Captain Ripley Vance

Captain Ripley Vance (Modern Horizons 2)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you cast your third spell each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Captain Ripley Vance, then it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

The Spitfire Bastion bristles with cannons claimed from every ship she's conquered.

Captain Ripley Vance (Commander Masters)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you cast your third spell each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Captain Ripley Vance, then it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

The Spitfire Bastion bristles with cannons claimed from every ship she's conquered.

Tatyova, Benthic Druid (Dominaria)
Mathias Kollros

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

"Yavimaya is one being—one vastness of rippling leaves, one deepness of roots, and one chatter of animals—of which I am one part."

Snake of the Golden Grove (Born of the Gods)
Mathias Kollros

Tribute 3 (As this creature enters, an opponent of your choice may put three +1/+1 counters on it.) When this creature enters, if tribute wasn't paid, you gain 4 life.

Some fruits are best left ungathered.

Murasa Rootgrazer (Zendikar Rising)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield. {T}: Return target basic land you control to its owner's hand.

Few other creatures so closely embody Murasa's rapid cycles of growth.

Burning Prophet (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn, then scry 1.

"This day will end in death, but not the one you hoped for. This day will end in victory, but not the one you expected."

Eater of Hope (Born of the Gods Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Flying {B}, Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate this creature. {2}{B}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Destroy target creature.

Gods can be appeased. Demons, however . . .

Deal Gone Bad (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Mathias Kollros

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. Target player mills three cards. (They put the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)

"Feed the rumor mills with delicious treachery. Bad blood between those two is a good deal for us." —Kamiz, Obscura Oculus

Tatyova, Benthic Druid (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

"Yavimaya is one being—one vastness of rippling leaves, one deepness of roots, and one chatter of animals—of which I am one part."

Ruination Guide (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Devoid (This card has no color.) Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library.) Other colorless creatures you control get +1/+0.

Barrier Breach (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Mathias Kollros

Exile up to three target enchantments. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"They cast wards, thinking it will protect them, but the biggest monsters find a way through." —Kinnan, bonder prodigy

Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Flying Whenever a player sacrifices another permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

The clicks and buzz of the undercity proclaim him the incarnation of decay.

Reckless Impulse (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

A stitcher looks at their creation and sees the result of years of study and hours of toil. A devil sees a new plaything.

Desperate Sentry (Eldritch Moon)
Mathias Kollros

When this creature dies, create a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token. Delirium — This creature gets +3/+0 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Veyran, Voice of Duality (Commander 2021)
Mathias Kollros

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Veyran gets +1/+1 until end of turn. If you casting or copying an instant or sorcery spell causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Revitalize (Foundations Jumpstart)
Mathias Kollros

You gain 3 life. Draw a card.

Esika alone knows how to distill the essence of the World Tree into the Cosmos Elixir, a magical substance which grants the Skoti god-family immortality.

Nivix Barrier (Magic Origins)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Defender (This creature can't attack.) When this creature enters, target attacking creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn.

Guttersnipe (Commander Masters)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

"I found a new toy. Wanna play?"

Rage of Purphoros (Theros)
Mathias Kollros

Rage of Purphoros deals 4 damage to target creature. It can't be regenerated this turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Grusilda, Monster Masher (The List (Unfinity Foil Edition))
Mathias Kollros

Combined, enchanted, and equipped creatures you control have menace. {3}{B}{R}, {T}: Put two target creature cards from graveyards onto the battlefield combined into one creature under your control. (Its power is equal to their total power, its toughness is equal to their total toughness, and it has their names, mana costs, types, text boxes, etc.)

Avalanche Caller (Jumpstart 2022)
Mathias Kollros

{2}: Target snow land you control becomes a 4/4 Elemental creature with hexproof and haste until end of turn. It's still a land. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Silverback Shaman (Commander Legends)
Mathias Kollros

Trample When this creature dies, draw a card.

The apes of Yavimaya draw strength from the spirits of their ancestors.

Every Dream a Nightmare (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas Schemes)
Mathias Kollros

When you set this scheme in motion, each opponent discards a card. You draw a card for each land card discarded this way.

"Let me unburden you of these fatuous hopes."

Deal Gone Bad (Streets of New Capenna)
Mathias Kollros

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. Target player mills three cards. (They put the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)

"Feed the rumor mills with delicious treachery. Bad blood between those two is a good deal for us." —Kamiz, Obscura Oculus

Crystacean (Foundations Jumpstart)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

It loves blending into its environment, ambushing prey, and long scuttles on the beach.

Psychic Strike (Gatecrash)
Mathias Kollros

Counter target spell. Its controller mills two cards.

Until more information could be gleaned about Niv-Mizzet's intentions, Lazav took every opportunity to stall his experiments.

Decree of Pain (Bloomburrow Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Awaken the Sleeper (Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
Mathias Kollros

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. If it's equipped, you may destroy all Equipment attached to that creature.

"Without faith in each other, we truly would have nothing left. Isn't that right, Malach? ...Malach?" —Darven, Mirran rebel, last words

Tatyova, Benthic Druid (Dominaria Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

"Yavimaya is one being—one vastness of rippling leaves, one deepness of roots, and one chatter of animals—of which I am one part."

Interdisciplinary Mascot (March of the Machine)
Mathias Kollros

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Ward {3} When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Breaking (Dragon's Maze)
Mathias Kollros

End-Raze Forerunners (Ravnica Allegiance Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance, trample, haste When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and trample until end of turn.

"Smash this city to pieces." —Domri Rade

Captain Ripley Vance (Modern Horizons 2)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you cast your third spell each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Captain Ripley Vance, then it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

The Spitfire Bastion bristles with cannons claimed from every ship she's conquered.

Desperate Sentry (The List)
Mathias Kollros

When this creature dies, create a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token. Delirium — This creature gets +3/+0 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Valor of the Worthy (Kaldheim)
Mathias Kollros

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When enchanted creature leaves the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

"If I am to die, let it be a hero's death!"

Abzan Charm (Dominaria United Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Exile target creature with power 3 or greater. • You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. • Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures.

Sultai Emissary (Fate Reforged)
Mathias Kollros

When this creature dies, manifest the top card of your library. (Put that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

To the Sultai, Ugin's power was just one more resource to be exploited.

Onakke Ogre (Core Set 2021)
Mathias Kollros

The ogres you know are nothing like the Onakke. Possessing both intellect and industry, they had brute strength without being brutish.

Veyran, Voice of Duality (Commander 2021)
Mathias Kollros

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Veyran gets +1/+1 until end of turn. If you casting or copying an instant or sorcery spell causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Cleansing Wildfire (Zendikar Rising)
Mathias Kollros

Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Draw a card.

Every rebirth looks like a death.

