Runechanter's Pike

Runechanter's Pike (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
John Avon

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +X/+0, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Equip {2}

As sharp as its bearer's words of faith.

Runechanter's Pike (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
John Avon

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +X/+0, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Equip {2}

"Harmonic resonance infusions amplify the natural abilities of the song mages of Sumifa." —Drafna, research notes

Runechanter's Pike (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
John Avon

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +X/+0, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Equip {2}

"Harmonic resonance infusions amplify the natural abilities of the song mages of Sumifa." —Drafna, research notes

Boros Garrison (GRN Guild Kit)
John Avon

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

Fog (Fifth Edition)
John Avon

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Karplusan Forest (Ninth Edition)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Island (World Championship Decks 2004)
John Avon

({T}: Add {U}.)

Simic Growth Chamber (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
John Avon

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

Simic Growth Chamber (Double Masters 2022)
John Avon

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

Izzet Boilerworks (The List)
John Avon

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

Swamp (Return to Ravnica)
John Avon

({T}: Add {B}.)

Seedguide Ash (Lorwyn)
John Avon

When this creature dies, you may search your library for up to three Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"May you shade three generations of seedlings."

Plains (Rise of the Eldrazi)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Cloudcrest Lake (Champions of Kamigawa)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This land doesn't untap during your next untap step.

Sapling of Colfenor (Commander 2021)
John Avon

Indestructible Whenever Sapling of Colfenor attacks, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you gain life equal to that card's toughness, lose life equal to its power, then put it into your hand.

Her plans may yet bear fruit.

Kodama's Reach (Zendikar Rising Commander)
John Avon

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Izzet Boilerworks (Commander 2020)
John Avon

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

Plains (Planechase Anthology)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Unstable Frontier (The List)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Target land you control becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.

The goblins went to sleep in Jund and awoke in Grixis. They'd never seen a zombie before. They would never see one again.

Stream of Consciousness (Ultimate Masters)
John Avon

Target player shuffles up to four target cards from their graveyard into their library.

"All things return to their beginnings. The waters that spill across the Kamitaki Falls flow to sea, only to be returned to her as the rain that joins the mighty river." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Fellwar Stone (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
John Avon

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

"What do you have that I cannot obtain?" —Mairsil, the Pretender

Gruul Turf (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
John Avon

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

Izzet Boilerworks (Double Masters 2022)
John Avon

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

Totem-Guide Hartebeest (The List)
John Avon

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

The kor track hartebeests in hopes of finding magic to help fight the Eldrazi.

Island (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
John Avon

({T}: Add {U}.)

Mountain (Eighth Edition)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Explore (Commander Legends)
John Avon

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

An explorer's reward is a view of tomorrow's possibilities.

Pyrotechnics (Eighth Edition)
John Avon

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

"Who says lightning never strikes twice?" —Storm shaman

Living Inferno (Guildpact)
John Avon

{T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power divided as you choose among any number of target creatures. Each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to this creature.

Mountain (Commander Anthology)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Forest (World Championship Decks 2003)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Swamp (Ninth Edition)
John Avon

({T}: Add {B}.)

Aven Soulgazer (Onslaught)
John Avon

Flying {2}{W}: Look at target face-down creature.

"Every question has a proper answer. Every soul has a proper place."

Brittle Effigy (Duel Decks: Merfolk vs. Goblins)
John Avon

{4}, {T}, Exile this artifact: Exile target creature.

"In my early experiments in phylactery, I found that fragile forms have their uses." —Rocati, Duke of Martyne

Selesnya Sanctuary (Commander 2011)
John Avon

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

Strength of Night (The List)
John Avon

Kicker {B} (You may pay an additional {B} as you cast this spell.) Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, Zombie creatures you control get an additional +2/+2 until end of turn.

Simic Growth Chamber (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
John Avon

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

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (From the Vault: Realms)
John Avon

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse." —Lord Windgrace

Forest (World Championship Decks 2002)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Boros Garrison (Modern Masters 2015)
John Avon

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

Explore (Jumpstart)
John Avon

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

An explorer's reward is a view of tomorrow's possibilities.

Runechanter's Pike (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
John Avon

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +X/+0, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Equip {2}

As sharp as its bearer's words of faith.

Orzhov Guildgate (Gatecrash)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Enter to find wealth, security, and eternal life . . . for just a small price up front.

Witching Well (The List)
John Avon

When this artifact enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.) {3}{U}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

It was built by the Witch of Lochmere. Most of the wishes it grants are its own.

Raven Familiar (Commander 2013)
John Avon

Flying Echo {2}{U} (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, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Dimir Aqueduct (Wilds of Eldraine Commander)
John Avon

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

Golgari Rot Farm (Commander 2011)
John Avon

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

Azorius Chancery (Kaldheim Commander)
John Avon

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

Swamp (Arena League 2006)
John Avon

({T}: Add {B}.)

Venarian Glimmer (Planar Chaos)
John Avon

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card with mana value X or less from it. That player discards that card.

Dream of nothing, and wake to a dream come true.

Gaze of Justice (Time Spiral)
John Avon

As an additional cost to cast this spell, tap three untapped white creatures you control. Exile target creature. Flashback {5}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

Swamp (Planechase 2012)
John Avon

({T}: Add {B}.)

