Phil Foglio

"A skilled decoy can throw your enemies off your trail. A master decoy can survive to do it again."
—Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Master Decoy

Command of Unsummoning

Cast this spell only during the declare attackers step and only if you've been attacked this step.
Return one or two target attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

To be king, Numsgil did in Blog, who did in Unkful, who did in Viddle, who did in Loll, who did in Alrok . . . .

Goblin King

Other Goblins get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk.

"But *why* can't I get one?" sniveled Squee. "All da bugs here got wings."

Frog Tongue

Enchant creature
When Frog Tongue enters, draw a card.
Enchanted creature has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Confused but undeterred, the butterflies charged into battle.

Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

"One cannot cleanse the wounds of failure."
—Karn, silver golem

Humility

All creatures lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 1/1.

Recycle

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you play a card, draw a card.
Your maximum hand size is two. (You discard down to your maximum hand size as your turn ends.)

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you play a card, draw a card.
Your maximum hand size is two.

Sleight of Hand

Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

The clouds broke and the sun's rays burst forth; each foul beast in its turn faltered, and was gone.

Cleanse

The communal mind produces a savage strategy, yet no one could predict that this vicious crossbreed would unravel the secret of steel.

Killer Bees

Flying
{G}: Killer Bees gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Ramirez DePietro is a most flamboyant pirate. Be careful not to believe his tall tales, especially when you ask his age.

Ramirez DePietro

"Once great literature—now great litter."
—Jaya Ballard, task mage

Browse

{2}{U}{U}: Look at the top five cards of your library and put one of them into your hand. Remove the rest from the game.

{2}{U}{U}: Look at the top five cards of your library, put one of them into your hand, and exile the rest.

"I thought the day had brought enough horrors for our ragged band, but the night was far worse."
—Lucilde Fiksdotter, leader of the Order of the White Shield

Infernal Darkness

Cumulative upkeep—
Pay {B} and 1 life.
If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type.

Cumulative upkeep—Pay {B} and 1 life. (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.)
If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type.

"The shaman waved the staff, and the land itself went mad."
—Disa the Restless, journal entry

Anarchy

"I breathed deeply, and suddenly I knew not who or where I was."
—Taaveti of Kelsinko, elvish hunter

Fyndhorn Pollen

Cumulative upkeep {1}
All creatures get -1/-0.
{1}{G}: All creatures get -1/-0 until end of turn.

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.)
All creatures get -1/-0.
{1}{G}: All creatures get -1/-0 until end of turn.

Mirror Universe

{T}, Sacrifice Mirror Universe: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Play this ability only during your upkeep.

{T}, Sacrifice Mirror Universe: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

Mishra's Factory

{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.
{1}: Mishra's Factory becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mishra's Factory becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Us hungry, need food . . . . Lots of books . . . . Hmm . . . ."

Orcish Librarian

{R}, {T}: Look at the top eight cards of your library. Remove four of them at random from the game, then put the rest on top of your library in any order.

{R}, {T}: Look at the top eight cards of your library. Exile four of them at random, then put the rest on top of your library in any order.

Avoid Fate

Counter target instant or Aura spell that targets a permanent you control.

"There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed."
—Lao Tsu, *Tao Te Ching*, (trans. Chan)

Greed

"From down here we can make the whole wall collapse!"
"Uh, yeah, boss, but how do we get out?"

Goblin Digging Team

oc
T, Sacrifice Goblin Digging Team: Destroy target Wall.

{T}, Sacrifice Goblin Digging Team: Destroy target Wall.

"The sanctity of poverty is an invention of the rich."
—Starke

Dream Cache

Draw three cards. Choose two cards from your hand and put both on either the top or the bottom of your library.

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand both on top of your library or both on the bottom of your library.

The moans of the Death Pits were underscored by the chattering of imps, for whom the ship was cause for much discussion.

Pit Imp

Flying
o
B: Pit Imp gets +1/+0 until end of turn. You cannot spend more than o
Bo
B in this way each turn.

Flying
{B}: Pit Imp gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.

Apathy

Enchanted creature does not untap during its controller's untap phase.
During the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may discard a card at random to untap that creature.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may discard a card at random. If the player does, untap that creature.

"In the heart of Llanowar the magic is so strong that trees cannot stay rooted."
—Mirri of the *Weatherlight*

Redwood Treefolk

"Strange alliances are alliances still, and provide the same protection."
—King Darien of Kjeldor

Unlikely Alliance

o1o
W: Target non-attacking, non-blocking creature gets +0/+2 until end of turn.

{1}{W}: Target nonattacking, nonblocking creature gets +0/+2 until end of turn.

"The Elves train our healers, and we keep the Orcs at bay. Most Elvish bargains aren't as fair."
—General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Cooperation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has 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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

White Scarab

Target creature gets +2/+2 as long as any opponent controls any white cards. That creature cannot be blocked by white creatures.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked by white creatures.
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 as long as an opponent controls a white permanent.

