The first sliver burst against the cave wall, and others piled in behind to deepen the new tunnel.

Acidic Sliver

Each Sliver gains "o2, Sacrifice this creature: This creature deals 2 damage to target creature or player."

Abilities that Slivers grant, as well as power/toughness boosts, are cumulative. However, for some abilities, like flying, having more than one instance of the ability doesn't provide any additional benefit.

If the creature type of a Sliver changes so it's no longer a Sliver, it will no longer be affected by its own ability. Its ability will continue to affect other Sliver creatures.

All Slivers have "{2}, Sacrifice this permanent: This permanent deals 2 damage to any target."

Crovax's rage was horrifying. Within moments only blood and shreds of flesh remained of the shapeshifter.

Amok

o1, Discard a card at random: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

{1}, Discard a card at random: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

"There are times when destiny calls forth a people and demands an action. *Now* is the time. *We* are the people. *This* is our action. Charge!"
—Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Awakening

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, untap all creatures and lands.

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

At the beginning of each upkeep, untap all creatures and lands.

Takara shook with guilt. She knew the last image her father had seen was her sword flashing toward him.

Bandage

Prevent 1 damage to any creature or player.
Draw a card.

You draw the card when Bandage resolves, not when the damage is actually prevented.

Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.
Draw a card.

"I'm sure it came with the place. I don't think you build one on purpose."
—Gerrard

Bottomless Pit

During each player's upkeep, that player discards a card at random.

The ability is controlled by the player who controls Bottomless Pit. This means that Bottomless Pit can trigger abilities which trigger off an opponent forcing you to discard.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card at random.

Brush with Death

Buyback o2o
Bo
B (You may pay an additional o2o
Bo
B when you play this spell. If you do, put it into your hand instead of your graveyard as part of the spell's effect.)
Target opponent loses 2 life. You gain 2 life.

Buyback {2}{B}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B}{B} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Target opponent loses 2 life. You gain 2 life.

"Pain is a crude way to enforce obedience, but it is cheap and plentiful."
—Volrath

Bullwhip

o2, oc
T: Bullwhip deals 1 damage to target creature. That creature attacks this turn if able.

If the creature can attack, it must. If it cannot, then nothing happens.

{2}, {T}: Bullwhip deals 1 damage to target creature. That creature attacks this turn if able.

"The plants said, 'We will fight the stone with root and stem and seed. We are patient. We will win.'"
—Skyshroud myth of the forest

Burgeoning

Whenever any opponent plays a land, you may choose a land card from your hand and put it into play.

Playing a land will trigger it, but putting a land onto the battlefield as part of an effect will not.

Whenever an opponent plays a land, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Calming Licid

o
W, oc
T: Calming Licid loses this ability and becomes a creature enchantment that reads "Enchanted creature cannot attack" instead of a creature. Move Calming Licid onto target creature. You may pay o
W to end this effect.

If a spell that can target enchantments but not creatures (such as Clear) is cast targeting the Licid after it has become an enchantment, but the Licid’s controller pays the cost, the Licid will no longer be an enchantment. This will result in the spell failing to resolve for having no legal targets.

Paying the cost to end the effect is a special action and can’t be responded to.

{W}, {T}: Calming Licid loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay {W} to end this effect.
Enchanted creature can't attack.

Cannibalize

Choose two target creatures controlled by any one player. Remove one of those creatures from the game and put two +1/+1 counters on the other.

You choose the two target creatures during announcement. You choose which gets the counters and which is to get exiled on resolution.

Choose two target creatures controlled by the same player. Exile one of those creatures and put two +1/+1 counters on the other.

The hunter would never forget the time or place where he first met the carnassid, for they buried him there.

Carnassid

Change of Heart

Buyback o3 (You may pay an additional o3 when you play this spell. If you do, put it into your hand instead of your graveyard as part of the spell's effect.)
Target creature cannot attack this turn.

Change of Heart will not remove an already attacking creature from combat. It must be cast before attackers are declared or it won’t have any noticeable effect on the game.

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Target creature can't attack this turn.

Clouds are the soil, dreams are the crop.
—Kor saying

Cloud Spirit

Flying
Cloud Spirit can block only creatures with flying.

If it loses Flying, it will be unable to block any creatures.

Constant Mists

Buyback—
Sacrifice a land (You may sacrifice a land in addition to any other costs when you play this spell. If you do, put Constant Mists into your hand instead of your graveyard as part of the spell's effect.)
Creatures deal no combat damage this turn.

Buyback—Sacrifice a land. (You may sacrifice a land in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"How fascinating it is to watch the machinations of one's own mind play themselves out."
—Volrath

Contemplation

Whenever you successfully cast a spell, gain 1 life.

