The Izzet quickly suspended their policy of lifetime guarantees.

Abrupt Decay

Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities.
Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.

A spell or ability that counters spells can still target Abrupt Decay. When that spell or ability resolves, Abrupt Decay won't be countered, but any additional effects of the countering spell or ability will still happen.

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

The mana value of a token that isn't a copy of another object is 0. A token that is a copy of another object has the same mana cost as that object.

If you target a creature with ward, you may still pay the ward cost, but Abrupt Decay won't be countered even if you don't.

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.

It rides to a chorus of whispers that are more felt than heard.

Abyssal Specter

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

The consciousness of Mat'Selesnya does not always spread in peaceful ways.

Advent of the Wurm

Create a 5/5 green Wurm creature token with trample.

Aethermage's Touch

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. It gains "At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to its owner's hand." Then put the rest of the cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

If the creature that you put onto the battlefield leaves the battlefield before your next end step, it won't be returned to your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

If you don't reveal any creature cards, or if you choose not to put a revealed creature card onto the battlefield, all the revealed cards go on the bottom of your library.

If you put a creature onto the battlefield this way during your end step, it won't be returned to your hand until your next end step.

The triggered ability that the creature gains won't be copied if an effect creates a token that's a copy of that creature or causes another object to become a copy of that creature.

Aethertow

Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.
Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)

Agent of Masks

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Life's circle has become inverted in Grixis. The same energy is endlessly recycled and becomes more stagnant with each pass.

Agony Warp

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.
Target creature gets -0/-3 until end of turn.

The two targets may be the same creature or they may be different creatures.

If there's anything a werewolf hates, it's a collar—especially Avacyn's Collar, the symbol of her church.

Ancient Grudge

Destroy target artifact.
Flashback {G} (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."

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.

Arachnus Spinner

Reach
Tap an untapped Spider you control: Search your graveyard and/or library for a card named Arachnus Web and put it onto the battlefield attached to target creature. If you search your library this way, shuffle it.

If you choose to search your library this way, you don’t have to find a card named Arachnus Web, even if one is there. You’ll still shuffle your library after searching it.

You can tap any untapped Spider you control, including one you haven’t controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn, to pay the cost of Arachnus Spinner’s activated ability. You can even tap Arachnus Spinner itself to pay this cost.

You may search both your graveyard and your library, but you can find a maximum of one card named Arachnus Web.

Reach
Tap an untapped Spider you control: Search your graveyard and/or library for a card named Arachnus Web and put it onto the battlefield attached to target creature. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Arachnus Web

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
At the beginning of the end step, if enchanted creature's power is 4 or greater, destroy Arachnus Web.

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

Arachnus Web’s triggered ability checks at the beginning of each end step, not just yours.

If Arachnus Web enters the battlefield attached to an attacking or blocking creature (due to Arachnus Spinner’s ability, for example), that creature will continue to attack or block.

If Arachnus Web’s last ability triggers, but the enchanted creature’s power is reduced to 3 or less before the ability resolves, the ability will have no effect. Arachnus Web won’t be destroyed.

If the enchanted creature’s power isn’t 4 or greater when the end step begins, the last ability won’t trigger at all.

Triggered abilities (starting with “when,” “whenever,” or “at”) are unaffected.

"We must rely on our own knowledge, not on the dogma of the seekers or the mutterings of the sphinxes."
—Tullus of Palandius

Arcane Sanctum

Arcane Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B} to your mana pool.

Arcane Sanctum enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.

Arid Mesa

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Arid Mesa: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Arid Mesa: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

The virtues of knighthood are best taught in the field.

Attended Knight

First strike
When Attended Knight enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

First strike
When Attended Knight enters, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

"Finally, a weapon the Boros can't confiscate!"
—Juri, proprietor of the Juri Revue

Auger Spree

Target creature gets +4/-4 until end of turn.

Augur of Bolas

When Augur of Bolas enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

If there are fewer than three cards in your library when Augur of Bolas’s ability resolves, you’ll look at the remaining cards. This won’t cause you to lose the game as you haven’t drawn from an empty library.

You don’t reveal the other two cards, nor do you reveal their order on the bottom of the library.

