Abduction

When Abduction comes into play, untap enchanted creature.
You control enchanted creature.
When enchanted creature is put into a graveyard, return that creature to play under its owner's control.

Abduction may be cast targeting an untapped creature.

Enchant creature
When Abduction enters, untap enchanted creature.
You control enchanted creature.
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Some smiles show cheer; some merely show teeth.

Abyssal Hunter

o
B, oc
T: Tap target creature. Abyssal Hunter deals damage equal to its power to that creature.

The ability can target an already tapped creature.

{B}, {T}: Tap target creature. Abyssal Hunter deals damage equal to Abyssal Hunter's power to that creature.

Abyssal Specter

Flying
Whenever Abyssal Specter deals damage to a player, that player chooses and discards a card from his or her hand.

Flying
Whenever Abyssal Specter deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Adarkar Wastes

oc
T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.
oc
T: Add o
W or o
U to your mana pool. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

"You can't get there from here. Well, you can—it just won't be fun."
—Ertai, wizard adept

Aether Flash

Whenever a creature comes into play, Æther Flash deals 2 damage to it.

This is not a targeted ability, so it deals damage to creatures that can’t be targeted by spells and abilities.

Whenever a creature enters, Aether Flash deals 2 damage to it.

"An innocent man died because of my anger. That knowledge will haunt me for all eternity."
—Karn, silver golem

Agonizing Memories

Look at target player's hand and choose two cards from it. Put those cards on top of that player's library in any order you choose.

Look at target player's hand and choose two cards from it. Put them on top of that player's library in any order.

As insubstantial, and as powerful, as the wind that carries it.

Air Elemental

". . . The magician drew a ring off his finger . . . , saying: 'It is a talisman against all evil, so long as you obey me.'"
—*The Arabian Nights*,
Junior Classics trans.

Aladdin's Ring

o8, oc
T: Aladdin's Ring deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

{8}, {T}: Aladdin's Ring deals 4 damage to any target.

Amber Prison

You may choose not to untap Amber Prison during your untap step.
o4, oc
T: Tap target artifact, creature, or land. As long as Amber Prison is tapped, that permanent doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

You may choose not to untap Amber Prison during your untap step.
{4}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land. That permanent doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Amber Prison remains tapped.

"Not all minotaurs are tribal. Some are freelance."
—Eron the Relentless

Anaba Bodyguard

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

"The shamans? Ha! They are craven cows not capable of true magic."
—Irini Sengir

Anaba Shaman

o
R, oc
T: Anaba Shaman deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

{R}, {T}: Anaba Shaman deals 1 damage to any target.

Ancestral Memories

Look at the top seven cards of your library and put two of them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

If there are less than 7 cards in the library, look at all of them. Put two into your hand, and the rest in the graveyard.

This is not considered a draw or a discard.

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

"When you have been bitten with fangs of granite, you start to long for the ivory sabers of tigers."
—Norin the Wary

Animate Wall

Enchanted creature can attack as though it weren't a Wall.

This is a change from the most recent wording. As was the case in the past, Animate Wall can now enchant only a Wall.

Enchant Wall
Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Tawnos finally cracked the puzzle: the strange structures did not house Mishra's malevolent creations but were themselves among his creations.

Ankh of Mishra

Whenever a land comes into play, Ankh of Mishra deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

It determines the land's controller at the time the ability resolves. If the land leaves the battlefield before the ability resolves, the land's last controller before it left is used.

This triggers on any land entering. This includes playing a land or putting a land onto the battlefield using a spell or ability.

Whenever a land enters, Ankh of Mishra deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

"My mother once told me angels sing their swords' names with each strike."
—Sisay, Captain of the *Weatherlight*

Archangel

Flying
Attacking doesn't cause Archangel to tap.

Some fight for honor and some for gold, but the militia fight for hearth and home.

Ardent Militia

Attacking doesn't cause Ardent Militia to tap.

Armageddon

Asked how it survived a run-in with a bog imp, the pegasus just shook its mane and burped.

Armored Pegasus

"What you call decay, I call ripening. You'll gain no sustenance from this harvest."
—Kaervek

Ashen Powder

Put target creature card from one of your opponents' graveyards into play under your control.

Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

The Brothers' War scarred the land, but Ashnod left her mark in the bloodlines of those she tortured.

Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add two colorless mana to your mana pool.

"Barbarian raids were a concern to those living in the northwest provinces, but the skyknights never dealt with the problem in a systematic way. They thought of the Balduvians as an 'amusing model' of their forebears' culture."
—*Kjeldor: Ice Civilization*

Balduvian Barbarians

Balduvian Horde

When Balduvian Horde comes into play, discard a card at random from your hand. If you don't, sacrifice Balduvian Horde.

You choose whether to discard or not on resolution. If not, then you sacrifice this card. You can choose to not discard even if you no longer control this card on resolution.

When Balduvian Horde enters, sacrifice it unless you discard a card at random.

Birds of Paradise

Flying
oc
T: Add one mana of a color of your choice to your mana pool.

Blaze

Blaze deals X damage to target creature or player.

Blight

When enchanted land is tapped, destroy it.

Enchant land
When enchanted land becomes tapped, destroy it.

Blighted Shaman

oc
T, Sacrifice a swamp: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
oc
T, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

{T}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"You are wrong," Volrath said. "I do not hate the living. They often prove quite useful to me." And then he laughed.

Blood Pet

Sacrifice Blood Pet: Add o
B to your mana pool.

Because combat damage resolves immediately after it is assigned, you cannot sacrifice Blood Pet in between assigning and dealing combat damage. The last chance you have to sacrifice it before combat damage is dealt is during the Declare Blockers step.

Don't be fooled by their looks. Think of them as little knives with wings.

Bog Imp

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Their stench was vile and strong enough, but not nearly as powerful as their hunger.

Bog Rats

It moved through the troops leaving no footprints, save on their souls.

Bog Wraith

Swampwalk (This creature is unblockable if defending player controls a swamp.)

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

"The fishers will throw out their nets and draw them back filled with dust."
—Oracle *en*-Vec

Boil

A lie always returns; be careful how you catch it.

Boomerang

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Bottle of Suleiman

o1, Sacrifice Bottle of Suleiman: Flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Bottle of Suleiman deals 5 damage to you. If you win the flip, put a 5/5 Djinn artifact creature token into play. That creature has flying.

The coin is flipped on resolution and not on declaration of the ability.

{1}, Sacrifice Bottle of Suleiman: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, create a 5/5 colorless Djinn artifact creature token with flying. If you lose the flip, Bottle of Suleiman deals 5 damage to you.

"Once great literature—now great litter."
—Jaya Ballard, task mage

Browse

o2o
Uoo
U Look at the top five cards of your library and put one of them into your hand. Remove the rest from the game.

{2}{U}{U}: Look at the top five cards of your library, put one of them into your hand, and exile the rest.

Brushland

oc
T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.
oc
T: Add o
G or o
W to your mana pool. Brushland deals 1 damage to you.

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}. Brushland deals 1 damage to you.

Burrowing

Enchanted creature gains mountainwalk. (It's unblockable if defending player controls a mountain.)

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has mountainwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)

Thinking of dinner made Squee realize that the forest was probably thinking the same thing.

Call of the Wild

o2o
Go
G: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it into play. Otherwise, put it into your graveyard.

{2}{G}{G}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your graveyard.

"Hang out our banners on the outward walls; / The cry is still, 'They come'; our castle's strength / Will laugh a siege to scorn."
—William Shakespeare, *Macbeth*

Castle

Untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.

These stealthy felines have survived so many battles that some believe they must possess many lives.

Cat Warriors

Forestwalk (This creature is unblockable if defending player controls a forest.)

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Celestial Dawn

Nonland cards you own that aren't in play are white. Nonland permanents you control are white. Lands you control are plains. Colored mana symbols in the costs on all those cards and permanents are o
W.

Celestial Dawn does not change the type of lands which are not on the battlefield. Lands not on the battlefield are what they say they are.

Celestial Dawn no longer changes mana symbols on cards.

If you pay white mana to activate an ability that can only be activated by spending another color of mana, then any limitations on activating the ability (such as the number of times it can be activated each turn) still apply as if you spent the proper color.

The effect to turn all your non-land cards (including artifacts) white is the effect of a static ability. Thus, a color change on a permanent prior to Celestial Dawn entering the battlefield will be overridden by Celestial Dawn's effect.

