Abduction

When Abduction comes into play, untap enchanted creature.
Gain control of enchanted creature.
If enchanted creature is put into any graveyard, put that creature into play under its owner's control.

Abduction may be cast targeting an untapped creature.

Enchant creature
When Abduction enters, untap enchanted creature.
You control enchanted creature.
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

"I'm too modest a wizard to reveal the full extent of my abilities."
—Ertai, wizard adept

Abeyance

Until end of turn, target player cannot play instants, interrupts, sorceries, or abilities requiring an activation cost.
Draw a card.

Abeyance does not affect abilities which are not activated, such as static abilities and triggered abilities. It also doesn't stop the declaration of attackers or blockers.

Abeyance never prevents mana abilities from being activated.

Abeyance prohibits activated abilities of cards which are not on the battlefield.

This can't be used as a counterspell. It will have no effect on spells which were on the stack when it was cast, nor on those cast in response to it.

Until end of turn, target player can't cast instant or sorcery spells, and that player can't activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.
Draw a card.

Mirri's hackles rose as Ertai continued expounding his virtues. "If that arrogant brat doesn't shut up soon," she growled to herself, "I'm going to have to kill him."

Abjure

Sacrifice a blue permanent: Counter target spell.

You can't sacrifice more than one permanent.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a blue permanent.
Counter target spell.

The *Weatherlight* banked sharply as the colossal beast rose up to crush the lone rider. "My bet's on the dirt," Gerrard said flatly.

Aboroth

Cumulative upkeep—
Put a -1/-1 counter on Aboroth

Paying cumulative upkeep is always optional. If it's not paid, the permanent with cumulative upkeep is sacrificed. Partial payments of the total cumulative upkeep cost can't be made. For example, if a permanent with "cumulative upkeep {1}" has three age counters on it when its cumulative upkeep ability triggers, it gets another age counter and then its controller chooses to either pay {4} or sacrifice the permanent.

Cumulative upkeep—Put a -1/-1 counter on Aboroth. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

"There are two ways for me to pass this gate. One involves you remaining conscious."
—Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Abyssal Gatekeeper

If Abyssal Gatekeeper is put into any graveyard from play, each player chooses and buries a creature he or she controls.

The "sacrifice a creature" effect is not targeted. It can affect creatures with protection from black, for example.

The player whose turn it is chooses a creature to sacrifice, then each other player in turn order chooses a creature to sacrifice, then all chosen creatures are sacrificed at the same time.

When Abyssal Gatekeeper dies, each player sacrifices a creature.

"You can't get there from here. Well, you *can*—it just won't be fun."
—Ertai, wizard adept

Aether Flash

Whenever any creature comes into play, Æther Flash deals 2 damage to that creature.

This is not a targeted ability, so it deals damage to creatures that can’t be targeted by spells and abilities.

Whenever a creature enters, Aether Flash deals 2 damage to it.

"An innocent man died because of my anger. That knowledge will haunt me for all eternity."
—Karn, silver golem

Agonizing Memories

Look at target player's hand. Choose two of those cards and put them on top of his or her library in any order.

Look at target player's hand and choose two cards from it. Put them on top of that player's library in any order.

Alabaster Dragon

Flying
If Alabaster Dragon is put into any graveyard from play, shuffle Alabaster Dragon into its owner's library.

This will always be shuffled into its owner’s library.

Flying
When Alabaster Dragon dies, shuffle it into its owner's library.

"Helping people is mostly a matter of teaching them to help themselves."
—Sisay, journal

Alms

o1, Remove the top card in your graveyard from the game: Prevent 1 damage to any creature.

If an effect or rule puts two or more cards into the same graveyard at the same time, the owner of those cards may arrange them in any order.

Players may not rearrange the cards in their graveyards. This is a little-known rule because new cards that care about graveyard order haven’t been printed in years.

Say you’re the owner of both a permanent and an Aura that’s attached to it. If both the permanent and the Aura are destroyed at the same time (by Akroma’s Vengeance, for example), you decide the order they’re put into your graveyard. If just the enchanted permanent is destroyed, it’s put into your graveyard first. Then, after state-based actions are checked, the Aura (which is no longer attached to anything) is put into your graveyard on top of it.

The last thing that happens to a resolving instant or sorcery spell is that it’s put into its owner’s graveyard. —Example: You cast Wrath of God. All creatures on the battlefield are destroyed. You arrange all the cards put into your graveyard this way in any order you want. The other players in the game do the same to the cards that are put into their graveyards. Then you put Wrath of God into your graveyard, on top of the other cards.

The “top” card of your graveyard is the card that was put there most recently.

