Vault Skirge

Vault Skirge (New Phyrexia)
Brad Rigney

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

From the remnants of the dead, Geth forged a swarm to safeguard his throne.

Read the Bones (Foundations Jumpstart)
Lars Grant-West

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Surge Node (Double Masters)
Lars Grant-West

This artifact enters with six charge counters on it. {1}, {T}, Remove a charge counter from this artifact: Put a charge counter on target artifact.

Without a foe to focus on, the machine priests had time to indulge in new sciences.

Zoetic Cavern (Commander Anthology)
Lars Grant-West

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

Nothing lives within it, yet there is life.

Air Servant (Magic 2014)
Lars Grant-West

Flying {2}{U}: Tap target creature with flying.

"Wind is forceful, yet ephemeral. It can knock a dragon out of the sky, yet pass through the smallest crack unhindered." —Jestus Dreya, *Of Elements and Eternity*

Read the Bones (Magic Origins)
Lars Grant-West

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Song of the Dryads (Commander Anthology)
Lars Grant-West

Enchant permanent Enchanted permanent is a colorless Forest land.

Few who encounter the strange, human-like grove leave once the lilting chorus of the dryads reaches their ears.

Terastodon (30th Anniversary Play Promos)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Forest (Modern Horizons 3)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {G}.)

Oran-Rief Recluse (Zendikar)
Lars Grant-West

Kicker {2}{G} (You may pay an additional {2}{G} as you cast this spell.) Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, destroy target creature with flying.

Enraged Ceratok (Ravnica Allegiance)
Lars Grant-West

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

"There's no time to calm it down! Run!"

Doomed Traveler (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Trash for Treasure (Double Masters)
Lars Grant-West

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact. Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Goblins generally have two possessions: one per hand.

Swamp (Mirrodin Besieged)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {B}.)

Bramble Wurm (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Lars Grant-West

Reach, trample When this creature enters, you gain 5 life. {2}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: You gain 5 life.

Doomed Traveler (Jumpstart 2022)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Glimmervoid Basin (Planechase Anthology Planes)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell with a single target, that player copies that spell for each other spell, permanent, card not on the battlefield, and/or player the spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of them. Whenever chaos ensues, choose target creature. Each player except that creature's controller creates a token that's a copy of that creature.

Vexing Sphinx (Dominaria Remastered)
Lars Grant-West

Flying Cumulative upkeep—Discard a card. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When this creature dies, draw a card for each age counter on it.

Trumpeting Carnosaur (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos)
Lars Grant-West

Trample When this creature enters, discover 5. {2}{R}, Discard this card: It deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Read the Bones (Dominaria United Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Glint Raker (The Brothers' War Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Flying This creature gets +X/+0, where X is the highest mana value among artifacts you control. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may reveal that many cards from the top of your library. Put an artifact card revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Contaminant Grafter (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Trample, toxic 1 Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to one or more players, proliferate. Corrupted — At the beginning of your end step, if an opponent has three or more poison counters, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Tormod's Crypt (Dominaria Remastered)
Lars Grant-West

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

Dominaria's most extravagant crypt nevertheless holds an empty grave.

Ghostly Prison (Champions of Kamigawa)
Lars Grant-West

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Destroyed in one of the first battles of the Kami War, the town of Reito still grieved.

Gorgon Flail (Foundations Jumpstart)
Lars Grant-West

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Air Servant (Magic 2011)
Lars Grant-West

Flying {2}{U}: Tap target creature with flying.

"Wind is forceful, yet ephemeral. It can knock a dragon out of the sky, yet pass through the smallest crack unhindered." —Jestus Dreya, *Of Elements and Eternity*

Doomed Traveler (Double Masters 2022)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Howl of the Night Pack (Magic 2010)
Lars Grant-West

Create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token for each Forest you control.

The murderous horrors of Raven's Run are legendary, but even that haunted place goes quiet when the night wolves howl.

Ghostly Prison (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Destroyed in one of the first battles of the Kami War, the town of Reito still grieved.

Imperiosaur (Time Spiral Remastered)
Lars Grant-West

Spend only mana produced by basic lands to cast this spell.

"An ancient, powerful force has overtaken the valley. I sympathize for its former inhabitants, but I rejoice for the land itself." —Olanti, Muraganda druid

Goblin Balloon Brigade (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Lars Grant-West

{R}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

"The enemy is getting too close! Quick! Inflate the toad!"

Imperiosaur (Modern Masters)
Lars Grant-West

Spend only mana produced by basic lands to cast this spell.

"An ancient, powerful force has overtaken the valley. I sympathize for its former inhabitants, but I rejoice for the land itself." —Olanti, Muraganda druid

Extraplanar Lens (Mirrodin)
Lars Grant-West

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile target land you control. Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Forest (Modern Horizons 3)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {G}.)

Lathnu Hellion (Kaladesh)
Lars Grant-West

Haste When this creature enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {E}{E}.

Giant Beaver (Outlaws of Thunder Junction)
Lars Grant-West

Vigilance Whenever this creature attacks while saddled, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature that saddled it this turn. Saddle 3 (Tap any number of other creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Mount becomes saddled until end of turn. Saddle only as a sorcery.)

Giant Badger (Eighth Edition)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever this creature blocks, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Disturb a sleeping badger and the snapping of your bones will awaken the countryside.

Charnelhoard Wurm (Commander 2018)
Lars Grant-West

Trample Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Jund's dragons hoard only sangrite crystals. Its wurms aren't so picky.

Elephant (Commander 2015 Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Ape (Commander 2014 Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Plains (Hour of Devastation)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {W}.)

Dregscape Zombie (Archenemy)
Lars Grant-West

Unearth {B} ({B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

The undead of Grixis are fueled by their hatred of the living.

Marrow Chomper (Alara Reborn)
Lars Grant-West

Devour 2 (As this creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.) When this creature enters, you gain 2 life for each creature it devoured.

Hunt the Weak (Iconic Masters)
Lars Grant-West

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then that creature fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Dragons scorn the weak, even among their own kind.

Vedalken Engineer (Planechase)
Lars Grant-West

{T}: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.

Art is unknown to the vedalken—for them, all creations must serve a purpose.

