Grim Roustabout

Grim Roustabout (Return to Ravnica)
Steven Belledin

Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.) {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

He'll point you to your death row seats.

Wishing Well (Bloomburrow)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Put a coin counter on this artifact. When you do, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value equal to the number of coin counters on this artifact from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only as a sorcery.

The Akroan War (Theros Beyond Death Promos)
Steven Belledin

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Gain control of target creature for as long as this Saga remains on the battlefield. II — Until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able. III — Each tapped creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Trollhide (Magic 2012)
Steven Belledin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has "{1}{G}: Regenerate this creature." (The next time the creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Serra's Boon (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
Steven Belledin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2 as long as it's white. Otherwise, it gets -2/-1.

"The light of an angel's glance is warm, but her fixed stare blinds and burns." —Calexis, deacon of the New Order of Serra

Parasitic Strix (Conflux)
Steven Belledin

Flying When this creature enters, if you control a black permanent, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

After finding no sustenance on the edges of Grixis, it turned to the skies of Bant.

Forest (Magic 2015)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Darksteel Splicer (March of the Machine Commander)
Steven Belledin

Whenever this creature or another nontoken Phyrexian you control enters, create X 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature tokens, where X is the number of opponents you have. Golems you control have indestructible.

Mox Amber (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.

A moment in time made tangible, it has the power to realize epic visions.

Stampeding Rhino (Welcome Deck 2017)
Steven Belledin

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

The quickest way to get through the jungle is to agitate a rhino and run in its wake.

Duress (Core Set 2021)
Steven Belledin

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

Resistance is unthinkable.

Duress (Core Set 2019)
Steven Belledin

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

"It hurts more if you think about it." —Hooks, Cabal torturer

Forest (Commander 2011)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Duress (Magic 2010)
Steven Belledin

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

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one." —Liliana Vess

Etherium Sculptor (Commander 2016)
Steven Belledin

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

The greatest masters of the craft abandon tools altogether, shaping metal with hand and mind alone.

Evolving Wilds (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Evolving Wilds (Commander Legends)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Overwhelming Stampede (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Steven Belledin

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

"I trust the instincts of any beast over the advice of any human who presumes to be an expert in the art of war." —Rinshel, elf insurgent

Ankle Shanker (Khans of Tarkir Promos)
Steven Belledin

Haste Whenever this creature attacks, creatures you control gain first strike and deathtouch until end of turn.

The stature of the fighter matters less than the depth of the cut.

Mox Amber (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.

"A crystallized moment in time from the Mending Era, first discovered during the Ice Age. A temporal conundrum, even to the great scholar himself." —*The Discoveries of Feldon*

Exotic Orchard (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Exotic Orchard (Commander 2021)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Gladehart Cavalry (Oath of the Gatewatch Promos)
Steven Belledin

When this creature enters, support 6. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to six other target creatures.) Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, you gain 2 life.

Mikaeus, the Lunarch (Jumpstart)
Steven Belledin

Mikaeus enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mikaeus. {T}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Mikaeus: Put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.

Cinderhaze Wretch (Shadowmoor)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn. Put a -1/-1 counter on this creature: Untap this creature.

Thick smoke billows and twists to form disturbing faces that cackle and click their teeth to the popping embers.

Etherium Sculptor (Modern Masters)
Steven Belledin

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

The greatest masters of the craft abandon tools altogether, shaping metal with hand and mind alone.

Tangleclaw Werewolf (Eldritch Moon)
Steven Belledin

Evolving Wilds (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Kiora)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Magister Sphinx (Conflux)
Steven Belledin

Flying When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.

"These benighted worlds are thick with ignorance. I will educate them. They will listen, or they will die."

Gravecrawler (Innistrad Remastered)
Steven Belledin

This creature can't block. You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

"Innistrad's ghoulcallers are talented enough, but let me show you what someone with real power can create." —Liliana Vess

Moment of Triumph (Jumpstart 2022)
Steven Belledin

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

"The time of salvation is at hand. Dusk washes over the world, and the Legion will rise immortal!"

Expel from Orazca (Rivals of Ixalan)
Steven Belledin

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If you have the city's blessing, you may put that permanent on top of its owner's library instead.

Sylvan Basilisk (Tenth Edition)
Steven Belledin

Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature.

"We're not sure what one looks like, so to be safe, nobody look at anything until we're out of here." —Parbold Drix, veteran explorer

Morphic Pool (Zendikar Rising Expeditions)
Steven Belledin

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Plains (Theros)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {W}.)

Izzet Chronarch (Commander 2017)
Steven Belledin

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

He ensures not only whether but also when and where the lightning strikes twice.

Aethertide Whale (Aether Revolt)
Steven Belledin

Flying When this creature enters, you get six {E} (energy counters). Pay {E}{E}{E}{E}: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

"To survive up here, I've learned when to use my harpoon and when to just enjoy the view." —Kadhu, skywhaler

Shield of the Oversoul (Shadowmoor)
Steven Belledin

Enchant creature As long as enchanted creature is green, it gets +1/+1 and has indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.) As long as enchanted creature is white, it gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Quicksilver Gargantuan (Scars of Mirrodin)
Steven Belledin

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's 7/7.

"You know you have achieved true power if the sea itself seeks to emulate your greatness." —Vy Covalt, Neurok agent

Unmake (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
Steven Belledin

Exile target creature.

A gwyllion's favorite trap is the vanity mirror. A bewitched piece of glass traps the looker's soul and does away with the body.

Overwhelming Stampede (Magic 2011)
Steven Belledin

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Swamp (Amonkhet)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {B}.)

Cenn's Heir (Lorwyn)
Steven Belledin

Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each other attacking Kithkin.

His home clachan's familial spirit bolsters his own, but he will be ready to preside over the town as cenn only after he learns to project that strength to others.

Loran of the Third Path (The Brothers' War)
Steven Belledin

Vigilance When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

As a scholar, she saw the sylex not as a weapon, but as a key to the past.

Evolving Wilds (Magic 2015)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Revive the Fallen (Morningtide)
Steven Belledin

Return target creature card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. Clash with an opponent. If you win, return Revive the Fallen to its owner's hand. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.)

Parasitic Strix (Double Masters)
Steven Belledin

Flying When this creature enters, if you control a black permanent, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

After finding no sustenance on the edges of Grixis, it turned to the skies of Bant.

Wash Out (Commander Anthology)
Steven Belledin

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

"It's not the darkness I fear but dull and numbing shades of gray." —Sydri, galvanic genius

Ichor Wellspring (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Steven Belledin

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

"Our glorious infection has taken hold." —Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Dying to Serve (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Steven Belledin

Whenever you discard one or more cards, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

"I used to have hired hands, but I discovered they make better waitstaff with the rest of the body attached." —Olivia Voldaren

Sinew Sliver (Time Spiral Remastered)
Steven Belledin

All Sliver creatures get +1/+1.

As the muscle cords of the creature twitched, Hanna saw an unsettling unanimity in the others' rippling flesh. She didn't know what it meant, but she urged Sisay to keep the ship at a safe distance.