Guardian Zendikon (Worldwake)
John Avon

Enchant land Enchanted land is a 2/6 white Wall creature with defender. It's still a land. When enchanted land dies, return that card to its owner's hand.

Grasslands (Mirage)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Decree of Annihilation (Scourge)
John Avon

Exile all artifacts, creatures, and lands from the battlefield, all cards from all graveyards, and all cards from all hands. Cycling {5}{R}{R} ({5}{R}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, destroy all lands.

Darksteel Citadel (Commander 2016)
John Avon

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Structures built from darksteel yield to neither assault nor age.

Heap Doll (Shadowmoor)
John Avon

Sacrifice this creature: Exile target card from a graveyard.

"I know one night it won't come back. Then I'll know it's truly done its job." —Braenna, cobblesmith

Ancient Ziggurat (Conflux)
John Avon

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

Built in honor of Alara's creatures, the ziggurat vanished long ago. When Progenitus awakened, the temple emerged again.

Orzhov Basilica (Commander 2018)
John Avon

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

Plains (Commander Anthology)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Orzhov Basilica (Commander 2017)
John Avon

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

Mountain (Battle Royale Box Set)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Vault of the Archangel (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

"For centuries my creation kept this world in balance. Now only her shadow remains." —Sorin Markov

Halcyon Glaze (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
John Avon

Whenever you cast a creature spell, this enchantment becomes a 4/4 Illusion creature with flying in addition to its other types until end of turn.

"Earth to æther, window to wonder, stillness to the sky." —Glazing incantation

Forest (Double Masters)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Forest (Beatdown Box Set)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Explosive Vegetation (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
John Avon

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Torching Krosa would be pointless. It grows faster than it burns.

Forest (Planechase 2012)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Dimir Aqueduct (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
John Avon

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

Sprouting Vines (Scourge)
John Avon

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Forest (World Championship Decks 2002)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Demolish (Magic 2014)
John Avon

Destroy target artifact or land.

"This is why I hate settlements. They lull you into a false sense of security." —Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist

Forest (World Championship Decks 2001)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Izzet Boilerworks (Commander 2019)
John Avon

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

Selesnya Sanctuary (Midnight Hunt Commander)
John Avon

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

Darksteel Citadel (Modern Masters 2015)
John Avon

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Structures built from darksteel yield to neither assault nor age.

Gruul Turf (Iconic Masters)
John Avon

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

Swamp (Commander 2014)
John Avon

({T}: Add {B}.)

Tree of Tales (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
John Avon

{T}: Add {G}.

Tel-Jilad, sanctum of the ancient trolls, keepers of the secret of Mirrodin's origin.

Silent Departure (Innistrad Remastered)
John Avon

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Flashback {4}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

The same magic that lets geists pass through our realm can force them out of it.

Gruul Turf (Planechase 2012)
John Avon

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

Island (World Championship Decks 2004)
John Avon

({T}: Add {U}.)

Strength of Night (Apocalypse)
John Avon

Kicker {B} (You may pay an additional {B} as you cast this spell.) Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, Zombie creatures you control get an additional +2/+2 until end of turn.

Opalescence (Urza's Destiny)
John Avon

Each other non-Aura enchantment is a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its mana value.

Steam Vents (Secret Lair Drop)
John Avon

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

Despite being abandoned for millennia, the Thran ironworks still occasionally sputter to life.

Seat of the Synod (World Championship Decks 2004)
John Avon

{T}: Add {U}.

Lumengrid, site of the Knowledge Pool, source of vedalken arcana.

Forest (Salvat 2011)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Cultivate (Friday Night Magic 2011)
John Avon

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Tranquil Cove (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Cephalid Coliseum (Odyssey)
John Avon

{T}: Add {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you. Threshold — {U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Forest (Planechase 2012)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Gruul Turf (Modern Masters 2015)
John Avon

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

Kilnspire District (Planechase 2012 Planes)
John Avon

When you planeswalk to Kilnspire District and at the beginning of your first main phase, put a charge counter on Kilnspire District, then add {R} for each charge counter on it. Whenever chaos ensues, you may pay {X}. If you do, Kilnspire District deals X damage to any target.

Silent Departure (Eternal Masters)
John Avon

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Flashback {4}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

The same magic that lets geists pass through our realm can force them out of it.

Mountain (Tenth Edition)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mountain (World Championship Decks 2003)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Island (Planechase)
John Avon

({T}: Add {U}.)

Swamp (Magic Premiere Shop 2010)
John Avon

({T}: Add {B}.)

Drownyard Temple (Shadows over Innistrad)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {3}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

"This is it! All the cryptoliths point here!" —Jace Beleren

Plains (Rise of the Eldrazi)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Mountain (World Championship Decks 1999)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Sprouting Vines (Commander 2013)
John Avon

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Azorius Chancery (Duel Decks: Venser vs. Koth)
John Avon

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

Mountain (Battle Royale Box Set)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mountain (Zendikar)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Sapling of Colfenor (Eventide)
John Avon

Indestructible Whenever Sapling of Colfenor attacks, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you gain life equal to that card's toughness, lose life equal to its power, then put it into your hand.

Her plans may yet bear fruit.

