Drew Tucker

One day, it might provide a flash of insight that turns the tide of battle. Meanwhile, it looks lovely on an end table.

Brainstone

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Brainstone: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Leechridden Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)
Leechridden Swamp enters tapped.
{B}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.

Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

"Maybe we are all just figments of Kozilek's imagination."
—Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Unfathomable Truths

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Draw three cards and create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Birthing Ritual

At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature, look at the top seven cards of your library. Then you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, you may put a creature card with mana value X or less from among those cards onto the battlefield, where X is 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

The giant's real punishment was the fleeting moment when he was allowed to stand before being dragged down to his knees again.

Curse of Chains

Enchant creature
At the beginning of each upkeep, tap enchanted creature.

"There shall be a vast shout and then a vaster silence."
—Oracle *en*-Vec

Winds of Rath

Destroy all creatures that aren't enchanted. They can't be regenerated.

"History is a burden. Stories can make us fly."
—Robin Hood

Sheltered Thicket

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
Sheltered Thicket enters tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"What's so great about seeing a volcano? It's just a sort of leaky mountain."
—The Twelfth Doctor

Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
Smoldering Marsh enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Mondassian Colony Ship

Whenever a creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each other creature its controller controls that shares a creature type with it.
Whenever chaos ensues, turn target creature face down. It becomes a 2/2 Cyberman artifact creature.

Matic had only taken the ring to appease his grandmother when she'd pressed it insistently into his palm. As the rats scurried away from its light, he understood her urgency.

Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Of course we can squeeze in a few more! It's not like corpses need personal space."
—Orson, cemetery baron

Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"There is no sweeter sound than the deafening thunder of utter destruction."
—Kamahl, Pit Fighter

Decimate

Destroy target artifact, target creature, target enchantment, and target land.

Destroy target artifact, target creature, target enchantment, and target land. (You can't cast this spell unless you have legal choices for all its targets.)

It's easy to be two steps ahead when you can see their every thought.

Soul Read

Choose one —
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}.
• Draw two cards.

"The courier's death was regrettable, but then again, she was warned not to touch it."
—Lord Xander

Infernal Idol

{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Infernal Idol: You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Perfect for keeping time at a battle or a ball.

Instruments of War

Flash
As Instruments of War enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Flash
As Instruments of War enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Deciding the house's ownership through a wizard duel had sounded like a brilliant idea at the time.

Aftershock

Destroy target artifact, creature, or land. Aftershock deals 3 damage to you.

"Who needs stone walls when you can hide behind an impenetrable barrier of screaming nightmares?"
—Braids

Gibbering Barricade

Defender
{2}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

He spent his life searching for the *Locked Tome of Eremil*. In the end, his mind held together just long enough to decipher a single word.

Glimpse the Unthinkable

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

As Cavern of Souls enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Whenever you tap Forbidden Orchard for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

The body grows stronger under stress. The mind does not.

Fractured Sanity

Each opponent mills fourteen cards.
Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Fractured Sanity, each opponent mills four cards.

"I do not miss sunlight. The very memory of it burns my eyes."
—Volrath

Light of Day

So Shiny

Enchant creature
When So Shiny enters, if you control a token, tap enchanted creature, then scry 2.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Caprichrome

Flash
Vigilance
Devour artifact 1 (As this enters, you may sacrifice any number of artifacts. This creature enters with that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

"Once past the stony exterior, the meat is exquisite and can be stuffed with thallids or simmered in a broth of manticore venom."
—Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar
*The Underworld Cookbook*

Marble Gargoyle

Flying
{W}: Marble Gargoyle gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Action: We'd like an epic, abstract illustration of a fantastical moon (not the real-life earth moon), which has cracked open.

Deathbringer Liege

Other white creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a white spell, you may tap target creature.
Whenever you cast a black spell, you may destroy target creature if it's tapped.

Psychotic Episode

Target player reveals their hand and the top card of their library. You choose a card revealed this way. That player puts the chosen card on the bottom of their library.
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.)

If a spriggan's eyes are larger than its stomach, it has ways to remedy the situation.

Hungry Spriggan

Trample
Whenever Hungry Spriggan attacks, it gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

"All this nonsense made by mages Rusts and crumbles through the ages."
—Aline Corralurn, "Inheritance"

Dust to Dust

Gravebind

Target creature can't be regenerated this turn.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Goblin Caves

Enchant land
If enchanted land is a basic Mountain, Goblin creatures get +0/+2.

Enchant land
As long as enchanted land is a basic Mountain, Goblin creatures get +0/+2.

Though they often bore little greater charm than the demons they battled, exorcists were always welcome in Scarwood.

Exorcist

{1}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black creature.

