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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 Credit
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Streetbreaker Wurm
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Creature — Wurm |
6/4 |
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The Orzhov run a construction unit whose only business is rebuilding the wreckage left in the wake of wurms. When business is slow, they pay Golgari carnomancers to lure the wurms to the surface.
|
C |
Greg Hildebrandt |
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Gruul Guildmage
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Creature — Human Shaman |
2/2 |
( can be paid with either or .)
, Sacrifice a land: Gruul Guildmage deals 2 damage to target player.
 : Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. |
|
U |
Paolo Parente |
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Wild Cantor
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Creature — Human Druid |
1/1 |
( can be paid with either or .)
Sacrifice Wild Cantor: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. |
They are the voice of the wild, crying out with nature's fury and bringing forth its primeval might.
|
C |
Glenn Fabry |
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Giant Solifuge
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Creature — Insect |
4/1 |
( can be paid with either or .)
Trample, haste Giant Solifuge can't be the target of spells or abilities. |
“We respect all lifeforms, but this one we respect from a distance.” —Mandor, Selesnya ranger
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R |
Pat Lee |
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Izzet Guildmage
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Creature — Human Wizard |
2/2 |
( can be paid with either or .)
: Copy target instant spell you control with converted mana cost 2 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.
 : Copy target sorcery spell you control with converted mana cost 2 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy. |
|
U |
Jim Murray |
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Djinn Illuminatus
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Creature — Djinn |
3/5 |
( can be paid with either or .)
Flying Each instant and sorcery spell you play has replicate. The replicate cost is equal to its mana cost. (When you play it, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) |
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R |
Carl Critchlow |
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Petrahydrox
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Creature — Weird |
3/3 |
( can be paid with either or .)
When Petrahydrox becomes the target of a spell or ability, return Petrahydrox to its owner's hand. |
It departs through the streets' fissures with a sound like gravel pouring into a pond.
|
C |
Anthony S. Waters |
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Orzhov Guildmage
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Creature — Human Wizard |
2/2 |
( can be paid with either or .)
: Target player gains 1 life.
 : Each player loses 1 life. |
|
U |
Greg Staples |
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Debtors' Knell
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Enchantment |
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( can be paid with either or .)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card in a graveyard into play under your control. |
One moment, conscious only of a sense of repose. The next moment, hearing the trudge of his own footsteps. He sighed and squinted into the glare ahead.
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R |
Kev Walker |
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Mourning Thrull
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Creature — Thrull |
1/1 |
( can be paid with either or .)
Flying Whenever Mourning Thrull deals damage, you gain that much life. |
During their ascent to spirithood, patriarchs of Orzhova shed both flesh and emotion. This earthly slag is collected and formed into thrulls.
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C |
Dany Orizio |
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Stomping Ground
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Land — Mountain Forest |
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( : Add or to your mana pool.)
As Stomping Ground comes into play, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Stomping Ground comes into play tapped instead. |
|
R |
Rob Alexander |
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Steam Vents
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Land — Island Mountain |
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( : Add or to your mana pool.)
As Steam Vents comes into play, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Steam Vents comes into play tapped instead. |
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R |
Rob Alexander |
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Godless Shrine
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Land — Plains Swamp |
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( : Add or to your mana pool.)
As Godless Shrine comes into play, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Godless Shrine comes into play tapped instead. |
|
R |
Rob Alexander |
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Nivix, Aerie of the Firemind
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Land |
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: Add to your mana pool.
  , : Remove the top card of your library from the game. Until your next turn, you may play that card if it's an instant or sorcery. |
Niv-Mizzet's genius and vanity reverberate throughout the mirrored halls of Nivix.
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U |
Martina Pilcerova |
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Orzhova, the Church of Deals
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Land |
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: Add to your mana pool.
  , : Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. |
Unlike most churches, at Orzhova it's best to pray before you arrive.
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U |
Martina Pilcerova |
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Skarrg, the Rage Pits
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Land |
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: Add to your mana pool.
 , : Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn. |
“This palace will be our fire-spit, and roasted prince our victory meal. Send in the torch-pigs!” —Ghut Rak, Gruul guildmage
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U |
Martina Pilcerova |
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Gelectrode
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Creature — Weird |
0/1 |
: Gelectrode deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Whenever you play an instant or sorcery spell, you may untap Gelectrode. |
“Diametrically opposing energies in self-sealed plasmodermic bubbles make great pets!” —Trivaz, Izzet mage
|
U |
Dan Scott |
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Living Inferno
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Creature — Elemental |
8/5 |
: Living Inferno deals damage equal to its power divided as you choose among any number of target creatures. Each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to Living Inferno. |
|
R |
John Avon |
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Ghost Warden
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Creature — Spirit |
1/1 |
: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. |
“I thought of fate as an iron lattice, intricate but rigidly unchangeable. That was until some force bent fate's bars to spare my life.” —Ilromov, traveling storyteller
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C |
Ittoku |
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Gruul Signet
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Artifact |
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, : Add  to your mana pool. |
Gruul territorial markings need not be legible. The blood, snot, and muck used to smear them are unmistakably Gruul.
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C |
Tim Hildebrandt |
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Izzet Signet
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Artifact |
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, : Add  to your mana pool. |
The Izzet signet is redesigned often, each time becoming closer to a vanity portrait of Niv-Mizzet.
|
C |
Greg Hildebrandt |
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Orzhov Signet
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Artifact |
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, : Add  to your mana pool. |
The form of the sigil is just as important as the sigil itself. If it's carried on a medallion, its bearer is a master. If it's tattooed on the body, its bearer is a slave.
