Shanodin Dryads

Shanodin Dryads (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Shanodin Dryads (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Shanodin Dryads (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Shanodin Dryads (Seventh Edition)
Eric Peterson

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Where dryads dance, seeds sprout and flowers bloom.

Shanodin Dryads (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Shanodin Dryads (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Shanodin Dryads (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Shanodin Dryads (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Shanodin Dryads (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Shanodin Dryads (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Shanodin Dryads (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Shanodin Dryads (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Shanodin Dryads (Fifth Edition)
Gary Leach

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Shanodin Dryads (Classic Sixth Edition)
Gary Leach

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Deathgrip (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Jade Monolith (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Reconstruction (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Tedious research made the Sages of the College of Lat-Nam adept in repairing broken artifacts.

Disintegrate (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Snow-Covered Island (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

({T}: Add {U}.)

Eternal Warrior (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has vigilance.

Warriors of the Tsunami-nito School spend years in training to master the way of effortless effort.

Fishliver Oil (Arabian Nights)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature has islandwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Then the maiden bade him cast off his robes and cover his body with fishliver oil, that he might safely follow her into the sea.

Raise Dead (Portal Second Age)
Anson Maddocks

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Life from death is part of the natural cycle. This is merely a shortcut." —Tojira, swamp queen

Foriysian Totem (Time Spiral)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {R}. {4}{R}: This artifact becomes a 4/4 red Giant artifact creature with trample until end of turn. As long as this artifact is a creature, it can block an additional creature each combat.

Disintegrate (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Throne of Bone (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Giant Slug (Chronicles)
Anson Maddocks

{5}: At the beginning of your next upkeep, choose a basic land type. This creature gains landwalk of the chosen type until the end of that turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a land of that type.)

Urza's Mine (Chronicles)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Mines became common as cities during the days of the artificers.

Diabolic Machine (Renaissance)
Anson Maddocks

{3}: Regenerate this creature.

Raise Dead (The List)
Anson Maddocks

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Life from death is part of the natural cycle. This is merely a shortcut." —Tojira, swamp queen

Black Mana Battery (Renaissance)
Anson Maddocks

{2}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}, Remove any number of charge counters from this artifact: Add {B}, then add an additional {B} for each charge counter removed this way.

Spinal Villain (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Destroy target blue creature.

"Striking silent as a dream,/ Cutting short the strangled scream . . ." —Tobrian, "Watchdragon"

Black Mana Battery (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{2}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}, Remove any number of charge counters from this artifact: Add {B}, then add an additional {B} for each charge counter removed this way.

Null Rod (Weatherlight)
Anson Maddocks

Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.

Gerrard: "But it doesn't *do* anything!" Hanna: "No—it *does* nothing."

Elvish Archers (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Black Mana Battery (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

{2}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}, Remove any number of charge counters from this artifact: Add {B}, then add an additional {B} for each charge counter removed this way.

Guardian Angel (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay {1} any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that permanent or player this turn.

Hurloon Minotaur (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

False Orders (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step. Remove target creature defending player controls from combat. Creatures it was blocking that had become blocked by only that creature this combat become unblocked. You may have it block an attacking creature of your choice.

Urza's Mine (Rinascimento)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Fishliver Oil (Chronicles)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature has islandwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Then the maiden bade him cast off his robes and cover his body with fishliver oil, that he might safely follow her into the sea.

Llanowar Elves (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Whenever the Llanowar Elves gather the fruits of their forest, they leave one plant of each type untouched, considering that nature's portion.

Urza's Mine (Rinascimento)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Demonic Torment (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.

Fishliver Oil (Arabian Nights)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature has islandwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Then the maiden bade him cast off his robes and cover his body with fishliver oil, that he might safely follow her into the sea.

Windseeker Centaur (HarperPrism Book Promos)
Anson Maddocks

Vigilance

Loyal and passionate in battle, the Windseeker tribe roams the Green Lands near the Honeyed Sea.