Petrifying Meddler (Modern Horizons 3)
Mathias Kollros

Devoid (This card has no color.) When you cast this spell, tap up to one target creature and put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Reach

Mark for Death (Gatecrash)
Mathias Kollros

Target creature an opponent controls blocks this turn if able. Untap that creature. Other creatures that player controls can't block this turn.

Everyone roots for the little guy, but nobody bets on him.

Feral Invocation (Jumpstart)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Nylea's sacred lynx guards those who honor the Nessian Wood and hunts those who don't.

Coerced Confession (Gatecrash)
Mathias Kollros

Target player mills four cards. You draw a card for each creature card put into their graveyard this way.

"Ask the right questions in the right way and truth is inevitable." —Lazav

Veyran, Voice of Duality (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Veyran gets +1/+1 until end of turn. If you casting or copying an instant or sorcery spell causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Invasion of Alara (March of the Machine Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Reckless Impulse (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Mathias Kollros

Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

A stitcher looks at their creation and sees the result of years of study and hours of toil. A devil sees a new plaything.

Waltz of Rage (Duskmourn: House of Horror)
Mathias Kollros

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature. Until end of turn, whenever a creature you control dies, exile the top card of your library. You may play it until the end of your next turn.

The melody was all in her head, but she'd always preferred to dance alone.

Essence Capture (Ravnica Allegiance)
Mathias Kollros

Counter target creature spell. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control.

"It's not enough to defeat our foes. We must learn from them, too." —Vannifar

Thryx, the Sudden Storm (Commander Masters)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying Spells you cast with mana value 5 or greater cost {1} less to cast and can't be countered.

Even in their mountain fortresses, the Akroans have learned not to anger Thassa.

Thallid Omnivore (Dominaria)
Mathias Kollros

{1}, Sacrifice another creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If a Saproling was sacrificed this way, you gain 2 life.

Thelon of Havenwood created thallids as a food source in times of darkness. Thallids did the same with saprolings.

Role Reversal (War of the Spark Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Exchange control of two target permanents that share a permanent type.

Uthlon the Wise scandalized sphinx society, hooting the answers to riddles as he rampaged through Tin Street. Grangle, on the other hand, sat for hours, deep in thought, largely ignored by fellow goblins.

Sanctuary Smasher (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Mathias Kollros

First strike Cycling {2}{R} ({2}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, put a first strike counter on target creature you control.

Misdirection (The List)
Mathias Kollros

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Change the target of target spell with a single target.

Broodbirth Viper (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Hover Barrier (RNA Guild Kit)
Mathias Kollros

Defender, flying

As whispers and rumors increased, so did the demand for fail-safe barriers.

Abzan Charm (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Exile target creature with power 3 or greater. • You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. • Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures.

Skitter Eel (Ravnica Allegiance)
Mathias Kollros

{2}{U}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

"Life has no mistakes, only experiments." —Yolov, Simic bioengineer

Jeskai Charm (Khans of Tarkir)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Put target creature on top of its owner's library. • Jeskai Charm deals 4 damage to target opponent or planeswalker. • Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain lifelink until end of turn.

Consumed by Greed (Bloomburrow)
Mathias Kollros

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Target opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. If the gift was promised, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Jeskai Charm (Double Masters 2022)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Put target creature on top of its owner's library. • Jeskai Charm deals 4 damage to target opponent or planeswalker. • Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain lifelink until end of turn.

Archetype of Aggression (The List)
Mathias Kollros

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

"Did Purphoros bless Maikal because of his rage? Or did Maikal's rage blossom after he'd been blessed? Only the gods know." —Eocles, oracle of Purphoros

Onakke Ogre (Core Set 2019)
Mathias Kollros

The ogres you know are nothing like the Onakke. Possessing both intellect and industry, they had brute strength without being brutish.

Soul Sear (Core Set 2021)
Mathias Kollros

Soul Sear deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker. That permanent loses indestructible until end of turn.

There was no witty retort, no confident boast to accompany the attack. There was only pain.

Old One Eye (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Trample Other creatures you control have trample. When Old One Eye enters, create a 5/5 green Tyranid creature token. Fast Healing — At the beginning of your first main phase, you may discard two cards. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Mawloc (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) Terror from the Deep — When this creature enters, it fights up to one target creature an opponent controls. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Hunt the Weak (The List)
Mathias Kollros

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.)

"Death lizard approaching, cap'n!" —Brint Doobin, last words

Erebos's Intervention (Theros Beyond Death)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life. • Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

"I bring a death none can escape."

Veyran, Voice of Duality (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Veyran gets +1/+1 until end of turn. If you casting or copying an instant or sorcery spell causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Merciless Eternal (Hour of Devastation)
Mathias Kollros

Afflict 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 2 life.) {2}{B}, Discard a card: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"My work here is complete. The people have done everything required of them." —Nicol Bolas

Besmirch (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Until end of turn, gain control of target creature and it gains haste. Untap and goad that creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

The whitest robes stain best.

Wild Wasteland (Fallout)
Mathias Kollros

Skip your draw step. At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn.

Some things in the wasteland are best left unexplained.

Mage Hunter (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever an opponent casts or copies an instant or sorcery spell, they lose 1 life.

One of the Oriq's most powerful tools is the mage hunter, a vile monstrosity created to seek out and snuff out the arcane.

Burning Prophet (War of the Spark)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn, then scry 1.

"This day will end in death, but not the one you hoped for. This day will end in victory, but not the one you expected."

Old One Eye (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Trample Other creatures you control have trample. When Old One Eye enters, create a 5/5 green Tyranid creature token. Fast Healing — At the beginning of your first main phase, you may discard two cards. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Burning Prophet (Ravnica Remastered)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn, then scry 1.

"This day will end in death, but not the one you hoped for. This day will end in victory, but not the one you expected."

Kathril, Aspect Warper (Commander 2020)
Mathias Kollros

When Kathril enters, put a flying counter on any creature you control if a creature card in your graveyard has flying. Repeat this process for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance. Then put a +1/+1 counter on Kathril for each counter put on a creature this way.

Miasma Demon (Duskmourn: House of Horror)
Mathias Kollros

Flying When this creature enters, you may discard any number of cards. When you do, up to that many target creatures each get -2/-2 until end of turn.

"Hush, little ants. I can rid you of your troubles with a breath. All I ask in return is a drop of blood... and a promise."

Besmirch (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Mathias Kollros

Until end of turn, gain control of target creature and it gains haste. Untap and goad that creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

The whitest robes stain best.

Fiery Justice (Modern Masters 2017)
Mathias Kollros

Fiery Justice deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. Target opponent gains 5 life.

When the rebels couldn't breach the castle to kill Lalor the Obstinate, they tried a more internal approach to depose the pretender king.