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life.

"Predictable little man. In all these years you taught me so much yet learned so little."
—Volrath, to Starke

Contempt

If enchanted creature attacks, return that creature and Contempt to owner's hand at end of combat.

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature attacks, return it and Contempt to their owners' hands at end of combat.

It was not the minotaur's shoulders but his soul that bore the heaviest weight.

Conviction

Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.
oo
W Return Conviction to owner's hand.

Because damage remains marked on a creature until it’s removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to the enchanted creature may become lethal if you return Conviction to its owner’s hand during that turn.

Players don’t have priority to cast spells and activate abilities between combat damage being assigned and being dealt. This means that if you want to return Conviction to its owner’s hand before combat damage is dealt, you must do so before combat damage is assigned (and the creature will no longer get +1/+3).

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.
{W}: Return Conviction to its owner's hand.

Convulsing Licid

o
R, oc
T: Convulsing Licid loses this ability and becomes a creature enchantment that reads "Enchanted creature cannot block" instead of a creature. Move Convulsing Licid onto target creature. You may pay o
R to end this effect.

{R}, {T}: Convulsing Licid loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay {R} to end this effect.
Enchanted creature can't block.

Corrupting Licid

o
B, oc
T: Corrupting Licid loses this ability and becomes a creature enchantment that reads "Enchanted creature cannot be blocked except by artifact creatures and black creatures" instead of a creature. Move Corrupting Licid onto target creature. You may pay o
B to end this effect.

{B}, {T}: Corrupting Licid loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay {B} to end this effect.
Enchanted creature has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

What is high as a mountain and low as a snake?
—Dal riddle

Craven Giant

There is no drake that flies faster than a crossbow bolt.
—Vec saying

Crossbow Ambush

All creatures you control can block creatures with flying until end of turn.

This card now uses the Reach keyword ability to enable the blocking of flying creatures. This works because a creature with flying can only be blocked by creatures with flying or reach.

Creatures you control gain reach until end of turn. (They can block creatures with flying.)

Crovax the Cursed

Crovax the Cursed counts as a Vampire.
Crovax comes into play with four +1/+1 counters on it.
During your upkeep, sacrifice a creature and put a +1/+1 counter on Crovax, or remove a +1/+1 counter from Crovax.
oo
B Crovax gains flying until end of turn.

Crovax can sacrifice itself to its upkeep triggered ability.

If you choose not to sacrifice a creature and he has no +1/+1 counters, then nothing bad happens. Note that some other effect must be keeping him alive if he has no counters.

You can only sacrifice one creature to it each turn.

Crovax the Cursed enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Crovax. If you don't, remove a +1/+1 counter from Crovax.
{B}: Crovax gains flying until end of turn.

Bred as living shields, these slivers have proven unruly—they know they cannot be caught.

Crystalline Sliver

Slivers cannot be the target of spells or abilities.

The ability only applies while this card is on the battlefield.

Abilities that Slivers grant, as well as power/toughness boosts, are cumulative. However, for some abilities, like flying, having more than one instance of the ability doesn’t provide any additional benefit.

If the creature type of a Sliver changes so it’s no longer a Sliver, it will no longer be affected by its own ability. Its ability will continue to affect other Sliver creatures.

All Slivers have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

Merfolk tell their young of Dandân, humans of Rag Man. Dal tell tales of the Dauthi, and they are far worse.

Dauthi Trapper

oc
T: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

{T}: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

For a sharp second, Selenia froze, and Crovax's blade found home. As the angel shattered like glass, Crovax felt his mind collapse—the curse had been fulfilled.

Death Stroke

Dream Halls

Instead of paying the casting cost for a spell of any color, its caster may choose and discard a card that shares at least one color with that spell. If the spell has o
X in its casting cost, X is 0.

This only replaces the mana cost (the mana in the upper right hand corner of the card). It will not pay additional costs from the card text (such as Buyback) or from other effects. It does not prevent you from paying those additional costs if you want or need to.

Rather than pay the mana cost for a spell, its controller may discard a card that shares a color with that spell.

"To think that some find sleep a restful state."
—Volrath

Dream Prowler

Dream Prowler is unblockable as long as no other creatures are attacking.

Dream Prowler can't be blocked as long as it's attacking alone.

"The mountain's ducts will be like organ pipes, amplifying the glorious roar of the dying."
—Stronghold architect, journal

Duct Crawler

o1oo
R Target creature cannot block Duct Crawler this turn.

{1}{R}: Target creature can't block Duct Crawler this turn.

A sickness stirs in its eyes, a nightmare born in darkened wails.

Dungeon Shade

Flying
oo
B Dungeon Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Flying
{B}: Dungeon Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

As the bough stretches, so shall you grow. As the roots spread, so shall you thrive.