Castle Vantress (Throne of Eldraine Promos)
John Avon

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Without Vantress's knowledge, the realm would lose itself in darkness.

Spark Elemental (Ultimate Masters Tokens)
John Avon

Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Spark Elemental.

Mountain (World Championship Decks 1997)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Seat of the Synod (Jumpstart 2022)
John Avon

{T}: Add {U}.

Lumengrid, site of the Knowledge Pool, source of vedalken arcana.

Island (Archenemy)
John Avon

({T}: Add {U}.)

Mountain (World Championship Decks 1997)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Dimir Aqueduct (Commander 2018)
John Avon

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

Orzhov Basilica (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
John Avon

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

Swamp (Magic Premiere Shop 2007)
John Avon

({T}: Add {B}.)

Tranquil Cove (Commander 2019)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Boros Garrison (Commander Anthology Volume II)
John Avon

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

Lantern Kami (Champions of Kamigawa)
John Avon

Flying

"Snuffing the light of a lantern without saying a small prayer is bad luck. Though its flame can only singe, its soul can repeatedly visit misery on one's house." —Teachings of Eight-and-a-Half-Tails

Savage Twister (Commander 2013)
John Avon

Savage Twister deals X damage to each creature.

"Nature is the ultimate mindless destroyer, capable of power and ferocity no army can match, and the Gruul follow its example." —Trigori, Azorius senator

Forest (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Mountain (World Championship Decks 1997)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mountain (Planechase Anthology)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Vault of the Archangel (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

"For centuries my creation kept this world in balance. Now only her shadow remains." —Sorin Markov

Gruul Turf (Commander 2016)
John Avon

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

Panopticon (Planechase Planes)
John Avon

When you planeswalk to Panopticon, draw a card. At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card. Whenever chaos ensues, draw a card.

Orzhov Guildgate (Ravnica Remastered)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Enter to find wealth, security, and eternal life . . . for just a small price up front.

Simic Growth Chamber (Commander Anthology Volume II)
John Avon

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

Forest (Portal)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Forest (Commander Anthology)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Stensia Bloodhall (Innistrad)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {3}{B}{R}, {T}: This land deals 2 damage to target player or planeswalker.

The revelry ends when the supply of fresh ingenues runs dry.

Pyroclasm (World Championship Decks 2003)
John Avon

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

"When the air burns, only death breathes deep." —Bogardan mage

Simic Growth Chamber (Dissension)
John Avon

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

Plains (World Championship Decks 2003)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Forest (Tenth Edition)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Simic Growth Chamber (Commander 2011)
John Avon

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

Plains (Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Lethal Vapors (Scourge)
John Avon

Whenever a creature enters, destroy it. {0}: Destroy this enchantment. You skip your next turn. Any player may activate this ability.

The vapors infiltrate every crevice, poison every lung, and snuff out every life.

Lotus Field (Core Set 2020 Promos)
John Avon

Hexproof This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice two lands. {T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Adarkar Wastes (Ninth Edition)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Azorius Chancery (Commander 2011)
John Avon

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

Azorius Chancery (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
John Avon

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

Orzhov Guildgate (Dragon's Maze)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

"We do not believe in hiding our wealth in the shadows. This is Orzhov, and this is how we reward greatness." —Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov

Forest (Eighth Edition)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Seat of the Synod (World Championship Decks 2004)
John Avon

{T}: Add {U}.

Lumengrid, site of the Knowledge Pool, source of vedalken arcana.

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea (Commander 2021)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card.

"Center of the Sea, Eye of the World, Shrine of Enlightenment. Seek it for answers. Seek it for healing. Seek it and return transformed." —Scroll fragment from the ruins of Minamo

Prophetic Prism (Commander Legends)
John Avon

When this artifact enters, draw a card. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

"The explorer who found it got a bad deal when he sold it. He merely got rich."

Mountain (World Championship Decks 1999)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Ice Floe (Fifth Edition)
John Avon

You may choose not to untap this land during your untap step. {T}: Tap target creature without flying that's attacking you. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as this land remains tapped.

Mountain (Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Spire of Industry (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control an artifact.

A beacon of prosperity to some, a shadow of oppression to others.

Plains (Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Island (World Championship Decks 2003)
John Avon

({T}: Add {U}.)

Vedalken Orrery (Conspiracy)
John Avon

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

The model incorporated the fifth sun effortlessly, as if it had always known.

Plains (Planechase Anthology)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Mountain (Beatdown Box Set)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Shimmering Glasskite (The List)
John Avon

Flying Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability.

A child's whisper could crack its shell, but not even an oni's scream could penetrate it.

Plains (Seventh Edition)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Fog (Magic 2011)
John Avon

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"I fear no army or beast, but only the morning fog. Our assault can survive everything else." —Lord Hilneth

Swamp (Battle Royale Box Set)
John Avon

({T}: Add {B}.)

Unholy Grotto (The List)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {B}, {T}: Put target Zombie card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Plains (Jumpstart 2022)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Swamp (Magic 2015)
John Avon

({T}: Add {B}.)

Darksteel Citadel (Magic 2015)
John Avon

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Structures built from darksteel yield to neither assault nor age.

Plains (Commander Anthology Volume II)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Rakdos Carnarium (Commander 2018)
John Avon

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

Swamp (Magic Premiere Shop 2008)
John Avon

({T}: Add {B}.)

Shimmering Glasskite (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
John Avon

Flying Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability.

A child's whisper could crack its shell, but not even an oni's scream could penetrate it.

Vedalken Orrery (Double Masters 2022)
John Avon

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

The model incorporated the fifth sun effortlessly, as if it had always known.

Selesnya Sanctuary (Commander 2017)
John Avon

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

Castle Vantress (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
John Avon

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Without Vantress's knowledge, the realm would lose itself in darkness.

Simic Growth Chamber (Commander 2016)
John Avon

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

Nemata, Grove Guardian (The List)
John Avon

{2}{G}: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. Sacrifice a Saproling: Saproling creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Mountain (Unstable)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Island (Magic Premiere Shop 2007)
John Avon

({T}: Add {U}.)

Explore (Commander 2018)
John Avon

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

An explorer's reward is a view of tomorrow's possibilities.

Dimir Aqueduct (Commander 2020)
John Avon

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

Tree of Tales (Planechase)
John Avon

{T}: Add {G}.

Tel-Jilad, sanctum of the ancient trolls, keepers of the secret of Mirrodin's origin.

Boros Garrison (Commander 2017)
John Avon

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

Guardian Zendikon (Conspiracy)
John Avon

Enchant land Enchanted land is a 2/6 white Wall creature with defender. It's still a land. When enchanted land dies, return that card to its owner's hand.

Savage Lands (Commander Masters)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

Jund is a world as cruel as those who call it home. Their brutal struggles scar the land even as it carves them in its image, a vicious circle spiraling out of control.

Slithery Stalker (Torment)
John Avon

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) When this creature enters, exile target green or white creature an opponent controls. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Golgari Rot Farm (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
John Avon

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

Plains (Commander 2014)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Selesnya Sanctuary (Zendikar Rising Commander)
John Avon

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

Plains (Commander 2015)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Forest (World Championship Decks 2003)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Mountain (Commander 2011)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Forest (Unhinged)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Swamp (World Championship Decks 2003)
John Avon

({T}: Add {B}.)

Orzhov Guildgate (Foundations)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Enter to find wealth, security, and eternal life . . . for just a small price up front.

Pyroclasm (World Championship Decks 2004)
John Avon

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

"When the air burns, only death breathes deep." —Bogardan mage

Forest (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Gruul Turf (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
John Avon

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

Centaur Garden (Odyssey)
John Avon

{T}: Add {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you. Threshold — {G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Darksteel Citadel (Commander 2021)
John Avon

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Structures built from darksteel yield to neither assault nor age.

Forest (World Championship Decks 2002)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Drownyard Temple (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {3}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

"This is it! All the cryptoliths point here!" —Jace Beleren

Boros Garrison (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
John Avon

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

Forest (Return to Ravnica)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Rakdos Carnarium (Commander 2019)
John Avon

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

Swamp (Arena League 2004)
John Avon

({T}: Add {B}.)

Roiling Horror (Planar Chaos)
John Avon

Roiling Horror's power and toughness are each equal to your life total minus the life total of an opponent with the most life. Suspend X—{X}{B}{B}{B}. X can't be 0. (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {X}{B}{B}{B} and exile it with X 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. It has haste.) Whenever a time counter is removed from this card while it's exiled, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Swamp (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
John Avon

({T}: Add {B}.)

Explosive Vegetation (Commander 2011)
John Avon

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Torching Krosa would be pointless. It grows faster than it burns.

Dawn Charm (Planar Chaos)
John Avon

Choose one — • Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. • Regenerate target creature. • Counter target spell that targets you.

Ancestral Vision (Iconic Masters)
John Avon

Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {U} 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.) Target player draws three cards.

Purify (Urza's Legacy)
John Avon

Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

"Our Mother! The sky was Her hair; the sun, Her face. She danced on the grass and in the hills." —*Song of All*, canto 23

Mountain (Battle Royale Box Set)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Forest (Ninth Edition)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Rakdos Carnarium (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
John Avon

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

Gruul Turf (Commander 2011)
John Avon

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

Izzet Boilerworks (Commander 2015)
John Avon

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

Forest (Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Pyroclasm (Modern Masters 2017)
John Avon

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

"Who'd want to ignite things one at a time?" —Chandra Nalaar

Island (Commander 2011)
John Avon

({T}: Add {U}.)

Mist Raven (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
John Avon

Flying When this creature enters, return target creature to its owner's hand.

"When you see a raven, head for the hills. It knows when the ghost-tide is headed in." —Sved, fisherman of Nephalia

Dimir Aqueduct (Commander 2011)
John Avon

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

Island (Archenemy)
John Avon

({T}: Add {U}.)

Selesnya Sanctuary (Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons)
John Avon

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

Forest (Planechase Anthology)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Lotus Field (Core Set 2020)
John Avon

Hexproof This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice two lands. {T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Restore (Commander Anthology)
John Avon

Put target land card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

"See, the land itself raises an altar to the ascendancy of nature." —Mayael the Anima

Evolution Vat (Dissension)
John Avon

{3}, {T}: Tap target creature and put a +1/+1 counter on it. Until end of turn, that creature gains "{2}{G}{U}: Double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature."

The vats are self-contained worlds, bubbling and churning with unnatural speed, boiling down eons of change into moments.

Plains (Duel Decks: Venser vs. Koth)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Moonlit Strider (Modern Masters 2015)
John Avon

Sacrifice this creature: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Soulshift 3 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Ancient Ziggurat (Premium Deck Series: Slivers)
John Avon

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

Built in honor of Alara's creatures, the ziggurat vanished long ago. When Progenitus awakened, the temple emerged again.

Forest (Ninth Edition)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Mountain (Commander 2011)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Island (Unstable)
John Avon

({T}: Add {U}.)

Thriss, Nantuko Primus (Judgment)
John Avon

{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn.

"When you live for others, you live for yourself."

Mountain (Urza's Saga)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Kodama's Reach (Commander Masters)
John Avon

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Forest (Commander 2015)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Annex (Ninth Edition)
John Avon

Enchant land (Target a land as you cast this. This card enters attached to that land.) You control enchanted land.

You should see how small the map is.

Forest (Planechase Anthology)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Island (World Championship Decks 2002)
John Avon

({T}: Add {U}.)

Darksteel Citadel (The List)
John Avon

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Structures built from darksteel yield to neither assault nor age.

Nature's Panoply (Journey into Nyx)
John Avon

Strive — This spell costs {2}{G} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Choose any number of target creatures. Put a +1/+1 counter on each of them.

Nature protects its own.

Forest (Magic 2010)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Selesnya Sanctuary (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
John Avon

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

Jund Sojourners (Alara Reborn)
John Avon

When you cycle this card and when this creature dies, you may have it deal 1 damage to any target. Cycling {2}{R} ({2}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Fellwar Stone (The Brothers' War Commander)
John Avon

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

"What do you have that I cannot obtain?" —Mairsil, the Pretender

Tranquil Garden (Champions of Kamigawa)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. This land doesn't untap during your next untap step.

Dermoplasm (Legions)
John Avon

Flying Morph {2}{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, you may put a creature card with a morph ability from your hand onto the battlefield face up. If you do, return this creature to its owner's hand.

Castle Vantress (Throne of Eldraine Promos)
John Avon

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Without Vantress's knowledge, the realm would lose itself in darkness.

Arrogant Wurm (Torment)
John Avon

Trample Madness {2}{G} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

It's hard to be humble when the whole world is bite size.

Orzhov Basilica (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
John Avon

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

Swamp (Battle Royale Box Set)
John Avon

({T}: Add {B}.)

Swamp (Urza's Saga)
John Avon

({T}: Add {B}.)

Dimir Aqueduct (Modern Masters 2015)
John Avon

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

Mountain (Eighth Edition)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Forest (Eighth Edition)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Plains (Zendikar)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Izzet Boilerworks (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
John Avon

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

Plains (Game Night)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Selesnya Sanctuary (Double Masters 2022)
John Avon

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

Maelstrom Pulse (Modern Masters)
John Avon

Destroy target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.

During the collision of the shards, entire ways of life disappeared without a trace.

Meteor Crater (Planeshift)
John Avon

{T}: Choose a color of a permanent you control. Add one mana of that color.

Legend has it that meteor craters are haunted by the ghosts of those who died on impact.

Dawntreader Elk (Dark Ascension)
John Avon

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

Silent as winter snow, it seeks wild places unspoiled by the walking dead.

Timberpack Wolf (Masters 25)
John Avon

This creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control named Timberpack Wolf.

"The need for the pack is bred in their bones. Their true strength will not show itself for any other purpose." —Garruk Wildspeaker

Dawn's Reflection (Fifth Dawn)
John Avon

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional two mana in any combination of colors.

Only Sylvok magic could truly capture the perfection of a Mirrodin sunrise.

Seat of the Synod (Mirrodin)
John Avon

{T}: Add {U}.

Lumengrid, site of the Knowledge Pool, source of vedalken arcana.

Emrakul, the Promised End (Secret Lair Drop)
John Avon

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard. When you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during that player's next turn. After that turn, that player takes an extra turn. Flying, trample, protection from instants

Time Machine (Unhinged)
John Avon

{T}: Exile this artifact and target nontoken creature you own. Return them to the battlefield at the beginning of your upkeep on your turn X in the next game you play with one of your opponents in this game, where X is the mana value of the exiled creature.

Forest (Battle Royale Box Set)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Golgari Rot Farm (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
John Avon

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

Wall of Deceit (Legions)
John Avon

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {3}: Turn this creature face down. Morph {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.)

Dimir Aqueduct (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
John Avon

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

Mountain (Magic 2011)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mindblaze (Champions of Kamigawa)
John Avon

Choose a nonland card name and a number greater than 0. Target player reveals their library. If that library contains exactly the chosen number of cards with the chosen name, Mindblaze deals 8 damage to that player. Then that player shuffles.

Pyroclasm (Magic 2010)
John Avon

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

"Who'd want to ignite things one at a time?" —Chandra Nalaar

Supreme Verdict (Return to Ravnica Promos)
John Avon

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.

Leonos had no second thoughts about the abolishment edict. He'd left skyrunes warning of the eviction, even though it was cloudy.

Jungle Basin (Commander Legends)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Forest you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{G}.

Golgari Rot Farm (Commander 2021)
John Avon

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

Mountain (Dominaria Remastered)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Boros Garrison (Dominaria United Commander)
John Avon

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

Boros Garrison (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
John Avon

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

Selesnya Sanctuary (Commander 2020)
John Avon

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

Honden of Infinite Rage (The List)
John Avon

At the beginning of your upkeep, Honden of Infinite Rage deals damage to any target equal to the number of Shrines you control.

To the sorrow of all, its rage became focused on those who once stoked it.

Mirror Sheen (Eventide)
John Avon

{1}{U/R}{U/R}: Copy target instant or sorcery spell that targets you. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Even treefolk witches steer clear of the unpredictable woods near Glen Elendra. Spells refract off the glamer-polished trees and the eyes of lurking pucas.

Fellwar Stone (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
John Avon

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

"What do you have that I cannot obtain?" —Mairsil, the Pretender

Island (Secret Lair Showdown)
John Avon

({T}: Add {U}.)

Explore (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
John Avon

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

An explorer's reward is a view of tomorrow's possibilities.

Boom (Time Spiral Remastered)
John Avon

Darksteel Citadel (Commander 2018)
John Avon

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Structures built from darksteel yield to neither assault nor age.

Mountain (Magic Premiere Shop 2010)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mountain (World Championship Decks 2003)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Dimir Aqueduct (Planechase Anthology)
John Avon

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

Golgari Rot Farm (Commander 2013)
John Avon

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

Mirrorworks (Commander 2018)
John Avon

Whenever another nontoken artifact you control enters, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that artifact.

The faces of Geth's corpse-dredgers are disturbingly similar.

Arrogant Wurm (The List)
John Avon

Trample Madness {2}{G} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

It's hard to be humble when the whole world is bite size.

Cabal Pit (Odyssey)
John Avon

{T}: Add {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you. Threshold — {B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Pyroclasm (Ninth Edition)
John Avon

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

"When the air burns, only death breathes deep." —Bogardan mage

Thespian's Stage (Commander 2019)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Amid rumors of war, the third act of *The Absolution of the Guildpact* was quickly rewritten as a tragedy.

Forest (Magic 2011)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Mountain (World Championship Decks 1997)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Plains (Invasion)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Vault of the Archangel (Dark Ascension)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

"For centuries my creation kept this world in balance. Now only her shadow remains." —Sorin Markov

Forest (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Inventors)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Rakdos Carnarium (Crimson Vow Commander)
John Avon

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

Pyrotechnics (Seventh Edition)
John Avon

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

"Who says lightning never strikes twice?" —Storm shaman

Murmuring Bosk (Commander Anthology Volume II)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.) As this land enters, you may reveal a Treefolk card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Golgari Rot Farm (Commander 2020)
John Avon

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

Scepter of Empires (Magic 2012)
John Avon

{T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. It deals 3 damage instead if you control artifacts named Crown of Empires and Throne of Empires.

"With this scepter, smite your enemies." —Scepter inscription

Angelic Wall (Odyssey)
John Avon

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

"The Ancestor protects us in ways we can't begin to comprehend." —Mystic elder

Boros Garrison (Commander 2021)
John Avon

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

Izzet Boilerworks (The List)
John Avon

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

Wall of Air (Seventh Edition)
John Avon

Defender, flying (This creature can't attack, and it can block creatures with flying.)

"Let the air itself protect you, for it is everywhere." —Master wizard

Rakdos Carnarium (Commander Anthology)
John Avon

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

Island (World Championship Decks 2002)
John Avon

({T}: Add {U}.)

Forest (Duel Decks Anthology: Elves vs. Goblins)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Dimir Aqueduct (Zendikar Rising Commander)
John Avon

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

Fury Charm (Iconic Masters)
John Avon

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn. • Remove two time counters from target permanent or suspended card.

Mountain (Battle Royale Box Set)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Blight Sickle (Shadowmoor)
John Avon

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has wither. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Equip {2}

Its scars cut deeper than its blade.

Mountain (Champions of Kamigawa)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Whitesun's Passage (Scars of Mirrodin)
John Avon

You gain 5 life.

All over the Razor Fields, Whitesun is celebrated. Even the followers of the rebel Juryan, far from the Cave of Light, bow their heads in reverence.

Dominaria's Judgment (Planeshift)
John Avon

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain protection from white if you control a Plains, from blue if you control an Island, from black if you control a Swamp, from red if you control a Mountain, and from green if you control a Forest.

Drownyard Temple (Commander 2019)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {3}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

"This is it! All the cryptoliths point here!" —Jace Beleren

Forest (Starter 1999)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Vivid Marsh (Commander 2013)
John Avon

This land enters tapped with two charge counters on it. {T}: Add {B}. {T}, Remove a charge counter from this land: Add one mana of any color.

Fog (Magic 2010)
John Avon

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"I fear no army or beast, but only the morning fog. Our assault can survive everything else." —Lord Hilneth

Coral Atoll (Commander Legends)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{U}.

Hostile Realm (Morningtide)
John Avon

Enchant land Enchanted land has "{T}: Target creature can't block this turn."

Lorwyn's crust explodes with power when the greater elementals are born. The flamekin use the fallout as cover for forays into enemy territory.

