Demonic Taskmaster

Demonic Taskmaster (Innistrad Remastered)
Chris Rahn

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature.

Subservience to greater power is the only law in the pit.

Demonic Taskmaster (Avacyn Restored)
Chris Rahn

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature.

Subservience to greater power is the only law in the pit.

Demonic Taskmaster (Innistrad Remastered)
Chris Rahn

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature.

Subservience to greater power is the only law in the pit.

Sleep (The List)
Chris Rahn

Tap all creatures target player controls. Those creatures don't untap during that player's next untap step.

"I give them dreams so wondrous that they hesitate to return to the world of the conscious." —Garild, merfolk mage

Ior Ruin Expedition (The List)
Chris Rahn

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. Remove three quest counters from this enchantment and sacrifice it: Draw two cards.

Sword of Feast and Famine (Mirrodin Besieged)
Chris Rahn

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

Eternal Witness (The List)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Sword of Sinew and Steel (Modern Horizons 1 Timeshifts)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from red. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy up to one target planeswalker and up to one target artifact. Equip {2}

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (Dominaria United)
Chris Rahn

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

"Gix failed. I shall not."

Elenda, the Dusk Rose (Rivals of Ixalan Promos)
Chris Rahn

Lifelink Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda. When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.

Her centuries-long search is ended.

Spit Flame (Core Set 2019 Promos)
Chris Rahn

Spit Flame deals 4 damage to target creature. Whenever a Dragon you control enters, you may pay {R}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Radha, Heart of Keld (Core Set 2021)
Chris Rahn

During your turn, Radha has first strike. You may look at the top card of your library any time, and you may play lands from the top of your library. {4}{R}{G}: Radha gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of lands you control.

Rhox Charger (Shards of Alara)
Chris Rahn

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

"Momentum is a great ally."

Eternal Witness (Ultimate Masters)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Huatli, Radiant Champion (Rivals of Ixalan Promos)
Chris Rahn

+1: Put a loyalty counter on Huatli for each creature you control. −1: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control. −8: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control enters, you may draw a card."

Blackblade Reforged (Dominaria Promos)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control. Equip legendary creature {3} Equip {7}

It spilled the blood of one elder dragon. In Gideon's hands, it may yet taste another's.

Tasigur, the Golden Fang (Fate Reforged Promos)
Chris Rahn

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) {2}{G/U}{G/U}: Mill two cards, then return a nonland card of an opponent's choice from your graveyard to your hand.

Steel Overseer (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Chris Rahn

{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.

"The world is already run by all manner of machines. One day, they'll remind us of that fact." —Sargis Haz, artificer

Tangle Mantis (Mirrodin Besieged)
Chris Rahn

Trample

The fiercest hunters in the Tangle don't seek out the mantises. They *are* the mantises.

Instill Infection (The List)
Chris Rahn

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. Draw a card.

"The results of our ninth inoculation were the same. The specimen was, of course, euthanized before the contagion could spread." —Vedalken research notes

Demanding Dragon (Core Set 2019 Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying When this creature enters, it deals 5 damage to target opponent unless that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

A knight's devotion to their steed goes only so far.

Stallion of Ashmouth (The List)
Chris Rahn

Delirium — {1}{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Echoing hoofbeats can no longer be assumed to be help from the Gavony Riders.

Blackblade Reforged (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control. Equip legendary creature {3} Equip {7}

"Tempered in the blood of ten thousand sacrifices? Superstitious drivel." —Mishra, note to his researchers

Sigarda, Host of Herons (Innistrad Remastered)
Chris Rahn

Flying, hexproof Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause you to sacrifice permanents.

Great devotion yields great reward.

Thunder Dragon (From the Vault: Dragons)
Chris Rahn

Flying When this creature enters, it deals 3 damage to each creature without flying.

Sometimes primitive cultures attributed natural phenomena to monsters. Sometimes they were right.

Charmed Stray (War of the Spark)
Chris Rahn

Lifelink When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control named Charmed Stray.

"There's something peculiar about the cats today." —Janoc, Tin Street tinker

Argent Sphinx (Scars of Mirrodin)
Chris Rahn

Flying Metalcraft — {U}: Exile this creature. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

A great mirage, a dream of wings and silver.

Tiamat (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying When Tiamat enters, if you cast it, search your library for up to five Dragon cards not named Tiamat that each have different names, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

"My children will rule over all!"

Lord of the Void (Ravnica Remastered)
Chris Rahn

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top seven cards of that player's library, then put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield under your control.

Ygra, Eater of All (Bloomburrow Promos)
Chris Rahn

Ward—Sacrifice a Food. Other creatures are Food artifacts in addition to their other types and have "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this permanent: You gain 3 life." Whenever a Food is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on Ygra.

Elder Cathar (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
Chris Rahn

When this creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. If that creature is a Human, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead.

"My greatest hope is that you will surpass me in every way, consigning my name to some forgotten corner of history."

Groundswell (Worldwake)
Chris Rahn

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn instead.

"This world will not be tamed."

Renata, Called to the Hunt (Theros Beyond Death)
Chris Rahn

Renata's power is equal to your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.) Each other creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Aegar, the Freezing Flame (Kaldheim)
Chris Rahn

Whenever a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls is dealt excess damage, if a Giant, Wizard, or spell you controlled dealt damage to it this turn, draw a card.

Phyrexian Ingester (Eternal Masters)
Chris Rahn

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. This creature gets +X/+Y, where X is the exiled creature card's power and Y is its toughness.

Rootha, Mercurial Artist (The List)
Chris Rahn

{2}, Return Rootha to its owner's hand: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"Art is never finished. Merely abandoned."

Adult Gold Dragon (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Chris Rahn

Flying, lifelink, haste

Gold dragons are the greatest of the metallic dragons in size, power, and wisdom, and often take it upon themselves to safeguard mortal communities from evils that might threaten them.

Corpsejack Menace (Iconic Masters)
Chris Rahn

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Weakness is not in the nature of the Swarm.

Angrath, Minotaur Pirate (Rivals of Ixalan)
Chris Rahn

+2: Angrath deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. −3: Return target Pirate card from your graveyard to the battlefield. −11: Destroy all creatures target opponent controls. Angrath deals damage to that player equal to their total power.

Eternal Witness (Time Spiral Remastered)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Conquering Manticore (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Chris Rahn

Flying When this creature enters, gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

It speaks no commands but is always obeyed.

Volcanic Dragon (Core Set 2020)
Chris Rahn

Flying, haste

"That's no ordinary eruption!" —Grazlash Stonehold, last words

Pride Guardian (Conspiracy)
Chris Rahn

Defender Whenever this creature blocks, you gain 3 life.

"Any hotheaded cub can raise a sword in anger."

Akoum Firebird (Battle for Zendikar)
Chris Rahn

Flying, haste This creature attacks each combat if able. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay {4}{R}{R}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Searing Spear (Jumpstart 2022)
Chris Rahn

Searing Spear deals 3 damage to any target.

Sometimes you die a glorious death with your sword held high. Sometimes you're just target practice.

Lyra Dawnbringer (Dominaria Remastered)
Chris Rahn

Flying First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.

"You are not alone. You never were."

Inspiring Roar (Aether Revolt)
Chris Rahn

Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

"This is about more than aether or inventions. Tezzeret's schemes must be stopped!" —Ajani Goldmane

Sword of Dungeons & Dragons (Unstable)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from Rogues and from Clerics. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create a 4/4 gold Dragon creature token with flying and roll a d20 (a twenty-sided die). If you roll a 20, repeat this process. Equip {2}

Master of the Feast (Journey into Nyx)
Chris Rahn

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent draws a card.

Any pleasure, when taken to excess, becomes torment. It's a formula that demons have perfected.

Vraska, Relic Seeker (Ixalan Promos)
Chris Rahn

+2: Create a 2/2 black Pirate creature token with menace. −3: Destroy target artifact, creature, or enchantment. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") −10: Target player's life total becomes 1.

Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos)
Chris Rahn

Whenever you attack with one or more non-Gnome creatures, put a +1/+1 counter on Anim Pakal, then create X 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens that are tapped and attacking, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Anim Pakal.

"If we are to protect this world, we can no longer hide within it!"

Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Chris Rahn

Whenever you attack with one or more non-Gnome creatures, put a +1/+1 counter on Anim Pakal, then create X 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens that are tapped and attacking, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Anim Pakal.

"If we are to protect this world, we can no longer hide within it!"

Ior Ruin Expedition (Zendikar)
Chris Rahn

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. Remove three quest counters from this enchantment and sacrifice it: Draw two cards.

Demanding Dragon (Core Set 2019)
Chris Rahn

Flying When this creature enters, it deals 5 damage to target opponent unless that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

A knight's devotion to their steed goes only so far.

Sword of Light and Shadow (Modern Masters)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from black. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain 3 life and you may return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Equip {2}

Atarka's Command (Double Masters 2022)
Chris Rahn

Choose two — • Your opponents can't gain life this turn. • Atarka's Command deals 3 damage to each opponent. • You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. • Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain reach until end of turn.

