Nether Shadow

Nether Shadow (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Nether Shadow (Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Nether Shadow (Limited Edition Beta)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Nether Shadow (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Nether Shadow (Fifth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Nether Shadow (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Nether Shadow (Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Nether Shadow (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Nether Shadow (Revised Edition)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Nether Shadow (Limited Edition Alpha)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Nether Shadow (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Nether Shadow (Unlimited Edition)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Nether Shadow (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Lab Rats (Stronghold)
DiTerlizzi

Buyback {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.

Goblin Matron (The List)
DiTerlizzi

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Goblin card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

There's always room for one more.

Fighting Drake (Tempest)
DiTerlizzi

Flying

Two things are needed to survive the harsh skies of Rath: a thick hide and a thicker skull.

Angelic Blessing (Portal)
DiTerlizzi

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

A peasant can do more by faith than a king by proclamation.

Hunting Moa (Urza's Destiny)
DiTerlizzi

Echo {2}{G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters or dies, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Stream of Acid (Starter 1999)
DiTerlizzi

Destroy target land or nonblack creature.

Giant Growth (Fifth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

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

Noble Benefactor (Weatherlight)
DiTerlizzi

When this creature dies, each player may search their library for a card and put that card into their hand. Then each player who searched their library this way shuffles.

Elvish Ranger (Portal)
DiTerlizzi

It's up to you if you enter their woods—and up to them if you leave.

Coercion (Eighth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

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

"Human tenderness is simply weakness in a pretty package."

Exhaustion (The List)
DiTerlizzi

Creatures and lands target opponent controls don't untap during their next untap step.

Giant Growth (Battle Royale Box Set)
DiTerlizzi

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

Goblin Mountaineer (Starter 1999)
DiTerlizzi

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

Goblin mountaineer, barely keeps his family fed.

Goblin Game (The List)
DiTerlizzi

Each player hides at least one item, then all players reveal them simultaneously. Each player loses life equal to the number of items they revealed. The player who revealed the fewest items then loses half their life, rounded up. If two or more players are tied for fewest, each loses half their life, rounded up.

Inviolability (Mercadian Masques)
DiTerlizzi

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

A soldier's faith is magic strong enough to protect against any blade.

Angelic Protector (Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic)
DiTerlizzi

Flying Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, this creature gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

"My family sheltered in her light, the dark was content to wait." —Crovax

Phyrexian Defiler (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition)
DiTerlizzi

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

"The third stage of the illness: muscle aches and persistent cough." —Phyrexian progress notes

Mystic Denial (Portal Second Age)
DiTerlizzi

Counter target creature or sorcery spell.

Balshan Collaborator (Torment)
DiTerlizzi

Flying {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Power, gold, crackers—every bird has its price." —Chainer, dementia master

False Summoning (The List)
DiTerlizzi

Counter target creature spell.

Medicine Bag (Exodus)
DiTerlizzi

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Regenerate target creature.

"My medicine bag and I have treated countless wounds and illnesses. But never have I seen so many made so sick for so long. We will *never* eat Squee's cooking again." —Orim, journal

Goblin Spelunkers (Urza's Saga)
DiTerlizzi

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

"It only short jump. You go first." "AIIIEEEE!" "Hmm . . . we go different way now."

Breath of Life (The List)
DiTerlizzi

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Djinn of the Lamp (Portal)
DiTerlizzi

Flying

Once they learn the trick of carrying their own lamps, they never touch the ground again.

Goblin Matron (Urza's Saga)
DiTerlizzi

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Goblin card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

There's always room for one more.

Terminate (Dominaria United Commander)
DiTerlizzi

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Like his mother before him, Darigaaz gave his life defending Dominaria from the tyranny of self-styled "gods."

Pursuit of Knowledge (The List)
DiTerlizzi

If you would draw a card, you may put a study counter on this enchantment instead. Remove three study counters from this enchantment, Sacrifice this enchantment: Draw seven cards.

Eye Spy (Starter 1999)
DiTerlizzi

Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card into their graveyard.