Brightmare (Foundations Jumpstart)
Steven Belledin

When this creature enters, tap up to one target creature. You gain life equal to that creature's power.

A ray of hope in the darkest night.

Exotic Orchard (Commander 2017)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Showdown of the Skalds (Kaldheim Promos)
Steven Belledin

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Exile the top four cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. II, III — Whenever you cast a spell this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Duress (Dominaria Remastered)
Steven Belledin

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

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one." —Liliana Vess

Scornful Aether-Lich (Conflux)
Steven Belledin

{W}{B}: This creature gains fear and vigilance until end of turn. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap, and it can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"With no flesh, there is no pain, no hesitation, no emotion of any kind. He is crafted perfection." —Tezzeret

Mikaeus, the Lunarch (From the Vault: Legends)
Steven Belledin

Mikaeus enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mikaeus. {T}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Mikaeus: Put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.

Talon Gates of Madara (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Steven Belledin

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {4}: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Phyrexian Hulk (New Phyrexia)
Steven Belledin

An invasion weapon of ages past, the glistening oil contained the blueprints of countless atrocities.

Rampant Growth (New Capenna Commander)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Gravecrawler (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
Steven Belledin

This creature can't block. You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

"Innistrad's ghoulcallers are talented enough, but let me show you what someone with real power can create." —Liliana Vess

Ego Erasure (Lorwyn)
Steven Belledin

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Creatures target player controls get -2/-0 and lose all creature types until end of turn.

When all is taken away, all are equal.

Rampant Growth (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Elspeth, Undaunted Hero (The List)
Steven Belledin

+2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures. −2: Search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Sunlit Hoplite and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. −8: Until end of turn, creatures you control gain flying and get +X/+X, where X is your devotion to white.

Exotic Orchard (Crimson Vow Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Ichor Wellspring (Commander 2021)
Steven Belledin

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

"Our glorious infection has taken hold." —Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Wash Out (Commander 2013)
Steven Belledin

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

"It's not the darkness I fear but dull and numbing shades of gray." —Sydri, galvanic genius

Shipwreck Marsh (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt)
Steven Belledin

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Sangromancer (Foundations Jumpstart)
Steven Belledin

Flying Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life. Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

"Capenna needs some new blood. Preferably spilled by us."

Loran of the Third Path (The Brothers' War)
Steven Belledin

Vigilance When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

Gravecrawler (Double Masters 2022)
Steven Belledin

This creature can't block. You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

"Innistrad's ghoulcallers are talented enough, but let me show you what someone with real power can create." —Liliana Vess

Tome Scour (Magic 2014)
Steven Belledin

Target player mills five cards.

"I hope none of those were important!"

The Akroan War (Theros Beyond Death)
Steven Belledin

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Gain control of target creature for as long as this Saga remains on the battlefield. II — Until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able. III — Each tapped creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Great Oak Guardian (Commander 2015)
Steven Belledin

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Reach When this creature enters, creatures target player controls get +2/+2 until end of turn. Untap them.

His roots reach deep and grip hard.

Inkfathom Divers (Lorwyn)
Steven Belledin

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

"None appreciate sun and shallows like those who have seen the depths." —Lianda of the Stonybrook school

Evolving Wilds (Commander 2015)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Rampant Growth (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Dying to Serve (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Steven Belledin

Whenever you discard one or more cards, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

"I used to have hired hands, but I discovered they make better waitstaff with the rest of the body attached." —Olivia Voldaren

Rampant Growth (Neon Dynasty Commander)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Citadel Siege (Midnight Hunt Commander)
Steven Belledin

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of combat on your turn, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. • Dragons — At the beginning of combat on each opponent's turn, tap target creature that player controls.

Monumental Henge (Modern Horizons 3)
Steven Belledin

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains. {T}: Add {W}. {2}{W}{W}, {T}: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a historic card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Scourge of Fleets (Zendikar Rising Commander)
Steven Belledin

When this creature enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Rampant Growth (Commander 2016)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Putrefax (Scars of Mirrodin)
Steven Belledin

Trample, haste Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

Trollhide (Magic 2014)
Steven Belledin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has "{1}{G}: Regenerate this creature." (The next time the creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Forest (Theros)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Mox Amber (Dominaria)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.

A moment in time made tangible, it has the power to realize epic visions.

Yusri, Fortune's Flame (The List)
Steven Belledin

Flying Whenever Yusri attacks, choose a number between 1 and 5. Flip that many coins. For each flip you win, draw a card. For each flip you lose, Yusri deals 2 damage to you. If you won five flips this way, you may cast spells from your hand this turn without paying their mana costs.

Showdown of the Skalds (Kaldheim)
Steven Belledin

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Exile the top four cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. II, III — Whenever you cast a spell this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Etherium Sculptor (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Inventors)
Steven Belledin

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

The greatest masters of the craft abandon tools altogether, shaping metal with hand and mind alone.

Ethercaste Knight (Modern Masters 2015)
Steven Belledin

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

"We coat ourselves in steel every day. What is etherium but the next logical step?"

Overlord of the Mistmoors (Duskmourn: House of Horror)
Steven Belledin

Impending 4—{2}{W}{W} (If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with four time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.) Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, create two 2/1 white Insect creature tokens with flying.

Gladehart Cavalry (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Inventors)
Steven Belledin

When this creature enters, support 6. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to six other target creatures.) Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, you gain 2 life.

Archon of Redemption (Jumpstart)
Steven Belledin

Flying Whenever this creature or another creature you control with flying enters, you may gain life equal to that creature's power.

Until Emeria is freed, he raises his sword in her name.

Exotic Orchard (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Temporal Extortion (Planar Chaos)
Steven Belledin

When you cast this spell, any player may pay half their life, rounded up. If a player does, counter Temporal Extortion. Take an extra turn after this one.

"The scythe of time or my blade at your throat—the choice is yours." —Holux, stronghold racketeer

Monumental Henge (Modern Horizons 3 Promos)
Steven Belledin

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains. {T}: Add {W}. {2}{W}{W}, {T}: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a historic card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Gravecrawler (Innistrad Remastered)
Steven Belledin

This creature can't block. You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

"Innistrad's ghoulcallers are talented enough, but let me show you what someone with real power can create." —Liliana Vess

Dragon Whelp (From the Vault: Dragons)
Steven Belledin

Flying {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice this creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Dragon whelps face few threats besides their own enthusiasm.

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker (The List)
Steven Belledin

Haste {T}: Create a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control, except it has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Dragonlord Silumgar (Double Masters 2022)
Steven Belledin

Flying, deathtouch When Dragonlord Silumgar enters, gain control of target creature or planeswalker for as long as you control Dragonlord Silumgar.

Silumgar never passes up an opportunity to add to his opulence.

Arcades Sabboth (Dominaria Remastered)
Steven Belledin

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Arcades Sabboth unless you pay {G}{W}{U}. Each untapped creature you control gets +0/+2 as long as it's not attacking. {W}: Arcades Sabboth gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Nightveil Specter (Gatecrash Promos)
Steven Belledin

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with this creature.

