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Last Week's Winner
2 close 2 call 2: 2 Close 2 Tell I broke the tie in favour of Palindrome. I'm just a sucker for names-matters cards, or as ol'grammy used to say, "Yas ot desu ymmarg'lo sa ro, sdrac srettam-seman rof rekcus a tsuj m'I. Emordnilap fo ruovaf ni eit eht ekorb I."
Palindrome Creature — Incarnation If you control only two other creatures, and those creatures share a name, Palindrome gets +2/+2. "Don't worry," sighed Palindrome, as she lay down to rest. "It'll all come back around." —The Book of Middles 2/2
Biorhythmic Hydra Creature - Hydra Incarnation Trample As Biorhythmic Hydra enters the battlefield, put X +1/+1 counters on target permanent. Biorhythmic Hydra's power and toughness are each equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on permanents. */*
Ominous Portents | Sorcery | {C} Each opponent loses 1 life, and you gain 1 life. Return Ominous Portents to your hand at the beginning of the next end step unless an opponent discards a card.
Faceless Sycophant — Creature — Minion (R) : Produce . Spend this mana only to cast spells you don't own. 1/1
The Rules
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Palindrome Creature — Incarnation If you control only two other creatures, and those creatures share a name, Palindrome gets +2/+2. "Don't worry," sighed Palindrome, as she lay down to rest. "It'll all come back around." —The Book of Middles 2/2
Skittish Springjack Creature - Goat Whenever Skittish Springjack blocks or becomes blocked, remove it from combat. When Skittish Springjack is dealt damage, transform it. Doyo's flock was too clever for his liking, and always knew to hide when the time came to shear them. 1/3 // Cloak of Kith and Kin Artifact - Equipment Equipped Creature gets +0/+3. Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt with it. Equip "Springjack Wool shorn when the sun is lowest in the sky is best for protection against all weathers" - The Book of Kith and Kin
Faithful Companion - Creature - Hound Spirit When Faithful Companion enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, put a loyalty counter on another creature you control. At the beginning of your end step, if a creature you control has a loyalty counter on it, return Faithful Companion from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Some dogs always find their way home. 2/1
Spreading Darkness Sorcery (R) Destroy target creature. Overload "The power to strike down thine enemies," the demon agreed. It did not mention however, the ability to control such power.
Loyal Test Subject | Creature - Cat Dog Frog | {C} Loyal Test Subject has vigilance as long as you control another untapped creature. "Who is a good experiment 32? The question is rhetorical. It is you." [3/3]
Overthrow Sorcery Destroy target nonbasic land. It's controller creates a tapped colorless Treasure artifact token with ", Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color." "Keep the crown. It doesn't mean anything anymore."
Blasphemous Altar Artifact (R) Demon spells you cast have Human offering. (You may cast Demon spells any time you could cast an instant by sacrificing a Human and paying the difference in mana costs between the Demon and the sacrificed Human. Mana cost includes color.) Ritualists spend hours practicing the incantations and memorizing the diagrams. But ultimately, nothing is as important as blood.
Koilo Witness Creature — Spirit You may cast Koilo Witness from your graveyard if there are no creatures on the battlefield. After the leveling of Halcyon there was dust and silence. Then, after an age: whispers from the depths of Koilos. 2/2
Phantom of the Feast Creature -- Boar Spirit (U) When Phantom of the Feast dies, you gain life equal to its toughness. Sacrifice another creature: Phantom of the Feast gets +2/+2 until end of turn. The boar was set to be the main course in a nobleman's feast. It decided to crash the party instead. 3/3
Disinherited Cephalid Creature — Cephalid Wizard Whenever Disinherited Cephalid becomes the target of a spell or ability, put the top three cards on your library into your graveyard. If a historic card is put into your graveyard this way, you may counter that spell or ability. "Our empire is no more but the seas of Otaria and the libraries of Aboshan are still ours." 3/3
Send to the Frontlines Enchantment (R) At the beginning of your declare attackers step, you may put a creature card with converted mana cost 2 or less from your hand onto the battlefield, tapped and attacking. Lives are the coins with which victory is bought.
Wall of Shame - Creature - Wall (U) Defender. You may have Wall of Shame assign its combat damage to the attacking player. "Everyone on the front lines knows that there is no glory in conquest. It is time we made this truth evident to those who stayed behind." - Evvy, freelance newsmage. 2/4
Barren Graveyard Land : Add . : Transform Barren Graveyard. On Ravnica, not even death is certain. –~– Haunted Church Land : Add or . The Orzhov, however, make sure that taxes always are.
Astral Obsession — Sorcery (R) Exile the top seven cards of your library face down. For as long as any of them remain exiled, you may look at them, you may play them, and you can't play other cards. His eye glued to his telescope, Artur frantically charted star after star, determined never to stop until the heavens were mapped in their totality.
Mild Weather Instant Effects that last until end of turn end. (This does not end the turn) Draw a card. A great tempest had been predicted, but the day ended up partly cloudy at worst.
