Absorb

A spell that can't be countered is a legal target for Absorb. The spell won't be countered when Absorb resolves, but you'll still gain 3 life.

"It's a shame to see such potential wasted on petty evil. Let's correct that, shall we?"

Aquamoeba

Discard a card: Switch Aquamoeba's power and toughness until end of turn.

Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to a creature may become lethal if you switch its power and toughness during that turn.

Effects that switch a creature's power and toughness apply after all other effects, regardless of when those effects began to apply. For instance, if you target a 1/2 creature then give it +2/+0 later in the turn, it's a 2/3 creature, not a 4/1 creature.

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.

As the world steeled itself for the New Phyrexian invasion, the heart of the Pinelands awoke, and a new maro-sorcerer strode forth to join the fight.

Arboria

Creatures can't attack a player unless that player cast a spell or put a nontoken permanent onto the battlefield during their last turn.

Arboria doesn’t stop creatures from attacking planeswalkers, regardless of what their controllers did or didn’t do during their last turns.

Arboria’s effect cares about the actions taken by players, not their results. If a player cast a spell during their last turn but that spell was countered, that player may still be attacked. The same is true if a player put a nontoken permanent onto the battlefield during their last turn, but that permanent left the battlefield before their turn ended.

Arboria’s effect cares whether a player put a nontoken permanent onto the battlefield. It’s unusual for an ability to care who put a permanent onto the battlefield, as opposed to under whose control it entered.

If two or more permanents have the world supertype, all of them are put into their owners’ graveyards except the one that has had the world supertype for the shortest amount of time. If there’s a tie for the shortest amount of time, all world permanents are put into the graveyard.

"I have never before felt so unwelcome in a forest."
—Jolrael

Arcades Sabboth

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Arcades Sabboth unless you pay {G}{W}{U}.
Each untapped creature you control gets +0/+2 as long as it's not attacking.
{W}: Arcades Sabboth gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

As long as Arcades Sabboth is untapped and isn’t attacking, it gets +0/+2 from its own third ability.

He has journeyed where none have been before. Now he returns to ensure that none follow.

Arcanis the Omnipotent

{T}: Draw three cards.
{2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis the Omnipotent to its owner's hand.

Arcanis’s last ability can be activated only while it’s on the battlefield.

Assault // Battery

Create a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

"In memories, we can find our deepest reserves of strength."

Auramancer

When Auramancer enters the battlefield, you may return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

When Auramancer enters, you may return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Avarax

Haste
When Avarax enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a card named Avarax, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{1}{R}: Avarax gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Haste
When Avarax enters, you may search your library for a card named Avarax, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{1}{R}: Avarax gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Aven Fateshaper

Flying
When Aven Fateshaper enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{4}{U}: Look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Flying
When Aven Fateshaper enters, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{4}{U}: Look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

The same spears that catch their food today will defend their homes tomorrow.

Aven Fisher

Flying
When Aven Fisher dies, you may draw a card.

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
When Aven Fisher dies, you may draw a card.

Battle Screech

Create two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying.
Flashback—
Tap three untapped white creatures you control. (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.”

You can tap any untapped white creatures you control to pay for Battle Screech’s flashback cost, even ones you haven’t controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.

Create two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying.
Flashback—Tap three untapped white creatures you control. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Battlefield Scrounger

Threshold — Put three cards from your graveyard on the bottom of your library: Battlefield Scrounger gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn and only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Check the number of cards in your graveyard before activating the ability. If activating the ability causes that number to fall below seven, the ability still resolves as normal.

Sages whisper of an undiscovered natural paradise, a tropical island unspoiled by war.

Birds of Paradise

Its brilliant plumage painted streaks of color across a sky long darkened by war.

Body Snatcher

When Body Snatcher enters the battlefield, exile it unless you discard a creature card.
When Body Snatcher dies, exile it and return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Although you can choose Body Snatcher itself as the target of its last ability, it will be exiled before it can be returned to the battlefield.

You choose whether to discard a card or not as the enters-the-battlefield ability resolves.

When Body Snatcher enters, exile it unless you discard a creature card.
When Body Snatcher dies, exile it and return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Break Asunder

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Its windpipe is only the first to amplify its maddening laughter.

Cackling Fiend

When Cackling Fiend enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.

If the opponent has no cards in hand, this has no effect.

