Goblin War Drums

Goblin War Drums (Fallen Empires)
Jeff A. Menges

Creatures you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

When creating a new War Drum, Goblin designers sought out the highest quality skulls. Serra Angel skulls were most highly prized, although most acknowledged that the skull of the exotic Sea Serpent made for a richer tone.

Goblin War Drums (Seventh Edition)
Peter Bollinger

Creatures you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

The goblin idea of music is to hit something with a stick.

Goblin War Drums (Fallen Empires)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Creatures you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

"Defending the outer trenches, we strained our eyes in the darkness. All we could hear was the Drums' terrible pounding. Dobbs, on my right, broke first. Soon we were all heading for the walls." —Corporal Peter Douglas, courtmartial testimony

Goblin War Drums (Fifth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Creatures you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

"Goblins charge with a deafening war cry. The cry doesn't mean anything—it just drowns out the drums!" —Reod Dai, mercenary

Goblin War Drums (Masters 25)
Wayne Reynolds

Creatures you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Their eardrums may have given out, but the rest of them never will.

Goblin War Drums (Fallen Empires)
Heather Hudson

Creatures you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

The War Drums enabled Goblin and Orcish armies to crush the sparsely defended Dwarven cities.

Durkwood Baloth (Time Spiral Remastered)
Dan Frazier

Suspend 5—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with five time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Mahamoti Djinn (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Of royal blood amongst the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti Djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection.

Red Ward (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from red. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Healing Salve (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Choose one — • Target player gains 3 life. • Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Swamp (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Red Ward (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from red. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Mox Pearl (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {W}.

Xenic Poltergeist (Rinascimento)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Until your next upkeep, target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Thicket Basilisk (Classic Sixth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Moss-covered statues littered the area, a macabre monument to the basilisk's terrible power.

Mox Ruby (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {R}.

Wall of Stone (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

The Earth herself lends her strength to these walls of living stone, which possess the stability of ancient mountains. These mighty bulwarks thwart ground-based troops, providing welcome relief for weary warriors who defend the land.

Gustcloak Skirmisher (The List)
Dan Frazier

Flying Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may untap it and remove it from combat.

They're trained in the art of pressing their luck.

Orcish Lumberjack (Ice Age)
Dan Frazier

{T}, Sacrifice a Forest: Add three mana in any combination of {R} and/or {G}.

"How did I ever let myself get talked into this project?" —Toothlicker Harj, Orcish Captain

Orcish Oriflamme (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

Bloodcurdling Scream (Portal Second Age)
Dan Frazier

Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

"I have all the weapons my enemies have—and far deeper rage." —Tojira, swamp queen

Izzet Signet (Secret Lair Drop)
Dan Frazier

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

Phantom Warrior (Portal)
Dan Frazier

This creature can't be blocked.

The phantom warrior comes from nowhere and returns there just as quickly.

Mox Diamond (Stronghold)
Dan Frazier

If this artifact would enter, you may discard a land card instead. If you do, put this artifact onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Mahamoti Djinn (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti Djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection.

Sandals of Abdallah (Arabian Nights)
Dan Frazier

{2}, {T}: Target creature gains islandwalk until end of turn. When that creature dies this turn, destroy this artifact. (A creature with islandwalk can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Swamp (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Goblin Chirurgeon (Fallen Empires)
Dan Frazier

Sacrifice a Goblin: Regenerate target creature.

"Perhaps Goblins are good for something after all." —Attributed to General Khurzog

Quarum Trench Gnomes (Legends)
Dan Frazier

{T}: If target Plains is tapped for mana, it produces colorless mana instead of white mana. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

"O Great Captain, all is lost. They tunneled, they burrowed, they trenched. They sapped the strength of our defenses." —Sorgus, *Chronicles of the Quarum Plains*

Grapeshot Catapult (Renaissance)
Dan Frazier

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.

Pincer Spider (Invasion)
Dan Frazier

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.) Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) If this creature was kicked, it enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.

White Ward (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from white. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Firebreathing (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature {R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"And topples round the dreary west A looming bastion fringed with fire." —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam"

Wall of Stone (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

The Earth herself lends her strength to these walls of living stone, which possess the stability of ancient mountains. These mighty bulwarks thwart ground-based troops, providing welcome relief for weary warriors who defend the land.

Grapeshot Catapult (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.

Recent research suggests these creatures were invented by Urza's and Mishra's original master, Tocasia, and that both brothers used them.

Swamp (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Earthquake (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Hasran Ogress (Rinascimento)
Dan Frazier

Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 3 damage to you unless you pay {2}.

Mox Jet (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {B}.

Resurrection (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Blue Ward (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from blue. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Ancestral Memories (The List)
Dan Frazier

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Jester's Cap (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Dan Frazier

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search target player's library for three cards and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

"Know your foes' strengths as well as their weaknesses." —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Thicket Basilisk (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Moss-covered statues littered the area, a macabre monument to the Basilisk's power.

