These spirits of the air are winsome and wild, and cannot be truly contained. Only marginally intelligent, they often substitute whimsy for strategy, delighting in mischief and mayhem.

Air Elemental

Ancestral Recall

Draw 3 cards or force opponent to draw 3 cards.

Animate Artifact

Target artifact is now a creature with both power and toughness equal to its casting cost; target retains all its original abilities as well. This will destroy artifacts with 0 casting cost.

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.

This card has been returned to its original functionality. If it is enchanting an artifact that's already a creature, it won't change its power and toughness.

Enchant artifact
As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Animate Dead

Any creature in either player's graveyard comes into play on your side with -1 to its original power. If this enchantment is removed, or at end of game, target creature is returned to its owner's graveyard. Target creature may be killed as normal.

Abilities such as shroud and protection function only on the battlefield unless otherwise specified. A creature card with shroud may be targeted by Animate Dead, and Animate Dead will become attached to the creature that enters the battlefield.

Animate Dead is an Aura, albeit with an unusual enchant ability. You target a creature card in a graveyard when you cast it. It enters the battlefield attached to that card. Then it returns that card to the battlefield, and attaches itself to the card again (since the card is a new object on the battlefield). Animate Dead itself never moves into a graveyard during this process.

If Animate Dead isn't on the battlefield as its triggered ability resolves, none of its effects happen. The creature card won't be returned to the battlefield.

If the creature put onto the battlefield has protection from black—or if the creature can't legally be enchanted by Animate Dead for another reason—Animate Dead won't be able to attach to it. It will be put into the graveyard as a state-based action, causing its delayed triggered ability to trigger. When the trigger resolves, if the creature's still on the battlefield, its controller will sacrifice it.

Once the creature is returned to the battlefield, Animate Dead can't be attached to anything other than it (unless Animate Dead somehow manages to put a different creature onto the battlefield). Attempting to move Animate Dead to another creature won't work.

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Animate Wall

Target wall can now attack. Target wall's power and toughness are unchanged, even if its power is 0.

This is a change from the most recent wording. As was the case in the past, Animate Wall can now enchant only a Wall.

Enchant Wall
Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Ankh of Mishra

Ankh does 2 damage to anyone who puts a new land into play.

It determines the land's controller at the time the ability resolves. If the land leaves the battlefield before the ability resolves, the land's last controller before it left is used.

This triggers on any land entering. This includes playing a land or putting a land onto the battlefield using a spell or ability.

Whenever a land enters, Ankh of Mishra deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Armageddon

Aspect of Wolf

Target creature's power and toughness are increased by half the number of forests you have in play, rounding down for power and up for toughness.

The effect is continuously updated based on the number of Forests you control at any given time.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +X/+Y, where X is half the number of Forests you control, rounded down, and Y is half the number of Forests you control, rounded up.

Bad Moon

Badlands

Counts as both mountains and swamp and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either o
R or o
B to your mana pool.

Land type changing effects that change a dual land's land type will remove the old land types completely. Text-changing effects that just change one of the two land types will leave the other type unaffected.

This card is a Mountain and a Swamp even while in the graveyard, library, or any other zone.

This has basic land types, but it isn't a basic land. Things that affect basic lands don't affect it. Things that affect basic land types do.

This has the mana abilities associated with both of its basic land types.

Balance

Whichever player has more lands in play must discard enough lands of his or her choice to equalize the number of lands both players have in play. Cards in hand and creatures in play must be equalized the same way. Creatures lost in this manner may not be regenerated.

Balance doesn't have targets, so permanents that can't be targeted, such as a creature with shroud or protection from white, are valid choices to be sacrificed.

Each type of object is counted during the corresponding part of the process. Cards in hand are counted after lands have been sacrificed, and creatures on the battlefield are counted after cards have been discarded. Thus, a land creature sacrificed to the first part of the spell would not be counted when determining how many creatures are on the battlefield for the last part.

First the player whose turn it is chooses which lands (if any) to keep, then each other player in turn order does the same. Each player will know the choices made by the players who chose before them. All of the unchosen lands are then sacrificed simultaneously. Then the process is repeated for cards in hand, except that no cards are revealed until all players have chosen what to discard, at which point those cards are all discarded simultaneously. Lastly, the process is repeated for creatures, and players will again know earlier choices made when deciding what to sacrifice. All of the unchosen creatures are then sacrificed simultaneously.

Each player chooses a number of lands they control equal to the number of lands controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Players discard cards and sacrifice creatures the same way.

Basalt Monolith

Tap to add 3 colorless mana to your mana pool. Does not untap as normal during untap phase, but can be untapped at any time for 3 mana. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.

Basalt Monolith's last ability can untap it as often as you can pay for it. If you believe you've found a way to generate an unbounded amount of mana with it, you're probably right.

Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{3}: Untap Basalt Monolith.

Bayou

Counts as both swamp and forest and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either o
B or o
G to your mana pool.

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.

Benalish Hero

A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.

Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.

If a creature with banding attacks, it can team up with any number of other attacking creatures with banding (and up to one nonbanding creature) and attack as a unit called a “band.” The band can be blocked by any creature that could block a single creature in the band. Blocking any creature in a band blocks the entire band. If a creature with banding is blocked, the attacking player chooses how the blockers’ damage is assigned.

If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it. That player can ignore the damage assignment order when making this assignment.

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Berserk

Until end of turn, target creature's current power doubles and it gains trample ability. If it attacks, target creature is destroyed at end of turn. This spell cannot be cast after current turn's attack is completed.

If the permanent stops being a creature before the end of the turn, it is still destroyed.

Cast this spell only before the combat damage step.
Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy that creature if it attacked this turn.

Birds of Paradise

Flying// Tap to add one mana of any color to your mana pool. This tap may be played as an interrupt.

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Black Knight

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Black Lotus

Adds 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool, then is discarded. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.

{T}, Sacrifice Black Lotus: Add three mana of any one color.

Black Vise

If opponent has more than four cards in hand during upkeep, black vise does 1 damage to opponent for each card in excess of four.

You choose one opposing player as it enters and it only affects that one player. This choice is not changed even if Black Vise changes controllers. It becomes useless but stays on the battlefield if that player leaves the game.

If the chosen player has four or fewer cards in their hand as Black Vise's ability resolves, the ability just won't do anything that turn.

As Black Vise enters, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, Black Vise deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

Black Ward

Target creature gains protection from black.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has protection from black. This effect doesn't remove Black Ward.

Blaze of Glory

Target defending creature can and must block all attacking creatures it can legally block. For example, a normal non-flying target defender can and must block all normal non-flying attackers at once, but it cannot block any flying attackers. Controller of target defender may distribute damage among attackers as desired. Play before defense is chosen.

Does not allow a tapped creature to block, or allow a creature to block any creatures it would not normally be able to block.

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

Cast this spell only during combat before blockers are declared.
Target creature defending player controls can block any number of creatures this turn. It blocks each attacking creature this turn if able.

Blessing

oo
W Target creature gains +1/+1 until end of turn.

Enchant creature
{W}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Blue Elemental Blast

Counters a red spell being cast or destroys a red card in play.

The decision to counter a spell or destroy a permanent is a decision made on announcement before the target is selected. If the spell is redirected, this mode can't be changed, so only targets of the selected type are valid.

Choose one —
• Counter target red spell.
• Destroy target red permanent.

Blue Ward

Target creature gains protection from blue.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has protection from blue. This effect doesn't remove Blue Ward.

'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.

Bog Wraith

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

Braingeyser

Draw X cards or force opponent to draw X cards.

Burrowing

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has mountainwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)

Camouflage

You may rearrange your attacking creatures and place them face down, revealing which is which only after defense is chosen. If this results in impossible blocks, such as non-flying creatures blocking flying creatures, illegal blockers cannot block this turn.

Cast this spell only during your declare attackers step.
This turn, instead of declaring blockers, each defending player chooses any number of creatures they control and divides them into a number of piles equal to the number of attacking creatures for whom that player is the defending player. Creatures those players control that can block additional creatures may likewise be put into additional piles. Assign each pile to a different one of those attacking creatures at random. Each creature in a pile that can block the creature that pile is assigned to does so. (Piles can be empty.)

Castle

Your untapped creatures gain +0/+2. Attacking creatures lose this bonus.

Untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.

Celestial Prism

o2: Provides 1 mana of any color. This use can be played as an interrupt.

Channel

Until end of turn, you may add colorless mana to your mana pool for 1 life each. These additions are played with the speed of an interrupt. Life spent this way is not considered damage.

Once your life total is 0, you can't pay any more life, even if you've somehow not lost the game yet.

Until end of turn, any time you could activate a mana ability, you may pay 1 life. If you do, add {C}.

Chaos Orb

o1: Flip Chaos Orb onto the playing area from a height of at least one foot. Chaos Orb must turn completely over at least once or it is discarded with no effect. When Chaos Orb lands, any cards in play that it touches are destroyed, as is Chaos Orb.

Chaos Orb can only affect permanents. Cards that are in the game but not on the battlefield, such as those in the Library and Graveyard, can't be affected.

If you have sleeves on cards, they count as the cards.

It must flip 360 degrees (that's what "flip" means). And this flip must be in the air and not in your hand.

You can arrange your cards any time before the Orb is put onto the battlefield, but not after. In general, you should not stack cards or put them in places where your opponent can't read the names of all of them or count them. This is recommended good gaming practice.