Terminate (Friday Night Magic 2006)
DiTerlizzi

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Like his mother before him, Darigaaz gave his life defending Dominaria from the tyranny of self-styled "gods."

Angelic Protector (The List)
DiTerlizzi

Flying Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, this creature gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

"My family sheltered in her light, the dark was content to wait." —Crovax

Nether Shadow (Fifth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Forgotten Harvest (Prophecy)
DiTerlizzi

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile a land card from your graveyard. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Eye of Yawgmoth (Nemesis)
DiTerlizzi

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Reveal a number of cards from the top of your library equal to the sacrificed creature's power. Put one into your hand and exile the rest.

Goblin Piker (Magic 2012)
DiTerlizzi

Once he'd worked out which end of the thing was sharp, he was promoted to guard duty.

Blanchwood Treefolk (Urza's Saga)
DiTerlizzi

The massive Argivian attack on their rooted kindred was a declaration of war to the treefolk.

Sea Spirit (Fifth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

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

"It rose above our heads, above the ship, and still higher yet. No foggy, ice-laden sea in the world could frighten me more." —General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (The List)
DiTerlizzi

Are merfolk humans with fins, or are humans merfolk with feet?

Angelic Protector (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
DiTerlizzi

Flying Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, this creature gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

"My family sheltered in her light, the dark was content to wait." —Crovax

Treefolk Mystic (Urza's Legacy)
DiTerlizzi

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy all Auras attached to that creature.

Urza's wards fell from him like autumn leaves as he entered the dreaming grove. He awoke imprisoned in living wood.

Verdant Force (Ninth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Verdant Force (The List)
DiTerlizzi

At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Left to itself, nature overflows any container, overthrows any restriction, and overreaches any boundary.

Urborg Mindsucker (Visions)
DiTerlizzi

{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Target opponent discards a card at random. Activate only as a sorcery.

"My pet will pick the ripe fruit from your tortured brain as if it were hanging from a vine." —Kaervek

Goblin Piker (Ninth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

Once he'd worked out which end of the thing was sharp, he was promoted to guard duty.

Hanna's Custody (Tempest)
DiTerlizzi

All artifacts have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

"I protect the Legacy with my life if necessary, for its purpose is far more important than my own." —Hanna, *Weatherlight* navigator

Yavimaya Scion (The List)
DiTerlizzi

Protection from artifacts

Each time the saw blade bit, the tree spat it out.

Argothian Elder (Urza's Saga)
DiTerlizzi

{T}: Untap two target lands.

Sharpen your ears —Elvish expression meaning "grow wiser"

Fire Imp (The List)
DiTerlizzi

When this creature enters, it deals 2 damage to target creature.

Coercion (Ninth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

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

"Of all I that I have lost, I miss my mind the most."

Goblin Game (Planeshift)
DiTerlizzi

Each player hides at least one item, then all players reveal them simultaneously. Each player loses life equal to the number of items they revealed. The player who revealed the fewest items then loses half their life, rounded up. If two or more players are tied for fewest, each loses half their life, rounded up.

Eye Spy (Portal Second Age)
DiTerlizzi

Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card into their graveyard.

Winding Wurm (Urza's Saga)
DiTerlizzi

Echo {4}{G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

Entire trees were stripped of their bark and branches by the wurm's writhing path.

Hanna's Custody (The List)
DiTerlizzi

All artifacts have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

"I protect the Legacy with my life if necessary, for its purpose is far more important than my own." —Hanna, *Weatherlight* navigator

Terminate (World Championship Decks 2001)
DiTerlizzi

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Like his mother before him, Darigaaz gave his life defending Dominaria from the tyranny of self-styled "gods."

Argothian Elder (Battle Royale Box Set)
DiTerlizzi

{T}: Untap two target lands.

Sharpen your ears —Elvish expression meaning "grow wiser"

Last Breath (The List)
DiTerlizzi

Exile target creature with power 2 or less. Its controller gains 4 life.

"The River flows. My soul returns."

Wirewood Savage (Onslaught)
DiTerlizzi

Whenever a Beast enters, you may draw a card.

