatures you control can’t be the targets of spells or abilities this turn. When Plaxmanta comes into play, sacrifice it unless was spent to play it. |
|
U |
Alan Pollack |
|
Ragamuffyn
|
|
Creature — Zombie Cleric |
2/2 |
Hellbent — , Sacrifice a creature or land: Draw a card. Play this ability only if you have no cards in hand. |
They cut the stitches and give her sips of her brew. Then they sew her up again, and she's back to stirring.
|
U |
rk post |
|
Rakdos Guildmage
|
|
Creature — Zombie Shaman |
2/2 |
( can be paid with either or .)
, Discard a card: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
 : Put a 2/1 red Goblin creature token with haste into play. Remove it from the game at end of turn. |
|
U |
Jeremy Jarvis |
|
Sandstorm Eidolon
|
|
Creature — Spirit |
2/2 |
, Sacrifice Sandstorm Eidolon: Target creature can’t block this turn. Whenever you play a multicolored spell, you may return Sandstorm Eidolon from your graveyard to your hand. |
|
C |
Brian Hagan |
|
Simic Guildmage
|
|
Creature — Elf Wizard |
2/2 |
( can be paid with either or .)
: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto another target creature with the same controller.
 : Attach target Aura enchanting a permanent to another permanent with the same controller. |
|
U |
Aleksi Briclot |
|
Stormscale Anarch
|
|
Creature — Viashino Shaman |
2/2 |
, Discard a card at random: Stormscale Anarch deals 2 damage to target creature or player. If the discarded card was multicolored, Stormscale Anarch deals 4 damage to that creature or player instead. |
|
R |
Ralph Horsley |
|
Verdant Eidolon
|
|
Creature — Spirit |
2/2 |
, Sacrifice Verdant Eidolon: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool. Whenever you play a multicolored spell, you may return Verdant Eidolon from your graveyard to your hand. |
|
C |
Tsutomu Kawade |
|
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
|
|
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor |
2/3 |
White spells you play cost less to play. Blue spells you play cost less to play. Spells your opponents play cost more to play. |
The Arbiter is a conduit of justice, a will so disciplined that it dispenses justice without ego or remorse.
|
R |
Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai |
|
Guardian of the Guildpact
|
|
Creature — Spirit |
2/3 |
Protection from monocolored |
The magic of the Guildpact gives aegis to the spirits pressed into its service. Upon entering the afterlife, they find new focus and are charged with defending the Guildpact against those who would see it broken.
|
C |
Fred Hooper |
|
Trygon Predator
|
|
Creature — Beast |
2/3 |
Flying Whenever Trygon Predator deals combat damage to a player, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls. |
Held aloft by metabolized magic, trygons are ravenous for sources of mystic fuel.
|
U |
Carl Critchlow |
|
Flame-Kin War Scout
|
|
Creature — Elemental Scout |
2/4 |
When another creature comes into play, sacrifice Flame-Kin War Scout. If you do, Flame-Kin War Scout deals 4 damage to that creature. |
"The forward flame-kin are popping. We have incoming!" -Svar, Boros signaler
|
U |
Fred Hooper |
|
Gnat Alley Creeper
|
|
Creature — Human Rogue |
3/1 |
Gnat Alley Creeper can’t be blocked by creatures with flying. |
Despite its diminutive name, Gnat Alley is the longest street in Ravnica. Mile after twisting mile, it threads its way among the broader, safer thoroughfares like a parasite.
|
U |
Pete Venters |
|
Lyzolda, the Blood Witch
|
|
Legendary Creature — Human Cleric |
3/1 |
, Sacrifice a creature: Lyzolda, the Blood Witch deals 2 damage to target creature or player if the sacrificed creature was red. Draw a card if the sacrificed creature was black. |
Sacrificial rites take place before an audience of cheering cultists, each begging to be the next on stage.
|
R |
Jim Nelson |
|
Loaming Shaman
|
|
Creature — Centaur Shaman |
3/2 |
When Loaming Shaman comes into play, target player shuffles any number of target cards from his or her graveyard into his or her library. |
His work determines who is remembered and who feeds the worms.
|
R |
Carl Critchlow |
|
Rakdos Augermage
|
|
Creature — Human Wizard |
3/2 |
First strike
: Reveal your hand and discard a card of target opponent’s choice. Then that player reveals his or her hand and discards a card of your choice. Play this ability only any time you could play a sorcery. |
"Great minds bleed alike."