Activated Sleeper (Dominaria United Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Flash You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature card in a graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn, except it's a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Reckless Impulse (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Mathias Kollros

Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

A stitcher looks at their creation and sees the result of years of study and hours of toil. A devil sees a new plaything.

Greater Good (Double Masters)
Mathias Kollros

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

"There's wisdom to be gained in death—whether it be one's own or someone else's." —Jarad, Golgari Lich-Lord

Expedition Skulker (Foundations Jumpstart)
Mathias Kollros

This creature has deathtouch as long as you control another Rogue. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Rogues bring an array of useful skills to the work of an adventuring party: stealth, agility, the ability to locate and disarm traps, and a subtle, deadly fighting style.

Tatyova, Benthic Druid (Foundations)
Mathias Kollros

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

"Yavimaya is one being—one vastness of rippling leaves, one deepness of roots, and one chatter of animals—of which I am one part."

Grim Flayer (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Delirium — This creature gets +2/+2 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Waltz of Rage (Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature. Until end of turn, whenever a creature you control dies, exile the top card of your library. You may play it until the end of your next turn.

The melody was all in her head, but she'd always preferred to dance alone.

Waltz of Rage (Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature. Until end of turn, whenever a creature you control dies, exile the top card of your library. You may play it until the end of your next turn.

The melody was all in her head, but she'd always preferred to dance alone.

Hydradoodle (Unstable)
Mathias Kollros

As this creature enters, roll X six-sided dice. This creature enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the total of those results. Reach, trample

Less housebroken than housebreaking.

Thryx, the Sudden Storm (Theros Beyond Death Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying Spells you cast with mana value 5 or greater cost {1} less to cast and can't be countered.

Even in their mountain fortresses, the Akroans have learned not to anger Thassa.

Rith, the Awakener (Dominaria Remastered)
Mathias Kollros

Flying Whenever Rith deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{G}. If you do, choose a color, then create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each permanent of that color.

Sultai Charm (Commander 2019)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Destroy target monocolored creature. • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Draw two cards, then discard a card.

"Strike," the fumes hiss. "Raise an empire with your ambition."

Thrill-Kill Disciple (Fallout)
Mathias Kollros

Squad—{1}, Discard a card. (As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay its squad cost any number of times. When this creature enters, create that many tokens that are copies of it.) When this creature dies, create a Junk token.

Bothersome Quasit (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Mathias Kollros

Menace Goaded creatures your opponents control can't block. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, goad target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Sliver Construct (Magic 2014)
Mathias Kollros

Slivers destroy those who come close to the Skep, the central hive. Shards of torn metal litter the ground as a warning to any artificers inquisitive about the hive's inner workings.

Festergloom (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Mathias Kollros

Nonblack creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

The death of a scout can be as informative as a safe return.

Bioessence Hydra (War of the Spark)
Mathias Kollros

Trample This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each loyalty counter on planeswalkers you control. Whenever one or more loyalty counters are put on planeswalkers you control, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Tatyova, Benthic Druid (Dominaria Remastered)
Mathias Kollros

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

"Yavimaya is one being—one vastness of rippling leaves, one deepness of roots, and one chatter of animals—of which I am one part."

Unnatural Endurance (Oath of the Gatewatch)
Mathias Kollros

Devoid (This card has no color.) Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Regenerate it.

"Eldrazi don't die easy. Sometimes they don't die at all." —Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist

Magma Spray (Friday Night Magic 2014)
Mathias Kollros

Magma Spray deals 2 damage to target creature. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

A stone hurled at an enemy is deadlier in liquid form.

Grim Flayer (Double Masters 2022)
Mathias Kollros

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Delirium — This creature gets +2/+2 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Predatory Sliver (Secret Lair Drop)
Mathias Kollros

Sliver creatures you control get +1/+1.

No matter how much the slivers change, their collective might remains.

Silverback Shaman (Core Set 2020)
Mathias Kollros

Trample When this creature dies, draw a card.

The apes of Yavimaya draw strength from the spirits of their ancestors.

Baffling End (Rivals of Ixalan)
Mathias Kollros

When this enchantment enters, exile target creature an opponent controls with mana value 3 or less. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, target opponent creates a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.

Thryx, the Sudden Storm (Theros Beyond Death)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying Spells you cast with mana value 5 or greater cost {1} less to cast and can't be countered.

Even in their mountain fortresses, the Akroans have learned not to anger Thassa.

Fiery Justice (Double Masters 2022)
Mathias Kollros

Fiery Justice deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. Target opponent gains 5 life.

When the rebels couldn't breach the castle to kill Lalor the Obstinate, they tried a more internal approach to depose the pretender king.

Sinister Sabotage (Ravnica Remastered)
Mathias Kollros

Counter target spell. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

"We have intel that some guilds have fallen under an invader's influence. Until we're sure, no venture succeeds." —Lazav

Revitalize (Kaldheim)
Mathias Kollros

You gain 3 life. Draw a card.

Esika alone knows how to distill the essence of the World Tree into the Cosmos Elixir, a magical substance which grants the Skoti god-family immortality.

Celestial Regulator (Streets of New Capenna)
Mathias Kollros

Flying When this creature enters, choose target creature you don't control and tap it. If you control a creature with a counter on it, the chosen creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Role Reversal (War of the Spark)
Mathias Kollros

Exchange control of two target permanents that share a permanent type.

Uthlon the Wise scandalized sphinx society, hooting the answers to riddles as he rampaged through Tin Street. Grangle, on the other hand, sat for hours, deep in thought, largely ignored by fellow goblins.

Explosive Welcome (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Mathias Kollros

Explosive Welcome deals 5 damage to any target and 3 damage to any other target. Add {R}{R}{R}.

Rowan and Will were a natural fit in Prismari College, the school of outrageous elemental arts.

Archetype of Aggression (Born of the Gods)
Mathias Kollros

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

"Did Purphoros bless Maikal because of his rage? Or did Maikal's rage blossom after he'd been blessed? Only the gods know." —Eocles, oracle of Purphoros

Krark, the Thumbless (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, return that spell to its owner's hand. If you win the flip, copy that spell, and you may choose new targets for the copy. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

"Double or nothing."

Guttersnipe (Iconic Masters)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

"I found a new toy. Wanna play?"

Guttersnipe (Core Set 2019)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

"I found a new toy. Wanna play?"

Callous Dismissal (War of the Spark)
Mathias Kollros

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

"They make it clear we are nothing to them." —Lavinia

Hunt the Weak (Rivals of Ixalan)
Mathias Kollros

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.)

