Ron Spencer

Swamp

There is nothing more repulsive than a cockroach—except a cockroach and all its friends.

Endless Cockroaches

When Endless Cockroaches dies, return it to its owner's hand.

Every little cub has its mother's teeth to guard it.
—Elvish saying

Bear Cub

Tolarian apprentices learn to liberate aetheric energy long before they are taught to bind it.

Unsummon

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

The standard was a rallying point for the army and a target for the enemy.

Standard Bearer

While an opponent is choosing targets as part of casting a spell they control or activating an ability they control, that player must choose at least one Flagbearer on the battlefield if able.

Bone Shredder

Flying
Echo {2}{B} (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 Bone Shredder enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.

"How could I catch her when the trees conspired to stop me?"

Trap Runner

{T}: Target unblocked attacking creature becomes blocked. Activate only during combat after blockers are declared. (This ability works on creatures that can't be blocked.)

His bolas whirl like galaxies, but it's his enemies who see stars.

Whipcorder

{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.
Morph {W} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Reaping the Graves

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Rite of Consumption

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Rite of Consumption deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Fanning the Flames

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Fanning the Flames deals X damage to any target.

A changeling involuntarily mimics the nearest being at hand, sometimes trading a borrowed shell for borrowed claws.

Turtleshell Changeling

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
{1}{U}: Switch Turtleshell Changeling's power and toughness until end of turn.

"Mine is not the warmth of compassion."
—Ertai, wizard adept

Cone of Flame

Cone of Flame deals 1 damage to any target, 2 damage to another target, and 3 damage to a third target.

Bores ruin a party. Boars are party to ruin.

Crashing Boars

Whenever Crashing Boars attacks, defending player chooses an untapped creature they control. That creature blocks Crashing Boars this turn if able.

"Whereas I was created to protect, the biskelion was created to destroy."
—Karn, silver golem

Serrated Biskelion

{T}: Put a -1/-1 counter on Serrated Biskelion and a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

The first Yawgmoth priest to harness their power was rewarded with several unique mutilations.

Skirge Familiar

"His tongue must be honey, the way he gathers ants to fight with him."
—Volrath

Renegade Warlord

First strike
Whenever Renegade Warlord attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Venomspout Brackus

{1}{G}, {T}: Venomspout Brackus deals 5 damage to target attacking or blocking creature with flying.
Morph {3}{G}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

On Otaria, peace and harmony are rare. Places that provide both are cherished.

Sungrass Prairie

Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm

Deathtouch
Whenever Grist, Voracious Larva or another creature enters the battlefield under your control, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, you may pay {G}. If you do, exile Grist, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control.

Deathtouch
Whenever Grist, Voracious Larva or another creature you control enters, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, you may pay {G}. If you do, exile Grist, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control.

From jungle to sea, from sea to stone, from stone to field, from field to bone. What am I?
—Zhalfirin riddle

Ersatz Gnomes

{T}: Target spell becomes colorless.
{T}: Target permanent becomes colorless until end of turn.

A farewell to arms . . . and feet . . . and legs . . . .

Cursed Flesh

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 and has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"The trees keep our history better than any digital device."
—Satsuki, the Living Lore

Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"Anyone can make their audience beg for an encore . . . I prefer mine to beg for mercy!"

Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.

*Strixhaven Star* food critic Aspen Van Gnoot's coverage of the fight would go on to win a student journalism award for outstanding war reporting.

Disrupt Decorum

Goad all creatures you don't control. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

"Oh, don't worry about that one. I'm saving him for later."
—Liliana Vess

Entomb

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

"Leave no survivors. Let the other worlds see what befalls those who attempt to resist the might of Phyrexia."
—Sheoldred

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

"If you look past the giant claws, nasty teeth, and horrible breath, they're actually kind of cute."
—Shanna Sisay

Flametongue Kavu

When Flametongue Kavu enters the battlefield, it deals 4 damage to target creature.

When Flametongue Kavu enters, it deals 4 damage to target creature.

A single drop turns skin to scale and fist to claw.

Dragon Blood

{3}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

"In desperation, Konda sent warriors to parley with the ogre-magi. No one knows whether they were slaughtered at Shinka or if they even reached its bloodstained walls."
—*Observations of the Kami War*

In the Web of War

Whenever a creature you control enters, it gets +2/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

Rout

You may cast Rout as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Amidst the darkest ashes grow the strongest seeds.

Crucible of Worlds

She awoke with blood on her brow, an axe in her hand, and heads at her feet.

Bloodforged Battle-Axe

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of Bloodforged Battle-Axe.
Equip {2}

Phyrexians spent countless hours unsuccessfully trying to harvest and recreate blinkmoth serum.

Pithing Needle

As Pithing Needle enters the battlefield, choose a card name.
Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

As Pithing Needle enters, choose a card name.
Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Gruul Turf

Gruul Turf enters the battlefield tapped.
When Gruul Turf enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {R}{G}.

Gruul Turf enters tapped.
When Gruul Turf enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {R}{G}.

Quicksilver Dragon

Flying
{U}: If target spell has only one target and that target is Quicksilver Dragon, change that spell's target to another creature.
Morph {4}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Gaea forged her soldiers into self-wielding weapons that struck down all impurities.

