Each commander looked at the others and wondered who would be first to break the alliance.

Allied Strategies

Domain — Target player draws a card for each basic land type among lands he or she controls.

You draw one card per basic land type, not for each basic land. This makes it a maximum of 5 cards.

Domain abilities count the number of basic land types among lands you control, not how many lands you control or how many of any type.

The basic land types are Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest. Land types other than basic land types (such as Desert) don’t contribute to domain abilities.

Domain — Target player draws a card for each basic land type among lands they control.

Armadillo Cloak

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has trample.
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

If Armadillo Cloak enchants a creature you don’t control, you’ll gain life when it deals damage, as long as that damage hasn’t already caused you to lose the game.

While Armadillo Cloak’s last ability is similar to lifelink, it isn’t lifelink—it’s a normal triggered ability. If a creature you control with lifelink wears an Armadillo Cloak and deals damage, first you’ll gain that much life for lifelink, and then Armadillo Cloak’s triggered ability is put onto the stack. This also means that multiple instances of Armadillo Cloak’s triggered ability do trigger separately.

Bone Shredder

Flying
Echo {2}{B} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When Bone Shredder enters the battlefield, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.

Paying for echo is always optional. When the echo triggered ability resolves, if you can't pay the echo cost or choose not to, you sacrifice that permanent.

Your permanent's echo ability will trigger at the beginning of your upkeep if it entered the battlefield since the beginning of your last upkeep, or if you gained control of it since the beginning of your last upkeep.

Stinking of rot, it leaps between gravestones in search of its next meal.

Carrion Feeder

Carrion Feeder can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder.

They stop for nothing, not even the end of a battle.

Charging Troll

Vigilance
{G}: Regenerate Charging Troll.

Coalition Relic

{T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
{T}: Put a charge counter on Coalition Relic.
At the beginning of your precombat main phase, remove all charge counters from Coalition Relic. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool for each counter removed this way.

If you remove multiple charge counters from Coalition Relic at once, you may add a different color of mana for each one.

Only the first main phase each turn is considered a precombat main phase, even if additional main phases or combat phases are created.

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{T}: Put a charge counter on Coalition Relic.
At the beginning of your precombat main phase, remove all charge counters from Coalition Relic. Add one mana of any color for each charge counter removed this way.

Darigaaz's Charm

Choose one — Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand; or Darigaaz's Charm deals 3 damage to target creature or player; or target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Choose one —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Darigaaz's Charm deals 3 damage to any target.
• Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Darigaaz, the Igniter

Flying
Whenever Darigaaz, the Igniter deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{R}. If you do, choose a color, then that player reveals his or her hand and Darigaaz deals damage to the player equal to the number of cards of that color revealed this way.

You choose the color during resolution. This means your opponent does not get to react after knowing the color you chose.

Flying
Whenever Darigaaz, the Igniter deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{R}. If you do, choose a color, then that player reveals their hand and Darigaaz deals damage to the player equal to the number of cards of that color revealed this way.

"From void evolved Phyrexia. Great Yawgmoth, Father of Machines, saw its perfection. Thus the Grand Evolution began."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*

Dark Ritual

Llanowar has seven elfhames, or kingdoms, each with its own ruler. Their palaces are objects of awe, wonder, and envy.

Elfhame Palace

Elfhame Palace enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W} to your mana pool.

Elfhame Palace enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Effective use of terrain is a lesson good commanders learn quickly.

Evasive Action

Domain — Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each basic land type among lands you control.

A number of nonbasic lands have basic land types. Domain abilities don’t count the number of lands you control — they count the number of basic land types among lands you control, even if that means checking the same land twice. For example, if you control a Tundra, an Overgrown Tomb, and a Madblind Mountain, you’ll have a Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest among the lands you control. Your domain abilities will be maxed out.

How many lands you control of a particular basic land type is irrelevant to a domain ability, as long as that number is greater than zero. As far as domain is concerned, ten Forests is the same as one Forest.

To determine the number of basic land types among lands you control, look at the lands you have on the battlefield and ask yourself whether the subtypes Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest appear within that group. The number of times you say yes (topping out at five) tells you how powerful your domain abilities will be.

Fouler than a necromancer's kiss.
—Jamuraan expression

Exotic Curse

Enchant creature
Domain — Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 for each basic land type among lands you control.

As Phyrexians descended, Multani paused to reflect on the beauty that might never be seen again.

Fertile Ground

Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any color to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Forest

Gerrard Capashen

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in target opponent's hand.
{3}{W}: Tap target creature. Activate this ability only if Gerrard Capashen is attacking.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in target opponent's hand.
{3}{W}: Tap target creature. Activate only if Gerrard Capashen is attacking.

"Unless you like the idea of becoming some goblin's lunch, get up and move!"

Gerrard's Command

Untap target creature. It gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

This can target a creature which is already untapped.

Harrow

As an additional cost to cast Harrow, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Because the "search" requires you to find a card with certain characteristics, you don't have to find the card if you don't want to.

The sacrifice of a land is part of the cost of casting Harrow. You can't pay this cost more than once to get a multiple effect.