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C |
Tim Hildebrandt |
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Cryptwailing
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Enchantment |
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, Remove two creature cards in your graveyard from the game: Target player discards a card. Play this ability only any time you could play a sorcery. |
“Piece the tragic notes together and is it not a melody?” —Teysa
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U |
Nick Percival |
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Moratorium Stone
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Artifact |
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, : Remove target card in a graveyard from the game.
  , , Sacrifice Moratorium Stone: Remove from the game target nonland card in a graveyard, all other cards in graveyards with the same name as that card, and all permanents with that name. |
|
R |
Martina Pilcerova |
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Feral Animist
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Creature — Goblin Shaman |
2/1 |
: Feral Animist gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. |
He chanted over a pot of boiling blood and honey. His brain buzzed like a nest of hornets, and his muscles rippled with the might of the bear.
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U |
Ron Spears |
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Mizzium Transreliquat
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Artifact |
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: Mizzium Transreliquat becomes a copy of target artifact until end of turn.
  : Mizzium Transreliquat becomes a copy of target artifact and gains this ability. |
“What is it? Um . . . what do you want it to be?” —Juzba, Izzet tinker
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R |
John Avon |
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Restless Bones
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Creature — Skeleton |
1/1 |
, : Target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn.
 : Regenerate Restless Bones. |
“We mourn our dead. We shroud our dead. We bury our dead. Too often, it seems, we must kill our dead again.” —Grazda, veteran armorer
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C |
Glenn Fabry |
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Sword of the Paruns
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Artifact — Equipment |
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As long as equipped creature is tapped, tapped creatures you control get +2/+0. As long as equipped creature is untapped, untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.
: Tap or untap equipped creature. Equip  |
|
R |
Tim Hildebrandt |
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Skyrider Trainee
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Creature — Human Soldier |
3/3 |
As long as Skyrider Trainee is enchanted, it has flying. |
“Of course I plan on going up. Kang here is the most trusted 'fin on the squad. Afraid? Me? No, I'm just . . . waiting for the right wind conditions.”
|
C |
Adam Rex |
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Silhana Starfletcher
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Creature — Elf Druid Archer |
1/3 |
As Silhana Starfletcher comes into play, choose a color.
: Add one mana of the chosen color to your mana pool. Silhana Starfletcher can block as though it had flying. |
In light he finds both gift and weapon.
|
C |
Alex Horley-Orlandelli |
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Agent of Masks
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Creature — Human Advisor |
2/3 |
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. |
“You say that I am two-faced? Enough with the flattery. We have business to conduct.”
|
U |
Matt Thompson |
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Killer Instinct
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Enchantment |
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At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it into play. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at end of turn. |
“Take the bridge, men! Victory! Victory is ou— Retreat! RETREAT!”
|
R |
Christopher Moeller |
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Rumbling Slum
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Creature — Elemental |
5/5 |
At the beginning of your upkeep, Rumbling Slum deals 1 damage to each player. |
The Orzhov contract the Izzet to animate slum districts and banish them to the wastes. The Gruul adopt them and send them back to the city for vengeance.
|
R |
Carl Critchlow |
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Sanguine Praetor
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Creature — Avatar |
7/5 |
, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy each creature with the same converted mana cost as the sacrificed creature. |
“Our fealty to guilds dooms us. The old gods shall resurface. Our skins will wave upon the guild-masts over emptied streets, and our bones will clatter in the wind.” —Ilromov, traveling storyteller
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R |
rk post |
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Plagued Rusalka
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Creature — Spirit |
1/1 |
, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. |
“Look at her, once filled with innocence. Death has a way of wringing away such . . . deficiencies.” —Savra
|
U |
Alex Horley-Orlandelli |
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Bloodscale Prowler
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Creature — Viashino Warrior |
3/1 |
Bloodthirst 1 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it.) |
It tracks its victims by the scent of their breath, preferring to dine on those who recently ate well.
|
C |
Lars Grant-West |
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Burning-Tree Bloodscale
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Creature — Viashino Berserker |
2/2 |
Bloodthirst 1 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it.)
 : Target creature can't block Burning-Tree Bloodscale this turn.
 : Target creature blocks Burning-Tree Bloodscale this turn if able. |
|
C |
Kev Walker |
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Battering Wurm
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Creature — Wurm |
4/3 |
Bloodthirst 1 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it.) Creatures with power less than Battering Wurm's power can't block it. |
|
U |
Darrell Riche |
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Skarrgan Pit-Skulk
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Creature — Human Warrior |
1/1 |
Bloodthirst 1 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it.) Creatures with power less than Skarrgan Pit-Skulk's power can't block it. |
|
C |
Liam Sharp |
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Rabble-Rouser
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Creature — Goblin Shaman |
1/1 |
Bloodthirst 1 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it.)
, : Attacking creatures get +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is Rabble-Rouser's power. |
|
U |
Justin Norman |
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Gristleback
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Creature — Beast |
2/2 |
Bloodthirst 1 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it.) Sacrifice Gristleback: You gain life equal to Gristleback's power. |
Loyal in battle, hearty in stew.
