"My mother once told me angels sing their swords' names with each strike."
—Sisay, Captain of the Weatherlight

Archangel

"Things are going to change around here."
—Crovax

Ascendant Evincar

If Ascendant Evincar stops being black, it gives itself -1/-1.

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Other black creatures get +1/+1.
Nonblack creatures get -1/-1.

Avalanche Riders

Haste
Echo {3}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When Avalanche Riders enters, destroy target land.

Blue Elemental Blast

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.

Bone Shredder

Paying for echo is always optional. When the echo triggered ability resolves, if you can't pay the echo cost or choose not to, you sacrifice that permanent.

Your permanent's echo ability will trigger at the beginning of your upkeep if it entered the battlefield since the beginning of your last upkeep, or if you gained control of it since the beginning of your last upkeep.

Flying
Echo {2}{B} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When Bone Shredder enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.

「誰でも死後に思い出してもらえるかは心配なもの。でも心配ないわ、死は名も無き者のものよ。あなたに名前がある限リ、それを堂々と掲げなさい。」
――リリアナ

Cast Down

"Her mind is an incredible mix of emotion and power. Even if I could grasp it, I couldn't hold it for long."
—Jace Beleren, on Chandra Nalaar

Chandra's Outrage

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.

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

"I've lit most everything on fire—trees, rocks, even the water. Now it's time to burn the clouds."

Chandra's Spitfire

Combat damage is the damage that’s dealt automatically by attacking and blocking creatures. Any other damage is noncombat damage, even if it’s dealt during a combat phase by an attacking or blocking creature.

In a multiplayer game, if a source deals damage to multiple opponents at the same time, the last ability of Chandra’s Spitfire will trigger as many times as there are opponents who were dealt damage.

The last ability of Chandra’s Spitfire triggers just once for each event in which an opponent is dealt noncombat damage, regardless of how much damage that player is dealt.

Flying
Whenever an opponent is dealt noncombat damage, Chandra's Spitfire gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

Counterspell

Crop Rotation

You can’t cast Crop Rotation without sacrificing a land, and you can’t sacrifice additional lands.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Culling the Weak

You sacrifice a creature when casting the spell and you can’t sacrifice more than one creature to get extra mana.

Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell.

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

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

"I see the weaknesses you hide even from yourself."

Cunning Sparkmage

Haste
{T}: Cunning Sparkmage deals 1 damage to any target.

Cut Down

The total power and toughness of a creature is determined by adding its power and toughness. For example, the total power and toughness of a 3/2 creature is 5.

Destroy target creature with total power and toughness 5 or less.

「ファイレクシアは虚空から生まれた。 機械の父、偉大なるヨーグモスはその完成された形を予見なされた。 かくして『偉大なる進化』が始まった。」
———ファイレクシア経典

Dark Ritual

One part unstoppable force, one part immovable object.

Darksteel Juggernaut

If, during your declare attackers step, Darksteel Juggernaut is tapped, is affected by a spell or ability that says it can't attack, or is affected by “summoning sickness,” then it doesn't attack. If there's a cost associated with having Darksteel Juggernaut attack, you aren't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack in that case either.

Lethal damage and effects that say “destroy” won't cause Darksteel Juggernaut to be put into the graveyard. However, it can be put into the graveyard for a number of other reasons. The most likely reasons are if its toughness is 0 or less or it's sacrificed.

Since Darksteel Juggernaut is itself an artifact, its power and toughness will always be at least 1 while it's on the battlefield (unless a spell or ability somehow changes its card type).

Indestructible
Darksteel Juggernaut's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control.
Darksteel Juggernaut attacks each combat if able.

Daxos, Blessed by the Sun

Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to Daxos may become lethal if your devotion to white decreases during that turn.

Colorless and generic mana symbols ({C}, {0}, {1}, {2}, {X}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.

Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).

If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time.

If another creature you control enters the battlefield at the same time as Daxos, you gain 1 life for that creature. Similarly, if another creature you control dies at the same time as Daxos, you gain 1 life for that creature. However, in the unusual case that Daxos dies at the same time that another creature enters the battlefield or vice versa, you won't gain 1 life for that creature.

If you put an Aura on an opponent's permanent, you still control the Aura, and mana symbols in its mana cost count towards your devotion.

Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.

The ability that defines Daxos's toughness works in all zones, not just the battlefield.

If you control a battle and an opponent is its protector, you still control the battle, and mana symbols in its mana cost count toward your devotion.

Daxos's toughness is equal to your devotion to white. (Each {W} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.)
Whenever another creature you control enters or dies, you gain 1 life.

Diabolic Edict

Greven *il*-Vec lifted Vhati off his feet. "The fall will give you time to think on your failure."

Disenchant

This is not modal. If the target changes from an artifact to an enchantment or vice versa, this still destroys it.

Duress

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

Fireball

Fireball's damage is divided as Fireball resolves, not as it's cast, because there are no choices involved. The division involves only targets that are still legal as Fireball resolves.

For example, if X is 5 and you choose three target creatures, Fireball has a total cost of {7}{R} (even though its mana cost is just {5}{R} and its mana value is 6). If those creatures are all still legal targets as Fireball resolves, it deals 1 damage to each of them.