Disintegrate (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Anaba Shaman (Homelands)
Anson Maddocks

{R}, {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

"The Shamans? Ha! They are mere craven cows not capable of true magic." —Irini Sengir

Diabolic Machine (The Dark)
Anson Maddocks

{3}: Regenerate this creature.

"The bolts of our ballistae smashed into the monstrous thing, but our hopes died in our chests as its gears continued turning." —Sevti Mukul, *The Fall of Alsoor*

Holy Strength (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Dancing Scimitar (Classic Sixth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Bobbing merrily from opponent to opponent, the scimitar began adding playful little flourishes to its strokes; it even turned a couple of somersaults.

Lifetap (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Carapace (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+2. Sacrifice this Aura: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"Now *that's* a fashion statement." —Devin, faerie noble

Ritual of the Machine (Alliances)
Anson Maddocks

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Gain control of target nonartifact, nonblack creature.

"Rumors persist of dark deeds performed in the depths of Soldev. When will Dagsson heed the danger therein?" —Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Shanodin Dryads (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Dancing Scimitar (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Bobbing merrily from opponent to opponent, the scimitar began adding playful little flourishes to its strokes; it even turned a couple of somersaults.

Animate Dead (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Flight (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Paralyze (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Serendib Efreet (Arabian Nights)
Anson Maddocks

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to you.

Flight (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Flight (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Disintegrate (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Plague Rats (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

Creature Bond (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Dancing Scimitar (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Goblin War Cry (Portal Second Age)
Anson Maddocks

Target opponent chooses a creature they control. Other creatures they control can't block this turn.

"Goblins cry, soldiers fly. Stones fly, soldiers die!"

Screeching Drake (Portal Second Age)
Anson Maddocks

Flying When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.

Living Armor (The Dark)
Anson Maddocks

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put X +0/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's mana value.

Though it affords excellent protection, few don this armor. The process is uncomfortable and not easily reversed.

Plague Rats (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you . . . ." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

Llanowar Elves (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Ironclaw Orcs (Renaissance)
Anson Maddocks

This creature can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.

Dancing Scimitar (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Disintegrate (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

False Orders (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step. Remove target creature defending player controls from combat. Creatures it was blocking that had become blocked by only that creature this combat become unblocked. You may have it block an attacking creature of your choice.

Stop That (Unhinged)
Anson Maddocks

Target player discards a card. Gotcha — If an opponent audibly flicks the cards in their hand, you may say "Gotcha!" When you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Now for a squirt of lemon juice.

Elvish Archers (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Llanowar Elves (DCI Promos)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Whenever the Llanowar elves gather the fruits of their forest, they leave one plant of each type untouched, considering that nature's portion.

Samite Healer (Ninth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Holy Strength (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Throne of Bone (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Sengir Vampire (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Sengir Vampire (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Elvish Hunter (Fallen Empires)
Anson Maddocks

{1}{G}, {T}: Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"As the climate cooled, many Elves turned to Thallid farming for food, while the Hunters honed their skills on what little game remained." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. III*

Llanowar Elves (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Eternal Warrior (Renaissance)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has vigilance.

Living Artifact (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Llanowar Elves (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Whenever the Llanowar Elves gather the fruits of their forest, they leave one plant of each type untouched, considering that nature's portion.

Elvish Archers (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Elvish Archers (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Throne of Bone (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Lifetap (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Wall of Bone (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {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.)

Holy Strength (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Island (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Anson Maddocks

({T}: Add {U}.)

Wall of Brambles (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf." —Conrad Aiken

Paralyze (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Sengir Vampire (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Reconstruction (Antiquities)
Anson Maddocks

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Tedious research made the Sages of the College of Lat-Nam adept in repairing broken artifacts.

Dragon Engine (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Those who believed the city of Kroog would never fall to Mishra's forces severely underestimated the might of his war machines.