Gray Ogre (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

The Ogre philosopher Gnerdel believed the purpose of life was to live as high on the food chain as possible. She refused to eat vegetarians, and preferred to live entirely on creatures that preyed on sentient beings.

Mox Pearl (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {W}.

Berserk (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Cast this spell only before the combat damage step. Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy that creature if it attacked this turn.

Iron Star (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Ogre Taskmaster (Portal Second Age)
Dan Frazier

This creature can't block.

Three little goblins, enjoying their brew. One bumped an ogre, and then there were two.

Black Ward (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from black. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Starke of Rath (The List)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Destroy target artifact or creature. That permanent's controller gains control of Starke. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

"I know to whom I owe the most loyalty, and I see him in the mirror every day." —Starke

Ice Storm (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Destroy target land.

Swamp (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Swamp (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Enlightened Tutor (World Championship Decks 2000)
Dan Frazier

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

"I do not teach. I simply reveal." —Daudi, Femeref tutor

Swamp (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Ancestral Memories (Portal)
Dan Frazier

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Mox Jet (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {B}.

Swamp (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Glittering Lynx (Prophecy)
Dan Frazier

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature. {2}: Until end of turn, this creature loses "Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature." Any player may activate this ability.

Earth Elemental (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Mox Emerald (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {G}.

Wall of Stone (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

The Earth herself lends her strength to these walls of living stone, which possess the stability of ancient mountains. These mighty bulwarks thwart ground-based troops, providing welcome relief for weary warriors who defend the land.

Talisman of Unity (Secret Lair Drop)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Green Ward (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from green. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Black Ward (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from black. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Starke of Rath (Tempest)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Destroy target artifact or creature. That permanent's controller gains control of Starke. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

"I know to whom I owe the most loyalty, and I see him in the mirror every day." —Starke

Monstrous Growth (The List)
Dan Frazier

Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Some cats are born fighters; others need a little persuading.

Mox Pearl (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {W}.

Red Ward (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from red. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Orcish Cannoneers (Ice Age)
Dan Frazier

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

"It's a thankless job, and you'll probably die in an explosion. But the pay is pretty good." —Toothlicker Harj, Orcish Captain

Swamp (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Green Ward (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from green. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Hill Giant (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Fortunately, Hill Giants have large blind spots in which a human can easily hide. Unfortunately, these blind spots are beneath the bottoms of their feet.

Golgari Signet (Secret Lair Drop)
Dan Frazier

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

Swamp (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Earth Elemental (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Earth Elementals have the eternal strength of stone and the endurance of mountains. Primordially connected to the land they inhabit, they take a long-term view of things, scorning the impetuous haste of short-lived mortal creatures.

Sacrifice (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Swamp (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Juggernaut (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

This creature attacks each combat if able. This creature can't be blocked by Walls.

We had taken refuge in a small cave, thinking the entrance was too narrow for it to follow. To our horror, its gigantic head smashed into the mountainside, ripping itself a new entrance.

Shield Bearer (Fifth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"You have almost completed your four years, my son. Soon you shall be a skyknight." —Arna Kennerüd, skyknight

Mox Sapphire (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {U}.

Firebreathing (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature {R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"And topples round the dreary west A looming bastion fringed with fire." —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam"

Mox Emerald (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {G}.

Tunnel (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

Destroy target Wall. It can't be regenerated.

Last-Ditch Effort (Urza's Legacy)
Dan Frazier

Sacrifice any number of creatures. Last-Ditch Effort deals that much damage to any target.

"If you're gonna lose, at least make sure they don't win as much." —Jula, goblin raider

An-Havva Constable (Fifth Edition)
Dan Frazier

An-Havva Constable's toughness is equal to 1 plus the number of green creatures on the battlefield.

"Joskun and the other constables serve with passion, if not with grace." —Devin, faerie noble

Mahamoti Djinn (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti Djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection.

Earthquake (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Shapeshifter (Rinascimento)
Dan Frazier

As this creature enters, choose a number between 0 and 7. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may choose a number between 0 and 7. Shapeshifter's power is equal to the last chosen number and its toughness is equal to 7 minus that number.

Healing Salve (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

Choose one — • Target player gains 3 life. • Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healing Salve (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

Choose one — • Target player gains 3 life. • Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Burning Shield Askari (Mirage)
Dan Frazier

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) {R}{R}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"Any day that I ride my horse up to my ankles in the remains of my enemies is a good day." —Akin, seasoned askari

Healing Salve (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Choose one — • Target player gains 3 life. • Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Goblin Grenadiers (The List)
Dan Frazier

Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, destroy target creature and target land.

For once, Squee realized, *he* wasn't the dumb one.

Tunnel (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Destroy target Wall. It can't be regenerated.