Syndali of the Elixir — Legendary Creature — Naga Shaman If you would sacrifice an untapped creature, you may tap it instead. Those who lost the ability to refuse her offer of immortality relinquished their lives in another way. 3/3
Insatiable Narcophage Creature - Nightmare Demon (R) Dream (This creature can only be blocked by tapped creatures.) At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice a tapped creature. 6/6
Daring Escape Instant Kicker Return target creature you control to its owner's hand. If Daring Escape was kicked, gain control of target artifact. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Binding Array Enchantment (U) When Binding Array enters the battlefield, exile another target nonland permanent for as long as you control a permanent named Binding Array. "As long as even one link of the great chain holds, we are safe." —Hildvast of the Lost
Feline Poltergeist Creature - Cat Spirit (U) At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, tap target artifact that player controls. The perfect merging of knocking things off tables 2/2
Angrath's Love Sorcery (R) Choose two target creatures you control. Angrath's Love deals 3 damage to each other creature. Angrath's burning fury is only surpassed by his love for his daughters.
Doubt Instant Kicker Exile target creature, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control unless doubt was kicked. "Is this really what I want?"
Manor Trespasser Creature -- Human Rogue (C) Manor Trespasser can't be blocked except by creatures with vigilance. "I can tell you much about the effectiveness of the Baron's personal guards and even more about the exquisite flavors he keeps in his wine cellar." 2/1
Jaya's Retort - Instant You may cast ~ without paying its mana cost if a spell you control is countered this turn. ~ deals 4 damage to any target. "Oh, please."
Corner Sorcery (U) Choose up to X creatures target player controls. That player sacrifices a creature you didn't choose. A conspiracy does not need a thousand conspirators, only a thousand shadows.
Mirror Stalker Creature -- Shapeshifter (R) You may have Mirror Stalker enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except its power and toughness are switched. In a reflection there is perfect truth and perfect cruelty. 0/0
Fleeting Thoughts Sorcery Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. Put that card into its owner's library just beneath the top X cards of that library where X is the converted mana cost of the card.
Marble Elemental Creature — Elemental Whenever a legendary creature dies, you may have Marble Elemental become a copy of it. (It loses this ability.) The quarries of Bal'sheba bear the faces of foremen long past, as the rough marble wills itself into heroic sculpture. 3/3
Argonaut Creature — Human Warrior Protection from creatures with power 4 or greater "Here, see, the mounted head of the dread Bighast! The hide of her kin rests before my hearth. And lo, above my mantle, the skull of the last androchthon: I beheaded him at Ithios, and ended the Long Noon." —Dravii, argonaut of Periklynos 3/2
Desperate Impulse | Sorcery | {U} Add X amount of , and exile the top X cards of your library. You may play a card exiled this way this turn. They only call it "one last trick" if they live long enough to find out.
Gatherer of Contestants Creature -- Elf Shaman 1/2 : You may put a creature card with converted mana cost 1 from your hand onto the battlefield. "If the meek shall inherit something so great as the earth, then surely they will be able to win something so small such as this prize?"
Stupid Pun — Instant Counter target spell if it's not the first spell its controller cast this turn. Barrin had always hated leather. Unfortunately for Mirri, his opinion could not be suede.
Leapfrog Instant Convoke Target creature you control gain flying until end of turn. If you spent no mana to cast Leapfrog, that creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Restless Adventurer Creature — Human Scout At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't play a land this turn, ~ explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.) Rising in the radiant horizon, it catches your breath Setting in the murky gyre, it seals it away —Wanderlust 2/2
Discover the World - Sorcery | C Search your library for a basic land card, put it on the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. If you control a Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest, untap all lands you control. I have seen the Felds of Alcorran, the Isles of Hemdor, the Bogs of Swive, the Peaks of Duroc, and the mighty oaks of the Elish Trail. Only now do I understand the world.
The Mithril Phylactery Legendary Artifact Indestructible When this enters the battlefield and at the beginning of each upkeep, you may create a legendary 5/5 blue Dwarf Zombie Wizard named Hect of the Summer Dûn. "Death is molten life. Forged and reforged. I am the anvil and the hammer and the smelt." —Epitaph of Hect
Cult Initiate Creature -- Human Cleric 2/2 : Sacrifice Cult Initiate. "My soul I willingly forsake to that which lies beyond so that its greatness my engulf all that is me."
Volcanic Charger | Creature - Elemental (U) Trample, haste ~'s power is equal to your devotion to red. At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice ~. */1
Godfire Sorcery Kicker and/or If ~ was kicked with its kicker, it has lifelink. If ~ was kicked with its kicker, it has deathtouch. ~ deals 2 damage to each creature.
Mantra Creature — Incarnation When Mantra enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant or sorcery card with converted mana cost 1 from your hand. At the beginning of your end step, copy the exiled card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. "'There is nothing to say that hasn't been said,' said Mantra. And then she said it again." —Scroll of Middles 3/4
Downward Spiral Instant (R) Return target spell to its owner's hand. Morbid - If a creature died this turn, counter that spell instead. In the darkest moment, the most minor setback can seem like the most tragic ending.
Journeyman's Banjo Artifact : Reveal a legendary card in your hard. Add one mana of one of that card's colors to your mana pool. : Reveal a basic land card in your hand. Add one mana of a color that land could produce to your mana pool. "Well. Here's a song. About some heroes. And the places they went." —Alvaro, aboard the Sunset
Devolve — Sorcery [R] Destroy target creature. Its controller may search their library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to that creature's converted mana cost minus one, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle their library.
