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.

"I'll wring out your tiny mind like a sponge."
—Urborg witch

Addle

Choose a color. Look at target player's hand and choose a card of that color from it. That player discards that card.

Choose a color. Target player reveals their hand and you choose a card of that color from it. That player discards that card.

Aether Rift

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card at random from your hand. If you discard a creature card this way, put that card into play unless any player pays 5 life.

First, the card is discarded. Then, in turn order, each player is given the option to pay 5 life. Then, if no player paid 5 life, the card is put onto the battlefield from the graveyard.

The card is actually discard, so anything which triggers on a discard will trigger. Such abilities will wait to go on the stack until after this ability has completely resolved.

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card at random. If you discard a creature card this way, return it from your graveyard to the battlefield unless any player pays 5 life.

The power of the wild, concentrated in a single charge.

Aggressive Urge

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Draw a card.

If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Aggressive Urge tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t draw a card.

Agonizing Demise

Kicker o1o
R (You may pay an additional o1o
R as you play this spell.)
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. If you paid the kicker cost, Agonizing Demise deals damage equal to that creature's power to the creature's controller.

Kicker {1}{R} (You may pay an additional {1}{R} as you cast this spell.)
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. If this spell was kicked, Agonizing Demise deals damage equal to that creature's power to the creature's controller.

"Its stones seem to serve a healing function, but removing them intact is an exhausting process."
—Tolarian research notes

Alabaster Leech

White spells you play cost o
W more to play.

White spells you cast cost {W} more to cast.

"We turned old weapons into new warriors."
—Jhoira, master artificer

Alloy Golem

As Alloy Golem comes into play, choose a color.
Alloy Golem is the chosen color. (It's still an artifact.)

If Alloy Golem phases out, you do not pick a new color when it phases in.

As Alloy Golem enters, choose a color.
Alloy Golem is the chosen color. (It's still an artifact.)

Those with the ability to change their nature survived Phyrexia's biological attacks. Everything else died.

Ancient Kavu

o2: Ancient Kavu becomes colorless until end of turn.

Making a permanent colorless does not make it into an artifact.

{2}: Ancient Kavu becomes colorless until end of turn.

Ancient Spring

Ancient Spring comes into play tapped.
oc
T: Add o
U to your mana pool.
oc
T, Sacrifice Ancient Spring: Add o
Wo
B to your mana pool.

Ancient Spring enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{T}, Sacrifice Ancient Spring: Add {W}{B}.

"Older specimens are completely encrusted with gems, which serve as both armor and weapons."
—Tolarian research notes

Andradite Leech

Black spells you play cost o
B more to play.
oo
B Andradite Leech gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Black spells you cast cost {B} more to cast.
{B}: Andradite Leech gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"In times like these, people need to be reminded of compassion."
—Sisay

Angel of Mercy

Flying
When Angel of Mercy comes into play, you gain 3 life.

Flying
When Angel of Mercy enters, you gain 3 life.

"If only an angel's wings could shelter us all."
—Barrin

Angelic Shield

Creatures you control get +0/+1.
Sacrifice Angelic Shield: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Angelic Shield goes to the graveyard when you activate the ability, but the targeted creature does not get returned until the ability resolves. All your creatures lose the bonus while the ability is on the stack which may result in the targeted creature being destroyed before the return can take effect.

"Whatever Yawgmoth marks, dies. There is no escape."
—Tsabo Tavoc, Phyrexian general

Annihilate

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

If the targeted creature is an illegal target when Annihilate tries to resolve, the entire spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t draw a card.

Archaeological Dig

oc
T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.
oc
T, Sacrifice Archaeological Dig: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Archaeological Dig: Add one mana of any color.

Ardent Soldier

Kicker o2 (You may pay an additional o2 as you play this spell.)
Attacking doesn't cause Ardent Soldier to tap.
If you paid the kicker cost, Ardent Soldier comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Kicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell.)
Vigilance
If Ardent Soldier was kicked, it enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.

"Don't laugh. It works."
—Yavimaya ranger

Armadillo Cloak

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.

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

Armored Guardian

o1o
Wo
W Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
o1o
Uo
U Armored Guardian can't be the target of spells or abilities this turn.

