"Enter this palace-gate and ask the news Of greatness fallen into dust and clay."
—*The Arabian Nights*, trans. Burton

City of Brass

If you tap City of Brass while you are casting a spell or activating an ability, its ability will trigger and wait. When you finish casting that spell or activating that ability, City of Brass's triggered ability is put on the stack on top of it. City of Brass's ability will resolve first.

On the other hand, you can tap City of Brass, put its triggered ability on the stack, and then respond to that ability by casting an instant or activating an ability using that mana. In that case, the instant spell or activated ability will resolve first.

The first ability triggers no matter how the land becomes tapped.

Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Crusade

"We've endured your slights to Gaea with the grace of tolerance. Now behold the grace of our ferocity."

Elvish Champion

It affects Elves controlled by all players, not just yours.

This card is now an Elf but has been reworded so that it does not give itself the bonus.

Other Elf creatures get +1/+1 and have forestwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

"Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own!"
—Percy Bysshe Shelley,
"Ode to the West Wind"

Elvish Lyrist

{G}, {T}, Sacrifice Elvish Lyrist: Destroy target enchantment.

Giant Growth

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

The songs of angels are perceived not as words in the ears but as stirrings in the soul.

Glorious Anthem

A master of tactics, the Lord of Atlantis makes his people bold in battle merely by arriving to lead them.

Lord of Atlantis

Other Merfolk get +1/+1 and have islandwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

One part cunning, one part wise, and many, many parts demented.

Mad Auntie

The second ability can target any Goblin permanent except the Mad Auntie whose ability is being activated. It can target a different Mad Auntie.

Other Goblin creatures you control get +1/+1.
{T}: Regenerate another target Goblin.

Trained in the arts of stealth, royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.

Royal Assassin

Can't target itself because you choose the target before you tap him. At that time he is not yet a legal target.

If the creature is no longer tapped when the Assassin's ability resolves, then the ability doesn't resolve.

There were no tombstones in orochi territory. Slain warriors were buried with a tree sapling, so they would become a part of the forest after death.

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Serra Avatar

If Serra Avatar is no longer in your graveyard when its triggered ability resolves, you still shuffle your library.

The ability that defines Serra Avatar’s power and toughness works in all zones, not only the battlefield.

Serra Avatar's power and toughness are each equal to your life total.
When Serra Avatar is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Shard Phoenix

Shard Phoenix uses Last Known Information. If, for example, it was blue when it was sacrificed, the damage will come from a blue source.

You can return Shard Phoenix any time during your upkeep; this is not a beginning of upkeep triggered ability.

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Sacrifice Shard Phoenix: It deals 2 damage to each creature without flying.
{R}{R}{R}: Return Shard Phoenix from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.

The slith incubate in the Great Furnace's heat, emerging on Mirrodin's surface only when the four suns have aligned overhead.

Slith Firewalker

Haste
Whenever Slith Firewalker deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

"In Rath," the priest said, "there is even greater need for prayer."

Soltari Priest

If an attacking creature has multiple evasion abilities, such as shadow and flying, a creature can block it only if that creature satisfies all of the appropriate evasion abilities.

Multiple instances of shadow on the same creature are redundant.

Once a creature has been blocked, that creature remains blocked and will deal and be dealt combat damage even if it gains or loses shadow or if the blocking creature gains or loses shadow.

Protection from red
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Thran Quarry

Triggers at the end of every player’s turn.

At the beginning of the end step, if you control no creatures, sacrifice Thran Quarry.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Two-Headed Dragon

Flying
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Two-Headed Dragon can block an additional creature each combat.
{1}{R}: Two-Headed Dragon gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Cast the weight as though it were a die, to see a rival's fate.

Volcanic Hammer

Volcanic Hammer deals 3 damage to any target.

Amid this whirling hurricane of blades, there is no calm eye in which the hapless can find shelter.

Whirling Dervish

If Whirling Dervish dealt damage to an opponent who later left the game before that turn’s end step, its ability still gives it a +1/+1 counter.

Whirling Dervish’s triggered ability checks to see if it dealt damage during the turn to an opponent of its current controller. If it dealt damage to player A, then player A takes control of it, the ability doesn’t trigger.

Whirling Dervish’s triggered ability gives it at most one +1/+1 counter each turn, regardless of how many opponents were dealt damage beyond the first.

Protection from black
At the beginning of each end step, if Whirling Dervish dealt damage to an opponent this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Card (18)	Type	^{$0.00 (0.00)} Price
City of Brass - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Crusade - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Elvish Champion - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Elvish Lyrist - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Giant Growth - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Glorious Anthem - 2003	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Lord of Atlantis - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Mad Auntie - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Royal Assassin - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Sakura-Tribe Elder - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Serra Avatar - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Shard Phoenix - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Slith Firewalker - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Soltari Priest - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Thran Quarry - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Two-Headed Dragon - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Volcanic Hammer - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Whirling Dervish - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)

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