Dina, Soul Steeper (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Chris Rahn

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life. {1}, Sacrifice another creature: Dina gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Steel Leaf Champion (Dominaria Promos)
Chris Rahn

This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

One eye open to see the truth of the world. One eye covered to gaze at the goddess within.

Steel Overseer (Jumpstart 2022)
Chris Rahn

{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.

"The world is already run by all manner of machines. One day, they'll remind us of that fact." —Sargis Haz, artificer

Ior Ruin Expedition (Commander Legends)
Chris Rahn

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. Remove three quest counters from this enchantment and sacrifice it: Draw two cards.

Groundswell (Foundations Jumpstart)
Chris Rahn

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn instead.

"This world will not be tamed."

Spit Flame (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Chris Rahn

Spit Flame deals 4 damage to target creature. Whenever a Dragon you control enters, you may pay {R}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Blackblade Reforged (Dominaria)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control. Equip legendary creature {3} Equip {7}

It spilled the blood of one elder dragon. In Gideon's hands, it may yet taste another's.

Brainstorm (The List)
Chris Rahn

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

Path of Bravery (Jumpstart)
Chris Rahn

As long as your life total is greater than or equal to your starting life total, creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever one or more creatures you control attack, you gain life equal to the number of attacking creatures.

Nylea, Keen-Eyed (Theros Beyond Death Promos)
Chris Rahn

Indestructible As long as your devotion to green is less than five, Nylea isn't a creature. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {2}{G}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, you may put it into your graveyard.

Ziatora, the Incinerator (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, Ziatora deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target and you create three Treasure tokens.

Angelic Page (Masters 25)
Chris Rahn

Flying {T}: Target attacking or blocking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

If only every message were as perfect as its bearer.

Halo Hunter (Zendikar)
Chris Rahn

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) When this creature enters, destroy target Angel.

Hanging on the walls of his lair, the fallen halos cast his depravity in everlasting light.

Acolyte of Xathrid (Magic 2010)
Chris Rahn

{1}{B}, {T}: Target player loses 1 life.

Like all priests, she gives her blessings only to those truly worthy of them.

Blackblade Reforged (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control. Equip legendary creature {3} Equip {7}

"Tempered in the blood of ten thousand sacrifices? Superstitious drivel." —Mishra, note to his researchers

Crosis, the Purger (Premium Deck Series: Graveborn)
Chris Rahn

Flying Whenever Crosis deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{B}. If you do, choose a color, then that player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.

Steel Overseer (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
Chris Rahn

{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.

"The world is already run by all manner of machines. One day, they'll remind us of that fact." —Sargis Haz, artificer

General Tazri (Oath of the Gatewatch)
Chris Rahn

When General Tazri enters, you may search your library for an Ally creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Ally creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of colors among those creatures.

Tajuru Archer (Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi)
Chris Rahn

Whenever this creature or another Ally you control enters, you may have this creature deal damage to target creature with flying equal to the number of Allies you control.

Goldnight Commander (The List)
Chris Rahn

Whenever another creature you control enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"One faith, but many hands in victory."

Qasali Pridemage (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Chris Rahn

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

An elder in one pride, of the Sigiled caste in another.

Null Champion (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Chris Rahn

Level up {3} ({3}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.) LEVEL 1-3 4/2 LEVEL 4+ 7/3 {B}: Regenerate this creature.

Goldnight Commander (Jumpstart 2022)
Chris Rahn

Whenever another creature you control enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"One faith, but many hands in victory."

Archetype of Finality (Born of the Gods)
Chris Rahn

Creatures you control have deathtouch. Creatures your opponents control lose deathtouch and can't have or gain deathtouch.

She sees mortals not as they wish to be, but as what they will become.

Archon of the Wild Rose (Wilds of Eldraine Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying Other creatures you control that are enchanted by Auras you control have base power and toughness 4/4 and have flying.

The curse of Redtooth Keep could only be broken by a mystical rose that blooms in moonlight.

Sword of Hearth and Home (Modern Horizons 2)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from white. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target creature you own, then search your library for a basic land card. Put both cards onto the battlefield under your control, then shuffle. Equip {2}

Stitched Drake (Ultimate Masters)
Chris Rahn

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard. Flying

"The best skaabs are more powerful and more beautiful than the sum of their parts." —Stitcher Geralf

Ior Ruin Expedition (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Chris Rahn

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. Remove three quest counters from this enchantment and sacrifice it: Draw two cards.

Volcanic Dragon (The List)
Chris Rahn

Flying, haste

Sometimes an eruption in Shiv produces something more dangerous than a mere river of molten rock.

Ob Nixilis Reignited Emblem (Battle for Zendikar Tokens)
Chris Rahn

Whenever a player draws a card, you lose 2 life.

Spit Flame (Starter Commander Decks)
Chris Rahn

Spit Flame deals 4 damage to target creature. Whenever a Dragon you control enters, you may pay {R}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Tamiyo, Compleated Sage (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos)
Chris Rahn

Compleated ({G/U/P} can be paid with {G}, {U}, or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.) +1: Tap up to one target artifact or creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. −X: Exile target nonland permanent card with mana value X from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of that card. −7: Create Tamiyo's Notebook, a legendary colorless artifact token with "Spells you cast cost {2} less to cast" and "{T}: Draw a card."

Wolf (Scars of Mirrodin Tokens)
Chris Rahn

Sigarda, Host of Herons (Open the Helvault)
Chris Rahn

Flying, hexproof Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause you to sacrifice permanents.

Great devotion yields great reward.

Ashen Rider (Theros)
Chris Rahn

Flying When this creature enters or dies, exile target permanent.

One offering to appease her on her arrival. Another to celebrate her departure.

Trusted Pegasus (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Chris Rahn

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever this creature attacks, target attacking creature without flying gains flying until end of turn.

"Would you give your life to save this world?" Gideon murmured. The pegasus snorted and spread wide its mighty wings.

Tiamat (The List)
Chris Rahn

Flying When Tiamat enters, if you cast it, search your library for up to five Dragon cards not named Tiamat that each have different names, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

"My children will rule over all!"

Ainok Bond-Kin (The List)
Chris Rahn

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

"Hold the line, for family and the fallen!"

Skyship Stalker (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Chris Rahn

Flying {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {R}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {R}: This creature gains haste until end of turn.

Kozilek, the Great Distortion (Secret Lair Drop)
Chris Rahn

When you cast this spell, if you have fewer than seven cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference. Menace Discard a card with mana value X: Counter target spell with mana value X.

Angelic Page (Jumpstart 2022)
Chris Rahn

Flying {T}: Target attacking or blocking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

If only every message were as perfect as its bearer.

Phyrexian Ingester (The List)
Chris Rahn

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. This creature gets +X/+Y, where X is the exiled creature card's power and Y is its toughness.

Obstinate Baloth (Magic 2011)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, you gain 4 life. If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, put it onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your graveyard.

Skaab Ruinator (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Chris Rahn

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile three creature cards from your graveyard. Flying You may cast this card from your graveyard.

Sleep (The List)
Chris Rahn

Tap all creatures target player controls. Those creatures don't untap during that player's next untap step.

"I give them dreams so wondrous that they hesitate to return to the world of the conscious." —Garild, merfolk mage

Ainok Bond-Kin (Commander Masters)
Chris Rahn

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

"Hold the line, for family and the fallen!"

Ajani Steadfast (Commander Masters)
Chris Rahn

+1: Until end of turn, up to one target creature gets +1/+1 and gains first strike, vigilance, and lifelink. −2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and a loyalty counter on each other planeswalker you control. −7: You get an emblem with "If a source would deal damage to you or a planeswalker you control, prevent all but 1 of that damage."

Eternal Witness (Commander Legends)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Matter Reshaper (Oath of the Gatewatch)
Chris Rahn

({C} represents colorless mana.) When this creature dies, reveal the top card of your library. You may put that card onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card with mana value 3 or less. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Knight-Captain of Eos (Shards of Alara)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens. {W}, Sacrifice a Soldier: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

The strength of Bant's caste system is the unfailing loyalty of its meekest members.

Stitched Drake (The List)
Chris Rahn

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard. Flying

"The best skaabs are more powerful and more beautiful than the sum of their parts." —Stitcher Geralf

Neheb, the Worthy (Amonkhet)
Chris Rahn

First strike Other Minotaurs you control have first strike. As long as you have one or fewer cards in hand, Minotaurs you control get +2/+0. Whenever Neheb deals combat damage to a player, each player discards a card.

Sleep (Core Set 2019)
Chris Rahn

Tap all creatures target player controls. Those creatures don't untap during that player's next untap step.

"I give them dreams so wondrous that they hesitate to return to the world of the conscious." —Garild, merfolk mage

Imodane, the Pyrohammer (Wilds of Eldraine)
Chris Rahn

Whenever an instant or sorcery spell you control that targets only a single creature deals damage to that creature, Imodane deals that much damage to each opponent.