When Cackling Fiend enters, each opponent discards a card.

Call of the Herd

Create a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Flashback {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Chain Lightning

Chain Lightning deals 3 damage to any target. Then that player or that permanent's controller may pay {R}{R}. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

As Chain Lightning resolves, either the original or one of the copies, the targeted player or the controller of the targeted permanent may copy it. The copy has the same text, target, and color as the resolving spell, though the player creating the copy may choose a new target for it. Once that copy is created (or not), the Chain Lightning finishes resolving and leaves the stack.

If the targeted player or permanent is an illegal target as Chain Lightning tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve and none of its effects happen. It can’t be copied.

The copy of Chain Lightning is created on the stack, so it’s not cast. Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won’t trigger. Players may respond to that spell before it resolves.

The player putting the copy of the spell on the stack controls that copy.

Chainer's Edict

Target player sacrifices a creature.
Flashback {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"You forfeited any right to mercy the moment you challenged me."

Target player sacrifices a creature.
Flashback {5}{B}{B}

Chainer, Dementia Master

All Nightmares get +1/+1.
{B}{B}{B}, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

The creature put onto the battlefield by Chainer’s activated ability is black only, not black in addition to its other colors. It is, however, a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types. As it enters the battlefield, it is already a black Nightmare (and perhaps some other creature types); it doesn’t enter and then become a black Nightmare.

Circular Logic

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard.
Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

A card with madness that's discarded counts as having been discarded even though it's put into exile rather than a graveyard. If it was discarded to pay a cost, that cost is still paid. Abilities that trigger when a card is discarded will still trigger.

A spell cast for its madness cost is put onto the stack like any other spell. It can be countered, copied, and so on. As it resolves, it's put onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card or into its owner's graveyard if it's an instant or sorcery card.

Cards are discarded in a Magic game only from a player's hand. Effects that put cards into a player's graveyard from anywhere else do not cause those cards to be discarded.

Casting a spell with madness ignores the timing rules based on the card's card type. For example, you can cast a sorcery with madness if you discard it during an opponent's turn.

Count the number of cards in your graveyard as Circular Logic resolves to determine how much the controller of the target spell has to pay. Circular Logic is still on the stack at that time. It doesn't count itself.

If you choose not to cast a card with madness when the madness triggered ability resolves, it's put into your graveyard. Madness doesn't give you another chance to cast it later.

If you discard a card with madness to pay the cost of a spell or activated ability, that card's madness triggered ability (and the spell that card becomes, if you choose to cast it) will resolve before the spell or ability the discard paid for.

If you discard a card with madness while a spell or ability is resolving, it moves immediately to exile. Continue resolving that spell or ability, noting that the card you discarded is not in your graveyard at this time. Its madness triggered ability will be placed onto the stack once that spell or ability has completely resolved.

Madness works independently of why you're discarding the card. You could discard it to pay a cost, because a spell or ability tells you to, or because you have too many cards in your hand during your cleanup step. You can't discard a card with madness just because you want to, though.

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

War after war, a healer's enemy is always the same—death itself.

Cleric of the Forward Order

When Cleric of the Forward Order enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life for each creature you control named Cleric of the Forward Order.

Count the number of creatures named Cleric of the Forward Order you control as the ability resolves to determine how much life you gain. If the Cleric of the Forward Order with the ability that triggered is still on the battlefield, it will count itself.

When Cleric of the Forward Order enters, you gain 2 life for each creature you control named Cleric of the Forward Order.

The sunlight falls pristine on the temple at Epityr, softened by the remembered shadows of angelic saviors' wings.

Clifftop Retreat

Clifftop Retreat enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Clifftop Retreat enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Cloud of Faeries

Flying
When Cloud of Faeries enters the battlefield, untap up to two lands.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

You choose which lands to untap as the triggered ability resolves. They aren't targeted, and they don't have to be lands that you control.

Flying
When Cloud of Faeries enters, untap up to two lands.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"The day is mine! I sent three such creatures against my foe, then watched as my magefire popped her soldiers like overripe spleenfruits."
—Dobruk the Unstable, pyromancer

Coal Stoker

When Coal Stoker enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, add {R}{R}{R}.

Coal Stoker's ability isn't a mana ability. It uses the stack and can be responded to.

If a nontoken creature enters the battlefield as a copy of this creature, the copy's enters-the-battlefield ability will still trigger as long as you cast the spell that became that nontoken creature from your hand.