Elven Rite

Put two +1/+1 counters, distributed any way you choose, on any number of target creatures.

Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures.

These are its last days. Its doom to be remembered only until the hunters hunger again.

Endangered Armodon

If you control any creature with toughness 2 or less, sacrifice Endangered Armodon.

When you control a creature with toughness 2 or less, sacrifice Endangered Armodon.

"I expected a fight, but I didn't expect it from the building itself."
—Gerrard

Ensnaring Bridge

Each creature with power greater than the number of cards in your hand cannot attack.

Ensnaring Bridge's effect checks the number of cards in your hand only while a player (including you) is declaring attackers. Once a creature has legally attacked, changing its power or the number of cards in your hand won't remove it from combat.

Creatures with power greater than the number of cards in your hand can't attack.

The first step of every exodus is from the blood and the fire onto the trail.

Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

Fanning the Flames

Buyback o3 (You may pay an additional o3 when you play this spell. If you do, put it into your hand instead of your graveyard as part of the spell's effect.)
Fanning the Flames deals X damage to target creature or player.

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Fanning the Flames deals X damage to any target.

"I hear the roaring of a wave whose waters are red and whose mists are black."
—Oracle *en*-Vec

Flame Wave

Flame Wave deals 4 damage to target player and each creature he or she controls.

Flame Wave deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.

Fling

Sacrifice a creature: Fling deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target creature or player.

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

The sacrificed creature's last known existence on the battlefield is checked to determine its power.

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

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Fling deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to any target.

"Remember the fable of the elf who came upon a cave of gold. In trying to free the largest piece, she was crushed by its weight."
—Karn, silver golem

Flowstone Blade

oo
R Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Enchant creature
{R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Flowstone Hellion

Flowstone Hellion is unaffected by summoning sickness.
o0: Flowstone Hellion gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

It will be put into its owner’s graveyard as soon as one of its abilities resolves that puts its toughness at zero (or less than the current amount of damage on it). This is a state-based action, so there is no way to activate its ability any more to increase its power further before it is put into the graveyard.

Haste
{0}: Flowstone Hellion gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Once these horrifying creatures were perfected, there was no need for armodons.

Flowstone Mauler

Trample
oo
R Flowstone Mauler gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Trample
{R}: Flowstone Mauler gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Flowstone troops are notoriously difficult to keep in formation.

Flowstone Shambler

oo
R Flowstone Shambler gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

{R}: Flowstone Shambler gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

The imp, unaware of its own odor, paused to catch its breath . . . and promptly died.

Foul Imp

Flying
When Foul Imp comes into play, lose 2 life.

You can cast this if you have less than 2 life, since the life is lost as an effect and not a payment.

Flying
When Foul Imp enters the battlefield, you lose 2 life.

If it can survive the Furnace, you don't want it near you.

Furnace Spirit

Furnace Spirit is unaffected by summoning sickness.
oo
R Furnace Spirit gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Haste
{R}: Furnace Spirit gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Gliding Licid

o
U, oc
T: Gliding Licid loses this ability and becomes a creature enchantment that reads "Enchanted creature gains flying" instead of a creature. Move Gliding Licid onto target creature. You may pay o
U to end this effect.

{U}, {T}: Gliding Licid loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay {U} to end this effect.
Enchanted creature has flying.

"The bonds of loyalty can tie one to the grave."
—Crovax

Grave Pact

Whenever any creature you control is put into any graveyard, each other player sacrifices a creature.

Each other player sacrifices a creature for each creature you control that goes to a graveyard.

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature.

Cross the eyes of a hammerhead and you'll dot its teeth.

Hammerhead Shark

Hammerhead Shark cannot attack unless defending player controls any islands.

Hammerhead Shark can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

"Finding a true heartstone is even harder than finding a true heart."
—Hanna

Heartstone

The cost of each creature ability requiring an activation cost is reduced by o1. This cannot reduce an ability's generic mana cost to less then o1.

It will never reduce any colored mana portion of an activation cost.

It will not add a {1} to abilities with no generic mana in their activation cost.

The cost reduction can be applied to additional costs.

Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.

Activated abilities of creatures cost {1} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

"Takara, it's me!" shouted Starke. It was no use—she obeyed Volrath.

Heat of Battle

Whenever any creature blocks, Heat of Battle deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.

Whenever a creature blocks, Heat of Battle deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.

Seeking the company of plants ensures that your wits will go to seed.

Hermit Druid

o
G, oc
T: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a basic land card. Put that card into your hand and put all other revealed cards into your graveyard.

{G}, {T}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a basic land card. Put that card into your hand and all other cards revealed this way into your graveyard.

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