When Augur of Bolas enters, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"Avacyn's protection is everywhere. From the holy church to the sacred glade, all that we see is under her blessed watch."

Avacyn's Pilgrim

The Azorius symbol stares down like a great eye, reminding visitors of the watchful presence of Isperia and her lawmages.

Azorius Guildgate

Azorius Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U} to your mana pool.

The subtype Gate has no special rules significance, but other spells and abilities may refer to it.

Azorius Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

The maze-like design embodies the core of Azorius law—strict structure designed to test wills and stall change.

Azorius Signet

"We draw our power from the infinite ocean of the mind, where all manner of things can be conceived."
—Azure creed

Azure Mage

Baloth Cage Trap

If an opponent had an artifact enter the battlefield under his or her control this turn, you may pay {1}{G} rather than pay Baloth Cage Trap's mana cost.
Create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

Casting a Trap by paying its alternative cost doesn’t change its mana cost or mana value. The only difference is the cost you actually pay.

Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast a Trap will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay.

You may ignore a Trap’s alternative cost condition and simply cast it for its normal mana cost. This is true even if its alternative cost condition has been met.

If an opponent had an artifact enter the battlefield under their control this turn, you may pay {1}{G} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

Banishing Stroke

Put target artifact, creature, or enchantment on the bottom of its owner's library.
Miracle {W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

If an effect puts a card into your hand without using the word “draw,” the card wasn’t drawn.

If the card with miracle leaves your hand before the triggered ability resolves, you won’t be able to cast it using its miracle ability.

It’s important to reveal a card with miracle before it is mixed with the other cards in your hand.

Miracle is an alternative cost to cast the spell with miracle. It can’t be combined with other alternative costs, such as casting a spell “without paying its mana cost.”

Multiple card draws are always treated as a sequence of individual card draws. For example, if you haven’t drawn any cards yet during a turn and cast a spell that instructs you to draw three cards, you’ll draw them one at a time. Only the first card drawn this way may be revealed and cast using its miracle ability.

To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a miracle cost) you’re paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

You can cast a card for its miracle cost only as the miracle triggered ability resolves. If you don’t want to cast it at that time (or you can’t cast it, perhaps because there are no legal targets available), you won’t be able to cast it later for the miracle cost.

You can reveal and cast a card with miracle on any turn, not just your own, if it’s the first card you’ve drawn that turn.

You cast the card with miracle during the resolution of the triggered ability. Ignore any timing rules based on the card’s type.

You don’t have to reveal a drawn card with miracle if you don’t wish to cast it at that time.

You still draw the card, whether you use the miracle ability or not. Any ability that triggers whenever you draw a card, for example, will trigger. If you don’t cast the card using its miracle ability, it will remain in your hand.

During their endless travels, the mages of the Goma Fada caravan have learned ways to harness both life and death.

Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink.
Equip {2}

The shaman rattles not to inspire a battle fury but to drown out the shrieks of those fleeing the Eldrazi.

Battle-Rattle Shaman

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have target creature get +2/+0 until end of turn.

Battle-Rattle Shaman's ability triggers when the beginning of combat step starts during each of your turns. It resolves before you declare attackers.

If a spell or ability causes your turn to have multiple combat phases, Battle Rattle Shaman's ability triggers during each of them.

Blade Splicer

When Blade Splicer enters the battlefield, create a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token.
Golem creatures you control have first strike.

When Blade Splicer enters, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token.
Golems you control have first strike.

Heavy light flooded across the landscape, cloaking everything in deep crimson.

Blood Moon

If a nonbasic land has an ability that causes it to enter the battlefield tapped, it will lose that ability before it can apply. The same is also true of any other abilities that modify how a land enters the battlefield or apply "as" a land enters the battlefield, such as the first ability of Cavern of Souls.

If a nonbasic land has an ability that triggers "when" it enters the battlefield, it will lose that ability before it can trigger.

Nonbasic lands will lose any other land types and abilities they had. They will gain the land type Mountain and gain the ability "{T}: Add {R}."

This effect doesn't affect names or supertypes. It won't turn any land into a basic land or remove the legendary supertype from a legendary land, and the lands won't be named "Mountain."

Witches of the Split-Eye Coven speak of a future when Grixis will overflow with life energy. For now, they must harvest vis from the living to fuel their dark magics.