Replicant Sentinel Artifact Creature - Construct (R) At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no colored permanents on the battlefield, create a token copy of Replicant Sentinel. 3/3 They did not blink. The did not pause. Or stop to question why. Each one built, an epitaph "The end of life is nigh." —Carving found on a monolith in a sea of rust on the dead plane of Zekilkhan.
Contagion Sower Creature - Treefolk Fungus Mutant Vigilance, infect Whenever Contagion Sower is dealt damage, proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.) 2/6
Hidden Ruins Land (C) If ~ is revealed when a creature you control explores, you may put it onto the battlefield instead of into your hand. : Add to your mana pool.
Nocturnal Flow — Enchantment (R) Players can't cast spells on their own turns. Players may cast spells as though they had flash. The waters of the Shombra falls remain stagnant until nightfall, when currents cascade with the pull of the moon.
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Soul Curse Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life for each creature card in your graveyard.
Pugilism Creature — Incarnation First strike Creatures can't be equipped. Whenever a creature attacks, its controller may have it fight another target creature instead. "Where the knuckle meets the jaw, there lives Pugilism." —Scroll of Middles 2/1
Fleshwork Sorcery (U) Exile target creature card from your graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. If the exiled card's toughness is 5 or greater, create an additional 2/2 black Zombie creature token. "There's plenty left."
Lucky Streak Sorcery Discard your hand, then flip seven coins. Draw a card for each flip you win. "There is no easier job than making them focus on the one time they hit the jackpot instead of the hundreds they filled our pockets." --Micalio, Nicily cashier
Headbutt Sorcery Target player discards a card. Then if that player has no cards in his or her hand, transform Headbutt and put it onto the battlefield attached to that player.
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Headlock Enchantment - Aura Curse (Headlock is black.) At the beginning of enchanted player's end step, if enchanted player has three or fewer cards in your hand, that player loses 2 life.
Tales from Afar Enchantment When Tales from Afar enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. If you do, shuffle your library. When you control six or more lands, sacrifice Tales from Afar. If you do, create a 2/2 green and blue Drake creature token with flying.
Dreamskipper Creature -- Elemental (R) Whenever Dreamskipper attacks, you may have the defending player draw a card. If you do, Dreamskipper can't be blocked this turn. Whenever Dreamskipper deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. 1/1
Hear the Stirrings Sorcery (C) Howl (You may tap an untapped creature you control to help cast this. Each point of power that creature has pays for or one mana of that creature's color.) Draw two cards. "Like ripples in a lake, each small step follows a larger one. Listen to the prey flee, and hear the stalking predator." — Shaman Aiora
Beast Tracker Creature -- Human Warrior (R) At the beginning of your end step, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield and Beast Tracker fights that creature. The thrill of the hunt is nothing compared to the excitement of the capture. 3/3
Colossal Chameleon Creature ─ Beast (U) When Colossal Chameleon changes color it gains hexproof and can't be blocked this turn. 7/7 Why did it evolve to hide when it has no predators?
Dissection Instant (R) Destroy target creature. If that creature had flying, creatures you control gain flying until end of turn. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, and vigilance. Sometimes you can tell how something works by observing it. Other times, you have to cut it up into tiny little pieces.
Wendigo Tribe Creature ─ Horror (M) Whenever a creature dies, create a token copy of Wendigo Tribe. If you control more Horrors than you have creature cards in your graveyard, you lose the game. 6/6 ...because the Wenidgo eat you.
Bad Fortune Enchantment - Aura (C) Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, scry 1. Sacrifice Bad Fortune: Reveal the top card of your library. Bad Fortune deals damage to enchanted creature equal to the revealed card's converted mana cost.
Foxrealm Paradox Enchantment - Aura (U) Enchant Permanent You control enchanted permanent. If the permanent enchanted by Foxrealm Paradox is an aura that is enchanting Foxrealm Paradox, you win the game. The truths of the Foxrealm bleed into our daily lives; you may discover that the cow you owned in the morning is owned by your neighbor in the evening.
Astral Alignment Enchantment Whenever you cast a spell with converted mana cost 7, you may draw seven cards. "Our mission and burden is to seek Betelsa's skies for any sign of disarray, lest the heavens fall in such disorder that the Maker decides to reorder the world." --Avaleo the Astronomer
Megalodon Rider Creature ─ Human Warrior : Monstrosity 8. As long as Megalodon Rider is monstrous, it has trample and is a Dinosaur in addition to its other types. 1/2
Wizard's Turban Artifact ─ Equipment (U) Equipped creature gains hexproof. Equip : Transform Wizard's Turban. He unfurled it from his head and watched it settle to the floor. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Wizard's Carpet Artifact ─ Equipment Equipped creature gains flying. Equip : Transform Wizard's Carpet. In a whirl of cloth and smoke it reared like a snake and sprang to his head.