Territorial Hammerskull (Ixalan)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever this creature attacks, tap target creature an opponent controls.

From the eyes up, it's solid bone and stubbornness.

Glimmervoid Basin (Planechase Planes)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell with a single target, that player copies that spell for each other spell, permanent, card not on the battlefield, and/or player the spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of them. Whenever chaos ensues, choose target creature. Each player except that creature's controller creates a token that's a copy of that creature.

Might of Old Krosa (Modern Masters 2017)
Lars Grant-West

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If you cast this spell during your main phase, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn instead.

"Krosa the great. Krosa the enduring. Look to the forest, and it will share its bounty." —Zyd, Kamahlite druid

Wolf (War of the Spark Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Trove Warden (Jumpstart 2022)
Lars Grant-West

Vigilance Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, exile target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. When this creature dies, put each permanent card exiled with it onto the battlefield under the control of that card's owner.

Frost Raptor (Coldsnap)
Lars Grant-West

Flying {S}{S}: This creature gains shroud until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source. A creature with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

The Rimewind wizards strove to perpetuate a magical winter. Their unnatural snows birthed unnatural beasts.

Elephant (Conspiracy Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Glimmervoid (Modern Masters)
Lars Grant-West

At the beginning of the end step, if you control no artifacts, sacrifice this land. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

An empty canvas holds infinite possibilities.

Charnelhoard Wurm (Commander 2013)
Lars Grant-West

Trample Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Jund's dragons hoard only sangrite crystals. Its wurms aren't so picky.

Annoyed Altisaur (Modern Horizons 3)
Lars Grant-West

Reach, trample 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.)

Commune with Nature (Tenth Edition)
Lars Grant-West

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Gorgon Flail (Magic 2010)
Lars Grant-West

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Air Servant (Conspiracy)
Lars Grant-West

Flying {2}{U}: Tap target creature with flying.

"Wind is forceful, yet ephemeral. It can knock a dragon out of the sky, yet pass through the smallest crack unhindered." —Jestus Dreya, *Of Elements and Eternity*

Ebondeath, Dracolich (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Lars Grant-West

Flash Flying Ebondeath enters tapped. You may cast this card from your graveyard if a creature not named Ebondeath, Dracolich died this turn.

Mortician Beetle (Modern Masters 2017)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever a player sacrifices a creature, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

To the soldier, war is famine; to the scavenger, a feast.

Harrow (Magic Player Rewards 2010)
Lars Grant-West

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Engineered Explosives (Ultimate Box Topper)
Lars Grant-West

Sunburst (This enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact.

Wildwood Geist (Avacyn Restored)
Lars Grant-West

During your turn, this creature gets +2/+2.

The geists that dwell in the deep forests of Kessig are as untamable as the woods themselves.

Looming Altisaur (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Nature can't be tamed, but the Sun Empire believes that humans are made stronger when they test themselves against the wild strength of the dinosaurs.

Corpse Churn (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Lars Grant-West

Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

"How did we find each other? So there I was, exploring a mound of monster corpses..."

Offalsnout (Ultimate Masters)
Lars Grant-West

Flash When this creature leaves the battlefield, exile target card from a graveyard. Evoke {B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Swamp (Mirrodin Besieged)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {B}.)

Trumpeting Herd (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Create a 3/3 green Elephant creature token. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

An elephant never forgives.

Trumpeting Herd (Modern Horizons)
Lars Grant-West

Create a 3/3 green Elephant creature token. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

An elephant never forgives.

Carnelian Orb of Dragonkind (Foundations Jumpstart)
Lars Grant-West

{T}: Add {R}. If that mana is spent on a Dragon creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn.

Sages whisper that Lathliss still keeps the heart of the old dragon queen sealed within a jewel, its smoldering warmth an eternal reminder that no monarch is untouchable.

Zoetic Cavern (Commander 2011)
Lars Grant-West

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

Nothing lives within it, yet there is life.

Fell Stinger (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Lars Grant-West

Deathtouch Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Itzquinth, Firstborn of Gishath (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Lars Grant-West

Haste When Itzquinth enters, you may pay {2}. When you do, target Dinosaur you control deals damage equal to its power to another target creature.

"Dinosaurs have no concept of royalty, but they recognize the scent of the mightiest among them." —Atla Palani, nest tender

Aven Courier (New Capenna Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, choose a counter on a permanent you control. Put a counter of that kind on target permanent you control if it doesn't have a counter of that kind on it.

Grizzled Leotau (The List)
Lars Grant-West

"Não há nenhuma glória em morrer de velhice, como até mesmo os leotaus sabem. Quando o inverno penetra sua couraça, eles buscam as terras mais perigosas para poder morrer do mesmo modo que viveram." —Aarsil, a Abençoada

Swamp (New Phyrexia)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {B}.)

Melancholy (Planar Chaos)
Lars Grant-West

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this Aura unless you pay {B}.

Mischievous Quanar (Scourge)
Lars Grant-West

{3}{U}{U}: Turn this creature face down. Morph {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for that copy.

Korozda Monitor (Return to Ravnica)
Lars Grant-West

Trample Scavenge {5}{G}{G} ({5}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Vedalken Engineer (Commander 2016)
Lars Grant-West

{T}: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.

Art is unknown to the vedalken—for them, all creations must serve a purpose.

Messenger Jays (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Flying Council's dilemma — When this creature enters, starting with you, each player votes for feather or quill. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each feather vote and draw a card for each quill vote. For each card drawn this way, discard a card.

Your Nightmares Are Delicious (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Lars Grant-West

When you set this scheme in motion, each opponent who has more than five cards in hand discards cards equal to the difference. Then if fewer than three cards were discarded this way, you draw three cards.

"I will craft exquisite tortures from the roiling depths of your terrified mind."

Locthwain Lancer (March of the Machine Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Menace Whenever a nontoken Knight you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you draw a card.

Swamp (Scars of Mirrodin)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {B}.)

Tormod's Crypt (Commander 2014)
Lars Grant-West

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

Dominaria's most extravagant crypt nevertheless holds an empty grave.

Glimmervoid (World Championship Decks 2004)
Lars Grant-West

At the beginning of the end step, if you control no artifacts, sacrifice this land. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

An empty canvas holds infinite possibilities.

