Richard Thomas

Blaze of Glory

Target defending creature can and must block all attacking creatures it can legally block. For example, a normal non-flying target defender can and must block all normal non-flying attackers at once, but it cannot block any flying attackers. Controller of target defender may distribute damage among attackers as desired. Play before defense is chosen.

Cast this spell only during combat before blockers are declared.
Target creature defending player controls can block any number of creatures this turn. It blocks each attacking creature this turn if able.

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Gleemax

You choose all targets for all spells and abilities.

Invented in Mishra's earlier days, the rack was once his most feared creation.

The Rack

As this artifact enters, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, this artifact deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in their hand.

"Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do."
—Selenia, dark angel

Lightning Blast

Lightning Blast deals 4 damage to any target.

"Such rage," thought Vhati, gazing up at the thunderhead from the *Predator*. "It is Greven's mind manifest."

Rolling Thunder

Rolling Thunder deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

"These moonless, foreign skies keep me in thrall. Dark whispers echo in the night, and I cannot resist."
—Selenia, dark angel

Dread of Night

Fire Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.

"Unearthly and invisible fibers emanate from this sphere, entangling all who draw near."
—Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Vibrating Sphere

During your turn, creatures you control get +2/+0.
During turns other than yours, creatures you control get -0/-2.

"The Lemures had barely taken wing when the sky roared with thunder. The swarm of little beasts wavered, divided, and fell, crashing to the earth."
—General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Thunder Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
{U}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Capturing this specimen was not easy. Study it well, that you someday might be as versatile."
—Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen

Shyft

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have this creature become the color or colors of your choice. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

"Bind me to thee, my soul to thine. I am your servant and your slave. I shall hunger for your word and thirst for your blessing. Blood for blood, flesh for flesh, Leshrac, my lord."
—Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Leshrac's Rite

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has swampwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

"I was shocked when I first saw the aftermath of the Yavimaya Valley disaster. The raging waters had swept away trees, bridges, and even houses. My healers had much work to do."
—Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest

Jokulhaups

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and lands. They can't be regenerated.

"The Lemures looked harmless, until they descended on my troops. Within moments, only bones remained."
—Lucilde Fiksdotter, Leader of the Order of the White Shield

Hyalopterous Lemure

{0}: This creature gets -1/-0 and gains flying until end of turn.

"The creature we fought in the western waste was doubly dangerous: mortally wounded, it rebounded and attacked again."
—Disa the Restless, journal entry

Hoar Shade

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

General Jarkeld

{T}: Choose two target blocked attacking creatures. If each of those creatures could be blocked by all creatures that the other is blocked by, each creature that's blocking exactly one of those attacking creatures stops blocking it and is blocking the other attacking creature. Activate only during the declare blockers step.

"I've been insulted by drunks in a hundred inns, but never as skillfully or annoyingly as by those blasted Brownies."
—General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Fyndhorn Brownie

"Few of us left, now. Confounded Yeti have opened all the vents. We'd best hide here with the weapons."
—Perena Deepcutter, Dwarven Armorer

Dwarven Armory

{2}, Sacrifice a land: Put a +2/+2 counter on target creature. Activate only during any upkeep step.

"We were not meant to have such terrible things. They should be left where we found them, if not destroyed!"
—Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Despotic Scepter

{T}: Destroy target permanent you own. It can't be regenerated.

Barbarian Guides

{2}{R}, {T}: Choose a land type. Target creature you control gains snow landwalk of the chosen type until end of turn. Return that creature to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a snow land of that type.)

So confusing is the Wall's appearance that few of its victims even see it move.

Wall of Wonder

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{2}{U}{U}: This creature gets +4/-4 until end of turn and can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.

"Walls of a castle are made out of stone,/ Walls of a house out of bricks or of wood./ My walls are made out of magic alone,/ Stronger than any that ever have stood."
—Chrysoberyl Earthsdaughter, *Incantations*

Wall of Vapor

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by creatures it's blocking.

Wall of Putrid Flesh

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Protection from white
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by enchanted creatures.

As many attackers were dazzled by the wall's beauty as were halted by its force.

Wall of Light

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

At a distance, we mistook the sound for a waterfall . . .

Wall of Heat

The ground shuddered violently and the earth seemed to come to life. The elemental force contained in the vast wall of earth was trapped, bent to its controller's will.

Wall of Earth

An ever-moving swarm of dust engulfs and disorients anything that comes near.

Wall of Dust

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature can't attack during its controller's next turn.

Nova Pentacle

{3}, {T}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, that damage is dealt to target creature of an opponent's choice instead.

Kry Shield

{2}, {T}: Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn by target creature you control. That creature gets +0/+X until end of turn, where X is its mana value.

"You would never guess, at the terrifying sight of the man, that Hunding was as charming a companion as one could wish for."

Hunding Gjornersen

Rampage 1 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

Gosta Dirk

First strike
Creatures with islandwalk can be blocked as though they didn't have islandwalk.

"'War is no picnic,' my father liked to say. But the Ants seemed to disagree." —*General Chanek Valteroth*

Carrion Ants

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

Ashnod invented several torture techniques that could make victims even miles away beg for mercy as if the End had come.

Cursed Rack

As this artifact enters, choose an opponent.
The chosen player's maximum hand size is four.

A deafening roar arose as the fury of an enormous vertical river supplanted our serenity. Eddies turned into whirling geysers, leveling everything in their path.

Wall of Water

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{U}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"And through the drifts the snowy cliffs/ Did send a dismal sheen:/ Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—/ The ice was all between."/
—Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Wall of Ice

Conjured from the bowels of hell, the fiery wall forms an impassable barrier, searing the soul of any creature attempting to pass through its terrible bursts of flame.

Wall of Fire

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"This 'standing windstorm' can hold us off indefinitely? Ridiculous!" Saying nothing, she put a pinch of salt on the table. With a bang she clapped her hands, and the salt disappeared, blown away.

Wall of Air

Defender, flying (This creature can't attack, and it can block creatures with flying.)

Tsunami

Red Elemental Blast

Choose one —
• Counter target blue spell.
• Destroy target blue permanent.

Power Sink

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that player doesn't, they tap all lands with mana abilities they control and lose all unspent mana.

Karma

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals damage to that player equal to the number of Swamps they control.

Channel

Until end of turn, any time you could activate a mana ability, you may pay 1 life. If you do, add {C}.

Blue Elemental Blast

Choose one —
• Counter target red spell.
• Destroy target red permanent.

Black Vise

As this artifact enters, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, this artifact deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

These spirits of the air are winsome and wild, and cannot be truly contained. Only marginally intelligent, they often substitute whimsy for strategy, delighting in mischief and mayhem.