Aerial Caravan

Flying
o1o
Uo
U: Remove the top card of your library from the game. Until end of turn, you may play that card as though it were in your hand. (Reveal the card as you remove it from the game.)

If you do not play the card by end of turn, it remains exiled. If you play it, it goes wherever the it would normally go when played.

Flying
{1}{U}{U}: Exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card. (Reveal the card as you exile it.)

Afterlife

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller puts a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying into play.

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Its mortar is mixed with waters straight from the Fountain of Cho.

Alabaster Wall

(Walls can't attack.)
oc
T: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

One distracts the victim, the other extracts the valuables.

Alley Grifters

Whenever Alley Grifters becomes blocked, defending player discards a card from his or her hand.

It triggers only once even if blocked by more than one creature.

Whenever Alley Grifters becomes blocked, defending player discards a card.

The masks, like the ancient trees they're grown from, lend strength to the dryads.

Ancestral Mask

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 for each other enchantment in play.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 for each other enchantment on the battlefield.

We all must profit for peace to last.
—Mercadian saying

Armistice

o3o
Woo
W You draw a card and target opponent gains 3 life.

{3}{W}{W}: You draw a card and target opponent gains 3 life.

He has the weapons, he has the connections, and he knows the hangar's dark secret.

Arms Dealer

o1o
R, Sacrifice a Goblin: Arms Dealer deals 4 damage to target creature.

You can sacrifice Arms Dealer to activate its own ability.

{1}{R}, Sacrifice a Goblin: Arms Dealer deals 4 damage to target creature.

Orim had no memory of the previous night—the first thing she could remember was waking up with the dead guard's blood on her hands.

Arrest

Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be played.

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

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Assembly Hall

o4, oc
T: Reveal a creature card in your hand, search your library for a copy of that card, and put the card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

You do not have to find a card if you do not want to.

{4}, {T}: Reveal a creature card in your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

The perfect antidote for a tightly packed formation.

Ballista Squad

o
Xo
W, oc
T: Ballista Squad deals X damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

{X}{W}, {T}: Ballista Squad deals X damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

The market festival turned out to be the high point of Jaffy's visit.

Balloon Peddler

o
U, oc
T, Discard a card from your hand: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

{U}, {T}, Discard a card: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Barbed Wire

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Barbed Wire deals 1 damage to that player.
o2: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt by Barbed Wire this turn.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Barbed Wire deals 1 damage to that player.
{2}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt by Barbed Wire this turn.

Although it looks like a game, business around the table is deadly serious.

Bargaining Table

o
X, oc
T: Draw a card. X is the number of cards in an opponent's hand.

You choose an opponent on announcement. This is not targeted, but a choice is still made. This choice is made before determining the value for X that is used in the cost.

{X}, {T}: Draw a card. X is the number of cards in an opponent's hand.

Battle Rampart

(Walls can't attack.)
oc
T: Target creature gains haste until end of turn. (That creature may attack and oc
T the turn it comes under your control.)

Defender
{T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

The goblins made an unruly pile with military precision.

Battle Squadron

Flying
Battle Squadron's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control.

Battle Squadron’s last ability applies in all zones. While it’s on the battlefield, it counts itself, so it’ll be at least 1/1.

Bifurcate

Search your library for a copy of target creature card in play and put that card into play. 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.

Search your library for a permanent card with the same name as target nontoken creature, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Black Market

Whenever a creature is put into a graveyard from play, put a charge counter on Black Market.
At the beginning of your precombat main phase, add o
B to your mana pool for each charge counter on Black Market.

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on Black Market.

Blaster Mage

o
R, oc
T, Discard a card from your hand: Destroy target Wall.

{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Destroy target Wall.

"I need to get back to Mercadia City," said Sisay. "We can get you there," the vizier answered. "Easily."

Blockade Runner

oo
U Blockade Runner is unblockable this turn.

{U}: Blockade Runner can't be blocked this turn.

Blood Hound

Whenever you're dealt damage, you may put that many +1/+1 counters on Blood Hound.
At the end of your turn, remove all +1/+1 counters from Blood Hound.

Whenever you're dealt damage, you may put that many +1/+1 counters on Blood Hound.
At the beginning of your end step, remove all +1/+1 counters from Blood Hound.

Blood Oath

Choose a card type. Target opponent reveals his or her hand. Blood Oath deals 3 damage to that player for each card of the chosen type revealed this way. (The card types are artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, and sorcery.)

Choose a card type. Target opponent reveals their hand. Blood Oath deals 3 damage to that player for each card of the chosen type revealed this way. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, land, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.)

Its eyes are bigger than its stomach, but its mouth is larger still.

Boa Constrictor

oc
T: Boa Constrictor gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

{T}: Boa Constrictor gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

They slide over the bog like oil across glass.

Bog Smugglers

Swampwalk (This creature is unblockable as long as defending player controls a swamp.)

