Kongming's predecessor helped Liu Bei win the battle of Fancheng by recognizing and defeating Cao Ren's use of the dreaded "Eight Gold Locks" formation.

Alert Shu Infantry

Attacking doesn't cause Alert Shu Infantry to tap.

"When you give offense to heaven, to whom can you pray?"
—Cao Cao, quoting Confucius

Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Balance of Power

If you have fewer cards in your hand than your opponent does, you draw until you have the same number. (When you play Balance of Power it doesn't count as in your hand.)

The number of cards is counted during resolution.

If target opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.

"Barbarian tribes with their rulers are inferior to Chinese states without them."
—Confucius, *The Analects* (trans. Lau)

Barbarian General

Despite the similarities between horsemanship and flying, horsemanship doesn’t interact with flying or reach.

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)

Only twenty years after the Sima clan united the empire, invading barbarians divided it again.

Barbarian Horde

"Spreading flames illumined cloud and sea: Cao Cao went down; 'twas Zhou Yu's victory."

Blaze

Blaze deals X damage to any one creature or player.

Kongming and Lu Su tricked Wei troops into shooting over 100,000 arrows at them to later use against the Wei at Red Cliffs.

Borrowing 100,000 Arrows

For each tapped creature your opponent has in play, you draw a card.

Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls.

Borrowing the East Wind

Borrowing the East Wind deals X damage to each player and each creature with horsemanship. (This includes you and your creatures with horsemanship.)

Borrowing the East Wind deals X damage to each creature with horsemanship and each player.

At Red Cliffs, Kongming and Zhou Yu each wrote his plan for defeating the Wei on the palm of his hand. They laughed as they both revealed the same word, "Fire."

Brilliant Plan

Using nature to their advantage, wise Three Kingdoms generals often let dammed rivers loose to destroy their enemies.

Broken Dam

Tap any one or two creatures without horsemanship. (Tapped creatures can't block.)

Tap one or two target creatures without horsemanship.

"In raiding and plundering, be like fire, in immovability like a mountain."
—Sun Tzu, *Art of War* (trans. Giles)

Burning Fields

Burning Fields deals 5 damage to your opponent.

Burning Fields deals 5 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Burning of Xinye

You destroy four of your lands and your opponent destroys four of his or her lands. Then Burning of Xinye deals 4 damage to each creature. (This includes your creatures.)

A land with a regeneration shield on it will regenerate from Burning of Xinye’s destruction effect. However, the spell or ability that creates that shield must be cast or activated before Burning of Xinye starts to resolve.

Burning of Xinye targets only an opponent. If that player is an illegal target by the time Burning of Xinye resolves, the entire spell doesn’t resolve.

In a multiplayer game, only lands controlled by two players (you and the targeted opponent) are destroyed. However, Burning of Xinye will deal 4 damage to each creature, even those controlled by other players.

The lands that will be destroyed aren’t chosen until Burning of Xinye resolves.

As Burning of Xinye resolves, first you destroy four lands you control (all at the same time), then the targeted opponent destroys four lands they control (all at the same time). That player chooses which of their lands to destroy. Neither of you can choose to destroy a land with indestructible.

You destroy four lands you control, then target opponent destroys four lands they control. Then Burning of Xinye deals 4 damage to each creature.

Cao Cao, Lord of Wei

On your turn, before you attack, you may tap Cao Cao to force your opponent to choose and discard two cards from his or her hand. (If your opponent has only one card, he or she discards it.)

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.

{T}: Target opponent discards two cards. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Cao Cao's cousin, Cao Ren was known throughout the three kingdoms as the fiercest of warriors.

Cao Ren, Wei Commander

Horsemanship
When Cao Ren comes into play, you lose 3 life.

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
When Cao Ren, Wei Commander enters the battlefield, you lose 3 life.

The province of Jingzhou was the fulcrum of the three kingdoms. At separate times it was coveted and controlled by the Wu, the Shu, and the Wei.

Capture of Jingzhou

Champion's Victory

Play Champion's Victory only after you're attacked, before you declare blockers.
Return any one attacking creature to its owner's hand.

Cast this spell only during the declare attackers step and only if you've been attacked this step.
Return target attacking creature to its owner's hand.

Though he held the title of prime minister, Cao Cao used the emperor's name to exert his own influence on the empire.

Coercion

Look at your opponent's hand and choose a card from it. Your opponent discards that card.

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

"Power-hungry eunuchs, the curse of the dynasty, have thrown the masses of the people into the depths of misery."

Control of the Court

Draw four cards and put them into your hand. Then discard three cards at random from your hand.

Draw four cards, then discard three cards at random.

Corrupt Court Official

When Corrupt Official comes into play, your opponent chooses and discards a card from his or her hand. (Ignore this effect if your opponent doesn't have any cards.)

When Corrupt Court Official enters the battlefield, target opponent discards a card.

Corrupt Eunuchs

When Corrupt Eunuchs comes into play, it deals 2 damage to any one creature. (If you're the only one with creatures, deal the damage to one of them.)

If there are no other creatures on the battlefield when Corrupt Eunuchs enters the battlefield, it will have to target itself.

When Corrupt Eunuchs enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to target creature.

Sun Quan's long and successful rule in the years 199 to 251 was due to his ability to choose and foster talented advisors and generals.

Council of Advisors

When Council of Advisors comes into play, draw a card.

When Council of Advisors enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Before the battle of Red Cliffs, a supposedly sleeping Zhou Yu allowed his old friend, a Wei advisor, to steal a planted letter forged as if from Wei's two best admirals.

Counterintelligence

Return any one or two creatures to their owner's hand.

Return one or two target creatures to their owners' hands.

Cunning Advisor

On your turn, before you attack, you may tap Cunning Advisor to force your opponent to choose and discard a card from his or her hand.

{T}: Target opponent discards a card. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Believing they wrote the forged letter that had been stolen from Zhou Yu, Cao Cao rashly executed his two best admirals for treason.

Deception

Your opponent chooses and discards two cards from his or her hand. (If your opponent has only one card, he or she discards it.)

While pursuing the remnants of Yuan Shao's forces into the Wuhan Desert, Cao Cao was temporarily turned back by a fierce sandstorm.

Desert Sandstorm

Desert Sandstorm deals 1 damage to each creature. (This includes your creatures.)

Desert Sandstorm deals 1 damage to each creature.

"Lieutenants dishonored, corpses carted home; The general raises troops again to take revenge."

Desperate Charge

All your creatures get +2/+0 until the end of the turn.

Desperate Charge affects only creatures you control at the time it resolves. A creature that enters the battlefield later in the turn won’t get +2/+0.

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

Diaochan, Artful Beauty

On your turn, before you attack, you may tap Diaochan to destroy any one creature. Then, your opponent destroys any one creature of his or her choice.

{T}: Destroy target creature of your choice, then destroy target creature of an opponent's choice. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Dong Zhou, the Tyrant

When Dong Zhou comes into play, choose one of your opponent's creatures. That creature deals damage to him or her equal to its power. (Ignore this effect if your opponent doesn't have any creatures in play.)

When Dong Zhou, the Tyrant enters the battlefield, target creature an opponent controls deals damage equal to its power to that player.

Eightfold Maze

Play Eightfold Maze only after you're attacked, before you declare blockers.
Destroy any one attacking creature.

If all the attacking creatures attack your planeswalkers, you can’t cast Eightfold Maze. To cast it, a creature needs to have attacked _you_.

If you’re able to cast Eightfold Maze, it can target any attacking creature (including one attacking a planeswalker).

Cast this spell only during the declare attackers step and only if you've been attacked this step.
Destroy target attacking creature.

Out of time and options, Kongming was forced to bluff at Xicheng. He tricked an army of 150,000 Wei by leaving the city gates open and calmly playing the zither.

Empty City Ruse

Your opponent can't attack on his or her next turn.

Target opponent skips all combat phases of their next turn.

Taking control of powerful court positions one by one, eunuchs eventually brought on the fall of the Han dynasty, leading to the chaos of the Three Kingdoms.

Eunuchs' Intrigues

Your opponent chooses one of his or her creatures. Only that creature can block this turn.

Target opponent chooses a creature they control. Other creatures they control can't block this turn.

Starving and worn, Cao Cao escaped from the battle of Red Cliffs with only 27 of his original 800,000 men.

Exhaustion

At the beginning of your opponent's next turn, he or she skips untapping creatures and lands.

The creatures and lands are only prevented from untapping during the targeted player’s next untap step. They can still can untap during other player’s untap steps.

No creatures or lands controlled by the player will untap during their next untap step. This includes those which entered the battlefield after Exhaustion resolved.

Creatures and lands target opponent controls don't untap during their next untap step.

Extinguish

Play Extinguish only in response to another player playing a sorcery.
That sorcery has no effect, and that player puts it into his or her graveyard.

"All warfare is based on deception."
—Sun Tzu, *Art of War* (trans. Giles)

False Defeat

Take any one creature card from your graveyard and put that creature into play.

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Zhou Yu, Sun Ce, and other famous generals feigned their deaths in order to later surprise their opponents.

False Mourning

Take any one card from your graveyard and put that card on the top of your library.

Put target card from your graveyard on top of your library.

"But it was a year of dearth. People were reduced to eating leaves of jujube trees. Corpses were seen everywhere in the countryside."

Famine

Famine deals 3 damage to each creature and player. (This includes your creatures and you.)

Famine deals 3 damage to each creature and each player.

"With fire he broke the battle at Bowang . . . . Striking fear deep into Cao Cao's soul, thus Kongming scored a coup at his debut."

Fire Ambush

Fire Ambush deals 3 damage to any one creature or player.

Fire Ambush deals 3 damage to any target.

Fire Bowman

On your turn, before you attack, you may destroy Fire Bowman to have it deal 1 damage to any one creature or player.

Sacrifice Fire Bowman: It deals 1 damage to any target. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Following the battle of Redcliffs, both Liu Bei and Sun Quan coveted the province of Jingzhou. After Sun Quan's troops failed to capture it, Liu Bei's succeeded.

Flanking Troops

When Flanking Troops attacks, you may tap any one creature. (Tapped creatures can't block.)

Whenever Flanking Troops attacks, you may tap target creature.

"Leadership, not numbers, determines victory."
—A Wu commander, before his 5,000 troops forced 15,000 Wei troops to retreat from Ruxu

Forced Retreat

Return any one creature from play to the top of its owner's library.

Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

Forest

Fish and bear paws—one can't have both.
—Chinese idiom meaning "you can't have it both ways"

Forest Bear

Cao Cao was haunted to death by the ghosts of the empresses and other high courtiers he had murdered.

Ghostly Visit

Destroy any one creature that isn't black.

"He [Guan Yu] covered the ground on a thousand-*li* horse; / With dragon blade he took each pass by force."

Guan Yu's 1,000-Li March

Destroy all tapped creatures. (This includes your tapped creatures.)

Guan Yu, Sainted Warrior

Horsemanship
When Guan Yu is put into your graveyard from play, you may shuffle Guan Yu into your library.

If Guan Yu, Sainted Warrior is removed from the graveyard after the ability triggers but before it resolves, it won’t get shuffled into your library.

If a replacement effect has Guan Yu move to a different zone instead of being put into the graveyard, the ability won’t trigger at all.

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
When Guan Yu, Sainted Warrior is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may shuffle Guan Yu into your library.

Heavy Fog

Play Heavy Fog only after you're attacked, before you declare blockers.
This turn, all damage dealt to you by attacking creatures is reduced to 0.

Heavy Fog prevents all damage attacking creatures would deal to you this turn, not just combat damage. Noncombat damage from those creatures is prevented only if they’re still attacking at the time that damage would be dealt or, if the creature has left the battlefield by then, if it was an attacking creature at the time it left.

Heavy Fog prevents only damage that would be dealt to you by attacking creatures. It won’t prevent damage attacking creatures would deal to creatures or planeswalkers you control.

If all the attacking creatures attack your planeswalkers, you can’t cast Heavy Fog. To cast it, a creature needs to have attacked _you_.

Cast this spell only during the declare attackers step and only if you've been attacked this step.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn by attacking creatures.

Hua Tuo, Honored Physician

On your turn, before you attack, you may tap Hua Tuo to put any one creature card from your graveyard on the top of your library.

{T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

"Virile in war, he kept the north in fear; His prodigies subdued the western sphere."

Huang Zhong, Shu General

Huang Zhong can't be blocked by more than one creature each turn.

Huang Zhong, Shu General can't be blocked by more than one creature.

Hunting Cheetah

When Hunting Cheetah successfully damages your opponent, you may search your library for a forest card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your library afterward.

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.

Hunting Cheetah’s ability allows you to search your library for any card with the land type Forest, not just a card with the name Forest.

Whenever Hunting Cheetah deals damage to an opponent, you may search your library for a Forest card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Frustrated with Cao Cao's control of the imperial court, Emperor Xian secretly issued an edict condemning him, using his own blood as ink.

Imperial Edict

Your opponent chooses one of his or her creatures. Destroy that creature.

Target opponent chooses a creature they control. Destroy that creature.

Imperial Recruiter

When Imperial Recruiter comes into play, search your library for a creature card with power no greater than 2, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your library afterward.

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.

If a creature card has "*" in its power, the ability that defines its power works in all zones.

When Imperial Recruiter enters the battlefield, search your library for a creature card with power 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"If Heaven has placed it in your hands, it means that the throne is destined to be yours."

