Wayne England

"May the memory of our fallen heroes ensnare the violent hearts of lesser men."
—Great Threshold of Monserkat inscription

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Their arrival is heralded by the deafening hum of ten thousand wings. Their departure is marked by the silence of the dead.

Devouring Swarm

Flying
Sacrifice a creature: Devouring Swarm gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Flying
Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Knight of the Holy Nimbus

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
If this creature would be destroyed, regenerate it. (Tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
{2}: This creature can't be regenerated this turn. Only your opponents may activate this ability.

A circle of sugar and a word of forbiddance.

Oblivion Ring

When this enchantment enters, exile another target nonland permanent.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Betrayal of Flesh

Choose one —
• Destroy target creature.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Entwine—Sacrifice three lands. (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Moonglove Changeling

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
{B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.)

Moldervine Cloak

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

"It is the fate of the weak to fall."
—Garruk Wildspeaker

Predatory Rampage

Creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn. Each creature your opponents control blocks this turn if able.

Before labs or lectures, there was insight.

Pulse of the Grid

Draw two cards, then discard a card. Then if an opponent has more cards in hand than you, return Pulse of the Grid to its owner's hand.

Devils' Playground

Create four 1/1 red Devil creature tokens. They have "When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target."

Create four 1/1 red Devil creature tokens. They have "When this token dies, it deals 1 damage to any target."

Spot one ember beast, attack.
Spot a second, best fall back.
—Dwarven saying

Ember Beast

This creature can't attack or block alone.

Profane Command

Choose two —
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Sometimes the greatest strength is the strength of conviction.

Righteousness

Target blocking creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.

Dance with Devils

Create two 1/1 red Devil creature tokens. They have "When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target."

Create two 1/1 red Devil creature tokens. They have "When this token dies, it deals 1 damage to any target."

"They put bars on these noble beasts and then wonder why werewolves target our towns."

Kessig Cagebreakers

Whenever Kessig Cagebreakers attacks, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token that's tapped and attacking for each creature card in your graveyard.

Whenever this creature attacks, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token that's tapped and attacking for each creature card in your graveyard.

Phantom Nantuko

Trample
Phantom Nantuko enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.
If damage would be dealt to Phantom Nantuko, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from Phantom Nantuko.
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Phantom Nantuko.

Trample
This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature.
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Wizards fought over the stone to exploit its power. Goblins fight over it because it's shiny.

Brightstone Ritual

Add {R} for each Goblin on the battlefield.

"We in the Conclave have a saying: 'When you hold a shield, lend your shield.' The strong must never forget what they owe to the weak."
—Niszka, Selesnya evangel

Privileged Position

Other permanents you control have hexproof.

({G/W} can be paid with either {G} or {W}.)
Other permanents you control have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Worldgorger Dragon

Flying, trample
When this creature enters, exile all other permanents you control.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Since the war began, the castle's walls mark the only place on Kamigawa where no kami has ever set foot.

Eiganjo Castle

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

A last wisp of paradise in a fallen world.

Paradise Plume

As Paradise Plume enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, you may gain 1 life.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, you may gain 1 life.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Mogg War Marshal

Echo {1}{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.)
When Mogg War Marshal enters the battlefield or dies, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.

Echo {1}{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.)
When this creature enters or dies, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.

Karplusan Minotaur

Cumulative upkeep—Flip a coin. (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.)
Whenever you win a coin flip, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever you lose a coin flip, this creature deals 1 damage to any target of an opponent's choice.

Cryptic Command

Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.

Whether trained, ridden, or eaten, few goblin military innovations have rivaled the bug.

Beetleback Chief

When this creature enters, create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

Spectral Gateguards

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as this creature is paired with another creature, both creatures have vigilance.

Leonin Shikari

You may activate equip abilities any time you could cast an instant.

Primal Command

Choose two —
• Target player gains 7 life.
• Put target noncreature permanent on top of its owner's library.
• Target player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.
• Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Choose two —
• Target player gains 7 life.
• Put target noncreature permanent on top of its owner's library.
• Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.
• Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Like corpse-worms through a carapace, rotwurms slide through the hollowed bones of the undercity.

Golgari Rotwurm

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target player loses 1 life.

Any creature on a druid's shoulder is his family, any land under his feet his home.

Sylvok Explorer

{T}: Add to your mana pool one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Putrid Imp

Discard a card: Putrid Imp gains flying until end of turn.
Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Putrid Imp gets +1/+1 and can't block.

Discard a card: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, this creature gets +1/+1 and can't block.

The ground rose and formed into thousands of tiny warriors. This fight was far from over.

Goblin Trenches

{2}, Sacrifice a land: Put two 1/1 red and white Goblin Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

{2}, Sacrifice a land: Create two 1/1 red and white Goblin Soldier creature tokens.

The wurms become so big, a single scale can be used as a roof for a human dwelling.

Scaled Wurm

Incendiary Command

Choose two — Incendiary Command deals 4 damage to target player; or Incendiary Command deals 2 damage to each creature; or destroy target nonbasic land; or each player discards all the cards in his or her hand, then draws that many cards.

Choose two —
• Incendiary Command deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Incendiary Command deals 2 damage to each creature.
• Destroy target nonbasic land.
• Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards.

Lim-Dûl's Vault

Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle your library and put the last cards you looked at this way on top of it in any order.

Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle and put the last cards you looked at this way on top in any order.

"Keep one eye on the cliff road or you may fall to your death. Keep one eye on the sky or your death may fall on you."
—Manfried Ulmach, Elgaud Master-at-Arms

Nephalia Seakite

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying

"We won't sit like lazy gob-slugs waiting for death to come to us. We'll bring death, shiny sharp, to our enemies."
—Krenko, mob boss

Fervor

Creatures you control have haste. (They can attack and {T} as soon as they come under your control.)