Quiet Speculation (Eternal Masters)
John Avon

Search target player's library for up to three cards with flashback and put them into that player's graveyard. Then the player shuffles.

"The best foresight is hindsight." —Empress Llawan

Darksteel Citadel (Mystery Booster 2)
John Avon

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Panopticon, forge of the Darksteel Eye, home of Mirrodin's keeper.

Island (Mirrodin)
John Avon

({T}: Add {U}.)

Jungle Basin (Commander 2014)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Forest you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{G}.

Explosive Vegetation (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
John Avon

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Torching Krosa would be pointless. It grows faster than it burns.

Kodama's Reach (Commander 2020)
John Avon

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Murmuring Bosk (From the Vault: Realms)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.) As this land enters, you may reveal a Treefolk card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Izzet Boilerworks (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
John Avon

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

Golgari Rot Farm (Commander 2015)
John Avon

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

Prophetic Prism (Jumpstart)
John Avon

When this artifact enters, draw a card. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

"The explorer who found it got a bad deal when he sold it. He merely got rich."

Simic Growth Chamber (Forgotten Realms Commander)
John Avon

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

Forest (Mirrodin)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Legacy Weapon (Apocalypse)
John Avon

{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Exile target permanent. If Legacy Weapon would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Legacy Weapon and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Tranquil Cove (Core Set 2020)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Mountain (Fifth Edition)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Armageddon (Judge Gift Cards 2004)
John Avon

Destroy all lands.

"'O miserable of happy! Is this the end Of this new glorious world... ?'" —John Milton, *Paradise Lost*

Dakmor Salvage (Future Sight)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Mountain (Anthologies)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Seat of the Synod (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
John Avon

{T}: Add {U}.

Lumengrid, site of the Knowledge Pool, source of vedalken arcana.

Azorius Chancery (Modern Masters 2015)
John Avon

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

Boros Garrison (Zendikar Rising Commander)
John Avon

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

Mist Raven (The List)
John Avon

Flying When this creature enters, return target creature to its owner's hand.

"When you see a raven, head for the hills. It knows when the ghost-tide is headed in." —Sved, fisherman of Nephalia

Dawn's Reflection (The List)
John Avon

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional two mana in any combination of colors.

Only Sylvok magic could truly capture the perfection of a Mirrodin sunrise.

Gruul Turf (Bloomburrow Commander)
John Avon

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

Singe (Planeshift)
John Avon

Singe deals 1 damage to target creature. That creature becomes black until end of turn.

Burnt flesh. Blackened soul.

Rakdos Carnarium (Modern Masters 2015)
John Avon

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

Dakmor Salvage (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Dakmor Salvage (Ultimate Masters)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Dakmor Salvage (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Island (World Championship Decks 2002)
John Avon

({T}: Add {U}.)

Dimir Aqueduct (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
John Avon

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

Dormant Volcano (Commander 2014)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Mountain you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{R}.

Arid Mesa (Secret Lair: Ultimate Edition)
John Avon

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Mossfire Valley (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
John Avon

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Lush growth spreads like a ferocious blaze across the Otarian hillsides.

Maelstrom Pulse (Double Masters)
John Avon

Destroy target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.

During the collision of the shards, entire ways of life disappeared without a trace.

Caustic Tar (Odyssey)
John Avon

Enchant land Enchanted land has "{T}: Target player loses 3 life."

"Twisted magic, twisted fate, Force the land to ooze with hate." —Cabal chant

Island (Double Masters)
John Avon

({T}: Add {U}.)

Mountain (Arena League 2006)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Serrated Arrows (Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana)
John Avon

This artifact enters with three arrowhead counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no arrowhead counters on this artifact, sacrifice it. {T}, Remove an arrowhead counter from this artifact: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Kodama's Reach (March of the Machine Commander)
John Avon

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Kodama's Reach (Commander Legends)
John Avon

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Honden of Infinite Rage (Eternal Masters)
John Avon

At the beginning of your upkeep, Honden of Infinite Rage deals damage to any target equal to the number of Shrines you control.

To the sorrow of all, its rage became focused on those who once stoked it.

Kodama's Reach (Commander Legends)
John Avon

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Golgari Rot Farm (GRN Guild Kit)
John Avon

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

Forest (Planechase)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Darksteel Citadel (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Inventors)
John Avon

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Structures built from darksteel yield to neither assault nor age.

Mountain (Urza's Saga)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mist Raven (Innistrad Remastered)
John Avon

Flying When this creature enters, return target creature to its owner's hand.

"When you see a raven, head for the hills. It knows when the ghost-tide is headed in." —Sved, fisherman of Nephalia

Forest (Starter 1999)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Coral Atoll (Commander 2014)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{U}.

Kodama's Reach (Ultimate Masters)
John Avon

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Golgari Rot Farm (Double Masters 2022)
John Avon

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

Mountain (Double Masters)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Stensia Bloodhall (Starter Commander Decks)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {3}{B}{R}, {T}: This land deals 2 damage to target player or planeswalker.

The revelry ends when the supply of fresh ingenues runs dry.

Millstone (Ninth Edition)
John Avon

{2}, {T}: Target player mills two cards.