Living Wall (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {1}: Regenerate Living Wall.

Some fiendish mage had created a horrifying wall of living flesh, patched together from a jumble of still-recognizable body parts. As we sought to hew our way through it, some unknown power healed the gaping wounds we cut, denying us passage.

Ironclaw Orcs (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

This creature can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.

Spitting Slug (The Dark)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, this creature gains first strike until end of turn. Otherwise, each creature blocking or blocked by this creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Wall of Brambles (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf." —Conrad Aiken

Urza's Mine (Rinascimento)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Jade Monolith (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Carapace (Homelands)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+2. Sacrifice this Aura: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"The tougher to crack, the sweeter the snack." —Kakra, Sea Troll

Island (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

({T}: Add {U}.)

Pyrotechnics (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

"Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me! Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return." —Navajo war chant

Elvish Archers (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

Wall of Brambles (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf." —Conrad Aiken

Living Artifact (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Cyclopean Tomb (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{2}, {T}: Put a mire counter on target non-Swamp land. That land is a Swamp for as long as it has a mire counter on it. Activate only during your upkeep. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, remove all mire counters from a land that a mire counter was put onto with this artifact but that a mire counter has not been removed from with this artifact.

Plague Rats (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

Frankenstein's Monster (The Dark)
Anson Maddocks

As this creature enters, exile X creature cards from your graveyard. If you can't, put this creature into its owner's graveyard instead of onto the battlefield. For each creature card exiled this way, this creature enters with a +2/+0, +1/+1, or +0/+2 counter on it.

Armor of Faith (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. {W}: Enchanted creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"Keep your chain mail, warrior. I have my own form of protection." —Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Reconstruction (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Stromgald Cabal (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

{T}, Pay 1 life: Counter target white spell.

"Kjeldor must be supreme at any cost." —Avram Garrisson, Leader of the Knights of Stromgald

Bone Shaman (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

{B}: Until end of turn, this creature gains "Creatures dealt damage by this creature this turn can't be regenerated this turn."

Rattle me bones as I cross the floor And the bones in your grave will rattle no more.

Living Armor (Chronicles)
Anson Maddocks

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put X +0/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's mana value.

Though it affords excellent protection, few don this armor. The process is uncomfortable and not easily reversed.

Guardian Angel (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay {1} any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that permanent or player this turn.

Maze of Ith (The Dark)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Pit Trap (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy target attacking creature without flying. It can't be regenerated.

"These traps are truly a symbol of great cruelty and sinister cunning." —Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Legions of Lim-Dûl (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

Snow swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a snow Swamp.)

"I have seen the faces of my dead friends among that grim band, and I can bear no more." —Lucilde Fiksdotter, Leader of the Order of the White Shield

Fallen Angel (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Flying Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

"Angels are simply extensions of truth upon the fabric of life—and there is far more dark than light." —Baron Sengir

Paralyze (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Dancing Scimitar (Arabian Nights)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Bobbing merrily from opponent to opponent, the scimitar began adding playful little flourishes to its strokes; it even turned a couple of somersaults.

Elvish Archers (Classic Sixth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

"I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, 'Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!'"

Inquisition (The Dark)
Anson Maddocks

Target player reveals their hand. Inquisition deals damage to that player equal to the number of white cards in their hand.

Many of those entrusted to Primata Delphine's care tended to express themselves with screams.

Vampire Bats (Renaissance)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) {B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.

Pyrotechnics (Renaissance)
Anson Maddocks

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

Hurloon Minotaur (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Samite Healer (Seventh Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Why does a Samite heal? You might as well ask why a bird flies.

Orcish Artillery (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

Urza's Mine (Chronicles)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Mines became common as cities during the days of the artificers.

Creature Bond (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Sengir Vampire (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Skyshroud Falcon (Seventh Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Flying, vigilance

The earliest mystics believed that the falcon slit the sky to let the light break through.