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

The world is the body. The mana is the blood. The witch is the surgeon.

Bog Witch

o
B, oc
T, Discard a card from your hand: Add o
Bo
Bo
B to your mana pool.

"I see more than others do because I know where to look."
—Saprazzan vizier

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

You draw three cards and put two cards back all while Brainstorm is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions.

Anything can happen when patience is scarce and wine is abundant.

Brawl

Until end of turn, all creatures gain "oc
T: This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature."

Until end of turn, all creatures gain "{T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature."

As easily as the dryads could close a fist, so could the branches and underbrush entangle.

Briar Patch

Whenever a creature attacks you, it gets -1/-0 until end of turn.

In Mercadia City, loyalties extend only as far as your purse can stretch.

Bribery

Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card into play under your control. That player then shuffles his or her 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.

You put the creature onto the battlefield, so you control it and any "enters" abilities it has.

Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Saprazzan merfolk become legged on land, but some find it quicker to bring the water with them.

Buoyancy

You may play Buoyancy any time you could play an instant.
Enchanted creature has flying.

Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has flying.

The touch of his madness can drive anyone into a killing frenzy.

Cackling Witch

o
Xo
B, oc
T, Discard a card from your hand: Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

{X}{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Caller of the Hunt

As you play Caller of the Hunt, choose a creature type.
Caller of the Hunt's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures in play of the chosen type.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, choose a creature type.
Caller of the Hunt's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures of the chosen type on the battlefield.

The Cateran guild prefers to call them "public relations."

Cateran Brute

o2, oc
T: Search your library for a Mercenary card with converted mana cost 2 or less and put that card into play. Then shuffle your library.

{2}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 2 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Cateran Enforcer

Cateran Enforcer can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and black creatures.
o4, oc
T: Search your library for a Mercenary card with converted mana cost 4 or less and put that card into play. Then shuffle your library.

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
{4}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 4 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Cateran Kidnappers

o3, oc
T: Search your library for a Mercenary card with converted mana cost 3 or less and put that card into play. Then shuffle your library.

{3}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Cateran Overlord

Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate Cateran Overlord.
o6, oc
T: Search your library for a Mercenary card with converted mana cost 6 or less and put that card into play. Then shuffle your library.

Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate Cateran Overlord.
{6}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 6 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Cateran Persuader

o1, oc
T: Search your library for a Mercenary card with converted mana cost 1 or less and put that card into play. Then shuffle your library.

{1}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 1 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Cateran Slaver

Swampwalk (This creature is unblockable as long as defending player controls a swamp.)
o5, oc
T: Search your library for a Mercenary card with converted mana cost 5 or less and put that card into play. Then shuffle your library.

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
{5}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 5 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Even when recruitment is slow, the guild can always cook something up.

Cateran Summons

Search your library for a Mercenary card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Search your library for a Mercenary card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Even the wasp knows how to pay the magistrate his due respect.

Caustic Wasps

Flying
Whenever Caustic Wasps deals combat damage to a player, you may destroy target artifact that player controls.

Cave Sense

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has mountainwalk. (It's unblockable as long as defending player controls a mountain.)

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has mountainwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)

Cave-In

You may remove a red card in your hand from the game instead of paying Cave-In's mana cost.
Cave-In deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

You may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Cave-In deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

Cavern Crawler

Mountainwalk (This creature is unblockable as long as defending player controls a mountain.)
oo
R Cavern Crawler gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)
{R}: Cavern Crawler gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

"These guards are the most disciplined military unit in the city. They couldn't fight their way out of a broom closet, but they've got discipline."
—Gerrard, to Sisay

Ceremonial Guard

When Ceremonial Guard attacks or blocks, destroy it at end of combat.

What's merely a home for the nautilus can become exquisite jewelry in the hands of Saprazzan artisans.

Chambered Nautilus

Whenever Chambered Nautilus becomes blocked, you may draw a card.

Chameleon Spirit

As Chameleon Spirit comes into play, choose a color.
Chameleon Spirit's power and toughness are each equal to the number of permanents of the chosen color your opponents control.

As Chameleon Spirit enters, choose a color.
Chameleon Spirit's power and toughness are each equal to the number of permanents of the chosen color your opponents control.

It was Gerrard's nature to lead and the Mercadians' to follow.

Charisma

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a creature, you control that creature as long as Charisma remains in play.

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a creature, gain control of the other creature for as long as Charisma remains on the battlefield.

Charm Peddler

o
W, oc
T, Discard a card from your hand: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, prevent that damage.

{W}, {T}, Discard a card: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, prevent that damage.

Are you sure you can afford such a luxury?

Charmed Griffin

Flying
When Charmed Griffin comes into play, each other player may put an artifact or enchantment card into play from his or her hand.

Flying
When Charmed Griffin enters, each other player may put an artifact or enchantment card onto the battlefield from their hand.