"The realm needs a ruler, not a boy playing king."

Trusted Pegasus (War of the Spark)
Chris Rahn

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever this creature attacks, target attacking creature without flying gains flying until end of turn.

"Would you give your life to save this world?" Gideon murmured. The pegasus snorted and spread wide its mighty wings.

Lodestone Golem (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Chris Rahn

Nonartifact spells cost {1} more to cast.

"Somehow it warps the Æther. It brings a strange weight, a blockade in the flow of spellcraft." —Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Sword of Body and Mind (Scars of Mirrodin)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from blue. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token and that player mills ten cards. Equip {2}

Jegantha, the Wellspring (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos)
Chris Rahn

Companion — No card in your starting deck has more than one of the same mana symbol in its mana cost. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) {T}: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}. This mana can't be spent to pay generic mana costs.

Sylvan Bounty (Modern Masters 2015)
Chris Rahn

Target player gains 8 life. Basic landcycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Some who scouted new lands chose to stay.

Neheb, the Worthy (Amonkhet Promos)
Chris Rahn

First strike Other Minotaurs you control have first strike. As long as you have one or fewer cards in hand, Minotaurs you control get +2/+0. Whenever Neheb deals combat damage to a player, each player discards a card.

Winged Shepherd (Amonkhet)
Chris Rahn

Flying, vigilance Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"When the Hour of Promise arrives, the God-Pharaoh will tear down the Hekma, for its protection will be needed no longer." —*The Accounting of Hours*

Kardur, Doomscourge (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Chris Rahn

When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able. Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Lavinia, Foil to Conspiracy (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Chris Rahn

Vigilance Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only during an opponent's turn.

Cyclonic Rift (Double Masters)
Chris Rahn

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

The Izzet specialize in unnatural disaster.

Mountain (Foundations Jumpstart)
Chris Rahn

({T}: Add {R}.)

Dina, Soul Steeper (The List)
Chris Rahn

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life. {1}, Sacrifice another creature: Dina gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Swift Reckoning (Magic Origins)
Chris Rahn

Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, you may cast this spell as though it had flash. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.) Destroy target tapped creature.

Starfall (Journey into Nyx)
Chris Rahn

Starfall deals 3 damage to target creature. If that creature is an enchantment, Starfall deals 3 damage to that creature's controller.

"The most brilliant stars are not born of Nyx." —Rhexenor, Akroan flamespeaker

Kogla, the Titan Ape (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Chris Rahn

When Kogla enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. Whenever Kogla attacks, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls. {1}{G}: Return target Human you control to its owner's hand. Kogla gains indestructible until end of turn.

Satyr Firedancer (Born of the Gods)
Chris Rahn

Whenever an instant or sorcery spell you control deals damage to an opponent, this creature deals that much damage to target creature that player controls.

His heart, the coal; his eye, the spark; his hand, the whirling flame.

Tovolar, Dire Overlord (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos)
Chris Rahn

Emberheart Challenger (Bloomburrow Promos)
Chris Rahn

Haste Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Valiant — Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability you control for the first time each turn, exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card.

Sleep (Magic 2011)
Chris Rahn

Tap all creatures target player controls. Those creatures don't untap during that player's next untap step.

"I give them dreams so wondrous that they hesitate to return to the world of the conscious." —Garild, merfolk mage

Sleep (Magic 2010)
Chris Rahn

Tap all creatures target player controls. Those creatures don't untap during that player's next untap step.

"I give them dreams so wondrous that they hesitate to return to the world of the conscious." —Garild, merfolk mage

Vraska, Relic Seeker (Ixalan)
Chris Rahn

+2: Create a 2/2 black Pirate creature token with menace. −3: Destroy target artifact, creature, or enchantment. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") −10: Target player's life total becomes 1.

Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice (Guilds of Ravnica)
Chris Rahn

Flying Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose up to one target creature you control. Until end of turn, that creature gets +2/+0, gains trample if it's red, and gains vigilance if it's white.

Gisa, the Hellraiser (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Promos)
Chris Rahn

Ward—{2}, Pay 2 life. Skeletons and Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have menace. Whenever you commit a crime, create two tapped 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Hill Giant Herdgorger (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, you gain 3 life.

A shepherd's crook is useful for cleaning bits of wool out of the teeth.

Adult Gold Dragon (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying, lifelink, haste

Gold dragons are the greatest of the metallic dragons in size, power, and wisdom, and often take it upon themselves to safeguard mortal communities from evils that might threaten them.

Blackblade Reforged (Dominaria Promos)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control. Equip legendary creature {3} Equip {7}

It spilled the blood of one elder dragon. In Gideon's hands, it may yet taste another's.

Chandra, Pyromaster (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Chris Rahn

+1: Chandra deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and 1 damage to up to one target creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. That creature can't block this turn. 0: Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn. −7: Exile the top ten cards of your library. Choose an instant or sorcery card exiled this way and copy it three times. You may cast the copies without paying their mana costs.

Kogla, the Titan Ape (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos)
Chris Rahn

When Kogla enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. Whenever Kogla attacks, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls. {1}{G}: Return target Human you control to its owner's hand. Kogla gains indestructible until end of turn.

The Raven Man (Dominaria United Promos)
Chris Rahn

At the beginning of each end step, if a player discarded a card this turn, create a 1/1 black Bird creature token with flying and "This token can't block." {3}{B}, {T}: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Conquering Manticore (Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters)
Chris Rahn

Flying When this creature enters, gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

It speaks no commands but is always obeyed.

Atarka's Command (Dragons of Tarkir)
Chris Rahn

Choose two — • Your opponents can't gain life this turn. • Atarka's Command deals 3 damage to each opponent. • You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. • Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain reach until end of turn.

Sram, Senior Edificer (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Chris Rahn

Whenever you cast an Aura, Equipment, or Vehicle spell, draw a card.

"As this conflict grows, it gets harder to prevent the city from breaking down. How much longer can we keep this machinery balanced?"

Sarulf, Realm Eater (Kaldheim Promos)
Chris Rahn

Whenever a permanent an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Sarulf. At the beginning of your upkeep, if Sarulf has one or more +1/+1 counters on it, you may remove all of them. If you do, exile each other nonland permanent with mana value less than or equal to the number of counters removed this way.

Craterhoof Behemoth (Modern Masters 2017)
Chris Rahn

Haste When this creature enters, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice (Ravnica Remastered)
Chris Rahn

Flying Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose up to one target creature you control. Until end of turn, that creature gets +2/+0, gains trample if it's red, and gains vigilance if it's white.

Instill Infection (Modern Masters 2015)
Chris Rahn

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. Draw a card.

"The results of our ninth inoculation were the same. The specimen was, of course, euthanized before the contagion could spread." —Vedalken research notes

Concordia Pegasus (Core Set 2020)
Chris Rahn

Flying

In the cloudy skies and dim light of autumn, a flash of white wings is a reminder that better times lie ahead.

Imodane, the Pyrohammer (Wilds of Eldraine Promos)
Chris Rahn

Whenever an instant or sorcery spell you control that targets only a single creature deals damage to that creature, Imodane deals that much damage to each opponent.

"The realm needs a ruler, not a boy playing king."

Sarkhan's Rage (Foundations Jumpstart)
Chris Rahn

Sarkhan's Rage deals 5 damage to any target. If you control no Dragons, Sarkhan's Rage deals 2 damage to you.

The people of Tarkir speak of an ancient legend, of the dragon-man called Sarkhan who was greatest of all khans.

Kalonian Hydra (The List)
Chris Rahn

Trample This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Even baloths fear its feeding time.

Abzan Battle Priest (Iconic Masters)
Chris Rahn

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

"Wherever I walk, the ancestors walk too."

Frostpeak Yeti (Kaldheim)
Chris Rahn

{1}{S}: This creature can't be blocked this turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

Some heroes line their coats with yeti fur. More yetis line their bellies with heroes.

Eternal Witness (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Oran-Rief Hydra (Battle for Zendikar Promos)
Chris Rahn

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. If that land is a Forest, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature instead.

Polukranos, Unchained (Theros Beyond Death Promos)
Chris Rahn

Polukranos enters with six +1/+1 counters on it. It escapes with twelve +1/+1 counters on it instead. If damage would be dealt to Polukranos while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove that many +1/+1 counters from it. {1}{B}{G}: Polukranos fights another target creature. Escape—{4}{B}{G}, Exile six other cards from your graveyard.

Star of Extinction (Ixalan Promos)
Chris Rahn

Destroy target land. Star of Extinction deals 20 damage to each creature and each planeswalker.

"The visions haunt me. I see the end of the world, brought on by the search for the Immortal Sun." —Shaper Pashona

Stitched Drake (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
Chris Rahn

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard. Flying

"The best skaabs are more powerful and more beautiful than the sum of their parts." —Stitcher Geralf

Polukranos, Unchained (Theros Beyond Death Promos)
Chris Rahn

Polukranos enters with six +1/+1 counters on it. It escapes with twelve +1/+1 counters on it instead. If damage would be dealt to Polukranos while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove that many +1/+1 counters from it. {1}{B}{G}: Polukranos fights another target creature. Escape—{4}{B}{G}, Exile six other cards from your graveyard.

