Thomas M. Baxa

Cytoplast Root-Kin

Graft 4 (This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)
When Cytoplast Root-Kin enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.
{2}: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature you control onto Cytoplast Root-Kin.

Merfolk tell their young of Dandân, humans of Rag Man. Dal tell tales of the Dauthi, and they are far worse.

Dauthi Trapper

{T}: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

"As the portal closed, Filth oozed through. The stench of evil followed it in."
—*Scroll of Beginnings*

Filth

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
As long as Filth is in your graveyard and you control a Swamp, creatures you control have swampwalk.

The single-mindedness of a zombie, the cunning of an assassin.

Zombie Cutthroat

Morph—Pay 5 life. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Spellshock

Whenever a player casts a spell, Spellshock deals 2 damage to that player.

Dragon fire melts any instrument designed to measure it.

Torrent of Fire

Torrent of Fire deals damage to any target equal to the highest mana value among permanents you control.

Some time rifts didn't take away the people but just the ground they stood on.

Ground Rift

Target creature without flying can't block this turn.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

The nomads' funeral pyres are more practical than ceremonial.

Zombie Infestation

Discard two cards: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Wirewood Symbiote

Return an Elf you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.

Chthonian Nightmare

When Chthonian Nightmare enters the battlefield, you get {E}{E}{E}.
Pay X {E}, Sacrifice a creature, Return Chthonian Nightmare to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

When Chthonian Nightmare enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters).
Pay X {E}, Sacrifice a creature, Return Chthonian Nightmare to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

"Allow me a moment to catch your breath."

Last Gasp

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

"Do the innocent pay for the crimes of the guilty? Of course they do. That's the fate of the weak."
—Nicol Bolas

Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Shocker

Whenever Shocker deals damage to a player, that player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards.

The luckiest acolytes were those who didn't survive long enough to see the archfiend's return.

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—
Sacrifice three creatures.

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"Today will end with a feast," gloated the dragon. And what a feast it was.

Kindred Dominance

Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.

"Species XR17 feeds upon the mental energies of its victims. This explains why the goblins remain unaffected."
—Riptide Project researcher

Synapse Sliver

Whenever a Sliver deals combat damage to a player, its controller may draw a card.

Duplicant

Imprint — When Duplicant enters the battlefield, you may exile target nontoken creature.
As long as a card exiled with Duplicant is a creature card, Duplicant has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with Duplicant. It's still a Shapeshifter.

Imprint — When Duplicant enters, you may exile target nontoken creature.
As long as a card exiled with Duplicant is a creature card, Duplicant has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with Duplicant. It's still a Shapeshifter.

"Beware of trees that talk. Their words are threats. And mind the ones that sway and creak. They too threaten us, but in a foreign tongue."
—*The Book of Other Folk*

Old Ghastbark

Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
{B/P}{B/P}, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod, Carnage Dominus. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Atraxa, Grand Unifier

Flying, vigilance, deathtouch, lifelink
When Atraxa, Grand Unifier enters, reveal the top ten cards of your library. For each card type, you may put a card of that type from among the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.)

Wormfang Drake

Flying
When Wormfang Drake enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you exile a creature you control other than Wormfang Drake.
When Wormfang Drake leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Flying
When Wormfang Drake enters, sacrifice it unless you exile a creature you control other than Wormfang Drake.
When Wormfang Drake leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

In life, it was a fetid, disease-ridden thing. In death, not much changed.

Festering Goblin

When Festering Goblin dies, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"It is not just our people I try to rescue. It is our culture, and our hope that we can return to greatness."

Tolarian Sentinel

Flying
{U}, {T}, Discard a card: Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand.

Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Ajani, Sleeper Agent

Compleated ({Phyrexian Mana} can be paid with {G}, {W}, or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
+1: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature or planeswalker card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, you may put it on the bottom of your library.
−3: Distribute three +1/+1 counters among up to three target creatures. They gain vigilance until end of turn.
−6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a creature or planeswalker spell, target opponent gets two poison counters."

