Archmage's Charm

If a creature on the battlefield has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• Target player draws two cards.
• Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

Born from the oldest red cedar, nursed on the sap of the tallest spruce, coronated under the mightiest pine.

Ayula, Queen Among Bears

Either of Ayula's modes can target any Bear you control, not just the Bear that entered the battlefield. Ayula can even be the target of its own ability.

For Ayula's second mode, if either target isn't a creature or is otherwise an illegal target as the ability resolves, no creature will deal or be dealt damage.

Whenever another Bear enters the battlefield under your control, choose one —
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target Bear.
• Target Bear you control fights target creature you don't control.

A mercurial face sows distrust. Distrust reaps a lonely life.

Changeling Outcast

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Changeling Outcast can't block and can't be blocked.

Deep Forest Hermit

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 Deep Forest Hermit enters the battlefield, create four 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens.
Squirrels you control get +1/+1.

The only shortcut in a bog is to the bottom.

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Ephemerate

Casting the card again due to rebound's delayed triggered ability is optional. If you choose not to cast the card, or if you can't (perhaps because there are no legal targets available), the card will stay exiled. You won't get another chance to cast it on a future turn. If you do cast the card, it's put into its owner's graveyard as normal once it resolves.

If a spell with rebound that you cast from your hand is countered or doesn't resolve (most likely because its targets have become illegal), none of its effects will happen, including rebound. The spell will be put into its owner's graveyard and you won't get to cast it again on your next turn.

If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won't return to the battlefield.

Once the exiled creature returns, it's considered a new object with no relation to the object that it was. Auras attached to the exiled creature will be put into their owners' graveyards. Equipment attached to the exiled creature will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled creature will cease to exist.

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Etchings of the Chosen

The last ability of Etchings of the Chosen can target any creature you control, not just one of the chosen type.

You must choose an existing creature type, such as Sliver or Warrior. Card types such as artifact, and supertypes such as legendary or snow, can't be chosen.

As Etchings of the Chosen enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
{1}, Sacrifice a creature of the chosen type: Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

"The patterns of crossing ripples reveal the future to those who know how to read them."

Faerie Seer

Flying
When Faerie Seer enters the battlefield, scry 2.

Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

The vines overgrew the construct, snapping gears and soaking up aether.

Force of Vigor

If it's not your turn, you may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments.

The best presents are impossible to regift.

Generous Gift

If the target permanent is an illegal target by the time Generous Gift tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. No player creates an Elephant. If the target is legal but not destroyed (most likely because it has indestructible), its controller does create an Elephant.

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

She provides marks of protection to those she chooses as family.

Giver of Runes

A permanent gaining protection may cause a spell or ability on the stack to have an illegal target. As a spell or ability tries to resolve, if all its targets are illegal, that spell or ability doesn’t resolve. None of its effects happen, including effects unrelated to the target. If at least one target is still legal, the spell or ability does as much as it can to the remaining legal targets, and its other effects still happen.

Protection from a color means that the target creature can’t be blocked by creatures of that color, can’t be the target of spells of that color or abilities from sources of that color, can’t be enchanted or equipped by Auras or Equipment of that color, and all damage that sources of that color would deal to it is prevented. Nothing other than these events is prevented or illegal.

Similarly, protection from colorless means that the target creature can’t be blocked by colorless creatures, can’t be the target of colorless spells or abilities of colorless sources, can’t be enchanted or equipped by colorless Auras or Equipment, and all damage that colorless sources would deal to it is prevented.

{T}: Another target creature you control gains protection from colorless or from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Goblin Engineer

Because targets are chosen for activated abilities before costs (such as "Sacrifice an artifact") are paid, Goblin Engineer's second ability can't target the artifact that will be sacrificed to pay its cost.

If a card in a player's graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

When Goblin Engineer enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle.
{R}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Return target artifact card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Hall of Heliod's Generosity

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{W}, {T}: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Ice-Fang Coatl

Flash
Flying
When Ice-Fang Coatl enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Ice-Fang Coatl has deathtouch as long as you control at least three other snow permanents.

Ingenious Infiltrator

Although the Ninja is attacking, it was never declared as an attacking creature (for purposes of abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks, for example).

As you activate a ninjutsu ability, you reveal the Ninja card in your hand and return the attacking creature. The Ninja isn’t put onto the battlefield until the ability resolves. If it leaves your hand before then, it won’t enter the battlefield at all.

