Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, 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.

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.

Avatar of Woe

If there are ten or more creature cards total in all graveyards, Avatar of Woe costs {6} less to cast.
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
{T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

The mana value of this card is still 8, even if you only pay {B}{B} to cast it.

If there are ten or more creature cards total in all graveyards, this spell costs {6} less to cast.
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
{T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

"Through the haze of battle I saw the glint of sun on golden mane, the sheen of glory clad in mail, and I dropped my sword and wept at the idiocy of war."
—Dravin, Gruul deserter

Blazing Archon

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

The scrape of shovels and the tumble of cold dirt soon muffled their pleas.

Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards and put them into your graveyard. Then shuffle your library.

You can look in your library and then choose to find any number from zero to three creatures after you look at it.

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Cabal Therapy

Name a nonland card. Target player reveals his or her hand and discards all cards with that name.
Flashback—
Sacrifice a creature. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

You name the card as Cabal Therapy resolves, not as you cast it. Then the targeted player reveals their hand and discards if appropriate. No player may choose to take actions between you naming the card and the targeted player revealing and discarding.

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.

“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.”

Choose a nonland card name. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards with that name.
Flashback—Sacrifice a creature. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Crosis, the Purger

Flying
Whenever Crosis, the Purger deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{B}. If you do, choose a color, then that player reveals his or her hand and discards all cards of that color.

You choose the color during resolution. This means your opponent does not get to react after knowing the color you chose.

Flying
Whenever Crosis, the Purger deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{B}. If you do, choose a color, then that player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.

Crystal Vein

{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.
{T}, Sacrifice Crystal Vein: Add {2} to your mana pool.

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Crystal Vein: Add {C}{C}.

Diabolic Servitude

When Diabolic Servitude enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
When the creature put onto the battlefield with Diabolic Servitude dies, exile it and return Diabolic Servitude to its owner's hand.
When Diabolic Servitude leaves the battlefield, exile the creature put onto the battlefield with Diabolic Servitude.

If the creature is on the battlefield and is returned to its owner’s hand or is exiled, this card loses track of the creature and has no further effects in the future.

Those who forget the horrors of the past are doomed to re-meet them.

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—
Sacrifice three creatures. (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."

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 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.

You choose the target for Dread Return before paying any of its costs, so it's not possible to cast it using flashback and bring back one of the creatures you sacrifice.

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one."
—Liliana Vess

Duress

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Ebon Stronghold

Ebon Stronghold enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B} to your mana pool.
{T}, Sacrifice Ebon Stronghold: Add {B}{B} to your mana pool.

Ebon Stronghold enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}, Sacrifice Ebon Stronghold: Add {B}{B}.

A grave is the safest place to store ill-gotten treasures.

Entomb

Search your library for a card and put that card into your graveyard. Then shuffle your library.

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

"Death—an outmoded concept. We sleep, and we change."
—Sitrik, birth priest

Exhume

Each player puts a creature card from his or her graveyard onto the battlefield.

Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.

Faceless Butcher

When Faceless Butcher enters the battlefield, exile target creature other than Faceless Butcher.
When Faceless Butcher leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Faceless Butcher’s first ability isn’t optional. If no other players control any creatures and you do, you must choose a creature you control as the target.

If Faceless Butcher exiles a second Faceless Butcher, and then a third Faceless Butcher comes along and exiles the first one, the second one will return to the battlefield. If there are no other creatures on the battlefield, the second will exile the third one, returning the first one, and so on. If no one can stop the loop, the game will be a draw.

If Faceless Butcher exiles a token creature, the token will cease to exist after being exiled. It won’t return to the battlefield because of the second ability.

When Faceless Butcher enters the battlefield, exile another target creature.
When Faceless Butcher leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

If the presence of evil were obvious, it wouldn't be nearly as dangerous.

Hidden Horror

When Hidden Horror enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you discard a creature card.

If the creature is no longer on the battlefield when the ability resolves, you may still perform the action if you want.

When the ability resolves, you choose whether to sacrifice the creature or perform the other action. If you can’t perform the other action, then you must sacrifice the creature.

"Into its maw went the seventh sea, never to be seen again while the world remains."
—Esper fable

Inkwell Leviathan

Trample
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Last Rites

Discard any number of cards. Target player reveals his or her hand, then you choose a nonland card from it for each card discarded this way. That player discards those cards.

Discard any number of cards. Target player reveals their hand, then you choose a nonland card from it for each card discarded this way. That player discards those cards.

Polluted Mire

Polluted Mire enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B} to your mana pool.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Polluted Mire enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Putrid Imp

Discard a card: Putrid Imp gains flying until end of turn.
Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Putrid Imp gets +1/+1 and can't block.

"You will learn to earn death."
—Volrath

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost.

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

If any abilities trigger on the creature entering the battlefield, those abilities resolve after you lose life. If losing life results in you losing the game, those abilities won't resolve.

In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, the creature you control from Reanimate is exiled.

The amount of life you lose is determined by the mana value of the card in your graveyard, not the creature once it's on the battlefield.

You lose life after the creature is already on the battlefield. Any abilities it has that interact with loss of life, such as that of Platinum Emperion, apply to that loss of life.

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sickening Dreams

As an additional cost to cast Sickening Dreams, discard X cards.
Sickening Dreams deals X damage to each creature and each player.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.
Sickening Dreams deals X damage to each creature and each player.

No one has properly answered her favorite riddle: "Why should I spare your life?"

Sphinx of the Steel Wind

Flying, first strike, vigilance, lifelink, protection from red and from green

Swamp

Terastodon

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 puts a 3/3 green Elephant creature token onto the battlefield.

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.

Twisted Abomination

{B}: Regenerate Twisted Abomination.
Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Swampcycling is a form of cycling. Any ability that triggers on a card being cycled also triggers on Swampcycling this card. Any ability that stops a cycling ability from being activated also stops Swampcycling from being activated.

Swampcycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with Swampcycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not.

Unlike the normal cycling ability, Swampcycling doesn't allow you to draw a card. Instead, it lets you search your library for a Swamp card. After you find a Swamp card in your library, you reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

You can choose to find any card with the Swamp land type, including nonbasic lands. You can also choose not to find a card, even if there is a Swamp card in your library.

{B}: Regenerate Twisted Abomination.
Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Left to itself, nature overflows any container, overthrows any restriction, and overreaches any boundary.

Verdant Force

At the beginning of each upkeep, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

In Two-Headed Giant, triggers only once per upkeep, not once for each player.

Verdant Force’s ability triggers at the beginning of each upkeep, not just each of your upkeeps.

At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

The nomads' funeral pyres are more practical than ceremonial.

Zombie Infestation

Discard two cards: Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Discard two cards: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

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Avatar of Woe - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Blazing Archon - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Buried Alive - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cabal Therapy - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Crosis, the Purger - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Crystal Vein - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Diabolic Servitude - 2003	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Dread Return - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Duress - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Ebon Stronghold - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Entomb - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Exhume - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Faceless Butcher - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Hidden Horror - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Inkwell Leviathan - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Last Rites - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Polluted Mire - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Putrid Imp - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Reanimate - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Sickening Dreams - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Sphinx of the Steel Wind - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Swamp - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Swamp - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Swamp - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Swamp - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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Verdant Force - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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