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U |
Lars Grant-West |
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Scab-Clan Mauler
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Creature — Human Berserker |
1/1 |
Bloodthirst 2 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature comes into play with two +1/+1 counters on it.) Trample |
They inflict pain to forget their own and break foes to feel whole.
|
C |
Liam Sharp |
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Ghor-Clan Savage
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Creature — Centaur Berserker |
2/3 |
Bloodthirst 3 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature comes into play with three +1/+1 counters on it.) |
The snap of sinew. The crunch of bone. A cry for mercy. These are the music of the Gruul.
|
C |
Greg Staples |
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Skarrgan Skybreaker
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Creature — Giant Shaman |
3/3 |
Bloodthirst 3 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature comes into play with three +1/+1 counters on it.)
, Sacrifice Skarrgan Skybreaker: Skarrgan Skybreaker deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player. |
“The sky isn't falling—it's being thrown at us!” —Otak, Tin Street shopkeep
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U |
Dan Scott |
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Skarrgan Firebird
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Creature — Phoenix |
3/3 |
Bloodthirst 3 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature comes into play with three +1/+1 counters on it.) Flying
  : Return Skarrgan Firebird from your graveyard to your hand. Play this ability only if an opponent was dealt damage this turn. |
|
R |
Kev Walker |
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Invoke the Firemind
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Sorcery |
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Choose one — Draw X cards; or Invoke the Firemind deals X damage to target creature or player. |
To those in tune with the Firemind, there is no difference between knowledge and flame.
|
R |
Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai |
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Frazzle
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Instant |
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Counter target nonblue spell. |
The chant was interrupted, the components cooked, and Zok worried that it was his brain he smelled smoking.
|
U |
Pete Venters |
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Runeboggle
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Instant |
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Counter target spell unless its controller pays . Draw a card. |
“Ever try to count hyperactive schoolchildren while someone shouts random numbers in your ear? It's like that.” —Geetra, frustrated mage
|
C |
Ron Spencer |
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Gruul War Plow
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Artifact |
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Creatures you control have trample.
  : Gruul War Plow becomes a 4/4 Juggernaut artifact creature until end of turn. |
“Steering apparatus?! What for? Rip it out, sharpen it, and lash it to the front!” —Ktank, Gruul plowmaster
|
R |
Martina Pilcerova |
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Order of the Stars
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Creature — Human Cleric |
0/1 |
Defender (This creature can't attack.) As Order of the Stars comes into play, choose a color. Order of the Stars has protection from the chosen color. |
As stoic as the marble halls, as unblinking as the stars upon their shields.
|
U |
Heather Hudson |
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Souls of the Faultless
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Creature — Spirit |
0/4 |
Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever Souls of the Faultless is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life and attacking player loses that much life. |
“More horrible than their empty forms are their noble eyes. I dare not strike.” —Klattic, Boros legionnaire
|
U |
Pat Lee |
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Vertigo Spawn
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Creature — Illusion |
0/3 |
Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever Vertigo Spawn blocks a creature, tap that creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. |
|
U |
Ittoku |
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Primeval Light
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Sorcery |
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Destroy all enchantments target player controls. |
“Look to the old tomes, those bound in hides and written in yarberry ink. They hold the spells that can free us of the clutter of modern magecraft.” —Dravash, dowsing shaman
|
U |
Jim Nelson |
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Culling Sun
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Sorcery |
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Destroy each creature with converted mana cost 3 or less. |
“Who truly runs this city? Look to the sky on hallowed days, and see whose sigil is stamped clearly onto the heavens.” —Vuliev of the Ghost Council
|
R |
Daren Bader |
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Mortify
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Instant |
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Destroy target creature or enchantment. |
The eyes let flow with tears, then blood, then the very soul—the whole wrung inside out, dripping down into the blackened puddle of the past.
|
U |
Glen Angus |
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Seize the Soul
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Instant |
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Destroy target nonwhite nonblack creature. Put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying into play. Haunt When the creature Seize the Soul haunts is put into a graveyard, destroy target nonwhite nonblack creature. Put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying into play. |
|
R |
Aleksi Briclot |
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Douse in Gloom
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Instant |
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Douse in Gloom deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life. |
Orzhov prisoners are steeped in a blackened brew that robs their souls of strength. Patriarchs drink that brew to extend their own lives.
|
C |
Kev Walker |
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Earth Surge
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Enchantment |
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Each land gets +2/+2 as long as it's a creature. |
“Some gardeners sing to plants. I tell them stories—stories of how they once ruled the world, of the mortals who destroyed their kind, and of revenge.” —Bougrat, druid of the Cult of Yore
|
R |
Luca Zontini |
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Electrolyze
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Instant |
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Electrolyze deals 2 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players. Draw a card. |
The Izzet learn something from every lesson they teach.
|
U |
Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai |
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Infiltrator's Magemark
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant creature Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1 and can't be blocked except by creatures with defender. |
“In secrecy is strength. None can oppose one who cannot be found.” —Szadek
|
C |
Brandon Kitkouski |
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Fencer's Magemark
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant creature Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1 and have first strike. |
“The first blow is the most important. It often negates the need for a second.” —Agrus Kos
|
C |
Brandon Kitkouski |
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Necromancer's Magemark
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|
Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant creature Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1. If a creature you control that's enchanted would be put into a graveyard, return it to its owner's hand instead. |
|
C |
Brandon Kitkouski |
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Beastmaster's Magemark
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|
Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant creature Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1. Whenever a creature you control that's enchanted becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it. |
|
C |
Brandon Kitkouski |
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Pillory of the Sleepless
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block. Enchanted creature has “At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.” |
Which is worse—the sleep which never ends or that which never comes?
|
C |
Mark Romanoski |
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Hypervolt Grasp
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant creature Enchanted creature has “ : This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player.”