"Death lizard approaching, cap'n!" —Brint Doobin, last words

Ornithopter (Aether Revolt)
Mathias Kollros

Flying

"You want to know what we are fighting for? Look at the wonder in that child's eyes." —Pia Nalaar

Tyranid Prime (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

進化（クリーチャー１体があなたのコントロール下で戦場に出るたび、そのクリーチャーのパワーかタフネスがこのクリーチャーよりも大きい場合、このクリーチャーの上に＋１/＋１カウンター１個を置く。） シナプス個体 — あなたがコントロールしていてこれでないすべてのクリーチャーは進化を持つ。

Tyranid Prime (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Evoluzione (Ogniqualvolta una creatura entra nel campo di battaglia sotto il tuo controllo, se quella creatura ha forza o costituzione maggiori di questa creatura, metti un segnalino +1/+1 su questa creatura.) Creatura Sinapsi — Le altre creature che controlli hanno evoluzione.

Kiora's Dambreaker (Ravnica Remastered)
Mathias Kollros

When this creature enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"When your enemy flees, send the sea to pursue them." —Kiora

Sinister Sabotage (Guilds of Ravnica)
Mathias Kollros

Counter target spell. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

"We have intel that some guilds have fallen under an invader's influence. Until we're sure, no venture succeeds." —Lazav

Generator Servant (The List)
Mathias Kollros

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}{C}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (That creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)

Guttersnipe (Commander 2019)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

"I found a new toy. Wanna play?"

Tyranid Prime (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

进化（每当一个生物在你的操控下进战场时，若该生物的力量或防御力大于此生物，则在后者上放置一个+1/+1指示物。） 节点生物～由你操控的其他生物具有进化异能。

Thryx, the Sudden Storm (Theros Beyond Death Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying Spells you cast with mana value 5 or greater cost {1} less to cast and can't be countered.

Even in their mountain fortresses, the Akroans have learned not to anger Thassa.

Trollbred Guardian (The List)
Mathias Kollros

{2}{G}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

His favorite food is kraul.

Captain Ripley Vance (Commander Masters)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you cast your third spell each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Captain Ripley Vance, then it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

The Spitfire Bastion bristles with cannons claimed from every ship she's conquered.

Pegasus Courser (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, another target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn.

A pegasus chooses its rider, bearing the worthy into the clouds and tossing all others to the ground.

Volatile Rig (Return to Ravnica)
Mathias Kollros

Trample This creature attacks each combat if able. Whenever this creature is dealt damage, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, sacrifice this creature. When this creature dies, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, it deals 4 damage to each creature and each player.

Abzan Charm (Double Masters 2022)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Exile target creature with power 3 or greater. • You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. • Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures.

Inner Struggle (Shadows over Innistrad)
Mathias Kollros

Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

"Reflect upon your evils lest they reflect upon you." —Inquisitor Laerin

Defiler of Flesh (Dominaria United)
Mathias Kollros

Menace As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay. Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

Chaos Warp (Aetherdrift Commander)
Mathias Kollros

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Tools developed for infiltrating or sabotaging rival teams became new fields of research in their own right.

Thrill-Kill Disciple (Fallout)
Mathias Kollros

Squad—{1}, Discard a card. (As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay its squad cost any number of times. When this creature enters, create that many tokens that are copies of it.) When this creature dies, create a Junk token.

Swift Kick (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. It fights target creature you don't control.

Shintan sensed the malice in his opponent, but he did not strike until the orc's muscles tensed in preparation to throw the first punch.

Trollbred Guardian (Ravnica Allegiance)
Mathias Kollros

{2}{G}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

His favorite food is kraul.

Escape Velocity (Theros Beyond Death)
Mathias Kollros

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has haste. Escape—{1}{R}, Exile two other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

"Not even death can catch me now!"

Greater Good (Battlebond)
Mathias Kollros

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

"There's wisdom to be gained in death—whether it be one's own or someone else's." —Jarad, Golgari Lich-Lord

End-Raze Forerunners (Ravnica Allegiance)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance, trample, haste When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and trample until end of turn.

"Smash this city to pieces." —Domri Rade

Gargos, Vicious Watcher (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance Hydra spells you cast cost {4} less to cast. Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of a spell, Gargos fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Kiora's Dismissal (Journey into Nyx)
Mathias Kollros

Strive — This spell costs {U} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Return any number of target enchantments to their owners' hands.

Kiora's Dambreaker (War of the Spark)
Mathias Kollros

When this creature enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"When your enemy flees, send the sea to pursue them." —Kiora

End-Raze Forerunners (Kaldheim Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance, trample, haste When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and trample until end of turn.

"Smash this city to pieces." —Domri Rade

Rith, the Awakener (Dominaria Remastered)
Mathias Kollros

Flying Whenever Rith deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{G}. If you do, choose a color, then create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each permanent of that color.

Broodlord (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) Brood Telepathy — When this creature enters, distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of other target creatures you control.

Hover Barrier (Return to Ravnica)
Mathias Kollros

Defender, flying

As whispers and rumors increased, so did the demand for fail-safe barriers.

Harvesttide Infiltrator (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Mathias Kollros

Guttersnipe (Starter Commander Decks)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

"I found a new toy. Wanna play?"

Stoke the Flames (Friday Night Magic 2014)
Mathias Kollros

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Stoke the Flames deals 4 damage to any target.

Trygon Prime (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Subterranean Assault — Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it and a +1/+1 counter on up to one other target attacking creature. That creature can't be blocked this turn.

The walls of the Necron tomb were unbreakable. The ground beneath it was not.

Defiler of Flesh (Dominaria United)
Mathias Kollros

Menace As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay. Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

Gargos, Vicious Watcher (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance Hydra spells you cast cost {4} less to cast. Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of a spell, Gargos fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Voracious Greatshark (Foundations Jumpstart)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, counter target artifact or creature spell.

There is no boat big enough.

Gargos, Vicious Watcher (Core Set 2020)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance Hydra spells you cast cost {4} less to cast. Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of a spell, Gargos fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Abzan Charm (Khans of Tarkir)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Exile target creature with power 3 or greater. • You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. • Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures.

Wild Wasteland (Fallout)
Mathias Kollros

Skip your draw step. At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn.

Some things in the wasteland are best left unexplained.

Swift Kick (Khans of Tarkir)
Mathias Kollros

Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. It fights target creature you don't control.

Shintan sensed the malice in his opponent, but he did not strike until the orc's muscles tensed in preparation to throw the first punch.

Watercourser (Magic 2013)
Mathias Kollros

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

"Beware an eddy where there should be none or a stretch that flows too fast or too slow." —Old Fishbones, Martyne river guide

Thrill-Kill Disciple (Fallout)
Mathias Kollros

Squad—{1}, Discard a card. (As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay its squad cost any number of times. When this creature enters, create that many tokens that are copies of it.) When this creature dies, create a Junk token.

Briarbridge Tracker (Foundations Jumpstart)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") As long as you control a token, this creature gets +2/+0.

Winds of Rebuke (Amonkhet)
Mathias Kollros

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Each player mills two cards.