{1}, Exile the top card of your graveyard: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Ancestral Knowledge

Cumulative upkeep o1
When Ancestral Knowledge comes into play, look at the top ten cards of your library, then remove any number of them from the game and put the rest back on top of your library in any order.
If Ancestral Knowledge leaves play, shuffle your library.

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
When Ancestral Knowledge enters, look at the top ten cards of your library, then exile any number of them and put the rest back on top of your library in any order.
When Ancestral Knowledge leaves the battlefield, shuffle your library.

Angelic Renewal

If any creatures are put into your graveyard from play, you may bury Angelic Renewal and put one of those creatures into play.

Angelic Renewal’s ability triggers if a creature you own dies under another player’s control.

If Angelic Renewal leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, you won’t be able to sacrifice it and the creature can’t be returned to the battlefield.

If a token creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you can sacrifice Angelic Renewal, but nothing will be returned to the battlefield.

If an animated permanent that’s not normally a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, Angelic Renewal can return that card to the battlefield.

If multiple creatures are put into your graveyard at once, Angelic Renewal triggers multiple times, but it can only be sacrificed once and only brings back one creature.

Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may sacrifice Angelic Renewal. If you do, return that card to the battlefield.

Apathy

Enchanted creature does not untap during its controller's untap phase.
During the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may discard a card at random to untap that creature.

The player may discard a card at random whether the enchanted creature is tapped or not.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may discard a card at random. If the player does, untap that creature.

"No matter where we cat warriors go in the world, those stupid slobberers find us."
—Mirri of the *Weatherlight*

Arctic Wolves

Cumulative upkeep o2
When Arctic Wolves comes into play, draw a card.

Paying cumulative upkeep is always optional. If it’s not paid, the permanent with cumulative upkeep is sacrificed. Partial payments of the total cumulative upkeep cost can’t be made. For example, if a permanent with “cumulative upkeep {1}” has three age counters on it when its cumulative upkeep ability triggers, it gets another age counter and then its controller chooses to either pay {4} or sacrifice the permanent.

Cumulative upkeep {2} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
When Arctic Wolves enters, draw a card.

"While the rest of us got paid to serve the Benalish army, the militia didn't. I used to say they stood for freedom—free *and* dumb."
—Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Ardent Militia

Attacking does not cause Ardent Militia to tap.

"We often bury our pasts, and then someone comes along and digs them up."
—Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Argivian Find

Return target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

"The Argivian University taught me two things: always look to the past, and never dismiss what appears useless."
—Hanna, *Weatherlight* navigator

Argivian Restoration

Put target artifact card from your graveyard into play.

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Aura of Silence

Artifact and enchantment spells cost target opponent an additional o2 to play.
Sacrifice Aura of Silence: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Aura of Silence affects all opponents in a multiplayer game.

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast.
Sacrifice Aura of Silence: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"Maybe we can trap them with bait," thought Tahngarth, eyeing Squee.

Avizoa

Flying
Skip your next untap phase: Avizoa gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Use this ability only once each turn.

You skip the next untap step that you are not skipping for any other reason. In other words, the skips save up until you skip as many as required.

Flying
{0}: Avizoa gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You skip your next untap step. Activate only once each turn.

Barishi

If Barishi is put into any graveyard from play, remove Barishi from the game, then shuffle all creature cards from your graveyard into your library.

If Barishi isn’t in your graveyard by the time the ability resolves, you still shuffle all creature cards from your graveyard into your library.

The player who controlled Barishi when it left the battlefield is the player who controls the ability. It doesn’t matter whose graveyard Barishi is put into.

When Barishi dies, exile Barishi, then shuffle all creature cards from your graveyard into your library.

"They killed my family to deny me a future. They fed on my ancestors to deny me a past."
—Crovax

Barrow Ghoul

During your upkeep, remove the top creature card in your graveyard from the game or bury Barrow Ghoul.

If the creature is no longer on the battlefield when the ability resolves, you may still perform the action if you want.

When the ability resolves, you choose whether to sacrifice the creature or perform the other action. If you can’t perform the other action, then you must sacrifice the creature.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Barrow Ghoul unless you exile the top creature card of your graveyard.

"My favorite part of getting into the infantry was getting out again."
—Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Benalish Infantry

A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.

Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.

If a creature with banding attacks, it can team up with any number of other attacking creatures with banding (and up to one nonbanding creature) and attack as a unit called a “band.” The band can be blocked by any creature that could block a single creature in the band. Blocking any creature in a band blocks the entire band. If a creature with banding is blocked, the attacking player chooses how the blockers’ damage is assigned.

If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it. That player can ignore the damage assignment order when making this assignment.

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"We called them 'armored lightning.'"
—Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Benalish Knight

First strike
You may play Benalish Knight whenever you could play an instant.