 : Return Hypervolt Grasp to its owner's hand. |
Zap on. Zap off.
|
U |
Mark Romanoski |
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Sinstriker's Will
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant creature Enchanted creature has “ : This creature deals damage equal to its power to target attacking or blocking creature.” |
“Steel rusts. Arrows break. But righteousness is always strong, always sharp.”
|
U |
Ben Thompson |
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Shadow Lance
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant creature Enchanted creature has first strike.
 : Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. |
Shadow lances are crafted from harvested souls. The more wicked the sinner, the keener the blade.
|
U |
Hideaki Takamura |
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Wurmweaver Coil
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Enchantment — Aura |
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Enchant green creature Enchanted creature gets +6/+6.
  , Sacrifice Wurmweaver Coil: Put a 6/6 green Wurm creature token into play. |
Some use magic to spy through walls. Others use it to crush them.
|
R |
Mitch Cotie |
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Ghor-Clan Bloodscale
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Creature — Viashino Warrior |
2/1 |
First strike
 : Ghor-Clan Bloodscale gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Play this ability only once each turn. |
At mealtimes, the Gruul customarily omit such niceties as using forks or killing the entrée.
|
U |
Paolo Parente |
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Stitch in Time
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|
Sorcery |
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Flip a coin. If you win the flip, take an extra turn after this one. |
Quyzl was told by his mentor to “make more time” for his studies.
|
R |
Jon Foster |
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Torch Drake
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|
Creature — Drake |
2/2 |
Flying
 : Torch Drake gets +1/+0 until end of turn. |
“Drakes? Bah! Things that breathe don't interest me. It breathes fire, you say? Well, that's a different story!” —Zataz, Izzet clockwork artificer
|
C |
Daren Bader |
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Harrier Griffin
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Creature — Griffin |
3/3 |
Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, tap target creature. |
Moon Market merchants sell a bottled scent to cutpurses and other criminals. Those doused in the liquid become “griffin bait.”
|
U |
Jim Nelson |
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Daggerclaw Imp
|
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Creature — Imp |
3/1 |
Flying Daggerclaw Imp can't block. |
The Simic use the claws as scalpels, while the Rakdos use them for tattooing and torture. The Gruul use them to pick their teeth after lunching on the rest of the carcass.
|
U |
Pete Venters |
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Belfry Spirit
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Creature — Spirit |
1/1 |
Flying Haunt (When this card is put into a graveyard from play, remove it from the game haunting target creature.) When Belfry Spirit comes into play or the creature it haunts is put into a graveyard, put two 1/1 black Bat creature tokens with flying into play. |
|
U |
Daren Bader |
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Blind Hunter
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|
Creature — Bat |
2/2 |
Flying Haunt (When this card is put into a graveyard from play, remove it from the game haunting target creature.) When Blind Hunter comes into play or the creature it haunts is put into a graveyard, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. |
|
C |
Warren Mahy |
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Graven Dominator
|
|
Creature — Gargoyle |
4/4 |
Flying Haunt (When this card is put into a graveyard from play, remove it from the game haunting target creature.) When Graven Dominator comes into play or the creature it haunts is put into a graveyard, each other creature becomes 1/1 until end of turn. |
|
R |
Carl Critchlow |
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Stratozeppelid
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|
Creature — Beast |
4/4 |
Flying Stratozeppelid can block only creatures with flying. |
The “Days of Darkness” mark the stratozeppelids' annual migration, when for five days they blot out the sun and trumpet their passing.
|
U |
Ittoku |
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Angel of Despair
|
|
Creature — Angel |
5/5 |
Flying When Angel of Despair comes into play, destroy target permanent. |
“I feel in them a sense of duty and commitment, yet I can feel nothing else. It is as if their duty is to an empty void.” —Razia
|
R |
Todd Lockwood |
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Shrieking Grotesque
|
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Creature — Gargoyle |
2/1 |
Flying When Shrieking Grotesque comes into play, if was spent to play Shrieking Grotesque, target player discards a card. |
Orzhov mage-sculptors bring their stone to life before they carve it. The shrieking begins as soon as the mouths are formed.
|
C |
Dany Orizio |
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Skeletal Vampire
|
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Creature — Vampire Skeleton |
3/3 |
Flying When Skeletal Vampire comes into play, put two 1/1 black Bat creature tokens with flying into play.
  , Sacrifice a Bat: Put two 1/1 black Bat creature tokens with flying into play. Sacrifice a Bat: Regenerate Skeletal Vampire. |
|
R |
Wayne Reynolds |
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Sky Swallower
|
|
Creature — Leviathan |
8/8 |
Flying When Sky Swallower comes into play, target opponent gains control of all other permanents you control. |
Would you trade the world for such a pet?
|
R |
rk post |
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Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
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Legendary Creature — Dragon Wizard |
4/4 |
Flying Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
: Draw a card. |
“(Z–>)90º – (E–N²W)90ºt = 1”
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R |
Todd Lockwood |
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Wee Dragonauts
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Creature — Faerie Wizard |
1/3 |
Flying Whenever you play an instant or sorcery spell, Wee Dragonauts gets +2/+0 until end of turn. |
“The blazekite is a simple concept, really—just a vehicular application of dragscoop ionics and electropropulsion magnetronics.” —Juzba, Izzet tinker
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C |
Greg Staples |
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Starved Rusalka
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Creature — Spirit |
1/1 |
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life. |
“No more wretched fate is there than to waste away. If you are slain, your ghost may at least avenge itself upon your killer. But what release is there for one slain by Time?” —Ilromov, traveling storyteller
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U |
Dany Orizio |
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Gatherer of Graces
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Creature — Human Druid |
1/2 |
Gatherer of Graces gets +1/+1 for each Aura attached to it. Sacrifice an Aura: Regenerate Gatherer of Graces. |
“Garb is for common folk. I prefer to wear insight and zeal, ambition and flame.”