Ghostly Prison (Secret Lair Drop)
Lars Grant-West

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Destroyed in one of the first battles of the Kami War, the town of Reito still grieved.

Call of the Herd (Grand Prix Promos)
Lars Grant-West

Create a 3/3 green Elephant creature token. Flashback {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

War Horn (Magic Origins)
Lars Grant-West

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

The reverberations course through the warriors' veins, beat with their hearts, and pound with their footfalls as they charge into battle.

Panicked Altisaur (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Lars Grant-West

Reach {T}: This creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Early Sun Empire expeditions learned the hard way that some surface dinosaurs were particularly ill-suited to the caverns' enclosed environments.

Read the Bones (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Soul-Guide Lantern (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Lars Grant-West

When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Monstrify (Eventide)
Lars Grant-West

Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Gackt came to regret keeping his pet toads on his head.

Song of the Dryads (Commander Masters)
Lars Grant-West

Enchant permanent Enchanted permanent is a colorless Forest land.

Few who encounter the strange, human-like grove leave once the lilting chorus of the dryads reaches their ears.

Terastodon (Commander 2014)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Glimmervoid (Double Masters)
Lars Grant-West

At the beginning of the end step, if you control no artifacts, sacrifice this land. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

An empty canvas holds infinite possibilities.

Rampaging Brontodon (Jumpstart)
Lars Grant-West

Trample Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each land you control.

Not even the tallest tree stands a chance against the underside of a dinosaur's foot.

Dreadship Reef (Time Spiral Remastered)
Lars Grant-West

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {1}, Remove X storage counters from this land: Add X mana in any combination of {U} and/or {B}.

Viral Drake (New Phyrexia)
Lars Grant-West

Flying Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) {3}{U}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Howl of the Night Pack (Magic 2014)
Lars Grant-West

Create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token for each Forest you control.

The murderous horrors of Raven's Run are legendary, but even that haunted place goes quiet when the night wolves howl.

Read the Bones (Time Spiral Remastered)
Lars Grant-West

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Bane of Progress (Commander Anthology)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each permanent destroyed this way.

It sees shaped stone and carved wood as mutilations.

Swamp (Shadowmoor)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {B}.)

Zoetic Cavern (Commander 2014)
Lars Grant-West

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

Nothing lives within it, yet there is life.

Mindeye Drake (Gatecrash)
Lars Grant-West

Flying When this creature dies, target player mills five cards.

They can map both the cityscape and the minds of its architects.

Woodland Cemetery (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Lars Grant-West

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Farmers cut the trees and buried their dead. The dead rose up and killed the farmers. The trees grew back and strangled the dead.

Woodland Cemetery (Innistrad)
Lars Grant-West

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Farmers cut the trees and buried their dead. The dead rose up and killed the farmers. The trees grew back and strangled the dead.

Pegasus (Theros Beyond Death Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Flying

Bloodrage Brawler (Jumpstart)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, discard a card.

To Hazoret, those who fight for her are her beloved children.

Locthwain Lancer (March of the Machine Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Menace Whenever a nontoken Knight you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you draw a card.

For years she believed persistence meant hunting for the Cauldron of Eternity. Now she knew it meant never giving up the fight against a world gone mad.

Graf Mole (Shadows over Innistrad)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, you gain 3 life.

"Their keen sense of smell draws them to the unnatural. To find one is a boon." —Veka, hinterland inspector

Looming Altisaur (Ixalan)
Lars Grant-West

Nature can't be tamed, but the Sun Empire believes that humans are made stronger when they test themselves against the wild strength of the dinosaurs.

Pyreheart Wolf (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever this creature attacks, creatures you control gain menace until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Undying (When this creature 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.)

Dragon (Commander Legends Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

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

Wings of the Guard (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Lars Grant-West

Flying Melee (Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each opponent you attacked this combat.)

Within the city walls, Adriana's falcons hunt vermin of all kinds.

Read the Bones (Commander Masters)
Lars Grant-West

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Aura Gnarlid (Planechase Anthology)
Lars Grant-West

Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block it. This creature gets +1/+1 for each Aura on the battlefield.

Kill a gnarlid with your first blow, or it'll cheerfully show you how it's done.

Aven Courier (New Capenna Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Fliegend Immer wenn die Avior-Eilbotin angreift, bestimme eine Marke auf einer bleibenden Karte, die du kontrollierst. Lege eine Marke jener Sorte auf eine bleibende Karte deiner Wahl, die du kontrollierst, falls noch keine solche Marke auf ihr liegt.

Wild Pair (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever a creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, you may search your library for a creature card with the same total power and toughness, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Zoetic Cavern (Masters 25)
Lars Grant-West

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

Nothing lives within it, yet there is life.

Howl of the Night Pack (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Lars Grant-West

Create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token for each Forest you control.

The murderous horrors of Raven's Run are legendary, but even that haunted place goes quiet when the night wolves howl.

Corpse Churn (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Lars Grant-West

Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

"How did we find each other? So there I was, exploring a mound of monster corpses..."

Air Servant (Welcome Deck 2016)
Lars Grant-West

Flying {2}{U}: Tap target creature with flying.

Wind is forceful, yet ephemeral. It can knock a dragon out of the sky, yet pass through the smallest crack unhindered.

Enraged Ceratok (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Lars Grant-West

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

"There's no time to calm it down! Run!"

Scurrid Colony (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Lars Grant-West

Reach This creature gets +2/+2 as long as you control eight or more lands.

Scurrid teeth evolved to crack open nuts, but they work just as well for crushing bones if the nest is threatened.

Sun-Crested Pterodon (Rivals of Ixalan)
Lars Grant-West

Flying This creature has vigilance as long as you control another Dinosaur.

"Pterodons tolerate no intrusion into their skies. Even the clouds must ask permission." —Mahuiz, Sun Empire archer

Salvager of Secrets (Game Night 2019)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

The greatest treasure of the deep is an echo from above.

Moonrager's Slash (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt)
Lars Grant-West

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it's night. Moonrager's Slash deals 3 damage to any target.

The cathars fell like leaves as Tovolar himself joined the fray.

Bloodrage Brawler (Amonkhet)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, discard a card.

