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

Absolute Law

This affects all creatures, not just your own.

Academy Rector

You do not have to find an enchantment card if you do not want to, even if you have one in your library.

An enchantment card is any Enchantment card, including Auras.

When Academy Rector dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

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.

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

Arc Lightning

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.

Armageddon

The Brothers' War scarred the land, but Ashnod left her mark in the bloodlines of those she tortured.

Ashnod's Altar

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

Attunement

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.

Jamuraa's rhystic mages treat magic as their garden, uprooting unwanted spells as bothersome weeds.

Aura Fracture

Sacrifice a land: Destroy target enchantment.

Avalanche Riders

Haste
Echo {3}{R} (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.)
When Avalanche Riders enters the battlefield, destroy target land.

Birds of Paradise

Blastoderm

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Fading 3 (This creature enters the battlefield with three fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Blaze

"The fishers will throw out their nets and draw them back filled with dust."
—Oracle *en*-Vec

Boil

"I see more than others do because I know where to look."
—Saprazzan vizier

Brainstorm

You draw three cards and put two cards back all while Brainstorm is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions.

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Brushland

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}. Brushland deals 1 damage to you.

Chill

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.

City of Brass

If you tap City of Brass while you are casting a spell or activating an ability, its ability will trigger and wait. When you finish casting that spell or activating that ability, City of Brass's triggered ability is put on the stack on top of it. City of Brass's ability will resolve first.

On the other hand, you can tap City of Brass, put its triggered ability on the stack, and then respond to that ability by casting an instant or activating an ability using that mana. In that case, the instant spell or activated ability will resolve first.

The first ability triggers no matter how the land becomes tapped.

Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

"I don't understand why he works so hard on a device to duplicate a sound so easily made with hand and armpit."
—Barrin, progress report

Confiscate

Gaining control of a permanent doesn't cause you to gain control of any Auras or Equipment attached to it.

Gaining control of an Aura or Equipment doesn't change what it's attached to.

Enchant permanent
You control enchanted permanent.

Counterspell

"Mold could catch you."
—Suq'Ata insult

Creeping Mold

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Crumbling Sanctuary

If you have no cards in your library, then damage done to you will have no effect since it will get changed into a removal that can’t happen.

If damage would be dealt to a player, that player exiles that many cards from the top of their library instead.

Crystal Vein

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Crystal Vein: Add {C}{C}.

Pass me from soul to soul, / soldier to herder, herder to beast, beast to soil / until I am everywhere. / Then pass me those souls.
—Totem inscription (translated)

Cursed Totem

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 noncreature permanents that would make them become creatures (such as a Vehicle's crew ability) can still be activated. Once they become creatures, any abilities they have cannot be activated.

Cursed Totem doesn't stop players from activating abilities of creature cards that aren't on the battlefield, such as cycling or unearth.

Cursed Totem stops players from activating mana abilities of creatures.

Other abilities of creatures, including static abilities and triggered abilities, are unaffected.

Activated abilities of creatures can't be activated.

Daze

If another effect causes Daze to cost more, you must pay that additional cost even if you pay its alternative cost.

You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

"We've managed to keep the goblins in their assigned areas, but there's little we can do about the smell."
—Whip Tongue, viashino technician

Defense Grid

The additional cost can be reduced by effects that reduce costs, such as Sapphire Medallion.

In Two-Headed Giant, spells don't cost extra on your own turn.

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

Dust Bowl

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Energy Field

Buyback causes a spell to go to your hand instead of your graveyard, so using Buyback will avoid triggering this card to be sacrificed.

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you by sources you don't control.
When a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, sacrifice Energy Field.

Karn said nothing—he just grasped the powerstone and squeezed tightly. The wild flashing ceased.

Energy Flux

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

"I do not teach. I simply reveal."
—Daudi, Femeref tutor

Enlightened Tutor

The “shuffle and put the card on top” is a single action. If an effect causes the top card of the library to be face up, the second card down is not revealed.

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Erase

The card does not go to the graveyard first.

Life is eternal. A lifetime is ephemeral.

Fecundity

In a multiplayer game, if a player loses the game, triggered abilities that player controls are removed from the stack and no more from that player can be added. This means that if a creature an opponent controls dies while you control Fecundity, and you lose the game before Fecundity’s triggered ability resolves (perhaps because you lost the game at the same time that the creature died), that player won’t draw a card.

Whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller may draw a card.

Flameshot

You can’t choose zero targets. You must choose at least one target.

You may discard a Mountain card rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Flameshot deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures.

Forest

Motivation was high in the academy once students realized flunking their exams could kill them.

Frantic Search

You draw two cards and discard two cards all while Frantic Search is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions.

You choose which lands to untap as the spell resolves. They aren't targeted, and they don't have to be lands that you control.

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Grim Monolith

Grim Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{4}: Untap Grim Monolith.

Heart of Ramos

You can activate the sacrifice ability while this card is tapped.

{T}: Add {R}.
Sacrifice Heart of Ramos: Add {R}.

If it can't be had here, it can't be had on any world.

High Market

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Island

Karplusan Forest

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}. Karplusan Forest deals 1 damage to you.

"I do not miss sunlight. The very memory of it burns my eyes."
—Volrath

Light of Day

Lilting Refrain

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 verse counter on Lilting Refrain.
Sacrifice Lilting Refrain: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is the number of verse counters on Lilting Refrain.

One bone broken for every twig snapped underfoot.
—Llanowar penalty for trespassing

Llanowar Elves

Masticore

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Masticore unless you discard a card.
{2}: Masticore deals 1 damage to target creature.
{2}: Regenerate Masticore.

Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

"At this rate I fully expect to be replaced by a clockwork golem by year's end."
—Barrin

Metalworker

This is a mana ability. It does not go on the stack and can’t be responded to.

You can reveal zero cards to gain zero mana.

{T}: Reveal any number of artifact cards in your hand. Add {C}{C} for each card revealed this way.

Miscalculation

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.

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The helix was the finest example of Mishra's campaign strategy: if he couldn't have Argoth, no one could.

Mishra's Helix

Mountain

"To the tutors, a 'poem of sand' was of little account, a 'poem of ivory,' priceless."
—Afari, *Tales*

Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Opalescence

Does not animate itself. But can be animated by another Opalescence.

With a Humility and two Opalescences on the battlefield, if Humility has the latest timestamp, then all creatures are 1/1 with no abilities. If the timestamp order is Opalescence, Humility, Opalescence, the second Opalescence is 1/1, and the Humility and first Opalescence are 4/4. If Humility has the earliest timestamp, then everything is 4/4.

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.

This is the current interaction between Humility and Opalescence: The type-changing effect applies at layer 4, but the rest happens in the applicable layers. The rest of it will apply even if the permanent loses its ability before it’s finished applying. So if Opalescence, Humility, and Worship are on the battlefield and Opalescence entered the battlefield before Humility, the following is true: Layer 4: Humility and Worship each become creatures that are still enchantments. (Opalescence). Layer 6: Humility and Worship each lose their abilities. (Humility) Layer 7b: Humility becomes 4/4 and Worship becomes 4/4. (Opalescence). Humility becomes 1/1 and Worship becomes 1/1 (Humility). But if Humility entered the battlefield before Opalescence, the following is true: Layer 4: Humility and Worship each become creatures that are still enchantments (Opalescence). Layer 6: Humility and Worship each lose their abilities (Humility). Layer 7b: Humility becomes 1/1 and Worship becomes 1/1 (Humility). Humility becomes 4/4 and Worship becomes 4/4 (Opalescence).

Each other non-Aura enchantment is a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its mana value.

Parallax Tide

Fading 5 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
Remove a fade counter from Parallax Tide: Exile target land.
When Parallax Tide leaves the battlefield, each player returns to the battlefield all cards they own exiled with Parallax Tide.

Parallax Wave

Fading 5 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
Remove a fade counter from Parallax Wave: Exile target creature.
When Parallax Wave leaves the battlefield, each player returns to the battlefield all cards they own exiled with Parallax Wave.

Pattern of Rebirth

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.

Searching for a creature card is optional.

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller may search their library for a creature card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Phyrexian Colossus

Phyrexian Colossus doesn't untap during your untap step.
Pay 8 life: Untap Phyrexian Colossus.
Phyrexian Colossus can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Phyrexian Processor

You can pay 0 life if you want, but it's not useful most of the time.