Lurker (The Dark)
Anson Maddocks

This creature can't be the target of spells unless it attacked or blocked this turn.

"Each night we felt it watching us from the darkness beyond our fire. We only had one pack horse left." —Maeveen O'Donagh, *Memoirs of a Soldier*

Wall of Bone (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {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.)

The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.

Jade Monolith (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Pyrotechnics (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

Sengir Vampire (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Llanowar Elves (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

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

Elvish Archers (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

Orcish Artillery (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

Pyrotechnics (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

Llanowar Elves (Beatdown Box Set)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

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

Paralyze (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Sengir Vampire (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Blood Lust (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

If target creature has toughness 5 or greater, it gets +4/-4 until end of turn. Otherwise, it gets +4/-X until end of turn, where X is its toughness minus 1.

Jade Monolith (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Flight (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Lifetap (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Animate Dead (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Living Artifact (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Llanowar Elves (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Whenever the Llanowar Elves gather the fruits of their forest, they leave one plant of each type untouched, considering that nature's portion.

Ivory Cup (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Living Artifact (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Living Artifact (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Living Artifact (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Urza's Mine (Antiquities)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Mines became common as cities during the days of the artificers.

Island (Arena League 2001)
Anson Maddocks

({T}: Add {U}.)

Elvish Archers (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Living Artifact (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Invisibility (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by Walls.

Deathgrip (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Two-Headed Giant of Foriys (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Trample This creature can block an additional creature each combat.

None know if this Giant is the result of aberrant magics, Siamese twins, or a mentalist's schizophrenia.

Samite Healer (Ninth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Wall of Brambles (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf." —Conrad Aiken

Living Artifact (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Goblin Kites (Fallen Empires)
Anson Maddocks

{R}: Target creature you control with toughness 2 or less gains flying until end of turn. Flip a coin at the beginning of the next end step. If you lose the flip, sacrifice that creature.

Shanodin Dryads (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Black Mana Battery (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

{2}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}, Remove any number of charge counters from this artifact: Add {B}, then add an additional {B} for each charge counter removed this way.

Disintegrate (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Flight (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Invisibility (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by Walls.

Ivory Cup (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Shanodin Dryads (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Living Wall (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {1}: Regenerate Living Wall.

Some fiendish mage had created a horrifying wall of living flesh, patched together from a jumble of still-recognizable body parts. As we sought to hew our way through it, some unknown power healed the gaping wounds we cut, denying us passage.

Lure (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Ivory Cup (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Living Artifact (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Hurloon Minotaur (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

The minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.

Creature Bond (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Deathgrip (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Cyclopean Tomb (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{2}, {T}: Put a mire counter on target non-Swamp land. That land is a Swamp for as long as it has a mire counter on it. Activate only during your upkeep. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, remove all mire counters from a land that a mire counter was put onto with this artifact but that a mire counter has not been removed from with this artifact.

Elvish Archers (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Llanowar Elves (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Whenever the Llanowar Elves gather the fruits of their forest, they leave one plant of each type untouched, considering that nature's portion.

Labyrinth Minotaur (Homelands)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"I doubt any Labyrinth Minotaurs still live—but then again, we Minotaurs are stubborn beings." —Onatah, Anaba Shaman

Pyrotechnics (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

"Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me! / Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return." —Navajo war chant

Throne of Bone (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Throne of Bone (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Denizen of the Deep (Starter 1999)
Anson Maddocks

When this creature enters, return each other creature you control to its owner's hand.

Siren's Call (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared. Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Casting of Bones (Alliances)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, draw three cards, then discard one of them.

"Only a necromancer would create such a foul form of divination." —Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen

Paralyze (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Wall of Bone (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {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.)

The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.

Elvish Archers (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Hurloon Minotaur (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.

Disintegrate (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Living Wall (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {1}: Regenerate Living Wall.

Some fiendish mage had created a horrifying wall of living flesh, patched together from a jumble of still-recognizable body parts. As we sought to hew our way through it, some unknown power healed the gaping wounds we cut, denying us passage.