If a token is created that's a copy of Coal Stoker, the token wasn't cast, and Coal Stoker's ability won't trigger. Similarly, if an effect copies Coal Stoker while it's on the stack, the copy becomes a token, but the copy was created on the stack and not cast from your hand, so the ability won't trigger in that case either.

When Coal Stoker enters, if you cast it from your hand, add {R}{R}{R}.

"The surface world contains nothing I cannot take."
—The Lord of Atlantis

Confiscate

Enchant permanent
You control enchanted permanent.

Gaining control of a permanent doesn't cause you to gain control of any Auras or Equipment attached to it.

Gaining control of an Aura or Equipment doesn't change what it's attached to.

"In the gathering there is strength for all who founder, renewal for all who languish, love for all who sing."
—*Song of All*, canto 642

Congregate

Target player gains 2 life for each creature on the battlefield.

Count the number of creatures as Congregate resolves to determine how much life is gained.

Counterspell

"Not so scary when you can't squeeze through the air ducts, are you?"

Crawlspace

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

Your opponents can still attack planeswalkers you control with any number of creatures each combat.

Crop Rotation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

You can’t cast Crop Rotation without sacrificing a land, and you can’t sacrifice additional lands.

Crosis's Catacombs

When Crosis's Catacombs enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you return a non-Lair land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

If you don't want to unsummon a land, you can play this card then tap it for mana before the enters ability resolves. You may then choose to sacrifice it instead of unsummoning a land.

You can return a land that is tapped or untapped.

This land is of type "Lair" only; other subtypes have been removed. It is not a basic land.

When Crosis's Catacombs enters, sacrifice it unless you return a non-Lair land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Cryptic Gateway

Tap two untapped creatures you control: You may put a creature card from your hand that shares a creature type with each creature tapped this way onto the battlefield.

The two creatures you tap to activate the ability don’t necessarily have to share a creature type, but the creature card you put onto the battlefield must share a creature type with each of them. For example, you could tap an Elf Wizard and a Human Warrior to put an Elf Warrior card onto the battlefield.

You can tap any untapped creatures you control to activate Cryptic Gateway’s ability, even ones you haven’t controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.

A Thran relic, it has spent ten thousand years doing absolutely nothing.

Damping Sphere

If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.
Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.

Damping Sphere’s second ability counts spells that were cast during a turn even if Damping Sphere wasn’t on the battlefield as they were cast. For example, if Damping Sphere itself is the third spell you cast in a turn, the next spell you cast costs {3} more to cast.

If multiple replacement effects would modify the mana an ability you control produces, choose one to apply. After that, determine if any others are applicable. A replacement effect can’t apply to the same event more than once.

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.

Darigaaz's Caldera

When Darigaaz's Caldera enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you return a non-Lair land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

When Darigaaz's Caldera enters, sacrifice it unless you return a non-Lair land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

Dark Depths

Dark Depths enters the battlefield with ten ice counters on it.
{3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths.
When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Dark Depths doesn’t have a mana ability. It doesn’t tap for colorless mana.

If Dark Depths leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, you won’t be able to sacrifice it, so you won’t create Marit Lage.

The last ability of Dark Depths is a state trigger. It won’t trigger again while the ability is on the stack, but if the ability is countered and Dark Depths is still on the battlefield with no ice counters on it, it will trigger again immediately.

Dark Depths enters with ten ice counters on it.
{3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths.
When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Dark Withering

Destroy target nonblack creature.
Madness {B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

"Nothing ruins your day like a blazing zombie."
—Tahngarth

Deadapult

{R}, Sacrifice a Zombie: Deadapult deals 2 damage to any target.

Deadwood Treefolk

Vanishing 3 (This creature enters the battlefield with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)
When Deadwood Treefolk enters or leaves the battlefield, return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Vanishing 3 (This creature enters with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)
When Deadwood Treefolk enters or leaves the battlefield, return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Tormented by her own existence, Karona turned her wrath on the world that had birthed her.

Decimate

Destroy target artifact, target creature, target enchantment, and target land.

You must choose a legal target for each target required by Decimate. However, if a permanent has multiple card types, it may be chosen as the target for more than one instance of the word "target." For example, you could cast Decimate targeting an artifact creature, an enchantment, and a land.