"I have foreseen that you will not pass my trial."

Cancel (Ixalan)
Mathias Kollros

Counter target spell.

"Hold your fire, obviously." —Captain Brandis Thorn

Swift Kick (Jumpstart 2022)
Mathias Kollros

Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. It fights target creature you don't control.

Shintan sensed the malice in his opponent, but he did not strike until the orc's muscles tensed in preparation to throw the first punch.

Decree of Pain (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sinister Sabotage (Starter Commander Decks)
Mathias Kollros

Counter target spell. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

"We have intel that some guilds have fallen under an invader's influence. Until we're sure, no venture succeeds." —Lazav

Interdisciplinary Mascot (March of the Machine)
Mathias Kollros

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Ward {3} When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Dark Depths (Dominaria Remastered)
Mathias Kollros

Dark Depths enters with ten ice counters on it. {3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths. When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Misdirection (Duel Decks: Merfolk vs. Goblins)
Mathias Kollros

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Change the target of target spell with a single target.

Sinister Sabotage (Guilds of Ravnica Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Counter target spell. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

"We have intel that some guilds have fallen under an invader's influence. Until we're sure, no venture succeeds." —Lazav

Tyranid Prime (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Synapse Creature — Other creatures you control have evolve.

Soul Sear (Foundations Jumpstart)
Mathias Kollros

Soul Sear deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker. That permanent loses indestructible until end of turn.

There was no witty retort, no confident boast to accompany the attack. There was only pain.

Briarbridge Tracker (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") As long as you control a token, this creature gets +2/+0.

Broodlord (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) Brood Telepathy — When this creature enters, distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of other target creatures you control.

Benthic Infiltrator (Battle for Zendikar)
Mathias Kollros

Devoid (This card has no color.) Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library.) This creature can't be blocked.

Dark Depths (Ultimate Masters)
Mathias Kollros

Dark Depths enters with ten ice counters on it. {3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths. When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Skitter Eel (The List)
Mathias Kollros

{2}{U}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

"Life has no mistakes, only experiments." —Yolov, Simic bioengineer

Skitter Eel (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Mathias Kollros

{2}{U}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

"Life has no mistakes, only experiments." —Yolov, Simic bioengineer

Grasping Longneck (Duskmourn: House of Horror)
Mathias Kollros

Reach When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.

"We ran, but it was all around us—like a writhing, flailing forest of rubbery limbs and stabbing talons." —Survivor's journal

Erebos's Intervention (Theros Beyond Death)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life. • Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Colossification (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Mathias Kollros

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature gets +20/+20.

"Talk later. Row now!"

Emergent Woodwurm (March of the Machine Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Backup 3 (When this creature enters, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.) Whenever this creature attacks, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is its power. You may put a permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Mistvault Bridge (Modern Horizons 2)
Mathias Kollros

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

The path to knowledge is forged in hunger.

Harvesttide Infiltrator (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt)
Mathias Kollros

Dire Fleet Warmonger (Core Set 2021)
Mathias Kollros

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, this 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.)

Dark Depths (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Dark Depths enters with ten ice counters on it. {3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths. When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Voracious Greatshark (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, counter target artifact or creature spell.

There is no boat big enough.

Grusilda, Monster Masher (Unstable)
Mathias Kollros

Combined, enchanted, and equipped creatures you control have menace. {3}{B}{R}, {T}: Put two target creature cards from graveyards onto the battlefield combined into one creature under your control. (Its power is equal to their total power, its toughness is equal to their total toughness, and it has their names, mana costs, types, text boxes, etc.)

Trygon Prime (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

地中強襲 — トライゴン・プライムが攻撃するたび、これでない攻撃クリーチャー最大１体を対象とする。これとそれの上にそれぞれ＋１/＋１カウンター１個を置く。このターン、そのクリーチャーはブロックされない。

ネクロンの墓壁は不壊だった。しかしその下の地面は違ったのである。

Predatory Sliver (Magic 2014)
Mathias Kollros

Sliver creatures you control get +1/+1.

No matter how much the slivers change, their collective might remains.

Old One Eye (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Arrolla. Las otras criaturas que controlas tienen la habilidad de arrollar. Cuando el Viejo Un Ojo entre al campo de batalla, crea una ficha de criatura Tiránido verde 5/5. Curación rápida — Al comienzo de tu fase principal precombate, puedes descartar dos cartas. Si lo haces, regresa al Viejo Un Ojo de tu cementerio a tu mano.

Nemesis of Mortals (Theros)
Mathias Kollros

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard. {7}{G}{G}: Monstrosity 5. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each creature card in your graveyard. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put five +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

Guttersnipe (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

"I found a new toy. Wanna play?"

Chandra's Regulator (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you activate a loyalty ability of a Chandra planeswalker, you may pay {1}. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. {1}, {T}, Discard a Mountain card or a red card: Draw a card.

Erebos's Intervention (Theros Beyond Death Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life. • Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

"I bring a death none can escape."

Grim Flayer (Eldritch Moon Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Delirium — This creature gets +2/+2 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Spore Swarm (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Create three 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens.

As the irrepressible power of a dormant Multani courses through Yavimaya, the forest passes judgment on travelers and natives alike. Only the fungus prospers.

Reckless Impulse (Foundations Jumpstart)
Mathias Kollros

Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

A stitcher looks at their creation and sees the result of years of study and hours of toil. A devil sees a new plaything.

Mardu Charm (Khans of Tarkir)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Mardu Charm deals 4 damage to target creature. • Create two 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens. They gain first strike until end of turn. • Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Ruination Guide (Battle for Zendikar)
Mathias Kollros

Devoid (This card has no color.) Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library.) Other colorless creatures you control get +1/+0.

Felhide Spiritbinder (Born of the Gods)
Mathias Kollros

Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may pay {1}{R}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of another target creature, except it's an enchantment in addition to its other types. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Mistvault Bridge (The Brothers' War Commander)
Mathias Kollros

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

The path to knowledge is forged in hunger.

Thryx, the Sudden Storm (Theros Beyond Death)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying Spells you cast with mana value 5 or greater cost {1} less to cast and can't be countered.

Festergloom (Magic 2015)
Mathias Kollros

Nonblack creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

The death of a scout can be as informative as a safe return.

Relentless Rats (Special Guests)
Mathias Kollros

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

Each of them is a bad influence on the rest.

Briarbridge Tracker (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") As long as you control a token, this creature gets +2/+0.

Nyxborn Colossus (Theros Beyond Death)
Mathias Kollros

"Tree-tall giants confronted her, fiercely demanding her tribute; Fox-cunning Callaphe's slippery speaking entangled their senses..." —*The Callapheia*

Abzan Charm (Commander 2020)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Exile target creature with power 3 or greater. • You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. • Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures.