You can activate the ability that grants shroud in response to this card being targeted by a spell or ability. If you do so, then (if this is the spell or abilities only target) the spell or ability won’t resolve since this card will now be an illegal target.

{1}{W}{W}: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
{1}{U}{U}: Armored Guardian gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"From shards and splinters I call forth my living horde."
—Molimo, maro-sorcerer

Artifact Mutation

Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens into play, where X is its converted mana cost.

This spell is countered and you get no Saprolings if the artifact is an illegal target on resolution.

Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. Create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is that artifact's mana value.

Assault // Battery

Assault deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Create a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

"Healing is a gift the divine ones have shared with us. It is a sacred trust."

Atalya, Samite Master

o
X, oc
T: Choose one Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn; or you gain X life. Spend only white mana this way.

Cost modifiers which add a cost are not restricted to only white mana.

Spending only white mana applies to the ability regardless of which mode you choose.

{X}, {T}: Choose one —
• Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn. Spend only white mana on X.
• You gain X life. Spend only white mana on X.

"Life can be found in all things, even things unnatural."
—Multani, maro-sorcerer

Aura Mutation

Destroy target enchantment. Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens into play, where X is its converted mana cost.

This spell doesn't resolve and you get no Saprolings if the enchantment is an illegal target on resolution.

Destroy target enchantment. Create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is that enchantment's mana value.

Gaea forged her soldiers into self-wielding weapons that struck down all impurities.

Aura Shards

Whenever a creature comes into play under your control, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Whenever a creature you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Darigaaz decided his foe would be more useful as a weapon.

Backlash

Tap target untapped creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to its controller.

Being untapped is a targeting restriction. If the target is tapped before this spell resolves, then this spell doesn’t resolve.

Barrin's Spite

Choose two target creatures controlled by one player. That player chooses and sacrifices one of them. Return the other to its owner's hand.

The player chooses which one to sacrifice as the spell resolves. If only one of the targets is still legal at that time, then the player must choose that one to sacrifice.

Choose two target creatures controlled by the same player. Their controller chooses and sacrifices one of them. Return the other to its owner's hand.

Barrin's Unmaking

Return target permanent to its owner's hand if that permanent shares a color with the most common color among all permanents or the color tied for most common.

Return target permanent to its owner's hand if that permanent shares a color with the most common color among all permanents or a color tied for most common.

Benalish Emissary

Kicker o1o
G (You may pay an additional o1o
G as you play this spell.)
When Benalish Emissary comes into play, if you paid the kicker cost, destroy target land.

Kicker {1}{G} (You may pay an additional {1}{G} as you cast this spell.)
When Benalish Emissary enters, if it was kicked, destroy target land.

The detailed dispatch could be summarized in four words: "Time is running out."

Benalish Heralds

Benalish Lancer

Kicker o2o
W (You may pay an additional o2o
W as you play this spell.)
If you paid the kicker cost, Benalish Lancer comes into play with two +1/+1 counters on it and has first strike.

Kicker {2}{W} (You may pay an additional {2}{W} as you cast this spell.)
If Benalish Lancer was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it and with first strike.

"I'm up here. You're down there. Now who's the lower life form?"

Benalish Trapper

Bend or Break

Each player separates all land cards he or she controls into two face-up piles. For each player, an opponent chooses a pile. Destroy all lands in that pile. Tap all lands in the other pile.

Each player separates all nontoken lands they control into two piles. For each player, one of their piles is chosen by one of their opponents of their choice. Destroy all lands in the chosen piles. Tap all lands in the other piles.

"The battlefield is cluttered enough. Be still."
—Multani, maro-sorcerer

Bind

Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be countered.)
Draw a card.

Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.

Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)
Draw a card.

Blazing Specter

Flying; haste (This creature may attack and oc
T the turn it comes under your control.)
Whenever Blazing Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card from his or her hand.

Flying, haste
Whenever Blazing Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

"I think he sees more than he lets on."
—Gerrard

Blind Seer

o1oo
U Target spell or permanent becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

If you change the color of a spell which is to become a permanent, the permanent will retain the color change until the end of the turn.

{1}{U}: Target spell or permanent becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

An angel's sword impales only the body; her righteousness penetrates the soul.

Blinding Light

Will not tap a creature that is both white and another color.

