Scott Kirschner

Forbid

Buyback—Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Counter target spell.

Convulsing Licid

{R}, {T}: This creature loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay {R} to end this effect.
Enchanted creature can't block.

Goblin Recruiter

When Goblin Recruiter enters the battlefield, search your library for any number of Goblin cards, reveal them, then shuffle and put those cards on top in any order.

When this creature enters, search your library for any number of Goblin cards, reveal them, then shuffle and put those cards on top in any order.

Smokestack

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on Smokestack.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent for each soot counter on Smokestack.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on this artifact.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice for each soot counter on this artifact.

"Have no illusions," Volrath warned Greven, "about free will."

Puppet Strings

{2}, {T}: You may tap or untap target creature.

Mogglings have been known to play ball with hibernating slivers, completely unaware of their true nature.

Hibernation Sliver

All Slivers have "Pay 2 life: Return this permanent to its owner's hand."

In the final days before the disaster, all the crabs on Tolaria migrated from inlets, streams, and ponds back to the sea. No one took note.

Horseshoe Crab

Hanna: "We must learn how they protect each other."
Mirri: "After they're done trying to kill us, all right?"

Armor Sliver

All Sliver creatures have "{2}: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn."

Spans of spines leapt from one sliver to the next, forming a deadly hedge around the Weatherlight.

Barbed Sliver

All Sliver creatures have "{2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Salt Flats

Salt Flats enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.
{T}: Add {W} or {B} to your mana pool. Salt Flats deals 1 damage to you.

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

"Ash is our air, darkness our flesh."
—Phyrexian Scriptures

Lurking Evil

Pay half your life, rounded up: Lurking Evil becomes a 4/4 Horror creature with flying.

Pay half your life, rounded up: This enchantment becomes a 4/4 Phyrexian Horror creature with flying.

Fog Bank

Defender, flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by Fog Bank.

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by this creature.

Immolation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/-2.

Axelrod Gunnarson

Trample
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Axelrod Gunnarson this turn is put into a graveyard, you gain 1 life and Axelrod deals 1 damage to target player.

Trample
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Axelrod Gunnarson this turn dies, you gain 1 life and Axelrod Gunnarson deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Kei Takahashi

{T}: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Phantasmal Fiend

{B}: Phantasmal Fiend gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
{1}{U}: Switch Phantasmal Fiend's power and toughness until end of turn.

{B}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
{1}{U}: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

"There is no shame in solitude. The lone knight may succeed where a hundred founder."
—Arna Kennerüd, skyknight

Errantry

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 and can only attack alone.

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.

On its way to the cave, the armadillo brushed by a sapling. It awoke to find a full-grown tree blocking its path.

Hibernation

Return all green permanents to owners' hands.

Return all green permanents to their owners' hands.

"All bonds are parasitic. Only rulership is pure."
—Gix, Yawgmoth praetor

Parasitic Bond

During the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Parasitic Bond deals 2 damage to that player.

Enchant creature
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, this Aura deals 2 damage to that player.

"Phyrexia's purity permits no other."
—Xantcha, Phyrexian outcast

Yawgmoth's Edict

Whenever one of your opponents successfully casts a white spell, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Whenever an opponent casts a white spell, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Paroxysm

During the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, reveal the top card of that player's library to all players. If that card is a land card, destroy enchanted creature. Otherwise, enchanted creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. (Return the card to the top of the player's library, face down.)

Enchant creature
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player reveals the top card of their library. If that card is a land card, destroy that creature. Otherwise, it gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

"The bonds of loyalty can tie one to the grave."
—Crovax

Grave Pact

Whenever any creature you control is put into any graveyard, each other player sacrifices a creature.

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Minion of the Wastes

Trample
When you play Minion of the Wastes, pay any amount of life.
Minion of the Wastes has power and toughness each equal to that amount.

Trample
As this creature enters, pay any amount of life.
Minion of the Wastes's power and toughness are each equal to the life paid as it entered.

Hanna regarded Squee sternly. "Because it's *not* a toy, no matter how much it may look like one," she said, taking the manakin from him.

Manakin

oc
T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.

Bone Dancer

o0: Put the top creature card of defending player's graveyard into play under your control. Bone Dancer deals no combat damage this turn. Use this ability only if Bone Dancer is attacking and unblocked and only once each turn.

Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may put the top creature card of defending player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. If you do, this creature assigns no combat damage this turn.

Lava Storm

Lava Storm deals 2 damage to each attacking creature or 2 damage to each blocking creature.