Compleated ({G/W/P} can be paid with {G}, {W}, or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
[+1]: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature or planeswalker card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, you may put it on the bottom of your library.
[−3]: Distribute three +1/+1 counters among up to three target creatures. They gain vigilance until end of turn.
[−6]: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a creature or planeswalker spell, target opponent gets two poison counters."

Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent.
Indestructible
Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents.)
When Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent.
Indestructible
Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.)
When Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Flickerwisp

Flying
When Flickerwisp enters the battlefield, exile another target permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Flying
When Flickerwisp enters, exile another target permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Surgical Extraction

({PB} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Rakdos Carnarium

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

Rakdos Carnarium enters tapped.
When Rakdos Carnarium enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{R}.

The glow from within looks inviting, but woe awaits whomever finds out who stokes the fire or what simmers in the pot.

Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep

{T}: Add {R}.
{R}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Where scavengers nest in hollowed-out rib cages and chittering crawlers peer from empty eye sockets, few dare to trespass.

Swarmyard

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Relentless Rats

Relentless Rats gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield named Relentless Rats.
A deck can have any number of cards named Relentless Rats.

Scrying Sheets

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{S}, {T}: Look at the top card of your library. If that card is snow, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Phyrexian Metamorph

({PU} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
You may have Phyrexian Metamorph enter the battlefield as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
You may have Phyrexian Metamorph enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Sword of Feast and Famine

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control.
Equip {2}

Wrath of God

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Scuttling Death

Sacrifice Scuttling Death: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Soulshift 4 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

While the smell of burning flesh is common in Grixis, the odor of smoldering brain matter is a rare treat.

Blightning

Blightning deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards two cards.

Scrabbling Claws

{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard.
{1}, Sacrifice Scrabbling Claws: Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

Just one can feed a dozen people for a month.

Hunted Wumpus

When Hunted Wumpus enters the battlefield, each other player may put a creature card from their hand onto the battlefield.

When Hunted Wumpus enters, each other player may put a creature card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Necromancer's Covenant

When Necromancer's Covenant enters the battlefield, exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard, then put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield for each card exiled this way.
Zombies you control have lifelink.

When Necromancer's Covenant enters, exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard, then create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each card exiled this way.
Zombies you control have lifelink.

"Gone today, here tomorrow."
—Ertai, wizard adept

Time Ebb

Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

After losing several of the devices to midair collisions, Greven forbade moggs from operating telethopters.

Telethopter

Tap an untapped creature you control: Telethopter gains flying until end of turn.

Riptide Survivor

Morph {1}{U}{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 Riptide Survivor is turned face up, discard two cards, then draw three cards.

The magus still hears the roar of the crowds. They're gone, but the will to compete remains.

Magus of the Arena

{3}, {T}: Tap target creature you control and target creature of an opponent's choice he or she controls. Those creatures fight each other. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

{3}, {T}: Tap target creature you control and target creature of an opponent's choice they control. Those creatures fight each other. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Aether Figment

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.)
Æther Figment is unblockable.
If Æther Figment was kicked, it enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.)
Aether Figment can't be blocked.
If Aether Figment was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Every living thing has roots in nature. Sometimes nature gets its roots into you.

Entangling Vines

Enchant tapped creature
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Demonic Dread

Cascade (When you play this spell, remove cards from the top of your library from the game until you remove a nonland card that costs less. You may play it without paying its mana cost. Put the removed cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Target creature can't block this turn.

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Target creature can't block this turn.

"To join our ranks, one must be pure. To be pure, one must be blessed by etherium. To be blessed, one must forget oneself."
—Ethersworn prayer

Identity Crisis

Remove all cards in target player's hand and graveyard from the game.

Exile all cards from target player's hand and graveyard.