Sleep (Commander 2015)
Chris Rahn

Tap all creatures target player controls. Those creatures don't untap during that player's next untap step.

"I give them dreams so wondrous that they hesitate to return to the world of the conscious." —Garild, merfolk mage

Illuna, Apex of Wishes (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Chris Rahn

Mutate {3}{R/G}{U}{U} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.) Flying, trample Whenever this creature mutates, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland permanent card. Put that card onto the battlefield or into your hand.

Voyage's End (Jumpstart)
Chris Rahn

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Philosophers say those lost at sea ascended to a more perfect realm. Sailors say they drowned.

Emberheart Challenger (Bloomburrow)
Chris Rahn

Haste Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Valiant — Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability you control for the first time each turn, exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card.

Archetype of Finality (The List)
Chris Rahn

Creatures you control have deathtouch. Creatures your opponents control lose deathtouch and can't have or gain deathtouch.

She sees mortals not as they wish to be, but as what they will become.

Leatherback Baloth (DCI Promos)
Chris Rahn

Heavy enough to withstand the Roil, leatherback skeletons are havens for travelers in storms and landshifts.

Tiamat (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying When Tiamat enters, if you cast it, search your library for up to five Dragon cards not named Tiamat that each have different names, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

"My children will rule over all!"

Concordia Pegasus (Ravnica Allegiance)
Chris Rahn

Flying

"What makes a frog lizard any worse than a bird horse? Prejudice against the Simic, that's what. It's unfair!" —Thados Arquef, Guardian Project biomancer

Exemplar of Light (Foundations)
Chris Rahn

Flying Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on this creature, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice (Guilds of Ravnica Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose up to one target creature you control. Until end of turn, that creature gets +2/+0, gains trample if it's red, and gains vigilance if it's white.

Crosis, the Purger (Commander 2017)
Chris Rahn

Flying Whenever Crosis deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{B}. If you do, choose a color, then that player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.

Ceremonious Rejection (Kaladesh)
Chris Rahn

Counter target colorless spell.

The judges at the Fair are held in such high esteem that a nod of recognition can inspire an inventor for a lifetime—and a wave of dismissal can end a career.

Llanowar Elves (Dominaria United Promos)
Chris Rahn

{T}: Add {G}.

As patient and generous as life, as harsh and merciless as nature.

Enigma Sphinx (Commander 2018)
Chris Rahn

Flying When this creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put it into your library third from the top. Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Tajuru Archer (Zendikar)
Chris Rahn

Whenever this creature or another Ally you control enters, you may have this creature deal damage to target creature with flying equal to the number of Allies you control.

Ugin, the Spirit Dragon (Mythic Edition)
Chris Rahn

+2: Ugin deals 3 damage to any target. −X: Exile each permanent with mana value X or less that's one or more colors. −10: You gain 7 life, draw seven cards, then put up to seven permanent cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

Bristling Hydra (Kaladesh Promos)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). Pay {E}{E}{E}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains hexproof until end of turn.

Tasigur, the Golden Fang (Time Spiral Remastered)
Chris Rahn

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) {2}{G/U}{G/U}: Mill two cards, then return a nonland card of an opponent's choice from your graveyard to your hand.

Harbinger of the Hunt (Dragons of Tarkir Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying {2}{R}: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature without flying. {2}{G}: This creature deals 1 damage to each other creature with flying.

An Atarka dragon's exhale cooks what its inhale consumes.

Instill Infection (Scars of Mirrodin)
Chris Rahn

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. Draw a card.

"The results of our ninth inoculation were the same. The specimen was, of course, euthanized before the contagion could spread." —Vedalken research notes

Sarkhan's Rage (Jumpstart 2022)
Chris Rahn

Sarkhan's Rage deals 5 damage to any target. If you control no Dragons, Sarkhan's Rage deals 2 damage to you.

The people of Tarkir speak of an ancient legend, of the dragon-man called Sarkhan who was greatest of all khans.

Huntmaster of the Fells (Secret Lair Drop)
Chris Rahn

Wayward Swordtooth (Rivals of Ixalan Promos)
Chris Rahn

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) You may play an additional land on each of your turns. This creature can't attack or block unless you have the city's blessing.

Gisa, the Hellraiser (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Promos)
Chris Rahn

Ward—{2}, Pay 2 life. Skeletons and Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have menace. Whenever you commit a crime, create two tapped 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Tamiyo, Compleated Sage (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Chris Rahn

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All Will Be One (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos)
Chris Rahn

Whenever you put one or more counters on a permanent or player, this enchantment deals that much damage to target opponent, creature an opponent controls, or planeswalker an opponent controls.

The Invasion Tree broke through the Blind Eternities and sent Phyrexian perfection coursing across the Multiverse.

Boon of the Wish-Giver (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Chris Rahn

Draw four cards. Cycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"There is no law of nature that I have not seen Illuna break. Makes you wonder what is truly possible, does it not?" —Rielle, the Everwise

Righteous Valkyrie (Kaldheim Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying Whenever another Angel or Cleric you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. As long as you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total, creatures you control get +2/+2.

Kardur, Doomscourge (Kaldheim)
Chris Rahn

When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able. Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Sylvan Bounty (The List)
Chris Rahn

Target player gains 8 life. Basic landcycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Sigarda, Heron's Grace (Shadows over Innistrad Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying You and Humans you control have hexproof. {2}, Exile a card from your graveyard: Create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.

Abzan Battle Priest (Khans of Tarkir)
Chris Rahn

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

"Wherever I walk, the ancestors walk too."

Armageddon (Masters 25)
Chris Rahn

Destroy all lands.

Steel Overseer (The Brothers' War Commander)
Chris Rahn

{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.

"The world is already run by all manner of machines. One day, they'll remind us of that fact." —Sargis Haz, artificer

Spit Flame (Core Set 2019)
Chris Rahn

Spit Flame deals 4 damage to target creature. Whenever a Dragon you control enters, you may pay {R}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Craterhoof Behemoth (Jumpstart)
Chris Rahn

Haste When this creature enters, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Its footsteps of today are the lakes of tomorrow.

Searing Spear (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Chris Rahn

Searing Spear deals 3 damage to any target.

Sometimes you die a glorious death with your sword held high. Sometimes you're just target practice.

Castaway's Despair (The List)
Chris Rahn

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Kalonian Hydra (Bloomburrow Commander)
Chris Rahn

Trample This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Even baloths fear its feeding time.

Sylvan Bounty (Modern Masters)
Chris Rahn

Target player gains 8 life. Basic landcycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Some who scouted new lands chose to stay.

Firemantle Mage (Battle for Zendikar)
Chris Rahn

Rally — Whenever this creature or another Ally you control enters, creatures you control gain menace until end of turn. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

"Come on, you twisted things! Don't you want to get acquainted?"

Lavinia, Foil to Conspiracy (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Chris Rahn

Vigilance Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only during an opponent's turn.

Ziatora, the Incinerator (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, Ziatora deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target and you create three Treasure tokens.

Crypt Ghast (Ravnica Remastered)
Chris Rahn

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

Demanding Dragon (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Chris Rahn

Flying When this creature enters, it deals 5 damage to target opponent unless that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

A knight's devotion to their steed goes only so far.

Imodane, the Pyrohammer (Wilds of Eldraine Promos)
Chris Rahn

Whenever an instant or sorcery spell you control that targets only a single creature deals damage to that creature, Imodane deals that much damage to each opponent.

"The realm needs a ruler, not a boy playing king."

Yosei, the Morning Star (The List)
Chris Rahn

Flying When Yosei dies, target player skips their next untap step. Tap up to five target permanents that player controls.

The caress of the morning star frees all from the clutch of darkness.

Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos)
Chris Rahn

Whenever you attack with one or more non-Gnome creatures, put a +1/+1 counter on Anim Pakal, then create X 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature tokens that are tapped and attacking, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Anim Pakal.

"If we are to protect this world, we can no longer hide within it!"

Gideon Jura (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Chris Rahn

+2: During target opponent's next turn, creatures that player controls attack Gideon Jura if able. −2: Destroy target tapped creature. 0: Until end of turn, Gideon Jura becomes a 6/6 Human Soldier creature that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.

Yosei, the Morning Star (Iconic Masters)
Chris Rahn

Flying When Yosei dies, target player skips their next untap step. Tap up to five target permanents that player controls.

The caress of the morning star frees all from the clutch of darkness.

Tasigur, the Golden Fang (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Chris Rahn

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) {2}{G/U}{G/U}: Mill two cards, then return a nonland card of an opponent's choice from your graveyard to your hand.

Bristling Hydra (Kaladesh Promos)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). Pay {E}{E}{E}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains hexproof until end of turn.