If Ingenious Infiltrator is dealt lethal combat damage at the same time a Ninja you control deals combat damage to a player, its ability triggers.

If a creature in combat has first strike or double strike, you can activate the ninjutsu ability during the first-strike combat damage step. The Ninja will deal combat damage during the regular combat damage step, even if it has first strike.

The creature with ninjutsu enters the battlefield attacking the same player or planeswalker that the returned creature was attacking. This is a rule specific to ninjutsu; in other cases, when a creature is put onto the battlefield attacking, that creature’s controller chooses which player or planeswalker it’s attacking.

The ninjutsu ability can be activated during the declare blockers step, combat damage step, or end of combat step. If you wait until after the declare blockers step, because all combat damage is dealt at once, the Ninja won’t normally deal combat damage.

The ninjutsu ability can be activated only after blockers have been declared. Before then, attacking creatures are neither blocked nor unblocked.

Ninjutsu {U}{B} ({U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever a Ninja you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

"Glorious, to walk again across the savannah with my beloved."
—"Love Song of Night and Day"

King of the Pride

Warm enough to incubate eggs or incinerate those who would eat them.

Lavabelly Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have "When this creature enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and you gain 1 life."

"Llanowar remembers the Ice Age, the Phyrexian Invasion, and the Rift Era. So long as we draw breath, we will ensure such disasters never threaten our world again."

Llanowar Tribe

Opening like the maw of a hellion, the earth swallowed the traveler whole.

Magmatic Sinkhole

Because delve isn’t an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.

Delve doesn’t change a spell’s mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise’s mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.

You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can’t exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can’t exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Magmatic Sinkhole deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

"The lasting effects are invariably fatal."
—Phyrexian progress notes

Plague Engineer

The choice of creature type is made as Plague Engineer enters the battlefield. Players can’t respond to this choice. The -1/-1 effect starts applying immediately.

You must choose an existing creature type, such as Sliver or Warrior. Card types such as artifact, and supertypes such as legendary or snow, can’t be chosen.

Deathtouch
As Plague Engineer enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Creatures of the chosen type your opponents control get -1/-1.

There is beauty in the uncertainty of potential.

Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic Vista: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Ranger-Captain of Eos

If a card in a player’s library has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

Your opponents may cast spells in response to the last ability of Ranger-Captain of Eos. The ability won’t affect those spells and it won’t affect spells that those players cast before you activated it. (In other words, the ability can’t be used to counter a spell.)

When Ranger-Captain of Eos enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a creature card with mana value 1 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sacrifice Ranger-Captain of Eos: Your opponents can't cast noncreature spells this turn.

Scale Up

Because a spell with overload doesn’t target when its overload cost is paid, it may affect permanents with protection from the appropriate color.

Effects that modify the affected creatures’ power or toughness (such as the effects of Force of Virtue or Giant Growth) will apply no matter when they started to take effect. The same is true for counters that change the creatures’ power or toughness (such as +1/+1 counters).

If you don’t pay the overload cost of a spell, that spell will have a single target. If you pay the overload cost, the spell won’t have any targets.

Scale Up overwrites all previous effects that set the affected creatures’ color, creature types, power, and/or toughness to specific values. Other effects that set these characteristics to specific values that start to apply after Scale Up resolves will overwrite that part of the effect.

The affected creatures don’t lose any abilities when they become Wurms.

Until end of turn, target creature you control becomes a green Wurm with base power and toughness 6/4.
Overload {4}{G}{G} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Pricey baubles are no match for cheap tricks.

Shenanigans

Dredge can replace any card draw, not just the one during your draw step. One card draw can’t be replaced by multiple dredge abilities.

If an effect puts a card into your hand without specifically using the word “draw,” you’re not drawing a card. Dredge can’t replace this event.

If you’re drawing multiple cards, each draw is performed one at a time. For example, if you’re instructed to draw two cards and you replace the first draw with a dredge ability, another card with a dredge ability (including one that was put into your graveyard by the first dredge ability) may be used to replace the second draw.

Once you’ve announced that you’re applying a card’s dredge ability to replace a draw, players can’t take any action until you’ve put that card into your hand and put the top cards of your library into your graveyard.

You can’t attempt to use a dredge ability if you don’t have enough cards in your library.

