"For its time as a mortal, Anger chose a shell of boiling rock."
—*Scroll of Beginnings*

Anger

The timestamp for the "in your graveyard" ability is set at the time that this card goes to your graveyard, regardless of whether you control a Mountain at that time.

Haste
As long as Anger is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

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.

Aquamoeba

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.

He has journeyed where none have been before. Now he returns to ensure that none follow.

Arcanis the Omnipotent

Arcanis’s last ability can be activated only while it’s on the battlefield.

{T}: Draw three cards.
{2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis the Omnipotent to its owner's hand.

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

Arrogant Wurm

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.)

Barren Moor

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.

Barren Moor enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Basking Rootwalla

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.)

Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

The scrape of shovels and the tumble of cold dirt soon muffled their pleas.

Buried Alive

You can look in your library and then choose to find any number from zero to three creatures after you look at it.

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

She wished for a weapon, but not for the skill to wield it.

Burning Wish

Can’t acquire the Ante cards. They are considered still “in the game” as are cards in the library and the graveyard.

Can’t acquire cards that are phased out.

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 a sorcery card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand. Exile Burning Wish.

Cabal Therapy

You name the card as Cabal Therapy resolves, not as you cast it. Then the targeted player reveals their hand and discards if appropriate. No player may choose to take actions between you naming the card and the targeted player revealing and discarding.

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.”

Choose a nonland card name. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards with that name.
Flashback—Sacrifice a creature. (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

Centaur Garden

{T}: Add {G}. Centaur Garden deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {G}, {T}, Sacrifice Centaur Garden: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Chainer's Edict

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.

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

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.)

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.

Compulsion

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

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

Cunning Wish

If you fail to find something, you still exile this.

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

"Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say 'death,'
For exile hath more terror in his look,
Much more than death."
—William Shakespeare, *Romeo and Juliet*

Dark Banishing

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

"Sheesh! How am I supposed to make a decent living around here?"
—Cabal grave robber

Decompose

Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.

Decree of Justice

A mana cost of {X}{X} means that you pay twice X. If you want X to be 3, you pay {8}{W}{W} to cast Decree of Justice.

The cycling ability and the triggered ability are separate. If the triggered ability doesn't resolve (because, for example, it has been countered, or all of its targets have become illegal), the cycling ability will still resolve, and you'll draw a card.

When you cycle this card, first the cycling ability goes on the stack, then the triggered ability goes on the stack on top of it. The triggered ability will resolve before you draw a card from the cycling ability.

Create X 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying.
Cycling {2}{W} ({2}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Decree of Justice, you may pay {X}. If you do, create X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

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.)

"Pound the steel until it fits. Doesn't work? Bash to bits."
—Dwarven forging song

Demolish

"His sacrifice shall not be forgotten. Now toss his body over there with the others."
—Phage the Untouchable

Doomed Necromancer

Because targets are chosen before costs are paid, Doomed Necromancer can't be the target of its own ability.

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Doomed Necromancer: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

The elfhames are the closest thing to "civilization" the elves allow themselves.

Elfhame Palace

Elfhame Palace enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

A grave is the safest place to store ill-gotten treasures.

Entomb

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

"What you made will be unmade. What you learned will be unlearned. And when you're done, you will be undone."
—Ambassador Laquatus

Envelop

Exalted Angel

You only gain the life when the triggered ability resolves. If you are reduced to zero life before the ability resolves, you will lose before gaining the life.

Flying
Whenever Exalted Angel deals damage, you gain that much life.
Morph {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

"I don't rub salt in wounds. I use sulfur."
—Matoc, lavamancer

Flaring Pain

Spells and abilities that replace or redirect damage are not affected by this card.

The “damage can’t be prevented” statement overrides all forms of preventing damage. Damage prevention spells and abilities can still be cast and activated, they just don’t do anything.

Damage can't be prevented this turn.
Flashback {R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Forest

Gempalm Incinerator

Cycling {1}{R} ({1}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Gempalm Incinerator, you may have it deal X damage to target creature, where X is the number of Goblins on the battlefield.

