Arcum's Weathervane

Adds the snow or removes the snow supertype to or from a land. Adding snow doesn’t overwrite other supertypes.

Can’t be used on a dual land to add the Snow Supertype even though it is a basic land subtype. You can use it on any land to remove the snow supertype.

{2}, {T}: Target snow land is no longer snow.
{2}, {T}: Target nonsnow basic land becomes snow.

Ashen Ghoul

A card is “above” another card in your graveyard if it was put into that graveyard later.

If an effect or rule puts two or more cards into the same graveyard at the same time, the owner of those cards may arrange them in any order.

Players may not rearrange the cards in their graveyards.

Say you’re the owner of both a permanent and an Aura that’s attached to it. If both the permanent and the Aura are destroyed at the same time (by Akroma’s Vengeance, for example), you decide the order they’re put into your graveyard. If just the enchanted permanent is destroyed, it’s put into your graveyard first. Then, after state-based actions are checked, the Aura (which is no longer attached to anything) is put into your graveyard on top of it.

The last thing that happens to a resolving instant or sorcery spell is that it’s put into its owner’s graveyard. Example: You cast Wrath of God. All creatures on the battlefield are destroyed. You arrange all the cards put into your graveyard this way in any order you want. The other players in the game do the same to the cards that are put into their graveyards. Then you put Wrath of God into your graveyard, on top of the other cards.

Haste
{B}: Return Ashen Ghoul from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your upkeep and only if three or more creature cards are above Ashen Ghoul.

One aurochs may feed a village, but a herd will flatten it.

Aurochs

The bonus is not applied until after you check for attack legality, so it is a 2/3 creature when declaring attackers.

The ability counts the number of attacking creatures with the creature type Aurochs, not just those named Aurochs.

Trample
Whenever Aurochs attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking Aurochs.

Balduvian Dead

If the ability is activated during a turn’s Ending phase (after any “at the beginning of the End step” triggers would have triggered that turn), the Graveborn token will remain on the battlefield until the following turn’s End step.

{2}{R}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 3/1 black and red Graveborn creature token with haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Barbed Sextant

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Barbed Sextant: Add one mana of any color. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"What I want, I take."
—Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran royal mage

Binding Grasp

Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Binding Grasp unless you pay {1}{U}.
You control enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature gets +0/+1.

Bounty of the Hunt

You may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Distribute three +1/+1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures. For each +1/+1 counter you put on a creature this way, remove a +1/+1 counter from that creature at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

"I reeled from the blow, and then suddenly, I knew exactly what to do. Within moments, victory was mine."
—Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran royal mage

Brainstorm

You draw three cards and put two cards back all while Brainstorm is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions.

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

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

Browse

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

"Only a necromancer would create such a foul form of divination."
—Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen

Casting of Bones

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, draw three cards, then discard one of them.

"Will not the mountains quake and hills melt at the coming of the darkness? Share this vision with your enemies, Lim-Dûl, and they shall wither."
—Leshrac, Walker of Night

Dark Banishing

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

"Leshrac, my liege, grant me the power I am due."
—Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Dark Ritual

"There is no time for pain when this beast leaves its terrible sting."
—Jaeuhl Carthalion, Juniper Order advocate

Deadly Insect

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Death Spark

A card is “directly above” another card in your graveyard if it was put into that graveyard later and there are no cards in between the two.

Death Spark deals 1 damage to any target.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Death Spark is in your graveyard with a creature card directly above it, you may pay {1}. If you do, return Death Spark to your hand.

"I implore you not to forget the horrors of the past. You would have us start the Brothers' War anew!"
—Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi heretic

Disenchant

This is not modal. If the target changes from an artifact to an enchantment or vice versa, this still destroys it.

"Take their dead, and entomb them in the snow. Risen, they shall serve a new purpose."
—Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Drift of the Dead

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Drift of the Dead's power and toughness are each equal to the number of snow lands you control.

Never underestimate the power of the soul unleashed.

Essence Flare

The -0/-1 counters stay on the creature even if Essence Flare is removed.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+0.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -0/-1 counter on that creature.

Forest

Gangrenous Zombies

Whether it does 1 or 2 damage is checked on resolution.