Volcanic Dragon (Commander Legends)
Chris Rahn

Flying, haste

Sometimes an eruption in Shiv produces something more dangerous than a mere river of molten rock.

Ao, the Dawn Sky (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Chris Rahn

Flying, vigilance When Ao dies, choose one — • Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put any number of nonland permanent cards with total mana value 4 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • Put two +1/+1 counters on each permanent you control that's a creature or Vehicle.

Illuna, Apex of Wishes (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos)
Chris Rahn

Mutate {3}{R/G}{U}{U} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.) Flying, trample Whenever this creature mutates, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland permanent card. Put that card onto the battlefield or into your hand.

Ulvenwald Captive (Eldritch Moon)
Chris Rahn

Corpsejack Menace (The List)
Chris Rahn

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Weakness is not in the nature of the Swarm.

Vent Sentinel (Iconic Masters)
Chris Rahn

Defender {1}{R}, {T}: This creature deals damage to target player or planeswalker equal to the number of creatures you control with defender.

"Zendikar fortifies itself against the Great Threat, making sentries of sky, sea, and stone." —*The War Diaries*

Enigma Sphinx (Alara Reborn)
Chris Rahn

Flying When this creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put it into your library third from the top. Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Demanding Dragon (Core Set 2019 Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying When this creature enters, it deals 5 damage to target opponent unless that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

A knight's devotion to their steed goes only so far.

Kami of Industry (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, return target artifact card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

It takes many arms to arm an army.

Lyra Dawnbringer (Dominaria Remastered)
Chris Rahn

Flying First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.

"You are not alone. You never were."

Arbalest Elite (Magic 2012)
Chris Rahn

{2}{W}, {T}: This creature deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This creature doesn't untap during your next untap step.

There are few things as satisfying as a good, healthy thunk.

Corpsejack Menace (Return to Ravnica)
Chris Rahn

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Weakness is not in the nature of the Swarm.

Wayward Swordtooth (Rivals of Ixalan)
Chris Rahn

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) You may play an additional land on each of your turns. This creature can't attack or block unless you have the city's blessing.

Tinker (Mystery Booster 2)
Chris Rahn

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

"What separates us from mere beasts is the capacity for self-improvement."

Sarkhan's Rage (Dragons of Tarkir)
Chris Rahn

Sarkhan's Rage deals 5 damage to any target. If you control no Dragons, Sarkhan's Rage deals 2 damage to you.

The people of Tarkir speak of an ancient legend, of the dragon-man called Sarkhan who was greatest of all khans.

Ob Nixilis Reignited (Commander 2021)
Chris Rahn

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

Eternal Witness (Ultimate Box Topper)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Righteous Valkyrie (Jumpstart 2022)
Chris Rahn

Flying Whenever another Angel or Cleric you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. As long as you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total, creatures you control get +2/+2.

Glyph Keeper (Amonkhet Tokens)
Chris Rahn

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

Lodestone Golem (Modern Masters 2015)
Chris Rahn

Nonartifact spells cost {1} more to cast.

"Somehow it warps the Æther. It brings a strange weight, a blockade in the flow of spellcraft." —Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Sarkhan's Rage (Jumpstart)
Chris Rahn

Sarkhan's Rage deals 5 damage to any target. If you control no Dragons, Sarkhan's Rage deals 2 damage to you.

The people of Tarkir speak of an ancient legend, of the dragon-man called Sarkhan who was greatest of all khans.

Crypt Ghast (Gatecrash)
Chris Rahn

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

Enigma Sphinx (Planechase 2012)
Chris Rahn

Flying When this creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put it into your library third from the top. Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Lodestone Golem (Worldwake)
Chris Rahn

Nonartifact spells cost {1} more to cast.

"Somehow it warps the Æther. It brings a strange weight, a blockade in the flow of spellcraft." —Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Matter Reshaper (Oath of the Gatewatch Promos)
Chris Rahn

({C} represents colorless mana.) When this creature dies, reveal the top card of your library. You may put that card onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card with mana value 3 or less. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Sarulf, Realm Eater (Kaldheim Promos)
Chris Rahn

Whenever a permanent an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Sarulf. At the beginning of your upkeep, if Sarulf has one or more +1/+1 counters on it, you may remove all of them. If you do, exile each other nonland permanent with mana value less than or equal to the number of counters removed this way.

Sylvan Bounty (Conflux)
Chris Rahn

Target player gains 8 life. Basic landcycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Some who scouted new lands chose to stay.

Sylvan Bounty (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Chris Rahn

Target player gains 8 life. Basic landcycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Karn, Living Legacy (Dominaria United)
Chris Rahn

+1: Create a tapped Powerstone token. (It's an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.") −1: Pay any amount of mana. Look at that many cards from the top of your library, then put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. −7: You get an emblem with "Tap an untapped artifact you control: This emblem deals 1 damage to any target."

Sword of Feast and Famine (Modern Event Deck 2014)
Chris Rahn

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

Sarkhan's Rage (The List)
Chris Rahn

Sarkhan's Rage deals 5 damage to any target. If you control no Dragons, Sarkhan's Rage deals 2 damage to you.

The people of Tarkir speak of an ancient legend, of the dragon-man called Sarkhan who was greatest of all khans.

Elenda, Saint of Dusk (Foundations)
Chris Rahn

Lifelink, hexproof from instants As long as your life total is greater than your starting life total, Elenda gets +1/+1 and has menace. Elenda gets an additional +5/+5 as long as your life total is at least 10 greater than your starting life total.

"You have learned nothing in my absence."

Ob Nixilis Reignited (Battle for Zendikar Promos)
Chris Rahn

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

Black Oak of Odunos (Born of the Gods)
Chris Rahn

Defender {B}, Tap another untapped creature you control: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Phenax promised the newly dead souls they would be spared from Erebos. In this, he did not lie.

Gideon Jura (The List)
Chris Rahn

+2: During target opponent's next turn, creatures that player controls attack Gideon Jura if able. −2: Destroy target tapped creature. 0: Until end of turn, Gideon Jura becomes a 6/6 Human Soldier creature that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.

Star of Extinction (Ixalan Promos)
Chris Rahn

Destroy target land. Star of Extinction deals 20 damage to each creature and each planeswalker.

"The visions haunt me. I see the end of the world, brought on by the search for the Immortal Sun." —Shaper Pashona

Geralf, the Fleshwright (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Promos)
Chris Rahn

Whenever you cast a spell during your turn other than your first spell that turn, create a 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature token. Whenever a Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie that entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

Quest for the Gravelord (Battlebond)
Chris Rahn

Whenever a creature dies, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. Remove three quest counters from this enchantment and sacrifice it: Create a 5/5 black Zombie Giant creature token.

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (Dominaria United Promos)
Chris Rahn

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

"Gix failed. I shall not."

Nissa, Worldwaker (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Chris Rahn

+1: Target land you control becomes a 4/4 Elemental creature with trample. It's still a land. +1: Untap up to four target Forests. −7: Search your library for any number of basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Those lands become 4/4 Elemental creatures with trample. They're still lands.

Savage Knuckleblade (Khans of Tarkir)
Chris Rahn

{2}{G}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn. {2}{U}: Return this creature to its owner's hand. {R}: This creature gains haste until end of turn.

Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign (Commander Masters)
Chris Rahn

Flying, vigilance, menace Whenever Yennett attacks, reveal the top card of your library. You may cast it without paying its mana cost if its mana value is odd. If you don't cast it, draw a card.

She talks using riddles her disciples alone can unravel.

Archon of the Wild Rose (Wilds of Eldraine Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying Other creatures you control that are enchanted by Auras you control have base power and toughness 4/4 and have flying.

The curse of Redtooth Keep could only be broken by a mystical rose that blooms in moonlight.

Kalonian Hydra (Magic 2014)
Chris Rahn

Trample This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Even baloths fear its feeding time.

Tazri, Beacon of Unity (Zendikar Rising Promos)
Chris Rahn

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature in your party. {2/U}{2/B}{2/R}{2/G}: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal up to two Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, Wizard, and/or Ally cards from among them and put them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (Dominaria United)
Chris Rahn

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Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice (Guilds of Ravnica Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose up to one target creature you control. Until end of turn, that creature gets +2/+0, gains trample if it's red, and gains vigilance if it's white.

Elenda, the Dusk Rose (Rivals of Ixalan)
Chris Rahn

Lifelink Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda. When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.

Her centuries-long search is ended.

Sigarda, Host of Herons (Ultimate Box Topper)
Chris Rahn

Flying, hexproof Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause you to sacrifice permanents.

Neheb, the Eternal (Hour of Devastation)
Chris Rahn

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.) At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, add {R} for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

"This is what glory looks like." —Nicol Bolas

Omnath, Locus of Creation (Zendikar Rising Promos)
Chris Rahn

When Omnath enters, draw a card. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 4 life if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. If it's the second time, add {R}{G}{W}{U}. If it's the third time, Omnath deals 4 damage to each opponent and each planeswalker you don't control.

