In pursuit of Urza, the Phyrexians sent countless foul legions into Serra's realm. Though beaten back, they left it tainted with uncleansable evil.

Absolute Grace

All creatures gain protection from black.

This affects all creatures, not just your own.

All creatures have protection from black.

The strength of law is unwavering. It is an iron bar in a world of water.

Absolute Law

Abundance

Instead of drawing a card, you may choose land or nonland and reveal cards from your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and put all other revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

If no card of the chosen type is found before your library empties, you don't get a card, but you do get to order all the cards in your library any way you choose.

If you use this on a multi-card draw, each replaced draw is handled separately. In other words, you reveal and then put on the bottom of the library for the first card, then do the same for the second, and so on. In a multi-card draw you do not have to choose how many of those draws will be replaced before you do any drawing or use of this card.

This replacement effect replaces the draw, so nothing that triggers on a draw will trigger.

If your library is empty, Abundance can prevent you from losing the game for being unable to draw a card. If an effect or turn-based action would cause you to draw a card, you can replace that draw with Abundance's replacement effect. (It doesn't matter that you'd be unable to actually draw a card.) Since Abundance's effect has you put a card into your hand instead of drawing a card, you'll never be forced to draw a card with an empty library.

If you would draw a card, you may instead choose land or nonland and reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and put all other cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

It has no face of its own—it wears that of its latest victim.

Abyssal Horror

Flying
When Abyssal Horror comes into play, target player chooses and discards two cards.

Flying
When Abyssal Horror enters, target player discards two cards.

Academy Researchers

When Academy Researchers comes into play, you may choose an enchant creature card in your hand and put that enchantment into play on Academy Researchers.

You can't put an Aura card from your hand onto the battlefield this way if that Aura can't legally enchant Academy Researchers. For example, you can't put an Aura with "enchant land" or "enchant green creature" onto the battlefield attached to Academy Researchers (unless Academy Researchers somehow turned into a land or a green creature before the ability resolved).

When Academy Researchers enters, you may put an Aura card from your hand onto the battlefield attached to Academy Researchers.

Phyrexia had tried to take Urza's soul. He was relieved that Shiv tried to claim only his soles.

Acidic Soil

Acidic Soil deals 1 damage to each player for each land he or she controls.

Acidic Soil deals damage to each player equal to the number of lands they control.

The elves of Argoth were trained to ride these creatures, even when their mounts traveled upside-down.

Acridian

Echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent comes under your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.)

Echo {1}{G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

Albino Troll

Echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent comes under your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.)
o1oo
G Regenerate Albino Troll.

Echo {1}{G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
{1}{G}: Regenerate Albino Troll.

If you're smaller than the anaconda, it considers you food. If you're larger than the anaconda, it considers you a lot of food.

Anaconda

Swampwalk (If defending player controls a swamp, this creature is unblockable.)

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

The very young and the very old know best the song the angels sing.

Angelic Chorus

Whenever a creature comes into play under your control, gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Angelic Chorus does not trigger when creatures phase in or change controllers.

This does not trigger on a permanent being turned into a creature. That is just a permanent changing type, not something entering.

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain life equal to its toughness.

If only every message were as perfect as its bearers.

Angelic Page

Flying
oc
T: Target attacking or blocking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Flying
{T}: Target attacking or blocking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

The most effective way to destroy a spell is to ensure it was never cast in the first place.

Annul

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

Antagonism

During each player's discard phase, Antagonism deals 2 damage to that player unless one of his or her opponents was successfully dealt damage that turn.

It looks back over the entire turn even if this card was not on the battlefield at the time.

At the beginning of each player's end step, Antagonism deals 2 damage to that player unless one of their opponents was dealt damage this turn.

Rainclouds don't last long in Shiv, but that doesn't stop the lightning.

Arc Lightning

Arc Lightning deals 3 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.

If some of the creatures are illegal targets as Arc Lightning tries to resolve, the original division of damage still applies but no damage is dealt to the illegal targets. If all targets are illegal, Arc Lightning doesn’t resolve.

You choose how many targets Arc Lightning has and how the damage is divided as you cast the spell. Each target must receive at least 1 damage.

Arc Lightning deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

It soon became obvious that some experiments were best overseen by fireproof teachers.

Arcane Laboratory

Each player cannot play more than one spell each turn.

If a spell is countered, it still counts as the one spell cast.