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U |
Heather Hudson |
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Gruul Turf
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Land |
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Gruul Turf comes into play tapped. When Gruul Turf 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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Absolver Thrull
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Creature — Thrull Cleric |
2/3 |
Haunt (When this card is put into a graveyard from play, remove it from the game haunting target creature.) When Absolver Thrull comes into play or the creature it haunts is put into a graveyard, destroy target enchantment. |
|
C |
Rob Alexander |
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Exhumer Thrull
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Creature — Thrull |
3/3 |
Haunt (When this card is put into a graveyard from play, remove it from the game haunting target creature.) When Exhumer Thrull comes into play or the creature it haunts is put into a graveyard, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. |
|
U |
Warren Mahy |
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Orzhov Euthanist
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Creature — Human Assassin |
2/2 |
Haunt (When this card is put into a graveyard from play, remove it from the game haunting target creature.) When Orzhov Euthanist comes into play or the creature it haunts is put into a graveyard, destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn. |
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C |
Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai |
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Orzhov Pontiff
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Creature — Human Cleric |
1/1 |
Haunt (When this card is put into a graveyard from play, remove it from the game haunting target creature.) When Orzhov Pontiff comes into play or the creature it haunts is put into a graveyard, choose one — creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn; or creatures you don't control get -1/-1 until end of turn. |
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R |
Adam Rex |
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Leyline of Lifeforce
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Enchantment |
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If Leyline of Lifeforce is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it in play. Creature spells can't be countered. |
Where sovereignty and flesh converge.
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R |
Kev Walker |
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Leyline of Lightning
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Enchantment |
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If Leyline of Lightning is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it in play. Whenever you play a spell, you may pay . If you do, Leyline of Lightning deals 1 damage to target player. |
Where storm and spellcraft converge.
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R |
Paolo Parente |
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Leyline of Singularity
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Enchantment |
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If Leyline of Singularity is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it in play. All nonland permanents are legendary. |
Where renown and solitude converge.
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R |
Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai |
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Leyline of the Meek
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Enchantment |
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If Leyline of the Meek is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it in play. Creature tokens get +1/+1. |
Where strength and humility converge.
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R |
Mark Zug |
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Leyline of the Void
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Enchantment |
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If Leyline of the Void is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it in play. If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard, remove it from the game instead. |
Where treachery and oblivion converge.
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R |
Adam Rex |
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Izzet Boilerworks
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Land |
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Izzet Boilerworks comes into play tapped. When Izzet Boilerworks 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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Conjurer's Ban
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Sorcery |
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Name a card. Until your next turn, the named card can't be played. Draw a card. |
Orzhov faithful file past to have their minds purged of “impure” desires. There, the guiltwardens eliminate any thoughts of hope or self-sufficiency.
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U |
Pete Venters |
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Dryad Sophisticate
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Creature — Dryad |
2/1 |
Nonbasic landwalk |
From Tin Street to the Outcast Mansions, she walks unbidden and unbound, her graceful silence never shaken by the riot of city life around her.
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U |
Ron Spears |
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Orzhov Basilica
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Land |
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Orzhov Basilica comes into play tapped. When Orzhov Basilica 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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Parallectric Feedback
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Instant |
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Parallectric Feedback deals damage to target spell's controller equal to that spell's converted mana cost. |
“You can't have so many people living so close together, all practicing so much magic, and not expect some feedback.”
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R |
Mitch Cotie |
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Petrified Wood-Kin
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Creature — Elemental Warrior |
3/3 |
Petrified Wood-Kin can't be countered. Bloodthirst X (This creature comes into play with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the damage dealt to your opponents this turn.) Protection from instants |
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R |
Kev Walker |
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Withstand
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Instant |
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Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn. Draw a card. |
“Defense is as much a part of war as offense, the shield as important a tool as the sword.” —Alovnek, Boros guildmage
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C |
Ron Spears |
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Storm Herd
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Sorcery |
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Put X 1/1 white Pegasus creature tokens with flying into play, where X is your life total. |
“When you hear thunder on a cloudless day, take cover and brace for the coming of the storm herd.” —Skotov, Tin Street basket vendor
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R |
Jim Nelson |
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Scorched Rusalka
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Creature — Spirit |
1/1 |
, Sacrifice a creature: Scorched Rusalka deals 1 damage to target player. |
Each small blaze she sets jogs her memory, letting her piece together the mystery of her own fiery end.
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U |
Luca Zontini |
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Gruul Nodorog
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Creature — Beast |
4/4 |
: Gruul Nodorog can't be blocked this turn except by two or more creatures. |
Petting the nodorog —Gruul saying meaning “making a really big mistake”
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C |
Pete Venters |
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Ghostway
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Instant |
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Remove each creature you control from the game. Return those creatures to play under their owners' control at end of turn. |
“I watched its blade swing through me, but I was hollow, empty. I saw its face contort in rage but could not hear it snarl.” —Klattic, Boros legionnaire
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R |
Jim Murray |
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Cremate
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Instant |
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Remove target card in a graveyard from the game. Draw a card. |
Cremation of the dead is not a religious ritual in Ravnica. It's a business designed to keep the Golgari from growing in numbers.
