"I've seen lightning move slower."
—Nomad sentry

Accelerate

Target creature gains haste until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Acorn Harvest

Put two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens into play.
Flashback—o1o
G, Pay 3 life. (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)

"Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."

A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.

If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.

To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.

You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.

You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.

Create two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens.
Flashback—{1}{G}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Alter Reality

Change the text of target permanent or spell by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (This effect doesn't end at end of turn.)
Flashback o1o
U (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)

Alters all occurrences of the chosen word in the text box and the type line of the given card.

Can target a card with no appropriate words on it, or even one with no words at all.

Changing the text of a spell will not allow you to change the targets of the spell because the targets were chosen when the spell was cast. The text change will (probably) cause it to be countered since the targets will be illegal.

If you change the text of a spell which is to become a permanent, the permanent will retain the text change until the effect wears off.

It can’t change a word to the same word. It must be a different word.

It only changes what is printed on the card (or set on a token when it was created or set by a copy effect). It will not change any effects that are on the permanent.

You choose the words to change on resolution.

If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it’s legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.

To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you’re paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.

You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card’s type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.

“Flashback [cost]” means “You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost” and “If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack.”

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"He smiles with poisoned lips."
—Empress Llawan

Ambassador Laquatus

o3: Target player puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Bitter vengeance never glowed so bright nor sang so sweet.

Angel of Retribution

Anurid Scavenger

Protection from black
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Anurid Scavenger unless you put a card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library.

Aquamoeba

Discard a card from your hand: Switch Aquamoeba's power and toughness until end of turn.

Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to a creature may become lethal if you switch its power and toughness during that turn.

Effects that switch a creature's power and toughness apply after all other effects, regardless of when those effects began to apply. For instance, if you target a 1/2 creature then give it +2/+0 later in the turn, it's a 2/3 creature, not a 4/1 creature.

Switching a creature's power and toughness twice (or any even number of times) effectively returns the creature to the power and toughness it had before any switches.

Discard a card: Switch Aquamoeba's power and toughness until end of turn.

It's hard to be humble when the whole world is bite size.

Arrogant Wurm

Trample
Madness o2o
G (You may play this card for its madness cost at the time you discard it from your hand.)

A card with madness that's discarded counts as having been discarded even though it's put into exile rather than a graveyard. If it was discarded to pay a cost, that cost is still paid. Abilities that trigger when a card is discarded will still trigger.

A spell cast for its madness cost is put onto the stack like any other spell. It can be countered, copied, and so on. As it resolves, it's put onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card or into its owner's graveyard if it's an instant or sorcery card.

Cards are discarded in a Magic game only from a player's hand. Effects that put cards into a player's graveyard from anywhere else do not cause those cards to be discarded.

Casting a spell with madness ignores the timing rules based on the card's card type. For example, you can cast a sorcery with madness if you discard it during an opponent's turn.

If you choose not to cast a card with madness when the madness triggered ability resolves, it's put into your graveyard. Madness doesn't give you another chance to cast it later.

If you discard a card with madness to pay the cost of a spell or activated ability, that card's madness triggered ability (and the spell that card becomes, if you choose to cast it) will resolve before the spell or ability the discard paid for.

If you discard a card with madness while a spell or ability is resolving, it moves immediately to exile. Continue resolving that spell or ability, noting that the card you discarded is not in your graveyard at this time. Its madness triggered ability will be placed onto the stack once that spell or ability has completely resolved.

Madness works independently of why you're discarding the card. You could discard it to pay a cost, because a spell or ability tells you to, or because you have too many cards in your hand during your cleanup step. You can't discard a card with madness just because you want to, though.

To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a madness cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.

Trample
Madness {2}{G} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

The very skies seethe with the aven's hatred for the Cabal.

Aven Trooper

Flying
o2o
W, Discard a card from your hand: Aven Trooper gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

Flying
{2}{W}, Discard a card: Aven Trooper gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

"Power, gold, crackers—every bird has its price."
—Chainer, dementia master

Balshan Collaborator

Flying
o
B: Balshan Collaborator gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Flying
{B}: Balshan Collaborator gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"I like to think of him as concentrated barbarian."
—Kamahl, pit fighter

Balthor the Stout

All Barbarians get +1/+1.
o
R: Target Barbarian gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

The Legend rule only applies to two legendary permanents with identical names. If the names are different, even if they depict the same character, the rule does not apply.

Other Barbarian creatures get +1/+1.
{R}: Another target Barbarian creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"We offer power to anyone willing to take it. Sadly, few are unburdened enough by their prejudices to accept."
—Cabal surgeon

Barbarian Outcast

When you control no swamps, sacrifice Barbarian Outcast.