Orcish Artillery (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

Paralyze (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

High Tide (Fallen Empires)
Anson Maddocks

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

"May Svyelun and her tides favor you." —Traditional Merfolk blessing

Urza's Mine (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Mines became common as cities during the days of the artificers.

Animate Dead (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Sengir Vampire (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Llanowar Elves (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Whenever the Llanowar Elves gather the fruits of their forest, they leave one plant of each type untouched, considering that nature's portion.

Sengir Vampire (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Animate Dead (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Orcish Artillery (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

Siren's Call (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared. Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Holy Strength (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Labyrinth Minotaur (Homelands)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"Legend says they got a treasure cave, but it don't say where to find it." —Zeki, Reef Pirate

Flight (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Diabolic Machine (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

{3}: Regenerate this creature.

Sengir Vampire (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Plague Rats (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you. . ." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

Anaba Ancestor (Homelands)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Another target Minotaur creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"The Ancestors are the wisdom of the tribe and the soul of the Homelands. I am eternally in their debt." —Taysir

Denizen of the Deep (Dominaria Remastered)
Anson Maddocks

When this creature enters, return each other creature you control to its owner's hand.

According to merfolk legend, a denizen of the deep swallows the horizon at the end of each day, bringing on the cold blanket of night.

Siren's Call (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared. Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Derelor (Fallen Empires)
Anson Maddocks

Black spells you cast cost {B} more to cast.

"Strength it has, but at the cost of a continuous supply of energy. Such failure can bear only one result." —From the execution order for Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Orcish Artillery (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

Island (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

({T}: Add {U}.)

Living Wall (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {1}: Regenerate Living Wall.

Disintegrate (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Ashnod's Altar (Chronicles)
Anson Maddocks

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Throne of Bone (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Shanodin Dryads (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Creature Bond (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Hurloon Minotaur (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.

Samite Healer (Eighth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Jade Monolith (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Lifetap (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Transmute Artifact (Antiquities)
Anson Maddocks

Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, search your library for an artifact card. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value, put it onto the battlefield. If it's greater, you may pay {X}, where X is the difference. If you do, put it onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. Then shuffle.

Ironclaw Orcs (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

This creature can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.

Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan. To say that Orcs in general are vicious, depraved, and ignoble does not do justice to the Ironclaw.

Throne of Bone (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Disintegrate (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Ironclaw Orcs (Rinascimento)
Anson Maddocks

This creature can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.

Ashnod's Altar (Rinascimento)
Anson Maddocks

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Deathgrip (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Flight (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Elvish Archers (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Hurloon Minotaur (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.

Ashnod's Altar (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

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

Jade Monolith (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Throne of Bone (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Wall of Bone (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {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.)

The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.

Cyclopean Tomb (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{2}, {T}: Put a mire counter on target non-Swamp land. That land is a Swamp for as long as it has a mire counter on it. Activate only during your upkeep. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, remove all mire counters from a land that a mire counter was put onto with this artifact but that a mire counter has not been removed from with this artifact.

Disintegrate (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Carapace (Homelands)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+2. Sacrifice this Aura: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"Now, *that's* a fashion statement." —Devin, Faerie Noble

Fallen Ideal (The List)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying and "Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn." When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Hurloon Minotaur (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.

Temporal Manipulation (Portal Second Age)
Anson Maddocks

Take an extra turn after this one.

Doing something at the last minute isn't so bad when you can make that minute last.

Pyrotechnics (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Anson Maddocks

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

"Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me! Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return." —Navajo war chant

Invisibility (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by Walls.

Living Artifact (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Lure (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Cyclopean Tomb (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{2}, {T}: Put a mire counter on target non-Swamp land. That land is a Swamp for as long as it has a mire counter on it. Activate only during your upkeep. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, remove all mire counters from a land that a mire counter was put onto with this artifact but that a mire counter has not been removed from with this artifact.