Bone Splinters

As an additional cost to cast Bone Splinters, sacrifice a creature.
Destroy target creature.

Once you begin to cast Bone Splinters, no player may take actions until you’re done. Notably, opponents can’t try to remove the creature you wish to sacrifice.

You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you can’t cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you can’t sacrifice additional creatures.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Destroy target creature.

Bonfire of the Damned

Bonfire of the Damned deals X damage to target player and each creature he or she controls.
Miracle {X}{R} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

A mana cost of {X}{X} means that you pay twice X. If you want X to be 3, you pay {6}{R} to cast Bonfire of the Damned.

Bonfire of the Damned targets only the player. Creatures with shroud or hexproof that player controls will be dealt damage by Bonfire of the Damned if it resolves.

Bonfire of the Damned’s mana value is based on its mana cost of {X}{X}{R}, even if you’re casting it for its miracle cost. For example, if you cast Bonfire of the Damned for its miracle cost and choose 4 for X, its mana value is 9.

If the player is an illegal target when Bonfire of the Damned tries to resolve, the spell won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. No damage will be dealt to any permanent or player.

Preventing some or all of the damage dealt to the player won’t affect the amount of damage dealt to each creature that player controls. The same is true for any effect that increases or decreases the amount of damage dealt to the player.

Bonfire of the Damned deals X damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.
Miracle {X}{R} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

It promises protection to those in need and proclaims a warning to any who would threaten Ravnican law.

Boros Guildgate

Boros Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {W} to your mana pool.

Boros Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

"Imagine a thunderstorm that's also a tactical genius. That's him."
—Dars Gostok, Firefist captain

Boros Reckoner

Whenever Boros Reckoner is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target creature or player.
{GU}: Boros Reckoner gains first strike until end of turn.

Boros Reckoner's first ability will trigger even if it is dealt lethal damage. For example, if it blocks a 7/7 creature, its ability will trigger and Boros Reckoner will deal 7 damage to the target.

Damage dealt by Boros Reckoner due to its first ability isn't combat damage, even if it was combat damage that caused that ability to trigger.

If Boros Reckoner is dealt damage by multiple sources at once, such as by two creatures blocking it, its ability triggers once and one target is dealt that much damage.

Whenever Boros Reckoner is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to any target.
{R/W}: Boros Reckoner gains first strike until end of turn.

"Have you ever held a Boros signet? There's a weight to it that belies its size—a weight of strength and of pride."
—Agrus Kos

Boros Signet

They fight for their home with more loyalty than any conscript.

Bronzebeak Moa

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, Bronzebeak Moa gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Whenever another creature you control enters, Bronzebeak Moa gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Frozen in fear, the goblins stared upward at the circling hunter—and were promptly eaten by its diving mate.

Broodmate Dragon

Flying
When Broodmate Dragon enters the battlefield, create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying.

Flying
When Broodmate Dragon enters, create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying.

Those who regard the Gruul as savage simpletons underestimate the subtle power of their shamans.

Burning-Tree Emissary

When Burning-Tree Emissary enters the battlefield, add {R}{G} to your mana pool.

Burning-Tree Emissary’s ability isn’t a mana ability. It uses the stack and can be responded to.

When Burning-Tree Emissary enters, add {R}{G}.

Cackling Counterpart

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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

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

If the copied creature is a token, the token that's created copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created the token.

If the copied creature is copying something else (for example, if the copied creature is an Evil Twin), then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that creature copied.

The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature and nothing else (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 and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.

Centaurs are sent to evangelize in Gruul territories where words of war speak louder than prayers of peace.

Call of the Conclave

Create a 3/3 green Centaur creature token.

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.)

“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.”

Not the foulest or bloodiest act at Rix Maadi by a stretch.

Carnage Gladiator

Whenever a creature blocks, that creature's controller loses 1 life.
{1}{B}{R}: Regenerate Carnage Gladiator.

Carnage Gladiator’s ability triggers whenever any creature blocks, regardless of who controls that creature or which creature it blocked.

If a creature can block multiple creatures and does so, Carnage Gladiator’s ability triggers only once.