"All rivers eventually run to the sea. My job is to sort out who goes first."
—Maeveen O'Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier

Ashes to Ashes

Exile two target nonartifact creatures. Ashes to Ashes deals 5 damage to you.

Musician

Cumulative upkeep {1}
{T}: Put a music counter on target creature. If it doesn't have "At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy this creature unless you pay {1} for each music counter on it," it gains that ability.

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
{T}: Put a music counter on target creature. If it doesn't have "At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy this creature unless you pay {1} for each music counter on it," it gains that ability.

"Will not the mountains quake and hills melt at the coming of the darkness? Share this vision with your enemies, Lim-Dûl, and they shall wither."
—Leshrac, Walker of Night

Dark Banishing

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

"Too many of us have died in the explosions that wrack these hills."
—Klazina Jansdotter, leader of the Order of the Sacred Torch

Fumarole

As an additional cost to play Fumarole, pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature and target land.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature and target land.

Grazing Kelpie

{GW}, Sacrifice Grazing Kelpie: Put target card in a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
Persist (When this creature is put into a graveyard from play, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to play under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

{G/U}, Sacrifice Grazing Kelpie: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

When the giant Tollek Worldslayer fell, a corruption erupted from his corpse to carry on his name.

Blowfly Infestation

Whenever a creature is put into a graveyard from play, if it had a -1/-1 counter on it, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Whenever a creature dies, if it had a -1/-1 counter on it, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Angry Mob

Trample
As long as it's your turn, Angry Mob's power and toughness are each equal to 2 plus the number of Swamps your opponents control. As long as it's not your turn, Angry Mob's power and toughness are each 2.

Trample
During your turn, Angry Mob's power and toughness are each equal to 2 plus the number of Swamps your opponents control. During turns other than yours, Angry Mob's power and toughness are each 2.

"Bathed in hallowed light, the infidels looked upon the impurities of their souls and despaired."
—The Book of Tal

Holy Light

Nonwhite creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Ydwen Efreet

Whenever you're attacked, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Ydwen Efreet can't block this turn.

Whenever Ydwen Efreet blocks, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, remove Ydwen Efreet from combat and it can't block this turn. Creatures it was blocking that had become blocked by only Ydwen Efreet this combat become unblocked.

Clockwork Beast

Clockwork Beast comes into play with seven +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Beast attacked or blocked this turn, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
{X}, {T}: Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast to be greater than seven. Play this ability only during your upkeep.

Clockwork Beast enters with seven +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Beast attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
{X}, {T}: Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast to be greater than seven. Activate only during your upkeep.

"Catch good today. Start replacing crew tomorrow."
—Faysal al-Mousa, fisher captain, log

Dandân

Dandân can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice Dandân.

Eternity Snare

Enchant creature
When Eternity Snare comes into play, draw a card.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Enchant creature
When Eternity Snare enters, draw a card.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

"Fascinating . . . These creatures display the paradox of tenacity and purposed self-destruction I have sought to breed into my thrulls."
—Endrek Sahr, master breeder

Basal Sliver

All Slivers have "Sacrifice this creature: Add {B}{B} to your mana pool."

All Slivers have "Sacrifice this permanent: Add {B}{B}."

"Lemurs? Is that all? Finally, something harmless . . ."
—Norin the Wary

Viscid Lemures

{0}: Viscid Lemures gets -1/-0 and gains swampwalk until end of turn.

{0}: Viscid Lemures gets -1/-0 and gains swampwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

"Flame grows gentle with but a little distance."
—Orim, Samite healer

Warmth

Whenever one of your opponents plays a red spell, you gain 2 life.

Whenever an opponent casts a red spell, you gain 2 life.

"One moment I was walking along the beach, and the next I was high in the air, staring into a hideous smiling face."
—Tarub, Suq'Ata sailor

Harmattan Efreet

Flying
o1o
Uoo
U Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Flying
{1}{U}{U}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"I saw the wizard gesturing, but I didn't guess his plan until my aesthir cried out and went into a dive."
—Arna Kennerüd, skyknight

Vertigo

Vertigo deals 2 damage to target creature with flying. That creature loses flying until end of turn.

"For my confession they burned me with fire / And found that I was for endurance made."
—*The Arabian Nights*,
trans. Haddawy

Repentant Blacksmith

When Raganorn unsealed the catacombs, he found more than the dead and their treasures.

Murk Dwellers

If Murk Dwellers attacks and is not blocked, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Whenever Murk Dwellers attacks and isn't blocked, it gets +2/+0 until end of combat.

Not only the sleeping should fear dreams.

Dream Fighter

Whenever Dream Fighter blocks or is blocked by a creature, Dream Fighter and that creature phase out.