Destroy target artifact, target creature, target enchantment, and target land. (You can't cast this spell unless you have legal choices for all its targets.)

"There is no sweeter sound than the deafening thunder of utter destruction."
—Kamahl, Pit Fighter

Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"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."

According to merfolk legend, a denizen of the deep swallows the horizon at the end of each day, bringing on the cold blanket of night.

Denizen of the Deep

When Denizen of the Deep enters the battlefield, return each other creature you control to its owner's hand.

When Denizen of the Deep enters, return each other creature you control to its owner's hand.

"Don't be silly, Grandfather. If the tides were caused by some monster drinking the ocean, wouldn't more ships go missing?"
—Leda, Vodalian youth

"My wings shall be your shield. My sword shall be your vengeance."

Divine Sacrament

White creatures get +1/+1.
Threshold — White creatures get an additional +1/+1 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to white creatures you control may become lethal if the number of cards in your graveyard falls below seven or if Divine Sacrament leaves the battlefield.

Dodecapod

If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Dodecapod, put it onto the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it instead of putting it into your graveyard.

If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to choose a card to discard and you discard Dodecapod, you’ll put it onto the battlefield.

If the spell or ability that caused you to discard Dodecapod refers to “the discarded card” or similar, it refers to the Dodecapod on the battlefield.

If you discard Dodecapod and put it onto the battlefield, you’ve still discarded it. Abilities that trigger whenever you discard a card will trigger.

Dragon Blood

{3}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

From a distance, dormant dragon engines can be mistaken for harmless statues. By the time you get close enough to spot the scorch marks, it's too late.

Dragon Engine

{2}: Dragon Engine gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Dragon Whelp

Flying
{R}: Dragon Whelp gets +1/+0 until end of turn. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice Dragon Whelp at the beginning of the next end step.

If the fourth (or more) time Dragon Whelp’s ability is activated during the same turn happens to be during that turn’s end step, the delayed triggered ability won’t trigger until the beginning of the next turn’s end step. You’ll have to sacrifice Dragon Whelp at that time.

The first three times Dragon Whelp’s ability is activated in a turn will do nothing other than give it +1/+0 until end of turn. Any subsequent activations will also cause its delayed triggered ability to trigger. That means if you activate Dragon Whelp’s ability five times, for example, two different delayed triggered abilities will trigger at the beginning of the next end step and cause you to sacrifice Dragon Whelp.

If the fourth (or subsequent) time Dragon Whelp’s ability is activated during the same turn is during that turn’s end step, the delayed triggered ability won’t trigger until the beginning of the next turn’s end step. You’ll have to sacrifice Dragon Whelp at that time.

There’s no limit to the number of times you can activate Dragon Whelp’s ability in a turn. However, the fourth activation in a turn and each subsequent activation will cause a delayed triggered ability that will force you to sacrifice Dragon Whelp at the beginning of the next end step.

"Don't you agree that mogg intellects are improved by zombification?"
—Lord Dralnu

Dralnu's Crusade

All Goblins get +1/+1.
All Goblins are black and are Zombies in addition to their other creature types.

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Absorb	Instant	$0.08 ^(0.08)
Absorb - 1997	Instant	$0.08 ^(0.23)
Absorb - borderless - inverted	Instant	$0.08 ^(0.23)
Aquamoeba	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Arboria	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Arboria - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Arboria - borderless - inverted	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Arcades Sabboth	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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Arcanis the Omnipotent	Creature	$0.75 ^(0.90)
Arcanis the Omnipotent - 1997	Creature	$0.08 ^(0.23)
Assault // Battery	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Assault // Battery	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Auramancer	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.02)
Avarax	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Aven Fateshaper	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Aven Fisher	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Battle Screech	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Battlefield Scrounger	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Birds of Paradise	Creature	$5.00 ^(10.00)
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Body Snatcher	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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Break Asunder	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cackling Fiend	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Call of the Herd	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Chain Lightning	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(0.02)
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Chainer's Edict	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Chainer's Edict - 1997	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(0.17)
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Chainer, Dementia Master	Creature	$0.08 ^(0.08)
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Cloud of Faeries	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.07)
Coal Stoker	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Confiscate	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Congregate	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Counterspell	Instant	$0.50 ^(2.00)
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Counterspell - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Crawlspace	Artifact	$4.00 ^(7.00)
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Crosis's Catacombs	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)

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