Aura Shards

Whenever a creature you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"They encircled our patrol with the stealth of snakes, corralling us like livestock."
—Merrik Aidar, Benalish patrol

Sidewinder Sliver

All Sliver creatures have flanking. (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks a Sliver, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

Crookclaw Transmuter

Flash
Flying
When Crookclaw Transmuter enters the battlefield, switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Flash
Flying
When Crookclaw Transmuter enters, switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Sporesower Thallid

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on each Fungus you control.
Remove three spore counters from Sporesower Thallid: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

"The hermit dies. The outcast dies. The lone wolf dies. Only those who stick together survive this world."
—Uros, Pendelhaven elder

Strength in Numbers

Until end of turn, target creature gains trample and gets +X/+X, where X is the number of attacking creatures.

Planar Chaos

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, sacrifice Planar Chaos.
Whenever a player casts a spell, that player flips a coin. If they lose the flip, counter that spell.

Battle tempers soldiers as fire tempers steel.

Trokin High Guard

Warp World

Each player shuffles all permanents they own into their library, then reveals that many cards from the top of their library. Each player puts all artifact, creature, and land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then does the same for enchantment cards, then puts all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield on the bottom of their library.

"I can think of *one* goblin it ain't so lucky for."
—Slobad, goblin tinkerer

Krark's Thumb

If you would flip a coin, instead flip two coins and ignore one.

"In all my years of research, I have yet to accurately quantify that baffling mental process known as 'inspiration.'"
—Elmora, mage-analyst

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Doubling Season

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.
If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.

At first they thought the vault was empty. Then the walls began to glow.

Mana Crypt

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Mana Crypt deals 3 damage to you.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

It wasn't really expected to fly. Then again, it wasn't expected to move, either.

Pili-Pala

Flying
{2}, {Q}: Add one mana of any color. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

"The changing kind suffers as we do. We must join as one to quench our tyrants!"

Blades of Velis Vel

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Up to two target creatures each get +2/+0 and gain all creature types until end of turn.

It glints with arcane truths to those who know how to glimpse them.

Crystal Ball

{1}, {T}: Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Flash like daybreak to the fray.
—Motto of the Knights of Dawn

Knight of Dawn

First strike
{W}{W}: Knight of Dawn gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Release the Ants

Release the Ants deals 1 damage to any target. Clash with an opponent. If you win, return Release the Ants to its owner's hand. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.)

Rage Reflection

Creatures you control have double strike.

In the gardens of the centaurs, many travelers have mysteriously vanished while admiring the elaborate topiaries.

Ivy Elemental

Ivy Elemental enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Ivy Elemental enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Blatant Thievery

For each opponent, gain control of target permanent that player controls.

Knowledge fills the mind of a fool and opens the mind of the sage.

Thought Reflection

If you would draw a card, draw two cards instead.

"The cannon wasn't aimed at you!" pleaded Vhati. "I'm not sure which is more pathetic," replied Greven, "your judgment or your aim."

Repentance

Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

In the depths of Rootwater, salvage and sewage differ only in texture.

Merfolk Looter

"You see our world when you shut your eyes so tightly that tiny shapes float before them."
—Lyna, to Ertai

Thalakos Seer

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
When Thalakos Seer leaves the battlefield, draw a card.

Greven *il*-Vec lifted Vhati off his feet. "The fall will give you time to think on your failure."

Diabolic Edict

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Serpent Warrior

When Serpent Warrior enters the battlefield, you lose 3 life.

When Serpent Warrior enters, you lose 3 life.

Spinal Graft

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.
When enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.

Sliver Queen

{2}: Put a 1/1 colorless Sliver creature token onto the battlefield.

{2}: Create a 1/1 colorless Sliver creature token.

"Slivers are evil and slivers are sly; And if you get eaten, then no one will cry."
—Mogg children's rhyme

Spined Sliver

Whenever a Sliver becomes blocked, that Sliver gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

"Sir, I just thought . . . ," explained Vhati. "Don't think," interrupted Greven. "It doesn't suit you."

Vhati il-Dal

{T}: Until end of turn, target creature has base power 1 or base toughness 1.

Volrath's Shapeshifter

As long as the top card of your graveyard is a creature card, Volrath's Shapeshifter has the full text of that card and has the text "{2}: Discard a card." (Volrath's Shapeshifter has that card's name, mana cost, color, types, abilities, power, and toughness.)
{2}: Discard a card.

Paralyze

Enchant creature
When Paralyze enters the battlefield, tap enchanted 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 pay {4}. If he or she does, untap the creature.

Enchant creature
When Paralyze enters, tap enchanted 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 pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Yawgmoth's Will

Until end of turn, you may play cards from your graveyard.
If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard.
If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Lightning Dragon

Flying
Echo {2}{R}{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.)
{R}: Lightning Dragon gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Aether Mutation

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that creature's converted mana cost.

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is that creature's mana value.

Chromeshell Crab

Morph {4}{U} (You may cast this face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When Chromeshell Crab is turned face up, you may exchange control of target creature you control and target creature an opponent controls.

Morph {4}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When Chromeshell Crab is turned face up, you may exchange control of target creature you control and target creature an opponent controls.

Terror

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Goblin Shrine

Enchant land
If enchanted land is a Mountain, Goblin creatures get +1/+0.
When Goblin Shrine leaves the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to each Goblin creature.

Enchant land
As long as enchanted land is a basic Mountain, Goblin creatures get +1/+0.
When Goblin Shrine leaves the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to each Goblin creature.

"Relax. I'm sure it's just a snake hissing."
—Avram Garrisson, leader of the Knights of Stromgald

Sibilant Spirit

Flying
Whenever Sibilant Spirit attacks, defending player may draw a card.