You can target more than X creatures. However, if the number of legal targets at the time Fireball resolves is greater than X, none of them will be dealt any damage.

You may cast Fireball with zero targets, regardless of the value chosen for X. If you do so, it will not be a targeted spell, and no damage will actually be dealt when it resolves.

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Frantic Search

You draw two cards and discard two cards all while Frantic Search is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions.

You choose which lands to untap as the spell resolves. They aren't targeted, and they don't have to be lands that you control.

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

どうやらあのラベルのない瓶の中身はバニラエッセンスではなかったようだ。

Gingerbrute

Activating Gingerbrute's middle ability after it has become blocked by a creature without haste won't cause it to become unblocked.

Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures (such as Gingerbrute), it's never a creature type.

If an effect refers to a Food, it means any Food artifact, not just a Food artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Gingerbrute to activate the last ability of Tempting Witch.

Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.

You can't sacrifice a Food token to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate the ability of Tempting Witch.

Haste
{1}: Gingerbrute can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Gingerbrute: You gain 3 life.

Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei

A creature that is equipped is considered modified no matter who controls the Equipment that's attached to it.

A creature with a counter on it is considered modified no matter what kind of counter it is or which player put it on that creature.

An Aura controlled by an opponent does not cause a creature you control to be modified.

Only creatures can be modified. If a modified creature stops being a creature, it is no longer considered modified.

{R}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.
{3}{R}{R}: Create a 5/5 red Dragon Spirit creature token with flying. Activate only if you control an attacking modified creature. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Harald, King of Skemfar

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
When Harald, King of Skemfar enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an Elf, Warrior, or Tyvar card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Heliod's Pilgrim

Enchantment creatures with bestow from the Theros block aren’t Aura cards in your library. You can’t find one with Heliod’s Pilgrim.

When Heliod's Pilgrim enters, you may search your library for an Aura card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare

A spell that can't be countered is a legal target for Mesmeric Glare. The spell won't be countered when Mesmeric Glare resolves, but you'll still exile Mesmeric Glare.

An adventurer card is a creature card in every zone except the stack, as well as while on the stack if not cast as an Adventure. Ignore its alternative characteristics in those cases. For example, while it's in your graveyard, Giant Killer is a white creature card whose mana value is 1. It can't be the target of the triggered ability of Mystic Sanctuary.

Casting a card as an Adventure isn't casting it for an alternative cost. Effects that allow you to cast a spell for an alternative cost or without paying its mana cost may allow you to apply those to the Adventure.

For spells with {X} in their mana costs, use the value chosen for X to determine the spell's mana value.

If a spell is cast as an Adventure, its controller exiles it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard as it resolves. For as long as it remains exiled, that player may cast it as a creature spell. If an Adventure spell leaves the stack in any way other than resolving (most likely by being countered or by failing to resolve because its targets have all become illegal), that card won't be exiled and the spell's controller won't be able to cast it as a creature later.

If an adventurer card ends up in exile for any other reason than by exiling itself while resolving, it won't give you permission to cast it as a creature spell.

If an effect copies an Adventure spell, that copy is exiled as it resolves. It ceases to exist as a state-based action; it's not possible to cast the copy as a creature.

If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose the alternative Adventure name. Consider only the alternative characteristics to determine whether that is an appropriate name to choose.

If an object becomes a copy of an object that has an Adventure, the copy also has an Adventure. If it changes zones, it will either cease to exist (if it's a token) or cease to be a copy (if it's a nontoken permanent), and so you won't be able to cast it as an Adventure.

If you cast an adventurer card as an Adventure, use only its alternative characteristics to determine whether it's legal to cast that spell. For example, if Giant Killer is exiled with the last ability of Vivien, Champion of the Wilds, you can't cast it as Chop Down.

When casting a spell as an Adventure, use the alternative characteristics and ignore all of the card's normal characteristics. The spell's color, mana cost, mana value, and so on are determined by only those alternative characteristics. If the spell leaves the stack, it immediately resumes using its normal characteristics.

You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions for the creature spell you cast from exile. Normally, you'll be able to cast it only during your main phase while the stack is empty.

Counter target spell with mana value 3 or less. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Der Löwe zwinkerte
—Ausdruck der Femeref für "noch einmal davongekommen sein"

Jamuraan Lion

{W}, {T}: Target creature can't block this turn.

Kuldotha Phoenix

You can activate Kuldotha Phoenix’s ability only if it’s in your graveyard.

Flying, haste
Metalcraft — {4}: Return Kuldotha Phoenix from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your upkeep and only if you control three or more artifacts.

「司令官、ディミーアのスパイを捕らえ、その遺灰を監禁しました。」
――ウォジェクの警備兵、クラム

Lava Coil

Lava Coil’s replacement effect will exile the target creature if it would die this turn for any reason, not just due to lethal damage. It applies to the target creature even if Lava Coil deals no damage to it (due to a prevention effect).

Lava Coil deals 4 damage to target creature. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Lay Down Arms

Exile target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of Plains you control. Its controller gains 3 life.

