Tim Hildebrandt

The crossbow is the ideal weapon for the lazy Mercadians: just point and shoot.

Crossbow Infantry

{T}: Crossbow Infantry deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Reveille Squad

Whenever one or more creatures attack you, if Reveille Squad is untapped, you may untap all creatures you control.

Falling from heaven is not as painful as surviving the impact.

Tormented Angel

Brain Freeze

Target player mills three cards.
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 muck claims a hundred living things for each meager treasure it spews forth.

Bubbling Muck

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional {B}.

Once it consecrated the dead. Now it desecrates them.

Withered Wretch

Breath of Darigaaz

Kicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell.)
Breath of Darigaaz deals 1 damage to each creature without flying and each player. If this spell was kicked, it deals 4 damage to each creature without flying and each player instead.

"One scratch on a wall meant safe passage, two that the target had already been raided, and three warned of a trap."
—*Weaponry of Kamigawa*

Shuko

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.
Equip {0} ({0}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Those who will not follow are doomed to lead.

Anarchist

When Anarchist enters, you may return target sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

A reward is worthless if you aren't around to enjoy it.

Final Fortune

Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game.

All the junk, refuse, and offal of the Krark Clan is diligently collected, melted down, and made into more junk, refuse, and offal.

Krark-Clan Ironworks

Kenrith, the Returned King

{R}: All creatures gain trample and haste until end of turn.
{1}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
{2}{W}: Target player gains 5 life.
{3}{U}: Target player draws a card.
{4}{B}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under its owner's control.

Ishkanah, Grafwidow

Reach
Delirium — When Shelob, Whose Lair Is Death enters the battlefield, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, create three 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach.
{6}{B}: Target opponent loses 1 life for each Spider you control.

Reach
Delirium — When Ishkanah, Grafwidow enters, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, create three 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach.
{6}{B}: Target opponent loses 1 life for each Spider you control.

"This is an Ent house, and there are no seats, I fear. But you may sit on the table. You are thirsty, I expect. Perhaps you are also tired. Drink this!"

Doran, the Siege Tower

Each creature assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

"In that golden hall dwells Théoden son of Thengel, King of the Mark of Rohan."
—Gandalf

Hammerheim

{T}: Add {R}.
{T}: Target creature loses all landwalk abilities until end of turn.

Not even an eagle poised against the sun would have marked the hobbits sitting there, under the weight of doom, silent, not moving, shrouded in their thin grey cloaks.

Urborg

{T}: Add {B}.
{T}: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.

Goldberry came before them, holding a candle. "Have peace now," she said, "until the morning! Heed no nightly noises! For nothing passes door and window here save moonlight and starlight and the wind off the hilltop."

Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may gain 1 life.

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

"Indeed," said Glóin, "if it were not for the Beornings, the passage from Dale to Rivendell would long ago have become impossible. They are valiant Men."

Stonehewer Giant

Vigilance
{1}{W}, {T}: Search your library for an Equipment card, put it onto the battlefield, attach it to a creature you control, then shuffle.

"Éowyn Éomund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!"
—Aragorn

Worship

If you control a creature, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

At that moment Gandalf lifted his staff, and crying aloud he smote the bridge before him.

Pact of Negation

Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}{U}{U}. If you don't, you lose the game.

River Kelpie

Whenever River Kelpie or another permanent enters the battlefield from a graveyard, draw a card.
Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card.
Persist

Whenever River Kelpie or another permanent enters from a graveyard, draw a card.
Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

"Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shriveled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye."

Abyssal Persecutor

Flying, trample
You can't win the game and your opponents can't lose the game.

"Alas for Saruman! The palantir was his downfall, I now perceive. Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves."
—Gandalf

Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

"The Mirror of Galadriel shows things that were, and things that are, and things that yet may be."

Elvish Harbinger

When Elvish Harbinger enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Elf card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

When Elvish Harbinger enters, you may search your library for an Elf card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

"Do not be afraid!" said Gandalf. "For you are not going like Frodo to Mordor, but to Minas Tirith, and there you will be as safe as you can be anywhere in these days."

Explore

You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.

"How bright your garden looks!" said Gandalf. "Yes," said Bilbo. "I am very fond indeed of it, and of all the dear old Shire; but I think I need a holiday."

Seasons Past

Return any number of cards with different mana values from your graveyard to your hand. Put Seasons Past on the bottom of its owner's library.

"Each year at summer's end, I gather water lilies, green leaves and lilies white to please my pretty lady, the last ere the year's end to keep them from the winter, to flower by her pretty feet till the snows are melted."

Second Harvest

For each token you control, create a token that's a copy of that permanent.

"That was a mighty shot in the dark, my friend!" said Gimli.
"But who can say what it hit?" said Legolas.

Sylvan Tutor

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Tempt with Discovery

Tempting offer — Search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Each opponent may search their library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. For each opponent who searches a library this way, search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Then each player who searched a library this way shuffles.

"I am getting very suspicious of this Forest and everything in it."
—Pippin

Timber Protector

Other Treefolk creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other Treefolk and Forests you control have indestructible.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Each eye sees a different possibility for tomorrow.

Lantern of Insight

Players play with the top card of their libraries revealed.
{T}, Sacrifice Lantern of Insight: Target player shuffles.

Order // Chaos

Weathered Wayfarer

{W}, {T}: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if an opponent controls more lands than you.

Suffer the little creatures, for they may yet rise up and beat you senseless.

Druid's Call

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, its controller creates that many 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens.

Bridge from Below

Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, if Bridge from Below is in your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
When a creature is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, if Bridge from Below is in your graveyard, exile Bridge from Below.

