It fears no sword and leaves no bones behind.

Acidic Slime

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When Acidic Slime enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

The most frightening storms are those not woven by nature's hand.

Ball Lightning

The creature is sacrificed at the end of every turn in which it is on the battlefield. There is no choice about what turn to sacrifice it.

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Ball Lightning.

"No symphony can compare to the melody of the ferrox's roar."

Beast Whisperer

An ability that triggers when a player casts a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Chord of Calling

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

If a creature you control has a mana ability with {T} in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with convoke will result in the creature being tapped before you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for convoke. Similarly, if you sacrifice a creature to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with convoke, that creature won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for convoke.

When calculating a spell's total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Convoke applies after the total cost is calculated. Convoke doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.

When using convoke to cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost, first choose the value for X. That choice, plus any cost increases or decreases, will determine the spell's total cost. Then you can tap creatures you control to help pay that cost. For example, if you cast Chord of Calling (a spell with convoke and mana cost {X}{G}{G}{G}) and choose X to be 3, the total cost is {3}{G}{G}{G}. If you tap two green creatures and two red creatures, you'll have to pay {1}{G}.

You can tap any untapped creature you control to convoke a spell, even one you haven't controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"That's a pretty ring! Trade you my knife for it."

Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

"It must be infuriating, to pour so much rage into your assault and see it wasted. Perhaps you'll learn something from this."

Dovin's Veto

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

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Dragonlord Atarka

If some of the targets are illegal targets as the ability tries to resolve, the original division of damage still applies but no damage is dealt to the illegal targets. If all targets are illegal, the ability doesn’t resolve.

You choose how many targets the ability has and how the damage is divided as you put the ability on the stack. Each target must receive at least 1 damage.

Flying, trample
When Dragonlord Atarka enters the battlefield, it deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers your opponents control.

"Nobody asked you to butt in, Jace. But thanks."
—Chandra Nalaar

Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

"I have watched over this land since the first seedling emerged from the primeval soil."

Eternal Witness

If a resolving spell puts Eternal Witness onto the battlefield, Eternal Witness's ability can target that card if it's put into your graveyard as it resolves.

When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Exalted Angel

You only gain the life when the triggered ability resolves. If you are reduced to zero life before the ability resolves, you will lose before gaining the life.

Flying
Whenever Exalted Angel deals damage, you gain that much life.
Morph {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

„Wir können den Wald ebenso wenig verlassen wie die Sterne den Nachthimmel."

Fyndhorn Elves

Glen Elendra Archmage

If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work.

If a creature with persist that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, persist won't trigger and the card won't return to the battlefield. That's because persist checks the creature's existence just before it leaves the battlefield, and it still has all those counters on it at that point.

If a permanent has multiple instances of persist, they'll each trigger separately, but the redundant instances will have no effect. If one instance returns the card to the battlefield, the next to resolve will do nothing.

If a token with no -1/-1 counters on it has persist, the ability will trigger when the token is put into the graveyard. However, the token will cease to exist and can't return to the battlefield.

If multiple creatures with persist are put into the graveyard at the same time (due to combat damage or a spell that destroys all creatures, for example), the active player (the player whose turn it is) puts all of their persist triggers on the stack in any order, then each other player in turn order does the same. The last trigger put on the stack is the first one that resolves. That means that in a two-player game, the nonactive player's persist creatures will return to the battlefield first, then the active player's persist creatures do the same. The creatures return to the battlefield one at a time.

The persist ability triggers when the permanent is put into a graveyard. Its last known information (that is, how the creature last existed on the battlefield) is used to determine whether it had a -1/-1 counter on it.

When a permanent with persist returns to the battlefield, it's a new object with no memory of or connection to its previous existence.

Flying
{U}, Sacrifice Glen Elendra Archmage: Counter target noncreature spell.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Goblin Rabblemaster

Although Goblin Rabblemaster doesn’t force itself to attack, if you control two of them, they’ll force each other to attack if able.

If, during your declare attackers step, a creature that must attack if able is tapped, is affected by a spell or ability that says it can’t attack, or hasn’t been under your control continuously since the turn began (and doesn’t have haste), then it doesn’t attack. If there’s a cost associated with having a creature attack, you’re not forced to pay that cost, so it doesn’t have to attack in that case either.

The number of attacking Goblins is counted as the last ability resolves, and the bonus is locked in at that time.

Other Goblin creatures you control attack each combat if able.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token with haste.
Whenever Goblin Rabblemaster attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking Goblin.

"The entire parish is gone. This was no execution. This was a massacre."
—Bishop Cawle of Elgaud

Harvester of Souls

If another nontoken creature dies at the same time as Harvester of Souls, its ability triggers for that creature.

Deathtouch
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Hornet Queen

Flying, deathtouch
When Hornet Queen enters the battlefield, create four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch.

Incluso los báloths le temen cuando es su hora de comer.

Kalonian Hydra

To double the number of +1/+1 counters on a creature, determine how many +1/+1 counters are on the creature and put that many more on it. Effects that interact with counters (such as the one created by Corpsejack Menace's ability) may change the number of counters ultimately put on the creature.

Trample
Kalonian Hydra enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever Kalonian Hydra attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

"Find shelter where none but the angels can reach you."
—Kor saying

Kor Haven

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{W}, {T}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking creature this turn.

Loyal Retainers

If a turn has multiple combat phases, the ability can only be activated before the beginning of the declare attackers step of the first combat phase in that turn.

Sacrifice Loyal Retainers: Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

If a spell or ability causes you to draw multiple cards, Niv-Mizzet's ability triggers that many times.

If dealing 1 damage to a permanent or player causes you to draw a card, perhaps because Niv-Mizzet is enchanted by Curiosity, you'll continue this loop until the loop is interrupted, perhaps by a player losing the game.

