David Palumbo

In Mishra's desperation to destroy his brother, he allowed Gix to destroy him instead.

Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

"Shame to let good gold go to the grave."

Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

"Those dragons grow fast. For a while they feed on squirrels and goblins and then suddenly you're missing a mammoth."
—Hurdek, Mazar mammoth trainer

Dragon Hatchling

Flying
{R}: Dragon Hatchling gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"It was difficult to tell whether the piles of gore within their warrens were mere trash heaps, sacred altars, or warnings."
—*Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV*

Goblin Oriflamme

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

Were she not a judge, she'd win the division herself.

Armorcraft Judge

When Armorcraft Judge enters, draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Ordeal of Nylea

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice this Aura.
When you sacrifice this Aura, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Aminatou, Veil Piercer

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Each enchantment card in your hand has miracle. Its miracle cost is equal to its mana cost reduced by {4}. (You may cast a card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

"Never forget that the life you've built can be undone by a single loose thread."
—Perisophia the philosopher

Fate Unraveler

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Fate Unraveler deals 1 damage to that player.

Shrewd Storyteller

Survival — At the beginning of your second main phase, if Shrewd Storyteller is tapped, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

When the meek charge into battle, courage becomes infectious.

Aven Squire

Flying
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Dwarves' tools are priceless heirlooms handed down through generations.

Restoration Specialist

{W}, Sacrifice Restoration Specialist: Return up to one target artifact card and up to one target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

He enjoys his work, for he sees only the worst Abzan criminals: those who betray their own kin.

Merciless Executioner

When Merciless Executioner enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

In life, they revered a diverse pantheon of gods. Now they revere only the God-Pharaoh.

Honor the God-Pharaoh

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards. Amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

Chaos Channeler

Wild Magic Surge — Whenever Chaos Channeler attacks, roll a d20.
1—9 | Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn.
10—19 | Exile the top two cards of your library. You may play them this turn.
20 | Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

"Suffer as I have suffered. Lose as I have lost."

Flare of Malice

You may sacrifice a nontoken black creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

He was glad when the mirages appeared. At least he wouldn't die alone.

Desert's Due

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. It gets an additional -1/-1 until end of turn for each Desert you control.

Orzhov Racketeers

Whenever Orzhov Racketeers deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.
Afterlife 2 (When this creature dies, create two 1/1 white and black Spirit creature tokens with flying.)

"I prefer gasps and screams to polite applause."
—Judith

Showstopping Surprise

Choose target creature you control. Turn it face up if it's face down. Then it deals damage equal to its power to each other creature.

Totally Lost

Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library.

Neither Nurgam nor the mycoid who laid the trap could quite believe their luck.

Greedy Freebooter

When Greedy Freebooter dies, scry 1 and create a Treasure token. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom. A Treasure token is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

"I'm telling you, the wall just blinked!"

Disturbed Slumber

Until end of turn, target land you control becomes a 4/4 Dinosaur creature with reach and haste. It's still a land. It must be blocked this turn if able.

Seraph Sanctuary

When Seraph Sanctuary enters, you gain 1 life.
Whenever an Angel you control enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

Palace Jailer

When Palace Jailer enters the battlefield, you become the monarch.
When Palace Jailer enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until an opponent becomes the monarch.

When Palace Jailer enters, you become the monarch.
When Palace Jailer enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until an opponent becomes the monarch.

Some will sacrifice everything for but a taste of power.

Priest of the Blood Rite

When Priest of the Blood Rite enters the battlefield, create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life.

When Priest of the Blood Rite enters, create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life.

"Priests, hunters, slayers—to arms! The enemy approaches!"

Village Bell-Ringer

Flash
When Village Bell-Ringer enters the battlefield, untap all creatures you control.

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When Village Bell-Ringer enters, untap all creatures you control.

Thalia's Lancers

First strike
When Thalia's Lancers enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a legendary card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

First strike
When Thalia's Lancers enters, you may search your library for a legendary card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"Ghoulcallers trying to get in, geists trying to get out . . . . This duty is never dull."

Mausoleum Guard

When Mausoleum Guard dies, create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying.

Its last life is spent tormenting your dreams.

Black Cat

When Black Cat dies, target opponent discards a card at random.

"I was not convinced you had a soul until I saw it for myself."
—Liliana Vess

Reave Soul

Destroy target creature with power 3 or less.

"Each night, the artificer tucked the little doll into a locked drawer. Each morning, she awoke to find it waiting beside her with some new bauble."
—"The Artificer's Apprentice"

Manakin

"This battlefield is an anvil, my mace a forging hammer . . . and you, Phyrexian scum, are the scrap metal that's about to be reshaped as I see fit."

Charismatic Vanguard

{4}{W}: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

In the fight to defeat Phyrexia, the courage of Benalish knights is matched only by that of their pegasus steeds.

Mesa Cavalier

Flying
When Mesa Cavalier enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.

Flying
When Mesa Cavalier enters, you gain 2 life.

Sanguine Spy

Menace, lifelink
{1}, Sacrifice another creature: Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.
At the beginning of your end step, if there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Menace, lifelink
{1}, Sacrifice another creature: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
At the beginning of your end step, if there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

"Morning light, morning light,
Chase away the fears of night."
—Gavony children's rhyme

Dissipate

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Wooden Stake

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.
Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a Vampire, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Hanweir Militia Captain // Westvale Cult Leader

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control four or more creatures, transform Hanweir Militia Captain.

Subtle Strike

Choose one or both —
• Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Glory-Bound Initiate

You may exert Glory-Bound Initiate as it attacks. When you do, it gets +1/+3 and gains lifelink until end of turn. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)

Trespasser's Curse

Enchant player
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under enchanted player's control, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchant player
Whenever a creature enchanted player controls enters, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Synchronized Strike

Untap up to two target creatures. They each get +2/+2 until end of turn.