When Arcane Laboratory enters, it will look back over the turn to see if any spell was cast before it entered the battlefield. It will notice itself being cast.

When it leaves the battlefield, the effect ends and all players are able to cast spells unrestricted again.

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

Sharpen your ears
—Elvish expression meaning "grow wiser"

Argothian Elder

The ability can target an already untapped land.

The ability must target two different lands. It can’t be activated if there is just one land to target.

Argothian Enchantress

Argothian Enchantress cannot be the target of spells or abilities.
Whenever you successfully cast an enchantment spell, draw a card.

Argothian Enchantress’s last ability will resolve before the spell that caused it to trigger.

Enchantments put onto the battlefield without being cast won’t cause Argothian Enchantress’s last ability to trigger.

If the enchantment spell is countered, Argothian Enchantress’s last ability still resolves and causes you to draw a card.

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, draw a card.

In Argoth, the shortest path between two points is the one the swine make.

Argothian Swine

Argothian Wurm

Trample
When Argothian Wurm comes into play, any player may sacrifice a land to put Argothian Wurm on top of owner's library.

When Argothian Wurm enters, first the active player gets the option to sacrifice a land. If they decline, the next player in turn order gets the option. If a player elects to sacrifice a land, Argothian Wurm is put on top of its owner's library, but then all remaining players still get the option. If all players decline, then nothing happens and Argothian Wurm stays on the battlefield.

Trample
When Argothian Wurm enters, any player may sacrifice a land. If a player does, put Argothian Wurm on top of its owner's library.

"The solution can hide for only so long."
—Urza

Attunement

Return Attunement to owner's hand: Draw three cards, then choose and discard four cards.

If you have less than 4 cards, discard all you have.

Return Attunement to its owner's hand: Draw three cards, then discard four cards.

"A ruler wears a crown while the rest of us wear hats, but which would you rather have when it's raining?"
—Barrin, *Principia*

Back to Basics

Nonbasic lands do not untap during their controllers' untap phases.

Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Barrin's Codex

During your upkeep, you may put a page counter on Barrin's Codex.
o4, oc
T, Sacrifice Barrin's Codex: Draw X cards, where X is the number of page counters on Barrin's Codex.

Adding a counter is optional. If you forget to add one during your upkeep, you cannot back up and add one later.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a page counter on Barrin's Codex.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Barrin's Codex: Draw X cards, where X is the number of page counters on Barrin's Codex.

"Knowledge is no more expensive than ignorance, and at least as satisfying."
—Barrin, master wizard

Barrin, Master Wizard

Barrin, Master Wizard counts as a Wizard.
o2, Sacrifice a permanent: Return target creature to owner's hand.

{2}, Sacrifice a permanent: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Sometimes quantity, in the absence of quality, is good enough.

Bedlam

"The land putrefied at its touch, turned into an oily bile in seconds."
—Radiant, archangel

Befoul

Destroy target land or nonblack creature. A creature destroyed this way cannot be regenerated this turn.

This is not modal. You do not have to choose the target type. The target has to either be a land or non-black creature when announced and on resolution.

Destroy target land or nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

"Grief is as useless as love."
—Gix, Yawgmoth praetor

Bereavement

Whenever a green creature is put into a graveyard from play, its controller chooses and discards a card.

If the player has no cards in hand, this has no effect.

Whenever a green creature dies, its controller discards a card.

"Braid her branches, life fulfilling Goddess loving, Goddess killing."
—Citanul chant

Blanchwood Armor

Enchanted creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of forests you control.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each Forest you control.

The massive Argivian attack on their rooted kindred was a declaration of war to the treefolk.

Blanchwood Treefolk

Blasted Landscape

oc
T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.
Cycling o2 (You may pay o2 and discard this card from your hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)

Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not.

{T}: Add {C}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"They are bred to suffer and born to die. Much like humans."
—Gix, Yawgmoth praetor

Blood Vassal

Sacrifice Blood Vassal: Add o
Bo
B to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.

"Let weak feed on weak, that we may divine the nature of strength."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*

Bog Raiders

"By this glyph I affirm your role."
—Urza, to Karn

Brand

Gain control of all permanents you own.
Cycling o2 (You may pay o2 and discard this card from your hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)

A token's owner is the player who created it.

Gain control of all permanents you own. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"We drive the dragons from our home. Why should we fear you?"
—Fire Eye, viashino bey

Bravado

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control.