Destroy target artifact.
Dredge 1 (If you would draw a card, you may mill a card instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Sisay, Weatherlight Captain

If Sisay leaves the battlefield after you’ve activated its last ability but before that ability resolves, use its last known existence on the battlefield to determine what cards you can find.

If a card in a library has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

Sisay, Weatherlight Captain gets +1/+1 for each color among other legendary permanents you control.
{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Search your library for a legendary permanent card with mana value less than Sisay's power, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Soulherder

If a creature is exiled but ends up in another zone (most likely because it’s a player’s commander in the Commander variant), Soulherder’s first ability triggers.

If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won’t return to the battlefield.

If any other abilities you control trigger at the beginning of your end step, you choose the targets for all of them as they’re put onto the stack, and you choose the order they’re put onto the stack. For example, this means that you could exile a creature put onto the battlefield by an unearth ability (and then unearth’s delayed triggered ability won’t exile that creature), but you can’t target a creature that will be returned to the battlefield by another ability during your end step (such as Astral Drift’s delayed triggered ability).

Once the exiled creature returns, it’s considered a new object with no relation to the object that it was. Auras attached to the exiled creature will be put into their owners’ graveyards. Equipment attached to the exiled creature will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled creature will cease to exist.

Whenever a creature is exiled from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Soulherder.
At the beginning of your end step, you may exile another target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Sword of Sinew and Steel

Protection from a color means that the equipped creature can’t be blocked by creatures of that color, can’t be the target of spells of that color or abilities from sources of that color, can’t be enchanted or equipped by Auras or Equipment of that color, and all damage that sources of that color would deal to it is prevented. Nothing other than these events is prevented or illegal.

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from red.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy up to one target planeswalker and up to one target artifact.
Equip {2}

Sword of Truth and Justice

If a permanent or player you choose while proliferating has more than one kind of counter on it, it will get one more of each of those kinds. This means that if you put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control with a -1/-1 counter on it, then choose that creature while proliferating, you’ll put another of each of those counters on it before state-based actions remove them.

If a permanent has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, they’re removed in pairs as a state-based action so that the permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.

Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it’s too late for anyone to respond.

To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can’t choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.

You don’t have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since “any number” includes zero, you don’t have to choose any permanents at all, and you don’t have to choose any players at all.

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Equip {2}

"The sun banishes darkness every morning. I too will rise with such assuredness."
—Huatli

Talisman of Conviction

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}. Talisman of Conviction deals 1 damage to you.

"Good ideas don't take time. They take a lot of bad ideas first."
—Ral Zarek

Talisman of Creativity

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}. Talisman of Creativity deals 1 damage to you.

"The pain of exploring is less than the pain of not knowing."
—Tamiyo

Talisman of Curiosity

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. Talisman of Curiosity deals 1 damage to you.

"You'll never get to the top if you don't know who's already there."
—Kaya

Talisman of Hierarchy

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Talisman of Hierarchy deals 1 damage to you.

"The continual rise of the downtrodden is as inevitable as vines usurping a forest."
—Vraska

Talisman of Resilience

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}. Talisman of Resilience deals 1 damage to you.

The First Sliver

If a spell has multiple instances of cascade (for example, if you cast a second The First Sliver), each instance of cascade triggers and resolves separately. The spell you cast due to the first cascade ability will go on the stack on top of the second cascade ability. That spell will resolve before you exile cards for the second cascade ability.

The First Sliver's last ability only applies while it's on the battlefield. If The First Sliver's own cascade ability lets you cast another Sliver card, that Sliver won't have cascade.

A spell's mana value is determined only by its mana cost. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions.

Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade.

Due to a recent rules change to cascade, not only do you stop exiling cards if you exile a nonland card with lesser mana value than the spell with cascade, but the resulting spell you cast must also have lesser mana value. Previously, in cases where a card's mana value differed from the resulting spell, such as with some modal double-faced cards or cards with an Adventure, you could cast a spell with a higher mana value than the exiled card.

If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally.

If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the card.

The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves.

When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled.

You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Sliver spells you cast have cascade.

Tribute Mage

If a card in your library has X in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

When Tribute Mage enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 2, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"To see past the veil of death, cross it."
—*The Red Book of Mezdrithalik*

Undead Augur

If Undead Augur dies at the same time as one or more other Zombies you control, Undead Augur's ability triggers for each of them.