Trollhide (The List)
Steven Belledin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has "{1}{G}: Regenerate this creature." (The next time the creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Exotic Orchard (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Chief Engineer (Commander 2016)
Steven Belledin

Artifact spells you cast have convoke. (Your creatures can help cast those spells. Each creature you tap while casting an artifact spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)

An eye for detail, a mind for numbers, a soul of clockwork.

Cenn's Tactician (DCI Promos)
Steven Belledin

{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target Soldier creature. Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it can block an additional creature each combat.

"A well-trained force brings peace... which brings more time for training!"

Frilled Sea Serpent (Core Set 2019)
Steven Belledin

{5}{U}{U}: This creature can't be blocked this turn.

"Reel it in. No, wait! Throw it back!" —Gertrude, deep-sea angler

Rally the Forces (Mirrodin Besieged)
Steven Belledin

Attacking creatures get +1/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn.

"Drive them back! Make their underworld into their grave!" —Koth of the Hammer

Prismatic Geoscope (The List)
Steven Belledin

This artifact enters tapped. Domain — {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker (Modern Masters 2015)
Steven Belledin

Haste {T}: Create a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control, except it has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Moment of Craving (Rivals of Ixalan)
Steven Belledin

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

"The time of condemnation is at hand. Dusk washes over the world, and I consign you to eternal darkness!"

Roughshod Mentor (Shadowmoor)
Steven Belledin

Green creatures you control have trample.

He didn't hear the cries of the treefolk whose branches he snapped or of the elves caught underfoot. He had eyes only for the path ahead.

Inkfathom Divers (The List)
Steven Belledin

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Silumgar, the Drifting Death (Fate Reforged)
Steven Belledin

Flying, hexproof Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, creatures defending player controls get -1/-1 until end of turn.

"No machinations, no puppet strings, no plots. Just pure, sweeping death." —Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Exotic Orchard (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Relic Crush (Commander 2011)
Steven Belledin

Destroy target artifact or enchantment and up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

There are many ruins, but there used to be many more.

Magister Sphinx (Double Masters 2022)
Steven Belledin

Flying When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.

"These benighted worlds are thick with ignorance. I will educate them. They will listen, or they will die."

Overlord of the Mistmoors (Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos)
Steven Belledin

Impending 4—{2}{W}{W} (If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with four time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.) Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, create two 2/1 white Insect creature tokens with flying.

Moment of Triumph (Foundations)
Steven Belledin

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

"The time of salvation is at hand. Dusk washes over the world, and the Legion will rise immortal!"

Dragon Whelp (Magic 2010)
Steven Belledin

Flying {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice this creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Overwhelming Stampede (Commander 2014)
Steven Belledin

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Frilled Sea Serpent (Core Set 2020)
Steven Belledin

{5}{U}{U}: This creature can't be blocked this turn.

"Reel it in. No, wait! Throw it back!" —Gertrude, deep-sea angler

Wishing Well (Bloomburrow Promos)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Put a coin counter on this artifact. When you do, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value equal to the number of coin counters on this artifact from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only as a sorcery.

Avarice Amulet (Magic 2015)
Steven Belledin

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has vigilance and "At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card." Whenever equipped creature dies, target opponent gains control of this Equipment. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Designed by Penny Arcade

Faerie Miscreant (Magic Origins)
Steven Belledin

Flying When this creature enters, if you control another creature named Faerie Miscreant, draw a card.

One faerie distracts the judge while a second steals the law.

Lavinia, Azorius Renegade (Ravnica Remastered)
Steven Belledin

Each opponent can't cast noncreature spells with mana value greater than the number of lands that player controls. Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.

"I told Jace that Ravnica would fall apart if he didn't take his responsibilities seriously. I didn't want to be right."

Krosa (March of the Machine Commander)
Steven Belledin

All creatures get +2/+2. Whenever chaos ensues, you may add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}.

Bonds of Quicksilver (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Steven Belledin

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

The sea's reach extends beyond its shores.

Brindle Shoat (Planechase 2012)
Steven Belledin

When this creature dies, create a 3/3 green Boar creature token.

Hunters lure the stripling boar into the open, hoping to trap greater prey.

Duress (Eternal Masters)
Steven Belledin

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

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one." —Liliana Vess

Duress (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
Steven Belledin

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

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one." —Liliana Vess

Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire (Core Set 2019 Promos)
Steven Belledin

Flying Whenever Vaevictis Asmadi attacks, for each player, choose target permanent that player controls. Those players sacrifice those permanents. Each player who sacrificed a permanent this way reveals the top card of their library, then puts it onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card.

Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Steven Belledin

Vigilance, menace Descend 8 — {4}{U}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Activate only if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard and only as a sorcery. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

Loran of the Third Path (The Brothers' War Promos)
Steven Belledin

Vigilance When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

As a scholar, she saw the sylex not as a weapon, but as a key to the past.

Cho-Manno, Revolutionary (Tenth Edition)
Steven Belledin

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Cho-Manno.

"Mercadia's masks can no longer hide the truth. Our day has come at last."

Mikaeus, the Lunarch (Double Masters 2022)
Steven Belledin

Mikaeus enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mikaeus. {T}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Mikaeus: Put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.

Hinterland Hermit (Dark Ascension)
Steven Belledin

Fervent Cathar (Avacyn Restored)
Steven Belledin

Haste When this creature enters, target creature can't block this turn.

"I'll put my sword down only to die. And I don't plan on doing that today."

Forest (Jumpstart 2022)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Stampeding Rhino (Magic 2012)
Steven Belledin

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

The quickest way to get through the jungle is to agitate a rhino and run in its wake.

Syndicate Enforcer (Gatecrash)
Steven Belledin

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Even the darkest corners of Ravnica still lie in the shadow of the Church.

Rampant Growth (Planechase)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Goblin Dark-Dwellers (Foundations Jumpstart)
Steven Belledin

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Frilled Sea Serpent (The List)
Steven Belledin

{5}{U}{U}: This creature can't be blocked this turn.

"Reel it in. No, wait! Throw it back!" —Gertrude, deep-sea angler

Island (Duel Decks: Merfolk vs. Goblins)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {U}.)

Forest (Core Set 2020)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Overwhelming Stampede (Modern Masters 2015)
Steven Belledin

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

"I trust the instincts of any beast over the advice of any human who presumes to be an expert in the art of war." —Rinshel, elf insurgent

Canopy Vista (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Chuuy Kaaj, "The Hanging City," has endured for centuries as the thriving hub of Malamet art, life, and culture.

Forest (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Arthur, Marigold Knight (Bloomburrow Commander)
Steven Belledin

Haste Whenever Arthur and at least one other creature attack, look at the top six cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.

Dragonlord Silumgar (Dragons of Tarkir Promos)
Steven Belledin

Flying, deathtouch When Dragonlord Silumgar enters, gain control of target creature or planeswalker for as long as you control Dragonlord Silumgar.