Eavesdropping Enchantment (R) You may look at your opponent’s hands. Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw a card. “Always speak as though someone is listening in. Because in this city, someone usually is.” —Boss Langey
Can of Whoopass Artifact When Can of Whoopass is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put a 4/4 red Warrior creature token onto the battlefield and it deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.
Gift of the North Tree Sorcery Until end of turn, whenever you tap a land for mana, add one additional mana to your mana pool of any type that land produced. Suspend 2- As the season shifts and the frost melts, the spirits bring life back to the woods.
Porch Lamp - Artifact Whenever a creature card is returned to the battlefield or to its owner's hand from a graveyard, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. On the night the great war was over, the Akamori range lit up with the soft glows of ten of thousands of lanterns, each light carrying a wish for their loved ones to return home.
Soul of the Forest - Enchantment - Aura Enchant Forest Enchanted Forest is a 3/3 green Treefolk creature with hexproof in addition to its other colors and types. "The clerics love to wax poetic about their sky god watching over us all. But here in Yavimaya, we know that Gaea has ears, not eyes, and that She listens from within." -Eladamri
Thrunyx Parasite | Enchantment Creature - Insect {U} Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.) At the beginning of your end step, if Thrunyx Parasite is an Aura, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 for each counter on Thrunyx Parasite. 1/1
Duplicant Bus Artifact-Vehicle Crew 5 As long as a creature crewing has flying, Duplicant Bus has flying. The same is true for double strike, deathtouch, first strike, haste, hexproof, intimidate, indestructible, lifelink, menace, protection, prowess, reach, shroud, skulk, trample and vigilance. 5/5
Filigree Behemoth Artifact Creature — Beast : Filigree Behemoth isn't a creature until end of turn. It is easier to worship a standing idol than a wild thing. 5/1
Head Shot Sorcery Target opponent may discard any number of cards. Then ~ deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.
Mutual Hate Instant (U) Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. Compromise (You may cast this spell for its compromise cost. If you do, each opponent copies it.)
Bitter End Sorcery (M) Destroy all creatures you don't control. Compromise (You may cast this spell for its compromise cost. If you do, each opponent copies it.)
Volatile Mimic | Creature - Shapeshifter (R) You may have ~ enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's still 0/0. "'As good as the original' might have been a bit of a stretch." 0/0
Sated Beast | [Creature - Cat] When Sated Beast attacks, exert it unless it has a -1/-1 counter on it. Few things are more restful than a cat that has eaten its fill 5/5
Ruthless Recruitment Enchantment - Aura Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature. If he or she controls exactly one creature, instead gain control of it and sacrifice Ruthless Recruitment. The only man Bloodied Palm Richards ever respected was the captain who, in a bid to be merciful, persuaded his crew to let him slit their throats instead.
Curse of Endless Knowledge | Enchantment - Aura Curse (R) Enchant player Enchanted player has no maximum hand size. At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player draws cards equal to the number of cards in his or her hand.
Highway Sorcery Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn. // The Danger Zone Sorcery Aftermath Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.
Big Idea - Sorcery Return target instant or sorcery card with converted mana cost 3 or greater from your graveyard to your hand. Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.") "THIS is the big idea!"
Cerberus Engine Artifact Creature - Hound Construct (R) Double strike Whenever Cerberus Engine attacks, it deals damage equal to its power to defending player. Fire and brimstone meets oil and steel. 3/3
Conniving Quartermaster Creature - Human Soldier Rogue Whenever a creature dies, gain control of all Equipment attached to it. "A battlefield is a great place to get slightly soiled goods at rock-bottom prices." 2/2
Dark Approval | Sorcery (R) If you discarded a card this turn, draw a card. If you sacrificed a creature this turn, draw a card. If you lost life this turn, draw a card. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Double Or Nothing Choose target instant or sorcery spell. That spell's controller chooses one for you: *Counter that spell. *Copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Swarm Mother Creature ─ Faerie Wizard (U) Flying Affinity for 1/1 creatures. (This spell costs less to cast for each 1/1 creature you control.) 3/3 Her wings were the beating of a hundred bees.
Joyous Stampede Instant (C) Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Compromise (You may cast this spell for its compromise cost. If you do, each opponent copies it.)
Mold Stitcher | Creature - Zombie Fungus (C) Graft 1 (This creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) Undying (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.) 0/0
Stoneforge Etchings | Enchantment - Aura (R) Enchant Equipment Indestructible Enchanted Equipment has indestructible, "Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has first strike" and equip .
Jovial Benefactor Creature - Human Rogue When Jovial Benefactor enters the battlefield, you may put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control. Sacrifice a creature with a +1/+1 counter on it: Put two +1/+1 counters on Jovial Benefactor. "My dear boy, what good's an investment if you can't cash out?" 2/2
Caress the Sun Enchantment - Aura {U} Enchant creature. Whenever enchanted creature attacks, Caress the Sun deals 4 damage to it. "I flew high just to feel your warmth. I held on tight, for it was my duty to you. And then I fell because I couldn't anymore."