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind deals 1 damage to any target.
{T}: Draw a card.

Path of Ancestry

If Path of Ancestry's last ability produces two mana (most likely due to Mana Reflection), spending those two mana to cast creature spells that share a creature type with your commander will cause two abilities to trigger. Each of those abilities will cause you to scry 1. You won't scry 2. This is true whether you spend the mana on one creature spell or two.

If you cast your commander with mana from Path of Ancestry, and your commander hasn't somehow lost all of its creature types while on the stack, you'll scry 1.

If you don't have a commander, Path of Ancestry's ability produces no mana.

If your commander has no creature types, it can't share a creature type with any spell that you cast.

If your commander is a card that has no colors in its color identity, Path of Ancestry's ability produces no mana. It doesn't produce {C}.

If you have two commanders, the last ability adds one mana of any color in their combined color identities. When you spend that mana on a creature spell that shares a creature type with either of your commanders, you'll scry 1.

Your commander's creature types are checked immediately after you cast a creature spell spending mana from Path of Ancestry's last ability. They aren't set before the game begins, and they may not be the same types your commander had when you activated that ability.

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

She soars on wings of Serra's light, her sword of faith meting out justice to the wicked.

Serra Angel

What doesn't grow, dies. And what dies grows the tarmogoyf.

Tarmogoyf

If an instant or sorcery spell deals damage to Tarmogoyf or lowers its toughness, that spell is put into its owner's graveyard before state-based actions are performed. If that card is the first of its type to enter a graveyard, it will raise Tarmogoyf's toughness before the game checks to see if Tarmogoyf dies.

Tarmogoyf counts card types, not cards. If the only card in all graveyards is a single artifact creature, Tarmogoyf will be 2/3. If the only cards in all graveyards are ten artifact creatures, Tarmogoyf will still be 2/3.

The ability that defines Tarmogoyf's power and toughness works in all zones, not just the battlefield. If Tarmogoyf is in your graveyard, it will count itself.

The card types that can appear on cards in a graveyard are artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, land, planeswalker, and sorcery. Legendary, basic, and snow are supertypes, not card types.

Some older printings of this card reference the "tribal" card type in their reminder text. That card type's name has been replaced with "kindred". This change does not affect the gameplay function of those cards or of Tarmogoyf. (The same older printings of this card also fail to reference the "battle" card type, which didn't exist at the time, but Tarmogoyf's ability still counts that card type.)

Tarmogoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.

Those who bring nothing to the temple take nothing away.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Terastodon

The targeted permanents may be controlled by different players.

If a targeted permanent has indestructible or regenerates, its controller won't get an Elephant token for it. Similarly, if the targeted permanent is destroyed but a replacement effect moves it to a different zone instead of its owner's graveyard, its controller won't get an Elephant token for it.

When Terastodon enters the battlefield, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

The prince consort was happy to let Yotia's coffers fund his extravagant research.

Urza, Prince of Kroog

For Urza, Prince of Kroog's activated ability, the token copies exactly what was printed on the original permanent, with the listed exceptions, and nothing else (unless that permanent is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn't copy whether that permanent 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.

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

If the copied permanent is a token, the token created with Urza copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created that token, with the listed exceptions.

If the copied permanent is copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever that permanent copied, with the listed exceptions.

The token is a Soldier creature in addition to its other types. Its base power and toughness is 1/1. These are the copiable values of the token's characteristics that other effects may copy.

Artifact creatures you control get +2/+2.
{6}: Create a token that's a copy of target artifact you control, except it's a 1/1 Soldier creature in addition to its other types.

"Hol visto intere civiltà. sorgere e crollare. Voi mortali non siete che polvere per me."
—Sorin Markov

Vindicate

"Through the blood of the wicked, we shall be redeemed. Let us pray."

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Because Vito's first ability doesn't deal damage, you won't gain life when it resolves if Vito has lifelink.

Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, Vito's first ability will trigger twice and you may choose a different opponent for each trigger. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, and/or planeswalkers at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.

If an ability triggers whenever an opponent loses life and causes you to gain life, such as the ability of Exquisite Blood, this will loop until either you win the game or a player takes an action to break the loop.

If you gain an amount of life “for each” of something, that life is gained as one event and Vito's first ability triggers only once.

In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause the ability to trigger, even though it caused your team's life total to increase.

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
{3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Sometimes the wise ones wove their magic into living plants; as the plant grew, so grew the magic.

Wall of Roots

If you must sacrifice a creature to pay a casting or activation cost that also includes mana, such as that of Bubbling Cauldron's abilities, you may put a -0/-1 counter on Wall of Roots to make its toughness 0 and then sacrifice it to pay that cost.

Defender
Put a -0/-1 counter on Wall of Roots: Add {G}. Activate only once each turn.

"To fill your mind with knowledge, we must start by emptying it."
—Barrin, master wizard

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Every branch a crossroads, every vine a swift steed.

Wood Elves

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.

When Wood Elves enters the battlefield, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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Acidic Slime - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Ball Lightning - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Beast Whisperer - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Chord of Calling - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Deadly Dispute - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Dovin's Veto - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Dragonlord Atarka - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Dramatic Reversal - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Eternal Witness - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Exalted Angel - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Fyndhorn Elves - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Glen Elendra Archmage - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Goblin Rabblemaster - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Harvester of Souls - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Hornet Queen - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Kalonian Hydra - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Kor Haven - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Loyal Retainers - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Path of Ancestry - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Serra Angel - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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Temple of the False God - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Terastodon - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Urza, Prince of Kroog - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Vindicate - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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Wall of Roots - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Windfall - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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