Whenever Undead Augur or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

"Within minutes, the strange device was indistinguishable from the other upon my workbench."
—Tocasia, journal entry

Universal Automaton

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)

Urza, Lord High Artificer

If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the card.

If you don’t play the card exiled with Urza’s last ability, it remains in exile.

The token created by Urza’s first ability will count itself, so it’ll be at least 1/1.

Urza’s last ability doesn’t change when you can play the exiled card. For example, if you exile a sorcery card, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty. If you exile a land card, you can play it only during your main phase and only if you have an available land play remaining.

You can tap any untapped artifact you control to pay the cost of the mana ability, including an artifact creature you haven’t controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn. Tapping an Equipment this way won’t affect its abilities or the equipped creature.

When Urza, Lord High Artificer enters the battlefield, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."
Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add {U}.
{5}: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.

"Quell your ego and anywhere can be as calm as a hurricane's eye."

Weather the Storm

Storm counts spells cast before the spell with storm was cast. Spells cast after the spell with storm was cast but before the storm ability resolves aren't counted.

The copies storm creates are created on the stack, so they're not cast. Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell (such as storm) won't trigger.

The storm ability and the copies it creates all resolve before the spell with storm. They resolve even if the spell with storm is countered.

You gain 3 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Card (40)	Type	^{$190.20 (474.15)} Price
Archmage's Charm - 1997	Instant	$1.50 ^(5.50)
Ayula, Queen Among Bears - 1997	Creature	$0.15 ^(1.65)
Changeling Outcast - 1997	Creature	$2.50 ^(6.50)
Deep Forest Hermit - 1997	Creature	$0.50 ^(2.00)
Defile - 1997	Instant	$1.50 ^(3.50)
Ephemerate - 1997	Instant	$2.50 ^(5.00)
Etchings of the Chosen - 1997	Enchantment	$0.15 ^(0.90)
Faerie Seer - 1997	Creature	$0.75 ^(2.75)
Force of Negation - 1997	Instant	$33.00 ^(80.00)
Force of Vigor - 1997	Instant	$16.00 ^(41.00)
Generous Gift - 1997	Instant	$1.50 ^(3.00)
Giver of Runes - 1997	Creature	$6.50 ^(16.50)
Goblin Engineer - 1997	Creature	$4.00 ^(12.00)
Hall of Heliod's Generosity - 1997	Land	$5.00 ^(11.50)
Ice-Fang Coatl - 1997	Creature	$0.15 ^(2.65)
Ingenious Infiltrator - 1997	Creature	$0.15 ^(1.65)
King of the Pride - 1997	Creature	$0.15 ^(0.15)
Lavabelly Sliver - 1997	Creature	$0.05 ^(0.05)
Llanowar Tribe - 1997	Creature	$0.50 ^(0.65)
Magmatic Sinkhole - 1997	Instant	$0.05 ^(0.00)
Plague Engineer - 1997	Creature	$0.15 ^(2.15)
Prismatic Vista - 1997	Land	$18.00 ^(46.00)
Ranger-Captain of Eos - 1997	Creature	$25.00 ^(63.00)
Scale Up - 1997	Sorcery	$0.75 ^(0.90)
Shenanigans - 1997	Sorcery	$0.50 ^(0.00)
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain - 1997	Creature	$0.15 ^(1.65)
Soulherder - 1997	Creature	$0.25 ^(1.75)
Sword of Sinew and Steel - 1997	Artifact	$6.50 ^(17.50)
Sword of Truth and Justice - 1997	Artifact	$19.00 ^(44.00)
Talisman of Conviction - 1997	Artifact	$1.50 ^(2.00)
Talisman of Creativity - 1997	Artifact	$2.00 ^(4.00)
Talisman of Curiosity - 1997	Artifact	$0.50 ^(0.65)
Talisman of Hierarchy - 1997	Artifact	$2.00 ^(3.50)
Talisman of Resilience - 1997	Artifact	$1.50 ^(3.00)
The First Sliver - 1997	Creature	$25.00 ^(58.00)
Tribute Mage - 1997	Creature	$2.00 ^(3.50)
Undead Augur - 1997	Creature	$0.15 ^(0.30)
Universal Automaton - 1997	Creature	$2.00 ^(2.50)
Urza, Lord High Artificer - 1997	Creature	$6.50 ^(22.50)
Weather the Storm - 1997	Instant	$0.15 ^(0.30)

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