When you control no Swamps, sacrifice Barbarian Outcast.

Basking Rootwalla

o1o
G: Basking Rootwalla gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Play this ability only once each turn.
Madness o0 (You may play this card for its madness cost at the time you discard it from your hand.)

If this card's ability is activated by one player, then another player takes control of it on the same turn, the second player can't activate its ability that turn.

{1}{G}: Basking Rootwalla gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.
Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Boneshard Slasher

Flying
Threshold Boneshard Slasher gets +2/+2 and has "When Boneshard Slasher becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it." (You have threshold as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.)

Flying
Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Boneshard Slasher gets +2/+2 and has "When Boneshard Slasher becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

The ideas came flooding in so fast that they couldn't all be contained.

Breakthrough

Draw four cards, then choose X cards in your hand and discard the rest from it.

Draw four cards, then choose X cards in your hand and discard the rest.

Deep within the Cabal's vault, the Mirari pulsed like a dead sun—and its darkness radiated across Otaria.

Cabal Coffers

o2, oc
T: Add o
B to your mana pool for each swamp you control.

The mana ability of Cabal Coffers counts each land you control with the subtype Swamp, not just ones named Swamp.

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

"Each syllable chills your veins. Each word rattles your mind."
—Cabal Patriarch

Cabal Ritual

Add o
Bo
Bo
B to your mana pool.
Threshold Instead add o
Bo
Bo
Bo
Bo
B to your mana pool. (You have threshold if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.)

Add {B}{B}{B}.
Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

"Clerics give up when their patients die. Can I help it if I'm more compassionate?"

Cabal Surgeon

o2o
Bo
B, oc
T, Remove two cards in your graveyard from the game: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

{2}{B}{B}, {T}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Cabal Torturer

o
B, oc
T: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Threshold o3o
Bo
B, oc
T: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. (Play this ability only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.)

{B}, {T}: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Threshold — {3}{B}{B}, {T}: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

"Just what I need—more competition."
—Cabal grave robber

Carrion Rats

Whenever Carrion Rats attacks or blocks, any player may remove a card in his or her graveyard from the game. If a player does, Carrion Rats deals no combat damage this turn.

Whenever Carrion Rats attacks or blocks, any player may exile a card from their graveyard. If a player does, Carrion Rats assigns no combat damage this turn.

Since it eats only carrion, sometimes it needs to make some from scratch.

Carrion Wurm

Whenever Carrion Wurm attacks or blocks, any player may remove three cards in his or her graveyard from the game. If a player does, Carrion Wurm deals no combat damage this turn.

Whenever Carrion Wurm attacks or blocks, any player may exile three cards from their graveyard. If a player does, Carrion Wurm assigns no combat damage this turn.

Centaur Chieftain

Haste
Threshold When Centaur Chieftain comes into play, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn. (You have threshold if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.)

All creatures under your control when Centaur Chieftain’s triggered ability resolves are affected, including Centaur Chieftain itself. Ones that come under your control or become creatures later in the turn are not.

If you don’t have enough cards in your graveyard at the moment Centaur Chieftain enters the battlefield, its threshold ability won’t trigger. If the number of cards in your graveyard changes and Centaur Chieftain loses the ability once it has triggered, the ability will still resolve.

Haste
Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Centaur Chieftain has "When Centaur Chieftain enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn."

He wears his scars like badges of honor, warning his foes that he's not easily defeated.

Centaur Veteran

Trample
o
G, Discard a card from your hand: Regenerate Centaur Veteran.

Trample
{G}, Discard a card: Regenerate Centaur Veteran.

It's easy to tell the difference between the devious cephalids and the trustworthy ones. The trustworthy ones are dead.

Cephalid Aristocrat

Whenever Cephalid Aristocrat becomes the target of a spell or ability, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.

Whenever Cephalid Aristocrat becomes the target of a spell or ability, mill two cards.

Cephalid Illusionist

Whenever Cephalid Illusionist becomes the target of a spell or ability, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.
o2o
U, oc
T: This turn prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by target creature you control.

Whenever Cephalid Illusionist becomes the target of a spell or ability, mill three cards.
{2}{U}, {T}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by target creature you control this turn.

Cephalid Sage

Threshold When Cephalid Sage comes into play, draw three cards, then discard two cards from your hand. (You have threshold if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.)

If you don’t have enough cards in your graveyard at the moment Cephalid Sage enters the battlefield, its threshold ability won’t trigger. If the number of cards in your graveyard changes and Cephalid Sage loses the ability once it has triggered, the ability will still resolve.