Vampiric Spirit (Eighth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Flying When this creature enters, you lose 4 life.

Moor Fiend (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

"Let them close the gates of Krov from dusk until dawn if they so choose. It matters not. My fiends shall yet rend their flesh from their bones." —Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Llanowar Elves (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Whenever the Llanowar Elves gather the fruits of their forest, they leave one plant of each type untouched, considering that nature's portion.

Flight (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Deathgrip (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Lifetap (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Diabolic Machine (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{3}: Regenerate this creature.

"The bolts of our ballistae smashed into the monstrous thing, but our hopes died in our chests as its gears continued turning." —Sevti Mukul, *The Fall of Alsoor*

Wall of Bone (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {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.)

The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.

Flight (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Elvish Archers (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Serendib Efreet (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to you.

Paralyze (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Lim-Dûl's High Guard (Deckmasters)
Anson Maddocks

First strike {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

"Death does not prevent us from service to our absent master. As long as Tresserhorn stands, so shall we." —Chaeska, Keeper of Tresserhorn

Pyrotechnics (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

"Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me!/ Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return." —Navajo war chant

Onulet (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.

An early inspiration for Urza, Tocasia's Onulets contained magical essences that could be cannibalized after they stopped functioning.

False Orders (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step. Remove target creature defending player controls from combat. Creatures it was blocking that had become blocked by only that creature this combat become unblocked. You may have it block an attacking creature of your choice.

Infernal Medusa (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever this creature blocks a creature, destroy that creature at end of combat. Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Denizen of the Deep (Dominaria Remastered)
Anson Maddocks

When this creature enters, return each other creature you control to its owner's hand.

According to merfolk legend, a denizen of the deep swallows the horizon at the end of each day, bringing on the cold blanket of night.

Two-Headed Giant of Foriys (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Trample This creature can block an additional creature each combat.

None know if this Giant is the result of aberrant magics, Siamese twins, or a mentalist's schizophrenia.

Llanowar Elves (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Guardian Angel (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay {1} any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that permanent or player this turn.

Jade Monolith (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Paralyze (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Derelor (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Black spells you cast cost {B} more to cast.

"The derelor's greatest contribution to the Ebon Hand was the inspirational effect its creator's execution had upon the other thrull breeders." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. II*

Shanodin Dryads (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Foul Familiar (Deckmasters)
Anson Maddocks

This creature can't block. {B}, Pay 1 life: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

"Serve me, and live forever." —Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Plague Rats (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

During the dark times, the rats seemed to grow ever stronger.

Lifetap (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Guardian Angel (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay {1} any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that permanent or player this turn.

Ivory Cup (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Wall of Bone (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {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.)

The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.

Lim-Dûl's High Guard (Alliances)
Anson Maddocks

First strike {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

"The Guard will forever stand ready. For them, death is merely an inconvenience, not an ending." —Chaeska, Keeper of Tresserhorn

Elvish Archers (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Ashnod's Altar (Antiquities)
Anson Maddocks

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Creature Bond (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Creature Bond (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Deathgrip (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Holy Strength (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Orcish Artillery (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

Orcish Artillery (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

Shanodin Dryads (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Deathgrip (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Wall of Bone (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {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.)

The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.

Elvish Archers (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Orcish Artillery (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

Vampire Bats (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) {B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.

Urza's Mine (Chronicles)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Mines became common as cities during the days of the artificers.

Flight (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Vampire Bats (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) {B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.

"For something is amiss or out of place When mice with wings can wear a human face." —Theodore Roethke, "The Bat"

Two-Headed Giant of Foriys (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Trample This creature can block an additional creature each combat.

Anaba Bodyguard (Classic Sixth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

"Not all minotaurs are tribal. Some are freelance." —Eron the Relentless

Cyclopean Tomb (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{2}, {T}: Put a mire counter on target non-Swamp land. That land is a Swamp for as long as it has a mire counter on it. Activate only during your upkeep. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, remove all mire counters from a land that a mire counter was put onto with this artifact but that a mire counter has not been removed from with this artifact.