Stoic Rebuttal (Scars of Mirrodin)
Chris Rahn

Metalcraft — This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control three or more artifacts. Counter target spell.

Obsessed with the pursuit of knowledge above all else, vedalken can appear to be cold and emotionless.

Highland Berserker (Zendikar)
Chris Rahn

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

He gets paid by the axe.

Giltspire Avenger (Conflux)
Chris Rahn

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Destroy target creature that dealt damage to you this turn.

"To trespass so far from home is to ask for a lonesome grave."

Sword of Dungeons & Dragons (Unsanctioned)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from Rogues and from Clerics. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create a 4/4 gold Dragon creature token with flying and roll a d20 (a twenty-sided die). If you roll a 20, repeat this process. Equip {2}

Gisa, the Hellraiser (Outlaws of Thunder Junction)
Chris Rahn

Ward—{2}, Pay 2 life. Skeletons and Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have menace. Whenever you commit a crime, create two tapped 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Tazri, Beacon of Unity (Zendikar Rising)
Chris Rahn

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature in your party. {2/U}{2/B}{2/R}{2/G}: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal up to two Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, Wizard, and/or Ally cards from among them and put them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Mountain (Amonkhet)
Chris Rahn

({T}: Add {R}.)

Jenara, Asura of War (New Capenna Commander)
Chris Rahn

Flying {1}{W}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Jenara.

Wounded soldiers looked up, grateful for her appearance. But she passed over them, her eyes firmly on their foe.

Unmake (Magic Player Rewards 2009)
Chris Rahn

Exile target creature.

Vent Sentinel (Conspiracy)
Chris Rahn

Defender {1}{R}, {T}: This creature deals damage to target player or planeswalker equal to the number of creatures you control with defender.

"Zendikar fortifies itself against the Great Threat, making sentries of sky, sea, and stone." —*The War Diaries*

Lord of the Void (Gatecrash)
Chris Rahn

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top seven cards of that player's library, then put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield under your control.

Archon of the Wild Rose (Wilds of Eldraine)
Chris Rahn

Flying Other creatures you control that are enchanted by Auras you control have base power and toughness 4/4 and have flying.

Mishra, Claimed by Gix (The Brothers' War)
Chris Rahn

Whenever you attack, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of attacking creatures. If Mishra, Claimed by Gix and a creature named Phyrexian Dragon Engine are attacking, and you both own and control them, exile them, then meld them into Mishra, Lost to Phyrexia. It enters tapped and attacking.

Glyph Keeper (Amonkhet)
Chris Rahn

Flying Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability. Embalm {5}{U}{U} ({5}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Sphinx with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

Tasigur's Cruelty (Fate Reforged)
Chris Rahn

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Each opponent discards two cards.

The cruelest tortures leave no mark upon the flesh.

Opportunistic Dragon (Throne of Eldraine Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying When this creature enters, choose target Human or artifact an opponent controls. For as long as this creature remains on the battlefield, gain control of that permanent, it loses all abilities, and it can't attack or block.

Isperia's Skywatch (Return to Ravnica)
Chris Rahn

Flying When this creature enters, detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

Steel Leaf Champion (Dominaria Promos)
Chris Rahn

This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

One eye open to see the truth of the world. One eye covered to gaze at the goddess within.

Ainok Bond-Kin (Iconic Masters)
Chris Rahn

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

"Hold the line, for family and the fallen!"

Geralf, the Fleshwright (Outlaws of Thunder Junction)
Chris Rahn

Whenever you cast a spell during your turn other than your first spell that turn, create a 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature token. Whenever a Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie that entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

Goldnight Commander (Avacyn Restored)
Chris Rahn

Whenever another creature you control enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"One faith, but many hands in victory."

Bristling Hydra (Kaladesh)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). Pay {E}{E}{E}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains hexproof until end of turn.

Arashin Cleric (Fate Reforged)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, you gain 3 life.

"We'll have time to put out the fires when those trapped within the ruins are safe."

Thassa's Ire (Journey into Nyx)
Chris Rahn

{3}{U}: You may tap or untap target creature.

The sailor had never seen a god before. Now she had gazed upon Thassa. Shortly she would see Athreos, and then she would meet Erebos.

Phyrexian Ingester (Commander 2014)
Chris Rahn

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. This creature gets +X/+Y, where X is the exiled creature card's power and Y is its toughness.

Tazri, Beacon of Unity (Zendikar Rising Promos)
Chris Rahn

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature in your party. {2/U}{2/B}{2/R}{2/G}: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal up to two Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, Wizard, and/or Ally cards from among them and put them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Felix Five-Boots (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Chris Rahn

Menace, ward {2} If a creature you control dealing combat damage to a player causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Multiple pseudopods and no vital organs make dueling a whole lot easier.

Ao, the Dawn Sky (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying, vigilance When Ao dies, choose one — • Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put any number of nonland permanent cards with total mana value 4 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • Put two +1/+1 counters on each permanent you control that's a creature or Vehicle.

Nimbus Wings (Zendikar)
Chris Rahn

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2 and has flying.

Explorers may find ways into the Sky Ruin, but they find its secrets well protected by shifting hedrons and Roil winds.

Hidetsugu and Kairi (March of the Machine Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying When Hidetsugu and Kairi enters, draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. When Hidetsugu and Kairi dies, exile the top card of your library. Target opponent loses life equal to its mana value. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.

Oran-Rief Hydra (Duel Decks: Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis)
Chris Rahn

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. If that land is a Forest, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature instead.

Arahbo, the First Fang (Foundations)
Chris Rahn

Other Cats you control get +1/+1. Whenever Arahbo or another nontoken Cat you control enters, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token.

The rumble of his roar is a call to the hunt.

Qasali Pridemage (Time Spiral Remastered)
Chris Rahn

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

An elder in one pride, of the Sigiled caste in another.

Eternal Witness (Starter Commander Decks)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Angelic Page (Jumpstart)
Chris Rahn

Flying {T}: Target attacking or blocking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

If only every message were as perfect as its bearer.

Kogla, the Titan Ape (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos)
Chris Rahn

When Kogla enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. Whenever Kogla attacks, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls. {1}{G}: Return target Human you control to its owner's hand. Kogla gains indestructible until end of turn.

Ygra, Eater of All (Bloomburrow Promos)
Chris Rahn

Ward—Sacrifice a Food. Other creatures are Food artifacts in addition to their other types and have "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this permanent: You gain 3 life." Whenever a Food is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on Ygra.

Searing Spear (The List)
Chris Rahn

Searing Spear deals 3 damage to any target.

Sometimes you die a glorious death with your sword held high. Sometimes you're just target practice.

Grist, Voracious Larva (Modern Horizons 3)
Chris Rahn

Marwyn, the Nurturer (Foundations Jumpstart)
Chris Rahn

Whenever another Elf you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Marwyn. {T}: Add an amount of {G} equal to Marwyn's power.

Midwife to mothers and leader to all.

Omnath, Locus of Creation (Zendikar Rising)
Chris Rahn

When Omnath enters, draw a card. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 4 life if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. If it's the second time, add {R}{G}{W}{U}. If it's the third time, Omnath deals 4 damage to each opponent and each planeswalker you don't control.

Wayward Swordtooth (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Chris Rahn

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) You may play an additional land on each of your turns. This creature can't attack or block unless you have the city's blessing.

Phyrexian Dragon Engine (The Brothers' War Promos)
Chris Rahn

Double strike When this creature enters from your graveyard, you may discard your hand. If you do, draw three cards. Unearth {3}{R}{R} (Melds with Mishra, Claimed by Gix.)

Kogla and Yidaro (March of the Machine Promos)
Chris Rahn

When Kogla and Yidaro enters, choose one — • It gains trample and haste until end of turn. • It fights target creature you don't control. {2}{R}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. Shuffle this card into your library from your graveyard, then draw a card.

Sword of Hearth and Home (Modern Horizons 2 Promos)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from white. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target creature you own, then search your library for a basic land card. Put both cards onto the battlefield under your control, then shuffle. Equip {2}

General Tazri (Oath of the Gatewatch Promos)
Chris Rahn

When General Tazri enters, you may search your library for an Ally creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Ally creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of colors among those creatures.

Ajani Steadfast Emblem (Magic 2015 Tokens)
Chris Rahn

If a source would deal damage to you or a planeswalker you control, prevent all but 1 of that damage.

Sword of Dungeons & Dragons (HasCon 2017)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from Rogues and from Clerics. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create a 4/4 gold Dragon creature token with flying and roll a d20 (a twenty-sided die). If you roll a 20, repeat this process. Equip {2}

Hindering Light (Shards of Alara)
Chris Rahn

Counter target spell that targets you or a permanent you control. Draw a card.

Centuries of careful practice have elevated the casting of protective spells to an art form. What little offensive magic remains on Bant stands little chance of breaching them.

Lyra Dawnbringer (Dominaria Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.

"You are not alone. You never were."

Opportunistic Dragon (Throne of Eldraine)
Chris Rahn

Flying When this creature enters, choose target Human or artifact an opponent controls. For as long as this creature remains on the battlefield, gain control of that permanent, it loses all abilities, and it can't attack or block.

