Dwarven Scorcher

Wirewood Symbiote (Scourge)
Thomas M. Baxa

Return an Elf you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.

It drinks fatigue.

Aether Figment (Zendikar)
Thomas M. Baxa

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.) If this creature was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. This creature can't be blocked.

Spellshock (The List)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever a player casts a spell, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

A snap of fingers, a snap of teeth.

Flickerwisp (Double Masters 2022)
Thomas M. Baxa

Flying When this creature enters, exile another target permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Wormfang Drake (Dominaria Remastered)
Thomas M. Baxa

Flying When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you exile a creature you control other than this creature. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Blood Funnel (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Thomas M. Baxa

Noncreature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, counter that spell unless you sacrifice a creature.

Chthonian Nightmare (Modern Horizons 3)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this enchantment enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). Pay X {E}, Sacrifice a creature, Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Synapse Sliver (Secret Lair Drop)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever a Sliver deals combat damage to a player, its controller may draw a card.

"Species XR17 feeds upon the mental energies of its victims. This explains why the goblins remain unaffected." —Riptide Project researcher

Ground Rift (The List)
Thomas M. Baxa

Target creature without flying can't block this turn. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Some time rifts didn't take away the people but just the ground they stood on.

Hunted Wumpus (Eighth Edition)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature enters, each other player may put a creature card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Just one can feed a dozen people for a month.

Ajani, Sleeper Agent (Dominaria United)
Thomas M. Baxa

Compleated ({G/W/P} can be paid with {G}, {W}, or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.) +1: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature or planeswalker card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, you may put it on the bottom of your library. −3: Distribute three +1/+1 counters among up to three target creatures. They gain vigilance until end of turn. −6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a creature or planeswalker spell, target opponent gets two poison counters."

Contaminated Bond (Ninth Edition)
Thomas M. Baxa

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 3 life.

Zombie Infestation (Jumpstart)
Thomas M. Baxa

Discard two cards: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

The nomads' funeral pyres are more practical than ceremonial.

Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre (Double Masters 2022)
Thomas M. Baxa

When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent. Indestructible Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Ulamog is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Relentless Rats (Fifth Dawn)
Thomas M. Baxa

This creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield named Relentless Rats. A deck can have any number of cards named Relentless Rats.

Smokespew Invoker (Legions)
Thomas M. Baxa

{7}{B}: Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

The Mirari festers in its flesh.

Juvenile Gloomwidow (Shadowmoor)
Thomas M. Baxa

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Gloomwidow venom is particularly virulent during the spider's first years, when it does most of its hunting near the forest floor.

Old Ghastbark (The List)
Thomas M. Baxa

"Beware of trees that talk. Their words are threats. And mind the ones that sway and creak. They too threaten us, but in a foreign tongue." —*The Book of Other Folk*

Entangling Vines (Magic 2010)
Thomas M. Baxa

Enchant tapped creature Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Every living thing has roots in nature. Sometimes nature gets its roots into you.

Wirewood Symbiote (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins)
Thomas M. Baxa

Return an Elf you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.

It drinks fatigue.

Drivnod, Carnage Dominus (Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
Thomas M. Baxa

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. {B/P}{B/P}, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Plunder (Time Spiral)
Thomas M. Baxa

Destroy target artifact or land. Suspend 4—{1}{R} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{R} and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Duplicant (Commander Masters)
Thomas M. Baxa

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.

Zombie Infestation (Commander 2019)
Thomas M. Baxa

Discard two cards: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

The nomads' funeral pyres are more practical than ceremonial.

Magus of the Arena (Planar Chaos)
Thomas M. Baxa

{3}, {T}: Tap target creature you control and target creature of an opponent's choice they control. Those creatures fight each other. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

The magus still hears the roar of the crowds. They're gone, but the will to compete remains.

Relentless Rats (Time Spiral Remastered)
Thomas M. Baxa

This creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield named Relentless Rats. A deck can have any number of cards named Relentless Rats.

Spellskite (Secret Lair Drop)
Thomas M. Baxa

{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Elvish Pioneer (Eighth Edition)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature enters, you may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

"Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime."

Relentless Rats (Magic 2010)
Thomas M. Baxa

This creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield named Relentless Rats. A deck can have any number of cards named Relentless Rats.

Blightning (The List)
Thomas M. Baxa

Blightning deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards two cards.

While the smell of burning flesh is common in Grixis, the odor of smoldering brain matter is a rare treat.

Demonic Dread (Alara Reborn)
Thomas M. Baxa

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Target creature can't block this turn.

Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep (The List)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains first strike until end of turn.

The glow from within looks inviting, but woe awaits whomever finds out who stokes the fire or what simmers in the pot.

Sire of Insanity (Secret Lair Drop)
Thomas M. Baxa

At the beginning of each end step, each player discards their hand.

Imp's Mischief (Planar Chaos)
Thomas M. Baxa

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

"Do the innocent pay for the crimes of the guilty? Of course they do. That's the fate of the weak." —Nicol Bolas

Havoc Demon (Legions)
Thomas M. Baxa

Flying When this creature dies, all creatures get -5/-5 until end of turn.

A cry of pain as it enters this world. A chorus of screams as it leaves.

Spellshock (Exodus)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever a player casts a spell, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

A snap of fingers, a snap of teeth.

Duplicant (Archenemy)
Thomas M. Baxa

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.

Scrying Sheets (Coldsnap)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{S}, {T}: Look at the top card of your library. If that card is snow, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

Hateflayer (Eventide)
Thomas M. Baxa

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) {2}{R}, {Q}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to any target. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

It has no safe side.

Scuttling Death (Champions of Kamigawa)
Thomas M. Baxa

Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Soulshift 4 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Merrow Reejerey (Friday Night Magic 2009)
Thomas M. Baxa

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever you cast a Merfolk spell, you may tap or untap target permanent.

Steady and silent as the deep current, the reejerey guides the course of the school.

Surgical Extraction (Double Masters 2022)
Thomas M. Baxa

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

Lobotomy (Tempest)
Thomas M. Baxa

Target player reveals their hand, then you choose a card other than a basic land card from it. Search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as the chosen card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Cytoplast Root-Kin (RNA Guild Kit)
Thomas M. Baxa

Graft 4 (This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. {2}: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature you control onto this creature.

Scrying Sheets (The List)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{S}, {T}: Look at the top card of your library. If that card is snow, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

Bad Ass (Unhinged)
Thomas M. Baxa

{1}{B}, Growl: Regenerate this creature.

He wanders the land in search of Good Ass.

Dripping Dead (Legions)
Thomas M. Baxa

This creature can't block. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.

It oozes death from every pore.

Face of Fear (Odyssey)
Thomas M. Baxa

{2}{B}, Discard a card: This creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"It's only frightened five people to death. Not my best work." —Braids, dementia summoner

Thrashing Mudspawn (Onslaught)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you lose that much life. Morph {1}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

It just obeys you. It doesn't *like* you.

Relentless Rats (The List)
Thomas M. Baxa

This creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield named Relentless Rats. A deck can have any number of cards named Relentless Rats.

Spellskite (Secret Lair Drop)
Thomas M. Baxa

{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Tolarian Sentinel (Time Spiral Remastered)
Thomas M. Baxa

Flying {U}, {T}, Discard a card: Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand.

"It is not just our people I try to rescue. It is our culture, and our hope that we can return to greatness."

Festering Goblin (Tenth Edition)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature dies, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

In life, it was a fetid, disease-ridden thing. In death, not much changed.

Relentless Rats (Magic 2011)
Thomas M. Baxa

This creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield named Relentless Rats. A deck can have any number of cards named Relentless Rats.

Magus of the Arena (Commander 2013)
Thomas M. Baxa

{3}, {T}: Tap target creature you control and target creature of an opponent's choice they control. Those creatures fight each other. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

The magus still hears the roar of the crowds. They're gone, but the will to compete remains.

Swarmyard (Time Spiral Remastered Promos)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Where scavengers nest in hollowed-out rib cages and chittering crawlers peer from empty eye sockets, few dare to trespass.