"She is truly Wirewood's child now." —Elvish refugee

Bayou Dragonfly (Tempest)
DiTerlizzi

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

"Like a sugar stick with wings!" —Squee, goblin cabin hand

Wirewood Savage (Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana)
DiTerlizzi

Whenever a Beast enters, you may draw a card.

"She is truly Wirewood's child now." —Elvish refugee

Coercion (Classic Sixth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

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

A rhino's bargain —Femeref expression meaning "a situation with no choices"

Remove (Portal Second Age)
DiTerlizzi

Cast this spell only during the declare attackers step and only if you've been attacked this step. Return target attacking creature to its owner's hand.

Aerial Caravan (Mercadian Masques)
DiTerlizzi

Flying {1}{U}{U}: Exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card. (Reveal the card as you exile it.)

Successful delivery is *not* guaranteed.

Breath of Life (Portal)
DiTerlizzi

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Giant Growth (Eighth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

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

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (Portal)
DiTerlizzi

Are merfolk humans with fins, or are humans merfolk with feet?

Bottle of Suleiman (Classic Sixth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

{1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, create a 5/5 colorless Djinn artifact creature token with flying. If you lose the flip, this artifact deals 5 damage to you.

Horned Turtle (Eighth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

It doesn't like having visitors . . . unless it's having them for lunch.

Endless Wurm (Urza's Saga)
DiTerlizzi

Trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you sacrifice an enchantment.

Ages ago, a party of elves took cover to let one pass. They're still waiting.

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (Classic Sixth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

Are merfolk humans with fins, or are humans merfolk with feet?

Putrefaction (Mercadian Masques)
DiTerlizzi

Whenever a player casts a green or white spell, that player discards a card.

"Do you want to be alive or whole?" —Ta-Karnst, Cho-Arrim healer

Soul Channeling (Mercadian Masques)
DiTerlizzi

Enchant creature Pay 2 life: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Driven by masters more terrible than the Mercadians could imagine, the dark overseers would pay any price to keep their shipwrights working.

Scare Tactics (Exodus)
DiTerlizzi

Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Fear rules those weak enough to accept it." —Greven *il*-Vec

Lure (Eighth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

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

"When the forest wants something, no mortal mind can resist her." —Maro

Verdant Force (Tenth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Left to itself, nature overflows any container, overthrows any restriction, and overreaches any boundary.

Serra Zealot (Urza's Saga)
DiTerlizzi

First strike

"The humans are useful in their way, but they must be commanded as the builder commands the stone. Be soft with them, and they will become soft." —Radiant, archangel

Angelic Protector (Tempest)
DiTerlizzi

Flying Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, this creature gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

"My family sheltered in her light, the dark was content to wait." —Crovax

Eye of Yawgmoth (The List)
DiTerlizzi

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Reveal a number of cards from the top of your library equal to the sacrificed creature's power. Put one into your hand and exile the rest.

Mischievous Poltergeist (Classic Sixth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

Flying Pay 1 life: Regenerate this creature.

"The past is a ghost that haunts you from the moment it exists until the moment you don't." —Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Workhorse (The List)
DiTerlizzi

This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Add {C}.

Breath of Life (Starter 2000)
DiTerlizzi

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Supersize (Unhinged)
DiTerlizzi

Target creature gets +3½/+3½ until end of turn.

You want "mise" with that?

Kavu Scout (Invasion)
DiTerlizzi

Domain — This creature gets +1/+0 for each basic land type among lands you control.

The kavu evolved for centuries deep inside Dominaria, and some can draw from its strength.

Willow Elf (Starter 1999)
DiTerlizzi

The forest lives in the elf as the elf lives in the forest.

Coastal Hornclaw (Eighth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

Sacrifice a land: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Jamuraan farmers fear three things above all else: droughts, floods, and hornclaws.