The two lands do not count toward your normal one land you can play each turn.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Death is a generous author, always willing to grant a stirring final chapter.

Hideous End

Destroy target nonblack creature. Its controller loses 2 life.

If the targeted creature is an illegal target by the time Hideous End resolves, the entire spell doesn’t resolve. No one loses life.

Hornet Cannon

{3}, {T}: Put a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying and haste named Hornet onto the battlefield. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step.

{3}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying and haste named Hornet. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step.

Island

After lightning struck the cliffs, the ore became iron, the iron became steel, and the steel became greaves. The lightning never left.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has shroud and haste.
Equip {0}

If a creature enters the battlefield under your control and gains haste, but then loses it before attacking, it won't be able to attack that turn. This means that you can't use one Lightning Greaves to allow two new creatures to attack in the same turn.

You can't simply unequip Equipment from a creature. If Lightning Greaves is attached to the only creature you control, you won't be able to attach other equipment to it (or target it with anything else) until you have another creature onto which you can move Lightning Greaves.

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from his or her graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures he or she controls, then puts all cards he or she exiled this way onto the battlefield.

As Living Death resolves, all players exile their creature cards from graveyards at the same time. Then all players sacrifice all creatures they control at the same time. Then all players put all creatures they exiled onto the battlefield at the same time.

Only cards exiled by Living Death's first instruction are put onto the battlefield. If a replacement effect (such as that of Leyline of the Void) causes any of the sacrificed creatures to be exiled instead of put into a graveyard, those cards aren't returned to the battlefield.

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Mountain

He could find no strength left to budge, no power left to fight, no will left to live. Luckily, they could find him.

Narrow Escape

Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand. You gain 4 life.

"I've journeyed across Dominaria. Phyrexians are everywhere. Plague is everywhere. There's no place left to hide."

Nomadic Elf

{1}{G}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Order of Yawgmoth

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever Order of Yawgmoth deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.

An audience of one with the malice of thousands.

Phyrexian Arena

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

After encountering them, Squee finally lost his appetite for bugs.

Phyrexian Battleflies

Flying
{B}: Phyrexian Battleflies gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate this ability no more than twice each turn.

Flying
{B}: Phyrexian Battleflies gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.

With limited resources and near unlimited time, Kerrick used parts from one beast to build another.

Phyrexian Broodlings

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Phyrexian Broodlings.

Phyrexian Colossus

Phyrexian Colossus doesn't untap during your untap step.
Pay 8 life: Untap Phyrexian Colossus.
Phyrexian Colossus can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

"The second stage of the illness: high fever and severe infectiousness."
—Phyrexian progress notes

Phyrexian Debaser

Flying
{T}, Sacrifice Phyrexian Debaser: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

"The third stage of the illness: muscle aches and persistent cough."
—Phyrexian progress notes

Phyrexian Defiler

{T}, Sacrifice Phyrexian Defiler: Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

"The first stage of the illness: rash and nausea."
—Phyrexian progress notes

Phyrexian Denouncer

{T}, Sacrifice Phyrexian Denouncer: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Other Phyrexians have nightmares about the gargantua.

Phyrexian Gargantua

When Phyrexian Gargantua enters the battlefield, you draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Phyrexia wastes nothing. Its food chain is a spiraling cycle.

Phyrexian Ghoul

Sacrifice a creature: Phyrexian Ghoul gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

It doesn't think. It doesn't feel.
It doesn't laugh or cry.
All it does from dusk till dawn
Is make the soldiers die.
—Onean children's rhyme

Phyrexian Hulk

Phyrexian Negator

Trample
Whenever Phyrexian Negator is dealt damage, sacrifice that many permanents.

Sacrificing this card does not prevent you from having to make the other sacrifices.

"The final stage of the illness: delirium, convulsions, and death."
—Phyrexian progress notes

Phyrexian Plaguelord

{T}, Sacrifice Phyrexian Plaguelord: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.
Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Phyrexian Processor

As Phyrexian Processor enters the battlefield, pay any amount of life.
{4}, {T}: Put an X/X black Minion creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the life paid as Phyrexian Processor entered the battlefield.

You can pay 0 life if you want, but it's not useful most of the time.

As Phyrexian Processor enters the battlefield, pay any amount of life.
{4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as Phyrexian Processor entered the battlefield.

Phyrexian Totem

{T}: Add {B} to your mana pool.
{2}{B}: Phyrexian Totem becomes a 5/5 black Horror artifact creature with trample until end of turn.
Whenever Phyrexian Totem is dealt damage, if it's a creature, sacrifice that many permanents.

When damage is dealt to Phyrexian Totem, its triggered ability will trigger. A number of permanents equal to the amount of damage dealt will be sacrificed when the ability resolves. It doesn’t matter if Phyrexian Totem isn’t on the battlefield when the ability resolves, as long as Phyrexian Totem was a creature as it left the battlefield. If one of the permanents sacrificed is Phyrexian Totem itself, the requisite number of other permanents must still be sacrificed.

A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature can attack, and its {T} abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn’t matter how long the permanent has been a creature.