Brackwater Elemental

When Brackwater Elemental attacks or blocks, sacrifice it at end of turn.
Unearth {2}{U} ({2}{U}: Return this card from your graveyard to play. It gains haste. Remove it from the game at end of turn or if it would leave play. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

When Brackwater Elemental attacks or blocks, sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Unearth {2}{U} ({2}{U}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

"On our thirty-fourth day of digging, we unearthed a chamber that contained the intact remains of several species long extinct from Grixis. One in particular should make a fine siege engine . . . ."
—Last notes of Shungus Nod, fleshcrafter

Dreg Reaver

Resounding Scream

Target player discards a card at random.
Cycling {5}{U}{B}{R} ({5}{U}{B}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Resounding Scream, target player discards two cards at random.

Some eat the living. Some eat the dead. It eats the past.

Creakwood Ghoul

{BG}{BG}: Remove target card in a graveyard from the game. You gain 1 life.

{B/G}{B/G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. You gain 1 life.

Hateflayer

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
{2}{R}, {Q}: Hateflayer deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
{2}{R}, {Q}: Hateflayer deals damage equal to its power to any target. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

After its encounter with the spriggan, the patrol was red with anger, green with envy, white with fear, and painfully black and blue.

Swirling Spriggan

{GW}{GW}: Target creature you control becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.

{G/U}{G/U}: Target creature you control becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.

"It's always funny till someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious."

Noggle Bridgebreaker

When Noggle Bridgebreaker comes into play, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

When Noggle Bridgebreaker enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

The suspicious kithkin of Kinscaer patrol the skies, their eyes attuned to the shapes of outsiders.

Kinscaer Harpoonist

Flying
Whenever Kinscaer Harpoonist attacks, you may have target creature lose flying until end of turn.

Each night, gloomwidows cull fresh prey for their ravenous hatchlings.

Gloomwidow's Feast

Destroy target creature with flying. If that creature was blue or black, put a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach into play. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Destroy target creature with flying. If that creature was blue or black, create a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Gloomwidow venom is particularly virulent during the spider's first years, when it does most of its hunting near the forest floor.

Juvenile Gloomwidow

Reach (This can block creatures with flying.)
Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Witherscale Wurm

Whenever Witherscale Wurm blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, that creature gains wither until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Whenever Witherscale Wurm deals damage to an opponent, remove all -1/-1 counters from it.

"My favorite curses are those that manifest slowly, blackening the soul in ways the victim cannot hope to understand."
—Erissa, bog witch

Contaminated Bond

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)
Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 3 life.

Quagnoth

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't play spells or activated abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Shroud (This permanent can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Quagnoth, return it to your hand.

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Quagnoth, return it to your hand.

Mantle of Leadership

Flash (You may play this spell any time you could play an instant.)
Enchant creature
Whenever a creature comes into play, enchanted creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Enchant creature
Whenever a creature enters, enchanted creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"We thought it was a fallen tree trunk. Then it ate Snod."
—Sneed, goblin barkwright

Bog Serpent

Bog Serpent can't attack unless defending player controls a Swamp.
When you control no Swamps, sacrifice Bog Serpent.

Cavalry Master

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
Other creatures you control with flanking have flanking. (Each instance of flanking triggers separately.)

They draw upon the strength of their hive and of their victims.

Vampiric Sliver

All Slivers have "Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn is put into a graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."

All Sliver creatures have "Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."

Plunder

Destroy target artifact or land.
Suspend 4—{1}{R} (Rather than play this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{R} and remove it from the game with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When you remove the last, play it without paying its mana cost.)

Destroy target artifact or land.
Suspend 4—{1}{R} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{R} and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Freyalise's Radiance

Cumulative upkeep {2} (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.)
Snow permanents don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

"Nature's exceptions remind us not to think in absolutes. Just as the orchid blossoms on blackened stone, so does the gift of mana occasionally manifest in the undead."
—Bougrat, druid of the Cult of Yore

Vesper Ghoul

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.