Silumgar never passes up an opportunity to add to his opulence.

Scavenger Grounds (Commander 2021)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

When the last scrap of flesh is scoured away, the Curse of Wandering ends. Then the dead may sleep.

Citadel Siege (Fate Reforged)
Steven Belledin

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of combat on your turn, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. • Dragons — At the beginning of combat on each opponent's turn, tap target creature that player controls.

Greater Sandwurm (The List)
Steven Belledin

This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

A sandwurm can lie in wait beneath the sands for years until the slightest tremor alerts it to the presence of prey.

Evolving Wilds (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Every world is an organism, able to grow new lands. Some just do it faster than others.

Exotic Orchard (Neon Dynasty Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Stairs to Infinity (Planechase Anthology Planes)
Steven Belledin

Players have no maximum hand size. Whenever you roll the planar die, draw a card. Whenever chaos ensues, reveal the top card of your planar deck. You may put it on the bottom of your planar deck.

Deathmark (Magic 2012)
Steven Belledin

Destroy target green or white creature.

"Let the final vision of doom be etched upon their unblinking eyes." —Zul Ashur, lich lord

Lightning Spear (Modern Horizons 2)
Steven Belledin

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has trample. {2}{R}, Sacrifice this Equipment: It deals 3 damage to any target. Equip {1}

When wielded, it begs to be released.

Tyrant of Valakut (Oath of the Gatewatch Promos)
Steven Belledin

Surge {3}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.) Flying When this creature enters, if its surge cost was paid, it deals 3 damage to any target.

Duress (Core Set 2020)
Steven Belledin

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

Resistance is unthinkable.

River's Grasp (Shadowmoor)
Steven Belledin

If {U} was spent to cast this spell, return up to one target creature to its owner's hand. If {B} was spent to cast this spell, target player reveals their hand, you choose a nonland card from it, then that player discards that card. (Do both if {U}{B} was spent.)

Loran of the Third Path (The Brothers' War Promos)
Steven Belledin

Vigilance When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

As a scholar, she saw the sylex not as a weapon, but as a key to the past.

Serra's Boon (Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic)
Steven Belledin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2 as long as it's white. Otherwise, it gets -2/-1.

"The light of an angel's glance is warm, but her fixed stare blinds and burns." —Calexis, deacon of the New Order of Serra

The Akroan War (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Steven Belledin

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Gain control of target creature for as long as this Saga remains on the battlefield. II — Until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able. III — Each tapped creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Moment of Triumph (Foundations Jumpstart)
Steven Belledin

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

"The time of salvation is at hand. Dusk washes over the world, and the Legion will rise immortal!"

Grim Roustabout (Return to Ravnica)
Steven Belledin

Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.) {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

He'll point you to your death row seats.

Leonin Lightscribe (Strixhaven: School of Mages Promos)
Steven Belledin

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

All who hear his inspiring words are filled with hope and pride.

Goblin Dark-Dwellers (Oath of the Gatewatch Promos)
Steven Belledin

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Kabira Vindicator (Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi)
Steven Belledin

Level up {2}{W} ({2}{W}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.) LEVEL 2-4 3/6 Other creatures you control get +1/+1. LEVEL 5+ 4/8 Other creatures you control get +2/+2.

Silumgar, the Drifting Death (Fate Reforged Promos)
Steven Belledin

Flying, hexproof Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, creatures defending player controls get -1/-1 until end of turn.

"No machinations, no puppet strings, no plots. Just pure, sweeping death." —Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Rampant Growth (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Forest (Magic 2014)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Scourge of Fleets (Commander Legends)
Steven Belledin

When this creature enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Overgrown Tomb (Return to Ravnica)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

The best funeral shroud is the fabric of new life.

Defiler of Instinct (Dominaria United Promos)
Steven Belledin

First strike As an additional cost to cast red permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {R} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of red mana you pay. Whenever you cast a red permanent spell, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Goblin Dark-Dwellers (Oath of the Gatewatch)
Steven Belledin

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Expel from Orazca (The List)
Steven Belledin

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If you have the city's blessing, you may put that permanent on top of its owner's library instead.

Ichor Wellspring (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Steven Belledin

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

"Should a single drop take hold, the oil begins to consume organic tissue and will multiply until it overwhelms the host." —Yawgmoth, collected writings

Kabira Vindicator (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Steven Belledin

Level up {2}{W} ({2}{W}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.) LEVEL 2-4 3/6 Other creatures you control get +1/+1. LEVEL 5+ 4/8 Other creatures you control get +2/+2.

Sinew Sliver (Commander Masters)
Steven Belledin

All Sliver creatures get +1/+1.

As the muscle cords of the creature twitched, Hanna saw an unsettling unanimity in the others' rippling flesh. She didn't know what it meant, but she urged Sisay to keep the ship at a safe distance.

Abzan Falconer (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Steven Belledin

Outlast {W} ({W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying.

The fastest way across the dunes is above.

Evolving Wilds (The Brothers' War Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Ichor Wellspring (Commander 2014)
Steven Belledin

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

"Our glorious infection has taken hold." —Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Forest (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Great Oak Guardian (Starter Commander Decks)
Steven Belledin

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Reach When this creature enters, creatures target player controls get +2/+2 until end of turn. Untap them.

His roots reach deep and grip hard.

Narstad Scrapper (Avacyn Restored)
Steven Belledin

{2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Finally, the principles of corpse animation applied to bloodless materials!" —Ludevic, necro-alchemist

Evolving Wilds (Commander 2016)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Treacherous Urge (Planar Chaos)
Steven Belledin

Target opponent reveals their hand. You may put a creature card from it onto the battlefield under your control. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Exotic Orchard (The List)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Searchlight Geist (Avacyn Restored)
Steven Belledin

Flying {3}{B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

It rises with the fall of darkness, seeking souls to extinguish.

Kor Bladewhirl (Battle for Zendikar)
Steven Belledin

Rally — Whenever this creature or another Ally you control enters, creatures you control gain first strike until end of turn.

The high-pitched whirl of a hook is the only battle cry she needs.

Swamp (Theros)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {B}.)

Exotic Orchard (Commander 2020)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Phyrexian Hulk (Magic 2013)
Steven Belledin

An invasion weapon of ages past, the glistening oil contained the blueprints of countless atrocities.

Plains (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Kiora)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {W}.)

Moment of Triumph (The List)
Steven Belledin

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

"The time of salvation is at hand. Dusk washes over the world, and the Legion will rise immortal!"

Exotic Orchard (The List)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Showdown of the Skalds (The List)
Steven Belledin

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Exile the top four cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. II, III — Whenever you cast a spell this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Dockside Chef (The List)
Steven Belledin

{1}{B}, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Draw a card.

The squirming is how you know it's fresh.

Elspeth, Undaunted Hero (Theros Beyond Death)
Steven Belledin

+2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures. −2: Search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Sunlit Hoplite and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. −8: Until end of turn, creatures you control gain flying and get +X/+X, where X is your devotion to white.