{T}: Add {B}.
{2}{B}: Phyrexian Totem becomes a 5/5 black Phyrexian Horror artifact creature with trample until end of turn.
Whenever Phyrexian Totem is dealt damage, if it's a creature, sacrifice that many permanents.

"The secrets of Phyrexia are expensive. You will pay in brass and bone, steel and sinew."
—Kaervek

Phyrexian Vault

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

Plains

"Great peril demands formidable weaponry."
—Urza

Power Armor

Domain — {3}, {T}: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each basic land type among lands you control.

"Gix doesn't want a people to rule but puppets to entertain his madness."
—Xantcha, Phyrexian outcast

Priest of Gix

When Priest of Gix enters the battlefield, add {B}{B}{B} to your mana pool.

You get the mana whether you want it or not. If you don’t spend it, it will disappear at the end of the current step (or phase).

When Priest of Gix enters the battlefield, add {B}{B}{B}.

"Have no illusions," Volrath warned Greven, "about free will."

Puppet Strings

{2}, {T}: You may tap or untap target creature.

Quirion Elves

As Quirion Elves enters the battlefield, choose a color.
{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color to your mana pool.

As Quirion Elves enters the battlefield, choose a color.
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Rith's Charm

Choose one — Destroy target nonbasic land; or put three 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield; or prevent all damage a source of your choice would deal this turn.

Choose one —
• Destroy target nonbasic land.
• Create three 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens.
• Prevent all damage a source of your choice would deal this turn.

Rith, the Awakener

Flying
Whenever Rith, the Awakener deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{G}. If you do, choose a color, then put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield for each permanent of that color.

You choose whether to pay {2}{G} as Rith’s ability resolves. Once you make that choice, no player may take actions until the Saprolings are created (if you paid) and the ability has finished resolving.

Flying
Whenever Rith, the Awakener deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{G}. If you do, choose a color, then create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each permanent of that color.

"Father of Machines! Your filigree gaze carves us, and the scars dance upon our grateful flesh."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*

Sanguine Guard

First strike
{1}{B}: Regenerate Sanguine Guard.

Only the hardiest explorers survive to eat the fruit.

Shivan Oasis

Shivan Oasis enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {G} to your mana pool.

Shivan Oasis enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

The elves had the edge in guile, skill, and valor. But in the end, only sheer numbers mattered.

Slay

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

You don’t draw a card if this spell is countered.

Sunscape Battlemage

Kicker {1}{G} and/or {2}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{G} and/or {2}{U} as you cast this spell.)
When Sunscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {1}{G} kicker, destroy target creature with flying.
When Sunscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {2}{U} kicker, draw two cards.

Swamp

Darkness doesn't always send its minions to do its dirty work.

Tendrils of Corruption

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Tendrils of Corruption tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. You don't gain X life.

Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Thornscape Apprentice

{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.
{R}, {T}: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

{R}, {T}: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.
{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

Thornscape Battlemage

Kicker {R} and/or {W}(You may pay an additional {R} and/or {W} as you cast this spell.)
When Thornscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {R} kicker, it deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
When Thornscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {W} kicker, destroy target artifact.

If Thornscape Battlemage is put onto the battlefield as the result of a spell or ability, there’s no opportunity to kick it.

Kicker costs don’t change a spell’s mana cost or mana value.

You can pay any particular kicker cost only once. You can’t pay it multiple times to get multiples of either triggered ability.

You choose whether to kick a spell as you cast it, and you pay that much along with the spell’s mana cost at the same time. Kicking a spell is always optional.

Kicker {R} and/or {W} (You may pay an additional {R} and/or {W} as you cast this spell.)
When Thornscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {R} kicker, it deals 2 damage to any target.
When Thornscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {W} kicker, destroy target artifact.

Thunderscape Battlemage

Kicker {1}{B} and/or {G} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} and/or {G} as you cast this spell.)
When Thunderscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {1}{B} kicker, target player discards two cards.
When Thunderscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {G} kicker, destroy target enchantment.

Treva's Charm

Choose one — Destroy target enchantment; or exile target attacking creature; or draw a card, then discard a card.

Choose one —
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile target attacking creature.
• Draw a card, then discard a card.

Treva, the Renewer

Flying
Whenever Treva, the Renewer deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{W}. If you do, choose a color, then you gain 1 life for each permanent of that color.

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Armadillo Cloak - 2003	Enchantment	$0.50 ^(0.00)
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Carrion Feeder - 2003	Creature	$0.25 ^(0.00)
Charging Troll - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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Dark Ritual - 2003	Instant	$1.50 ^(0.00)
Elfhame Palace - 2003	Land	$0.05 ^(0.00)
Evasive Action - 2003	Instant	$0.05 ^(0.00)
Exotic Curse - 2003	Enchantment	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Fertile Ground - 2003	Enchantment	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Forest - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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Harrow - 2003	Instant	$1.50 ^(0.00)
Hideous End - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Hornet Cannon - 2003	Artifact	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Island - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Lightning Greaves - 2003	Artifact	$5.00 ^(0.00)
Living Death - 2003	Sorcery	$4.00 ^(0.00)
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Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition