"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
—D'Avenant proverb

Alabaster Potion

Choose one —
• Target player gains X life.
• Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

Battering Ram

A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.

Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.

If a creature with banding attacks, it can team up with any number of other attacking creatures with banding (and up to one nonbanding creature) and attack as a unit called a “band.” The band can be blocked by any creature that could block a single creature in the band. Blocking any creature in a band blocks the entire band. If a creature with banding is blocked, the attacking player chooses how the blockers’ damage is assigned.

If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it. That player can ignore the damage assignment order when making this assignment.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, Battering Ram gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.)
Whenever Battering Ram becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

On guard for larger dangers, we underestimated the power and speed of the Imp's muck-crusted claws.

Bog Imp

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.

Bog Wraith

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

Circle of Protection: Black

A source of damage is a permanent, a spell on the stack (including one that creates a permanent), or any object referred to by an object on the stack. A source doesn’t need to be capable of dealing damage to be a legal choice.

Can be used even when there is no damage to prevent. It prevents the next damage (if any) from the source this turn.

{1}: The next time a black source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Circle of Protection: Red

{1}: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Clockwork Beast

Can attack or block even if it has no counters.

Loses a counter even if it is affected by a Fog-like effect which prevents it from dealing damage.

Clockwork Beast’s last ability resolves, you can choose to put fewer than X +1/+0 counters on it.

If Clockwork Beast has seven or fewer +1/+0 counters on it when its last ability resolves, it can wind up a maximum of seven such counters on it. If it has seven or more +1/+0 counters on it, the ability will have no effect.

This is a change from the most recent wording. Now, if some other spell or ability causes +1/+0 counters to be put on Clockwork Beast, it can wind up with more than seven such counters on it.

Clockwork Beast enters the battlefield with seven +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Beast attacked or blocked this combat, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
{X}, {T}: Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast to be greater than seven. Activate only during your upkeep.

Cursed Land

Enchant land
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted land's controller, Cursed Land deals 1 damage to that player.

Dark Ritual

Detonate

If the artifact becomes an illegal target before resolution, then no damage is done.

Destroy target artifact with mana value X. It can't be regenerated. Detonate deals X damage to that artifact's controller.

Disintegrate

Disintegrated creatures do not go to the graveyard at all before being exiled. They do not trigger abilities which trigger due to a creature going to the graveyard.

The “can’t regenerate” is an effect of Disintegrate and not an effect of the damage. It works even if the damage is prevented or redirected. If redirected, the damage does not take this effect with it.

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

"And the unclean spirits went out, and entered the swine: and the herd ran violently . . . ."
—Mark 5:13

Durkwood Boars

"Sometimes it is better to be swift of foot than strong of swordarm."
—Elven proverb

Elven Riders

Creatures with the Reach ability (such as Giant Spider) don't actually have Flying, so they can't block this.

Elven Riders can't be blocked except by Walls and/or creatures with flying.

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Elvish Archers

Energy Flux

All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay {2}."

Feedback

Enchant enchantment
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted enchantment's controller, Feedback deals 1 damage to that player.

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.

Forest

Glasses of Urza

Don't try to outrun one of Dominia's Grizzlies; it'll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you'll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you.

Grizzly Bears

Healing Salve

Choose one —
• Target player gains 3 life.
• Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Fortunately, Hill Giants have large blind spots in which a human can easily hide. Unfortunately, these blind spots are beneath the bottoms of their feet.

Hill Giant

Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan. To say that Orcs in general are vicious, depraved, and ignoble does not do justice to the Ironclaw.

Ironclaw Orcs

Ironclaw Orcs can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.

Island

Jayemdae Tome

Her hand gently beckons, she whispers your name—
But those who go with her are never the same.

Lost Soul

Most human scholars believe that Merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from Merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier.

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident

Before a woman marries in the village of Sursi, she must visit the land of the Mesa Pegasus. Legend has it that if the woman is pure of heart and her love is true, a Mesa Pegasus will appear, blessing her family with long life and good fortune.

Mesa Pegasus

Flying; banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

The intricate dynamics of Rundvelt Goblin affairs are often confused with anarchy. The chaos, however, is the chaos of a thundercloud, and direction will sporadically and violently appear. Pashalik Mons and his Raiders are the thunderhead that leads in the storm.

Mons's Goblin Raiders

Mountain

When Raganorn unsealed the catacombs, he found more than the dead and their treasures.

Murk Dwellers

An ability that triggers when something “attacks and isn’t blocked” triggers in the declare blockers step after blockers are declared if (1) that creature is attacking and (2) no creatures are declared to block it. It will trigger even if that creature was put onto the battlefield attacking rather than having been declared as an attacker in the declare attackers step.

Whenever Murk Dwellers attacks and isn't blocked, it gets +2/+0 until end of combat.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

Orcish Artillery

You do not take the 3 points of damage if the ability doesn’t resolve because the target is illegal.

{T}: Orcish Artillery deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

Orcish Oriflamme

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

"'Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!' 'Well, now that we *have* seen each other,' said the Unicorn, 'if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.'"
—Lewis Carroll

Pearled Unicorn

Plains

Power Sink

Does not increase the mana cost of the spell. It just requires a separate expenditure in order for it to succeed.

When this spell resolves, you either pay X mana or let your lands become tapped. The lands that become tapped are not “tapped for mana”. If you choose to pay, you may pay the X mana using whatever mana abilities you want to use.

Only lands that actually have mana abilities will get tapped. This includes basic lands and lands with mana abilities printed on them, as well as lands which have been granted a mana ability by some effect.

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that player doesn't, they tap all lands with mana abilities they control and lose all unspent mana.

"Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me! Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return."
—Navajo war chant

Pyrotechnics

If an effect creates a copy of Pyrotechnics, the number of targets and division of damage can’t be changed. The effect that creates the copy may allow you to change the targets, however.

If some but not all of Pyrotechnics’s targets become illegal, you can’t change the division of damage. Damage that would have been dealt to illegal targets simply isn’t dealt.

You choose how the damage is divided as you cast the spell, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage.

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

Raise Dead

The creature being brought back is chosen on announcement and not on resolution of the spell because it is targeted.

You must show the card you bring out of the graveyard to your opponent.

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Reverse Damage

It only affects damage dealt by the source one time. If the source damages you a second time this turn, the damage will not be reversed.

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

Rod of Ruin

{3}, {T}: Rod of Ruin deals 1 damage to any target.

"They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,
Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
It had been strange, even in a dream,
To have seen those dead men rise."
—Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Scathe Zombies

The only sound was the gentle clicking of the Faeries' wings. Then those intruders who were still standing turned and fled. One thing was certain: they didn't think the Scryb were very funny anymore.

Scryb Sprites

Sorceress Queen

{T}: Target creature other than Sorceress Queen has base power and toughness 0/2 until end of turn.

Swamp

Terror

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Twiddle

The decision whether or not to tap or untap is made on resolution. This is not a modal spell.

This is not a toggle effect. If you use Twiddle to tap a card and before it takes effect your opponent taps it, Twiddle will not automatically untap the card.

You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

Unsummon

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Untamed Wilds

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.

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"For something is amiss or out of place When mice with wings can wear a human face."
—Theodore Roethke, "The Bat"

Vampire Bats

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
{B}: Vampire Bats gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.

The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.

Wall of Bone

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{B}: Regenerate Wall of Bone. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.

War Mammoth

Warp Artifact

Enchant artifact
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted artifact's controller, Warp Artifact deals 1 damage to that player.

Weakness

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

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.

"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!"
—William Shakespeare, *King Lear*

Winter Blast

Checks if the creatures are Flying on resolution and not on announcement. It’s not a targeting restriction.

Winter Blast can target tapped creatures. If they have flying, the second part of the effect will still affect them.

Tap X target creatures. Winter Blast deals 2 damage to each of those creatures with flying.

Although greatly prized among falconers, the Zephyr Falcon is capricious and not easily tamed.

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Battering Ram - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bog Imp - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bog Wraith - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Circle of Protection: Black - 1993	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Circle of Protection: Red - 1993	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Clockwork Beast - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cursed Land - 1993	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Dark Ritual - 1993	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Detonate - 1993	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Disintegrate - 1993	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Durkwood Boars - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Elven Riders - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Elvish Archers - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Energy Flux - 1993	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Feedback - 1993	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Fireball - 1993	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - 1993	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - 1993	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - 1993	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Glasses of Urza - 1993	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Grizzly Bears - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Healing Salve - 1993	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Hill Giant - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Ironclaw Orcs - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Island - 1993	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Island - 1993	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Jayemdae Tome - 1993	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Lost Soul - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Merfolk of the Pearl Trident - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Mesa Pegasus - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Mons's Goblin Raiders - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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Mountain - 1993	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Mountain - 1993	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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Plains - 1993	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Plains - 1993	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Power Sink - 1993	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Pyrotechnics - 1993	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Raise Dead - 1993	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Reverse Damage - 1993	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Rod of Ruin - 1993	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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Scryb Sprites - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Sorceress Queen - 1993	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)

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