Imperial Seal

Search your library for any one card. Shuffle your library and put that card on top of it. You lose 2 life.

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

"The empire, long united, must divide, and long divided, must unite."

Independent Troops

Island

Kongming's Contraptions

After you're attacked, before you declare blockers, you may tap Kongming's Contraptions to have it deal 2 damage to any one attacking creature.

{T}: Kongming's Contraptions deals 2 damage to target attacking creature. Activate only during the declare attackers step and only if you've been attacked this step.

"Such a lord as this—all virtues' height— Had never been, nor ever was again."

Kongming, "Sleeping Dragon"

All your other creatures get +1/+1 as long as Kongming is in play.

Card (180)	Type	^{$4816.75 (-1.50)} Price
Alert Shu Infantry - 1997	Creature	$5.00 ^(0.00)
Ambition's Cost - 1997	Sorcery	$16.00 ^(0.00)
Balance of Power - 1997	Sorcery	$28.00 ^(0.00)
Barbarian General - 1997	Creature	$14.00 ^(0.00)
Barbarian Horde - 1997	Creature	$0.50 ^(0.00)
Blaze - 1997	Sorcery	$5.00 ^(0.00)
Borrowing 100,000 Arrows - 1997	Sorcery	$10.00 ^(0.00)
Borrowing the East Wind - 1997	Sorcery	$55.00 ^(0.00)
Brilliant Plan - 1997	Sorcery	$2.00 ^(0.00)
Broken Dam - 1997	Sorcery	$4.00 ^(0.00)
Burning Fields - 1997	Sorcery	$1.50 ^(0.00)
Burning of Xinye - 1997	Sorcery	$40.00 ^(0.00)
Cao Cao, Lord of Wei - 1997	Creature	$25.00 ^(0.00)
Cao Ren, Wei Commander - 1997	Creature	$55.00 ^(0.00)
Capture of Jingzhou - 1997	Sorcery	$180.00 ^(0.00)
Champion's Victory - 1997	Instant	$9.00 ^(0.00)
Coercion - 1997	Sorcery	$1.50 ^(0.00)
Control of the Court - 1997	Sorcery	$28.00 ^(0.00)
Corrupt Court Official - 1997	Creature	$18.00 ^(0.00)
Corrupt Eunuchs - 1997	Creature	$5.00 ^(0.00)
Council of Advisors - 1997	Creature	$4.00 ^(0.00)
Counterintelligence - 1997	Sorcery	$6.00 ^(0.00)
Cunning Advisor - 1997	Creature	$1.50 ^(0.00)
Deception - 1997	Sorcery	$0.15 ^(0.00)
Desert Sandstorm - 1997	Sorcery	$3.00 ^(0.00)
Desperate Charge - 1997	Sorcery	$6.00 ^(0.00)
Diaochan, Artful Beauty - 1997	Creature	$65.00 ^(0.00)
Dong Zhou, the Tyrant - 1997	Creature	$110.00 ^(0.00)
Eightfold Maze - 1997	Instant	$25.00 ^(0.00)
Empty City Ruse - 1997	Sorcery	$18.00 ^(0.00)
Eunuchs' Intrigues - 1997	Sorcery	$7.50 ^(0.00)
Exhaustion - 1997	Sorcery	$11.00 ^(0.00)
Extinguish - 1997	Instant	$0.15 ^(0.00)
False Defeat - 1997	Sorcery	$11.00 ^(0.00)
False Mourning - 1997	Sorcery	$15.00 ^(0.00)
Famine - 1997	Sorcery	$6.00 ^(0.00)
Fire Ambush - 1997	Sorcery	$3.00 ^(0.00)
Fire Bowman - 1997	Creature	$5.00 ^(0.00)
Flanking Troops - 1997	Creature	$2.00 ^(0.00)
Forced Retreat - 1997	Sorcery	$0.50 ^(0.00)
Forest - 1997	Land	$1.50 ^(0.00)
Forest - 1997	Land	$4.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - 1997	Land	$5.00 ^(0.00)
Forest Bear - 1997	Creature	$18.00 ^(0.00)
Ghostly Visit - 1997	Sorcery	$0.15 ^(0.00)
Guan Yu's 1,000-Li March - 1997	Sorcery	$50.00 ^(0.00)
Guan Yu, Sainted Warrior - 1997	Creature	$30.00 ^(0.00)
Heavy Fog - 1997	Instant	$14.00 ^(0.00)
Hua Tuo, Honored Physician - 1997	Creature	$55.00 ^(0.00)
Huang Zhong, Shu General - 1997	Creature	$60.00 ^(0.00)

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