|
R |
Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai |
|
Assault Zeppelid
|
|
Creature — Beast |
3/3 |
Flying, trample |
"Show them to Razia and then to the Azorius sky marshals. We could create a fine bidding war-enough to fund the final stages of Project Kraj." -Momir Vig
|
C |
Jeremy Jarvis |
|
Celestial Ancient
|
|
Creature — Elemental |
3/3 |
Flying Whenever you play an enchantment spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. |
"We thought the clouds had moved from the night sky. Then the night sky moved, and the horizon grew wings." -Josuri
|
R |
Mark Tedin |
|
Drekavac
|
|
Creature — Beast |
3/3 |
When Drekavac comes into play, sacrifice it unless you discard a noncreature card. |
Like a vulture's scalp, the face of a drekavac is oily and hairless. The filth and disease of its carrion diet slip off its blood-slick skin.
|
U |
Carl Critchlow |
|
Ogre Gatecrasher
|
|
Creature — Ogre Rogue |
3/3 |
When Ogre Gatecrasher comes into play, destroy target creature with defender. |
A popular game among ogres is to see how many revolutions a head can make before it pops off.
|
C |
Daren Bader |
|
Omnibian
|
|
Creature — Frog |
3/3 |
: Target creature becomes a 3/3 Frog until end of turn. |
"This creature has hyperevolved chameleonic abilities. It no longer mimics its surroundings, instead forcing them to take on its form." -Simic research notes
|
R |
Jim Nelson |
|
Rakdos Pit Dragon
|
|
Creature — Dragon |
3/3 |
: Rakdos Pit Dragon gains flying until end of turn.
: Rakdos Pit Dragon gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Hellbent — Rakdos Pit Dragon has double strike as long as you have no cards in hand. |
|
R |
Kev Walker |
|
Simic Ragworm
|
|
Creature — Worm |
3/3 |
: Untap Simic Ragworm. |
"Infused with autochthon blood for size and hellion cells for speed, the ragworm is perfect for clearing the undergardens of both rats and vagrants." -Yolov, Simic bioengineer
|
C |
Nick Percival |
|
Slaughterhouse Bouncer
|
|
Creature — Ogre Warrior |
3/3 |
Hellbent — When Slaughterhouse Bouncer is put into a graveyard from play, if you have no cards in hand, target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. |
A Rakdos party is a flop if anyone lives to talk about it.
|
C |
Greg Staples |
|
Transguild Courier
|
|
Artifact Creature — Golem |
3/3 |
Transguild Courier is all colors (even if this card isn’t in play). |
Reluctant to meet face to face, the leaders of the ten guilds prefer to do official business through a go-between immune to bribes and threats.
|
U |
John Avon |
|
Jagged Poppet
|
|
Creature — Ogre Warrior |
3/4 |
Whenever Jagged Poppet is dealt damage, discard that many cards. Hellbent — Whenever Jagged Poppet deals combat damage to a player, if you have no cards in hand, that player discards cards equal to the damage. |
Few puppets are so willing.
|
U |
Jeff Miracola |
|
Paladin of Prahv
|
|
Creature — Human Knight |
3/4 |
Whenever Paladin of Prahv deals damage, you gain that much life. Forecast —  , Reveal Paladin of Prahv from your hand: Whenever target creature deals damage this turn, you gain that much life. (Play this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.) |
|
U |
William Simpson |
|
Wakestone Gargoyle
|
|
Creature — Gargoyle |
3/4 |
Defender (This creature can’t attack.) Flying
 : Creatures you control with defender can attack this turn as though they didn’t have defender. |
Its pulsating cry shatters bonds of iron, granite, and servitude.
|
R |
Jim Murray |
|
Isperia the Inscrutable
|
|
Legendary Creature — Sphinx |
3/6 |
Flying Whenever Isperia the Inscrutable deals combat damage to a player, name a card. That player reveals his or her hand. If he or she reveals the named card, search your library for a creature card with flying, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. |
|
R |
Greg Staples |
|
Bronze Bombshell
|
|
Artifact Creature — Construct |
4/1 |
When a player other than Bronze Bombshell’s owner controls it, that player sacrifices it. If the player does, Bronze Bombshell deals 7 damage to him or her. |
"Ooh, shiny! Let's pull off the chain and take her with us." -Ukl, Gruul raider, last words
|
R |
Martina Pilcerova |
|
Enemy of the Guildpact
|
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Creature — Spirit |
4/2 |
Protection from multicolored |
Guilds often exterminate those who saw or knew too much. Some vindictive souls retain their knowledge, using it in the afterlife to crush the guilded and the vile bargain that gives them power.