You can't interfere in any physical way with activating this ability.

If you are playing Chaos Orb in the Old School format, the card's text is “{1}, {T}: Choose a nontoken permanent on the battlefield. If Chaos Orb is on the battlefield, flip Chaos Orb onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If Chaos Orb turns over completely at least once during the flip, and lands resting on the chosen permanent, destroy that permanent. Then destroy Chaos Orb.”

{1}, {T}: If Chaos Orb is on the battlefield, flip Chaos Orb onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If Chaos Orb turns over completely at least once during the flip, destroy all nontoken permanents it touches. Then destroy Chaos Orb.

Chaoslace

Changes the color of one card either being played or already in play to red. Cost to cast, tap, maintain, or use a special ability of target card remains entirely unchanged.

Target spell or permanent becomes red. (Its mana symbols remain unchanged.)

Circle of Protection: Blue

o1: Prevents all damage against you from one blue source. If a source does damage to you more than once in a turn, you must pay 1 mana each time to prevent the damage.

A source of damage is a permanent, a spell on the stack (including one that creates a permanent), or any object referred to by an object on the stack. A source doesn’t need to be capable of dealing damage to be a legal choice.

Can be used even when there is no damage to prevent. It prevents the next damage (if any) from the source this turn.

{1}: The next time a blue source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Circle of Protection: Green

o1: Prevents all damage against you from one green source. If a source does damage to you more than once in a turn, you must pay 1 mana each time to prevent the damage.

{1}: The next time a green source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Circle of Protection: Red

o1: Prevents all damage against you from one red source. If a source does damage to you more than once in a turn, you must pay 1 mana each time to prevent the damage.

{1}: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Circle of Protection: White

o1: Prevents all damage against you from one white source. If a source does damage to you more than once in a turn, you must pay 1 mana each time to prevent the damage.

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Clockwork Beast

Put seven +1/+0 counters on Beast. After Beast attacks or blocks a creature, discard a counter. During the untap phase, controller may buy back lost counters for 1 mana per counter instead of untapping Beast; this taps Beast if it wasn't tapped already.

Can attack or block even if it has no counters.

Loses a counter even if it is affected by a Fog-like effect which prevents it from dealing damage.

Clockwork Beast’s last ability resolves, you can choose to put fewer than X +1/+0 counters on it.

If Clockwork Beast has seven or fewer +1/+0 counters on it when its last ability resolves, it can wind up a maximum of seven such counters on it. If it has seven or more +1/+0 counters on it, the ability will have no effect.

This is a change from the most recent wording. Now, if some other spell or ability causes +1/+0 counters to be put on Clockwork Beast, it can wind up with more than seven such counters on it.

Clockwork Beast enters with seven +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Beast attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
{X}, {T}: Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast to be greater than seven. Activate only during your upkeep.

Clone

Upon summoning, Clone acquires all normal characteristics, including color, of any one creature in play on either side; any enchantments on original creature are not copied. Clone retains these characteristics even after original creature is destroyed. Clone cannot be played if there are no creatures in play.

Any "enters" abilities of the copied creature will trigger when Clone enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters" or "[this creature] enters with" abilities of the chosen creature will also work.

If the chosen creature is a token, Clone copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put it onto the battlefield. Clone is not a token.

If the chosen creature is copying something else (for example, if the chosen creature is another Clone), then your Clone enters as whatever the chosen creature copied.

If the chosen creature has {X} in its mana cost (such as Protean Hydra), X is considered to be zero.

Clone copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing more (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.

If Clone somehow enters at the same time as another creature, Clone can't become a copy of that creature. You may choose only a creature that's already on the battlefield.

You can choose not to copy anything. In that case, Clone enters as a 0/0 Shapeshifter creature, and is probably put into the graveyard immediately.

Clone's ability doesn't target the chosen creature.

You may have Clone enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

Cockatrice

Flying
Any non-wall creature blocking Cockatrice is destroyed, as is any creature blocked by Cockatrice. Creatures destroyed in this way deal their damage before dying.

The ability destroys the creature at the end of the combat, which is after all first strike and normal damage dealing is done. This means that a creature may have to regenerate twice to survive the combat, once from damage and once again at end of combat.

Flying
Whenever Cockatrice blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Consecrate Land

All enchantments on target land are destroyed. Land cannot be destroyed or further enchanted until Consecrate Land has been destroyed.

The land can be targeted by land-destroying spells and the spell will resolve, but the land will simply not be destroyed.

If Consecrate Land enters attached to a land that's enchanted by other Auras, those Auras are put into their owners' graveyards.

A permanent with indestructible can't be destroyed, but it can still be sacrificed, exiled, put into a graveyard, and so on.

Enchant land
Enchanted land has indestructible and can't be enchanted by other Auras.