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

"These horn-haters say no gods but theirs exist. I say let him find out for himself—right now!"
—Tahngarth of the *Weatherlight*

Benalish Missionary

o1o
W, oc
T: Target blocked creature deals no combat damage this turn.

Works even if the creature is “blocked” by an effect rather than actual creatures.

{1}{W}, {T}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target blocked creature this turn.

Betrothed of Fire

Sacrifice an untapped creature: Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
Sacrifice enchanted creature: All creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

If you control Betrothed of Fire, but it’s attached to a creature you don’t control, no one can activate the last ability. The creature’s controller can’t activate it because that player doesn’t control the Aura. You can’t activate it because you can’t pay the cost — you can’t sacrifice a creature you don’t control.

Enchant creature
Sacrifice an untapped creature: Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
Sacrifice enchanted creature: Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

"He's big an' dumb an' ready to fight. A lot like ol' Hornhead here."
—Squee, goblin cabin hand, scouting report

Bloodrock Cyclops

Bloodrock Cyclops attacks each turn if able.

There is no penalty if it can’t attack.

Bloodrock Cyclops attacks each combat if able.

"I place this wreath for you, my kin. Even in death, you give me strength to avenge you."
—Mirri of the *Weatherlight*

Blossoming Wreath

Gain life equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

You gain life equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

"The next one who tells me to relax and curl up by a fire is dead."
—Mirri of the *Weatherlight*

Bogardan Firefiend

If Bogardan Firefiend is put into any graveyard from play, it deals 2 damage to target creature.

You must pick a target creature, even if you are the only player with creatures on the battlefield.

When Bogardan Firefiend dies, it deals 2 damage to target creature.

Your father has no horns!
Your mother wears a bell!
You drink the milk of goats!
—Talruum taunts

Boiling Blood

Target creature attacks this turn if able.
Draw a card.

Bone Dancer

o0: Put the top creature card of defending player's graveyard into play under your control. Bone Dancer deals no combat damage this turn. Use this ability only if Bone Dancer is attacking and unblocked and only once each turn.

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.

Whenever Bone Dancer attacks and isn't blocked, you may put the top creature card of defending player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. If you do, Bone Dancer assigns no combat damage this turn.

In all its forms, the forest is the elves' best protector.

Briar Shield

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Sacrifice Briar Shield: Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

When you cast Briar Shield’s activated ability, Briar Shield is put into the graveyard as a cost. The +1/+1 effect immediately ends, but the +3/+3 effect won’t begin until the ability resolves. The enchanted creature gets no bonus while Briar Shield’s ability is on the stack. If its toughness is 0 during this time, it’ll be put into the graveyard.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Sacrifice Briar Shield: Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

"This device was commisioned by a king who desired peace. Unfortunately, the royal artificer was also the king's jester."
—Hanna, *Weatherlight* navigator

Bubble Matrix

All damage dealt to creatures is reduced to 0.

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures.

"Is it worse to walk while dead, or to be buried alive? I have witnessed both."
—Crovax

Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards and put them into your graveyard. Shuffle your library afterwards.

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.

Bösium Strip

o3, oc
T: Until end of turn, if at any time the top card in your graveyard is an instant, interrupt, or sorcery card, you may play that card as though it were in your hand. If you do so, remove the card from the game.

{3}, {T}: Until end of turn, you may cast instant and sorcery spells from the top of your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Thinking of dinner made Squee realize that the forest was probably thinking the same thing.

Call of the Wild

o2o
Goo
G Reveal the top card of your library to all players. If that card is a creature card, put it into play. Otherwise, bury it.

{2}{G}{G}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your graveyard.

Chimeric Sphere

o2: Until end of turn, Chimeric Sphere is a 2/1 artifact creature with flying.
o2: Until end of turn, Chimeric Sphere is a 3/2 artifact creature without flying.

If the first ability is activated and resolves, then the second ability is activated and resolves, Chimeric Sphere will be a 3/2 creature. It won’t have flying.

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.

{2}: Until end of turn, Chimeric Sphere becomes a 2/1 Construct artifact creature with flying.
{2}: Until end of turn, Chimeric Sphere becomes a 3/2 Construct artifact creature and loses flying.

Choking Vines

Play only when blockers are declared.
X target attacking creatures are considered blocked. Choking Vines deals 1 damage to each of those creatures.

Choking Vines will make any creatures it targets become blocked, even if the creature had blocking restrictions on it. For example, you can make a creature with Islandwalk become blocked even if the defending player has Islands. This is because evasion abilities only prevent creatures from being assigned to block them.

Choking Vines isn’t particularly effective against creatures with trample. Since the creature with trample has no blocker to assign damage to, all the damage will be assigned to the defending player.

