Jason A. Engle

There are no failures in terrasymbiosis, only lessons learned.

Meltstrider Eulogist

Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, draw a card.

To ensure a fair competition, the Great Assemblage's war shriek contest has two divisions: dragons, and everyone else.

Sonic Shrieker

Flying
When this creature enters, it deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life. If a player is dealt damage this way, they discard a card.

Maskwood Nexus

Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)

Though the Fang Druids desired peace, the Grand Prix's interference threatened to awaken old dangers on Muraganda.

Fang Guardian

Flash
When this creature enters, another target creature or Vehicle you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"Thraben's pleas fall on deaf ears. Ours do not."

Skirsdag High Priest

Morbid — {T}, Tap two untapped creatures you control: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

Spirits disturbed by ghoulcallers become geists driven by restless anger.

Lightning Axe

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay {5}.
Lightning Axe deals 5 damage to target creature.

Animated by geists fused in its oak, it hungers for more life to add to its core.

Lumberknot

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"The ground under our feet is a record of every slight against the world, to be avenged at a time of its choosing."
—Gavi, nest warden

Eerie Ultimatum

Return any number of permanent cards with different names from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The first birth celebrates life. The second birth mocks it."
—Mystic elder

Zombify

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

The raiding party advanced on the lone figure, confident they had her cornered and helpless. Then she raised her hands, and the ground opened with a fiery roar.

Seismic Rupture

Seismic Rupture deals 2 damage to each creature without flying.

All the birds of the skies are the spirit's brood, gathered for safety under its wings.

Empyrean Eagle

Flying
Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.

Each of the Gitaxian sectives watches the others, looking for any hint of imperfection.

Malcator's Watcher

Flying
Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)
When Malcator's Watcher dies, draw a card.

Flying, vigilance
When this creature dies, draw a card.

Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps

Beanstalk Giant's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.

Some souls yearn to escape death. Others are content to feed the wildlife.

Underworld Hermit

When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

The Orzhov care not for repentance, only repayment.

Orzhov Advokist

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player may put two +1/+1 counters on a creature they control. If a player does, creatures that player controls can't attack you or planeswalkers you control until your next turn.

To the Rakdos, screams of delight and screams of terror are one and the same.

Havoc Jester

Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Rapacious One

Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Chatterfang, Squirrel General

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus that many 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens are created instead.
{B}, Sacrifice X Squirrels: Target creature gets +X/-X until end of turn.

Coveted Jewel

When Coveted Jewel enters, draw three cards.
{T}: Add three mana of any one color.
Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of Coveted Jewel. Untap it.

When this artifact enters, draw three cards.
{T}: Add three mana of any one color.
Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of this artifact. Untap it.

Static Prison

When Static Prison enters the battlefield, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until Static Prison leaves the battlefield. You get {E}{E} (two energy counters).
At the beginning of your precombat main phase, sacrifice Static Prison unless you pay {E}.

When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. You get {E}{E} (two energy counters).
At the beginning of your first main phase, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay {E}.

"I see where you're going with that, and I don't like it."

Flare of Denial

You may sacrifice a nontoken blue creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

"What would Urza think, I wonder, if he could hear how the nature mages still snarl at his name, but venerate the work of his apprentice?"
—Teferi, to Jhoira

Magus of the Candelabra

Narset brought the Jeskai djinn ancient wisdom and the promise to challenge the status quo.

Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
When Pinnacle Monk enters the battlefield, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.


Land
{T}: Add {R}.

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Before they can go to their final rest, the wicked must be purified by fire."
—Harra the Adjudicator

Reduce to Ashes

Reduce to Ashes deals 5 damage to target creature. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

"You know, Proft, I've done a lot of questionable things in my life, but helping a pompous detective save lives is a new low, even for me."

Not on My Watch

For all their differences, Kaya, Kellan, and Agrus Kos agreed on one thing: none of them would rest until Teysa's murderer was brought to justice.

On the Job

Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

"Eventually I'll give retirement another shot. But not today."

Agrus Kos, Spirit of Justice

Double strike, vigilance
Whenever Agrus Kos, Spirit of Justice enters the battlefield or attacks, choose up to one target creature. If it's suspected, exile it. Otherwise, suspect it. (A suspected creature has menace and can't block.)

Double strike, vigilance
Whenever Agrus Kos enters or attacks, choose up to one target creature. If it's suspected, exile it. Otherwise, suspect it. (A suspected creature has menace and can't block.)

Ezrim, Agency Chief

Flying
When Ezrim, Agency Chief enters the battlefield, investigate twice. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
{1}, Sacrifice an artifact: Ezrim gains your choice of vigilance, lifelink, or hexproof until end of turn.