As Phyrexian Processor enters the battlefield, pay any amount of life.
{4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as Phyrexian Processor entered the battlefield.

Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Plains

To renew the land, plow the land. To destroy the land, do nothing.
—Druids' saying

Plow Under

The owner decides the order the two lands are stacked there.

Put two target lands on top of their owners' libraries.

Titania rewards all who honor the forest by making them a living part of it.

Priest of Titania

Priest of Titania's ability counts all Elves on the battlefield. This includes Priest of Titania itself as well as Elves controlled by other players.

Priest of Titania's ability is a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and players can't respond to it. Notably, this means other players can't try to remove Elves from the battlefield after you activate this ability but before it resolves.

{T}: Add {G} for each Elf on the battlefield.

"My people are bound by masters centuries dead. Each artifact we destroy is another link broken in that chain."
—Barb Tail, viashino heretic

Rack and Ruin

Treasures, trinkets, trash—the relics of the past are brought forth again.

Replenish

It determines what enchantments to return when its resolution starts. If more enchantments go to the graveyard during the resolution, those additional enchantments are ignored.

Auras can only be placed on permanents that were on the battlefield before this effect started to resolve. You can’t put an enchantment onto the battlefield with Replenish and put an Aura that is also entering the battlefield onto one of those enchantments.

You must return Auras if possible, even if this means enchanting an opponent’s permanent with a good enchantment.

Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in your graveyard.)

Rishada is the gateway to free trade—but the key will cost you.

Rishadan Port

Once you announce that you're casting a spell or activating an ability, no player may take other actions until the spell or ability has been paid for. Notably, players can't try to tap your lands to stop you from paying.

Rising Waters

Lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player untaps a land they control.

Saprazzan Skerry

Saprazzan Skerry enters the battlefield tapped with two depletion counters on it.
{T}, Remove a depletion counter from Saprazzan Skerry: Add {U}{U}. If there are no depletion counters on Saprazzan Skerry, sacrifice it.

Saproling Burst

Each token knows which Saproling Burst it came from.

Fading 7 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with seven fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
Remove a fade counter from Saproling Burst: Create a green Saproling creature token. It has "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of fade counters on Saproling Burst."
When Saproling Burst leaves the battlefield, destroy all tokens created with Saproling Burst. They can't be regenerated.

Saproling Cluster

{1}, Discard a card: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. Any player may activate this ability.

"I am the purifier, the light that clears all shadows."
—Seal inscription

Seal of Cleansing

Sacrificing Seal of Cleansing is the cost to activate its ability. Once you activate the ability, no player can do anything to Seal of Cleansing to stop you from activating it. Notably, if you cast Seal of Cleansing during your turn, you'll have priority to activate its ability before anyone can respond to stop you.

Sacrifice Seal of Cleansing: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I am the unraveler, the loosened thread that will not hold."
—Seal inscription

Seal of Removal

Sacrifice Seal of Removal: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Card (107)	Type	^{$60.00 (0.00)} Price
Absolute Law - gold - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Academy Rector - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Adarkar Wastes - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Annul - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Arc Lightning - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Armageddon - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Ashnod's Altar - gold - 1997	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Attunement - gold - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Aura Fracture - gold - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Avalanche Riders - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Birds of Paradise - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Birds of Paradise - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Blastoderm - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Blaze - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Boil - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Brainstorm - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Brushland - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Chill - gold - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Chill - gold - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Circle of Protection: Black - gold - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
City of Brass - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Confiscate - gold - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Counterspell - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Creeping Mold - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Creeping Mold - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Crumbling Sanctuary - gold - 1997	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Crystal Vein - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cursed Totem - gold - 1997	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Daze - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Defense Grid - gold - 1997	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Dust Bowl - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Energy Field - gold - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Energy Flux - gold - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Enlightened Tutor - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Enlightened Tutor - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Erase - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Fecundity - gold - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Flameshot - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Frantic Search - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Grim Monolith - gold - 1997	Artifact	$20.00 ^(0.00)
Heart of Ramos - gold - 1997	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
High Market - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Island - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Island - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Karplusan Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Light of Day - gold - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Lilting Refrain - gold - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Llanowar Elves - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)

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