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C |
Paolo Parente |
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Caustic Rain
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Sorcery |
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Remove target land from the game. |
“Looking out the great windows of Vitu-Ghazi at the foundry stacks belching their smoke to the sky, I wonder when the sky will take its vengeance.” —Heruj, Selesnya initiate
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U |
Luca Zontini |
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Pyromatics
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Instant |
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Replicate  (When you play this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Pyromatics deals 1 damage to target creature or player. |
|
C |
Glen Angus |
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Siege of Towers
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Sorcery |
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Replicate  (When you play this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Target Mountain becomes a 3/1 creature. It's still a land. |
|
R |
Anthony S. Waters |
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Train of Thought
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Sorcery |
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Replicate  (When you play this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost.) Draw a card. |
“But then . . . oh, but . . . which means . . . which would lead to . . . exactly!”
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C |
Matt Thompson |
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Vacuumelt
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Sorcery |
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Replicate  (When you play this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Return target creature to its owner's hand. |
|
U |
Nottsuo |
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Thunderheads
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Instant |
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Replicate  (When you play this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost.) Put a 3/3 blue Weird creature token with defender and flying into play. Remove it from the game at end of turn. |
The clouds grew thick, and then they grew teeth.
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U |
Hideaki Takamura |
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Mimeofacture
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Sorcery |
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Replicate  (When you play this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Choose target permanent an opponent controls. Search that player's library for a card with the same name and put it into play under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library. |
|
R |
Dan Scott |
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Shattering Spree
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Sorcery |
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Replicate (When you play this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Destroy target artifact. |
|
U |
Pat Lee |
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Gigadrowse
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Instant |
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Replicate (When you play this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Tap target permanent. |
|
C |
Alex Horley-Orlandelli |
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Leap of Flame
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Instant |
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Replicate  (When you play this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains flying and first strike until end of turn. |
|
C |
Greg Hildebrandt |
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Repeal
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Instant |
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Return target nonland permanent with converted mana cost X to its owner's hand. Draw a card. |
“Your deed cannot be undone. You, however, can be.” —Agosto, Azorius imperator
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C |
Dan Scott |
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Goblin Flectomancer
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Creature — Goblin Wizard |
2/2 |
Sacrifice Goblin Flectomancer: You may change the targets of target instant or sorcery spell. |
Rerouting magic through a goblin's brain is the surest way to throw it wildly off course.
|
U |
Matt Cavotta |
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Teysa, Orzhov Scion
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Legendary Creature — Human Advisor |
2/3 |
Sacrifice three white creatures: Remove target creature from the game. Whenever another black creature you control is put into a graveyard from play, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying into play. |
|
R |
Todd Lockwood |
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Savage Twister
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Sorcery |
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Savage Twister deals X damage to each creature. |
“Nature is the ultimate mindless destroyer, capable of power and ferocity no army can match, and the Gruul follow its example.” —Trigori, Azorius senator
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U |
Luca Zontini |
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Silhana Ledgewalker
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Creature — Elf Rogue |
1/1 |
Silhana Ledgewalker can't be blocked except by creatures with flying. Silhana Ledgewalker can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. |
Street folk call them “spire mice,” but behind the mockery is an unspoken envy of the ledgewalkers' skill at avoiding harm.
|
C |
James Wong |
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Wildsize
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Instant |
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Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn. Draw a card. |
Two times the size, four times the smell.
|
C |
Jim Murray |
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Schismotivate
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Instant |
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Target creature gets +4/+0 until end of turn. Another target creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn. |
“I ran the experiment through the brain of a schizophrenic lab-goblin. My burners' flames fell asleep while the beakers jumped about and shattered. Success!” —Myznar, Izzet psychomancer
|
U |
Ron Spencer |
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Crash Landing
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Instant |
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Target creature with flying loses flying until end of turn. Crash Landing deals damage to that creature equal to the number of Forests you control. |
“The other guilds think they're untouchable. It's time we brought them back down to earth.” —Ghut Rak, Gruul guildmage
|
U |
Darrell Riche |
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Castigate
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Sorcery |
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Target opponent reveals his or her hand. Choose a nonland card from it. Remove that card from the game. |
“We have no need for military might. We wield two of the sharpest swords ever forged: Faith in our left hand, Wealth in our right.” —Vuliev of the Ghost Council
|
C |
Darrell Riche |
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Cry of Contrition
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Sorcery |
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Target player discards a card. Haunt (When this spell card is put into a graveyard after resolving, remove it from the game haunting target creature.) When the creature Cry of Contrition haunts is put into a graveyard, target player discards a card. |
|
C |
Daren Bader |
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Cerebral Vortex
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|
Instant |
|
Target player draws two cards, then Cerebral Vortex deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards he or she has drawn this turn. |
Izzet brains and Izzet boilers: contents under pressure.
|
R |
Jeremy Jarvis |
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Quicken
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|
Instant |
|
The next sorcery spell you play this turn can be played any time you could play an instant. Draw a card. |
A skilled Izzet chronarch can carry out an epic vendetta between the fall of one hourglass grain and the next.
