Acidic Slime

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When Acidic Slime enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When Acidic Slime enters, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Act of Authority

When Act of Authority enters the battlefield, you may exile target artifact or enchantment.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile target artifact or enchantment. If you do, its controller gains control of Act of Authority.

For either ability, if you are the only player who controls an artifact or enchantment, you must choose one of them as the target. However, you may choose to not exile it when the ability resolves.

If you choose to not exile a permanent with the second ability, you'll retain control of Act of Authority.

When Act of Authority enters, you may exile target artifact or enchantment.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile target artifact or enchantment. If you do, its controller gains control of Act of Authority.

They are cautious with their body language and facial expressions. Any stray movement could betray the positions of the troops they protect and cost many lives.

Aerie Mystics

Flying{1}{G}{U}: Creatures you control gain shroud until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

Flying
{1}{G}{U}: Creatures you control gain shroud until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

Aethermage's Touch

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. It gains "At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to its owner's hand." Then put the rest of the cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

If the creature that you put onto the battlefield leaves the battlefield before your next end step, it won't be returned to your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

If you don't reveal any creature cards, or if you choose not to put a revealed creature card onto the battlefield, all the revealed cards go on the bottom of your library.

If you put a creature onto the battlefield this way during your end step, it won't be returned to your hand until your next end step.

The triggered ability that the creature gains won't be copied if an effect creates a token that's a copy of that creature or causes another object to become a copy of that creature.

"When one of us prospers, the pride prospers."
—Jazal Goldmane

Ajani's Pridemate

Whenever you gain life, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Ajani's Pridemate. (For example, if an effect causes you to gain 3 life, you may put one +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, Ajani's Pridemate's ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, and/or planeswalkers at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.

If Ajani's Pridemate is dealt lethal damage at the same time that you gain life, it won't receive a counter from its ability in time to save it.

If you gain an amount of life "for each" of something, that life is gained as one event and the ability of Ajani's Pridemate triggers only once.

In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause the ability to trigger, even though it caused your team's life total to increase.

The ability of Ajani's Pridemate triggers just once for each life-gaining event, whether it's 1 life from Paradise Plume or 2 life from Mycologist.

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Ajani's Pridemate.

Akoum Refuge

Akoum Refuge enters the battlefield tapped.
When Akoum Refuge enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.{T}: Add {B} or {R} to your mana pool.

Akoum Refuge enters tapped.
When Akoum Refuge enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

"Better the dead depart utterly than be enslaved."

Angel of Finality

Flying When Angel of Finality enters the battlefield, exile all cards from target player's graveyard.

Flying
When Angel of Finality enters, exile target player's graveyard.

"Whatever Yawgmoth marks, dies. There is no escape."
—Tsabo Tavoc, Phyrexian general

Annihilate

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Draw a card.

If the targeted creature is an illegal target when Annihilate tries to resolve, the entire spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t draw a card.

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

The controller of the countered spell doesn't choose how many cards to draw until the relevant ability resolves. The player may draw 0, 1, or 2 cards. They choose the number before drawing any cards.

Debates between wizards are never purely academic.

Arcane Melee

Instant and sorcery spells cost {2} less to cast.

Arcane Melee can reduce alternative costs such as miracle costs.

Arcane Melee can’t reduce the colored mana requirement of an instant or sorcery spell.

If there are additional costs to cast a spell, such as a kicker cost or a cost imposed by another effect (such as Thalia, Guardian of Thraben’s ability), apply those increases before applying cost reductions.

The cost to cast an instant or sorcery spell with one generic mana in its mana cost will be reduced by {1}. For example, an instant spell with a mana cost of {1}{G} would cost {G} to cast.

"We must rely on our own knowledge, not on the dogma of the seekers or the mutterings of the sphinxes."
—Tullus of Palandius

Arcane Sanctum

Arcane Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped.{T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B} to your mana pool.

Arcane Sanctum enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.

The sky rang with the cries of armored seraphs, and the darkness made a tactical retreat.

Archangel

The mysterious purpose of two of the rings had eluded Esper mages—until now.

Armillary Sphere

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Armillary Sphere: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Armillary Sphere: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Sometimes death comes knocking. Sometimes it tears down the walls.

