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 Ghitu Slinger 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 Cloud of Faeries 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 (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
{R}: Shivan Dragon 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.

Icatian Javelineers enters with a javelin counter on it.
{T}, Remove a javelin counter from Icatian Javelineers: 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 Kjeldoran Elite Guard. 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 Phantasmal Mount leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice that creature. When the creature leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice Phantasmal Mount.

"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 Kjeldoran Dead enters, sacrifice a creature.
{B}: Regenerate Kjeldoran Dead.

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.

Balduvian Hydra enters 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. 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.

Wiitigo enters 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.

"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.

"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.

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 Angel of Mercy enters, you gain 3 life.

"Leviathan, too! Can you catch him with a fish-hook or run a line round his tongue?"
—*The Bible*, Job 41:1

Segovian Leviathan

Islandwalk (This creature is unblockable if defending player controls an island.)

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

"Vodalian rank is displayed by the colors and patterns of their skin. Beware the color red; that is the badge of the empress's favor."
—Corbio, pearl diver

Vodalian Soldiers

As the poisoned land spreads, so does the nightmare's rage and terrifying strength.

Nightmare

Flying
Nightmare's power and toughness are each equal to the number of swamps you control.

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.

Syphon Soul

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

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

"I fear anything with teeth measured in handspans!"
—Norin the Wary

Sabretooth Tiger

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

Cat Warriors

Forestwalk (This creature is unblockable if defending player controls a forest.)

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

"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 Ghitu Fire-Eater: 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.)

"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.

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.

"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.

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

Cemetery Gate

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

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

"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.

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

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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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 Mountain Titan.

Holy Armor

Target creature gets +0/+2.
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W Target creature Holy Armor enchants gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

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

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

Elven Riders

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

Elven Riders can't be blocked except by Walls and/or creatures with flying.

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.)

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 Farrel's Zealot attacks and isn't blocked, you may have it deal 3 damage to target creature. If you do, Farrel's Zealot 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.

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

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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B +1/+0 until end of turn
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B First strike until end of turn

Protection from white
{B}: Order of the Ebon Hand gains first strike until end of turn.
{B}{B}: Order of the Ebon Hand 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

Orcish Veteran can't block white creatures with power 2 or greater.
{R}: Orcish Veteran 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 Thelon's Chant unless you pay {G}.
Whenever a player puts a Swamp onto the battlefield, Thelon's Chant deals 3 damage to that player unless the player puts a -1/-1 counter on a creature they control.

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.)

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, Ichneumon Druid 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 Forethought Amulet 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 Marble Priest do so.
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Marble Priest 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.

Human Warrior

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.

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.

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The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service

The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service deals X damage to each of Y target creatures and Z target players.

The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service deals X damage to each of Y target creatures and Z target players or planeswalkers.

At last Urza's powers were focused through the incredible artifact.
"Who wants pancakes?" he asked.

Spatula of the Ages

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T, Sacrifice Spatula of the Ages: Put into play from your hand any card from an Unglued supplement.

{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Spatula of the Ages: You may put a silver-bordered or acorn permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"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.