More than one mage has been driven insane by the sound of the millstone relentlessly grinding away.

Kilnspire District (Planechase Anthology Planes)
John Avon

When you planeswalk to Kilnspire District and at the beginning of your first main phase, put a charge counter on Kilnspire District, then add {R} for each charge counter on it. Whenever chaos ensues, you may pay {X}. If you do, Kilnspire District deals X damage to any target.

Plains (Magic 2010)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Maelstrom Pulse (Grand Prix Promos)
John Avon

Destroy target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.

During the collision of the shards, entire ways of life disappeared without a trace.

Fellwar Stone (Neon Dynasty Commander)
John Avon

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

"What do you have that I cannot obtain?" —Mairsil, the Pretender

Forest (Classic Sixth Edition)
John Avon

({T}: Add {G}.)

Orzhov Basilica (Modern Masters 2015)
John Avon

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

Vault of the Archangel (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

"For centuries my creation kept this world in balance. Now only her shadow remains." —Sorin Markov

Grixis Sojourners (Alara Reborn)
John Avon

When you cycle this card and when this creature dies, you may exile target card from a graveyard. Cycling {2}{B} ({2}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Runechanter's Pike (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
John Avon

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +X/+0, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Equip {2}

"Harmonic resonance infusions amplify the natural abilities of the song mages of Sumifa." —Drafna, research notes

Simic Growth Chamber (Commander Legends)
John Avon

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

Vessel of Endless Rest (Commander 2018)
John Avon

When this artifact enters, put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Mutavault (Grand Prix Promos)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {1}: This land becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.

Some worlds possess a hidden core where life's essence constantly surges.

Witching Well (Foundations Jumpstart)
John Avon

When this artifact enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.) {3}{U}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

It was built by the Witch of Lochmere. Most of the wishes it grants are its own.

Fog (Archenemy)
John Avon

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"I fear no army or beast, but only the morning fog. Our assault can survive everything else." —Lord Hilneth

Boros Garrison (Commander 2011)
John Avon

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

Thespian's Stage (Ultimate Masters)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Amid rumors of war, the third act of *The Absolution of the Guildpact* was quickly rewritten as a tragedy.

Harmonic Convergence (Urza's Legacy)
John Avon

Put all enchantments on top of their owners' libraries.

When the eternal stars align, can mere mortals resist?

Swamp (World Championship Decks 1999)
John Avon

({T}: Add {B}.)

Mountain (Return to Ravnica)
John Avon

({T}: Add {R}.)

Tree of Tales (The List)
John Avon

{T}: Add {G}.

Tel-Jilad, sanctum of the ancient trolls, keepers of the secret of Mirrodin's origin.

Dimir Aqueduct (Planechase 2012)
John Avon

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

Grasslands (Dominaria United Commander)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Orzhov Basilica (Commander 2015)
John Avon

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

Seat of the Synod (Commander 2018)
John Avon

{T}: Add {U}.

Lumengrid, site of the Knowledge Pool, source of vedalken arcana.

Savage Lands (Friday Night Magic 2011)
John Avon

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

Jund is a world as cruel as those who call it home. Their brutal struggles scar the land even as it carves them in its image, a vicious circle spiraling out of control.

Vivid Marsh (Modern Masters)
John Avon

This land enters tapped with two charge counters on it. {T}: Add {B}. {T}, Remove a charge counter from this land: Add one mana of any color.

Fellwar Stone (Bloomburrow Commander)
John Avon

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

"What do you have that I cannot obtain?" —Mairsil, the Pretender

Azorius Chancery (Commander Anthology Volume II)
John Avon

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

Plains (Core Set 2020)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Darksteel Citadel (Darksteel)
John Avon

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Panopticon, forge of the Darksteel Eye, home of Mirrodin's keeper.

Thespian's Stage (Ravnica Remastered)
John Avon

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Amid rumors of war, the third act of The *Absolution of the Guildpact* was quickly rewritten as a tragedy.

Centaur Garden (World Championship Decks 2003)
John Avon

{T}: Add {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you. Threshold — {G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Mist Raven (Modern Masters 2017)
John Avon

Flying When this creature enters, return target creature to its owner's hand.

"When you see a raven, head for the hills. It knows when the ghost-tide is headed in." —Sved, fisherman of Nephalia

Arcbound Lancer (Darksteel)
John Avon

First strike Modular 4 (This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Plains (Dominaria Remastered)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Prophetic Prism (Commander 2011)
John Avon

When this artifact enters, draw a card. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

"The explorer who found it got a bad deal when he sold it. He merely got rich."

Plains (World Championship Decks 2004)
John Avon

({T}: Add {W}.)

Orzhov Basilica (Commander 2016)
John Avon

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

Darksteel Citadel (The List)
John Avon

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Structures built from darksteel yield to neither assault nor age.

Silent Departure (Innistrad)
John Avon

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Flashback {4}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

The same magic that lets geists pass through our realm can force them out of it.

Dimir Aqueduct (Midnight Hunt Commander)
John Avon

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

Bant Sojourners (Alara Reborn)
John Avon

When you cycle this card and when this creature dies, you may create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token. Cycling {2}{W} ({2}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"We must spread Bant's light before we are shadowed over."

Simic Growth Chamber (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
John Avon

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