Mikaeus, the Lunarch (Midnight Hunt Commander)
Steven Belledin

Mikaeus enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mikaeus. {T}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Mikaeus: Put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.

Yorion, Sky Nomad (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos)
Steven Belledin

Companion — Your starting deck contains at least twenty cards more than the minimum deck size. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) Flying When Yorion enters, exile any number of other nonland permanents you own and control. Return those cards to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step.

Springjack Knight (Lorwyn)
Steven Belledin

Whenever this creature attacks, clash with an opponent. If you win, target creature gains double strike until end of turn. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.)

Gladehart Cavalry (Oath of the Gatewatch)
Steven Belledin

When this creature enters, support 6. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to six other target creatures.) Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, you gain 2 life.

Relic Crush (Zendikar)
Steven Belledin

Destroy target artifact or enchantment and up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

There are many ruins, but there used to be many more.

Tricks of the Trade (Magic 2013)
Steven Belledin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and can't be blocked.

"Pathetic. You might as well have protected your treasures with a paper box and some string."

Leonin Lightscribe (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Steven Belledin

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

All who hear his inspiring words are filled with hope and pride.

Forest (Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Exotic Orchard (Commander 2016)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Crimson Muckwader (Magic 2013)
Steven Belledin

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp. {2}{B}: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Perimeter Captain (Worldwake)
Steven Belledin

Defender Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.

"We stand between the jaws of chaos and the mantle of order."

Overwhelming Stampede (Commander 2015)
Steven Belledin

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Exotic Orchard (Planechase 2012)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Overwhelming Stampede (Commander Anthology)
Steven Belledin

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Tricks of the Trade (Welcome Deck 2017)
Steven Belledin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and can't be blocked.

"Pathetic. You might as well have protected your treasures with a paper box and some string."

Joraga Warcaller (Commander Anthology)
Steven Belledin

Multikicker {1}{G} (You may pay an additional {1}{G} any number of times as you cast this spell.) This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each time it was kicked. Other Elf creatures you control get +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Exotic Orchard (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Leonin Lightscribe (Strixhaven: School of Mages Promos)
Steven Belledin

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

All who hear his inspiring words are filled with hope and pride.

Citanul Woodreaders (Modern Masters)
Steven Belledin

Kicker {2}{G} (You may pay an additional {2}{G} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, draw two cards.

They seek out living trees to glean age-old secrets from sap and wood.

Veteran Explorer (Battlebond)
Steven Belledin

When this creature dies, each player may search their library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Forest (Commander Anthology)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Demolish (Kaladesh)
Steven Belledin

Destroy target artifact or land.

Most came to Ghirapur for the Fair. Gremlins came for the feast.

Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen (Magic Origins Promos)
Steven Belledin

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Other Elf creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever Dwynen attacks, you gain 1 life for each attacking Elf you control.

Talon Gates of Madara (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Steven Belledin

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {4}: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Citanul Woodreaders (The List)
Steven Belledin

Kicker {2}{G} (You may pay an additional {2}{G} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, draw two cards.

They seek out living trees to glean age-old secrets from sap and wood.

Dragonlord Silumgar (Dragons of Tarkir)
Steven Belledin

Flying, deathtouch When Dragonlord Silumgar enters, gain control of target creature or planeswalker for as long as you control Dragonlord Silumgar.

Silumgar never passes up an opportunity to add to his opulence.

Abzan Falconer (Commander 2016)
Steven Belledin

Outlast {W} ({W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying.

The fastest way across the dunes is above.

Swamp (Foundations)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {B}.)

Gravecrawler (The List)
Steven Belledin

This creature can't block. You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

"Innistrad's ghoulcallers are talented enough, but let me show you what someone with real power can create." —Liliana Vess

Mountain (Duel Decks: Merfolk vs. Goblins)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {R}.)

Krosa (Planechase Planes)
Steven Belledin

All creatures get +2/+2. Whenever chaos ensues, you may add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}.

Lighthouse Chronologist (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Steven Belledin

Level up {U} ({U}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.) LEVEL 4-6 2/4 LEVEL 7+ 3/5 At the beginning of each end step, if it's not your turn, take an extra turn after this one.

Evolving Wilds (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Every world is an organism, able to grow new lands. Some just do it faster than others.

Rampant Growth (Tenth Edition)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to her problems.

Exotic Orchard (Commander 2019)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Evolving Wilds (Modern Masters 2015)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Every world is an organism, able to grow new lands. Some just do it faster than others.

Exotic Orchard (March of the Machine Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Knacksaw Clique (Shadowmoor)
Steven Belledin

Flying {1}{U}, {Q}: Target opponent exiles the top card of their library. Until end of turn, you may play that card. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Most of the Knacksaw clique's skills were hewn from the minds of others.

Scavenger Grounds (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

When the last scrap of flesh is scoured away, the Curse of Wandering ends. Then the dead may sleep.

The Akroan War (Theros Beyond Death Promos)
Steven Belledin

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Gain control of target creature for as long as this Saga remains on the battlefield. II — Until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able. III — Each tapped creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Moment of Craving (The List)
Steven Belledin

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

"The time of condemnation is at hand. Dusk washes over the world, and I consign you to eternal darkness!"

Silumgar, the Drifting Death (The List)
Steven Belledin

Flying, hexproof Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, creatures defending player controls get -1/-1 until end of turn.

"No machinations, no puppet strings, no plots. Just pure, sweeping death." —Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Relic Crush (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Steven Belledin

Destroy target artifact or enchantment and up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

There are many ruins, but there used to be many more.

Abzan Falconer (Double Masters 2022)
Steven Belledin

Outlast {W} ({W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying.

The fastest way across the dunes is above.

Lavinia, Azorius Renegade (Ravnica Remastered)
Steven Belledin

Each opponent can't cast noncreature spells with mana value greater than the number of lands that player controls. Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.

"I told Jace that Ravnica would fall apart if he didn't take his responsibilities seriously. I didn't want to be right."

Surgical Extraction (New Phyrexia)
Steven Belledin

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Rampant Growth (Commander Legends)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Forest (Salvat 2011)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Evolving Wilds (Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Every world is an organism, able to grow new lands. Some just do it faster than others.

Rampant Growth (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Yorion, Sky Nomad (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Steven Belledin

Companion — Your starting deck contains at least twenty cards more than the minimum deck size. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) Flying When Yorion enters, exile any number of other nonland permanents you own and control. Return those cards to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step.

Forest (Core Set 2019)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Duress (Modern Event Deck 2014)
Steven Belledin

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

"It hurts more if you think about it." —Hooks, Cabal torturer

Faerie Miscreant (Core Set 2020)
Steven Belledin

Flying When this creature enters, if you control another creature named Faerie Miscreant, draw a card.

One faerie distracts the judge while a second steals the law.

Inkfathom Divers (Duel Decks: Merfolk vs. Goblins)
Steven Belledin

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Relic Crush (Conspiracy)
Steven Belledin

Destroy target artifact or enchantment and up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

There are many ruins, but there used to be many more.