|
R |
Aleksi Briclot |
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Borborygmos
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Legendary Creature — Cyclops |
6/7 |
Trample Whenever Borborygmos deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. |
“It's easy to see why those Gruul dirtbags follow him—the only orders he gives are ‘Crush them!' and ‘We eat!'” —Teysa
|
R |
Todd Lockwood |
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Drowned Rusalka
|
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Creature — Spirit |
1/1 |
, Sacrifice a creature: Discard a card, then draw a card. |
Lurking below the current, she thirsts until others come to drink.
|
U |
Dany Orizio |
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Ulasht, the Hate Seed
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Legendary Creature — Hydra |
0/0 |
Ulasht, the Hate Seed comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other red creature you control and a +1/+1 counter on it for each other green creature you control.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Ulasht: Choose one — Ulasht deals 1 damage to target creature; or put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token into play. |
|
R |
Nottsuo |
|
To Arms!
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|
Instant |
|
Untap all creatures you control. Draw a card. |
“The call came, spell-borne through mortar and stone to the ear of every soldier. The call came, and the advantage was ours.” —Lodusz, captain of the watch
|
U |
Aleksi Briclot |
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Lionheart Maverick
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Creature — Human Knight |
1/1 |
Vigilance
 : Lionheart Maverick gets +1/+2 until end of turn. |
“Your signet is no symbol of power. It marks only your need for numbers to aid you. What do you do, guild-rat, now that you face my blade alone?”
|
C |
Hideaki Takamura |
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Ostiary Thrull
|
|
Creature — Thrull |
2/2 |
, : Tap target creature. |
Orzhov churches don't pass the plate for collection. They charge for admission.
|
C |
Ron Spencer |
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Martyred Rusalka
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|
Creature — Spirit |
1/1 |
, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature can't attack this turn. |
Rakdos cultists hanged her for sport in the township square. Her ghost now stands vigil at what has become known as the Tree of Weeping.
|
U |
Alex Horley-Orlandelli |
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Crystal Seer
|
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Creature — Vedalken Wizard |
2/2 |
When Crystal Seer comes into play, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
 : Return Crystal Seer to its owner's hand. |
“Surprise is a useless, untidy emotion—the plaything of goblins and fools.”
|
C |
Glen Angus |
|
Ghost Council of Orzhova
|
|
Legendary Creature — Spirit Lord |
4/4 |
When Ghost Council of Orzhova comes into play, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice a creature: Remove Ghost Council of Orzhova from the game. Return it to play under its owner's control at end of turn. |
|
R |
Greg Staples |
|
Gruul Scrapper
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|
Creature — Human Berserker |
3/2 |
When Gruul Scrapper comes into play, if was spent to play Gruul Scrapper, it gains haste until end of turn. |
The Gruul aren't satisfied with just smashing things. They continue smashing other things with the things they just smashed.
|
C |
Liam Sharp |
|
Hatching Plans
|
|
Enchantment |
|
When Hatching Plans is put into a graveyard from play, draw three cards. |
So wondrous to behold, so delicate and finely crafted—and yet, such a pleasure to smash.
|
R |
Heather Hudson |
|
Izzet Chronarch
|
|
Creature — Human Wizard |
2/2 |
When Izzet Chronarch comes into play, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. |
He ensures not only whether but also when and where the lightning strikes twice.
|
C |
Nick Percival |
|
Ogre Savant
|
|
Creature — Ogre Wizard |
3/2 |
When Ogre Savant comes into play, if was spent to play Ogre Savant, return target creature to its owner's hand. |
He's an oxymoron.
|
C |
Paolo Parente |
|
Revenant Patriarch
|
|
Creature — Spirit |
4/3 |
When Revenant Patriarch comes into play, if was spent to play Revenant Patriarch, target player skips his or her next combat phase. Revenant Patriarch can't block. |
“The Golgari raise the bodies of their dead to serve. We raise the spirits of our dead to lead.”
|
U |
Nick Percival |
|
Steamcore Weird
|
|
Creature — Weird |
1/3 |
When Steamcore Weird comes into play, if was spent to play Steamcore Weird, it deals 2 damage to target creature or player. |
Like many Izzet creations, weirds are based on wild contradictions yet somehow manage to work.
|
C |
Justin Norman |
|
Tin Street Hooligan
|
|
Creature — Goblin Rogue |
2/1 |
When Tin Street Hooligan comes into play, if was spent to play Tin Street Hooligan, destroy target artifact. |
“Rauck-Chauv's like a holiday! Only it isn't on the calendars, and instead of dancing you knock people flat, and instead of giving gifts you break stuff.”
|
C |
Luca Zontini |
|
Vedalken Plotter
|
|
Creature — Vedalken Wizard |
1/1 |
When Vedalken Plotter comes into play, exchange control of target land you control and target land an opponent controls. |
“Fair? At what point in our negotiations did you convince yourself my goal was to be fair?”
|
U |
Greg Staples |
|
Hissing Miasma
|
|
Enchantment |
|
Whenever a creature attacks you, its controller loses 1 life. |
All that remains when the fog finishes are neat piles of polished bones, like acid-etched glass. Orzhov servants collect them to make altar chimes.
|
U |
Ben Thompson |
|
Burning-Tree Shaman
|
|
Creature — Centaur Shaman |
3/4 |
Whenever a player plays an activated ability that isn't a mana ability, Burning-Tree Shaman deals 1 damage to that player. |
Gruul shamans are bent on punishing the civilized. Any act more complex than rubbing sticks together or eating with utensils is met with the stinging burn of their magic.