Thunder Dragon (Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons)
Chris Rahn

Flying When this creature enters, it deals 3 damage to each creature without flying.

Sometimes primitive cultures attributed natural phenomena to monsters. Sometimes they were right.

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed (Dark Ascension)
Chris Rahn

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it. Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Cyclonic Rift (Commander 2014)
Chris Rahn

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

The Izzet specialize in unnatural disaster.

Knight of New Alara (Dominaria United Commander)
Chris Rahn

Each other multicolored creature you control gets +1/+1 for each of its colors.

"I embrace all of Alara, Grixis as much as Bant. Let my former home call me traitor. I do this not for accolades, but because it is right."

Geralf, the Fleshwright (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Promos)
Chris Rahn

Whenever you cast a spell during your turn other than your first spell that turn, create a 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature token. Whenever a Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie that entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

Enigma Sphinx (Planechase Anthology)
Chris Rahn

Flying When this creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put it into your library third from the top. Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Chandra, Awakened Inferno (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Chris Rahn

This spell can't be countered. +2: Each opponent gets an emblem with "At the beginning of your upkeep, this emblem deals 1 damage to you." −3: Chandra deals 3 damage to each non-Elemental creature. −X: Chandra deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker. If a permanent dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Neheb, the Eternal (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Chris Rahn

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.) At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, add {R} for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

"This is what glory looks like." —Nicol Bolas

Glissa, the Traitor (From the Vault: Lore)
Chris Rahn

First strike, deathtouch Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Once Mirrodin's brightest hope. Now Phyrexia's cruel champion.

Tivit, Seller of Secrets (New Capenna Commander)
Chris Rahn

Flying, ward {3} Council's dilemma — Whenever Tivit enters or deals combat damage to a player, starting with you, each player votes for evidence or bribery. For each evidence vote, investigate. For each bribery vote, create a Treasure token. While voting, you may vote an additional time. (The votes can be for different choices or for the same choice.)

Sword of War and Peace (Judge Gift Cards 2023)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from white. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, this Equipment deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in their hand and you gain 1 life for each card in your hand. Equip {2}

Kogla, the Titan Ape (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Chris Rahn

When Kogla enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. Whenever Kogla attacks, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls. {1}{G}: Return target Human you control to its owner's hand. Kogla gains indestructible until end of turn.

Sword of War and Peace (New Phyrexia)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from white. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, this Equipment deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in their hand and you gain 1 life for each card in your hand. Equip {2}

Phyrexian Dragon Engine (The Brothers' War)
Chris Rahn

Double strike When this creature enters from your graveyard, you may discard your hand. If you do, draw three cards. Unearth {3}{R}{R} (Melds with Mishra, Claimed by Gix.)

Sliver Gravemother (Commander Masters)
Chris Rahn

The "legend rule" doesn't apply to Slivers you control. Each Sliver creature card in your graveyard has encore {X}, where X is its mana value. Encore {5} ({5}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Ziatora, the Incinerator (Streets of New Capenna)
Chris Rahn

Flying At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, Ziatora deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target and you create three Treasure tokens.

Tivit, Seller of Secrets (New Capenna Commander)
Chris Rahn

Flying, ward {3} Council's dilemma — Whenever Tivit enters or deals combat damage to a player, starting with you, each player votes for evidence or bribery. For each evidence vote, investigate. For each bribery vote, create a Treasure token. While voting, you may vote an additional time. (The votes can be for different choices or for the same choice.)

Path of Bravery (Magic 2014)
Chris Rahn

As long as your life total is greater than or equal to your starting life total, creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever one or more creatures you control attack, you gain life equal to the number of attacking creatures.

Lyra Dawnbringer (Dominaria)
Chris Rahn

Flying First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.

"You are not alone. You never were."

Ao, the Dawn Sky (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Chris Rahn

Flying, vigilance When Ao dies, choose one — • Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put any number of nonland permanent cards with total mana value 4 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • Put two +1/+1 counters on each permanent you control that's a creature or Vehicle.

Jegantha, the Wellspring (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Chris Rahn

Companion — No card in your starting deck has more than one of the same mana symbol in its mana cost. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) {T}: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}. This mana can't be spent to pay generic mana costs.

Crucible of Worlds (Kaladesh Inventions)
Chris Rahn

You may play lands from your graveyard.

By isolating liquid aether at room temperature, foundry hand Jitya Reyath has given us a glimpse of raw aetheric matter—the very stuff of the cosmos.

Huatli, Radiant Champion (Rivals of Ixalan)
Chris Rahn

+1: Put a loyalty counter on Huatli for each creature you control. −1: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control. −8: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control enters, you may draw a card."

Goldnight Commander (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Chris Rahn

Whenever another creature you control enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"One faith, but many hands in victory."

Phyrexian Ingester (New Phyrexia)
Chris Rahn

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. This creature gets +X/+Y, where X is the exiled creature card's power and Y is its toughness.

Oran-Rief Hydra (Battle for Zendikar)
Chris Rahn

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. If that land is a Forest, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature instead.

Sword of Hearth and Home (Modern Horizons 2)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from white. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target creature you own, then search your library for a basic land card. Put both cards onto the battlefield under your control, then shuffle. Equip {2}

Elenda, Saint of Dusk (Foundations Promos)
Chris Rahn

Lifelink, hexproof from instants As long as your life total is greater than your starting life total, Elenda gets +1/+1 and has menace. Elenda gets an additional +5/+5 as long as your life total is at least 10 greater than your starting life total.

"You have learned nothing in my absence."

Sword of Feast and Famine (The List)
Chris Rahn

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

Sram, Senior Edificer (Commander Legends)
Chris Rahn

Whenever you cast an Aura, Equipment, or Vehicle spell, draw a card.

"As this conflict grows, it gets harder to prevent the city from breaking down. How much longer can we keep this machinery balanced?"

Chandra, Awakened Inferno (Core Set 2020)
Chris Rahn

This spell can't be countered. +2: Each opponent gets an emblem with "At the beginning of your upkeep, this emblem deals 1 damage to you." −3: Chandra deals 3 damage to each non-Elemental creature. −X: Chandra deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker. If a permanent dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Mishra, Claimed by Gix (The Brothers' War Promos)
Chris Rahn

Whenever you attack, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of attacking creatures. If Mishra, Claimed by Gix and a creature named Phyrexian Dragon Engine are attacking, and you both own and control them, exile them, then meld them into Mishra, Lost to Phyrexia. It enters tapped and attacking.

Bloodgift Demon (Foundations Jumpstart)
Chris Rahn

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

He relishes the devotion of his Skirsdag puppets and their belief that it will earn them immortality.

Frostpeak Yeti (Jumpstart 2022)
Chris Rahn

{1}{S}: This creature can't be blocked this turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

Some heroes line their coats with yeti fur. More yetis line their bellies with heroes.

Nahiri's Wrath (Eldritch Moon)
Chris Rahn

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Nahiri's Wrath deals damage equal to the total mana value of the discarded cards to each of up to X target creatures and/or planeswalkers.

"You brought this upon yourself, Sorin!"

Greenhilt Trainee (New Phyrexia)
Chris Rahn

{T}: Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. Activate only if this creature's power is 4 or greater.

"Our ancestors adapted to this world of metal. Just as they did, we will adapt to this world of evil."

Sword of Truth and Justice (Modern Horizons)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from blue. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) Equip {2}

Blackblade Reforged (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control. Equip legendary creature {3} Equip {7}

It spilled the blood of one elder dragon. In Gideon's hands, it may yet taste another's.

Inspiring Roar (Commander Legends)
Chris Rahn

Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

"This is about more than aether or inventions. Tezzeret's schemes must be stopped!" —Ajani Goldmane

Brainstorm (Masters 25)
Chris Rahn

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

Demonic Taskmaster (Innistrad Remastered)
Chris Rahn

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature.

Subservience to greater power is the only law in the pit.

Huntmaster of the Fells (Innistrad Remastered)
Chris Rahn

Blackblade Reforged (Commander Legends)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control. Equip legendary creature {3} Equip {7}

It spilled the blood of one elder dragon. In Gideon's hands, it may yet taste another's.

Crypt Ghast (Commander 2014)
Chris Rahn

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

Glissa, the Traitor (Mirrodin Besieged)
Chris Rahn

First strike, deathtouch Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Goldnight Commander (Kaldheim Commander)
Chris Rahn

Whenever another creature you control enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"One faith, but many hands in victory."

Rot-Curse Rakshasa (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)
Chris Rahn

Trample Decayed (This creature can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.) Renew — {X}{B}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a decayed counter on each of X target creatures. Activate only as a sorcery.

Sword of War and Peace (Double Masters)
Chris Rahn

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from white. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, this Equipment deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in their hand and you gain 1 life for each card in your hand. Equip {2}

Stoic Rebuttal (Modern Masters 2015)
Chris Rahn

Metalcraft — This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control three or more artifacts. Counter target spell.