Devagath, Bone Revenant | Legendary Creature - Skeleton Knight (M) Double strike Undying (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.) When ~ dies, if it had exactly one +1/+1 counter on it, return it to the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. If it had exactly two +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it instead. 2/2
Traveler's Bane | Creature - Wolf (C) Haste Renown 1 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes renowned.) The best traveled roads usually have the best fed wolves. 1/1
Redfoot Rager Creature - Goblin Berserker Haste Suspend 1 (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay 0 and exile it with a time counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.) 1/1
Desperate Pact Enchantment Cumulative upkeep - Sacrifice a creature Creatures you control are indestructible. You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game. "They'll hate us for this." "Yes, but they'll still be alive to do so."
Whittle - Instant | C Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn. Target creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn. Target creature gets -1/-0 until end of turn.
Silent-Strike Asp | Creature - Snake (R) Deathtouch Morph (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 ~ is turned face up, you may have it deal 1 damage to target creature. 1/1
Filigree Songbird Artifact Creature - Bird (R) Flying When ~ dies, each player creates a colorless artifact token named Gold. They have "Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool." 0/1
Despondent Dreams | Sorcery (U) Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player manifests that card. (That player puts that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)
Assume Control Instant (R) Gain control of target creature spell. (When it resolves, it enters the battlefield under your control.) "Authority is ninety-nine percent acting the part. Look like you're in charge, and the world will follow." —Boss Langey
Verdant Mimic | Creature - Elemental Shapeshifter (R) You may have ~ enter the battlefield as a copy of any land on the battlefield, except its an Elemental Shapeshifter creature in addition to its other types and its still 1/1. 1/1
Goblin Contraptionist | Creature - Goblin Assembly-Worker (R) Whenever an ability of an artifact you control is activated, copy that ability, then sacrifice that artifact. You may choose new targets for the copy. "Somehow we've doubled production, but halved output." -Vanrag, plant foreman 1/1
Isamaru, Bound to Konda Legendary Creature - Dog Defender If Isamaru, Bound to Konda would die, flip it instead. 2/2 // Isamaru, Unchained At Last Legendary Creature - Dog Spirit Flying "What good is a life--any life-- if it one is not free to live it?" 2/2
Gambling Den Land (U) : Add to your mana pool. Pay 1 life, : Flip two coins. If both are heads, draw a card. Rakdos thugs may look dumb, but they’re experts at bleeding you dry.
Whispers Of The Sphinx — Sorcery (C) Shuffle the cards in your hand into your library, then draw two cards. "Clear your mind, Beleren. Water must be still to reflect the sky." —Alhammarret
Learn Its Powers Sorcery Exile target creature. If that creature had flying, creatures you control gain flying until end of turn. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, lifelink, menace, trample, and vigilance.
Phoenix of the End - Creature - Eldrazi Phoenix Flying, haste Emerge You may emerge Phoenix of the End from your graveyard. This is not the rebirth we were promised. 4/3
Perspective - Enchantment - Aura (R) Enchant creature As long as you control enchanted creature, it has base power and toughness 9/9. Otherwise, it has base power and toughness 1/1.
Winding Road Land : Add to your mana pool. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, Winding Road gains ": Add one mana of any color to your mana pool." until end of turn.
Manic Thespians Creature - Human Wizard (R) You may have Manic Thespians enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield. Unearth Anything for an encore. 0/0
North Wind Rattler Snow Creature — Pirate Skeleton : Return North Wind Rattler to its owner's hand. : Return North Wind Rattler from your graveyard to your hand. "I've seen 'em out there, those lost sailors—their flesh freezing and flaking off like the snow itself, and their breath billowing from their mouths as from the maw of Death." —Captain Blindeye of Barron Strait 2/1
Lunar Crux | Enchantment At the beginning of each end step, untap target permanent you control. Then, for each card named ~ in your graveyard, you may untap another target permanent you control. Cycling - Tap two untapped creatures you control.
Weight of the Eternities Sorcery (M) Suspend—. X can't be 0. (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay and exile it with X time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.) You lose the game. Whenever a time counter is removed from ~ while it's exiled, destroy target nonland permanent.
License to Kill Enchantment -- Aura (R) Enchant creature Enchanted creature has ": Destroy target creature." "I don't know why we keep issuing these." —Lieza, Corova Department of Public Safety
Pyramid Scheme Enchantment Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card and lose 2 life.
Take My Hand! Instant (C) If you control another creature with flying, target creature you control gains flying until end of turn. Draw a card. "Let me show you the view."
Mexev, Patron of Tombs Legendary Creature — Spirit Cleric : Attach target Curse you control to target player. At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card for each Curse attached to you. "As history repeats itself, listen to the shrieks of those forsaken by fate." 1/5
Firestorm Sorcerer Creature — Human Wizard : Firestorm Sorcerer deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Double all damage it would deal until end of turn. : Untap Firestorm Sorcerer. 2/1
Autograph Elemental | (Art: A blank autograph book with arms and legs made of paper) [Creature - Elemental] When you cast Autograph Elemental, you may have target opponent sign it. Autograph Elemental gets +1/+1 for each unique signature on it. "I did it, I got Jace's autograph!" "...Should your book be glowing like that?" 2/2
Deluded Defection Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature You control enchanted creature. When a creature dealt damage by enchanted creature this turn dies, sacrifice Deluded Defection. He killed a stranger. He buried a friend.