"Get up, blast you! They're attacking! Why are you all so slow?"
—General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Breath of Dreams

Cumulative Upkeep: o
U
Green creatures each require an additional Cumulative Upkeep: o1.

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.)
Green creatures have "Cumulative upkeep {1}."

Snowfall

Cumulative Upkeep: o
U
Islands may produce an additional o
U when tapped for mana. This mana is usable only for cumulative upkeep.
Snow-covered islands may produce either an additional o
Uo
U or an additional o
U when tapped for mana. This mana is usable only for cumulative upkeep.

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.)
Whenever an Island is tapped for mana, its controller may add an additional {U}. If that Island is snow, its controller may add an additional {U}{U} instead. Spend this mana only to pay cumulative upkeep costs.

"I can't believe they expect me to fight with this rabble. A Goblin in a big mask sends 'em running for cover."
—Avram Garrisson, Leader of the Knights of Stromgald

Imposing Visage

Target creature cannot be blocked by only one creature.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Lure

All creatures able to block target creature must do so. Lure does not prevent a creature from blocking more than one creature if blocker has that ability. If blocker is forced to block more creatures than it is allowed to, defender chooses which of these creatures to block, but must block as many creatures as allowed.

Enchant creature
All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Runed Arch

Comes into play tapped.
o
X,oc
T: Sacrifice Runed Arch. X target creatures with power no greater than 2 cannot be blocked this turn. Other effects may later be used to increase a creature's power beyond 2.

Runed Arch enters tapped.
{X}, {T}, Sacrifice Runed Arch: X target creatures with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

"I dispute Relicbane's hysterical allegations, Commissioner, but it is true that these artifacts can be dangerous."
—Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Sunstone

o2: Sacrifice a snow-covered land to have all creatures deal no damage in combat this turn.

{2}, Sacrifice a snow land: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Sulfurous Springs

oc
T: Add o1 to your mana pool.
oc
T: Add o
B to your mana pool. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.
oc
T: Add o
R to your mana pool. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

". . . [A]nd gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name."
—William Shakespeare, *A Midsummer-Night's Dream*

Gaseous Form

Target creature neither deals nor receives damage during combat.

Enchant creature
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by enchanted creature.

Although their methods were often brutal, Farrel's followers believed in the preservation of justice and virtue.

Farrelite Priest

o1: Add o
W to your mana pool. Play this ability as an interrupt. If more than 3 is spent in this way during one turn, bury Farrelite Priest at end of turn.

{1}: Add {W}. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice Farrelite Priest at the beginning of the next end step.

"Scouting is the art of balancing the need to go undiscovered with the need to get all the information you can. It's only by Leitbur's good grace that I'm still alive today."
—Ailis Connaut, *Diary*

Icatian Scout

o1, oc
T: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

{1}, {T}: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Although my later designs were much more sophisticated, Basal Thrulls were no less a success."
—Endrek Sahr, "Thrulls"

Basal Thrull

oc
T: Sacrifice Basal Thrull to add o
Bo
B to your mana pool. Play this ability as an interrupt.

"I asked one of my aides how they do it, but all he'd say was, 'Trust me, Mayor, you don't want to know.'"
—Lydia Wynforth, Mayor of Trokair

Goblin Chirurgeon

o0: Sacrifice a Goblin to regenerate a target creature.

Sacrifice a Goblin: Regenerate target creature.

Even the most skilled of modern mages only partially understand the Conch Horn's awesome powers.

Conch Horn

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Conch Horn: Draw two cards, then put a card from your hand on top of your library.

Presence of the Master

While Presence of the Master is in play, any new enchantments cast are countered.

Whenever a player casts an enchantment spell, counter it.

Tap to add 1 colorless mana to your mana pool or give any Assembly Worker +1/+1 until end of turn.
o1: Mishra's Factory becomes an Assembly Worker, a 2/2 artifact creature, until end of turn. Assembly Worker is still considered a land as well.

Elvish Impersonators

As Elvish Impersonators enters the battlefield, roll a six-sided die twice. Its base power becomes the first result and its base toughness becomes the second result.

As Elvish Impersonators enters, roll a six-sided die twice. Its base power becomes the first result and its base toughness becomes the second result.

Bargaining with a goblin is like trading with a child; both believe they already own everything.

Bargain

Target opponent draws a card.
You gain 7 life.

Four little goblins, trapped by the sea. One teased a serpent, and then there were three.

Tidal Surge

Tap any one, two, or three creatures without flying. (Tapped creatures can't block.)

Tap up to three target creatures without flying.

Cloud Pirates

Flying
Cloud Pirates can intercept only creatures with flying.

Flying
Cloud Pirates can block only creatures with flying.

Prosperity

Taunt

Choose any one player. On that player's next turn, all his or her creatures that can attack you must do so.

During target player's next turn, creatures that player controls attack you if able.

There are few things as motivating as a swarm of bees.

Bee Sting

Bee Sting deals 2 damage to any one creature or player.