Liesa, Forgotten Archangel

Flying, lifelink
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, return that card to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.
If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.

Quick enough to avoid jhovalls when alone and fierce enough to attack them in packs, the hounds were as at home in the mountains as the Mercadians were atop theirs.

Lightning Hounds

Mental Misstep

A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid.

As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X.

Each Phyrexian mana symbol in a spell's mana cost contributes 1 to that spell's mana value. For example, Mental Misstep's mana value is 1, regardless of how its cost was paid.

If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be the value chosen for it while that spell is on the stack.

If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.

Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.

To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Counter target spell with mana value 1.

Parallax Dementia

Enchant creature
Fading 1 (This enchantment enters with one fade counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
Enchanted creature gets +3/+2.
When Parallax Dementia leaves the battlefield, destroy enchanted creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

The burglar turned, bowed, and dropped from the ledge onto her waiting mount.

Park Heights Pegasus

Flying, trample
Whenever Park Heights Pegasus deals combat damage to a player, draw a card if you had two or more creatures enter the battlefield under your control this turn.

嘘と霧から生み出されたものにも関わらず、その飢えと怒りは力を持つ。

Phantasmal Dragon

Flying
When Phantasmal Dragon becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

It takes no prisoners, but it keeps the choicest bits for Phyrexia.

Phyrexian Rager

When Phyrexian Rager enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Pyromancer's Gauntlet

If all damage from a source is prevented (because of Pay No Heed, for example) or if a source would deal 0 damage, the effect of Pyromancer’s Gauntlet will not apply as that source is no longer dealing damage.

If damage is being dealt to multiple players and/or permanents at the same time, the damage being dealt to each one is increased by 2.

Pyromancer’s Gauntlet doesn’t change the source or recipient of the damage.

If a red instant or sorcery spell you control or a red planeswalker you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals that much damage plus 2 to that permanent or player instead.

Raiyuu, Storm's Edge

A creature attacks alone if it's the only creature declared as an attacker during the declare attackers step. For example, Raiyuu's triggered ability won't trigger if you attack with multiple creatures and all but one of them are removed from combat.

Notably, the triggered ability doesn't give you any additional main phases. This means that you will move directly from the end of combat step of one combat phase to the beginning of combat step of the next one.

First strike
Whenever a Samurai or Warrior you control attacks alone, untap it. If it's the first combat phase of the turn, there is an additional combat phase after this phase.

探検家にとっては、かけがえのない財宝。カニにとっては、頼れる我が家。

Ruin Crab

A landfall ability doesn’t trigger if a permanent already on the battlefield becomes a land.

A landfall ability triggers whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control for any reason. It triggers whenever you play a land, as well as whenever a spell or ability puts a land onto the battlefield under your control.

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, each landfall ability of the permanents you control will trigger. You can put them on the stack in any order. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one to resolve.

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, each opponent mills three cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

"We've run aground sandbars before, but today, a sandbar ran aground us."
—Kipkemboi, Kukemssa pirate

Sandbar Crocodile

Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)

Saryth, the Viper's Fang

Saryth's first ability doesn't care whether Saryth is tapped or untapped. The same is true for the second ability. Both abilities apply as long as Saryth is on the battlefield.

Other tapped creatures you control have deathtouch.
Other untapped creatures you control have hexproof.
{1}, {T}: Untap another target creature or land you control.

Scent of Cinder

You reveal cards, and thereby set the value of X, on resolution.

Reveal any number of red cards in your hand. Scent of Cinder deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of cards revealed this way.

もっとも堅牢な壁とは、石の壁でも鋼の壁でもなく、力を合わせた戦士たちの壁である。

Shield Wall

Creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Shivan Dragon

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
{R}: Shivan Dragon gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

電光は魂と世界をつなぎ合わせるまのだ。
――コーの格言

Shock

"Kaervek believes the drakes' cries herald his victory; in truth, they mourn aloud for his impending demise."
—Teferi

Shrieking Drake

Shrieking Drake's ability doesn't target any creature. Therefore, no player may take actions between the time you choose the creature to return and the time you return it.

You may return Shrieking Drake itself to its owner's hand as its triggered ability resolves. If you don't control any other creature, you must return it.

Flying
When Shrieking Drake enters, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

Silver Drake

You choose the creature to return on resolution of the triggered ability. This is not targeted.

Flying
When Silver Drake enters, return a white or blue creature you control to its owner's hand.

The farmer was amazed to see the penny vanish into thin air, but the goose knew he'd just slipped it to the faerie.

Sleight of Hand

If there is only one card in your library, you put it into your hand.

Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

スクイーは、同情と安堵が入り交じった気持ちで、カイレンの同類たちが死ぬのを見ていた。

Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

"As it moved, the wurm's spines gathered up bits of flowstone, which took the shapes of dead villagers' heads. Each head spoke a single sound, but if taken together, they said, 'Alas for the living.'"
—Dal myth of the wurm

Spined Wurm

ピクシー並みの体、ヘルカイト並みの怒り。

Sprite Dragon

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.

Flying, haste
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Sprite Dragon.

「真実から逃げ出すのは臆病者だけ。」
――哲人ペリソフィア

Staggering Insight

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

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