Fervent Cathar (Eternal Masters)
Steven Belledin

Haste When this creature enters, target creature can't block this turn.

"I'll put my sword down only to die. And I don't plan on doing that today."

Abzan Falconer (Iconic Masters)
Steven Belledin

Outlast {W} ({W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying.

The fastest way across the dunes is above.

Evolving Wilds (The List)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Archon of Redemption (Starter Commander Decks)
Steven Belledin

Flying Whenever this creature or another creature you control with flying enters, you may gain life equal to that creature's power.

Until Emeria is freed, he raises his sword in her name.

Loran of the Third Path (Bloomburrow Commander)
Steven Belledin

Vigilance When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

As a scholar, she saw the sylex not as a weapon, but as a key to the past.

Defiler of Instinct (Dominaria United)
Steven Belledin

First strike As an additional cost to cast red permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {R} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of red mana you pay. Whenever you cast a red permanent spell, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Ichor Wellspring (Mirrodin Besieged)
Steven Belledin

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

"Our glorious infection has taken hold." —Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Evolving Wilds (Commander 2018)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Plains (Commander 2018)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {W}.)

Kabira Vindicator (The List)
Steven Belledin

Level up {2}{W} ({2}{W}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.) LEVEL 2-4 3/6 Other creatures you control get +1/+1. LEVEL 5+ 4/8 Other creatures you control get +2/+2.

Evolving Wilds (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Ichor Wellspring (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Steven Belledin

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

"Should a single drop take hold, the oil begins to consume organic tissue and will multiply until it overwhelms the host." —Yawgmoth, collected writings

Rampant Growth (Foundations Jumpstart)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Idle Thoughts (Eventide)
Steven Belledin

{2}: Draw a card if you have no cards in hand.

Inspiration strikes the uncluttered mind.

Arcades Sabboth (Dominaria Remastered)
Steven Belledin

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Arcades Sabboth unless you pay {G}{W}{U}. Each untapped creature you control gets +0/+2 as long as it's not attacking. {W}: Arcades Sabboth gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Forest (Magic 2013)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Duress (The List)
Steven Belledin

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

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one." —Liliana Vess

Hearthfire Hobgoblin (Planechase)
Steven Belledin

Double strike

Hobgoblins are best left alone. They sharpen their farm implements far more than is necessary for their work in the fields.

Yusri, Fortune's Flame (Modern Horizons 2)
Steven Belledin

Flying Whenever Yusri attacks, choose a number between 1 and 5. Flip that many coins. For each flip you win, draw a card. For each flip you lose, Yusri deals 2 damage to you. If you won five flips this way, you may cast spells from your hand this turn without paying their mana costs.

Caterwauling Boggart (Lorwyn)
Steven Belledin

Goblins you control and Elementals you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

"As far as I can tell, that frog dangling from the stick serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever." —Gaddock Teeg

Monk (Fate Reforged Tokens)
Steven Belledin

Prowess

Forest (Magic 2010)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Brindle Shoat (Jumpstart)
Steven Belledin

When this creature dies, create a 3/3 green Boar creature token.

Hunters lure the stripling boar into the open, hoping to trap greater prey.

Relic Crush (Commander 2017)
Steven Belledin

Destroy target artifact or enchantment and up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

There are many ruins, but there used to be many more.

Rampant Growth (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Shield of the Oversoul (The List)
Steven Belledin

Enchant creature As long as enchanted creature is green, it gets +1/+1 and has indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.) As long as enchanted creature is white, it gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Grimoire of the Dead (The List)
Steven Belledin

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead. {T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

Greatbow Doyen (Morningtide)
Steven Belledin

Other Archer creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever an Archer you control deals damage to a creature, that Archer deals that much damage to that creature's controller.

"My arrows will ever find you."

Forest (Commander 2018)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Mikaeus, the Lunarch (Innistrad)
Steven Belledin

Mikaeus enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mikaeus. {T}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Mikaeus: Put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.

Grimoire of the Dead (Commander 2019)
Steven Belledin

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead. {T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

Evolving Wilds (Magic 2013)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Exotic Orchard (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Loxodon Wayfarer (Scars of Mirrodin)
Steven Belledin

The Mirran elders vanished with Memnarch, leaving behind a generation of wayward orphans.

Magister Sphinx (Archenemy)
Steven Belledin

Flying When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.

"These benighted worlds are thick with ignorance. I will educate them. They will listen, or they will die."

Abzan Falconer (Khans of Tarkir)
Steven Belledin

Outlast {W} ({W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying.

The fastest way across the dunes is above.

Etched Monstrosity (Modern Masters 2015)
Steven Belledin

This creature enters with five -1/-1 counters on it. {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}, Remove five -1/-1 counters from this creature: Target player draws three cards.

Now etched only with the scars of phyresis.

Darksteel Splicer (March of the Machine Commander)
Steven Belledin

Whenever this creature or another nontoken Phyrexian you control enters, create X 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature tokens, where X is the number of opponents you have. Golems you control have indestructible.

Overwhelming Stampede (Commander 2019)
Steven Belledin

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

"I trust the instincts of any beast over the advice of any human who presumes to be an expert in the art of war." —Rinshel, elf insurgent

Relic Crush (The List)
Steven Belledin

Destroy target artifact or enchantment and up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

There are many ruins, but there used to be many more.

Island (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Kiora)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {U}.)

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker (From the Vault: Legends)
Steven Belledin

Haste {T}: Create a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control, except it has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Forest (Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Rampant Growth (Commander Masters)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Exotic Orchard (Conflux)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Skywarp Skaab (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Steven Belledin

Flying When this creature enters, you may exile two creature cards from your graveyard. If you do, draw a card.

"If I wanted all the parts to match, I wouldn't have become a stitcher." —Barton, stitcher

Phobian Phantasm (Coldsnap)
Steven Belledin

Flying; fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Cumulative upkeep {B} (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.)

Sword of Feast and Famine (Kaladesh Inventions)
Steven Belledin

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control. Equip {2}

Exotic Orchard (Wilds of Eldraine Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Evolving Wilds (Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Hero of Bladehold (March of the Machine Commander)
Steven Belledin

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.) Whenever this creature attacks, create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens that are tapped and attacking.

Evolving Wilds (Commander 2011)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Every world is an organism, able to grow new lands. Some just do it faster than others.

From Under the Floorboards (Shadows over Innistrad Promos)
Steven Belledin

Madness {X}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.) Create three tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens and you gain 3 life. If this spell's madness cost was paid, instead create X of those tokens and you gain X life.

Goblin Dark-Dwellers (Commander 2020)
Steven Belledin

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Rampant Growth (The List)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Kor Bladewhirl (The List)
Steven Belledin

Rally — Whenever this creature or another Ally you control enters, creatures you control gain first strike until end of turn.

The high-pitched whirl of a hook is the only battle cry she needs.

Duress (Magic 2011)
Steven Belledin

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

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one." —Liliana Vess

Evolving Wilds (Commander Anthology)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Bog-Strider Ash (Lorwyn)
Steven Belledin

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Whenever a player casts a Goblin spell, you may pay {G}. If you do, you gain 2 life.