{T}, Sacrifice Gangrenous Zombies: Gangrenous Zombies deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. If you control a snow Swamp, Gangrenous Zombies deals 2 damage to each creature and each player instead.

"So large and so quiet—a combination best avoided."
—Disa the Restless, journal entry

Giant Trap Door Spider

If Giant Trap Door Spider leaves the battlefield before its ability resolves, the ability will still resolve as normal. The targeted creature will be exiled.

If the targeted creature leaves the battlefield (or otherwise becomes an illegal target) before the ability resolves, the ability won’t resolve. Giant Trap Door Spider will remain on the battlefield.

{1}{R}{G}, {T}: Exile Giant Trap Door Spider and target creature without flying that's attacking you.

"Frankly, destruction is best left to professionals."
—Jaya Ballard, task mage

Gorilla Shaman

A tip on how this math works: The cost to destroy a noncreature artifact with mana value 0 is {0} + {0} + {1} = {1}. The cost to destroy a noncreature artifact with mana value 1 is {1} + {1} + {1} = {3}. The cost to destroy a noncreature artifact with mana value 2 is {2} + {2} + {1} = {5}. And so on.

{X}{X}{1}: Destroy target noncreature artifact with mana value X.

Iceberg

Iceberg enters the battlefield with X ice counters on it.
{3}: Put an ice counter on Iceberg.
Remove an ice counter from Iceberg: Add {C}.

"Yes, I think 'toast' is an appropriate description."
—Jaya Ballard, task mage

Incinerate

Regeneration abilities that would affect that creature can still be activated; they just won’t do anything. The creature can’t be regenerated for any reason, even if an effect other than Incinerate would deal lethal damage to it or otherwise destroy it.

Incinerate deals 3 damage to any target. A creature dealt damage this way can't be regenerated this turn.

Insidious Bookworms

When Insidious Bookworms dies, you may pay {1}{B}. If you do, target player discards a card at random.

Island

"They shall kill those whom once they loved."
—Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Kjeldoran Dead

The sacrifice is a triggered ability and not a cost.

When Kjeldoran Dead’s enters-the-battlefield ability resolves, if you don’t control any other creatures, you must sacrifice Kjeldoran Dead itself.

When Kjeldoran Dead enters the battlefield, sacrifice a creature.
{B}: Regenerate Kjeldoran Dead.

The winged helms of the guard are put on for pageants—but taken off for war.

Kjeldoran Elite Guard

{T}: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. When that creature leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice Kjeldoran Elite Guard. Activate only during combat.

Kjeldoran Home Guard

The ability will trigger only if Kjeldoran Home Guard is still on the battlefield at end of combat. If it’s been dealt lethal combat damage and destroyed during that combat (or has left the battlefield during that combat by any other means), its ability won’t trigger and you won’t get a token.

You put the Deserter token onto the battlefield even if you can’t put a -0/-1 counter on Kjeldoran Home Guard (because it left the battlefield after its ability triggered but before it resolved, for example).

At end of combat, if Kjeldoran Home Guard attacked or blocked this combat, put a -0/-1 counter on Kjeldoran Home Guard and create a 0/1 white Deserter creature token.

Kjeldoran Pride

The activated ability moves this card to a new permanent.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.
{2}{U}: Attach Kjeldoran Pride to target creature other than enchanted creature.

"All the knowledge of Lat-Nam could not protect its sages from the Brothers' War."
—Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen

Lat-Nam's Legacy

Shuffling a card from your hand into your library is mandatory. The effect says “if you do” because performing that action might have been impossible. If you fail to shuffle a card into your library because your hand was empty, you won’t draw any cards.

Shuffle a card from your hand into your library. If you do, draw two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"I have seen the faces of my dead friends among that grim band, and I can bear no more."
—Lucilde Fiksdotter,
leader of the Order of the White Shield

Legions of Lim-Dûl

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

"Although my official log will state there is no evidence pointing to the existence of the mistfolk, my certainty is lessened by the cursed consistency of the expedition's eyewitness accounts."
—Disa the Restless, journal entry

Mistfolk

{U}: Counter target spell that targets Mistfolk.