Army of the Damned

Put thirteen 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens onto the battlefield tapped.
Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.

If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.

To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.

You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.

You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.

“Flashback [cost]” means “You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost” and “If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack.”

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Augur of Bolas

When Augur of Bolas enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

If there are fewer than three cards in your library when Augur of Bolas’s ability resolves, you’ll look at the remaining cards. This won’t cause you to lose the game as you haven’t drawn from an empty library.

You don’t reveal the other two cards, nor do you reveal their order on the bottom of the library.

When Augur of Bolas enters, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Moonstones grant limited foresight but unlimited advantages.

Augury Adept

Whenever Augury Adept deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You gain life equal to its converted mana cost.

Whenever Augury Adept deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You gain life equal to its mana value.

Avenger of Zendikar

When Avenger of Zendikar enters the battlefield, put a 0/1 green Plant creature token onto the battlefield for each land you control.
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.

The landfall ability triggers whenever a land enters under your control for any reason. It triggers whenever you play a land, as well as whenever a spell or ability (such as Rampant Growth) causes you to put a land onto the battlefield under your control. It will even trigger when a spell or ability causes another player to put a land onto the battlefield under your control (as can happen with Yavimaya Dryad's ability, for example).

When a land enters under your control, each landfall ability of the permanents you control will trigger. You can put them on the stack in any order. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one that resolves.

When Avenger of Zendikar enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.

"Choices belong to those with the luxuries of time and distance. We have neither. I recommend we proceed with the plan to destroy all shrines of the kami."
—Lady Azami, letter to Sensei Hisoka

Azami, Lady of Scrolls

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Draw a card.

Azorius Chancery

Azorius Chancery enters the battlefield tapped.
When Azorius Chancery enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.{T}: Add {W}{U} to your mana pool.

If this land enters the battlefield and you control no other lands, its ability will force you to return it to your hand.

Azorius Chancery enters tapped.
When Azorius Chancery enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {W}{U}.

Enter the Senate, the seat of justice and the foundation of Ravnican society.

Azorius Guildgate

Azorius Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.{T}: Add {W} or {U} to your mana pool.

The subtype Gate has no special rules significance, but other spells and abilities may refer to it.

Azorius Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

"As peace should be—gentle yet unstoppable."
—Augustin IV

Azorius Herald

Azorius Herald can't be blocked.
When Azorius Herald enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life.
When Azorius Herald enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless {U} was spent to cast it.

If this enters in a way other than announcing it as a spell, then the appropriate mana can't have been paid, and you'll have to sacrifice it.

Azorius Herald can't be blocked.
When Azorius Herald enters, you gain 4 life.
When Azorius Herald enters, sacrifice it unless {U} was spent to cast it.

"The higher the mind soars, the greater its understanding of the law."
—Isperia

Azorius Keyrune

{T}: Add {W} or {U} to your mana pool.{W}{U}: Azorius Keyrune becomes a 2/2 white and blue Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

Activating the ability that turns the Keyrune into a creature while it’s already a creature will override any effects that set its power and/or toughness to another number, but effects that modify power and/or toughness without directly setting them will still apply.

Until the ability that turns the Keyrune into a creature resolves, the Keyrune is colorless.

{T}: Add {W} or {U}.
{W}{U}: Azorius Keyrune becomes a 2/2 white and blue Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

"As with any malevolent being, the trick is knowing how long you can afford to keep it in your service."
—Liliana Vess

Baleful Force

At the beginning of each upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch
When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Flying, deathtouch
When Baleful Strix enters, draw a card.

Its insatiable hunger quickly depletes a region of prey. It must migrate from place to place to feed its massive bulk.

Baloth Woodcrasher

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Baloth Woodcrasher gets +4/+4 and gains trample until end of turn.

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, Baloth Woodcrasher gets +4/+4 and gains trample until end of turn.

It sees shaped stone and carved wood as mutilations.

Bane of Progress

When Bane of Progress enters the battlefield, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on Bane of Progress for each permanent destroyed this way.

Bane of Progress’s ability destroys all artifacts and enchantments, including those you control.