Tomb of the Moon Sage Artifact Delirium — At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are four of more card types among cards in your graveyard, you may exile your graveyard and draw two cards. "She looks like mochi." —Jace Beleren
Eager Valkyrie Creature ─ Spirit (U) Flying When Eager Valkyrie enters the battlefield return target damaged creature to it's owner's hand. 1/1 Thor loved her pluck but Odin was getting tired of fixing her mistakes.
Defeat at Kingsbridge Instant Destroy target attacking creature with power 4 or more. If you do, end the combat. His remains blasted across the riverbank, Krugnar Oathbreaker achieved in death what he never could in life: the silenced awe of his clan.
Twisted Desires Enchantment At the beginning of each players upkeep, that player may sacrifice a permanent. If they do, they draw a card. My soul but for a glimpse
Shapeless Spirit Creature - Spirit Mutant (R) Shapeless Spirit enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. : Exile Shapeless Spirit, then return it to the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. 0/0
Galather, Beast Tamer Legendary Creature — Elf Shaman(R) Beasts you control are 1/1. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a 5/5 green Beast creature token with trample onto the battlefield. 2/2
Redemptive Spirit Creature — Spirit (R) Flash You may have Redemptive Spirit enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature attacking you. Even as she swung her sword at her mirror, she wept for this glimpse at what might have been, if life were kinder, if she were better. 0/0
Believe It or Not Instant Draw five cards, then separate the cards in your hand into two face-down piles and reveal one of them. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Sataras, Broker of Souls Legendary Creature - Demon (M) Flying If X is less than four, Sataras enters the battlefield with debt counters on it equal to the difference. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life for each debt counter on Sataras. "You will give me my due, mortal, one way or another." 6/6
Kozilek's Intrusion | Sorcery Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a colored card from it. That player discards that card. (Lands are colorless.)
Motivate Instant (C) Expertise — Target creature you control gets +3/+3 and gains lifelink until end of turn. Then if that creature has two or more instances of lifelink, each other creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn. "Who's with me?"
Ghinus Forgekiller Legendary Creature ─ Dwarf Wizard (M) When Ghinus Forgekiller enters the battlefield, put up to four cards named "Shatter" you own from outside the game into your hand. Whenever an artifact is destroyed draw a card. 4/4
Fill the Grave Sorcery (R) Each player sacrifices creatures until he or she has five or more creature cards in his or her graveyard. "The city dumps fill. The junkyards fill. The madhouses fill. The hospitals fill. The graveyards fill. Nothing else fills." -Charles Bukowski
White Stag Creature ─ Beast (C) Undying (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.) Whenever White Stag dies draw a card. 1/1 Forests need their kings.
Study of Whisperflame Enchantment (R) Study of Whisperflame can't be countered by spells or abilities. Noncreature spells you control can't be countered by spells or abilities. To not be silenced, do not be heard.
Stargazing - Enchantment Constellation - Whenever ~ or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, scry 1 and reveal the top card of your library. If an enchantment card is revealed this way, put it into your hand. At the beginning of your end step, if you control fifteen or more enchantments, you win the game.
Divergent Grove Land When Divergent Grove enters the battlefield, each land you control gains ": Add one mana of any color to your mana pool" until end of turn. : Add to your mana pool.
Read the Gravestones Sorcery (U) For each spent to cast Read the Gravestones, you gain 1 life and put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield. For each spent to cast Read the Gravestones, you lose 1 life and draw a card. A marker for those long past, clinging to the very last vestiges of their legacy.
Timberland Woodsmaster Creature - Human Scout (M) When ~ enters the battlefield, distribute four +1/+1 counters among permanents you control. : Redistribute +1/+1 counters among permanents you control. "Safe roads through Kessig change by the minute; keep your wits about you, or I may just point you in the wrong direction." 1/1
Sphinx of Scriptures Creature - Sphinx Wizard (Rare) Flying Gifted (As long as this creature isn’t enchanted you may cast an Aura card from your graveyard targeting it.) Noncreature cards in your hand have cycling . (, Discard that card: Draw a card.) 6/4
Resolute Bladebound Creature — Fox Samurai Lifelink Bushido 2 “What will it say on our graves, Lord Konda? Will it say we led our world to conquer immortal forces or that we were crushed by our own arrogance? At each defeat, I wonder.” —Sensei Hisoka, letter to Lord Konda
Search for Clues Sorcery Draw two cards. Then, if you haven't discarded a card yet this turn, discard a card. "I feel as if we're still missing a very important piece of the puzzle here."
Skeletal Knight — Creature — Skeleton Knight (R) Renown 1 When Skeletal Knight dies, if it was renowned, return it to the battlefield. Some seek glory to immortalize themselves in a metaphorical sense. For the servants of Erebos, the struggle is quite literal. 2/2
Craniarum Creature - Brain Flying If you would draw a card, you may put a copy of ~ onto the battlefield instead. If you would discard a card, you may sacrifice ~ instead. Othik never had a problem acquiring materials for his research. Truly, those ghoulcallers didn't know the potential of what they were wasting. 1/1
Heir to the Throne Creature -- Human Knight (R) First strike Whenever a Legendary creature you control dies, you may transform Heir to the Throne. 2/2 /// Lord of the Gilded Throne ● Legendary Creature -- Human Knight (R) Defender At the beginning of your end step, you may put a 2/2 white Knight creature token with first strike onto the battlefield. : Other creatures you control get +1/+1 until the end of turn. 0/4
Two Birds Sorcery Put two 2/2 black Bird creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield. // One Stone Sorcery Destroy two target creatures with flying.