Will not add or remove Snow Supertype from a land.

You may use a different color mana than the color required for spells and abilities that require a specific color. If you do, and the spell or ability checks the actual color of the mana, it can tell the difference.

If a permanent enters while Celestial Dawn is on the battlefield, and then Celestial Dawn leaves the battlefield, the permanent's color will revert to the colors in its mana cost.

If you have unspent nonwhite mana when Celestial Dawn enters, you still have that mana, but you can spend it only on the colorless part of costs.

If you use a text-changing effect such as Mind Bend on Celestial Dawn to change the word "Plains" to a different land type, your lands are all of that new land type, and they will produce mana of the appropriate color for that type.

Land cards you own that aren't on the battlefield aren't changed to Plains.

Mana produced by spells you control and nonland permanents you control isn't affected by Celestial Dawn. Llanowar Elves will produce {G}, for example. However, any colored mana may be spent only on the colorless part of costs.

If a nonbasic land has an ability that causes it to enter the battlefield tapped, it will lose that ability before it applies. The same is also true of any other abilities that modify how a land enters the battlefield or apply "as" a land enters the battlefield, such as the first ability of Cavern of Souls. This is a change from previous rulings.

Lands you control are Plains.
Nonland permanents you control are white. The same is true for spells you control and nonland cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
You may spend white mana as though it were mana of any color. You may spend other mana only as though it were colorless mana.

Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond comes into play tapped.
oc
T: Add o
B to your mana pool.

Charcoal Diamond enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Chill

Circle of Protection: Black

o1: The next time a black source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

A source of damage is a permanent, a spell on the stack (including one that creates a permanent), or any object referred to by an object on the stack. A source doesn’t need to be capable of dealing damage to be a legal choice.

Can be used even when there is no damage to prevent. It prevents the next damage (if any) from the source this turn.

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

Circle of Protection: Blue

o1: The next time a blue source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

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

Circle of Protection: Green

o1: The next time a green source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

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

Circle of Protection: Red

o1: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

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

Circle of Protection: White

o1: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

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

City of Brass

Whenever City of Brass is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
oc
T: Add one mana of a color of your choice to your mana pool.

If you tap City of Brass while you are casting a spell or activating an ability, its ability will trigger and wait. When you finish casting that spell or activating that ability, City of Brass's triggered ability is put on the stack on top of it. City of Brass's ability will resolve first.

On the other hand, you can tap City of Brass, put its triggered ability on the stack, and then respond to that ability by casting an instant or activating an ability using that mana. In that case, the instant spell or activated ability will resolve first.

The first ability triggers no matter how the land becomes tapped.

Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

A rhino's bargain
—Femeref expression meaning "a situation with no choices"

Coercion

Look at target opponent's hand and choose a card from it. That player discards that card.

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card.

"Why do we trade with those despicable elves? You don't live in forests, you burn them!"
—Avram Garrisson, Leader of the Knights of Stromgald

Conquer

Counterspell

"Mold could catch you."
—Suq'Ata insult

Creeping Mold

Destroy target artifact, land, or enchantment.

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

"Dragonfire forged me a warrior."
—Rashida Scalebane

Crimson Hellkite

Flying
o
X, oc
T: Crimson Hellkite deals X damage to target creature. Spend only red mana this way.

Flying
{X}, {T}: Crimson Hellkite deals X damage to target creature. Spend only red mana on X.

Crusade

Crystal Rod

Whenever a player plays a blue spell, you may pay o1. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Crystal Vein

oc
T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.
oc
T, Sacrifice Crystal Vein: Add two colorless mana to your mana pool.

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Crystal Vein: Add {C}{C}.

Pass me from soul to soul, / soldier to herder, herder to beast, beast to soil / until I am everywhere. / Then pass me those souls.
—Totem inscription (translated)

Cursed Totem

Players can't play activated abilities of creatures.

Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.

Activated abilities of noncreature permanents that would make them become creatures (such as a Vehicle's crew ability) can still be activated. Once they become creatures, any abilities they have cannot be activated.

Cursed Totem doesn't stop players from activating abilities of creature cards that aren't on the battlefield, such as cycling or unearth.

Activated abilities of creatures can't be activated.

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