Trinisphere

As long as Trinisphere is untapped, each spell that would cost less than three mana to cast costs three mana to cast. (Additional mana in the cost may be paid with any color of mana or colorless mana. For example, a spell that would cost {1}{B} to cast costs {2}{B} to cast instead.)

Ixidor had only to imagine their ruin and Akroma made it so.

Akroma's Vengeance

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"When your cities and trinkets crumble, only nature will remain."
—Garruk Wildspeaker

Naturalize

The light of reason follows them even into battle.

Teroh's Faithful

When Teroh's Faithful enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life.

When Teroh's Faithful enters, you gain 4 life.

They poured from the Skirk Ridge like lava, burning and devouring everything in their path.

Goblin Warchief

Goblin spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Goblin creatures you control have haste.

Goblin spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Goblins you control have haste.

Days of planning. Weeks of building. Months of perfecting. Seconds of smashing.

Shatter

Fiery Temper

Fiery Temper deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
Madness {R} (If you discard this card, you may play it for its madness cost instead of putting it into your graveyard.)

Fiery Temper deals 3 damage to any target.
Madness {R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

They were master fishers, but their seas are now the streets and their catch, the goblins that run pell-mell from the screeching in the sky.

Screeching Griffin

Flying
{R}: Target creature can't block Screeching Griffin this turn.

Just as each added feather steadies the wing, so does the flock grow stronger with each new member.

Aven Flock

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
{W}: Aven Flock gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"The tiniest ripple tells a story ten fathoms deep."

Aven Windreader

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
{1}{U}: Target player reveals the top card of their library.

"Neither could I forget what I had read of these pits—that the *sudden* extinction of life formed no part of their most horrible plan."
—Edgar Allan Poe, "The Pit and the Pendulum"

Death Pits of Rath

Whenever a creature is dealt damage, destroy it. It can't be regenerated.

"Life is a series of choices between bad and worse."
—Toshiro Umezawa

Choice of Damnations

Target opponent chooses a number. You may have that player lose that much life. If you don't, that player sacrifices all but that many permanents.

Godo trained their muscles and honed their skills, but he left their hearts wild and empty.

Godo's Irregulars

{R}: Godo's Irregulars deals 1 damage to target creature blocking it.

As Dosan's chant grew in volume, a second, deeper voice rose up in harmony behind it, strong enough to shake the earth and yet vibrant enough to fill the spirit.

Dosan's Oldest Chant

"Owls filled the skies during the Kami War, harbingers of darker times to come."
—*The History of Kamigawa*

Ebony Owl Netsuke

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has seven or more cards in hand, Ebony Owl Netsuke deals 4 damage to him or her.

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has seven or more cards in hand, Ebony Owl Netsuke deals 4 damage to that player.

Reluctant to strike at the kami directly, some kitsune trained in more passive fighting techniques.

Ward of Piety

{1}{W}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature this turn is dealt to target creature or player instead.

Enchant creature
{1}{W}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature this turn is dealt to any target instead.

Skullmane Baku

Whenever you play a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on Skullmane Baku.
{1}, {T}, Remove X ki counters from Skullmane Baku: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on Skullmane Baku.
{1}, {T}, Remove X ki counters from Skullmane Baku: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Wear Away

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Splice onto Arcane {3}{G} (As you play an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Splice onto Arcane {3}{G} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

On Mirrodin, mages who call upon the power of rust are shunned by their people and often turn mercenary to survive.

Rain of Rust

Choose one Destroy target artifact; or destroy target land.
Entwine {3}{R} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target land.
Entwine {3}{R} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Theirs is a craft brought about by necessity, now raised to the level of art.

Steelshaper Apprentice

{W}, {T}, Return Steelshaper Apprentice to its owner's hand: Search your library for an Equipment card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

{W}, {T}, Return Steelshaper Apprentice to its owner's hand: Search your library for an Equipment card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

In the Tangle, bad is often followed by worse.

Fangren Firstborn

Whenever Fangren Firstborn attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature.

"Unfortunately, it doesn't restrain the beast's smell."
—Glissa Sunseeker

Arrest

Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be played.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

"Training? Seeing my crops burnt to cinders was all the 'training' I needed."

Eager Cadet

Circle of Protection: Blue

{1}: The next time a blue source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Healing Salve

Choose one —
• Target player gains 3 life.
• Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Her heart holds the pain of every soldier she's ever healed.

Master Healer

{T}: Prevent the next 4 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

{T}: Prevent the next 4 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Most people know better. Goblins only know bigger.

Sudden Impact

Sudden Impact deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Daru Warchief

Soldier spells you play cost {1} less to play.
Soldiers you control get +1/+2.

Soldier spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Soldier creatures you control get +1/+2.

"Rise once more, so you may continue to destroy our enemies."
—Karona, false god

Recuperate

Choose one You gain 6 life; or prevent the next 6 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Choose one —
• You gain 6 life.
• Prevent the next 6 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Redeemers rise with the sun, and the spirits of the people rise with them.

Aven Redeemer

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

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

"We all borrowed life from the Ancestor to exist in this world. Today, I repay that debt."

Beacon of Destiny

{T}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, that damage is dealt to Beacon of Destiny instead.

Gempalm Avenger

Cycling {2}{W} ({2}{W}, Discard this card from your hand: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Gempalm Avenger, all Soldiers get +1/+1 and gain first strike until end of turn.

Cycling {2}{W} ({2}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Gempalm Avenger, Soldier creatures get +1/+1 and gain first strike until end of turn.

Gempalm Strider

Cycling {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}, Discard this card from your hand: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Gempalm Strider, all Elves get +2/+2 until end of turn.

Cycling {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Gempalm Strider, Elf creatures get +2/+2 until end of turn.