"If you want to test wisdom, offer it to fools and watch how they tear it up."

Grimoire of the Dead (Starter Commander Decks)
Steven Belledin

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead. {T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

Duress (Magic 2013)
Steven Belledin

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

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one." —Liliana Vess

Grimoire of the Dead (Innistrad)
Steven Belledin

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead. {T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

Transcendent Master (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Steven Belledin

Level up {1} ({1}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.) LEVEL 6-11 6/6 Lifelink LEVEL 12+ 9/9 Lifelink, indestructible

Exotic Orchard (Dominaria United Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Abzan Falconer (Midnight Hunt Commander)
Steven Belledin

Outlast {W} ({W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying.

The fastest way across the dunes is above.

Aethertide Whale (Aetherdrift Commander)
Steven Belledin

Flying When this creature enters, you get six {E} (energy counters). Pay {E}{E}{E}{E}: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

"To survive up here, I've learned when to use my harpoon and when to just enjoy the view." —Kadhu, skywhaler

Herald of the Fair (Kaladesh)
Steven Belledin

When this creature enters, target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Welcome, one and all! Right this way! Open your eyes, your ears, and your imaginations to the wonders of the Inventors' Fair!"

Island (Theros)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {U}.)

Oswald Fiddlebender (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Steven Belledin

Magical Tinkering — {W}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Search your library for an artifact card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed artifact's mana value, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

"Can't see this airship crashing in the near future. Sturdy as a rock."

Lavinia, Azorius Renegade (Ravnica Allegiance)
Steven Belledin

Each opponent can't cast noncreature spells with mana value greater than the number of lands that player controls. Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.

"I told Jace that Ravnica would fall apart if he didn't take his responsibilities seriously. I didn't want to be right."

Rampant Growth (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Geralf's Mindcrusher (Starter Commander Decks)
Steven Belledin

When this creature enters, target player mills five cards. Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Rampant Growth (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Armament Corps (The List)
Steven Belledin

When this creature enters, distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures you control.

The Abzan avoid extended supply lines by incorporating weapons stores into their battle formations.

Duress (Iconic Masters)
Steven Belledin

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

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one." —Liliana Vess

Gravecrawler (Dark Ascension)
Steven Belledin

This creature can't block. You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

"Innistrad's ghoulcallers are talented enough, but let me show you what someone with real power can create." —Liliana Vess

The First Eruption (Dominaria Promos)
Steven Belledin

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — This Saga deals 1 damage to each creature without flying. II — Add {R}{R}. III — Sacrifice a Mountain. If you do, this Saga deals 3 damage to each creature.

Great Oak Guardian (Commander 2019)
Steven Belledin

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Reach When this creature enters, creatures target player controls get +2/+2 until end of turn. Untap them.

His roots reach deep and grip hard.

Fevered Visions (Shadows over Innistrad)
Steven Belledin

At the beginning of each player's end step, that player draws a card. If the player is your opponent and has four or more cards in hand, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

The mind can only expand so far before it flies apart.

Great Oak Guardian (The List)
Steven Belledin

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Reach When this creature enters, creatures target player controls get +2/+2 until end of turn. Untap them.

His roots reach deep and grip hard.

Sinew Sliver (Planar Chaos)
Steven Belledin

All Sliver creatures get +1/+1.

As the muscle cords of the creature twitched, Hanna saw an unsettling unanimity in the others' rippling flesh. She didn't know what it meant, but she urged Sisay to keep the ship at a safe distance.

Forest (Commander 2015)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Moment of Craving (Foundations)
Steven Belledin

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

The vampires of the Dusk Legion undertake Blood Fasts to strengthen their wills, but not all can control their hunger.

Surgical Extraction (Modern Masters 2015)
Steven Belledin

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Geralf's Mindcrusher (Dark Ascension)
Steven Belledin

When this creature enters, target player mills five cards. Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Leonin Armorguard (Alara Reborn)
Steven Belledin

When this creature enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Well suited are the nacatl to a coat of steel and forge-tempered claws.

Benalish Veteran (Magic 2012)
Steven Belledin

Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"One day I will rest and join my comrades in the afterlife, but not while scum like you still sully this world."

Sagu Archer (Khans of Tarkir)
Steven Belledin

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Morph {4}{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.)

His arrows whistle like a serpent's hiss.

Duress (Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic)
Steven Belledin

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

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one." —Liliana Vess

Mikaeus, the Lunarch (March of the Machine Commander)
Steven Belledin

Mikaeus enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mikaeus. {T}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Mikaeus: Put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.

Surgical Extraction (Double Masters 2022)
Steven Belledin

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire (The List)
Steven Belledin

Flying Whenever Vaevictis Asmadi attacks, for each player, choose target permanent that player controls. Those players sacrifice those permanents. Each player who sacrificed a permanent this way reveals the top card of their library, then puts it onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card.

Unmake (Archenemy)
Steven Belledin

Exile target creature.

A gwyllion's favorite trap is the vanity mirror. A bewitched piece of glass traps the looker's soul and does away with the body.

Greater Sandwurm (Amonkhet)
Steven Belledin

This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

A sandwurm can lie in wait beneath the sands for years until the slightest tremor alerts it to the presence of prey.

Exotic Orchard (New Capenna Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Etherium Sculptor (Neon Dynasty Commander)
Steven Belledin

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

The greatest masters of the craft abandon tools altogether, shaping metal with hand and mind alone.

Krosa (Planechase Anthology Planes)
Steven Belledin

All creatures get +2/+2. Whenever chaos ensues, you may add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}.

Chief Engineer (Magic 2015)
Steven Belledin

Artifact spells you cast have convoke. (Your creatures can help cast those spells. Each creature you tap while casting an artifact spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)

An eye for detail, a mind for numbers, a soul of clockwork.

Forest (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Kiora)
Steven Belledin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Tome Scour (Magic 2010)
Steven Belledin

Target player mills five cards.

Genius is overrated, especially when it's someone else's.

Evolving Wilds (Commander 2017)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

From Under the Floorboards (Shadows over Innistrad)
Steven Belledin

Madness {X}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.) Create three tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens and you gain 3 life. If this spell's madness cost was paid, instead create X of those tokens and you gain X life.

Order of Whiteclay (Shadowmoor)
Steven Belledin

{1}{W}{W}, {Q}: Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Made from the clay of burial mounds, the face paint of the priests is a sign of their respect for those whose rest they interrupt.

Brindle Shoat (Planechase Anthology)
Steven Belledin

When this creature dies, create a 3/3 green Boar creature token.

Hunters lure the stripling boar into the open, hoping to trap greater prey.

Exotic Orchard (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Defang (Avacyn Restored)
Steven Belledin

Enchant creature Prevent all damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.

Once vampires are disarmed, they're given wooden swords and forced to assist in the training of Midnight Duelists.

Citanul Woodreaders (Duel Decks: Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis)
Steven Belledin

Kicker {2}{G} (You may pay an additional {2}{G} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, draw two cards.