Daru soldiers learned it's better to have a clean death from a sharp blade than to tangle with a goblin's rusted chains.

Goblin Grappler

Provoke (Whenever this creature attacks, you may have target creature defending player controls untap and block it if able.)

Throw enough goblins at any problem and it should go away. At the very least, there'll be fewer goblins.

Goblin Piledriver

The number of Goblins is counted when this ability resolves.

Protection from blue (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything blue.)
Whenever Goblin Piledriver attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking Goblin.

Goblin Sharpshooter

Goblin Sharpshooter doesn't untap during your untap step.
Whenever a creature dies, untap Goblin Sharpshooter.
{T}: Goblin Sharpshooter deals 1 damage to any target.

"Let's play 'sled.' Here's how it works: you're the sled."

Goblin Sledder

Sacrifice a Goblin: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

For some reason, goblin fighting school isn't as crowded on day two.

Goblin Taskmaster

{1}{R}: Target Goblin creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Morph {R} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

They poured from the Skirk Ridge like lava, burning and devouring everything in their path.

Goblin Warchief

Goblin Warchief’s effect reduces only generic mana in the cost of Goblin spells you cast. For example, it doesn’t reduce the cost of Skirk Prospector below {R}.

Goblin spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Goblins you control have haste.

Guiltfeeder

An ability that triggers when something “attacks and isn't blocked” triggers in the declare blockers step after blockers are declared if (1) that creature is attacking and (2) no creatures are declared to block it. It will trigger even if that creature was put onto the battlefield attacking rather than having been declared as an attacker in the declare attackers step.

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever Guiltfeeder attacks and isn't blocked, defending player loses 1 life for each card in their graveyard.

Haunting Echoes

While you’re searching the player’s library, you don’t have to find all the cards with the same name as an exiled card if you don’t want to. You can leave any number of them in that player’s library.

Exile all cards from target player's graveyard other than basic land cards. For each card exiled this way, search that player's library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Hunting Pack

A copy of a spell can be countered like any other spell, but it must be countered individually. Countering a spell with storm won't affect the copies.

Spells cast from zones other than a player's hand and spells that were countered are counted by the storm ability.

The copies are put directly onto the stack. They aren't cast and won't be counted by other spells with storm cast later in the turn.

The triggered ability that creates the copies can itself be countered by anything that can counter a triggered ability. If it is countered, no copies will be put onto the stack.

Create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Zombies mourn for the living and celebrate those who will soon be given the gift of death.

Innocent Blood

You can cast Innocent Blood even if some (or all) players control no creatures. Those players are simply unaffected.

Island

Krosan Reclamation

Target player shuffles up to two target cards from their graveyard into their library.
Flashback {1}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Krosan Verge

Krosan Verge enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Krosan Verge: Search your library for a Forest card and a Plains card, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Last Rites

Discard any number of cards. Target player reveals their hand, then you choose a nonland card from it for each card discarded this way. That player discards those cards.

The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy.

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

"It offers you what you want, not what you need."
—Braids, dementia summoner

Mirari

Everything about the original spell is copied, including any decisions made on announcement, such as whether it was kicked or its Buyback cost was paid. Effects on the spell, such as Sleight of Mind or Flashback, are not copied.

If the copied spell requires a target and there are no legal targets, then the copy has the same target (which should be illegal) as the original.

If the spell is countered before the triggered ability resolves, then the ability will make a copy of how the spell looked right before it was countered.

It triggers once per spell, so you can’t get multiple copies of a spell using this card. And since this card is legendary, you can’t control more than one.

The copy is not “cast” so it will not trigger anything that triggers on a spell being cast.

You are not required to choose new targets. If you do choose, then the targets must be legal. If you don’t change them, the spell is placed on the stack whether or not the targets are legal. The legality of the targets is always checked on resolution of the spell, so the spell may be countered at that time if all of its targets are illegal.

You choose whether or not to pay when the triggered ability resolves.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay {3}. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

The land drank power from the Mirari as though it had thirsted forever.