You draw three cards and discard two cards all while Cephalid Sage’s ability is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions.

Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Cephalid Sage has "When Cephalid Sage enters, draw three cards, then discard two cards."

The cautious are wary of their enemies. The wise are also wary of their friends.

Cephalid Snitch

Sacrifice Cephalid Snitch: Target creature loses protection from black until end of turn.

Cephalid Vandal

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a shred counter on Cephalid Vandal. Then put the top card of your library into your graveyard for each shred counter on Cephalid Vandal.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a shred counter on Cephalid Vandal. Then mill a card for each shred counter on Cephalid Vandal.

Chainer's Edict

Target player sacrifices a creature.
Flashback o5o
Bo
B (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)

Target player sacrifices a creature.
Flashback {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Chainer, Dementia Master

All Nightmares get +1/+1.
o
Bo
Bo
B, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard into play under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its creature types.
When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves play, remove all Nightmares from the game.

The creature put onto the battlefield by Chainer’s activated ability is black only, not black in addition to its other colors. It is, however, a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types. As it enters the battlefield, it is already a black Nightmare (and perhaps some other creature types); it doesn’t enter and then become a black Nightmare.

All Nightmares get +1/+1.
{B}{B}{B}, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

"Magic is like the tide—both ebb, both flow, and both serve my whims."
—Empress Llawan

Churning Eddy

Return target creature and target land to their owners' hands.

Circular Logic

Counter target spell unless its controller pays o1 for each card in your graveyard.
Madness o
U (You may play this card for its madness cost at the time you discard it from your hand.)

Count the number of cards in your graveyard as Circular Logic resolves to determine how much the controller of the target spell has to pay. Circular Logic is still on the stack at that time. It doesn't count itself.

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard.
Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Cleansing Meditation

Destroy all enchantments.
Threshold Instead destroy all enchantments, then return to play all cards in your graveyard destroyed this way. (You have threshold if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.)

Auras returning to the battlefield are placed on any legal permanent of your choice. Doing this does not target the permanent. If there is no legal permanent for an Aura, it remains in the graveyard.

Auras returning to the battlefield can only enchant something that was already on the battlefield. An Enchant Enchantment returning to the battlefield can’t be placed on an enchantment that is also in the process of returning to the battlefield.

Destroy all enchantments.
Threshold — If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, instead destroy all enchantments, then return all cards in your graveyard destroyed this way to the battlefield.

Compulsion

o1o
U, Discard a card from your hand: Draw a card.
o1o
U, Sacrifice Compulsion: Draw a card.

{1}{U}, Discard a card: Draw a card.
{1}{U}, Sacrifice Compulsion: Draw a card.

Coral Net

Coral Net can enchant only a green or white creature.
Enchanted creature has "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you discard a card from your hand."

Enchant green or white creature
Enchanted creature has "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you discard a card."

Crackling Club

Enchanted creature gets +1/+0.
Sacrifice Crackling Club: Crackling Club deals 1 damage to target creature.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0.
Sacrifice Crackling Club: It deals 1 damage to target creature.

"The longer it's caged, the madder it gets."
—Firecat handler

Crazed Firecat

When Crazed Firecat comes into play, flip a coin until you lose a flip. Put a +1/+1 counter on Crazed Firecat for each flip you win.

When Crazed Firecat enters, flip a coin until you lose a flip. Put a +1/+1 counter on Crazed Firecat for each flip you won.

Crippling Fatigue

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
Flashback—o1o
B, Pay 3 life. (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
Flashback—{1}{B}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Dawn of the Dead

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to play. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Remove it from the game at end of turn.

The creature is only exiled if it is still on the battlefield at the beginning of the end step.

If the creature leaves the battlefield, but returns to the battlefield before the triggered ability resolves, you won’t exile it. This is because it is treated as a different object than the one to which the ability refers.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—o1o
U, Pay 3 life. (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)

Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Devastating Dreams

As an additional cost to play Devastating Dreams, discard X cards at random from your hand.
Each player sacrifices X lands. Devastating Dreams deals X damage to each creature.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards at random.
Each player sacrifices X lands. Devastating Dreams deals X damage to each creature.

None can find what hasn't been lost.
—Nantuko teaching

Dwell on the Past

Target player shuffles up to four target cards from his or her graveyard into his or her library.

Target player shuffles up to four target cards from their graveyard into their library.

Captive dwarves always regain their freedom, either through escape or through a desperate, fiery death.