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C |
Fred Hooper |
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Sky Hussar
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Creature — Human Knight |
4/3 |
Flying When Sky Hussar comes into play, untap all creatures you control. Forecast — Tap two untapped white and/or blue creatures you control, Reveal Sky Hussar from your hand: Draw a card. (Play this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.) |
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U |
Kev Walker |
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Indrik Stomphowler
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Creature — Beast |
4/4 |
When Indrik Stomphowler comes into play, destroy target artifact or enchantment. |
"An indrik's howl has destructive power much subtler than that of its crushing foot. The sound is mundane, but inaudible vibrations scatter and sunder magical contrivances." -Simic research notes
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U |
Carl Critchlow |
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Ratcatcher
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Creature — Ogre Rogue |
4/4 |
Fear At the beginning of your upkeep, you may search your library for a Rat card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library. |
An ogre's poisonous stench is like fine Kashkaval cheese to the noses lowest to the ground.
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R |
Dan Scott |
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Experiment Kraj
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Legendary Creature — Ooze Mutant |
4/6 |
Experiment Kraj has all activated abilities of each other creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.
: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. |
"Of course it will grow beyond control-it was designed to choose its own evolution." -Momir Vig
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R |
Mark Tedin |
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Avatar of Discord
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Creature — Avatar |
5/3 |
( can be paid with either or .)
Flying When Avatar of Discord comes into play, sacrifice it unless you discard two cards. |
Such is the power of Rakdos that even his shadow takes on a cruel life of its own.
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R |
rk post |
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Stalking Vengeance
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Creature — Avatar |
5/5 |
Haste Whenever another creature you control is put into a graveyard from play, it deals damage equal to its power to target player. |
Something roams the killing places, sniffing the guilt of the slayers, stalking them on iron paws.
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R |
Anthony S. Waters |
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Stoic Ephemera
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Creature — Spirit |
5/5 |
Defender (This creature can’t attack.) Flying When Stoic Ephemera blocks, sacrifice it at end of combat. |
"Life is fleeting, and so is death. Only the oath is eternal."
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U |
Randy Gallegos |
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Tidespout Tyrant
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Creature — Djinn |
5/5 |
Flying Whenever you play a spell, return target permanent to its owner’s hand. |
He unmakes the world in his own image.
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R |
Dany Orizio |
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Whiptail Moloch
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Creature — Lizard |
6/3 |
When Whiptail Moloch comes into play, it deals 3 damage to target creature you control. |
"It wags its tail when it's happy. It wags its tail when it's angry. Nope, there's no good time to be around a whiptail." -Rugar, Leaguehall Infirmary patient
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C |
Darrell Riche |
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Protean Hulk
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Creature — Beast |
6/6 |
When Protean Hulk is put into a graveyard from play, search your library for any number of creature cards with total converted mana cost 6 or less and put them into play. Then shuffle your library. |
"Meat and eggs. We eat!" -Borborygmos
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R |
Matt Cavotta |
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Simic Sky Swallower
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Creature — Leviathan |
6/6 |
Flying, trample Simic Sky Swallower can’t be the target of spells or abilities. |
"We've bred out the shortcomings of the species' natural form and replaced them with assets of our own design." -Momir Vig
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R |
rk post |
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Rakdos the Defiler
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Legendary Creature — Demon |
7/6 |
Flying, trample Whenever Rakdos the Defiler attacks, sacrifice half the non-Demon permanents you control, rounded up. Whenever Rakdos deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices half the non-Demon permanents he or she controls, rounded up. |
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R |
Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai |
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Dread Slag
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Creature — Horror |
9/9 |
Trample Dread Slag gets -4/-4 for each card in your hand. |
A thousand phobias sopped from the city and wrung from Rix Maadi as one.
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R |
Anthony S. Waters |