Vortex Crawler- Creature-Horror Haste When Vortex Crawler enters the battlefield, exile all other creatures. Return them to the battlefield tapped at the beginning of the next upkeep. To hunt. 4/4
Zephyranth Legendary Creature - Djinn Scholar First strike Whenever Zephyranth deals combat damage to a creature or player, you may cast an instant or sorcery card from your hand targeting that creature or player without paying its mana cost. 3/5
Tyrant's Spoils Sorcery Each player secretly chooses a number, then those numbers are revealed. Each player who choose the highest number loses life and draws cards equal to the sum of all numbers revealed in this way. It isn't easy making it to the top
Ziggurat of Hearteater Land : Add to your mana pool. : Add to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to activate abilities of lands. The ancient stones clacked into place and the world open to him.
Ulrexes, the Deathbound- Planeswalker-Ulrexes (M) At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card and remove a loyalty counter from Ulrexes. : You lose 1 life. As long as Ulrexes has 8 or more loyalty counters on it, you can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.
Void Pocket Instant (C) Exile target creature, then return it to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it under its owner's control. "Returning from one such journey is its own reward. Scars are to be expected." — Shadowcaller Asmondi
Weapon Slash Instant Weapon Slash deals 3 damage to target creature or player. You may tap an untapped equipped creature you control rather than pay Weapon Slash's mana cost.
Reverb Chamber Artifact , : Put a 1/1 colorless Illusion creature token onto the battlefield. , Sacrifice a creature: Illusion creatures you control become copies of the sacrificed creature until end of turn. Can you not hear the echoes? Those voices bereft of being? Their wailings consume me! - Athadean "the Mad Composer"
Kula Prag Legendary Creature - Centaur Wizard (M) Hexproof Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may cast the top card of your library as long as it targets Kula Prag. "Achievement without contribution is meaningless." 2/2
Machine Supremacy Instant Tap target creature. Untap target artifact. "Flesh has many qualities that are useful to us; but once we learn to emulate these in metal, it will be dispensed with." ─Avaricta, Gitaxian sective
Reign of Fire Sorcery (R) You may reveal a Dragon card from your hand. If you do, Reign of Fire deals 5 damage to target creature or player. Otherwise, you may search your library for a Dragon card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. When the dragon Avor seized the White Throne of Athica, few dared to argue. There are few arguments that stand up against fifteen tons of teeth, scales, and flame.
Revolutionaries' Guillotine — Artifact (U) Tap three untapped creature tokens you control: Destroy target nontoken creature. If it was legendary, draw a card. "For too long have the high priests and great mages and big lords taken food out of our mouths. Now we, the nameless, faceless masses will reclaim history!" —Llirya, the Vanguard
Sheepfold Land : Add , , or to your mana pool. Sheepfold becomes a 0/1 green Sheep creature until end of turn. Ovinomancers have long tried to shake off their reputation for animal husbandry.
Sins Commited Sorcery (R) Target opponent chooses X cards in your graveyard. Return the chosen cards to your hand. Those who remember the past can endeavor to repeat it.
Riftcracker Adept Creature - Goblin Wizard (Rare) Haste When Riftcracker Adept dies, exile it and the top card of your library face down. At the beginning of your next upkeep, reveal one of those two cards at random. You may play the revealed card this turn. 2/2
Thornvine Sentry- Creature-Plant Warrior Reach Thornvine Sentry can block creatures with flying as though it was untapped. Sorcery and shrubbery make odd bedfellows. 2/3
Dark Temptress — Creature — Succubus When Dark Temptress enters the battlefield, any opponent may have you sacrifice it. If any player does, add to your mana pool. She'll always leave you with something, but as soon as she's gone, you'll be craving for more. 3/3
Volcanic Revelation Sorcery {M} Volcanic Revelation deals X damage to target creature or player. Exile the top X cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may play cards exiled this way. "Knowledge, like molten earth, must be harnessed immediately, before it has the chance to fade" - Koth
Calamitous Visions | Sorcery Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Destroy all nonland permanents with the same converted mana cost as that card. “If you foresaw one's death, would you warn them of it? Or would you withhold and not cause them worry?” — Dynn, Arch Ancient
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Hidden Temple Land (U) If a spell or ability an opponent controls would cause you to reveal your hand, you may reveal only this card from your hand instead. : Add . Jace stood in uncomfortable silence. He was surrounded by at least a dozen monks, yet couldn't hear a single thought.
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Listen to the Wind — Instant — Arcane Draw a card. Imbue (: Exile this card from your hand imbued on target creature. When that creature dies, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.) Imbued creature has flying. If it's a Spirit, it gets +1/+1. "To truly find insight, you must broaden your horizons." —Dosan, to Toshiro
Like Q, I've wanted a return to Kamigawa for a while (magicstillprinted == 1). I'd definitely like to see this mechanic if they did. A pity we're not allowed to give solicited cards. Most notably, unlike an aura, if this fizzles due to an illegal target you lose out only on mana since the exiling part is not part of the cost.