Enslaved Dwarf

o
R, Sacrifice Enslaved Dwarf: Target black creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

{R}, Sacrifice Enslaved Dwarf: Target black creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

Equal Treatment

If any source would deal 1 or more damage to a creature or player this turn, it deals 2 damage to that creature or player instead.
Draw a card.

If any source would deal 1 or more damage to a permanent or player this turn, it deals 2 damage to that permanent or player instead.
Draw a card.

Faceless Butcher

When Faceless Butcher comes into play, remove target creature other than Faceless Butcher from the game.
When Faceless Butcher leaves play, return the removed card to play under its owner's control.

Faceless Butcher’s first ability isn’t optional. If no other players control any creatures and you do, you must choose a creature you control as the target.

If Faceless Butcher exiles a second Faceless Butcher, and then a third Faceless Butcher comes along and exiles the first one, the second one will return to the battlefield. If there are no other creatures on the battlefield, the second will exile the third one, returning the first one, and so on. If no one can stop the loop, the game will be a draw.

If Faceless Butcher exiles a token creature, the token will cease to exist after being exiled. It won’t return to the battlefield because of the second ability.

When Faceless Butcher enters, exile another target creature.
When Faceless Butcher leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

"My enemies will forget everything but their anguish."
—Ambassador Laquatus

False Memories

Put the top seven cards of your library into your graveyard. At end of turn, remove seven cards in your graveyard from the game.

Mill seven cards. At the beginning of the next end step, exile seven cards from your graveyard.

Far Wanderings

Search your library for a basic land card and put that card into play tapped. Then shuffle your library.
Threshold Instead search your library for three basic land cards and put them into play tapped. Then shuffle your library. (You have threshold if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.)

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Threshold — If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, instead search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Card (143)	Type	^{$75.68 (853.06)} Price
Accelerate - 1997	Instant	$0.05 ^(4.00)
Acorn Harvest - 1997	Sorcery	$2.00 ^(8.50)
Alter Reality - 1997	Instant	$0.25 ^(5.00)
Ambassador Laquatus - 1997	Creature	$1.00 ^(4.00)
Angel of Retribution - 1997	Creature	$0.10 ^(5.00)
Anurid Scavenger - 1997	Creature	$0.05 ^(4.00)
Aquamoeba - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(1.00)
Arrogant Wurm - 1997	Creature	$0.25 ^(5.25)
Aven Trooper - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Balshan Collaborator - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.07)
Balthor the Stout - 1997	Creature	$0.10 ^(4.00)
Barbarian Outcast - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Basking Rootwalla - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(9.00)
Boneshard Slasher - 1997	Creature	$0.05 ^(5.00)
Breakthrough - 1997	Sorcery	$0.05 ^(4.05)
Cabal Coffers - 1997	Land	$20.00 ^(70.00)
Cabal Ritual - 1997	Instant	$10.00 ^(56.00)
Cabal Surgeon - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.05)
Cabal Torturer - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Carrion Rats - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(5.00)
Carrion Wurm - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.05)
Centaur Chieftain - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.05)
Centaur Veteran - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Cephalid Aristocrat - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.15)
Cephalid Illusionist - 1997	Creature	$0.75 ^(38.75)
Cephalid Sage - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.15)
Cephalid Snitch - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Cephalid Vandal - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(5.00)
Chainer's Edict - 1997	Sorcery	$0.10 ^(9.00)
Chainer, Dementia Master - 1997	Creature	$0.10 ^(38.00)
Churning Eddy - 1997	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Circular Logic - 1997	Instant	$0.50 ^(14.50)
Cleansing Meditation - 1997	Sorcery	$0.50 ^(7.50)
Compulsion - 1997	Enchantment	$0.10 ^(4.00)
Coral Net - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.15)
Crackling Club - 1997	Enchantment	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Crazed Firecat - 1997	Creature	$0.05 ^(1.50)
Crippling Fatigue - 1997	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(3.00)
Dawn of the Dead - 1997	Enchantment	$1.50 ^(8.50)
Deep Analysis - 1997	Sorcery	$0.05 ^(11.05)
Devastating Dreams - 1997	Sorcery	$0.10 ^(6.00)
Dwell on the Past - 1997	Sorcery	$0.05 ^(3.00)
Enslaved Dwarf - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(14.00)
Equal Treatment - 1997	Instant	$0.05 ^(2.00)
Faceless Butcher - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(1.50)
False Memories - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(7.50)
Far Wanderings - 1997	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(5.02)
Fiery Temper - 1997	Instant	$0.02 ^(4.00)
Flaming Gambit - 1997	Instant	$0.05 ^(0.05)
Flash of Defiance - 1997	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(0.02)

Torment