To Hazoret, those who fight for her are her beloved children.

Doomed Traveler (Iconic Masters)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Leechridden Swamp (Planechase)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {B}.) This land enters tapped. {B}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.

Doomed Traveler (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Elephant (Worldwake Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Commune with Nature (Modern Masters 2015)
Lars Grant-West

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Rampaging Brontodon (M19 Gift Pack)
Lars Grant-West

Trample Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each land you control.

Not even the tallest tree stands a chance against the underside of a dinosaur's foot.

Elephant (Eternal Masters Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Stoneshock Giant (Commander 2015)
Lars Grant-West

{6}{R}{R}: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) When this creature becomes monstrous, creatures without flying your opponents control can't block this turn.

Dreadship Reef (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Lars Grant-West

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {1}, Remove X storage counters from this land: Add X mana in any combination of {U} and/or {B}.

Mammoth Spider (Core Set 2020)
Lars Grant-West

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"If a careless elf ends up caught in a spider's web, we must expect nature to take its course. Do not blame the spider for being a spider." —Dellin Berting, Tolarian entomologist

Doomed Traveler (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Broken Wings (Game Night: Free-for-All)
Lars Grant-West

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying.

"Fynn climbed the highest peak and waited, still and silent, until the falling snow had hidden him entirely. When the great eagle flew past, the hunter's aim was true." —Saga of the Wisdom Seeker

Forest (Throne of Eldraine)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {G}.)

Elephant (Modern Masters 2015 Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Somnomancer (Shadowmoor)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, you may tap target creature.

"Are you tired? You look tired."

Tormod's Crypt (Magic 2015)
Lars Grant-West

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

Dominaria's most extravagant crypt nevertheless holds an empty grave.

Broken Wings (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying.

"Fynn climbed the highest peak and waited, still and silent, until the falling snow had hidden him entirely. When the great eagle flew past, the hunter's aim was true." —*Saga of the Wisdom Seeker*

Engineered Explosives (Modern Masters)
Lars Grant-West

Sunburst (This enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact.

Vedalken Engineer (Neon Dynasty Commander)
Lars Grant-West

{T}: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.

Art is unknown to the vedalken—for them, all creations must serve a purpose.

Honey Mammoth (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, you gain 4 life.

"And I thought *I* had a big sweet tooth." —Gannet, Skysail zoologist

Dregscape Zombie (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Unearth {B} ({B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

The undead of Grixis are fueled by their hatred of the living.

Doomed Traveler (Innistrad)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Glimmervoid (Mirrodin)
Lars Grant-West

At the beginning of the end step, if you control no artifacts, sacrifice this land. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

An empty canvas holds infinite possibilities.

Bramble Wurm (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Lars Grant-West

Reach, trample When this creature enters, you gain 5 life. {2}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: You gain 5 life.

Pyreheart Wolf (Dark Ascension)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever this creature attacks, creatures you control gain menace until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Undying (When this creature 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.)

Leechridden Swamp (Shadowmoor)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {B}.) This land enters tapped. {B}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.

Dormant Sliver (Planar Chaos)
Lars Grant-West

All Sliver creatures have defender. All Slivers have "When this permanent enters, draw a card."

"It triggers the hive's period of Ætheric fertility—a time when even feeding is a lower priority than reproduction." —Rukarumel, field journal

Gale Force (Champions of Kamigawa)
Lars Grant-West

Gale Force deals 5 damage to each creature with flying.

Everything the kami had done, they did with more force. Gentle breezes became typhoons, rolling rivers turned to crushing rapids, and gentle growth became overnight masses of thorns and vines.

Bramble Wurm (Innistrad Remastered)
Lars Grant-West

Reach, trample When this creature enters, you gain 5 life. {2}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: You gain 5 life.

Mage Slayer (Neon Dynasty Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever equipped creature attacks, it deals damage equal to its power to the player or planeswalker it's attacking. Equip {3}

"When the wielder is strong enough, any sword will do." —Kresh the Bloodbraided

Doomed Traveler (Commander Legends)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Terastodon (Commander Anthology)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Mischievous Quanar (The List)
Lars Grant-West

{3}{U}{U}: Turn this creature face down. Morph {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for that copy.

Tormod's Crypt (Dominaria Remastered)
Lars Grant-West

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

Dominaria's most extravagant crypt nevertheless holds an empty grave.

Vexing Sphinx (Dominaria Remastered)
Lars Grant-West

Flying Cumulative upkeep—Discard a card. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When this creature dies, draw a card for each age counter on it.

Blade of the Sixth Pride (Time Spiral Remastered)
Lars Grant-West

"My pride may be gone, but our hunt is not over."

Doomed Traveler (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos)
Lars Grant-West

Trample When Ghalta enters, put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

A thundering roar calls forth a primeval army.

Oaken Siren (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Lars Grant-West

Flying, vigilance {T}: Add {U}. Spend this mana only to cast an artifact spell or activate an ability of an artifact source.

The ship's carpenter adorned the figurehead with a small cosmium gem, never expecting the figurehead to take flight.

Sylvan Caryatid (Theros Promos)
Lars Grant-West

Defender, hexproof {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Those who enter the copse never leave. They find peace there and take root, becoming part of the ever-growing grove.

Doomed Traveler (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Glowspore Shaman (Double Masters 2022)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, mill three cards. You may put a land card from your graveyard on top of your library. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

From death she grows living grandeur.

Terastodon (Commander 2021)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Sporecap Spider (Conspiracy)
Lars Grant-West

Reach

"They don't move much, but then again, if you get caught in its web, it has all the time in the world to get to you." —Saidah, Joraga hunter

Artful Maneuver (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Dragon-Scarred Bear (Dragons of Tarkir)
Lars Grant-West

Formidable — {1}{G}: Regenerate this creature. Activate only if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater.

Bears are a delicacy for the Atarka. The few that remain are the toughest of their species.

Trash for Treasure (Commander 2016)
Lars Grant-West

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact. Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Goblins generally have two possessions: one per hand.

Baleful Beholder (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, choose one — • Antimagic Cone — Each opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice. • Fear Ray — Creatures you control gain menace until end of turn. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Toxin Sliver (Secret Lair Drop)
Lars Grant-West

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

It doesn't need to use its venom—it just needs you to know it can.

Terastodon (Worldwake)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Stoneshock Giant (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Lars Grant-West

{6}{R}{R}: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) When this creature becomes monstrous, creatures without flying your opponents control can't block this turn.

Messenger Jays (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Lars Grant-West

Flying Council's dilemma — When this creature enters, starting with you, each player votes for feather or quill. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each feather vote and draw a card for each quill vote. For each card drawn this way, discard a card.

Mage Slayer (Planechase)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever equipped creature attacks, it deals damage equal to its power to the player or planeswalker it's attacking. Equip {3}

"When the wielder is strong enough, any sword will do." —Kresh the Bloodbraided

Read the Bones (Commander 2014)
Lars Grant-West

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Oran-Rief Recluse (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska)
Lars Grant-West

Kicker {2}{G} (You may pay an additional {2}{G} as you cast this spell.) Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, destroy target creature with flying.

Spirit of the Aldergard (Kaldheim)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, search your library for a snow land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. This creature gets +1/+0 for each other snow permanent you control.

Moonrager's Slash (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Lars Grant-West

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it's night. Moonrager's Slash deals 3 damage to any target.

The cathars fell like leaves as Tovolar himself joined the fray.

Aura Gnarlid (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Lars Grant-West

Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block it. This creature gets +1/+1 for each Aura on the battlefield.

Kill a gnarlid with your first blow, or it'll cheerfully show you how it's done.

Swamp (Scars of Mirrodin)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {B}.)

Doomed Traveler (The List)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Swamp (Scars of Mirrodin)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {B}.)

Surge Node (New Phyrexia)
Lars Grant-West

This artifact enters with six charge counters on it. {1}, {T}, Remove a charge counter from this artifact: Put a charge counter on target artifact.

Without a foe to focus on, the machine priests had time to indulge in new sciences.

Contaminant Grafter (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Trample, toxic 1 Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to one or more players, proliferate. Corrupted — At the beginning of your end step, if an opponent has three or more poison counters, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Rampaging Brontodon (Commander Masters)
Lars Grant-West

Trample Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each land you control.

Not even the tallest tree stands a chance against the underside of a dinosaur's foot.

Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Lars Grant-West

Trample When Ghalta enters, put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

A thundering roar calls forth a primeval army.

Gnostro, Voice of the Crags (Commander Legends)
Lars Grant-West

{T}: Choose one. X is the number of spells you've cast this turn. • Scry X. • Gnostro deals X damage to target creature. • You gain X life.

Swamp (New Phyrexia)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {B}.)

Vedalken Engineer (Darksteel)
Lars Grant-West

{T}: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.

Art is unknown to the vedalken—for them, all creations must serve a purpose.

Territorial Aetherkite (Aetherdrift Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Flying, haste When this creature enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Then you may pay one or more {E}. When you do, this creature deals that much damage to each other creature.

Spider (Modern Masters 2017 Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Reach

Elephant (Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Grixis Charm (Shards of Alara)
Lars Grant-West

Choose one — • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. • Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

"So many choices. Shall I choose loathing, hate, or malice today?" —Eliza of the Keep

Wolf's Quarry (Jumpstart 2022)
Lars Grant-West

Create three 1/1 green Boar creature tokens with "When this creature dies, create a Food token." (A Food token is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

"The monster was gaining on them. Twice it had found them. There was only one place left to hide." —*Tales of the Fae*

Song of the Dryads (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Enchant permanent Enchanted permanent is a colorless Forest land.

Few who encounter the strange, human-like grove leave once the lilting chorus of the dryads reaches their ears.

Swamp (Scars of Mirrodin)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {B}.)

Tormod's Crypt (Core Set 2021)
Lars Grant-West

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

Dominaria's most extravagant crypt nevertheless holds an empty grave.

Gristleback (Guildpact)
Lars Grant-West

Bloodthirst 1 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.) Sacrifice this creature: You gain life equal to this creature's power.

Loyal in battle, hearty in stew.

Vedalken Engineer (Jumpstart 2022)
Lars Grant-West

{T}: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.

Art is unknown to the vedalken—for them, all creations must serve a purpose.

Sanity Grinding (Eventide)
Lars Grant-West

Chroma — Reveal the top ten cards of your library. For each blue mana symbol in the mana costs of the revealed cards, target opponent mills a card. Then put the cards you revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Doomed Traveler (Conspiracy)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Grixis Charm (Commander 2013)
Lars Grant-West

Choose one — • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. • Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

"So many choices. Shall I choose loathing, hate, or malice today?" —Eliza of the Keep

Soul-Guide Lantern (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Lars Grant-West

When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Aura Gnarlid (Planechase 2012)
Lars Grant-West

Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block it. This creature gets +1/+1 for each Aura on the battlefield.

Kill a gnarlid with your first blow, or it'll cheerfully show you how it's done.

Terastodon (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Grizzled Leotau (Alara Reborn)
Lars Grant-West

"There is no glory in a death of age, as even the leotau know. As winter steals into their coats, they seek the deadliest lands, that they may die as they lived." —Aarsil the Blessed

Read the Bones (Starter Commander Decks)
Lars Grant-West

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Bazaar Krovod (Return to Ravnica)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever this creature attacks, another target attacking creature gets +0/+2 until end of turn. Untap that creature.

The Hauler's Collective wields great influence over the Ravnican merchant class. Without it, little moves in the city.

Wolf (Shadowmoor Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Mortician Beetle (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever a player sacrifices a creature, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

To the soldier, war is famine; to the scavenger, a feast.

Dreadship Reef (Time Spiral)
Lars Grant-West

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {1}, Remove X storage counters from this land: Add X mana in any combination of {U} and/or {B}.

Spider (Modern Masters Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Reach

Ebondeath, Dracolich (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Lars Grant-West

Flash Flying Ebondeath enters tapped. You may cast this card from your graveyard if a creature not named Ebondeath, Dracolich died this turn.

Dreadship Reef (Commander 2011)
Lars Grant-West

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {1}, Remove X storage counters from this land: Add X mana in any combination of {U} and/or {B}.

Zoetic Cavern (Commander 2015)
Lars Grant-West

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

Nothing lives within it, yet there is life.

Aura Gnarlid (Commander 2018)
Lars Grant-West

Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block it. This creature gets +1/+1 for each Aura on the battlefield.

Kill a gnarlid with your first blow, or it'll cheerfully show you how it's done.

Song of the Dryads (Commander 2014)
Lars Grant-West

Enchant permanent Enchanted permanent is a colorless Forest land.

Few who encounter the strange, human-like grove leave once the lilting chorus of the dryads reaches their ears.

Wolf (Magic 2014 Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Terastodon (Conspiracy)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Tormod's Crypt (The List)
Lars Grant-West

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

Dominaria's most extravagant crypt nevertheless holds an empty grave.

Bounding Felidar (Outlaws of Thunder Junction)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever this creature attacks while saddled, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control. You gain 1 life for each of those creatures. Saddle 2 (Tap any number of other creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Mount becomes saddled until end of turn. Saddle only as a sorcery.)

Dreadship Reef (Commander 2016)
Lars Grant-West

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {1}, Remove X storage counters from this land: Add X mana in any combination of {U} and/or {B}.

Thunderherd Migration (Rivals of Ixalan)
Lars Grant-West

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Dinosaur card from your hand or pay {1}. Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The herds follow as new growth arises.

Seachrome Coast (Scars of Mirrodin)
Lars Grant-West

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Where the Quicksilver Sea laps over the Razor Fields, the landscape reflects the suns' fading hope.

Grixis Charm (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Lars Grant-West

Choose one — • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. • Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

"So many choices. Shall I choose loathing, hate, or malice today?" —Eliza of the Keep

Ominous Sphinx (Hour of Devastation)
Lars Grant-West

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard a card, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-0 until end of turn.

The sphinxes began to speak only after the Second Sun aligned. They whispered dire warnings, though no one listened.

Charnelhoard Wurm (Conflux)
Lars Grant-West

Trample Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Jund's dragons hoard only sangrite crystals. Its wurms aren't so picky.

Hollowhenge Spirit (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Lars Grant-West

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying When this creature enters, remove target attacking or blocking creature from combat.

Some spirits mourn. Others terrorize.

Lathnu Hellion (Kaladesh Promos)
Lars Grant-West

Haste When this creature enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {E}{E}.

Viral Drake (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Flying Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) {3}{U}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Fell Stinger (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Lars Grant-West

Deathtouch Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Trapjaw Kelpie (Eventide)
Lars Grant-West

Flash Persist (When this creature 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.)

Travelers in these waters leave a bit of themselves behind.

Howl of the Night Pack (Shadowmoor)
Lars Grant-West

Create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token for each Forest you control.

The murderous horrors of Raven's Run are legendary, but even that haunted place goes quiet when the night wolves howl.

Bane of Progress (Commander 2013)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each permanent destroyed this way.

It sees shaped stone and carved wood as mutilations.

Read the Bones (March of the Machine Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Champion's Drake (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Lars Grant-West

Flying This creature gets +3/+3 as long as you control a creature with three or more level counters on it.

"'Fraid of heights? Ride a horse. 'Fraid of missing out? Rein up a drake." —Trinda, Hada spy patrol

Air Servant (Modern Masters 2015)
Lars Grant-West

Flying {2}{U}: Tap target creature with flying.

"Wind is forceful, yet ephemeral. It can knock a dragon out of the sky, yet pass through the smallest crack unhindered." —Jestus Dreya, *Of Elements and Eternity*

Elephant (Commander Anthology Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Fell Stinger (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Lars Grant-West

Deathtouch Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Artful Maneuver (Dragons of Tarkir)
Lars Grant-West

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Dregscape Zombie (Shards of Alara)
Lars Grant-West

Unearth {B} ({B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

The undead of Grixis are fueled by their hatred of the living.

Territorial Hammerskull (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever this creature attacks, tap target creature an opponent controls.

From the eyes up, it's solid bone and stubbornness.

Mage Slayer (Alara Reborn)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever equipped creature attacks, it deals damage equal to its power to the player or planeswalker it's attacking. Equip {3}

"When the wielder is strong enough, any sword will do." —Kresh the Bloodbraided

Toy Boat (Unhinged)
Lars Grant-West

Cumulative upkeep—Say "Toy Boat" quickly. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this creature, then sacrifice it unless you say "Toy Boat" once for each age counter on it—without pausing between or fumbling it.)

Ebondeath, Dracolich (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Lars Grant-West

Flash Flying Ebondeath enters tapped. You may cast this card from your graveyard if a creature not named Ebondeath, Dracolich died this turn.

Boltbender (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Disguise {1}{R} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.) When this creature is turned face up, you may choose new targets for any number of other spells and/or abilities.

"You should really work on your aim."

Annoyed Altisaur (Commander Legends)
Lars Grant-West

Reach, trample 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.)

It pairs a long neck with a short temper.

Artist's Talent (Bloomburrow)
Lars Grant-West

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. {2}{R}: Level 2 Noncreature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {2}{R}: Level 3 If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.

Trumpeting Carnosaur (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos)
Lars Grant-West

Trample When this creature enters, discover 5. {2}{R}, Discard this card: It deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Aven Courier (New Capenna Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, choose a counter on a permanent you control. Put a counter of that kind on target permanent you control if it doesn't have a counter of that kind on it.

Glimmervoid Basin (March of the Machine Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell with a single target, that player copies that spell for each other spell, permanent, card not on the battlefield, and/or player the spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of them. Whenever chaos ensues, choose target creature. Each player except that creature's controller creates a token that's a copy of that creature.

Hivespine Wolverine (Bloomburrow)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. • This creature fights target creature token. • Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Zoetic Cavern (Future Sight)
Lars Grant-West

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

Nothing lives within it, yet there is life.

Tormod's Crypt (Magic 2013)
Lars Grant-West

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

Dominaria's most extravagant crypt nevertheless holds an empty grave.

Leechridden Swamp (Duel Decks: Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {B}.) This land enters tapped. {B}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.

Terastodon (Commander Legends)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Commune with Nature (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Artist's Talent (Bloomburrow Promos)
Lars Grant-West

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. {2}{R}: Level 2 Noncreature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {2}{R}: Level 3 If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.

Mammoth Spider (Jumpstart 2022)
Lars Grant-West

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"If a careless elf ends up caught in a spider's web, we must expect nature to take its course. Do not blame the spider for being a spider." —Dellin Berting, Tolarian entomologist

Vein Drinker (Commander 2017)
Lars Grant-West

Flying {R}, {T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to this creature. Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Doomed Traveler (The List)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Bane of Progress (The List)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each permanent destroyed this way.

It sees shaped stone and carved wood as mutilations.

Read the Bones (Theros)
Lars Grant-West

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Dreadship Reef (The List)
Lars Grant-West

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {1}, Remove X storage counters from this land: Add X mana in any combination of {U} and/or {B}.

Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos)
Lars Grant-West

Trample When Ghalta enters, put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

A thundering roar calls forth a primeval army.

Ebondeath, Dracolich (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Lars Grant-West

Flash Flying Ebondeath enters tapped. You may cast this card from your graveyard if a creature not named Ebondeath, Dracolich died this turn.

Doomed Traveler (Battlebond)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Territorial Aetherkite (Aetherdrift Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Flying, haste When this creature enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Then you may pay one or more {E}. When you do, this creature deals that much damage to each other creature.

Wolf's Quarry (Throne of Eldraine)
Lars Grant-West

Create three 1/1 green Boar creature tokens with "When this creature dies, create a Food token." (A Food token is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

"The monster was gaining on them. Twice it had found them. There was only one place left to hide." —*Tales of the Fae*

Broken Wings (Kaldheim)
Lars Grant-West

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying.

"Fynn climbed the highest peak and waited, still and silent, until the falling snow had hidden him entirely. When the great eagle flew past, the hunter's aim was true." —*Saga of the Wisdom Seeker*

Caves of Koilos (Dominaria United)
Lars Grant-West

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

Terastodon (Commander 2015)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Thunderherd Migration (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Lars Grant-West

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Dinosaur card from your hand or pay {1}. Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The herds follow as new growth arises.

Squall Line (Time Spiral)
Lars Grant-West

Squall Line deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player.

The constant shifting of Dominaria's shredded timeline played havoc with its atmosphere, combining savage electrical storms from ages past.

Tormod's Crypt (Friday Night Magic 2008)
Lars Grant-West

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

Dominaria's most extravagant crypt nevertheless holds an empty grave.

Precursor Golem (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, create two 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature tokens. Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell that targets only a single Golem, that player copies that spell for each other Golem that spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those Golems.

Goblin Balloon Brigade (The List)
Lars Grant-West

{R}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

"The enemy is getting too close! Quick! Inflate the toad!"

Zoetic Cavern (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Lars Grant-West

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

Nothing lives within it, yet there is life.

Fell Stinger (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Deathtouch Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sandstone Warrior (Ninth Edition)
Lars Grant-West

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Snake (Khans of Tarkir Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Goblin Balloon Brigade (Magic 2011)
Lars Grant-West

{R}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

"The enemy is getting too close! Quick! Inflate the toad!"

Gorgon Flail (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Mammoth Spider (Dominaria)
Lars Grant-West

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Most spiders of Llanowar disdain elvish alliances. No elf has as many beautiful eyes or as many strong arms.

Konda's Hatamoto (Champions of Kamigawa)
Lars Grant-West

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) As long as you control a legendary Samurai, this creature gets +1/+2 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Vexing Sphinx (Coldsnap)
Lars Grant-West

Flying Cumulative upkeep—Discard a card. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When this creature dies, draw a card for each age counter on it.

Boltbender (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Disguise {1}{R} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.) When this creature is turned face up, you may choose new targets for any number of other spells and/or abilities.

"You should really work on your aim."

Thunderherd Migration (Game Night 2019)
Lars Grant-West

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Dinosaur card from your hand or pay {1}. Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The herds follow as new growth arises.

Engineered Explosives (Ultimate Masters)
Lars Grant-West

Sunburst (This enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact.

Dregscape Zombie (Modern Masters 2017)
Lars Grant-West

Unearth {B} ({B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

The undead of Grixis are fueled by their hatred of the living.

Glint Raker (The Brothers' War Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Flying This creature gets +X/+0, where X is the highest mana value among artifacts you control. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may reveal that many cards from the top of your library. Put an artifact card revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Goblin Balloon Brigade (Ninth Edition)
Lars Grant-West

{R}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

They patched the holes, loaded their sharpest rocks, spanked their children one last time, and lurched off into the sunset.

Aven Courier (New Capenna Commander Promos)
Lars Grant-West

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, choose a counter on a permanent you control. Put a counter of that kind on target permanent you control if it doesn't have a counter of that kind on it.

Gloomhunter (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Lars Grant-West

Flying

Scavengers both mundane and magical follow in its wake, feeding on the scraps of flesh and spirit it leaves behind.

Broken Wings (Bloomburrow Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying.

"Fynn climbed the highest peak and waited, still and silent, until the falling snow had hidden him entirely. When the great eagle flew past, the hunter's aim was true." —Saga of the Wisdom Seeker

Stoneshock Giant (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Lars Grant-West

{6}{R}{R}: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) When this creature becomes monstrous, creatures without flying your opponents control can't block this turn.

Dormant Sliver (Time Spiral Remastered)
Lars Grant-West

All Sliver creatures have defender. All Slivers have "When this permanent enters, draw a card."

"It triggers the hive's period of aetheric fertility—a time when even feeding is a lower priority than reproduction." —Rukarumel, field journal

Glowspore Shaman (Ravnica Remastered)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, mill three cards. You may put a land card from your graveyard on top of your library. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

From death she grows living grandeur.

Stoneshock Giant (Theros)
Lars Grant-West

{6}{R}{R}: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) When this creature becomes monstrous, creatures without flying your opponents control can't block this turn.

Plains (Shadowmoor)
Lars Grant-West

({T}: Add {W}.)

Elephant (Modern Masters 2017 Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Vein Drinker (Shards of Alara)
Lars Grant-West

Flying {R}, {T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to this creature. Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Rampaging Brontodon (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Trample Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each land you control.

Not even the tallest tree stands a chance against the underside of a dinosaur's foot.

