Melissa A. Benson

No earthly armor is protection against this sweetness.

Alluring Scent

All creatures able to block target creature this turn do so.

The overconfident are the most vulnerable.

About Face

Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

If you survive a slinger attack, the slinger wished you to live.

Ghitu Slinger

Echo {2}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When this creature enters, it deals 2 damage to any target.

Knives in the sky, cries in the air, and blood on the ground.

Rain of Daggers

Destroy all creatures target opponent controls. You lose 2 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Norwood Priestess

{T}: You may put a green creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Cloud of Faeries

Flying
When Cloud of Faeries enters the battlefield, untap up to two lands.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to two lands.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

While it's true most Dragons are cruel, the Shivan Dragon seems to take particular glee in the misery of others, often tormenting its victims much like a cat plays with a mouse before delivering the final blow.

Shivan Dragon

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

Flying
{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Nireya reached through the Gate, sensing the energies trapped beyond.

Planar Gate

Creature spells you cast cost up to {2} less to cast.

Creature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.

The elite guard of the Mesa High Priests, the Ivory Guardians, were created to protect the innocent and faithful. Some say their actions are above the law.

Ivory Guardians

Protection from red
Creatures named Ivory Guardians get +1/+1 as long as an opponent controls a red permanent.

Protection from red
Creatures named Ivory Guardians get +1/+1 as long as an opponent controls a nontoken red permanent.

Hail from Tolaria the ever changing 'Dane.

Halfdane

At the beginning of your upkeep, Halfdane's power and toughness become equal to the power and toughness of target creature other than Halfdane, until the end of your next upkeep.

At the beginning of your upkeep, change Halfdane's base power and toughness to the power and toughness of target creature other than Halfdane until the end of your next upkeep.

"On the field of honor, a soldier need have no fear."

Ragnar

{G}{W}{U}, {T}: Regenerate target creature.

A regular guest at the Royal Masquerade, Arien is the envy of the Court. She appears in a new costume every hour.

Xira Arien

Flying
{B}{R}{G}, {T}: Target player draws a card.

"Play the song of he who delivered us. Play the song of Feroz."
—Onatah, Anaba Shaman

Didgeridoo

{3}: You may put a Minotaur permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Icatian Javelineers

Icatian Javelineers comes into play with a javelin counter on it.
{T}, Remove a javelin counter from Icatian Javelineers: Icatian Javelineers deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

This creature enters with a javelin counter on it.
{T}, Remove a javelin counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

The winged helms of the guard are put on for pageants—but taken off for war.

Kjeldoran Elite Guard

{T}: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. When that creature leaves play this turn, sacrifice Kjeldoran Elite Guard. Play this ability only during combat.

{T}: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. When that creature leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice this creature. Activate only during combat.

Phantasmal Mount

Flying
{T}: Target creature you control with toughness 2 or less gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn. When Phantasmal Mount leaves play this turn, sacrifice that creature. When the creature leaves play this turn, sacrifice Phantasmal Mount.

Flying
{T}: Target creature you control with toughness 2 or less gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn. When this creature leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice that creature. When the creature leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice this creature.

"They shall kill those whom once they loved."
—Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Kjeldoran Dead

When Kjeldoran Dead comes into play, sacrifice a creature.
{B}: Regenerate Kjeldoran Dead.

When this creature enters, sacrifice a creature.
{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Balduvian Hydra

Balduvian Hydra comes into play with X +1/+0 counters on it.
Remove a +1/+0 counter from Balduvian Hydra: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Balduvian Hydra this turn.
{R}{R}{R}: Put a +1/+0 counter on Balduvian Hydra. Play this ability only during your upkeep.

This creature enters with X +1/+0 counters on it.
Remove a +1/+0 counter from this creature: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to it this turn.
{R}{R}{R}: Put a +1/+0 counter on this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.

Wiitigo

Wiitigo comes into play with six +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on Wiitigo if it has blocked or been blocked since your last upkeep. Otherwise, remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

This creature enters with six +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature if it has blocked or been blocked since your last upkeep. Otherwise, remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

"We encountered the sentinels in the wastes, near no living thing. Their purpose was inscrutable."
—Disa the Restless, journal entry

Adarkar Sentinel

{1}: Adarkar Sentinel gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

{1}: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"The Hand of Justice will come to cleanse the world if we are true."
—Oliver Farrel

Hand of Justice

{T}, Tap three untapped white creatures you control: Destroy target creature.