Disciple of Grace (Onslaught)
Thomas M. Baxa

Protection from black Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Dread was as foreign to her as the landscape ahead.

Telethopter (Tempest)
Thomas M. Baxa

Tap an untapped creature you control: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

After losing several of the devices to midair collisions, Greven forbade moggs from operating telethopters.

Pit Spawn (Exodus)
Thomas M. Baxa

First strike At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {B}{B}. Whenever this creature deals damage to a creature, exile that creature.

Telepathic Spies (Urza's Destiny)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature enters, look at target opponent's hand.

"Do try to keep an open mind, would you?"

Necromancer's Covenant (Commander 2015)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this enchantment enters, exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard, then create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each card exiled this way. Zombies you control have lifelink.

Aether Figment (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska)
Thomas M. Baxa

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.) If this creature was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. This creature can't be blocked.

Terminate (The List)
Thomas M. Baxa

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Resounding Scream (Shards of Alara)
Thomas M. Baxa

Target player discards a card at random. Cycling {5}{U}{B}{R} ({5}{U}{B}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, target player discards two cards at random.

Torrent of Fire (Scourge)
Thomas M. Baxa

Torrent of Fire deals damage to any target equal to the highest mana value among permanents you control.

Dragon fire melts any instrument designed to measure it.

Wormfang Drake (Judgment)
Thomas M. Baxa

Flying When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you exile a creature you control other than this creature. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Spellshock (World Championship Decks 1999)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever a player casts a spell, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

A snap of fingers, a snap of teeth.

Soulless One (Onslaught)
Thomas M. Baxa

Soulless One's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Zombies on the battlefield plus the number of Zombie cards in all graveyards.

"Surrender your soul to me."

Akki Underminer (Champions of Kamigawa)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.

"Deep inside the Sokenzan Mountains, a band of akki discovered a cache of ancient items of power. Their ensuing spree of destruction became known as 'The Three Days of Fun.'" —*Observations of the Kami War*

Riptide Survivor (Commander 2014)
Thomas M. Baxa

Morph {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, discard two cards, then draw three cards.

Swarmyard (Time Spiral)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Where scavengers nest in hollowed-out rib cages and chittering crawlers peer from empty eye sockets, few dare to trespass.

My Undead Horde Awakens (Archenemy Schemes)
Thomas M. Baxa

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.) At the beginning of your end step, you may put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. When a creature put onto the battlefield with this scheme dies, abandon this scheme.

Reliquary Monk (Urza's Destiny)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature dies, destroy target artifact or enchantment.

A thing of Serra's realm exists only by the grace of her followers' faith.

Synapse Sliver (Commander Masters)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever a Sliver deals combat damage to a player, its controller may draw a card.

"Species XR17 feeds upon the mental energies of its victims. This explains why the goblins remain unaffected." —Riptide Project researcher

Kami of the Tended Garden (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Thomas M. Baxa

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {G}. Soulshift 3 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Vampiric Sliver (Time Spiral)
Thomas M. Baxa

All Sliver creatures have "Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."

They draw upon the strength of their hive and of their victims.

Cytoplast Root-Kin (Modern Masters 2015)
Thomas M. Baxa

Graft 4 (This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. {2}: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature you control onto this creature.

Devour in Shadow (Fifth Dawn)
Thomas M. Baxa

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

"Feel the burn of the mists. Master them. They will devour your enemies." —Geth, keeper of the Vault

Bog Serpent (Planar Chaos)
Thomas M. Baxa

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls a Swamp. When you control no Swamps, sacrifice this creature.

"We thought it was a fallen tree trunk. Then it ate Snod." —Sneed, goblin barkwright

Terminate (Magic Player Rewards 2009)
Thomas M. Baxa

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Gluttonous Zombie (Eighth Edition)
Thomas M. Baxa

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Greed and gluttony led him to death. Now they are his greatest assets.

Volcano Imp (Planeshift)
Thomas M. Baxa

Flying {1}{R}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Its claws cut faster than a flame flickers.

Last Gasp (GRN Guild Kit)
Thomas M. Baxa

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

"Allow me a moment to catch your breath."

Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre (Double Masters 2022)
Thomas M. Baxa

When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent. Indestructible Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Ulamog is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Tolarian Sentinel (Time Spiral)
Thomas M. Baxa

Flying {U}, {T}, Discard a card: Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand.

"It is not just our people I try to rescue. It is our culture, and our hope that we can return to greatness."

Duergar Hedge-Mage (DCI Promos)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature enters, if you control two or more Mountains, you may destroy target artifact. When this creature enters, if you control two or more Plains, you may destroy target enchantment.

Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep (Champions of Kamigawa)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains first strike until end of turn.

The glow from within looks inviting, but woe awaits whomever finds out who stokes the fire or what simmers in the pot.

Spined Basher (Onslaught)
Thomas M. Baxa

Morph {2}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

"How cute. Does it do any other tricks?" —Braids, dementia summoner

Wirewood Symbiote (Modern Horizons 3)
Thomas M. Baxa

Return an Elf you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.

It drinks fatigue.

Tsabo's Decree (Invasion)
Thomas M. Baxa

Choose a creature type. Target player reveals their hand and discards all creature cards of that type. Then destroy all creatures of that type that player controls. They can't be regenerated.

Cytoplast Root-Kin (Dissension)
Thomas M. Baxa

Graft 4 (This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. {2}: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature you control onto this creature.

Filth (The List)
Thomas M. Baxa

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Swamp, creatures you control have swampwalk.

"As the portal closed, Filth oozed through. The stench of evil followed it in." —*Scroll of Beginnings*

Festering Goblin (Ninth Edition)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature dies, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

In life, it was a fetid, disease-ridden thing. In death, not much changed.

Harvester of Souls (30th Anniversary Play Promos)
Thomas M. Baxa

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

"The entire parish is gone. This was no execution. This was a massacre." —Bishop Cawle of Elgaud

Synapse Sliver (Legions)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever a Sliver deals combat damage to a player, its controller may draw a card.

"Species XR17 feeds upon the mental energies of its victims. This explains why the goblins remain unaffected." —Riptide Project researcher

Duplicant (Commander 2021)
Thomas M. Baxa

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.

Hunted Wumpus (Tenth Edition)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature enters, each other player may put a creature card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Just one can feed a dozen people for a month.

Festering Goblin (Dominaria Remastered)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature dies, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

In life, it was a fetid, disease-ridden thing. In death, not much changed.

Scrabbling Claws (World Championship Decks 2004)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard. {1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

Krark-Clan Shaman (Mirrodin)
Thomas M. Baxa

Sacrifice an artifact: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature without flying.

"What do you mean, we're out of stuff to melt down? Give me your leg."

Witherscale Wurm (Shadowmoor)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, that creature gains wither until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, remove all -1/-1 counters from it.

Wirewood Symbiote (Secret Lair Drop)
Thomas M. Baxa

Return an Elf you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.

It drinks fatigue.

Hunted Wumpus (Ninth Edition)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature enters, each other player may put a creature card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Just one can feed a dozen people for a month.

Festering Goblin (Planechase)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature dies, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

In life, it was a fetid, disease-ridden thing. In death, not much changed.

Bloodthirsty Ogre (Champions of Kamigawa)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}: Put a devotion counter on this creature. {T}: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of devotion counters on this creature. Activate only if you control a Demon.

Zombie Infestation (The List)
Thomas M. Baxa

Discard two cards: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

The nomads' funeral pyres are more practical than ceremonial.

Festering Goblin (Onslaught)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature dies, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

In life, it was a fetid, disease-ridden thing. In death, not much changed.

Identity Crisis (Alara Reborn)
Thomas M. Baxa

Exile all cards from target player's hand and graveyard.

"To join our ranks, one must be pure. To be pure, one must be blessed by etherium. To be blessed, one must forget oneself." —Ethersworn prayer

Relentless Rats (Tenth Edition)
Thomas M. Baxa

This creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield named Relentless Rats. A deck can have any number of cards named Relentless Rats.

Zombie Cutthroat (Scourge)
Thomas M. Baxa

Morph—Pay 5 life. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

The single-mindedness of a zombie, the cunning of an assassin.

Kindred Dominance (Commander Masters)
Thomas M. Baxa

Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.

"Today will end with a feast," gloated the dragon. And what a feast it was.

Gluttonous Zombie (Onslaught)
Thomas M. Baxa

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Greed and gluttony led him to death. Now they are his greatest assets.

Cytoplast Root-Kin (The List)
Thomas M. Baxa

Graft 4 (This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. {2}: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature you control onto this creature.

Blizzard Elemental (Beatdown Box Set)
Thomas M. Baxa

Flying {3}{U}: Untap this creature.

Students who had seen Rayne argue with Urza were certain she had summoned it to make him seem warmer by comparison.

Dizzying Gaze (Exodus)
Thomas M. Baxa

Enchant creature you control {R}: Enchanted creature deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.

"When I cut down my angel I only started my fall." —Crovax

Scrabbling Claws (World Championship Decks 2004)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard. {1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

Golgari Germination (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

The Golgari don't bury their dead. They plant them.

Goblin (Time Spiral Remastered Tokens)
Thomas M. Baxa

Festering Goblin (Modern Masters)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature dies, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

In life, it was a fetid, disease-ridden thing. In death, not much changed.

Time Ebb (Ninth Edition)
Thomas M. Baxa

Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

Like the tide, time both ebbs and flows.

Ob Nixilis Reignited (Secret Lair Drop)
Thomas M. Baxa

+1: You draw a card and you lose 1 life. −3: Destroy target creature. −8: Target opponent gets an emblem with "Whenever a player draws a card, you lose 2 life."

Atraxa, Grand Unifier (Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
Thomas M. Baxa

Flying, vigilance, deathtouch, lifelink When Atraxa enters, reveal the top ten cards of your library. For each card type, you may put a card of that type from among the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.)

Wirewood Symbiote (Duel Decks Anthology: Elves vs. Goblins)
Thomas M. Baxa

Return an Elf you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.

It drinks fatigue.

Shocker (The List)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards.

Duplicant (Double Masters)
Thomas M. Baxa

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.

Frankie Peanuts (Unhinged)
Thomas M. Baxa

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may ask target player a yes-or-no question. If you do, that player answers the question truthfully and abides by that answer if able until end of turn.

Don't cross him or you'll end up sleeping with the merfolk.

Safeguard (Tempest)
Thomas M. Baxa

{2}{W}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target creature this turn.

"I'm amused by wasted effort when it's not my own." —Hanna, *Weatherlight* navigator

Golgari Germination (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

The Golgari don't bury their dead. They plant them.

Brackwater Elemental (Conflux)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Unearth {2}{U} ({2}{U}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Swarmyard (Time Spiral Remastered)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Where scavengers nest in hollowed-out rib cages and chittering crawlers peer from empty eye sockets, few dare to trespass.

Swirling Spriggan (Eventide)
Thomas M. Baxa

{G/U}{G/U}: Target creature you control becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.

After its encounter with the spriggan, the patrol was red with anger, green with envy, white with fear, and painfully black and blue.

Necromancer's Covenant (Alara Reborn)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this enchantment enters, exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard, then create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each card exiled this way. Zombies you control have lifelink.

Soilshaper (Champions of Kamigawa)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target land becomes a 3/3 creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

It spoke with the voice of nature, but its words were curses spat upon humankind.

Skeleton (Masters 25 Tokens)
Thomas M. Baxa

{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Scuttling Death (Modern Masters 2015)
Thomas M. Baxa

Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Soulshift 4 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Dreg Reaver (Shards of Alara)
Thomas M. Baxa

"On our thirty-fourth day of digging, we unearthed a chamber that contained the intact remains of several species long extinct from Grixis. One in particular should make a fine siege engine . . . ." —Last notes of Shungus Nod, fleshcrafter

Vampiric Embrace (Urza's Saga)
Thomas M. Baxa

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying. Whenever a creature dealt damage by enchanted creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.