Cho-Arrim Alchemist

o1o
Wo
W, oc
T, Discard a card from your hand: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage and gain that much life.

{1}{W}{W}, {T}, Discard a card: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

He doesn't know why the Cho-Arrim fight the Mercadians, but he's happy to bash heads for them anyway.

Cho-Arrim Bruiser

Whenever Cho-Arrim Bruiser attacks, you may tap up to two target creatures.

Cho-Arrim Legate

Protection from black
If an opponent controls a swamp and you control a plains, you may play Cho-Arrim Legate without paying its mana cost.

If an opponent controls a Swamp and you control a Plains, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Protection from black

Cho-Manno's Blessing

You may play Cho-Manno's Blessing any time you could play an instant.
As Cho-Manno's Blessing comes into play, choose a color.
Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove Cho-Manno's Blessing.

Flash
Enchant creature
As Cho-Manno's Blessing enters, choose a color.
Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove Cho-Manno's Blessing.

"Mercadia's masks can no longer hide the truth. Our day has come at last."
—Cho-Manno

Cho-Manno, Revolutionary

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Cho-Manno, Revolutionary.

Their rage can grow to such proportions that they explode in a cloud of fire.

Cinder Elemental

o
Xo
R, oc
T, Sacrifice Cinder Elemental: Cinder Elemental deals X damage to target creature or player.

{X}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Cinder Elemental: It deals X damage to any target.

Clear the Land

Each player reveals the top five cards of his or her library, puts into play tapped all land cards revealed this way, and removes the rest from the game.

Each player reveals the top five cards of their library, puts all land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield tapped, and exiles the rest.

The Mercadians' ineptitude in close combat sometimes accidentally pays off.

Close Quarters

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, Close Quarters deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, Close Quarters deals 1 damage to any target.

Card (350)	Type	^{$202.75 (3762.21)} Price
Aerial Caravan - 1997	Creature	$0.08 ^(3.00)
Afterlife - 1997	Instant	$0.02 ^(2.52)
Alabaster Wall - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.05)
Alley Grifters - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(1.50)
Ancestral Mask - 1997	Enchantment	$1.50 ^(11.50)
Armistice - 1997	Enchantment	$0.10 ^(3.00)
Arms Dealer - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(10.02)
Arrest - 1997	Enchantment	$0.05 ^(1.50)
Assembly Hall - 1997	Artifact	$0.08 ^(11.00)
Ballista Squad - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.77)
Balloon Peddler - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(1.50)
Barbed Wire - 1997	Artifact	$5.00 ^(23.00)
Bargaining Table - 1997	Artifact	$0.15 ^(5.00)
Battle Rampart - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.15)
Battle Squadron - 1997	Creature	$0.15 ^(7.15)
Bifurcate - 1997	Sorcery	$0.08 ^(5.08)
Black Market - 1997	Enchantment	$5.00 ^(40.00)
Blaster Mage - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.02)
Blockade Runner - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.02)
Blood Hound - 1997	Creature	$0.10 ^(4.00)
Blood Oath - 1997	Instant	$0.10 ^(4.00)
Boa Constrictor - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.02)
Bog Smugglers - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.05)
Bog Witch - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(5.00)
Brainstorm - 1997	Instant	$0.75 ^(280.75)
Brawl - 1997	Instant	$0.08 ^(5.08)
Briar Patch - 1997	Enchantment	$0.02 ^(2.50)
Bribery - 1997	Sorcery	$7.50 ^(77.50)
Buoyancy - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.75)
Cackling Witch - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.75)
Caller of the Hunt - 1997	Creature	$0.15 ^(6.65)
Cateran Brute - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(1.50)
Cateran Enforcer - 1997	Creature	$0.05 ^(4.00)
Cateran Kidnappers - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(2.00)
Cateran Overlord - 1997	Creature	$0.08 ^(27.08)
Cateran Persuader - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.75)
Cateran Slaver - 1997	Creature	$0.08 ^(7.08)
Cateran Summons - 1997	Sorcery	$0.10 ^(10.10)
Caustic Wasps - 1997	Creature	$0.50 ^(5.00)
Cave Sense - 1997	Enchantment	$0.02 ^(0.17)
Cave-In - 1997	Sorcery	$3.00 ^(26.00)
Cavern Crawler - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.02)
Ceremonial Guard - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.05)
Chambered Nautilus - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(2.00)
Chameleon Spirit - 1997	Creature	$0.05 ^(0.50)
Charisma - 1997	Enchantment	$5.00 ^(24.00)
Charm Peddler - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.05)
Charmed Griffin - 1997	Creature	$0.05 ^(1.50)
Cho-Arrim Alchemist - 1997	Creature	$0.08 ^(4.08)
Cho-Arrim Bruiser - 1997	Creature	$0.08 ^(3.00)

Mercadian Masques