Holy Strength (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Lure (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Eternal Warrior (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has vigilance.

Siren's Call (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared. Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Lifetap (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Jade Monolith (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Urza's Mine (Antiquities)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Mines became common as cities during the days of the artificers.

Wall of Bone (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {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.)

The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.

Ashnod's Altar (World Championship Decks 2000)
Anson Maddocks

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

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

Deathgrip (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Foriysian Interceptor (Time Spiral)
Anson Maddocks

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Defender This creature can block an additional creature each combat.

A focal point for time rifts, Foriys contends simultaneously with foes both new and old.

Urza's Mine (Antiquities)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Mines became common as cities during the days of the artificers.

Sengir Vampire (Battle Royale Box Set)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Lure (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Holy Strength (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Throne of Bone (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Lure (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Sengir Vampire (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Paralyze (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Siren's Call (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared. Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Plague Rats (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

Pygmy Allosaurus (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

"I don't understand the appeal of keeping these things as pets, unless you want your children eaten." —General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Deathgrip (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Stromgald Cabal (Classic Sixth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}, Pay 1 life: Counter target white spell.

When the alliance between Balduvia and Kjeldor deprived Stromgald of easy victories, its agents were forced to fuel their rituals with their own flesh.

Lifetap (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Throne of Bone (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Two-Headed Giant of Foriys (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Trample This creature can block an additional creature each combat.

None know if this Giant is the result of aberrant magics, Siamese twins, or a mentalist's schizophrenia.

Reconstruction (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Tedious research made the Sages of the College of Lat-Nam adept in repairing broken artifacts.

Disintegrate (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Sengir Vampire (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Dancing Scimitar (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Bobbing merrily from opponent to opponent, the scimitar began adding playful little flourishes to its strokes; it even turned a couple of somersaults.

Llanowar Elves (Battle Royale Box Set)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

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

Llanowar Elves (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Hardened by their life in the haunted Llanowar Forest, these fierce beings are outcasts among elvenkind.

Mishra (Vanguard Series)
Anson Maddocks

If a creature you control would deal damage, it deals double that damage instead.

Both complement and antithesis to his older brother Urza, Mishra also mastered the intricacies of artifice. It was Mishra's strength that first gave rise to the massive Phyrexian war engines on Dominaria, and it was his weakness that pushed him, Urza, and Dominaria itself to the point of annihilation.

Ivory Cup (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Guardian Angel (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay {1} any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that permanent or player this turn.

Shanodin Dryads (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Llanowar Elves (Anthologies)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

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

Foul Familiar (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

This creature can't block. {B}, Pay 1 life: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

"Serve me, and live forever." —Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Wall of Brambles (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf." —Conrad Aiken

Guardian Angel (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay {1} any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that permanent or player this turn.

Plague Rats (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

Anaba Shaman (Classic Sixth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{R}, {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

"The shamans? Ha! They are craven cows not capable of true magic." —Irini Sengir

Holy Strength (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Wall of Brambles (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf." —Conrad Aiken

Shanodin Dryads (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Deathgrip (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

"Every forest is carpeted with the corpses of a thousand trees." —Baron Sengir to Autumn Willow

Orcish Artillery (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

Ivory Cup (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Ironclaw Orcs (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Anson Maddocks

This creature can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.

Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan. To say that Orcs in general are vicious, depraved, and ignoble does not do justice to the Ironclaw.

Lifetap (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Deathgrip (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Invisibility (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by Walls.

Dragon Engine (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

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

Those who believed the city of Kroog would never fall to Mishra's forces severely underestimated the might of his war machines.

Hurloon Minotaur (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.