Breach

Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. That creature cannot be blocked except by artifact creatures and black creatures this turn.

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Brilliant Halo

Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.
When Brilliant Halo is put into a graveyard from play, return Brilliant Halo to owner's hand.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.
When Brilliant Halo is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Brilliant Halo to its owner's hand.

"How could you not hear it approach? It's a hippo!"
—Argivian commander

Bull Hippo

Islandwalk (If defending player controls an island, this creature is unblockable.)

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

"It will be the goblin's first bath, and its last."
—Fire Eye, viashino bey

Bulwark

During your upkeep, Bulwark deals 1 damage to target opponent for each card in your hand greater than the number of cards in that player's hand.

At the beginning of your upkeep, Bulwark deals X damage to target opponent, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus the number of cards in that player's hand.

Its windpipe is only the first to amplify its maddening laughter.

Cackling Fiend

When Cackling Fiend comes into play, each of your opponents chooses and discards a card.

If the opponent has no cards in hand, this has no effect.

When Cackling Fiend enters, each opponent discards a card.

Carpet of Flowers

During your main phase, you may add up to X mana of one color to your mana pool, where X is the number of islands target opponent controls.

You can target a different opponent each turn.

At the beginning of each of your main phases, if you haven't added mana with this ability this turn, you may add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of Islands target opponent controls.

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Carrion Beetles

o2o
B, oc
T: Remove from the game up to three target cards in one graveyard.

If any of the targets are not there on resolution, the others are still affected.

You pick the 0, 1, 2, or 3 target cards on announcement.

{2}{B}, {T}: Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.

"Without order comes errors, and errors kill on Tolaria."
—Barrin, master wizard

Catalog

Draw two cards, then choose and discard a card.

Radiant's eyes flashed. "Go, then," the angel spat at Serra, "and leave this world to those who truly care."

Catastrophe

Destroy all lands or all creatures. Creatures destroyed this way cannot regenerate this turn.

You choose land or creatures when the spell resolves.

Destroy all lands or all creatures. Creatures destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Instead of creating a tool that would be damaged by heat, the Thran built one that was charged by it.

Cathodion

When Cathodion is put into a graveyard from play, add three colorless mana to your mana pool.

You get the mana whether you want it or not. If you don't spend it, it will disappear at the end of the current step (or phase).

The druids found a haven in the cool limestone tunnels beneath Argoth. The invaders found only tigers.

Cave Tiger

Whenever a creature blocks it, Cave Tiger gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Whenever Cave Tiger becomes blocked by a creature, Cave Tiger gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Child of Gaea

Trample
During your upkeep, pay o
Go
G or sacrifice Child of Gaea.
o1oo
G Regenerate Child of Gaea.

You choose whether to pay or not on resolution. If not, then you sacrifice Child of Gaea. You can choose to not pay even if you no longer control Child of Gaea on resolution.

If you do choose not to pay, but no longer control Child of Gaea, you cannot sacrifice. It will remain on the battlefield under its current controller’s control.

Trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Child of Gaea unless you pay {G}{G}.
{1}{G}: Regenerate Child of Gaea.

Chimeric Staff

oo
X Chimeric Staff is an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to X until end of turn.

A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature can attack, and its {T} abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn’t matter how long the permanent has been a creature.

If Chimeric Staff is already an artifact creature when you activate its ability, Chimeric Staff stays an artifact creature but the ability resets its creature types. You always apply the effect from this card before counters or other effects that modify power and toughness. For example, if you pay {3} to make it a 3/3, then someone gives it -1/-1, it will be a 2/2. If you then activate the ability with {4}, you will apply the “4/4” effect before the -1/-1 effect, so the end result will be a 3/3. Damage that was dealt to the creature stays on it.

{X}: Chimeric Staff becomes an X/X Construct artifact creature until end of turn.

Citanul Centaurs

Echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent comes under your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.)
Citanul Centaurs cannot be the target of spells or abilities.

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Echo {3}{G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

Citanul Flute

o
X, oc
T: Search your library for a creature card with total casting cost no greater than X. Reveal that card and put it into your hand. Shuffle your library afterward.

You look in your library but you do not have to choose a creature even if you have one that meets the criteria.

{X}, {T}: Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

From deep in the caves beneath the forest, the hierophants planned the druids' raids against the enemy.

Citanul Hierophants

Each creature you control gains "oc
T: Add o
G to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source."

Creatures you control have "{T}: Add {G}."

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