If an artifact or enchantment isn’t destroyed (perhaps because it has indestructible or it regenerated), it won’t count toward the number of +1/+1 counters put on Bane of Progress. However, if an artifact or enchantment is destroyed but doesn’t go to its owner’s graveyard due to a replacement effect (like the one Rest in Peace creates), it will count.

When Bane of Progress enters, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on Bane of Progress for each permanent destroyed this way.

Bant's hearts are as pure as its air and as bright as its skies.

Bant Panorama

{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Bant Panorama: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Bant Panorama: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Barren Moor

Barren Moor enters the battlefield tapped.{T}: Add {B} to your mana pool.
Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not.

Barren Moor enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Basalt Monolith

Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.{T}: Add {3} to your mana pool.{3}: Untap Basalt Monolith.

Basalt Monolith's last ability can untap it as often as you can pay for it. If you believe you've found a way to generate an unbounded amount of mana with it, you're probably right.

Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{3}: Untap Basalt Monolith.

Those who worship the great gargantuans could hardly be expected to fight with a subtle weapon.

Behemoth Sledge

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has lifelink and trample.
Equip {3}

multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant. If a creature with multiple instances of lifelink deals damage, its controller still only gains life equal to the damage dealt.

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has trample and lifelink.
Equip {3}

In war, the best leaders are open to all tactics.

Blood Rites

{1}{R}, Sacrifice a creature: Blood Rites deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

{1}{R}, Sacrifice a creature: Blood Rites deals 2 damage to any target.

"The Origin Query will wait. We must ensure we survive to return to it."
—Pelyus, vedalken ordinar

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

If this spell doesn't resolve, none of its effects occur. In particular, it will go to the graveyard rather than to its owner's library.

Because you follow the spell's instructions in order, you won't be able to draw the same Blue Sun's Zenith that you cast.

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile all cards from target player's graveyard.{T}: Add {B} to your mana pool.

Bojuka Bog enters tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

"Practice compassion and mercy. But know when they must end."
—Aurelia

Boros Charm

Choose one — Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player; or permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn; or target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

If you choose the second mode, permanents that come under your control later in the turn will not have indestructible.

Planeswalkers with indestructible will still have loyalty counters removed from them as they are dealt damage. If planeswalker with indestructible has no loyalty counters, it will still be put into its owner's graveyard, as the rule that does this doesn't destroy the planeswalker.

Choose one —
• Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
• Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Boros Garrison

Boros Garrison enters the battlefield tapped.
When Boros Garrison enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.{T}: Add {R}{W} to your mana pool.

Boros Garrison enters tapped.
When Boros Garrison enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {R}{W}.

Enter with merciful hearts. Exit with battle cries.

Boros Guildgate

Boros Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.{T}: Add {R} or {W} to your mana pool.

Boros Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Kongming and Lu Su tricked Wei troops into shooting over 100,000 arrows at them to later use against the Wei at Red Cliffs.

Borrowing 100,000 Arrows

Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls.

At Red Cliffs, Kongming and Zhou Yu each wrote his plan for defeating Wei on the palm of his hand. They laughed as they both revealed the same word, "Fire."

Brilliant Plan

"I have been trapped in the lizard's lair for days. It seems to regard me as its child and will not let me leave."
—Aevar Borg, northern guide, journal entry

Brooding Saurian

At the beginning of each end step, each player gains control of all nontoken permanents he or she owns.

If a permanent is enchanted with an Aura such as Confiscate when Brooding Saurian’s ability resolves, the enchanted permanent’s owner will regain control of it. The Aura will not be removed. The Aura will still be controlled by its owner, but its effect will be overridden.

At the beginning of each end step, each player gains control of all nontoken permanents they own.

"You wish for great destruction? It is done, my master."

Capricious Efreet

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose target nonland permanent you control and up to two target nonland permanents you don't control. Destroy one of them at random.

As the ability resolves, there is no time to react between the time a permanent is chosen at random and the time it’s destroyed. If you want to put a regeneration shield on one of those permanents, or sacrifice it for some effect, or anything else, you must do so before the ability resolves (and before you know which one of the permanents will be chosen at random).

If Capricious Efreet is the only nonland permanent you control when its ability triggers, you’ll have to target it.

You may target zero, one, or two nonland permanents you don’t control.