Flying
When Ezrim enters, investigate twice. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
{1}, Sacrifice an artifact: Ezrim gains your choice of vigilance, lifelink, or hexproof until end of turn.

Masked Vandal

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
When this creature enters, you may exile a creature card from your graveyard. If you do, exile target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.

Assure // Assemble

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. That creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

Timothar, Baron of Bats

Ward—
Discard a card.
Whenever another nontoken Vampire you control dies, you may pay {1} and exile it. If you do, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying. It gains "When this creature deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice it and return the exiled card to the battlefield tapped."

Ward—Discard a card.
Whenever another nontoken Vampire you control dies, you may pay {1} and exile it. If you do, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying. It gains "When this token deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice it and return the exiled card to the battlefield tapped."

Goddric, Cloaked Reveler

Haste
Celebration — As long as two or more nonland permanents entered the battlefield under your control this turn, Goddric, Cloaked Reveler is a Dragon with base power and toughness 4/4, flying, and "{R}: Dragons you control get +1/+0 until end of turn." (It loses all other creature types.)

Haste
Celebration — As long as two or more nonland permanents entered the battlefield under your control this turn, Goddric is a Dragon with base power and toughness 4/4, flying, and "{R}: Dragons you control get +1/+0 until end of turn." (It loses all other creature types.)

Agatha's Champion

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
Trample
When Agatha's Champion enters the battlefield, if it was bargained, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
Trample
When this creature enters, if it was bargained, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Agatha of the Vile Cauldron

Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {X} less to activate, where X is Agatha of the Vile Cauldron's power. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
{4}{R}{G}: Other creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample and haste until end of turn.

Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {X} less to activate, where X is Agatha's power. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
{4}{R}{G}: Other creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample and haste until end of turn.

Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up

Cruel Somnophage's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Questing Druid // Seek the Beast

Whenever you cast a spell that's white, blue, black, or red, put a +1/+1 counter on Questing Druid.

Whenever you cast a spell that's white, blue, black, or red, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Agatha's Soul Cauldron

You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to activate abilities of creatures you control.
Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with Agatha's Soul Cauldron.
{T}: Exile target card from a graveyard. When a creature card is exiled this way, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

The best recipes start with reliable cookware.

Witch's Cauldron

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

"Diplomacy has solved nothing. Only bloodspill can end this now. Call forth the warbringer."
—Basandra, Battle Seraph

Avatar of Slaughter

All creatures have double strike and attack each combat if able.

Automaton inspectors ensure that the Consulate's stringent standards for mass production are upheld.

Foundry Inspector

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

The distinction of bearing the gods' banner is nothing compared to the glory of being closer to Nyx.

Herald of the Pantheon

Enchantment spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you gain 1 life.

Deification

As Deification enters the battlefield, choose a planeswalker type.
Planeswalkers you control of the chosen type have hexproof.
As long as you control a creature, if damage dealt to a planeswalker you control of the chosen type would result in all loyalty counters on it being removed, instead all but one of those counters are removed.

As this enchantment enters, choose a planeswalker type.
Planeswalkers you control of the chosen type have hexproof.
As long as you control a creature, if damage dealt to a planeswalker you control of the chosen type would result in all loyalty counters on it being removed, instead all but one of those counters are removed.

Calix, Guided by Fate

Constellation — Whenever Calix, Guided by Fate or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Whenever Calix or an enchanted creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may create a token that's a copy of a nonlegendary enchantment you control. Do this only once each turn.

Constellation — Whenever Calix or another enchantment you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Whenever Calix or an enchanted creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may create a token that's a copy of a nonlegendary enchantment you control. Do this only once each turn.

The Aether Flues

When you planeswalk to The Aether Flues and at the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle all other cards revealed this way into your library.
Whenever chaos ensues, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Ramosian Greatsword

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Equipped creature gets +3/+1 and has trample.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Spells once used to traverse Lorehold excavation sites were swiftly repurposed to keep the students one step ahead of the Invasion Tree's grasp.

Trailblazing Historian

Haste
{T}: Another target creature gains haste until end of turn.

Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse

When Heliod, the Radiant Dawn enters the battlefield, return target enchantment card that isn't a God from your graveyard to your hand.
{3}{PU}: Transform Heliod, the Radiant Dawn. Activate only as a sorcery. ({PU} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

When Heliod enters, return target enchantment card that isn't a God from your graveyard to your hand.
{3}{U/P}: Transform Heliod. Activate only as a sorcery. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin

Reach
{6}{PW}: Transform Polukranos Reborn. Activate only as a sorcery. ({PW} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

Reach
{6}{W/P}: Transform Polukranos Reborn. Activate only as a sorcery. ({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

Kroxa and Kunoros

Vigilance, menace, lifelink
Whenever Kroxa and Kunoros enters the battlefield or attacks, you may exile five cards from your graveyard. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Vigilance, menace, lifelink
Whenever Kroxa and Kunoros enters or attacks, you may exile five cards from your graveyard. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Bygone Bishop

Flying
Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 3 or less, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Flying
Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 3 or less, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Norn's Choirmaster

Flying, first strike
Whenever a commander you control enters the battlefield or attacks, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Flying, first strike
Whenever a commander you control enters or attacks, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Mondrak, Glory Dominus

If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.
{1}{PW}{PW}, Sacrifice two other artifacts and/or creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Mondrak, Glory Dominus. ({PW} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.
{1}{W/P}{W/P}, Sacrifice two other artifacts and/or creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Mondrak. ({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

They wished to become vital parts of the Dross Pits. Azax-Azog granted their request.

Feed the Infection

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.
Corrupted — Each opponent who has three or more poison counters loses 3 life.

Karumonix, the Rat King

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
Other Rats you control have toxic 1.
When Karumonix enters the battlefield, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal any number of Rat cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
Other Rats you control have toxic 1.
When Karumonix enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal any number of Rat cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

The Izzet mage knew she would neither get her thermoinverter back nor have the satisfaction of exploding it herself.

Crush Contraband

Choose one or both —
• Exile target artifact.
• Exile target enchantment.

Only an imitation of tortured shrieking
—or so the Rakdos claim.

Conductor of Cacophony

Conductor of Cacophony enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.
{B}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Conductor of Cacophony: It deals 1 damage to each other creature and each player.

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
{B}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to each other creature and each player.

"When you're on watch, no noise is harmless and no shadow can be ignored."
—Olgard of the Skiltfolk

Midnight Guard

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, untap Midnight Guard.

Whenever another creature enters, untap this creature.

Gentle hands of stone whisk the careless from the crumbling ruins of Pillardrop.

Pillardrop Rescuer

Flying
When Pillardrop Rescuer enters the battlefield, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

Flying
When this creature enters, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

Skilled Animator

When Skilled Animator enters the battlefield, target artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5 for as long as Skilled Animator remains on the battlefield.

When this creature enters, target artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5 for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.

Servants at Vess Manor are chosen for their strong work ethic and respectful demeanor. Being alive is not required.

Liliana's Steward

{T}, Sacrifice Liliana's Steward: Target opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Vowing to free the souls of her children, Kastinne followed the tormentors into the ghastly network of caves below Stensia.

Soulcage Fiend

When Soulcage Fiend dies, each player loses 3 life.

When this creature dies, each player loses 3 life.

Imagine a thousand tiny mushrooms cropping up within your lungs.

Strangling Spores

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

Lavabrink's boiling moat is a deterrent for most, and a relaxing bath for one.

Lava Serpent

Haste
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Evolved Sleeper

{B}: Evolved Sleeper becomes a Human Cleric with base power and toughness 2/2.
{1}{B}: If Evolved Sleeper is a Cleric, put a deathtouch counter on it and it becomes a Phyrexian Human Cleric with base power and toughness 3/3.
{1}{B}{B}: If Evolved Sleeper is a Phyrexian, put a +1/+1 counter on it, then you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

{B}: This creature becomes a Human Cleric with base power and toughness 2/2.
{1}{B}: If this creature is a Cleric, put a deathtouch counter on it and it becomes a Phyrexian Human Cleric with base power and toughness 3/3.
{1}{B}{B}: If this creature is a Phyrexian, put a +1/+1 counter on it, then you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

"Ah yes, I remember that one. I turned him inside out and cast his soul into an endless nightmare a few centuries ago."
—Braids

Tattered Apparition

Flying
{1}{B}: Tattered Apparition gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Flying
{1}{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Keldon Flamesage

Enlist
Whenever Keldon Flamesage attacks, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is Keldon Flamesage's power. You may exile an instant or sorcery card with mana value X or less from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Enlist
Whenever this creature attacks, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is this creature's power. You may exile an instant or sorcery card with mana value X or less from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

The bell's unearthly chime slips into the ears of the dead, waking them rudely from their eternal slumber.

Bonecaller Cleric

{3}{B}, Sacrifice Bonecaller Cleric: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

{3}{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.