Obsessed with the pursuit of knowledge above all else, vedalken can appear to be cold and emotionless.

Eternal Witness (Commander Masters)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

She remembers every word spoken, from the hero's oath to the baby's cry.

Voyage's End (Theros)
Chris Rahn

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Philosophers say those lost at sea ascended to a more perfect realm. Sailors say they drowned.

Trapjaw Tyrant (Rivals of Ixalan)
Chris Rahn

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, exile target creature an opponent controls until this creature leaves the battlefield.

"I would advise you not to struggle." —Huatli

Dormant Gomazoa (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Chris Rahn

Flying This creature enters tapped. This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Whenever you become the target of a spell, you may untap this creature.

Elenda, the Dusk Rose (The List)
Chris Rahn

Lifelink Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda. When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.

Her centuries-long search is ended.

Polukranos, Unchained (Theros Beyond Death)
Chris Rahn

Polukranos enters with six +1/+1 counters on it. It escapes with twelve +1/+1 counters on it instead. If damage would be dealt to Polukranos while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove that many +1/+1 counters from it. {1}{B}{G}: Polukranos fights another target creature. Escape—{4}{B}{G}, Exile six other cards from your graveyard.

Ziatora, the Incinerator (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Chris Rahn

Flying At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, Ziatora deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target and you create three Treasure tokens.

Righteous Valkyrie (Kaldheim)
Chris Rahn

Flying Whenever another Angel or Cleric you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. As long as you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total, creatures you control get +2/+2.

Quest for the Gravelord (The List)
Chris Rahn

Whenever a creature dies, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. Remove three quest counters from this enchantment and sacrifice it: Create a 5/5 black Zombie Giant creature token.

Tasigur, the Golden Fang (Fate Reforged)
Chris Rahn

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) {2}{G/U}{G/U}: Mill two cards, then return a nonland card of an opponent's choice from your graveyard to your hand.

Volcanic Dragon (Magic 2012)
Chris Rahn

Flying, haste

Sometimes an eruption in Shiv produces something more dangerous than a mere river of molten rock.

Platinum Angel (Secret Lair Drop)
Chris Rahn

Flying You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

On shining argent wings she came, declaring that no harm would befall her charge.

Elenda, the Dusk Rose (Double Masters 2022)
Chris Rahn

Lifelink Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda. When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.

Her centuries-long search is ended.

Lyra Dawnbringer (Foundations)
Chris Rahn

Flying First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.

Hidetsugu and Kairi (March of the Machine Promos)
Chris Rahn

Flying When Hidetsugu and Kairi enters, draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. When Hidetsugu and Kairi dies, exile the top card of your library. Target opponent loses life equal to its mana value. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.

Akroma, Vision of Ixidor (Commander Legends)
Chris Rahn

Flying, first strike, vigilance, trample At the beginning of each combat, until end of turn, each other creature you control gets +1/+1 if it has flying, +1/+1 if it has first strike, and so on for double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, protection, reach, trample, vigilance, and partner. Partner

Omnath, Locus of Creation (Zendikar Rising Promos)
Chris Rahn

When Omnath enters, draw a card. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 4 life if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. If it's the second time, add {R}{G}{W}{U}. If it's the third time, Omnath deals 4 damage to each opponent and each planeswalker you don't control.

Nylea, God of the Hunt (The List)
Chris Rahn

Indestructible As long as your devotion to green is less than five, Nylea isn't a creature. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.) Other creatures you control have trample. {3}{G}: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed (Ultimate Box Topper)
Chris Rahn

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it. Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Archon of the Wild Rose (Wilds of Eldraine)
Chris Rahn

Flying Other creatures you control that are enchanted by Auras you control have base power and toughness 4/4 and have flying.

The curse of Redtooth Keep could only be broken by a mystical rose that blooms in moonlight.

Qasali Pridemage (The List)
Chris Rahn

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

An elder in one pride, of the Sigiled caste in another.

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed (The List)
Chris Rahn

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it. Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Steel Overseer (Magic 2011)
Chris Rahn

{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.

"The world is already run by all manner of machines. One day, they'll remind us of that fact." —Sargis Haz, artificer

Sarulf, Realm Eater (Kaldheim)
Chris Rahn

Whenever a permanent an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Sarulf. At the beginning of your upkeep, if Sarulf has one or more +1/+1 counters on it, you may remove all of them. If you do, exile each other nonland permanent with mana value less than or equal to the number of counters removed this way.

Blightsteel Colossus (Mirrodin Besieged)
Chris Rahn

Trample, infect, indestructible If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Skaab Ruinator (Innistrad)
Chris Rahn

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile three creature cards from your graveyard. Flying You may cast this card from your graveyard.

Tovolar, Dire Overlord (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Chris Rahn

Ainok Bond-Kin (Midnight Hunt Commander)
Chris Rahn

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

"Hold the line, for family and the fallen!"

Demonic Taskmaster (Innistrad Remastered)
Chris Rahn

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature.

Subservience to greater power is the only law in the pit.

Illuna, Apex of Wishes (Dominaria United Commander)
Chris Rahn

Mutate {3}{R/G}{U}{U} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.) Flying, trample Whenever this creature mutates, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland permanent card. Put that card onto the battlefield or into your hand.

Chandra, Awakened Inferno (Commander Masters)
Chris Rahn

This spell can't be countered. +2: Each opponent gets an emblem with "At the beginning of your upkeep, this emblem deals 1 damage to you." −3: Chandra deals 3 damage to each non-Elemental creature. −X: Chandra deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker. If a permanent dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Mindcrank (New Phyrexia)
Chris Rahn

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

"Let go of your memories and be reborn." —Argent Etchings, plate 106, passage 27

Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Chris Rahn

Groundswell (The List)
Chris Rahn

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn instead.

"This world will not be tamed."

Scrapshooter (Bloomburrow Promos)
Chris Rahn

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, when it enters, they draw a card.) Reach When this creature enters, if the gift was promised, destroy target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.

Phyrexian Ingester (Commander Masters)
Chris Rahn

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. This creature gets +X/+Y, where X is the exiled creature card's power and Y is its toughness.

Groundswell (Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi)
Chris Rahn

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn instead.

"This world will not be tamed."

Mistfire Weaver (Khans of Tarkir)
Chris Rahn

Flying Morph {2}{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, target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn.

Qasali Pridemage (Alara Reborn)
Chris Rahn

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

An elder in one pride, of the Sigiled caste in another.

Primal Huntbeast (Battlebond)
Chris Rahn

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

"To the unskilled, it appears as blurred patches of distorted light. Few have seen its true form." —Garruk Wildspeaker

Lyra Dawnbringer (Jumpstart 2022)
Chris Rahn

Flying First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.

"You are not alone. You never were."

Star of Extinction (The List)
Chris Rahn

Destroy target land. Star of Extinction deals 20 damage to each creature and each planeswalker.

"The visions haunt me. I see the end of the world, brought on by the search for the Immortal Sun." —Shaper Pashona

Qasali Pridemage (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Chris Rahn

Esaltato (Ogniqualvolta una creatura che controlli attacca da sola, prende +1/+1 fino alla fine del turno.) {1}, Sacrifica il Mago del Branco di Qasal: Distruggi un artefatto o un incantesimo bersaglio.

Un venerando in un branco, un membro della casta dei Sigilli in un altro.

Sigarda, Host of Herons (Avacyn Restored)
Chris Rahn

Flying, hexproof Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause you to sacrifice permanents.

Great devotion yields great reward.

Sword of Feast and Famine (Double Masters)
Chris Rahn

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

Kalonian Hydra (March of the Machine Commander)
Chris Rahn

Trample This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Even baloths fear its feeding time.

Ainok Bond-Kin (Double Masters 2022)
Chris Rahn

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

"Hold the line, for family and the fallen!"

Nylea, God of the Hunt (Theros)
Chris Rahn

Indestructible As long as your devotion to green is less than five, Nylea isn't a creature. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.) Other creatures you control have trample. {3}{G}: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Obstinate Baloth (Foundations Jumpstart)
Chris Rahn

When this creature enters, you gain 4 life. If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, put it onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your graveyard.

Wayward Swordtooth (Rivals of Ixalan Promos)
Chris Rahn

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) You may play an additional land on each of your turns. This creature can't attack or block unless you have the city's blessing.

Tinker (From the Vault: Exiled)
Chris Rahn

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

"What separates us from mere beasts is the capacity for self-improvement."

Sleep (Magic 2013)
Chris Rahn

Tap all creatures target player controls. Those creatures don't untap during that player's next untap step.

"I give them dreams so wondrous that they hesitate to return to the world of the conscious." —Garild, merfolk mage

Steel Overseer (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Chris Rahn

{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.

"The world is already run by all manner of machines. One day, they'll remind us of that fact." —Sargis Haz, artificer

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (Dominaria United Promos)
Chris Rahn

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

"Gix failed. I shall not."

Searing Spear (Magic 2013)
Chris Rahn