Angelic Protector (Jumpstart 2022)
DiTerlizzi

Flying Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, this creature gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

"My family sheltered in her light, the dark was content to wait." —Crovax

Brainstorm (Friday Night Magic 2004)
DiTerlizzi

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

"I see more than others do because I know where to look." —Saprazzan vizier

Bottle of Suleiman (Fifth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

{1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, create a 5/5 colorless Djinn artifact creature token with flying. If you lose the flip, this artifact deals 5 damage to you.

Horned Turtle (Magic 2010)
DiTerlizzi

It's a mistake to say turtles hide in their shells. They merely need time to contemplate how best to bite your head off.

Brainstorm (Commander 2011)
DiTerlizzi

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

"I see more than others do because I know where to look." —Saprazzan vizier

Hunting Moa (Archenemy)
DiTerlizzi

Echo {2}{G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters or dies, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Breath of Life (Starter 1999)
DiTerlizzi

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Phyrexian Defiler (Urza's Legacy)
DiTerlizzi

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

"The third stage of the illness: muscle aches and persistent cough." —Phyrexian progress notes

Goblin Piker (Magic 2011)
DiTerlizzi

Once he'd worked out which end of the thing was sharp, he was promoted to guard duty.

Brainstorm (Mystery Booster 2)
DiTerlizzi

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

"I see more than others do because I know where to look." —Saprazzan vizier

Vine Trellis (Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana)
DiTerlizzi

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {T}: Add {G}.

Nature twists knots stronger than any rope.

Brainstorm (World Championship Decks 2000)
DiTerlizzi

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

"I see more than others do because I know where to look." —Saprazzan vizier

Vine Trellis (Eighth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {T}: Add {G}.

Nature twists knots stronger than any rope.

Giant Growth (Beatdown Box Set)
DiTerlizzi

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

Endless Wurm (The List)
DiTerlizzi

Trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you sacrifice an enchantment.

Ages ago, a party of elves took cover to let one pass. They're still waiting.

Twitch (Tenth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land. Draw a card.

Battles are won in nuance.

Vine Trellis (Mercadian Masques)
DiTerlizzi

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {T}: Add {G}.

"We protect our own with our own."

Crop Rotation (Urza's Legacy)
DiTerlizzi

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"Hmm . . . maybe lotuses this year."

Horned Turtle (Tempest)
DiTerlizzi

"So like men are they: a hardened shell with fragile flesh beneath." —Selenia, dark angel

Workhorse (Exodus)
DiTerlizzi

This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Add {C}.

Skyshroud Troopers (Stronghold)
DiTerlizzi

{T}: Add {G}.

"We were not made for war. Like flowstone, Volrath shaped us to it." —Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Song of Serenity (Exodus)
DiTerlizzi

Creatures that are enchanted can't attack or block.

Heartwood brings peace in great symphonies where dryads conduct the trees through every note.

Lure (Mercadian Masques)
DiTerlizzi

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

Deepwood's reach is not long, so it invites its enemies in.

Hive of the Eye Tyrant (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
DiTerlizzi

If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {3}{B}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/3 black Beholder creature with menace and "Whenever this creature attacks, exile target card from defending player's graveyard." It's still a land.

Brainstorm (Mercadian Masques)
DiTerlizzi

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

"I see more than others do because I know where to look." —Saprazzan vizier

Horned Turtle (Ninth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

It doesn't like having visitors . . . unless it's having them for lunch.

Exhaustion (Portal)
DiTerlizzi

Creatures and lands target opponent controls don't untap during their next untap step.

Goblin Mountaineer (Portal Second Age)
DiTerlizzi

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

Goblin mountaineer, barely keeps his family fed.

Mischievous Poltergeist (Weatherlight)
DiTerlizzi

Flying Pay 1 life: Regenerate this creature.

"The past is a ghost that haunts you from the moment it exists until the moment you don't." —Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Null Brooch (Exodus)
DiTerlizzi

{2}, {T}, Discard your hand: Counter target noncreature spell.

Give away everything so others have nothing. —Brooch inscription

Crop Rotation (Dominaria Remastered)
DiTerlizzi

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"Hmm ... maybe lotuses this year."

Hulking Cyclops (Visions)
DiTerlizzi

This creature can't block.

