Scott Kirschner

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.)

Fog Bank

(Walls cannot attack.)
Flying
Fog Bank does not deal or receive combat damage.

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

Icatian Javelineers

This creature enters with a javelin counter on it.
{T}, Remove a javelin counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

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

Yawgmoth's Edict

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

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.

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

Parasitic Bond

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

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

Lurking Evil

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

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 their owners' hands.

Paroxysm

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.

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.

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

Grave Pact

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

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.

Salt Flats

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

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

Puppet Strings

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

Minion of the Wastes

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

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."

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."

Lava Storm

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

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

Bone Dancer

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.

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

Shield Wall

Creatures you control get +0/+2 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.

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

Goblin Recruiter

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.

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

Political Trickery

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

It scattered falcons like a lion hunting among jackals.

Patagia Golem

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

Illicit Auction

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

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

Consuming Ferocity

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.

Basalt Golem

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.

Phantasmal Fiend

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

Diseased Vermin

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.

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

Deadly Insect

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

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Zelyon Sword

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.

At times, survival must outweigh all other considerations.

Spirit Shield

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.

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.

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

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

Kei Takahashi

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

Immolation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/-2.

Axelrod Gunnarson

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.