"The stone whispers to me of dragon's fire and darkness. I wish I'd never pried it from the figurehead of that sunken Keldon longship."
—Isel, master carver

Bloodstone Cameo

"The mongoose blew out its candle and was asleep in bed before the room went dark."
—Llanowar fable

Blurred Mongoose

Blurred Mongoose can't be countered.
Blurred Mongoose can't be the target of spells or abilities.

Counterspells can be cast that target it, but when they resolve they simply don’t counter it since it can’t be countered.

It can be targeted while on the stack. Shroud only works while it is on the battlefield.

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

"Urborg's magic is strong. Did Urza send you to protect us or to protect against us?"
—Urborg witch, to Barrin

Bog Initiate

Breaking Wave

You may play Breaking Wave any time you could play an instant if you pay o2 more to play it.
Simultaneously untap all tapped creatures and tap all untapped creatures.

You may cast Breaking Wave as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
Simultaneously untap all tapped creatures and tap all untapped creatures.

Breath of Darigaaz

Kicker o2 (You may pay an additional o2 as you play this spell.)
Breath of Darigaaz deals 1 damage to each creature without flying and each player. If you paid the kicker cost, Breath of Darigaaz deals 4 damage to each creature without flying and each player instead.

Kicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell.)
Breath of Darigaaz deals 1 damage to each creature without flying and each player. If this spell was kicked, it deals 4 damage to each creature without flying and each player instead.

"The invasion has awoken slumbering mountains," noted Urza. "Good. We can use all the help we can get."

Callous Giant

If a source would deal 3 damage or less to Callous Giant, prevent that damage.

If a source would deal 3 or less damage to Callous Giant, prevent that damage.

Canopy Surge

Kicker o2 (You may pay an additional o2 as you play this spell.)
Canopy Surge deals 1 damage to each creature with flying and each player. If you paid the kicker cost, Canopy Surge deals 4 damage to each creature with flying and each player instead.

Kicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell.)
Canopy Surge deals 1 damage to each creature with flying and each player. If this spell was kicked, it deals 4 damage to each creature with flying and each player instead.

Capashen riders were stern and humorless even before their ancestral home was reduced to rubble.

Capashen Unicorn

o1o
W, oc
T, Sacrifice Capashen Unicorn: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

{1}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice Capashen Unicorn: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Her leadership forged the *Weatherlight*'s finest crew.

Captain Sisay

oc
T: Search your library for a Legend or legendary card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. 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.

{T}: Search your library for a legendary card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Cauldron Dance

Play Cauldron Dance only during combat.
Return target creature card from your graveyard to play. That creature gains haste. Return it to your hand at end of turn.
Put a creature card from your hand into play. That creature gains haste. Put it into your graveyard at end of turn.

If the targeted creature card in the graveyard is removed before resolution, this spell won’t resolve since its only target will be invalid.

You can cast this spell when you have no creature card in your hand. If this happens, simply ignore that part of the spell. You still put the graveyard creature onto the battlefield and still return it to your hand at the beginning of the end step.

You must have a creature in your graveyard to cast this spell since it requires a valid target.

Cast this spell only during combat.
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Return it to your hand at the beginning of the next end step.
You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Its controller sacrifices it at the beginning of the next end step.

Chaotic Strike

Play Chaotic Strike only during combat after blockers are declared.
Choose target creature and flip a coin. If you win the flip, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Draw a card.

If a turn has multiple combat phases, this spell can be cast during any of them as long as it’s after the beginning of that phase’s Declare Blockers Step.

Cast this spell only during combat after blockers are declared.
Flip a coin. If you win the flip, target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Draw a card.

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

Charging Troll

Attacking doesn't cause Charging Troll to tap.
oo
G Regenerate Charging Troll.

Vigilance
{G}: Regenerate Charging Troll.

"Let insight and energy be your guides."
—The Blind Seer, to Gerrard

Chromatic Sphere

o1, oc
T, Sacrifice Chromatic Sphere: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Draw a card.

This is a mana ability, which means it can be activated as part of the process of casting a spell or activating another ability. If that happens you get the mana right away, but you don’t get to look at the drawn card until you have finished casting that spell or activating that ability.

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Chromatic Sphere: Add one mana of any color. Draw a card.

