"Open the gates, and bid them enter."
—Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Abyssal Specter

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

"They're a hardy bunch, but I'd still bet that they just slept through the worst of the cold times."
—Disa the Restless, journal entry

Balduvian Bears

"Peace will come only when we have taken Varchild's head."
—Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian chieftain

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 the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you discard a card at random.

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.

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.

Contagion

You may pay 1 life and exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Distribute two -2/-1 counters among one or two target creatures.

"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

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.

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.

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.

Elkin Bottle

If the Bottle leaves the battlefield or your control, the cards remain waiting until played or until the beginning of your next upkeep. The card is in the “Exile” zone.

The card is not part of your hand in any way. You can’t be forced to discard it due to a discard from hand effect, and you can’t discard it to pay a cost.

This is not considered to be drawing a card.

To “play a card” is to either cast a spell or to put a land onto the battlefield using the main phase special action.

If you do not play the card before your next upkeep, it remains exiled; you just lose the ability to play it.

The exiled card is played using the normal timing rules for its card type, as well as any other applicable restrictions such as “Cast [this card] only during combat.” For example, you can’t play the card during an opponent’s turn unless it’s an instant or has flash. Similarly, if the exiled card is a land, you can’t play it if you’ve already played a land that turn. If it’s a nonland card, you’ll have to pay its mana cost. The only thing that’s different is you’re playing it from the Exile zone.

{3}, {T}: Exile the top card of your library. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card.

Elvish Bard

All creatures able to block Elvish Bard do so.

"Our friends of the forest take many forms, yet all serve the will of Freyalise."
—Laina of the Elvish Council

Folk of the Pines

{1}{G}: Folk of the Pines gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Forest

"Serve me, and live forever."
—Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Foul Familiar

The ability can only be activated while this card is on the battlefield.

Foul Familiar can't block.
{B}, Pay 1 life: Return Foul Familiar to its owner's hand.

"Living side by side with the Elves for so long leaves me with no doubt that we serve the same goddess."
—Kolbjörn, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Fyndhorn Elves

"Here in Fyndhorn, the goddess Freyalise is generous to her children."
—Kolbjörn, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Giant Growth

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

"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.

Goblin Mutant

Trample
Goblin Mutant can't attack if defending player controls an untapped creature with power 3 or greater.
Goblin Mutant can't block creatures with power 3 or greater.

Guerrilla Tactics

Discarding as a cost to cast a spell will not trigger the ability. Only discarding as an effect will trigger the ability.

If it is discarded, the damage done by it is done by this card due to an ability and not by a spell.

The second ability will trigger even on an optional discard caused by an opponent.

Guerrilla Tactics deals 2 damage to any target.
When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Guerrilla Tactics, Guerrilla Tactics deals 4 damage to any target.

"This was quite possibly the least pleasant occurrence on the entire expedition."
—Disa the Restless, journal entry

Hurricane

Whether or not a creature has flying is only checked on resolution.

Hurricane deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player.

"The scavengers who first found it called it the 'Bone Crank.' Not a bad name, I'd say."
—Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Icy Manipulator

Once a player announces that they're casting a spell or activating an ability, no player may take other actions until the spell or ability has been paid for. Notably, other players can't try to tap that player's permanents to stop them from paying {T} or to stop them from producing enough mana.

{1}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

"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.

"I was shocked when I first saw the aftermath of the Yavimaya Valley disaster. The raging waters had swept away trees, bridges, and even houses. My healers had much work to do."
—Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest

Jokulhaups

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and lands. They can't be regenerated.

Karplusan Forest

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}. Karplusan Forest deals 1 damage to you.

"Overkill? This isn't a game of kick-the-ouphe!"
—Jaya Ballard, task mage

Lava Burst

A creature dealt damage by Lava Burst may be regenerated.

Prevention and redirection effects will have no effect on damage dealt by Lava Burst to a creature. However, they will work on damage that Lava Burst would deal to a player.

Lava Burst deals X damage to any target. If Lava Burst would deal damage to a creature, that damage can't be prevented or dealt instead to another permanent or player.

"Ach! Hans, run! It's the lhurgoyf!"
—Saffi Eriksdotter, last words

Lhurgoyf

Lhurgoyf's power is equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.

"The Guard will forever stand ready. For them, death is merely an inconvenience, not an ending."
—Chaeska, keeper of Tresserhorn

Lim-Dûl's High Guard

First strike
{1}{B}: Regenerate Lim-Dûl's High Guard.

"The Guard will forever stand ready. For them, death is merely an inconvenience, not an ending."
—Chaeska, Keeper of Tresserhorn

Mountain

Necropotence

If a discarded card isn’t put into your graveyard (due to an effect such as that of Obstinate Baloth) or leaves your graveyard (perhaps because another effect returned it to your hand), it won’t be exiled.

If you discard a card with madness and wish to cast it, Necropotence’s ability won’t exile that card. If you don’t wish to cast it, you choose whether it ends up exiled or in your graveyard.

Necropotence’s last ability creates a delayed triggered ability that will put the exiled card into your hand. That ability still triggers even if Necropotence is removed from the battlefield before your end step.

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

"It's a thankless job, and you'll probably die in an explosion. But the pay is pretty good."
—Toothlicker Harj, Orcish Captain

Orcish Cannoneers

{T}: Orcish Cannoneers deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

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.

"Deal with the spawn of Phyrexia cautiously; only with time may we control them."
—Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Phyrexian War Beast

When Phyrexian War Beast leaves the battlefield, sacrifice a land and Phyrexian War Beast deals 1 damage to you.

"Were they to reduce us to ash, we would clog their throats and sting their eyes in payment."
—Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Pillage

Destroy target artifact or land. It can't be regenerated.

"Leaves more room for the big ones to fight in, you know."
—Jaya Ballard, task mage

Pyroclasm

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

"Let the past be the past. Do not call up that which you cannot put down. Destroy that which destroyed us, so long ago."
—Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Shatter

Regenerating artifacts can regenerate from this.

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.

"Embrace the storm. Its voice shall echo within you, and its fire shall become your touch!"
—Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian chieftain

Storm Shaman

{R}: Storm Shaman gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

Swamp

Underground River

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

"The fortress is not what it seems."
—Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Walking Wall

Defender
{3}: Walking Wall gets +3/-1 until end of turn and can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. Activate only once each turn.

"We need not fear the forces of the air; I've yet to see a Spider without an appetite."
—Taaveti of Kelsinko, Elvish Hunter

Woolly Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Whenever Woolly Spider blocks a creature with flying, Woolly Spider gets +0/+2 until end of turn.

"We orphans of Fyndhorn have found no welcome in this alien place."
—Taaveti of Kelsinko, elvish hunter

Yavimaya Ancients

{G}: Yavimaya Ancients gets +1/-2 until end of turn.

"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa,
elder druid of the Juniper Order

"Few natural forces are as devastating as hunger."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Yavimaya Ants

Paying cumulative upkeep is always optional. If it’s not paid, the permanent with cumulative upkeep is sacrificed. Partial payments of the total cumulative upkeep cost can’t be made. For example, if a permanent with “cumulative upkeep {1}” has three age counters on it when its cumulative upkeep ability triggers, it gets another age counter and then its controller chooses to either pay {4} or sacrifice the permanent.

Trample, haste
Cumulative upkeep {G}{G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

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