Before a woman marries in the village of Sursi, she must visit the land of the mesa pegasus. Legend has it that if the woman is pure of heart and her love is true, a mesa pegasus will appear, blessing her family with long life and good fortune.

Mesa Pegasus

Flying; banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"Centaurs will kill our aesthir if they can; they've always been enemies. Destroy the horse-people on sight."
—Arna Kennerüd, Skyknight

Centaur Archer

{T}: Centaur Archer deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.

A master of tactics, the Lord of Atlantis makes his people bold in battle merely by arriving to lead them.

Lord of Atlantis

Other Merfolk get +1/+1 and have islandwalk.

Other Merfolk get +1/+1 and have islandwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

"The fire of justice burns like nothing else."
—Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian chieftain

Fiery Justice

Fiery Justice deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players. Target opponent gains 5 life.

Fiery Justice deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. Target opponent gains 5 life.

Angel of Mercy

Flying
When this creature enters, you gain 3 life.

"They are called 'Mi'uto,' which means 'one use.'"
—Jhoira, artificer

Ghitu Fire-Eater

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T, Sacrifice Ghitu Fire-Eater: Ghitu Fire-Eater deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals damage equal to its power to any target.

When the gorilla playfully grabbed the wurm's tail, the wurm doubled back and playfully ate the gorilla's head.

Yavimaya Wurm

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

"The people of Aysen feed us, and we don't kill them. That's my kind of truce."
—Eron the Relentless

Truce

Each player may draw up to two cards. For each card less than two any player draws, that player gains 2 life.

Each player may draw up to two cards. For each card less than two a player draws this way, that player gains 2 life.

"Just the place for a picnic."
—Murat, Death Speaker

Cemetery Gate

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Protection from black

"It keeps some out, yes. It also keeps others in!"
—Grandmother Sengir

"This party is such fun—but it's a shame to mourn just one."
—Irini Sengir

Funeral March

When target creature leaves play, that creature's controller sacrifices a creature he or she controls. Ignore this effect if that player controls no creatures.

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature leaves the battlefield, its controller sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Mammoth Harness

Target creature loses flying. If any creature is assigned to block the creature Mammoth Harness enchants or has the creature Mammoth Harness enchants assigned to block it, that creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses flying.
Whenever enchanted creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, the other creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"I've seen a larger Erne knock a Giant to the ground and stay airborne. They move not with the wind, but as the wind."
—Arna Kennerüd, Skyknight

Silver Erne

"What was yours is mine. Your land, your people, and now your life."
—Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Touch of Death

Touch of Death deals 1 damage to target player, and you gain 1 life. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Touch of Death deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. You gain 1 life.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Daughter, it is now your turn to hunt the Tiger, and make a blanket of its fur."
—Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Sabretooth Tiger

Altar of Bone

Sacrifice a creature to look through your library for a creature card; put that card into your hand after showing it to all other players. Reshuffle your library afterwards.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"The Titans claimed to draw strength from the rocks, but I suspect them of some darker allegiance."
—Disa the Restless, journal entry

Mountain Titan

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Roo
R For the rest of the turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Mountain Titan whenever you successfully cast a black spell.

{1}{R}{R}: Until end of turn, whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

After the fall of Trokair, Farrel and his followers formally broke their ties with the rest of Icatia.

Farrel's Zealot

If Farrel's Zealot attacks and is not blocked, you may choose to have it deal 3 damage to a target creature. If you do so, it deals no damage to opponent this turn.

Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may have it deal 3 damage to target creature. If you do, this creature assigns no combat damage this turn.

Icatian Moneychanger

Moneychanger deals 3 damage to you when summoned; put three credit counters on Moneychanger at that time. During your upkeep, put one credit counter on Moneychanger.
o0: Sacrifice Moneychanger to gain 1 life for each credit counter on it. Use this ability only during your upkeep.

This creature enters with three credit counters on it.
When this creature enters, it deals 3 damage to you.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a credit counter on this creature.
Sacrifice this creature: You gain 1 life for each credit counter on this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.

"Vodalian Soldiers had some unique advantages. Often they would ride into battle on war machines rumored to have come from the far northern oceans."
—*Sarpadian Empires, vol. V*

Vodalian Soldiers

A true follower of Tourach took pride in achievement to the exclusion of other concerns.

Order of the Ebon Hand

Protection from white
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Boo
B +1/+0 until end of turn
oo
B First strike until end of turn

Protection from white
{B}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.
{B}{B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Although models of courage for Orcs, the Veterans quickly learned to fear the swift justice of their Icatian enemies.

Orcish Veteran

Cannot be assigned to block any white creature of power greater than 1.
oo
R First strike until end of turn

This creature can't block white creatures with power 2 or greater.
{R}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Thelon's Chant

During your upkeep, pay o
G or bury Thelon's Chant.
Whenever a player puts a swamp into play, Thelon's Chant deals 3 damage to him or her unless that player puts a -1/-1 counter on a target creature he or she controls.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay {G}.
Whenever a player puts a Swamp onto the battlefield, this enchantment deals 3 damage to that player unless the player puts a -1/-1 counter on a creature they control.

"Leviathan, too! Can you catch him with a fish-hook/ or run a line round his tongue?"
—*Job 40:25*

Segovian Leviathan

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

"Her lips suck forth; see, where it flies!"
—Christopher Marlowe, *The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus*

Syphon Soul

Syphon Soul does 2 damage to all players except caster. Caster gains life points equal to the amount of damage done by Syphon Soul.

Syphon Soul deals 2 damage to each other player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Ærathi children who show promise are left to survive for a year in the wilderness. Those who return are shown the way of the Berserker.

Aerathi Berserker

Rampage 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +3/+3 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

These stealthy felines have survived so many battles that some believe they must possess many lives.

Cat Warriors

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

"Sometimes it is better to be swift of foot than strong of swordarm."
—Elven Proverb

Elven Riders

Cannot be blocked by any creatures except walls and flying creatures.

This creature can't be blocked except by Walls and/or creatures with flying.

Ichneumon Druid

Ichneumon Druid does 4 damage to any opponent casting an instant. This does not apply to the first instant cast by that opponent in each turn.

Whenever an opponent casts an instant spell other than the first instant spell that player casts each turn, this creature deals 4 damage to that player.

Forethought Amulet

Pay o3 during your upkeep or Forethought Amulet is destroyed. If you receive more than 2 damage from a sorcery or instant source, that damage is reduced to 2.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay {3}.
If an instant or sorcery source would deal 3 or more damage to you, it deals 2 damage to you instead.

Marble Priest

All walls able to block Marble Priest must do so. Walls able to block more than one creature can still do so. If blocking wall is compelled to block more creatures than it is legally able to, defender chooses which of these attacking creatures to block, but must block as many creatures as it legally can. Damage dealt to Marble Priest from walls during combat is reduced to 0.

All Walls able to block this creature do so.
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature by Walls.

Ring of Immortals

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T: Counter target interrupt or enchantment. Can only counter spells which target a permanent under your control. This ability is played as an interrupt.

{3}, {T}: Counter target instant or Aura spell that targets a permanent you control.

Holy Armor

Target creature gains +0/+2. oo
W Target creature gets extra +0/+1 until end of turn.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2.
{W}: Enchanted creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

The Nightmare arises from its lair in the swamps. As the poisoned land spreads, so does the Nightmare's rage and terrifying strength.

Nightmare

Flying
Nightmare's power and toughness both equal the number of swamps its controller has in play.

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Nightmare's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.

Fire Elementals are ruthless infernos, annihilating and consuming their foes in a frenzied holocaust. Crackling and blazing, they sear swift, terrible paths, leaving the land charred and scorched in their wake.

Fire Elemental

Though many think of Wolves as solitary predators, they are actually extremely social animals. During a hunt they often call to each other, which can be quite unsettling for their prey.

Timber Wolves

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Human Warrior

"I'd sooner lock lips with a viper. At least I might walk away from *that*."
—Elvish scout

Kiss of Death

Kiss of Death deals 4 damage to your opponent. You gain 4 life.

Kiss of Death deals 4 damage to target opponent or planeswalker. You gain 4 life.

Orcish Catapult

Randomly distribute X -0/-1 counters among a random number of random target creatures.

Sewers of Estark

Choose one Target attacking creature is unblockable this turn; or prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target blocking creature and all creatures it's blocking this turn.

Choose target creature. If it's attacking, it can't be blocked this turn. If it's blocking, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this combat by it and each creature it's blocking.

Every page holds a month, every date a numeral.

Bronze Calendar

Spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
You must speak in a voice other than your normal voice.
When you speak in your normal voice, sacrifice Bronze Calendar.

Spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
You must speak in a voice other than your normal voice.
When you speak in your normal voice, sacrifice this artifact.

Get a Life

Target player and each of his or her teammates exchange life totals.

Target player and each of that player's teammates exchange life totals.