Wrath of God (Double Masters)
Thomas M. Baxa

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Nosy Goblin (Onslaught)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target face-down creature.

To his surprise, Furt discovered that the strange creatures were not at all like bugs.

Rotlung Reanimator (Onslaught)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever this creature or another Cleric dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Scrabbling Claws (Commander 2018)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard. {1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

Last Gasp (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Thomas M. Baxa

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

"Allow me a moment to catch your breath."

Vesper Ghoul (Dissension)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

"Nature's exceptions remind us not to think in absolutes. Just as the orchid blossoms on blackened stone, so does the gift of mana occasionally manifest in the undead." —Bougrat, druid of the Cult of Yore

Torch Song (Urza's Saga)
Thomas M. Baxa

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on this enchantment. {2}{R}, Sacrifice this enchantment: It deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of verse counters on this enchantment.

Ground Rift (Time Spiral)
Thomas M. Baxa

Target creature without flying can't block this turn. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Some time rifts didn't take away the people but just the ground they stood on.

Blizzard Elemental (Urza's Destiny)
Thomas M. Baxa

Flying {3}{U}: Untap this creature.

Students who had seen Rayne argue with Urza were certain she had summoned it to make him seem warmer by comparison.

Death-Mask Duplicant (Darksteel)
Thomas M. Baxa

Imprint — {1}: Exile target creature card from your graveyard. As long as a card exiled with this creature has flying, this creature has flying. The same is true for fear, first strike, double strike, haste, landwalk, protection, and trample.

Duplicant (March of the Machine Commander)
Thomas M. Baxa

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.

Mark of Fury (Urza's Destiny)
Thomas M. Baxa

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has haste. At the beginning of the end step, return this Aura to its owner's hand.

Many Keldon warriors bear the mark of intentional insanity.

Old Ghastbark (Shadowmoor)
Thomas M. Baxa

"Beware of trees that talk. Their words are threats. And mind the ones that sway and creak. They too threaten us, but in a foreign tongue." —*The Book of Other Folk*

Torrent of Fire (The List)
Thomas M. Baxa

Torrent of Fire deals damage to any target equal to the highest mana value among permanents you control.

Dragon fire melts any instrument designed to measure it.

Spoils of the Vault (Mirrodin)
Thomas M. Baxa

Choose a card name. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with that name, then put that card into your hand. Exile all other cards revealed this way, and you lose 1 life for each of the exiled cards.

Brackwater Elemental (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Unearth {2}{U} ({2}{U}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Cavalry Master (Time Spiral)
Thomas M. Baxa

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) Other creatures you control with flanking have flanking. (Each instance of flanking triggers separately.)

Spider (Shadowmoor Tokens)
Thomas M. Baxa

Reach

Tolarian Sentinel (Jumpstart 2022)
Thomas M. Baxa

Flying {U}, {T}, Discard a card: Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand.

"It is not just our people I try to rescue. It is our culture, and our hope that we can return to greatness."

Lobotomy (World Championship Decks 1998)
Thomas M. Baxa

Target player reveals their hand, then you choose a card other than a basic land card from it. Search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as the chosen card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Soulless One (Planechase)
Thomas M. Baxa

Soulless One's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Zombies on the battlefield plus the number of Zombie cards in all graveyards.

"Surrender your soul to me."

Maelstrom Wanderer (Planechase Anthology)
Thomas M. Baxa

Creatures you control have haste. Cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Then do it again.)

Rise from the Grave (DCI Promos)
Thomas M. Baxa

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

"Death is no excuse for disobedience." —Liliana Vess

Tsabo's Decree (World Championship Decks 2001)
Thomas M. Baxa

Choose a creature type. Target player reveals their hand and discards all creature cards of that type. Then destroy all creatures of that type that player controls. They can't be regenerated.

Gluttonous Zombie (Ninth Edition)
Thomas M. Baxa

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Greed and gluttony led him to death. Now they are his greatest assets.

Hidden Spider (Urza's Saga)
Thomas M. Baxa

When an opponent casts a creature spell with flying, if this permanent is an enchantment, it becomes a 3/5 Spider creature with reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

It wants only to dress you in silk.