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C} to your mana pool.
{T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

The spell can't be countered if the mana produced by Cavern of Souls is spent to cover any cost of the spell, even an additional cost such as a kicker cost. This is true even if you use the mana to pay an additional cost while casting a spell "without paying its mana cost."

You must choose an existing creature type, such as Human or Warrior. Card types such as artifact can't be chosen.

As Cavern of Souls enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Instructors at the Kasarna training grounds are capable healers in case their students fail to grasp the subtleties of combat.

Centaur Healer

When Centaur Healer enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

When Centaur Healer enters, you gain 3 life.

Chandra never believed in using her "inside voice."

Chandra's Outrage

Chandra's Outrage deals 4 damage to target creature and 2 damage to that creature's controller.

If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Chandra's Outrage tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. No player is dealt damage.

Snaking remnants of nature directed by a body of thought and progress, the oracles embody all that is Simic.

Coiling Oracle

When Coiling Oracle enters the battlefield, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

When Coiling Oracle enters, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

"Four parts molten bronze, yes . . . one part frozen mercury, yes, yes . . . but then what?"

Compulsive Research

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless he or she discards a land card.

The target player can discard either one land card or two cards which may or may not be lands. The player can discard one land and one other card or two land cards if they choose.

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.

Corpse Connoisseur

When Corpse Connoisseur enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a creature card and put that card into your graveyard. If you do, shuffle your library.
Unearth {3}{B} ({3}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Activating a creature card’s unearth ability isn’t the same as casting the creature card. The unearth ability is put on the stack, but the creature card is not. Spells and abilities that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle) will interact with unearth, but spells and abilities that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul) will not.

At the beginning of the end step, a creature returned to the battlefield with unearth is exiled. This is a delayed triggered ability, and it can be countered by effects such as Stifle or Voidslime that counter triggered abilities. If the ability is countered, the creature will stay on the battlefield and the delayed trigger won’t trigger again. However, the replacement effect will still exile the creature when it eventually leaves the battlefield.

When Corpse Connoisseur enters, you may search your library for a creature card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Unearth {3}{B} ({3}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

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Abrupt Decay	Instant	$0.50 ^(4.50)
Abyssal Specter	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Advent of the Wurm	Instant	$0.10 ^(0.15)
Aethermage's Touch	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.15)
Aethertow	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Agent of Masks	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Agony Warp	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Ancient Grudge	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Arachnus Spinner	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.05)
Arachnus Web	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Arcane Sanctum	Land	$0.15 ^(1.65)
Arid Mesa	Land	$22.00 ^(41.00)
Attended Knight	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Auger Spree	Instant	$0.15 ^(0.00)
Augur of Bolas	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.17)
Avacyn's Pilgrim	Creature	$0.15 ^(1.65)
Azorius Guildgate	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Azorius Signet	Artifact	$0.05 ^(1.55)
Azure Mage	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Baloth Cage Trap	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Banishing Stroke	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Basilisk Collar	Artifact	$1.50 ^(4.00)
Battle-Rattle Shaman	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Blade Splicer	Creature	$0.08 ^(0.58)
Blood Moon	Enchantment	$6.50 ^(13.00)
Bone Splinters	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bonfire of the Damned	Sorcery	$2.00 ^(6.00)
Boros Guildgate	Land	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Boros Reckoner	Creature	$0.08 ^(0.83)
Boros Signet	Artifact	$0.15 ^(2.15)
Bronzebeak Moa	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Broodmate Dragon	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.15)
Burning-Tree Emissary	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Cackling Counterpart	Instant	$0.10 ^(2.00)
Call of the Conclave	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Call of the Herd	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Carnage Gladiator	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cavern of Souls	Land	$36.00 ^(74.00)
Centaur Healer	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Chandra's Outrage	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Coiling Oracle	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Compulsive Research	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Corpse Connoisseur	Creature	$0.05 ^(0.20)
Cower in Fear	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Craterhoof Behemoth	Creature	$28.00 ^(61.00)
Crippling Chill	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cruel Ultimatum	Sorcery	$0.15 ^(2.15)
Crumbling Necropolis	Land	$0.05 ^(1.55)
Cyclonic Rift	Instant	$28.00 ^(56.00)
Damnation	Sorcery	$16.00 ^(34.00)

Modern Masters 2017