Lava Storm deals 2 damage to each attacking creature or Lava Storm deals 2 damage to each blocking creature.

In all its forms, the forest is the elves' best protector.

Briar Shield

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Sacrifice Briar Shield: Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Sacrifice this Aura: Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

"Politics is a game—move a stone here, move a stone there—except sometimes the stones bleed."
—Shauku, Endbringer

Political Trickery

Choose target land you control and target land an opponent controls. Exchange control of those lands.

Exchange control of target land you control and target land an opponent controls. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Consuming Ferocity

Play only on a non-Wall creature.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0.
During your upkeep, put a +1/+0 counter on enchanted creature. At the end of any upkeep, if that creature has three of these counters on it, bury the creature and it deals to its controller an amount of damage equal to its power.

Enchant non-Wall creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+0 counter on enchanted creature. If that creature has three or more +1/+0 counters on it, it deals damage equal to its power to its controller, then destroy that creature and it can't be regenerated.

Illicit Auction

Choose target creature. Each player may bid life for control of that creature. You begin the bidding with a high bid of 0. Proceeding in turn order, each player may top the high bid. The auction ends when the high bid stands. The high bidder loses an amount of life equal to the high bid and gains control of the creature.

Each player may bid life for control of target creature. You start the bidding with a bid of 0. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and gains control of the creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Life and death are two faces of the same coin.

Energy Bolt

Energy Bolt deals X damage to target player, or target player gains X life.

Choose one —
• Energy Bolt deals X damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Target player gains X life.

Basalt Golem

Basalt Golem cannot be blocked by artifact creatures.
Whenever Basalt Golem is blocked by any creature, bury that creature at end of combat and put a Stone token into play under the control of the creature's controller. Treat this token as a 0/2 artifact creature that counts as a Wall.

This creature can't be blocked by artifact creatures.
Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller sacrifices it at end of combat. If the player does, they create a 0/2 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender.

It scattered falcons like a lion hunting among jackals.

Patagia Golem

{3}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Diseased Vermin

During your upkeep, Diseased Vermin deals 1 damage to a single target opponent it has previously damaged for each infection counter on Diseased Vermin.
If Diseased Vermin damages a player in combat, put an infection counter on it.

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put an infection counter on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals X damage to target opponent previously dealt damage by it, where X is the number of infection counters on it.

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B: +1/-1 until end of turn
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U: Switch Phantasmal Fiend's power and toughness until end of turn. Effects that alter Phantasmal Fiend's power alter its toughness instead, and vice versa.

"Beautiful, indeed—but one sting could fell a Giant in a heartbeat."
—Taaveti of Kelsinko, Elvish Hunter

Deadly Insect

Cannot be the target of spells or effects.

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"There is no time for pain when this beast leaves its terrible sting."
—Jaeuhl Carthalion, Juniper Order Advocate

Occasionally, an ally balked at wearing a dead Thrull as armor. The priests' whips, however, were usually enough to encourage a more practical outlook.

Armor Thrull

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T: Sacrifice Armor Thrull to put a +1/+2 counter on a target creature.

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Put a +1/+2 counter on target creature.

Members of the Order often played the Hymn on instruments made from their victims' bones.

Hymn to Tourach

Target player discards two cards at random from his or her hand. If target player does not have enough cards, his or her entire hand is discarded.

Target player discards two cards at random.

At times, survival must outweigh all other considerations.

Spirit Shield

o2, oc
T: Target creature gets +0/+2 as long as Spirit Shield remains tapped.
You may choose not to untap Spirit Shield as normal during your untap phase.

You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step.
{2}, {T}: Target creature gets +0/+2 for as long as this artifact remains tapped.

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Zelyon Sword

o3, oc
T: Target creature gets +2/+0 as long as Zelyon Sword remains tapped.
You may choose not to untap Zelyon Sword as normal during your untap phase.

You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step.
{3}, {T}: Target creature gets +2/+0 for as long as this artifact remains tapped.

Sometimes the smallest nuisance can be the greatest pain.

Pit Scorpion

If Scorpion damages opponent, opponent gets a poison counter. If opponent ever has ten or more poison counters, opponent loses game.

Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player gets a poison counter. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

The strongest walls are made not of stone or steel but of the focused strength of warriors.

Shield Wall

All creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

Creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

Harthag gave a jolly laugh as he surveyed the army before him. "Ho ho ho! Midgets! You think you can stand in my way?"

Craw Giant

Trample; rampage 2 (For each creature assigned to block it beyond the first, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.)

Trample
Rampage 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)