It's so tough it can frighten *itself* into hiding.

Anurid Brushhopper

Discard two cards: Exile Anurid Brushhopper. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Birds of Paradise

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.

Brushland

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

Call of the Herd

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.

“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.”

Create a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Flashback {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Books are like crops—they must be thinned for best yield.

Careful Study

Cephalid Coliseum

{T}: Add {U}. Cephalid Coliseum deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {U}, {T}, Sacrifice Cephalid Coliseum: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Chainer's Edict

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

Circular Logic

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

Coffin Purge

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.

Exile target card from a graveyard.
Flashback {B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

A fruit must rot before its seed can sprout.
—Yavimaya saying

Compost

The ability triggers on a black card being discarded, milled, or countered, as well as a black card going to the graveyard from the battlefield.

Whenever a black card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may draw a card.

Counterspell

He wished for knowledge, but not for the will to apply it.

Cunning Wish

Can't acquire the Ante cards. They are considered still "in the game" as are cards in the library and the graveyard.

In a sanctioned event, a card that's "outside the game" is one that's in your sideboard. In an unsanctioned event, you may choose any card from your collection.

You can't acquire exiled cards because those cards are still in one of the game's zones.

You may reveal an instant card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand. Exile Cunning Wish.

Murky Otarian tides hide the forgotten treacheries of the Phyrexian war.

Darkwater Catacombs

Deep Analysis

"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."

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.)

Teferi wanted no part of Urza's battle plans, but both agreed the Phyrexian portal must be closed.

Disrupt

You draw a card regardless of whether the targeted spell was countered or {1} was paid.

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Draw a card.

"Change your mind, or I'll change it for you."

Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Fire // Ice

Fire deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets.

"For dim-witted, thick-skulled genetic mutants, they have pretty good aim."
—Sisay

Flametongue Kavu

Flametongue Kavu’s ability can target itself. If it’s the only creature on the battlefield as its ability triggers, its ability must target itself.

When Flametongue Kavu enters, it deals 4 damage to target creature.

Forest

"I'd be happy to stop contradicting you, Urza, just as soon as you start being right."
—Bo Levar, planeswalker

Gainsay

"First through the Riftstone was Genesis—and the world was lifeless no more."
—*Scroll of Beginnings*

Genesis

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Genesis is in your graveyard, you may pay {2}{G}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Anyone can snap her fingers and yank a soul. I prefer to kill creatively."
—Braids, dementia summoner

Ghastly Demise

Because Ghastly Demise isn't put into your graveyard until it's finished resolving, it won't be counted when determining whether the creature is destroyed.

Ghastly Demise can target any nonblack creature. Compare the creature's toughness to the number of cards in your graveyard as Ghastly Demise resolves to see if that creature is destroyed.

Destroy target nonblack creature if its toughness is less than or equal to the number of cards in your graveyard.

"The earth shook, the sky rained fire, and it seemed the world was ending."
—Benalish refugee

Global Ruin

If a land counts as multiple basic land types, you can choose it for either or for both of those land types.

You sacrifice all lands other than the chosen ones. Since you can only choose lands with basic land types, any non-basic lands that don’t have a basic land type (even if they have some other land type, as in the case of Cloudpost) are necessarily going to be sacrificed.

Each player chooses from the lands they control a land of each basic land type, then sacrifices the rest.

"Glory was gone; Glory was everywhere."
—*Scroll of Beginnings*

Glory

Flying
{2}{W}: Choose a color. Creatures you control gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn. Activate only if Glory is in your graveyard.

The deep sleep of winter is not always restful.

Hibernation

Return all green permanents to their owners' hands.

A fool knows no fear. A hero shows no fear.

Intrepid Hero

The power of the creature is checked on activation and on resolution. If the targeted creature’s power is not 4 or greater on resolution, the ability doesn’t resolve.

{T}: Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.

Island

Karplusan Forest

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

He wished for growth, but not for a way to control it.

Living Wish

You may reveal a creature or land card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand. Exile Living Wish.

Llanowar covers a million square miles, yet nobody enters the forest without the elves knowing it.

Llanowar Elves

"Remove their power, and their will to fight will follow."
—Tolarian wizard

Mana Short

If you play Mana Short in response to a spell, it will have no effect on that spell since the mana has already been paid.

It even taps lands that do not produce mana.

Since this is an instant, your opponent may use instants in response to the casting of this spell. Note that such spells and abilities will be resolved before mana is removed by Mana Short. This makes it useless as a countermeasure for spells. To use it effectively, you need to use it during Upkeep and even then it will not prevent the use of instant spells and abilities.

Tap all lands target player controls and that player loses all unspent mana.

"Eri phar phesta … um, phistor … er, phistara …"

Memory Lapse

Memory Lapse has a self-replacement effect that replaces the spell going to the graveyard before any other effect can replace that event. If the spell was cast using flashback, however, flashback will change the spell's destination from its owner's library to exile.

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Mental Note

When you sink a lot of ships, it's easy to find sunken treasure.

Merfolk Looter

You can't do anything in between drawing a card and discarding a card, including casting or cycling the card you drew.

Mountain

Nightscape masters don't stop at raising the spirit of a fallen battlemage. They raise the flesh along with it.

Nightscape Familiar

Can never affect the colored part of the cost.

If this card is sacrificed to pay part of a spell's cost, the cost reduction still applies.

The generic X cost is still considered generic even if there is a requirement that a specific color be used for it. For example, “only black mana can be spent this way”. This distinction is important for effects which reduce the generic portion of a spell's cost.

The lower cost is not optional like with some other cost reducers.

This can lower the cost to zero, but not below zero.

A spell you cast that’s blue and red costs {1} less, not {2} less.

Activating the ability creates a replacement effect that acts like a shield, replacing the next time Nightscape Familiar would be destroyed that turn. This shield works against effects that try to destroy Nightscape Familiar or lethal damage that would be dealt to Nightscape Familiar.

Nightscape Familiar can regenerate even if it isn’t in combat, it’s already tapped, or it’s undamaged.

You can activate the regeneration ability even if Nightscape Familiar isn’t at risk of being destroyed.

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{1}{B}: Regenerate Nightscape Familiar.

Card (146)	Type	^{$2.00 (0.00)} Price
Anurid Brushhopper - 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)
Breakthrough - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Brushland - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Call of the Herd - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Careful Study - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cephalid Coliseum - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Chainer's Edict - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Circular Logic - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Circular Logic - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
City of Brass - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
City of Brass - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Coffin Purge - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Compost - gold - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Counterspell - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cunning Wish - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Darkwater Catacombs - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Deep Analysis - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Deep Analysis - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Disrupt - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Duress - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Fact or Fiction - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Fact or Fiction - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Fire // Ice - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Fire // Ice - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Fire // Ice - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Fire // Ice - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Flametongue Kavu - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Flametongue Kavu - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Flametongue Kavu - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)

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