If a previously unblocked creature becomes blocked as a result of Choking Vines, any “When this creature becomes blocked” abilities that creature has will trigger. Any “When this creature becomes blocked by a creature” abilities that creature has won’t trigger.

You may target a blocked creature with Choking Vines. Choking Vines will deal 1 damage to it, and have no other effect on it.

Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step.
X target attacking creatures become blocked. Choking Vines deals 1 damage to each of those creatures. (This spell works on creatures that can't be blocked.)

"The giant wept tears of embers for the deaths of his allies."
—Azeworai, "The Lonely Giant"

Cinder Giant

During your upkeep, Cinder Giant deals 2 damage to each other creature you control.

At the beginning of your upkeep, Cinder Giant deals 2 damage to each other creature you control.

"Easy. All ya gotta do is push somebody into it."
—Squee, goblin cabin hand, scouting report

Cinder Wall

If Cinder Wall blocks, destroy it at end of combat.

Defender
When Cinder Wall blocks, destroy it at end of combat.

Circling Vultures

Flying
During your upkeep, remove the top creature card in your graveyard from the game or bury Circling Vultures.
If Circling Vultures is in your hand, you may discard it. Play this ability as an instant.

Circling Vultures’s discard ability is a static ability, not an activated ability. Although it acts like an activated ability that says “Discard Circling Vultures: Nothing happens,” it is not one and cards like Pithing Needle or Abeyance won’t prevent you from being able to discard it.

Flying
You may discard Circling Vultures any time you could cast an instant.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Circling Vultures unless you exile the top creature card of your graveyard.

As elusive as the footprint of a djinn
—Suq'Ata expression

Cloud Djinn

Flying
Cloud Djinn can block only creatures with flying.

Coils of the Medusa

Enchanted creature gets +1/-1.
Sacrifice Coils of the Medusa: Destroy all non-Wall creatures blocking enchanted creature.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/-1.
Sacrifice Coils of the Medusa: Destroy all non-Wall creatures blocking enchanted creature.

"Mine is not the warmth of compassion."
—Ertai, wizard adept

Cone of Flame

Choose three target creatures and/or players. Cone of Flame deals 1 damage to the first, 2 damage to the second, and 3 damage to the third.

Each of the three targets must be different. If there aren’t three different legal targets available, you can’t cast the spell.

If one or two of Cone of Flame’s targets are illegal when it resolves, you can’t change how much damage will be dealt to the remaining legal targets.

Cone of Flame deals 1 damage to any target, 2 damage to another target, and 3 damage to a third target.

"I killed him because I had to," Starke lied to Gerrard. "But now I pledge my loyalty to you."

Debt of Loyalty

Regenerate target creature. Gain control of that creature.

Regenerate target creature. You gain control of that creature if it regenerates this way.

Card (167)	Type	^{$300.49 (284.68)} Price
Abduction - 1997	Enchantment	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Abeyance - 1997	Instant	$6.50 ^(6.50)
Abjure - 1997	Instant	$0.50 ^(0.00)
Aboroth - 1997	Creature	$0.50 ^(0.00)
Abyssal Gatekeeper - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Aether Flash - 1997	Enchantment	$0.15 ^(0.15)
Agonizing Memories - 1997	Sorcery	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Alabaster Dragon - 1997	Creature	$0.10 ^(0.00)
Alms - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Ancestral Knowledge - 1997	Enchantment	$2.50 ^(2.50)
Angelic Renewal - 1997	Enchantment	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Apathy - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Arctic Wolves - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Ardent Militia - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Argivian Find - 1997	Instant	$0.15 ^(0.15)
Argivian Restoration - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Aura of Silence - 1997	Enchantment	$3.00 ^(3.00)
Avizoa - 1997	Creature	$0.15 ^(0.00)
Barishi - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Barrow Ghoul - 1997	Creature	$0.02 ^(0.02)
Benalish Infantry - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Benalish Knight - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Benalish Missionary - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Betrothed of Fire - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bloodrock Cyclops - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Blossoming Wreath - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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Boiling Blood - 1997	Instant	$0.05 ^(0.00)
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Briar Shield - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
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Buried Alive - 1997	Sorcery	$3.00 ^(3.00)
Bösium Strip - 1997	Artifact	$12.00 ^(0.00)
Call of the Wild - 1997	Enchantment	$0.15 ^(0.15)
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Dense Foliage - 1997	Enchantment	$0.50 ^(0.50)
Desperate Gambit - 1997	Instant	$0.05 ^(0.05)
Dingus Staff - 1997	Artifact	$0.50 ^(0.50)
Disrupt - 1997	Instant	$0.02 ^(0.00)
Doomsday - 1997	Sorcery	$4.00 ^(4.00)
Downdraft - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Duskrider Falcon - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)