Lure (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Cyclopean Tomb (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

{2}, {T}: Put a mire counter on target non-Swamp land. That land is a Swamp for as long as it has a mire counter on it. Activate only during your upkeep. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, remove all mire counters from a land that a mire counter was put onto with this artifact but that a mire counter has not been removed from with this artifact.

Hurloon Minotaur (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.

Disintegrate (World Championship Decks 1997)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Plague Rats (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

Hurloon Minotaur (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.

Wall of Brambles (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf." —Conrad Aiken

Samite Healer (Tenth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Throne of Bone (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Ironclaw Orcs (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

This creature can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.

Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan.

Two-Headed Giant of Foriys (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Trample This creature can block an additional creature each combat.

None know if this Giant is the result of aberrant magics, Siamese twins, or a mentalist's schizophrenia.

Two-Headed Giant of Foriys (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Trample This creature can block an additional creature each combat.

None know if this Giant is the result of aberrant magics, Siamese twins, or a mentalist's schizophrenia.

Vampiric Spirit (Portal Second Age)
Anson Maddocks

Flying When this creature enters, you lose 4 life.

Paralyze (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Wall of Bone (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {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.)

"Good neighbors make good walls." —Jakkarak the Maimer

Paralyze (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Deathgrip (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Holy Strength (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Fallen Angel (Beatdown Box Set)
Anson Maddocks

Flying Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

"Angels are simply extensions of truth upon the fabric of life—and there is far more dark than light." —Baron Sengir

Denizen of the Deep (Portal Second Age)
Anson Maddocks

When this creature enters, return each other creature you control to its owner's hand.

Guardian Angel (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay {1} any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that permanent or player this turn.

Wall of Bone (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {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.)

The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.

Dragon Engine (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

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

Wall of Bone (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {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.)

Fallen Ideal (Time Spiral)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying and "Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn." When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Blood Lust (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

If target creature has toughness 5 or greater, it gets +4/-4 until end of turn. Otherwise, it gets +4/-X until end of turn, where X is its toughness minus 1.

Typhoon (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

Typhoon deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of Islands that player controls.

Fierce winds ripped across the tropical landscape. What they did not destroy with their fiery breath was washed away by torrential rain.

Flight (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Disintegrate (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Plague Rats (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

Animate Dead (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Ironclaw Orcs (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

This creature can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.

Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan. To say that Orcs in general are vicious, depraved, and ignoble does not do justice to the Ironclaw.

Creature Bond (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Eternal Warrior (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has vigilance.

Warriors of the Tsunami-nito School spend years in training to master the way of effortless effort.

Plague Rats (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

Fallen Ideal (Commander 2015)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying and "Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn." When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Icy Prison (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

When this enchantment enters, exile target creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless any player pays {3}. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Lure (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Anaba Bodyguard (Homelands)
Anson Maddocks

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

"Not someone to pick a fight with, unless you're fond of pain." —Halina, Dwarven Trader

Elvish Archers (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

Sengir Vampire (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Wall of Bone (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {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.)

The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.

Blood Lust (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

If target creature has toughness 5 or greater, it gets +4/-4 until end of turn. Otherwise, it gets +4/-X until end of turn, where X is its toughness minus 1.

Plague Rats (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

Living Wall (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {1}: Regenerate Living Wall.

Some fiendish mage had created a horrifying wall of living flesh, patched together from a jumble of still-recognizable body parts. As we sought to hew our way through it, some unknown power healed the gaping wounds we cut, denying us passage.

Drop of Honey (Arabian Nights)
Anson Maddocks

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy the creature with the least power. It can't be regenerated. If two or more creatures are tied for least power, you choose one of them. When there are no creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.

Shield of the Ages (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

{2}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

"This shield is a true rarity: an artifact whose purpose is obvious." —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Urza's Mine (Antiquities)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Mines became common as cities during the days of the artificers.

Holy Strength (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Ironclaw Orcs (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

This creature can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.

Animate Dead (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Siren's Call (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared. Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.