They seek out living trees to glean age-old secrets from sap and wood.

Dragon Whelp (Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons)
Steven Belledin

Flying {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice this creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Invasive Surgery (The List)
Steven Belledin

Counter target sorcery spell. Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, search the graveyard, hand, and library of that spell's controller for any number of cards with the same name as that spell, exile those cards, then that player shuffles.

Maelstrom Nexus (The List)
Steven Belledin

The first spell you cast each turn has cascade. (When you cast your first spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Exotic Orchard (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Puppet Conjurer (Shards of Alara)
Steven Belledin

{U}, {T}: Create a 0/1 blue Homunculus artifact creature token. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a Homunculus.

He scowls at his imperfect creation, then crushes it to scrap. He salvages the etherium and begins anew.

Loran of the Third Path (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Steven Belledin

Vigilance When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

As a scholar, she saw the sylex not as a weapon, but as a key to the past.

Duress (Premium Deck Series: Graveborn)
Steven Belledin

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

"Don't worry. I'm not going to deprive you of all your secrets. Just your most precious one." —Liliana Vess

Oswald Fiddlebender (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Steven Belledin

Magical Tinkering — {W}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Search your library for an artifact card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed artifact's mana value, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

"Can't see this airship crashing in the near future. Sturdy as a rock."

Aethertide Whale (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Steven Belledin

Flying When this creature enters, you get six {E} (energy counters). Pay {E}{E}{E}{E}: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

"To survive up here, I've learned when to use my harpoon and when to just enjoy the view." —Kadhu, skywhaler

Crimson Muckwader (The List)
Steven Belledin

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp. {2}{B}: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist (Commander Legends)
Steven Belledin

You and permanents you control have protection from Salamanders. At the beginning of your end step, each player who controls the fewest creatures creates a 4/3 blue Salamander Warrior creature token.

"The day of reckoning is coming. Knowledge of the amphin may be our only refuge."

Leonin Lightscribe (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Steven Belledin

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Floodtide Serpent (Born of the Gods)
Steven Belledin

This creature can't attack unless you return an enchantment you control to its owner's hand. (This cost is paid as attackers are declared.)

"Pray to Thassa for *what*? A bigger monster to eat it? A wave that can wash it away? What then?" —Lindos, merchant of Meletis

Evolving Wilds (Commander 2019)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Ethercaste Knight (Alara Reborn)
Steven Belledin

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

"We coat ourselves in steel every day. What is etherium but the next logical step?"

Fuel for the Cause (Mirrodin Besieged)
Steven Belledin

Counter target spell, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"Your ideas will be discarded and your will repurposed."

Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire (Core Set 2019)
Steven Belledin

Flying Whenever Vaevictis Asmadi attacks, for each player, choose target permanent that player controls. Those players sacrifice those permanents. Each player who sacrificed a permanent this way reveals the top card of their library, then puts it onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card.

Puppet Conjurer (The List)
Steven Belledin

{U}, {T}: Create a 0/1 blue Homunculus artifact creature token. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a Homunculus.

He scowls at his imperfect creation, then crushes it to scrap. He salvages the etherium and begins anew.

Ichor Wellspring (The Brothers' War Commander)
Steven Belledin

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

"Our glorious infection has taken hold." —Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Etched Monstrosity (New Phyrexia)
Steven Belledin

This creature enters with five -1/-1 counters on it. {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}, Remove five -1/-1 counters from this creature: Target player draws three cards.

Now etched only with the scars of phyresis.

Dying to Serve (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Steven Belledin

Whenever you discard one or more cards, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Fevered Visions (Shadows over Innistrad Promos)
Steven Belledin

At the beginning of each player's end step, that player draws a card. If the player is your opponent and has four or more cards in hand, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

The mind can only expand so far before it flies apart.

Defiler of Instinct (Dominaria United Promos)
Steven Belledin

First strike As an additional cost to cast red permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {R} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of red mana you pay. Whenever you cast a red permanent spell, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Exotic Orchard (The Brothers' War Commander)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them." —Pulan, Bant orchardist

Citadel Siege (Commander 2021)
Steven Belledin

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of combat on your turn, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. • Dragons — At the beginning of combat on each opponent's turn, tap target creature that player controls.

Referee Squad (March of the Machine)
Steven Belledin

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Vigilance When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Mikaeus, the Lunarch (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Steven Belledin

Mikaeus enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mikaeus. {T}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Mikaeus: Put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker (Modern Masters)
Steven Belledin

Haste {T}: Create a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control, except it has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Hibernation's End (Coldsnap)
Steven Belledin

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.) Whenever you pay this enchantment's cumulative upkeep, you may search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of age counters on this enchantment, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Evolving Wilds (Commander 2014)
Steven Belledin

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Rampant Growth (Magic 2010)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Referee Squad (The List)
Steven Belledin

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Vigilance When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Rampant Growth (Bloomburrow Commander)
Steven Belledin

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Nature grows solutions to its problems.

Kabira Vindicator (Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons)
Steven Belledin

Level up {2}{W} ({2}{W}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.) LEVEL 2-4 3/6 Other creatures you control get +1/+1. LEVEL 5+ 4/8 Other creatures you control get +2/+2.

Ichor Wellspring (Commander 2016)
Steven Belledin

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

"Our glorious infection has taken hold." —Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Citadel Siege (Commander 2016)
Steven Belledin

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of combat on your turn, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. • Dragons — At the beginning of combat on each opponent's turn, tap target creature that player controls.

Yavimaya Wurm (Magic 2011)
Steven Belledin

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Anywhere else, colossal. In the forests of Yavimaya, commonplace.

First Sliver's Chosen (Modern Horizons)
Steven Belledin

Sliver creatures you control have exalted. (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each instance of exalted among permanents you control.)

The most tenacious members of the hive instinctually guard the First Sliver.

Order of Whiteclay (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Steven Belledin

{1}{W}{W}, {Q}: Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Made from the clay of burial mounds, the face paint of the priests is a sign of their respect for those whose rest they interrupt.

Etherium Sculptor (Shards of Alara)
Steven Belledin

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

The greatest masters of the craft abandon tools altogether, shaping metal with hand and mind alone.

Citanul Woodreaders (Time Spiral Remastered)
Steven Belledin

Kicker {2}{G} (You may pay an additional {2}{G} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, draw two cards.

They seek out living trees to glean age-old secrets from sap and wood.

Arthur, Marigold Knight (Bloomburrow Commander)
Steven Belledin

Haste Whenever Arthur and at least one other creature attack, look at the top six cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.

Izzet Chronarch (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Steven Belledin

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

He ensures not only whether but also when and where the lightning strikes twice.

Mox Jasper (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)
Steven Belledin

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control a Dragon.

"Rage. Greed. Arrogance. People only accuse dragons of what they fear in themselves." —Sarkhan

Wasteland (Judge Gift Cards 2015)
Steven Belledin

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

The land was left depleted and empty, an unsettling taste of things to come.