Conservator

{3}, {T}: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Contract from Below

Discard your current hand and draw eight new cards, adding the first drawn to your ante. Remove this card from your deck before playing if you are not playing for ante.

Remove Contract from Below from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.
Discard your hand, ante the top card of your library, then draw seven cards.

Control Magic

You control target creature until enchantment is discarded or game ends. You can't tap target creature this turn, but if it was already tapped it stays tapped until you can untap it. If destroyed, target creature is put in its owner's graveyard.

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

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.

Conversion

All mountains are considered plains while Conversion is in play. Pay o
Wo
W during upkeep or Conversion is discarded.

The Conversion effect is a continuous effect. There is no chance to tap a just-played mountain for red mana before it becomes a plains.

Will not add or remove the supertype snow to or from a land.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Conversion unless you pay {W}{W}.
All Mountains are Plains.

Copper Tablet

Copper Tablet does 1 damage to each player during his or her upkeep.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Copper Tablet deals 1 damage to that player.

Copy Artifact

Select any artifact in play. This enchantment acts as a duplicate of that artifact; enchantment copy is affected by cards that affect either enchantments or artifacts.
Enchantment copy remains even if original artifact is destroyed.

The artifact to copy is chosen at the time this card enters. If there is no valid artifact to choose, then this card enters as an enchantment that has no effect.

The copy is both an artifact and an enchantment, so it is an artifact-enchantment (perhaps even an artifact-creature-enchantment). It can be affected by anything which affects either type of permanent.

The copy of the artifact is not still blue. It copies the color of the thing it is copying.

You may have Copy Artifact enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield, except it's an enchantment in addition to its other types.

Counterspell

Counters target spell as it is being cast.

The most terrifying thing about the Craw Wurm is probably the horrible crashing sound it makes as it speeds through the forest. This noise is so loud it echoes through the trees and seems to come from all directions at once.

Craw Wurm

Creature Bond

If target creature is destroyed, Creature Bond does an amount of damage equal to creature's toughness to creature's controller.

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, Creature Bond deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Crusade

Crystal Rod

o1: Any blue spell cast by any player gives you 1 life.

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Cursed Land

Cursed Land does 1 damage to target land's controller during each upkeep.

Enchant land
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted land's controller, Cursed Land deals 1 damage to that player.

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Ancestral Recall - 1993	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Animate Artifact - 1993	Enchantment	$40.00 ^(40.00)
Animate Dead - 1993	Enchantment	$300.00 ^(300.00)
Animate Wall - 1993	Enchantment	$400.00 ^(400.00)
Ankh of Mishra - 1993	Artifact	$600.00 ^(600.00)
Armageddon - 1993	Sorcery	$1175.00 ^(1175.00)
Aspect of Wolf - 1993	Enchantment	$400.00 ^(400.00)
Bad Moon - 1993	Enchantment	$900.00 ^(900.00)
Badlands - 1993	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Balance - 1993	Sorcery	$1400.00 ^(1400.00)
Basalt Monolith - 1993	Artifact	$300.00 ^(300.00)
Bayou - 1993	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Benalish Hero - 1993	Creature	$25.00 ^(25.00)
Berserk - 1993	Instant	$500.00 ^(500.00)
Birds of Paradise - 1993	Creature	$3500.00 ^(3500.00)
Black Knight - 1993	Creature	$300.00 ^(300.00)
Black Lotus - 1993	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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Black Ward - 1993	Enchantment	$37.50 ^(37.50)
Blaze of Glory - 1993	Instant	$400.00 ^(400.00)
Blessing - 1993	Enchantment	$300.00 ^(300.00)
Blue Elemental Blast - 1993	Instant	$50.00 ^(50.00)
Blue Ward - 1993	Enchantment	$25.00 ^(25.00)
Bog Wraith - 1993	Creature	$85.00 ^(85.00)
Braingeyser - 1993	Sorcery	$2000.00 ^(2000.00)
Burrowing - 1993	Enchantment	$30.00 ^(30.00)
Camouflage - 1993	Instant	$40.00 ^(40.00)
Castle - 1993	Enchantment	$40.00 ^(40.00)
Celestial Prism - 1993	Artifact	$40.00 ^(40.00)
Channel - 1993	Sorcery	$250.00 ^(250.00)
Chaos Orb - 1993	Artifact	$6000.00 ^(6000.00)
Chaoslace - 1993	Instant	$250.00 ^(250.00)
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Contract from Below - 1993	Sorcery	$1000.00 ^(1000.00)
Control Magic - 1993	Enchantment	$250.00 ^(250.00)
Conversion - 1993	Enchantment	$25.00 ^(25.00)
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Craw Wurm - 1993	Creature	$30.00 ^(30.00)
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