First you lose your enemy's trail. Then you lose all sense of direction. Then you hear the growls . . .

Hunter's Ambush

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by nongreen creatures this turn.

"Comin' through!" Designed by James Ernest

Hot Soup

Equipped creature can't be blocked.
Whenever equipped creature is dealt damage, destroy it.
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Stand your post for duty. Stand your ground for honor.

Marked by Honor

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)

"The best way to keep a secret is to forget it."
—Lazav

Clear the Mind

Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.
Draw a card.

"Look! That is why we must never waver. That is what awaits us if we fail."
—Djeru, initiate of Tah crop

Cursed Minotaur

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Dead Reveler

Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

"Thank you. This blade becomes so hot in my hand, but your blood has quenched it."

Murderous Compulsion

Destroy target tapped creature.
Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Gaea's Blessing

Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library.
Draw a card.
When Gaea's Blessing is put into your graveyard from your library, shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Some are annoyed by the constant ticking as they clean the cobbles, but to the castle custodians, there's no sweeter sound.

Clockwork Servant

Adamant — When Clockwork Servant enters, if at least three mana of the same color was spent to cast it, draw a card.

"One day every pillar will be a tree and every hall a glade."
—Trostani

Sundering Growth

Destroy target artifact or enchantment, then populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Inquisitors are taught scripture, philosophy, and the fine art of sharpening an axe.

Moorland Inquisitor

{2}{W}: Moorland Inquisitor gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

"With a single word, they were unmade."
—Krinnea, *Siege of the Bone Spire*

Legion's End

Exile target creature an opponent controls with converted mana cost 2 or less and all other creatures that player controls with the same name as that creature. Then that player reveals their hand and exiles all cards with that name from their hand and graveyard.

Exile target creature an opponent controls with mana value 2 or less and all other creatures that player controls with the same name as that creature. Then that player reveals their hand and exiles all cards with that name from their hand and graveyard.

"The skull is rigid, but the mind is so deliciously supple."
—Eromena the Mind Render

Thought Distortion

This spell can't be countered.
Target opponent reveals their hand. Exile all noncreature, nonland cards from that player's hand and graveyard.

Dead Revels

Spectacle {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

"Today the Rubblebelt is a bit larger. That's a good day's work."

Ghor-Clan Wrecker

Riot (This creature enters the battlefield with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.)
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Riot (This creature enters with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.)
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

His soldiers etch his words on the insides of their shields, their inspiration always in sight during battle.

Phalanx Leader

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Phalanx Leader, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

He ferried weapons, spells, exotic animals—but his most dangerous cargo was the truth.

Hunted Witness

When Hunted Witness dies, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

"The alliances were already frayed. All we do is find the loose threads and pluck."
—Lazav

Vicious Rumors

Vicious Rumors deals 1 damage to each opponent. Each opponent discards a card, then puts the top card of their library into their graveyard. You gain 1 life.

Vicious Rumors deals 1 damage to each opponent. Each opponent discards a card, then mills a card. You gain 1 life.

What the Golgari can't claim through patient undercity expansion, they seize in brazen topside sorties.

Golgari Raiders

Haste
Undergrowth — Golgari Raiders enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard.

Haste
Undergrowth — Golgari Raiders enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard.

Orcs have been enemies of the Legion of Dusk since it was formed, and the entire race has been declared anathema.

Angrath's Ambusher

Angrath's Ambusher gets +2/+0 as long as you control an Angrath planeswalker.

The clerics known as condemners punish those who do not recognize the righteous authority of the church.

Vanquish the Weak

There were those who saw the death of the gods and the city's collapse as a final test of worth. Some believed it meant the God-Pharaoh had been killed. Only a few realized they had been deceived.

Defiant Khenra

"We are crops no longer. Reap elsewhere."

Resolute Survivors

You may exert Resolute Survivors as it attacks. (It won't untap during your next untap step.)
Whenever you exert a creature, Resolute Survivors deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

"You can tell me what I want to know, or you can talk to the Chief of Compliance. Why don't you make it easy on yourself?"

Take into Custody

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Cruel Entertainment

Choose target player and another target player. The first player controls the second player during the second player's next turn, and the second player controls the first player during the first player's next turn.

What remained of the Lunarch Inquisition found new ways to extract confessions.

Prying Questions

Target opponent loses 3 life and puts a card from his or her hand on top of his or her library.

Target opponent loses 3 life and puts a card from their hand on top of their library.

"Those talons really dig into your skin, but it's better than being dropped."
—Rafiq of the Many

Welkin Guide

Flying
When Welkin Guide enters the battlefield, target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.

Flying
When Welkin Guide enters, target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.

Welcome to the Fold

Madness {X}{U}{U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Gain control of target creature if its toughness is 2 or less. If Welcome to the Fold's madness cost was paid, instead gain control of that creature if its toughness is X or less.

Madness {X}{U}{U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Gain control of target creature if its toughness is 2 or less. If this spell's madness cost was paid, instead gain control of that creature if its toughness is X or less.

"The light of a felidar's horns can give even an Eldrazi pause."
—Zarra, lullmage

Dazzling Reflection

You gain life equal to target creature's power. The next time that creature would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage.

Embodiment of Fury

Trample
Land creatures you control have trample.
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target land you control become a 3/3 Elemental creature with haste until end of turn. It's still a land.

Trample
Land creatures you control have trample.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have target land you control become a 3/3 Elemental creature with haste until end of turn. It's still a land.