Generator Servant (Magic 2015)
Mathias Kollros

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}{C}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (That creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)

Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest (Commander Anthology)
Mathias Kollros

Flying Whenever a player sacrifices another permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

The clicks and buzz of the undercity proclaim him the incarnation of decay.

From Beyond (Battle for Zendikar)
Mathias Kollros

Devoid (This card has no color.) At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." {1}{G}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Search your library for an Eldrazi card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Grunn, the Lonely King (Dominaria Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.) If Grunn was kicked, it enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever Grunn attacks alone, double its power and toughness until end of turn.

Tezzeret's Gatebreaker (Core Set 2019)
Mathias Kollros

When this artifact enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a blue or artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. {5}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Creatures you control can't be blocked this turn.

End-Raze Forerunners (Game Night: Free-for-All)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance, trample, haste When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and trample until end of turn.

"Smash this city to pieces." —Domri Rade

Wild Wasteland (Fallout)
Mathias Kollros

Skip your draw step. At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn.

Some things in the wasteland are best left unexplained.

Throwing Knife (Magic Origins)
Mathias Kollros

Equipped creature gets +2/+0. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may sacrifice this Equipment. If you do, this Equipment deals 2 damage to any target. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Briarbridge Tracker (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") As long as you control a token, this creature gets +2/+0.

Domesticated Hydra (The List)
Mathias Kollros

{X}{G}{G}{G}: Monstrosity X. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put X +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) As long as this creature is monstrous, it has trample.

"Sit. Fetch. Devastate."

Gargos, Vicious Watcher (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance Hydra spells you cast cost {4} less to cast. Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of a spell, Gargos fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Broodbirth Viper (Commander 2015)
Mathias Kollros

Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Dark Depths (Dominaria Remastered)
Mathias Kollros

Dark Depths enters with ten ice counters on it. {3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths. When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Avalanche Caller (Kaldheim)
Mathias Kollros

{2}: Target snow land you control becomes a 4/4 Elemental creature with hexproof and haste until end of turn. It's still a land. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Overgrowth Elemental (Core Set 2020)
Mathias Kollros

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on another target Elemental you control. Whenever another creature you control dies, you gain 1 life. If that creature was an Elemental, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Self-Inflicted Wound (Dragons of Tarkir)
Mathias Kollros

Target opponent sacrifices a green or white creature of their choice. If that player does, they lose 2 life.

"Worse than watching the cruelest deed is watching it done by your own hand." —Baihir, Dromoka mage

Feral Invocation (Core Set 2020)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Nylea's sacred lynx guards those who honor the Nessian Wood and hunts those who don't.

Rhizome Lurcher (Guilds of Ravnica)
Mathias Kollros

Undergrowth — This creature enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

"The dead gain new purpose here. What is strange in the eyes of other guilds is harmonious in ours." —Devesh, Golgari shaman

Tatyova, Benthic Druid (Dominaria Remastered)
Mathias Kollros

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

"Yavimaya is one being—one vastness of rippling leaves, one deepness of roots, and one chatter of animals—of which I am one part."

Misdirection (Conspiracy)
Mathias Kollros

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Change the target of target spell with a single target.

Benthic Infiltrator (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Devoid (This card has no color.) Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library.) This creature can't be blocked.

Fiery Justice (Commander 2013)
Mathias Kollros

Fiery Justice deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. Target opponent gains 5 life.

When the rebels couldn't breach the castle to kill Lalor the Obstinate, they tried a more internal approach to depose the pretender king.

Thicket Crasher (Core Set 2020)
Mathias Kollros

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Other Elementals you control have trample.

"Tread too hard in the forest and it will tread on you in return." —Vivien Reid

Rollick of Abandon (Journey into Nyx)
Mathias Kollros

All creatures get +2/-2 until end of turn.

"Embrace every moment, for it could be your last." —Xenagos, god of revels

Tatyova, Benthic Druid (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

"Yavimaya is one being—one vastness of rippling leaves, one deepness of roots, and one chatter of animals—of which I am one part."

Generator Servant (Ultimate Masters)
Mathias Kollros

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}{C}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (That creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)

Infinite potential given finite form.

Syphon Fuel (Aetherdrift)
Mathias Kollros

Target creature gets -6/-6 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

After years of hunger, the oil-thirsting vampires of Gastal finally had their fill.

Pick the Brain (Shadows over Innistrad)
Mathias Kollros

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card. Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as the exiled card, exile those cards, then that player shuffles.

End-Raze Forerunners (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance, trample, haste When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and trample until end of turn.

"Smash this city to pieces." —Domri Rade

Voracious Greatshark (Foundations)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, counter target artifact or creature spell.

There is no boat big enough.

Emergent Woodwurm (March of the Machine Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Backup 3 (When this creature enters, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.) Whenever this creature attacks, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is its power. You may put a permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Encase in Ice (Dragons of Tarkir)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Enchant red or green creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Sultai Charm (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Destroy target monocolored creature. • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Draw two cards, then discard a card.

"Strike," the fumes hiss. "Raise an empire with your ambition."

Watercourser (Battlebond)
Mathias Kollros

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

"Beware an eddy where there should be none or a stretch that flows too fast or too slow." —Old Fishbones, Martyne river guide

Explosive Welcome (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Explosive Welcome deals 5 damage to any target and 3 damage to any other target. Add {R}{R}{R}.

Rowan and Will were a natural fit in Prismari College, the school of outrageous elemental arts.

Bioessence Hydra (War of the Spark Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Trample This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each loyalty counter on planeswalkers you control. Whenever one or more loyalty counters are put on planeswalkers you control, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Erebos's Intervention (Theros Beyond Death Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life. • Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

"I bring a death none can escape."

Watercourser (Magic Origins)
Mathias Kollros

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

"Beware an eddy where there should be none or a stretch that flows too fast or too slow." —Old Fishbones, Martyne river guide

End-Raze Forerunners (Bloomburrow Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance, trample, haste When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and trample until end of turn.

"Smash this city to pieces." —Domri Rade

Tatyova, Benthic Druid (Commander Masters)
Mathias Kollros

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

"Yavimaya is one being—one vastness of rippling leaves, one deepness of roots, and one chatter of animals—of which I am one part."

Carrion Cruiser (Aetherdrift)
Mathias Kollros

When this Vehicle enters, mill two cards. Then return a creature or Vehicle card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill two cards, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Dark Depths (Double Masters)
Mathias Kollros

Dark Depths enters with ten ice counters on it. {3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths. When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Sultai Charm (Khans of Tarkir)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Destroy target monocolored creature. • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Draw two cards, then discard a card.

"Strike," the fumes hiss. "Raise an empire with your ambition."

Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest (Commander 2015)
Mathias Kollros

Flying Whenever a player sacrifices another permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

The clicks and buzz of the undercity proclaim him the incarnation of decay.

Tatyova, Benthic Druid (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

"Yavimaya is one being—one vastness of rippling leaves, one deepness of roots, and one chatter of animals—of which I am one part."

Sparkmage's Gambit (Oath of the Gatewatch)
Mathias Kollros

Sparkmage's Gambit deals 1 damage to each of up to two target creatures. Those creatures can't block this turn.

"A touch of lightning, and anyone can be taught to dance." —Tobin, sparkmage

Hardened Scales (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

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

As the fusillade of lasgun fire bounced harmlessly off the carnifex's carapace, the creature roared and advanced.

Fiery Justice (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Fiery Justice deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. Target opponent gains 5 life.

When the rebels couldn't breach the castle to kill Lalor the Obstinate, they tried a more internal approach to depose the pretender king.

Dark Depths (Ultimate Box Topper)
Mathias Kollros

Dark Depths enters with ten ice counters on it. {3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths. When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Illusionary Armor (Magic 2014)
Mathias Kollros

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +4/+4. When enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice this Aura.

Decree of Pain (Commander 2017)
Mathias Kollros

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Awe for the Guilds (Dragon's Maze)
Mathias Kollros

Monocolored creatures can't block this turn.

When the guilds cooperate, the guildless celebrate their peaceful society. When the guilds clash, the guildless just try to keep out of the way.

Ravenous Intruder (Double Masters)
Mathias Kollros

Sacrifice an artifact: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"I've made some fine acquisitions of late, so I'm planning to make commensurate improvements to my security systems. I have a consultant coming tomorrow." —Kurna Majan, Luminary League

Pegasus Courser (Core Set 2019)
Mathias Kollros

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, another target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn.

A pegasus chooses its rider, bearing the worthy into the clouds and tossing all others to the ground.

Ravenous Intruder (Aether Revolt)
Mathias Kollros

Sacrifice an artifact: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"I've made some fine acquisitions of late, so I'm planning to make commensurate improvements to my security systems. I have a consultant coming tomorrow." —Kurna Majan, Luminary League

Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest (Double Masters)
Mathias Kollros

Flying Whenever a player sacrifices another permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

The clicks and buzz of the undercity proclaim him the incarnation of decay.

Feral Invocation (Theros)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Nylea's sacred lynx guards those who honor the Nessian Wood and hunts those who don't.

Thallid Omnivore (The List)
Mathias Kollros

{1}, Sacrifice another creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If a Saproling was sacrificed this way, you gain 2 life.

Thelon of Havenwood created thallids as a food source in times of darkness. Thallids did the same with saprolings.

Cephalopod Sentry (Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
Mathias Kollros

Flying Cephalopod Sentry's power is equal to the number of artifacts you control.

Silent observers swim through the air of Norn's Seedcore, watching the nascent Invasion Tree for any signs of interference.

Temur Charm (Khans of Tarkir)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn. It fights target creature you don't control. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Creatures with power 3 or less can't block this turn.

Careless Celebrant (Theros Beyond Death)
Mathias Kollros

When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.

"Renata was mesmerized by the satyr's dance of gleeful indifference, of reckless grace and bright disaster." —Luphea of Setessa, *Histories*

Defiler of Flesh (Dominaria United Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Menace As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay. Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

Defiler of Flesh (Dominaria United Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Menace As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay. Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

Mawloc (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) Terror from the Deep — When this creature enters, it fights up to one target creature an opponent controls. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Invasion of Alara (March of the Machine)
Mathias Kollros

Dirgur Nemesis (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Defender Megamorph {6}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Tatyova, Benthic Druid (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

"Yavimaya is one being—one vastness of rippling leaves, one deepness of roots, and one chatter of animals—of which I am one part."

Volatile Chimera (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Mathias Kollros

Before you shuffle your deck to start the game, you may reveal this card from your deck and exile three or more creature cards you drafted that aren't in your deck. {1}{R}: Choose a card at random you exiled with cards named Volatile Chimera. This creature becomes a copy of that card, except it has this ability.

Expedition Skulker (Zendikar Rising)
Mathias Kollros

This creature has deathtouch as long as you control another Rogue. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Rogues bring an array of useful skills to the work of an adventuring party: stealth, agility, the ability to locate and disarm traps, and a subtle, deadly fighting style.

Trygon Prime (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Subterranean Assault — Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it and a +1/+1 counter on up to one other target attacking creature. That creature can't be blocked this turn.

The walls of the Necron tomb were unbreakable. The ground beneath it was not.

Sure-Footed Infiltrator (Zendikar Rising)
Mathias Kollros

Tap another untapped Rogue you control: This creature can't be blocked this turn. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

"I've yet to discover the ruin that can keep me out."

Crystacean (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

It loves blending into its environment, ambushing prey, and long scuttles on the beach.

Flamewright (Conspiracy)
Mathias Kollros

{1}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Construct artifact creature token with defender. {T}, Sacrifice a creature with defender: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Those who can't conspire, create.

End-Raze Forerunners (Ravnica Allegiance Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance, trample, haste When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and trample until end of turn.

"Smash this city to pieces." —Domri Rade

Pegasus Courser (Dominaria)
Mathias Kollros

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, another target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn.

A pegasus chooses its rider, bearing the worthy into the clouds and tossing all others to the ground.

Voracious Greatshark (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, counter target artifact or creature spell.

There is no boat big enough.

Cancel (Amonkhet)
Mathias Kollros

Counter target spell.

"Let me try one of Kefnet's puzzles. This one was too easy."

Watercourser (The List)
Mathias Kollros

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

"Beware an eddy where there should be none or a stretch that flows too fast or too slow." —Old Fishbones, Martyne river guide

Hydradoodle (The List (Unfinity Foil Edition))
Mathias Kollros

As this creature enters, roll X six-sided dice. This creature enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the total of those results. Reach, trample

Less housebroken than housebreaking.

Temur Charm (Commander 2020)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn. It fights target creature you don't control. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Creatures with power 3 or less can't block this turn.

Spore Swarm (Foundations Jumpstart)
Mathias Kollros

Create three 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens.

As the irrepressible power of a dormant Multani courses through Yavimaya, the forest passes judgment on travelers and natives alike. Only the fungus prospers.

Greater Good (Judge Gift Cards 2014)
Mathias Kollros

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

"To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death." —Mary Shelley, *Frankenstein*

Sultai Emissary (Ugin's Fate)
Mathias Kollros

When this creature dies, manifest the top card of your library. (Put that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

To the Sultai, Ugin's power was just one more resource to be exploited.

Dirgur Nemesis (Dragons of Tarkir)
Mathias Kollros

Defender Megamorph {6}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Sultai Charm (Dominaria United Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Destroy target monocolored creature. • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Draw two cards, then discard a card.