"Some say a great cyclops turns the world in its hands, looking down upon it with its one bright eye." —Afari, *Tales*

Verdant Force (Commander 2015)
DiTerlizzi

At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Left to itself, nature overflows any container, overthrows any restriction, and overreaches any boundary.

False Summoning (Portal Second Age)
DiTerlizzi

Counter target creature spell.

Verdant Force (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
DiTerlizzi

At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Left to itself, nature overflows any container, overthrows any restriction, and overreaches any boundary.

Verdant Force (Planechase)
DiTerlizzi

At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Left to itself, nature overflows any container, overthrows any restriction, and overreaches any boundary.

Giant Growth (World Championship Decks 1997)
DiTerlizzi

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

Squeeze (Mercadian Masques)
DiTerlizzi

Sorcery spells cost {3} more to cast.

Any pirate would prefer Rishada's swift and cruel justice to Saprazzo's patient punishments.

Angelic Blessing (The List)
DiTerlizzi

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

A peasant can do more by faith than a king by proclamation.

Wall of Diffusion (Tempest)
DiTerlizzi

Defender (This creature can't attack.) This creature can block creatures with shadow as though it had shadow.

"The injury was being caught between this world and our own; the insult was to find walls within." —Lyna, Soltari emissary

Horned Turtle (Classic Sixth Edition)
DiTerlizzi

"So like men are they: a hardened shell with fragile flesh beneath." —Selenia, dark angel

Verdant Force (Starter Commander Decks)
DiTerlizzi

At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Left to itself, nature overflows any container, overthrows any restriction, and overreaches any boundary.

Brass Secretary (Urza's Destiny)
DiTerlizzi

{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

The students disliked the secretary for its unfailing memory—until they discovered it couldn't dodge thrown objects.

Goblin Cavaliers (Portal Second Age)
DiTerlizzi

They get along so well with their goats because they're practically goats themselves.

Verdant Force (World Championship Decks 1998)
DiTerlizzi

At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Burl, scurf, and bower Birth fern and flower.

Mischievous Poltergeist (The List)
DiTerlizzi

Flying Pay 1 life: Regenerate this creature.

"The past is a ghost that haunts you from the moment it exists until the moment you don't." —Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Takara (Vanguard Series)
DiTerlizzi

Sacrifice a creature: Takara deals 1 damage to any target.

Takara banishes the shadow of her father's ignoble reputation through the dedication, plain speaking, and swift action of a warrior. By refusing Starke's path of self-interest and opportunism, she has learned what he never will know: the value of sacrifice for a worthy cause.

Vine Trellis (Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana)
DiTerlizzi

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {T}: Add {G}.

Nature twists knots stronger than any rope.

Verdant Force (Premium Deck Series: Graveborn)
DiTerlizzi

At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Left to itself, nature overflows any container, overthrows any restriction, and overreaches any boundary.

Wirewood Savage (Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana)
DiTerlizzi

Whenever a Beast enters, you may draw a card.

"She is truly Wirewood's child now." —Elvish refugee

Gus (Unglued)
DiTerlizzi

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Magic game you have lost to one of your opponents since you last won a game against them.

"Now I lay me down to sleep— What are *you* starin' at?"

Argothian Elder (The List)
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{T}: Untap two target lands.

Sharpen your ears —Elvish expression meaning "grow wiser"

Verdant Force (Commander Anthology)
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At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Left to itself, nature overflows any container, overthrows any restriction, and overreaches any boundary.

Goblin Cavaliers (Starter 1999)
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They get along so well with their goats because they're practically goats themselves.

Fire Imp (Portal)
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When this creature enters, it deals 2 damage to target creature.

Yavimaya Scion (Urza's Legacy)
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Protection from artifacts

Each time the saw blade bit, the tree spat it out.

Last Breath (Mercadian Masques)
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Exile target creature with power 2 or less. Its controller gains 4 life.

"The River flows. My soul returns."

Twitch (Tempest)
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You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land. Draw a card.

Battles are won in nuance.

Pursuit of Knowledge (Stronghold)
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If you would draw a card, you may put a study counter on this enchantment instead. Remove three study counters from this enchantment, Sacrifice this enchantment: Draw seven cards.

Vine Trellis (Eighth Edition)
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Defender (This creature can't attack.) {T}: Add {G}.

Nature twists knots stronger than any rope.

Willow Elf (Starter 2000)
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The forest lives in the elf as the elf lives in the forest.

Verdant Force (Ninth Edition)
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At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Lure (Eighth Edition)
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Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

"When the forest wants something, no mortal mind can resist her." —Maro

Coercion (Visions)
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Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card.

A rhino's bargain —Femeref expression meaning "a situation with no choices"

Goblin Piker (Magic 2010)
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Once he'd worked out which end of the thing was sharp, he was promoted to guard duty.

Cloud Spirit (Portal)
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Flying This creature can block only creatures with flying.

Giant Growth (World Championship Decks 1999)
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Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Goblin Masons (Urza's Destiny)
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When this creature dies, destroy target Wall.

"Goblins build with true zeal—and anything else within arm's reach."

Cat Burglar (Exodus)
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{2}{B}, {T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

The *il*-Kor no longer roam the open plains, but they are still hunters.

Frozen Shade (Fifth Edition)
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{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"There are some qualities, some incorporate things, / That have a double life, which thus is made / A type of twin entity which springs / From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Terminate (Planeshift)
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Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Like his mother before him, Darigaaz gave his life defending Dominaria from the tyranny of self-styled "gods."

Elephant Resurgence (Prophecy)
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Each player creates a green Elephant creature token. Those creatures have "This token's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in its controller's graveyard."

Devoted Hero (Starter 1999)
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The heart's courage is the soul's guardian.

Goblin Marshal (Urza's Destiny)
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Echo {4}{R}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters or dies, create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

Goblin Piker (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
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Once he'd worked out which end of the thing was sharp, he was promoted to guard duty.

Venomous Breath (Mercadian Masques)
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Choose target creature. At this turn's next end of combat, destroy all creatures that blocked or were blocked by it this turn.

The dryads need neither size nor strength to defeat their enemies in battle.

Coastal Hornclaw (Prophecy)
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Sacrifice a land: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Jamuraan farmers fear three things above all else: droughts, floods, and hornclaws.

Devoted Hero (Portal)
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The heart's courage is the soul's guardian.

Merfolk Traders (Weatherlight)
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When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.

"As much as I hate water, I *do* love fish . . . ." —Mirri of the *Weatherlight*

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (Starter 1999)
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Are merfolk humans with fins, or are humans merfolk with feet?

Overlaid Terrain (Nemesis)
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As this enchantment enters, sacrifice all lands you control. Lands you control have "{T}: Add two mana of any one color."

One must reap before one can sow.

Goblin Piker (Portal Second Age)
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Once he'd worked out which end of the thing was sharp, he was promoted to guard duty.

Noble Benefactor (The List)
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When this creature dies, each player may search their library for a card and put that card into their hand. Then each player who searched their library this way shuffles.

Elvish Ranger (The List)
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It's up to you if you enter their woods—and up to them if you leave.

Goblin War Buggy (Urza's Saga)
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Haste Echo {1}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

Giant Growth (Classic Sixth Edition)
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Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Goblin Piker (Tenth Edition)
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Once he'd worked out which end of the thing was sharp, he was promoted to guard duty.

Hunting Moa (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
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Echo {2}{G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters or dies, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Barrin's Codex (Urza's Saga)
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At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a page counter on this artifact. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw X cards, where X is the number of page counters on this artifact.

Fodder Cannon (Urza's Destiny)
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{4}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: This artifact deals 4 damage to target creature.

Step 1: Find your cousin. Step 2: Get your cousin in the cannon. Step 3: Find another cousin.

Verdant Force (Tempest)
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At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Burl, scurf, and bower Birth fern and flower.

Fodder Cannon (The List)
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{4}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: This artifact deals 4 damage to target creature.

Step 1: Find your cousin. Step 2: Get your cousin in the cannon. Step 3: Find another cousin.