Gnat Miser (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Thomas M. Baxa

Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by one.

Nezumi insect-shamans enjoyed solitary lives, which was fortunate since no other nezumi could stand to live within half a mile of their foul stench.

Maelstrom Wanderer (Planechase 2012)
Thomas M. Baxa

Creatures you control have haste. Cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Then do it again.)

Rakdos Carnarium (Double Masters 2022)
Thomas M. Baxa

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Mantle of Leadership (Planar Chaos)
Thomas M. Baxa

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Enchant creature Whenever a creature enters, enchanted creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Zombie Infestation (Dominaria Remastered)
Thomas M. Baxa

Discard two cards: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

The nomads' funeral pyres are more practical than ceremonial.

Tainted Aether (Urza's Saga)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever a creature enters, its controller sacrifices a creature or land of their choice.

Gix despised the sylvan morass. The gouge that the portal had torn in the forest was the only pleasing sight.

Dauthi Trapper (Stronghold)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Merfolk tell their young of Dandân, humans of Rag Man. Dal tell tales of the Dauthi, and they are far worse.

Freyalise's Radiance (Coldsnap)
Thomas M. Baxa

Cumulative upkeep {2} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Snow permanents don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Quagnoth (Future Sight)
Thomas M. Baxa

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, return it to your hand.

Hunted Wumpus (Battlebond)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature enters, each other player may put a creature card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Just one can feed a dozen people for a month.

Frankie Peanuts (Unsanctioned)
Thomas M. Baxa

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may ask target player a yes-or-no question. If you do, that player answers the question truthfully and abides by that answer if able until end of turn.

Don't cross him or you'll end up sleeping with the merfolk.

Zombie Infestation (Odyssey)
Thomas M. Baxa

Discard two cards: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

The nomads' funeral pyres are more practical than ceremonial.

Zombie Infestation (Archenemy)
Thomas M. Baxa

Discard two cards: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

The nomads' funeral pyres are more practical than ceremonial.

Gloomwidow's Feast (Shadowmoor)
Thomas M. Baxa

Destroy target creature with flying. If that creature was blue or black, create a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Each night, gloomwidows cull fresh prey for their ravenous hatchlings.

Oversold Cemetery (Jumpstart 2022)
Thomas M. Baxa

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Filth (Judgment)
Thomas M. Baxa

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Swamp, creatures you control have swampwalk.

"As the portal closed, Filth oozed through. The stench of evil followed it in." —*Scroll of Beginnings*

Skeleton (Shards of Alara Tokens)
Thomas M. Baxa

{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Scuttling Death (The List)
Thomas M. Baxa

Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Soulshift 4 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Contaminated Bond (Tenth Edition)
Thomas M. Baxa

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 3 life.

"My favorite curses are those that manifest slowly, blackening the soul in ways the victim cannot hope to understand." —Erissa, bog witch

Shocker (Tempest)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards.

Phyrexian Metamorph (Double Masters)
Thomas M. Baxa

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Ouphe Vandals (Fifth Dawn)
Thomas M. Baxa

{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source and destroy that artifact if it's on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

The ouphes finally managed to still the clockwork monstrosity by catching themselves in its cogs.

Maelstrom Wanderer (Commander's Arsenal)
Thomas M. Baxa

Creatures you control have haste. Cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Then do it again.)

Oversold Cemetery (Onslaught)
Thomas M. Baxa

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Blightning (Shards of Alara)
Thomas M. Baxa

Blightning deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards two cards.

While the smell of burning flesh is common in Grixis, the odor of smoldering brain matter is a rare treat.

Lobotomy (Friday Night Magic 2006)
Thomas M. Baxa

Target player reveals their hand, then you choose a card other than a basic land card from it. Search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as the chosen card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Creakwood Ghoul (Eventide)
Thomas M. Baxa

{B/G}{B/G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. You gain 1 life.

Some eat the living. Some eat the dead. It eats the past.

Noggle Bridgebreaker (Eventide)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

"It's always funny till someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious."

Electryte (Urza's Saga)
Thomas M. Baxa

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to defending player, it deals damage equal to its power to each blocking creature.