Let moss grow over gargoyles
—Gavony saying meaning "forget painful memories"

Stony Silence

Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.

"The panic is amusing, but the real fun comes when the spell passes and the villagers start looking for a scapegoat."
—Ludevic, necro-alchemist

Hysterical Blindness

Creatures your opponents control get -4/-0 until end of turn.

"Don't be afraid when you hear the wolves howl. Be afraid when you don't hear them at all."
—Saint Trogen, the Slayer

Kessig Wolf

{1}{R}: Kessig Wolf gains first strike until end of turn.

{1}{R}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Werewolf slayers don't know for certain how werewolves are created. So they kill all the wolves, just to be safe.

Darkthicket Wolf

{2}{G}: Darkthicket Wolf gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

{2}{G}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

What's scarier than one of every beast in the forest?

Doubling Chant

For each creature you control, you may search your library for a creature card with the same name as that creature. Put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

For each creature you control, you may search your library for a creature card with the same name as that creature. Put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"Let everything return to its true nature, so that destiny may take its course."

Tempest of Light

Counterbore

Counter target spell. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that spell and remove them from the game. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Counter target spell. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that spell and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

"Seeing is believing" is a fact the merrows ruthlessly exploit in their dealings with the other residents of Shadowmoor.

Prismwake Merrow

Flash
When Prismwake Merrow comes into play, target permanent becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.

Flash
When this creature enters, target permanent becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.

"The cinders find strength in suffering, the elves in beauty. But if you make an elf suffer, he gets weaker. I wonder what happens if you make a cinder beautiful?"
—Hrugash, leech bonder

Fate Transfer

Move all counters from target creature onto another target creature.

Memory Sluice

Target player puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
Conspire (As you play this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)

Target player mills four cards.
Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)

Only in dew from Oona herself is there clarity enough to see a victim's mind.

Dewdrop Spy

Flash
Flying
When Dewdrop Spy comes into play, look at the top card of target player's library.

Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, look at the top card of target player's library.

Diviner's Wand

Equipped creature has "Whenever you draw a card, this creature gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn" and "{4}: Draw a card."
Whenever a Wizard creature comes into play, you may attach Diviner's Wand to it.
Equip {3}

Equipped creature has "Whenever you draw a card, this creature gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn" and "{4}: Draw a card."
Whenever a Wizard creature enters, you may attach this Equipment to it.
Equip {3}

Follow the pathmage
—Otarian expression meaning "escape quickly"

Crafty Pathmage

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less is unblockable this turn.

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

"From the sea came all life, and to the sea it will return. The sooner the better."
—Emperor Aboshan

Deluge

They evolved the ability to concentrate their neural activity into a single pulse, causing a disruptive but usually suicidal blast of psionic energy.

Psionic Sliver

All Slivers have "{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to target creature or player and 3 damage to itself."

All Sliver creatures have "{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to itself."

As the temporal fractures spread and time itself slowly fell apart, visitors started to appear from across the past and future, and those native to the present began to disappear.

Temporal Eddy

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

"Do not call the Balduvians barbaric. Their magic is as potent as it is primal."
—Zur the Enchanter

Martyr of Frost

{2}, Reveal X blue cards from your hand, Sacrifice Martyr of Frost: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.

{2}, Reveal X blue cards from your hand, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.

Soul Spike

You may remove two black cards in your hand from the game rather than pay Soul Spike's mana cost.
Soul Spike deals 4 damage to target creature or player and you gain 4 life.

You may exile two black cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Soul Spike deals 4 damage to any target and you gain 4 life.

Boros Fury-Shield

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking or blocking creature this turn. If {R} was spent to play Boros Fury-Shield, it deals damage to that creature's controller equal to the creature's power.

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking or blocking creature this turn. If {R} was spent to cast this spell, Boros Fury-Shield deals damage to that creature's controller equal to the creature's power.

"The trick isn't setting up the bad trade. It's making each side think it got the better deal."

Spawnbroker

When Spawnbroker comes into play, you may exchange control of target creature you control and target creature with power less than or equal to that creature's power an opponent controls.

When this creature enters, you may exchange control of target creature you control and target creature with power less than or equal to that creature's power an opponent controls.

Wine and balm for the confessions of the repentant. Razors and irons for the confessions of the unrepentant.

Zealous Inquisitor

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

Karplusan Yeti

{T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to this creature.

Hisoka's Guard

You may choose not to untap Hisoka's Guard during your untap step.
{1}{U}, {T}: As long as Hisoka's Guard remains tapped, target creature you control other than Hisoka's Guard can't be the target of spells or abilities.

You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step.
{1}{U}, {T}: Target creature you control other than this creature has shroud for as long as this creature remains tapped. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Soratami Mirror-Guard

Flying
{2}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target creature with power 2 or less is unblockable this turn.

Flying
{2}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

"I fought fiercely, bravely, and without mercy. Had I not struck down my captain in the heat of battle, I might have become a hero instead of an outcast."

Battle-Mad Ronin

Bushido 2 (When this blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.)
Battle-Mad Ronin attacks each turn if able.

Bushido 2 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.)
This creature attacks each combat if able.

Yamabushi's Storm

Yamabushi's Storm deals 1 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would be put into a graveyard this turn, remove it from the game instead.

Yamabushi's Storm deals 1 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Artificer's Intuition

{U}, Discard an artifact card from your hand: Search your library for an artifact card with converted mana cost 1 or less, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

{U}, Discard an artifact card: Search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

The Moriok scavenge for weapons, for armor, for food—and ultimately for their souls.

Moriok Rigger

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from play, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Moriok Rigger.

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.