Whenever Dream Fighter blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, Dream Fighter and that creature phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Agility

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and gains flanking (whenever a creature without flanking is assigned to block this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn).

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flanking. (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

Decomposition

Play only on a black creature.
Enchanted creature gains "Cumulative upkeep—1 life."
If enchanted creature is put into the graveyard, its controller loses 2 life.

Enchant black creature
Enchanted creature has "Cumulative upkeep—Pay 1 life." (At the beginning of its controller's upkeep, that player puts an age counter on it, then sacrifices it unless they pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
When enchanted creature dies, its controller loses 2 life.

"The dreams of a child fulfilled:
the wind on my brow,
the air 'neath my feet."
—Arnjlot Olasson, Sky Mage

Arnjlot's Ascent

Cumulative Upkeep: o
U
o1: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Cumulative upkeep {U} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
{1}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Infernal Denizen

During your upkeep, sacrifice two swamps. If you cannot, tap Infernal Denizen, and target opponent may gain control of target creature of his or her choice you control. The opponent loses control of that creature if Infernal Denizen leaves play.
oc
T: Gain control of target creature. Lose control of that creature if Infernal Denizen leaves play.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice two Swamps. If you can't, tap Infernal Denizen, and an opponent may gain control of a creature you control of their choice for as long as Infernal Denizen remains on the battlefield.
{T}: Gain control of target creature for as long as Infernal Denizen remains on the battlefield.

Leshrac's Sigil

o
Boo
B When any opponent successfully casts a green spell, look at that player's hand and choose a card; he or she then discards that card. Use this ability only once each time a green spell is cast.
o
Boo
B Return Leshrac's Sigil to owner's hand.

Whenever an opponent casts a green spell, you may pay {B}{B}. If you do, look at that player's hand and choose a card from it. The player discards that card.
{B}{B}: Return Leshrac's Sigil to its owner's hand.

"A mind in agony is a sparrow without wings."
—Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Mind Whip

During target creature's controller's upkeep, he or she pays o3 or Mind Whip deals 2 damage to him or her. If Mind Whip deals damage in this way, tap that creature.

Enchant creature
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {3}. If they don't, Mind Whip deals 2 damage to that player and you tap that creature.

Chaos Moon

During each player's upkeep, count the number of permanents. If that number is odd, all red creatures get +1/+1 and mountains produce an additional o
R when tapped for mana until end of turn. If the number is even, all red creatures get -1/-1 and mountains produce colorless mana instead of their normal mana until end of turn.

At the beginning of each upkeep, count the number of permanents. If the number is odd, until end of turn, red creatures get +1/+1 and whenever a player taps a Mountain for mana, that player adds an additional {R}. If the number is even, until end of turn, red creatures get -1/-1 and if a player taps a Mountain for mana, that Mountain produces colorless mana instead of any other type.

"I strive for elegance and speed in my work."
—Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Flare

Flare deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Flare deals 1 damage to any target.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Game of Chaos

Flip a coin; target opponent calls heads or tails while coin is in the air. If the flip ends up in your favor, you gain 1 life and that opponent loses 1 life. Otherwise, you lose 1 life and the opponent gains 1 life. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. The winner of each round decides whether to continue. Double the stakes in life each round.

Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 1 life and target opponent loses 1 life, and you decide whether to flip again. If you lose the flip, you lose 1 life and that opponent gains 1 life, and that player decides whether to flip again. Double the life stakes with each flip.

Total War

Whenever any player declares an attack, destroy all untapped non-wall creatures that player controls that don't attack. Do not destroy creatures the player did not control at the beginning of the turn.

Whenever a player attacks with one or more creatures, destroy all untapped non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack, except for creatures the player hasn't controlled continuously since the beginning of the turn.

"Even the ground is our friend."
—Kolbjörn, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Earthlore

When Earthlore comes into play, choose target land you control.
o0: Tap land Earthlore enchants to give target blocking creature +1/+2 until end of turn.

Enchant land you control
Tap enchanted land: Target blocking creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn. Activate only if enchanted land is untapped.

Power Leak

During the upkeep of target enchantment's controller, Power Leak deals 2 damage to him or her. That player may pay o1 for each damage he or she wishes to prevent from Power Leak.

Enchant enchantment
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted enchantment's controller, that player may pay any amount of mana. Power Leak deals 2 damage to that player. Prevent X of that damage, where X is the amount of mana that player paid this way.

Cave People

When attacking, Cave People gets +1/-2 until end of turn.
1o
Ro
R, oc
T: Target creature gains mountainwalk until end of turn.

Whenever Cave People attacks, it gets +1/-2 until end of turn.
{1}{R}{R}, {T}: Target creature gains mountainwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)