"Strike," the fumes hiss. "Raise an empire with your ambition."

Activated Sleeper (Dominaria United Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Flash You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature card in a graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn, except it's a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Grim Flayer (Eldritch Moon)
Mathias Kollros

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Delirium — This creature gets +2/+2 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Krark, the Thumbless (Commander Legends)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, return that spell to its owner's hand. If you win the flip, copy that spell, and you may choose new targets for the copy. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

"Double or nothing."

Kathril, Aspect Warper (Commander 2020 Oversized)
Mathias Kollros

When Kathril enters, put a flying counter on any creature you control if a creature card in your graveyard has flying. Repeat this process for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance. Then put a +1/+1 counter on Kathril for each counter put on a creature this way.

Cancel (Core Set 2021)
Mathias Kollros

Counter target spell.

"I decide what stands in my way."

Hardened Scales (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

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

As the fusillade of lasgun fire bounced harmlessly off the carnifex's carapace, the creature roared and advanced.

Wild Wasteland (Fallout)
Mathias Kollros

Skip your draw step. At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn.

Some things in the wasteland are best left unexplained.

Domesticated Hydra (Jumpstart 2022)
Mathias Kollros

{X}{G}{G}{G}: Monstrosity X. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put X +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) As long as this creature is monstrous, it has trample.

"Sit. Fetch. Devastate."

Mantle of Webs (Magic Origins)
Mathias Kollros

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+3 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

"Why does everything the Golgari touch end up sticky?" —Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Bloodborn Scoundrels (Battlebond)
Mathias Kollros

Assist (Another player can pay up to {5} of this spell's cost.) When this creature enters, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

The ring plays host to some combatants that the spectators love to hate.

Spore Swarm (Dominaria)
Mathias Kollros

Create three 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens.

As the irrepressible power of a dormant Multani courses through Yavimaya, the forest passes judgment on travelers and natives alike. Only the fungus prospers.

Decree of Pain (Commander 2013)
Mathias Kollros

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Invert (Guilds of Ravnica)
Mathias Kollros

Deal Gone Bad (Foundations Jumpstart)
Mathias Kollros

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. Target player mills three cards. (They put the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)

"Feed the rumor mills with delicious treachery. Bad blood between those two is a good deal for us." —Kamiz, Obscura Oculus

Tyranid Prime (Warhammer 40,000 Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Synapse Creature — Other creatures you control have evolve.

Briarbridge Tracker (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") As long as you control a token, this creature gets +2/+0.

Baffling End (The List)
Mathias Kollros

When this enchantment enters, exile target creature an opponent controls with mana value 3 or less. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, target opponent creates a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.

Eldrazi Aggressor (Oath of the Gatewatch)
Mathias Kollros

Devoid (This card has no color.) This creature has haste as long as you control another colorless creature.

"They employ a foul sort of teamwork." —General Tazri, allied commander

Eater of Hope (Midnight Hunt Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Flying {B}, Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate this creature. {2}{B}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Destroy target creature.

Gods can be appeased. Demons, however . . .

Triskaidekaphile (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt)
Mathias Kollros

You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand, you win the game. {3}{U}: Draw a card.

She's always willing to lend a hand. It just won't be her own.

Oreskos Sun Guide (Born of the Gods)
Mathias Kollros

Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you gain 2 life.

"Let the humans have their pantheon. We need no gods to thrive. Even a mortal such as I can capture a part of the sun's power."

Kiora's Dambreaker (The List)
Mathias Kollros

When this creature enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"When your enemy flees, send the sea to pursue them." —Kiora

Grunn, the Lonely King (Dominaria)
Mathias Kollros

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.) If Grunn was kicked, it enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever Grunn attacks alone, double its power and toughness until end of turn.

Abzan Charm (Commander 2016)
Mathias Kollros

Choose one — • Exile target creature with power 3 or greater. • You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. • Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures.

Greater Good (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

"There's wisdom to be gained in death—whether it be one's own or someone else's." —Jarad, Golgari Lich-Lord

Bothersome Quasit (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Mathias Kollros

Menace Goaded creatures your opponents control can't block. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, goad target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Thrill-Kill Disciple (Fallout)
Mathias Kollros

Squad—{1}, Discard a card. (As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay its squad cost any number of times. When this creature enters, create that many tokens that are copies of it.) When this creature dies, create a Junk token.

Phyrexian Ironworks (Modern Horizons 3)
Mathias Kollros

Whenever you attack, you get {E} (an energy counter). {T}, Pay {E}{E}{E}: Create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.

"We have made a friend today." —Slobad, Iron Goblin

Decree of Pain (Commander's Arsenal)
Mathias Kollros

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Osseous Sticktwister (Duskmourn: House of Horror)
Mathias Kollros

Lifelink Delirium — At the beginning of your end step, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, each opponent may sacrifice a nonland permanent of their choice or discard a card. Then this creature deals damage equal to its power to each opponent who didn't sacrifice a permanent or discard a card this way.

From Beyond (Battle for Zendikar Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Devoid (This card has no color.) At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." {1}{G}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Search your library for an Eldrazi card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Voracious Greatshark (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, counter target artifact or creature spell.

There is no boat big enough.

Greater Good (Bloomburrow Commander)
Mathias Kollros

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

"There's wisdom to be gained in death—whether it be one's own or someone else's." —Jarad, Golgari Lich-Lord

Cancel (Foundations)
Mathias Kollros

Counter target spell.

"I decide what stands in my way."

Domesticated Hydra (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Mathias Kollros

{X}{G}{G}{G}: Monstrosity X. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put X +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) As long as this creature is monstrous, it has trample.

"Sit. Fetch. Devastate."

Cancel (Core Set 2019)
Mathias Kollros

Counter target spell.

"I decide what stands in my way."

Sparkmage's Gambit (Double Masters 2022)
Mathias Kollros

Sparkmage's Gambit deals 1 damage to each of up to two target creatures. Those creatures can't block this turn.

"A touch of lightning, and anyone can be taught to dance." —Tobin, sparkmage

Voracious Greatshark (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Mathias Kollros

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, counter target artifact or creature spell.

Mantle of Webs (The List)
Mathias Kollros

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+3 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

"Why does everything the Golgari touch end up sticky?" —Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Bouncer's Beatdown (Streets of New Capenna)
Mathias Kollros

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a black permanent. Bouncer's Beatdown deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. If that creature or planeswalker would die this turn, exile it instead.

Briarbridge Tracker (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt)
Mathias Kollros

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") As long as you control a token, this creature gets +2/+0.

Silverback Shaman (Jumpstart 2022)
Mathias Kollros

Trample When this creature dies, draw a card.

The apes of Yavimaya draw strength from the spirits of their ancestors.