You target between one and three permanents as you put the ability on the stack. You don’t randomly choose which one will be destroyed until the ability resolves. If one of those permanents has become an illegal target by then, you randomly choose between the remaining ones.

"In these bloodstains I will find the fingerprints of our oppressors."
—Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Carnage Altar

Charmbreaker Devils

At the beginning of your upkeep, return an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Charmbreaker Devils gets +4/+0 until end of turn.

All players get to see which card you chose at random as it’s returned to your hand.

Because the first ability doesn’t target the instant or sorcery card, any instants or sorceries put into your graveyard in response to that ability may be returned to your hand.

The instant or sorcery card returned to your hand is chosen at random as Charmbreaker Devils’s first ability resolves. If any player responds to the ability, that player won’t yet know what card will be returned.

Jund's dragons hoard only sangrite crystals. Its wurms aren't so picky.

Charnelhoard Wurm

Trample
Whenever Charnelhoard Wurm deals damage to an opponent, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

If Charnelhoard Wurm is dealt lethal damage at the same time it deals damage to an opponent, Charnelhoard Wurm will be in your graveyard by the time you put its ability on the stack. In that case, you can target it with its own ability.

When defeat is near and guidance is scarce, all eyes look in one direction.

Command Tower

{T}: Add to your mana pool one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

If you don't have a commander, Command Tower's ability produces no mana.

If you have two commanders, the ability adds one mana of any color in their combined color identities.

If your commander is a card that has no colors in its color identity, Command Tower's ability produces no mana. It doesn't produce {C}.

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

"Tomorrow wears yesterday's face."
—Kordel the Cryptic

Conjurer's Closet

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Card (357)	Type	^{$161.20 (151.48)} Price
Acidic Slime - 2003	Creature	$0.05 ^(0.00)
Act of Authority - 2003	Enchantment	$0.50 ^(0.50)
Aerie Mystics - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Aethermage's Touch - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Ajani's Pridemate - 2003	Creature	$0.05 ^(0.00)
Akoum Refuge - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Angel of Finality - 2003	Creature	$0.08 ^(0.08)
Annihilate - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Arcane Denial - 2003	Instant	$1.00 ^(1.00)
Arcane Melee - 2003	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Arcane Sanctum - 2003	Land	$0.15 ^(0.15)
Archangel - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Armillary Sphere - 2003	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Army of the Damned - 2003	Sorcery	$0.50 ^(0.50)
Augur of Bolas - 2003	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Augury Adept - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Avenger of Zendikar - 2003	Creature	$2.50 ^(2.50)
Azami, Lady of Scrolls - 2003	Creature	$0.08 ^(0.08)
Azorius Chancery - 2003	Land	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Azorius Guildgate - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Azorius Herald - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Azorius Keyrune - 2003	Artifact	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Baleful Force - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Baleful Strix - 2003	Creature	$0.50 ^(0.50)
Baloth Woodcrasher - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bane of Progress - 2003	Creature	$6.00 ^(6.00)
Bant Panorama - 2003	Land	$0.02 ^(-0.02)
Barren Moor - 2003	Land	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Basalt Monolith - 2003	Artifact	$3.00 ^(3.00)
Behemoth Sledge - 2003	Artifact	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Blood Rites - 2003	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Blue Sun's Zenith - 2003	Instant	$1.50 ^(1.50)
Bojuka Bog - 2003	Land	$1.50 ^(1.50)
Boros Charm - 2003	Instant	$3.00 ^(3.00)
Boros Garrison - 2003	Land	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Boros Guildgate - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Borrowing 100,000 Arrows - 2003	Sorcery	$0.05 ^(0.05)
Brilliant Plan - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Brooding Saurian - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Capricious Efreet - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Carnage Altar - 2003	Artifact	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Charmbreaker Devils - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Charnelhoard Wurm - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Command Tower - 2003	Land	$0.05 ^(0.05)
Conjurer's Closet - 2003	Artifact	$7.50 ^(7.50)
Contested Cliffs - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Control Magic - 2003	Enchantment	$0.15 ^(0.15)
Cradle of Vitality - 2003	Enchantment	$0.08 ^(0.08)
Crater Hellion - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Crawlspace - 2003	Artifact	$4.00 ^(4.00)

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