Mountain

Orcish Healer

{R}{R}, {T}: Target creature can't be regenerated this turn.
{B}{B}{R}, {T}: Regenerate target black or green creature.
{R}{G}{G}, {T}: Regenerate target black or green creature.

"How did I ever let myself get talked into this project?"
—Toothlicker Harj, orcish captain

Orcish Lumberjack

{T}, Sacrifice a Forest: Add three mana in any combination of {R} and/or {G}.

Phantasmal Fiend

Note that the wording “Effects that alter the creature’s power alter its toughness instead, and vice versa, this turn” has been removed.

Effects that switch power and toughness are always applied last when determining a creature’s power and toughness, even if other power/toughness-changing effects are created later in the turn. For example, if you activate Phantasmal Fiend’s first ability, it will become 2/4. Then if you activate its second ability, it will become 4/2. Then if you activate its first ability again, it will become 3/3.

Effects that switch power and toughness apply after all other effects that change power and/or toughness, regardless of which effect was created first.

Switching a creature’s power and toughness twice (or any even number of times) effectively returns the creature to the power and toughness it had before any switches.

{B}: Phantasmal Fiend gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
{1}{U}: Switch Phantasmal Fiend's power and toughness until end of turn.

Plains

Portent

This does not cause a player to lose if they have less than 3 cards in their library. It allows you to look at and reorder or shuffle whatever remaining cards there might be.

Look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. You may have that player shuffle.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Let them send their legions! I will show them that my truth is stronger than their swords."
—General Varchild

Reinforcements

You have to show which creature cards you put on top of your library, but not the order you put them there.

Put up to three target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.

Scars of the Veteran

You may exile a white card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Prevent the next 7 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. If it's a creature, put a +0/+1 counter on it for each 1 damage prevented this way at the beginning of the next end step.

"Let any who doubt the evil of using the ancient devices look at this infernal machine. What manner of fiend would design such a sadistic device?"
—Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi heretic

Skull Catapult

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Skull Catapult deals 2 damage to any target.

"Give me wings to fly and speed to strike. In return, the glory I earn shall be yours."
—Steinar Icefist, Balduvian shaman

Snow Devil

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has flying.
Enchanted creature has first strike as long as it's blocking and you control a snow land.

Soul Burn

Will give 1 life for each black mana used, but not more life than the amount of unprevented damage that is dealt.

Spend only black and/or red mana on X.
Soul Burn deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more than the amount of {B} spent on X, the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Storm Elemental

Even though the two activated abilities have the same cost, they’re separate. You choose which one you’re activating before you exile the top card of your library (and see what it is).

If you activate Storm Elemental’s third ability and the exiled card is not a snow land, the ability has no effect.

Flying
{U}, Exile the top card of your library: Tap target creature with flying.
{U}, Exile the top card of your library: If the exiled card is a snow land, Storm Elemental gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Swamp

"The so-called barbarians will not respect us for our military might—they will respect us for our honor."
—Lucilde Fiksdotter,
leader of the Order of the White Shield

Swords to Plowshares

Use the power of the creature from when it was last on the battlefield to determine how much life is gained.

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Tinder Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Sacrifice Tinder Wall: Add {R}{R}.
{R}, Sacrifice Tinder Wall: It deals 2 damage to target creature it's blocking.

Not all of Terisiare's flooding was natural . . . .

Viscerid Drone

{T}, Sacrifice a creature and a Swamp: Destroy target nonartifact creature. It can't be regenerated.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature and a snow Swamp: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

"It's no ornithopter, but then I'm no Urza."
—Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi machinist

Whalebone Glider

{2}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less gains flying until end of turn.

"For those of courage, even the sky holds no limit."
—Arnjlot Olasson, sky mage

Wings of Aesthir

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has flying and first strike.

"Mammoths may be good to ride on, but they're certainly bad to fall off of!"
—Disa the Restless, journal entry

Woolly Mammoths

Woolly Mammoths has trample as long as you control a snow land.

"A mage must be precise as well as potent; cautious, as well as clever."
—Zur the Enchanter

Zuran Spellcaster

{T}: Zuran Spellcaster deals 1 damage to any target.

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