Cogtopus Artifact Creature -- Octopus (U) Cogtopus enters the battlefield with eight +1/+1 counters on it. When Cogtopus enters the battlefield, you may distribute its +1/+1 counters as you choose among creatures you control. 0/0
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Just so everyone has the full context, seeing as the whole cycle together tells a story, I'll take the liberty of sblocking the whole thing here:
The Hero's Journey
Listen to the Wind — Instant — Arcane Draw a card. Imbue (: Exile this card from your hand imbued on target creature. When that creature dies, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.) Imbued creature has flying. If it's a Spirit, it gets +1/+1. "To truly find insight, you must broaden your horizons." —Dosan, to Toshiro
Emerge from the Marsh — Instant — Arcane Create two 1/1 green Snake creature tokens. Imbue (: Exile this card from your hand imbued on target creature. When that creature dies, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.) Imbued creature has trample. If it's a Spirit, it gets +1/+1. "You will need all of your strength to shed your skin and repurpose the folly of youth." —Dosan, to Toshiro
Stand Tall in the Fields — Instant — Arcane Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Untap them. Imbue (: Exile this card from your hand imbued on target creature. When that creature dies, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.) Imbued creature has vigilance. If it's a Spirit, it gets +1/+1. "As you learn to go forth without fear, those who witness your deeds will grow inspired by your eminence." —Dosan, to Toshiro
Die in the Shadows — Instant — Arcane Destroy target creature. Imbue (: Exile this card from your hand imbued on target creature. When that creature dies, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.) Imbued creature has deathtouch. If it's a Spirit, it gets +1/+1. "But no matter how hard you try, remember that death takes us all in the end." —Dosan, to Toshiro
Rise from the Flames — Instant — Arcane Rise from the Flames deals 3 damage target creature and 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. Imbue (: Exile this card from your hand imbued on target creature. When that creature dies, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.) Imbued creature has double strike. If it's a Spirit, it gets +1/+1. "So until it does, hold your courage in one hand and your fury in the other, and nothing you face will be able to survive both blows." —Dosan, to Toshiro
Just so everyone has the full context, seeing as the whole cycle together tells a story, I'll take the liberty of sblocking the whole thing here:
The Hero's Journey
Listen to the Wind — Instant — Arcane Draw a card. Imbue (: Exile this card from your hand imbued on target creature. When that creature dies, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.) Imbued creature has flying. If it's a Spirit, it gets +1/+1. "To truly find insight, you must broaden your horizons." —Dosan, to Toshiro
Emerge from the Marsh — Instant — Arcane Create two 1/1 green Snake creature tokens. Imbue (: Exile this card from your hand imbued on target creature. When that creature dies, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.) Imbued creature has trample. If it's a Spirit, it gets +1/+1. "You will need all of your strength to shed your skin and repurpose the folly of youth." —Dosan, to Toshiro
Stand Tall in the Fields — Instant — Arcane Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Untap them. Imbue (: Exile this card from your hand imbued on target creature. When that creature dies, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.) Imbued creature has vigilance. If it's a Spirit, it gets +1/+1. "As you learn to go forth without fear, those who witness your deeds will grow inspired by your eminence." —Dosan, to Toshiro
Die in the Shadows — Instant — Arcane Destroy target creature. Imbue (: Exile this card from your hand imbued on target creature. When that creature dies, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.) Imbued creature has deathtouch. If it's a Spirit, it gets +1/+1. "But no matter how hard you try, remember that death takes us all in the end." —Dosan, to Toshiro
Rise from the Flames — Instant — Arcane Rise from the Flames deals 3 damage target creature and 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. Imbue (: Exile this card from your hand imbued on target creature. When that creature dies, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.) Imbued creature has double strike. If it's a Spirit, it gets +1/+1. "So until it does, hold your courage in one hand and your fury in the other, and nothing you face will be able to survive both blows." —Dosan, to Toshiro
I'd hope it would be a mechanic more than a cycle like splice onto arcane was. Mainly because enchantments problems with removal.
The only thing I don't like is the white one. Its timing dependency just makes it a really poor fit with the mechanic. I think the blue one might also be a little bit pushed, maybe? Or not.
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Crack the Caskets Sorcery (C) Return up to two random creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. The pauper's cemetery had no headstones, but also no fence.
Celestial Beckoner - Creature - Human Spellshaper , : At the beginning of your next upkeep, ~ deals 13 damage to target creature. ~ doesn't untap during your next two untap steps. 1/3
Master Lensforger | Creature - Human Artificer , sacrifice a land: Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one into your hand and exile the rest. If the sacrificed land was a desert, look at the top ten cards instead. "The finer the sand the finer the lense! I must see further! Further!" 0/1
Constelate | Instant | {U} Exile target creature. When a player casts a spell with the same name as the exiled creature, that player draws a card. Yendrae always felt her father looking down on her from the stars. The tragedy was how true this was.
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