Mirari's Wake

Because damage remains marked on a creature until the cleanup step or an effect removes that damage, nonlethal damage dealt to creatures you control may become lethal if Mirari's Wake leaves the battlefield.

If tapping a land produces more than one type of mana, you choose one type that was produced and add one mana of that type.

If the mana produced by the land has any additional restrictions or riders, those restrictions or riders don't apply to the mana added by Mirari's Wake. You just get one mana of the appropriate type.

The types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless.

Creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced.

Moment's Peace

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Flashback {2}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Mountain

Nantuko Vigilante

The trigger occurs when you use the Morph ability to turn the card face up, or when an effect turns it face up. It will not trigger on being revealed or on leaving the battlefield.

Morph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When Nantuko Vigilante is turned face up, destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"Family plots are so convenient."
—Cabal Patriarch

Patriarch's Bidding

Any player may choose a creature type that's already been chosen. Doing so won't affect which creature cards are returned to the battlefield.

Each player may choose any creature type, even if they don't have any creature cards of that type in their graveyard.

The player whose turn it is chooses a creature type first, followed by each other player in turn order. Then, all creature cards that have one or more of the chosen types are returned to the battlefield at the same time.

You must choose a creature type, such as Elf or Shaman. You can't choose other card types such as artifact or supertypes such as legendary.

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Phantom Centaur

If this card is going to take damage from a black source, you can choose to apply Protection from Black’s damage prevention ability prior to applying this card’s built-in ability. This means you don’t have to remove a counter.

If this card takes damage from multiple sources at once (for example if it is blocked by multiple creatures in combat), it only loses one counter.

If unpreventable damage is applied to this card, you still remove a counter even though the prevention fails.

Remove one counter each time it would be damaged. If it was going to take more than one point of damage, you prevent all the damage and still only remove one counter.

The damage prevention ability works even if it has no counters, as long as some effect keeps its toughness above zero.

Protection from black
Phantom Centaur enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.
If damage would be dealt to Phantom Centaur, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from Phantom Centaur.

Phantom Nishoba

Trample
Phantom Nishoba enters the battlefield with seven +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever Phantom Nishoba deals damage, you gain that much life.
If damage would be dealt to Phantom Nishoba, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from Phantom Nishoba.

Plains

"When the air burns, only death breathes deep."
—Bogardan mage

Pyroclasm

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

"The best foresight is hindsight."
—Empress Llawan

Quiet Speculation

Search target player's library for up to three cards with flashback and put them into that player's graveyard. Then the player shuffles.

Card (132)	Type	^{$0.00 (0.00)} Price
Anger - gold - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Anurid Brushhopper - gold - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Aquamoeba - gold - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Arcanis the Omnipotent - gold - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Arrogant Wurm - gold - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Barren Moor - gold - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Basking Rootwalla - gold - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bloodstained Mire - gold - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bloodstained Mire - gold - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Buried Alive - gold - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Buried Alive - gold - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Burning Wish - gold - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cabal Therapy - gold - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cabal Therapy - gold - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cabal Therapy - gold - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Careful Study - gold - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Centaur Garden - gold - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Chainer's Edict - gold - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Circular Logic - gold - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Circular Logic - gold - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Circular Logic - gold - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
City of Brass - gold - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
City of Brass - gold - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Compulsion - gold - 2003	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cunning Wish - gold - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Dark Banishing - gold - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Decompose - gold - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Decree of Justice - gold - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Deep Analysis - gold - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Deep Analysis - gold - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Deep Analysis - gold - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Demolish - gold - 2003	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Doomed Necromancer - gold - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Elfhame Palace - gold - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Entomb - gold - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Envelop - gold - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Exalted Angel - gold - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Flaring Pain - gold - 2003	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Flooded Strand - gold - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 2003	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Gempalm Incinerator - gold - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Goblin Grappler - gold - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Goblin Piledriver - gold - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Goblin Sharpshooter - gold - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Goblin Sledder - gold - 2003	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)

World Championship Decks 2003