Shivan inhabitants are hardened to fire, so their predators have developed alternative weaponry.

Frankie Peanuts (The List (Unfinity Foil Edition))
Thomas M. Baxa

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may ask target player a yes-or-no question. If you do, that player answers the question truthfully and abides by that answer if able until end of turn.

Don't cross him or you'll end up sleeping with the merfolk.

Scrabbling Claws (Mirrodin)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard. {1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

Dauthi Trapper (The List)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Merfolk tell their young of Dandân, humans of Rag Man. Dal tell tales of the Dauthi, and they are far worse.

Sliver Hivelord (Secret Lair Drop)
Thomas M. Baxa

Sliver creatures you control have indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Dread Return (Commander Masters)
Thomas M. Baxa

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

The luckiest acolytes were those who didn't survive long enough to see the archfiend's return.

Metamorphic Wurm (Odyssey)
Thomas M. Baxa

Threshold — This creature gets +4/+4 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Only a handful have seen it transform. Or, from the wurm's perspective, only a mouthful.

Sword of Feast and Famine (Double Masters)
Thomas M. Baxa

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

Bad Ass (Unhinged)
Thomas M. Baxa

{1}{B}, Growl: Regenerate this creature.

He wanders the land in search of Good Ass.

Time Ebb (Tempest)
Thomas M. Baxa

Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

"Gone today, here tomorrow." —Ertai, wizard adept

Skull Collector (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Thomas M. Baxa

At the beginning of your upkeep, return a black creature you control to its owner's hand. {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

"Your blood I'll use. Your skull I'll keep."

Zombie Cutthroat (The List)
Thomas M. Baxa

Morph—Pay 5 life. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

The single-mindedness of a zombie, the cunning of an assassin.

Last Gasp (Ravnica Remastered)
Thomas M. Baxa

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

"Allow me a moment to catch your breath."

Imp's Mischief (Commander Masters)
Thomas M. Baxa

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

"Do the innocent pay for the crimes of the guilty? Of course they do. That's the fate of the weak." —Nicol Bolas

Corrupting Licid (Stronghold)
Thomas M. Baxa

{B}, {T}: This creature loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay {B} to end this effect. Enchanted creature has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Churning Eddy (Torment)
Thomas M. Baxa

Return target creature and target land to their owners' hands.

"Magic is like the tide—both ebb, both flow, and both serve my whims." —Empress Llawan

Blightning (Masters 25)
Thomas M. Baxa

Blightning deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards two cards.

While the smell of burning flesh is common in Grixis, the odor of smoldering brain matter is a rare treat.

Kinscaer Harpoonist (Shadowmoor)
Thomas M. Baxa

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, you may have target creature lose flying until end of turn.

The suspicious kithkin of Kinscaer patrol the skies, their eyes attuned to the shapes of outsiders.

Zombie Infestation (Premium Deck Series: Graveborn)
Thomas M. Baxa

Discard two cards: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

The nomads' funeral pyres are more practical than ceremonial.

Duplicant (Mirrodin)
Thomas M. Baxa

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.

Zombie Infestation (Magic 2012)
Thomas M. Baxa

Discard two cards: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

The nomads' funeral pyres are more practical than ceremonial.

Riptide Survivor (Scourge)
Thomas M. Baxa

Morph {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, discard two cards, then draw three cards.

Contaminated Bond (Mirrodin)
Thomas M. Baxa

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 3 life.

This leash disciplines the master.

Festering Goblin (Archenemy)
Thomas M. Baxa

When this creature dies, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

In life, it was a fetid, disease-ridden thing. In death, not much changed.

Krark-Clan Grunt (Mirrodin)
Thomas M. Baxa

Sacrifice an artifact: This creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

The more weapons a goblin breaks in battle, the more respected he becomes.

Wand of the Elements (Darksteel)
Thomas M. Baxa

{T}, Sacrifice an Island: Create a 2/2 blue Elemental creature token with flying. {T}, Sacrifice a Mountain: Create a 3/3 red Elemental creature token.

It gives legs to the earth and wings to the sky.