Spider (Planechase Anthology Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Reach

Towering Indrik (Return to Ravnica)
Lars Grant-West

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

It chases its airborne prey relentlessly, heedless to what it pulverizes beneath its hooves.

Trash for Treasure (Mirrodin)
Lars Grant-West

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact. Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Goblins generally have two possessions: one per hand.

Daybreak Chimera (Theros Beyond Death)
Lars Grant-West

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is your devotion to white. (Each {W} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.) Flying

Read the Bones (Commander 2017)
Lars Grant-West

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Engineered Explosives (Double Masters)
Lars Grant-West

Sunburst (This enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact.

Trove Warden (Zendikar Rising Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Vigilance Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, exile target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. When this creature dies, put each permanent card exiled with it onto the battlefield under the control of that card's owner.

Extraplanar Lens (Commander Masters)
Lars Grant-West

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile target land you control. Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Ghoulcaller's Bell (Innistrad)
Lars Grant-West

{T}: Each player mills a card.

The bell's chime heralds the rise of the unhallowed from the grave and the fall of their victims into the earth.

Dregscape Zombie (Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning)
Lars Grant-West

Unearth {B} ({B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

The undead of Grixis are fueled by their hatred of the living.

Trumpeting Carnosaur (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Lars Grant-West

Trample When this creature enters, discover 5. {2}{R}, Discard this card: It deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Read the Bones (Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi)
Lars Grant-West

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Hollowhenge Spirit (Dark Ascension)
Lars Grant-West

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying When this creature enters, remove target attacking or blocking creature from combat.

Some spirits mourn. Others terrorize.

Terastodon (Double Masters)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Might of Old Krosa (Double Masters 2022)
Lars Grant-West

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If you cast this spell during your main phase, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn instead.

"Krosa the great. Krosa the enduring. Look to the forest, and it will share its bounty." —Zyd, Kamahlite druid

Bane of Progress (Commander 2015)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each permanent destroyed this way.

It sees shaped stone and carved wood as mutilations.

Mogis's Chosen (Battle the Horde)
Lars Grant-West

Mogis's Chosen enters the battlefield tapped. Mogis's Chosen attacks each turn if able.

Read the Bones (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Aura Gnarlid (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block it. This creature gets +1/+1 for each Aura on the battlefield.

Kill a gnarlid with your first blow, or it'll cheerfully show you how it's done.

Bloodscale Prowler (Guildpact)
Lars Grant-West

Bloodthirst 1 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

It tracks its victims by the scent of their breath, preferring to dine on those who recently ate well.

Zoetic Cavern (The List)
Lars Grant-West

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

Nothing lives within it, yet there is life.

Bramble Wurm (Innistrad Remastered)
Lars Grant-West

Reach, trample When this creature enters, you gain 5 life. {2}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: You gain 5 life.

Aura Gnarlid (Wilds of Eldraine Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block it. This creature gets +1/+1 for each Aura on the battlefield.

Kill a gnarlid with your first blow, or it'll cheerfully show you how it's done.

Salvager of Secrets (Core Set 2019)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

The greatest treasure of the deep is an echo from above.

Dregscape Zombie (Planechase)
Lars Grant-West

Unearth {B} ({B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

The undead of Grixis are fueled by their hatred of the living.

Excavation Mole (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Lars Grant-West

Trample When this creature enters, mill three cards.

It makes molehills out of mountains.

Human (Friday Night Magic 2012)
Lars Grant-West

Artist's Talent (Bloomburrow Promos)
Lars Grant-West

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. {2}{R}: Level 2 Noncreature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {2}{R}: Level 3 If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.

Toxin Sliver (The List)
Lars Grant-West

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

It doesn't need to use its venom—it just needs you to know it can.

Terastodon (Worldwake Promos)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Carnelian Orb of Dragonkind (Foundations)
Lars Grant-West

{T}: Add {R}. If that mana is spent on a Dragon creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn.

Sages whisper that Lathliss still keeps the heart of the old dragon queen sealed within a jewel, its smoldering warmth an eternal reminder that no monarch is untouchable.

Imperiosaur (Future Sight)
Lars Grant-West

Spend only mana produced by basic lands to cast this spell.

"An ancient, powerful force has overtaken the valley. I sympathize for its former inhabitants, but I rejoice for the land itself." —Olanti, Muraganda druid

Elephant (Commander 2014 Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Toxin Sliver (Legions)
Lars Grant-West

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

It doesn't need to use its venom—it just needs you to know it can.

Graf Mole (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Lars Grant-West

Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, you gain 3 life.

"Their keen sense of smell draws them to the unnatural. To find one is a boon." —Veka, hinterland inspector

Terastodon (Premium Deck Series: Graveborn)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Toxin Sliver (Secret Lair Drop)
Lars Grant-West

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

It doesn't need to use its venom—it just needs you to know it can.

Hunt the Weak (Fate Reforged)
Lars Grant-West

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then that creature fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Dragons scorn the weak, even among their own kind.

Dragon-Scarred Bear (The List)
Lars Grant-West

Formidable — {1}{G}: Regenerate this creature. Activate only if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater.

Bears are a delicacy for the Atarka. The few that remain are the toughest of their species.

Woodland Cemetery (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Lars Grant-West

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Farmers cut the trees and buried their dead. The dead rose up and killed the farmers. The trees grew back and strangled the dead.

Glowspore Shaman (Guilds of Ravnica)
Lars Grant-West

When this creature enters, mill three cards. You may put a land card from your graveyard on top of your library. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

From death she grows living grandeur.

Splatter Goblin (Dominaria United)
Lars Grant-West

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

"For some, perfection is but a single moment when form and purpose converge." —Rona

Kird Chieftain (Magic 2015)
Lars Grant-West

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Forest. {4}{G}: Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Frostwalla (Modern Horizons)
Lars Grant-West

{S}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

Glare from the snows in the boreal expanse hides its true size.

Sporecap Spider (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Lars Grant-West

Reach

"They don't move much, but then again, if you get caught in its web, it has all the time in the world to get to you." —Saidah, Joraga hunter

Wolf (Magic 2010 Tokens)
Lars Grant-West

Annoyed Altisaur (Double Masters 2022)
Lars Grant-West

Reach, trample 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.)

It pairs a long neck with a short temper.