Cinder Shade

oo
B Cinder Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
o
R, Sacrifice Cinder Shade: Cinder Shade deals damage equal to its power to target creature.

{B}: Cinder Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
{R}, Sacrifice Cinder Shade: It deals damage equal to its power to target creature.

"You can build a perfect machine out of imperfect parts."
—Urza

Coalition Victory

You win the game if you control a land of each basic land type and a creature of each color.

When Coalition Victory resolves, it checks for the five basic land types (Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, Forest) and the five colors (white, blue, black, red, green). If a single land has multiple types and/or a single creature is multiple colors, it will count all those types and/or colors.

The Capashen built the highest towers in Benalia to afford themselves the best view.

Coastal Tower

Coastal Tower comes into play tapped.
oc
T: Add o
W or o
U to your mana pool.

Coastal Tower enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Collapsing Borders

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player gains 1 life for each basic land type among lands he or she controls. Then Collapsing Borders deals 3 damage to him or her.

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 — At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player gains 1 life for each basic land type among lands they control. Then Collapsing Borders deals 3 damage to that player.

Collective Restraint

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays o
X for each creature attacking you, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control. (This cost is paid as attackers are declared.)

In the Two-Headed Giant format, you still only have to pay once per creature.

Unless some effect explicitly says otherwise, a creature that can't attack you can still attack a planeswalker you control.

Domain — Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {X} for each creature they control that's attacking you, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.

Card (358)	Type	^{$164.99 (2146.19)} Price
Absorb - 1997	Instant	$0.50 ^(26.50)
Addle - 1997	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(2.50)
Aether Rift - 1997	Enchantment	$0.15 ^(2.00)
Aggressive Urge - 1997	Instant	$0.02 ^(0.17)
Agonizing Demise - 1997	Instant	$0.02 ^(0.50)
Alabaster Leech - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(5.00)
Alloy Golem - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.17)
Ancient Kavu - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.05)
Ancient Spring - 1997	Land	$0.02 ^(2.50)
Andradite Leech - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(4.00)
Angel of Mercy - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(2.50)
Angelic Shield - 1997	Enchantment	$0.05 ^(4.05)
Annihilate - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.75)
Archaeological Dig - 1997	Land	$0.02 ^(4.00)
Ardent Soldier - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Armadillo Cloak - 1997	Enchantment	$0.15 ^(5.00)
Armored Guardian - 1997	Creature	$0.10 ^(5.00)
Artifact Mutation - 1997	Instant	$1.50 ^(17.50)
Assault // Battery - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Assault // Battery - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Atalya, Samite Master - 1997	Creature	$0.25 ^(16.00)
Aura Mutation - 1997	Instant	$3.00 ^(19.00)
Aura Shards - 1997	Enchantment	$10.00 ^(56.00)
Backlash - 1997	Instant	$0.75 ^(7.25)
Barrin's Spite - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(2.00)
Barrin's Unmaking - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.05)
Benalish Emissary - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.75)
Benalish Heralds - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Benalish Lancer - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Benalish Trapper - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.15)
Bend or Break - 1997	Sorcery	$0.15 ^(5.00)
Bind - 1997	Instant	$0.50 ^(10.50)
Blazing Specter - 1997	Creature	$0.25 ^(9.00)
Blind Seer - 1997	Creature	$0.15 ^(18.00)
Blinding Light - 1997	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(2.52)
Bloodstone Cameo - 1997	Artifact	$0.05 ^(4.00)
Blurred Mongoose - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(3.50)
Bog Initiate - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(5.00)
Breaking Wave - 1997	Sorcery	$0.15 ^(5.00)
Breath of Darigaaz - 1997	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(2.52)
Callous Giant - 1997	Creature	$0.08 ^(2.50)
Canopy Surge - 1997	Sorcery	$0.05 ^(0.75)
Capashen Unicorn - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(2.00)
Captain Sisay - 1997	Creature	$14.00 ^(63.00)
Cauldron Dance - 1997	Instant	$0.02 ^(4.02)
Chaotic Strike - 1997	Instant	$0.05 ^(3.05)
Charging Troll - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.75)
Chromatic Sphere - 1997	Artifact	$0.10 ^(30.00)
Cinder Shade - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(1.52)
Coalition Victory - 1997	Sorcery	$4.00 ^(22.00)

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