|
R |
Dan Scott |
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Ink-Treader Nephilim
|
|
Creature — Nephilim |
3/3 |
Whenever a player plays an instant or sorcery spell, if Ink-Treader Nephilim is the only target of that spell, copy the spell for each other creature that spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those creatures. |
When it awoke, the mirrors of the world reflected only darkness.
|
R |
Christopher Moeller |
|
Ætherplasm
|
|
Creature — Illusion |
1/1 |
Whenever Ætherplasm blocks a creature, you may return Ætherplasm to its owner's hand. If you do, you may put a creature card from your hand into play blocking that creature. |
Its fickle form holds hints of a thousand former identities.
|
U |
Nottsuo |
|
Abyssal Nocturnus
|
|
Creature — Horror |
2/2 |
Whenever an opponent discards a card, Abyssal Nocturnus gets +2/+2 and gains fear until end of turn. |
“I fear to keep an open mind, for there are those who would use it as a door to my soul.” —Voka Schlak, Mauzam Asylum inmate, diary
|
R |
Jon Foster |
|
Spelltithe Enforcer
|
|
Creature — Elephant Wizard |
3/3 |
Whenever an opponent plays a spell, that player sacrifices a permanent unless he or she pays . |
His assistants calculate the amount of the tribute. He measures out the punishment for delinquency.
|
R |
Greg Staples |
|
Poisonbelly Ogre
|
|
Creature — Ogre Warrior |
3/3 |
Whenever another creature comes into play, its controller loses 1 life. |
Some claim it's a failed Simic experiment, others say a Golgari creation. Both guilds deny all responsibility, while secretly studying its strange virulence.
|
C |
Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai |
|
Bioplasm
|
|
Creature — Ooze |
4/4 |
Whenever Bioplasm attacks, remove the top card of your library from the game. If it's a creature card, Bioplasm gets +X/+Y until end of turn, where X is the removed creature card's power and Y is its toughness. (A * on a card not in play is 0.) |
|
R |
Jon Foster |
|
Dune-Brood Nephilim
|
|
Creature — Nephilim |
3/3 |
Whenever Dune-Brood Nephilim deals combat damage to a player, put a 1/1 colorless Sand creature token into play for each land you control. |
When it awoke, it spawned nameless thousands to herald its arrival.
|
R |
Jim Murray |
|
Glint-Eye Nephilim
|
|
Creature — Nephilim |
2/2 |
Whenever Glint-Eye Nephilim deals combat damage to a player, draw that many cards.
, Discard a card: Glint-Eye Nephilim gets +1/+1 until end of turn. |
When it awoke, it shook the plane with the thunder of its craving.
|
R |
Mark Zug |
|
Smogsteed Rider
|
|
Creature — Human Wizard |
2/2 |
Whenever Smogsteed Rider attacks, each other attacking creature gains fear until end of turn. |
“An entire order of mages who draw their power from Ravnica's smog? Yet another indicator of our world's decay.” —Dravash, dowsing shaman
|
U |
Alex Horley-Orlandelli |
|
Yore-Tiller Nephilim
|
|
Creature — Nephilim |
2/2 |
Whenever Yore-Tiller Nephilim attacks, return target creature card from your graveyard to play tapped and attacking. |
When it awoke, the worms of the earth hissed in a chorus of beckoning.
|
R |
Jeremy Jarvis |
|
Tibor and Lumia
|
|
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard |
3/3 |
Whenever you play a blue spell, target creature gains flying until end of turn. Whenever you play a red spell, Tibor and Lumia deals 1 damage to each creature without flying. |
Tracing the horizon in a dance of wind and fire.
|
R |
Jim Murray |
|
Witch-Maw Nephilim
|
|
Creature — Nephilim |
1/1 |
Whenever you play a spell, you may put two +1/+1 counters on Witch-Maw Nephilim. Whenever Witch-Maw Nephilim attacks, it gains trample until end of turn if its power is 10 or greater. |
When it awoke, it shattered the hillsides to make way for its passage.
|
R |
Greg Staples |
|
Wreak Havoc
|
|
Sorcery |
|
Wreak Havoc can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target artifact or land. |
“Crush them!” —Borborygmos
|
U |
Wayne Reynolds |
|
Droning Bureaucrats
|
|
Creature — Human Advisor |
1/4 |
, : Each creature with converted mana cost X can't attack or block this turn. |
“ . . . and you must also apply for an application license, file documents 136(iv) and 22-C and -D in triplicate, pay all requisite fees, request a . . .”
|
U |
Kev Walker |
|
Benediction of Moons
|
|
Sorcery |
|
You gain 1 life for each player. Haunt (When this spell card is put into a graveyard after resolving, remove it from the game haunting target creature.) When the creature Benediction of Moons haunts is put into a graveyard, you gain 1 life for each player. |
|
C |
Matt Cavotta |
|
Predatory Focus
|
|
Sorcery |
|
You may have creatures you control deal their combat damage to defending player this turn as though they weren't blocked. |
Instinct blood-tinted his world until he could see only one thing clearly: his prey.
|
U |
Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai |
|
Guardian's Magemark
|
|
Enchantment — Aura |
|
You may play Guardian's Magemark any time you could play an instant. Enchant creature Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1. |
The soldier moved with fluid poise, his awareness extending far beyond five senses.
|
C |
Brandon Kitkouski |