Arcane Signet (Secret Lair Drop)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Glarecaster (Onslaught)
Dan Frazier

Flying {5}{W}: The next time damage would be dealt to this creature and/or you this turn, that damage is dealt to any target instead.

Earthquake (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Azorius Signet (Secret Lair Drop)
Dan Frazier

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Swamp (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Healing Salve (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

Choose one — • Target player gains 3 life. • Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Grapeshot Catapult (Rinascimento)
Dan Frazier

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.

Orcish Oriflamme (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

Sunglasses of Urza (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

You may spend white mana as though it were red mana.

Gray Ogre (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

The Ogre philosopher Gnerdel believed the purpose of life was to live as high on the food chain as possible. She refused to eat vegetarians, and preferred to live entirely on creatures that preyed on sentient beings.

Forcefield (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

{1}: The next time an unblocked creature of your choice would deal combat damage to you this turn, prevent all but 1 of that damage.

Aladdin's Ring (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

{8}, {T}: This artifact deals 4 damage to any target.

Disrupting Scepter (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

{3}, {T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn.

Blue Ward (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from blue. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Blue Ward (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from blue. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Durkwood Baloth (Iconic Masters)
Dan Frazier

Suspend 5—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with five time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Red Ward (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from red. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Swamp (World Championship Decks 2003)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Mox Jet (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {B}.

Stonehands (Ice Age)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+2. {R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Trust in the power of stone. Stone is strong; stone shatters swords; stone breaks bones. Trust in stone." —Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Firebreathing (Fifth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature {R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"And topples round the dreary west A looming bastion fringed with fire." —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam"

White Ward (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from white. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Enlightened Tutor (The List)
Dan Frazier

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

"I do not teach. I simply reveal." —Daudi, Femeref tutor

Who (Unsanctioned)
Dan Frazier

Sedge Troll (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp. {B}: Regenerate this creature.

Mountain Yeti (Chronicles)
Dan Frazier

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

The Yeti's single greatest asset is its unnerving ability to blend in with its surroundings.

White Ward (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from white. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Swamp (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Vendetta (The List)
Dan Frazier

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Starke knew the voice was Takara's, but the venom was Volrath's.

Crown of the Ages (Ice Age)
Dan Frazier

{4}, {T}: Attach target Aura attached to a creature to another creature.

Ring of Ma'rûf (Arabian Nights)
Dan Frazier

{5}, {T}, Exile this artifact: The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead put a card you own from outside the game into your hand.

Cockatrice (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

Flying Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Tunnel (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Destroy target Wall. It can't be regenerated.

Disrupting Scepter (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

{3}, {T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn.

Azure Drake (Legends)
Dan Frazier

Flying

The Azure Drake would be more powerful were it not so easily distracted.

Sengir Bats (Homelands)
Dan Frazier

Flying Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"In the face of every one I see the Baron." —Daria

Gloom (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

White spells cost {3} more to cast. Activated abilities of white enchantments cost {3} more to activate.

Orcish Farmer (Fifth Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Target land becomes a Swamp until its controller's next untap step.

There is no natural disaster quite like orcish farming.

Gray Ogre (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Tunnel (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Destroy target Wall. It can't be regenerated.

Jandor's Ring (Arabian Nights)
Dan Frazier

{2}, {T}, Discard the last card you drew this turn: Draw a card.

Gloom (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

White spells cost {3} more to cast. Activated abilities of white enchantments cost {3} more to activate.

Hill Giant (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

Fortunately, Hill Giants have large blind spots in which a human can easily hide. Unfortunately, these blind spots are beneath the bottoms of their feet.

Treasure (30th Anniversary Tokens)
Dan Frazier

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Osai Vultures (Renaissance)
Dan Frazier

Flying At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a carrion counter on this creature. Remove two carrion counters from this creature: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Mahamoti Djinn (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Ice Storm (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Destroy target land.

Jester's Cap (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Dan Frazier

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search target player's library for three cards and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

"Know your foes' strengths as well as their weaknesses." —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Ice Storm (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

Destroy target land.

Gloom (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

White spells cost {3} more to cast. Activated abilities of white enchantments cost {3} more to activate.

Thicket Basilisk (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Black Ward (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from black. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Animate Wall (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant Wall Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Orcish Farmer (Ice Age)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Target land becomes a Swamp until its controller's next untap step.

"Yes, the Farmers keep our soldiers fed. But why do they have to make every battlefield a pigpen?" —Toothlicker Harj, Orcish Captain

Resurrection (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Tunnel (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Destroy target Wall. It can't be regenerated.

Green Ward (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from green. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Animate Wall (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant Wall Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Orcish Oriflamme (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

Lunge (Mercadian Masques)
Dan Frazier

Lunge deals 2 damage to target creature and 2 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Cho-Arrim righteousness was no match for Benalish combat training.

Apprentice Wizard (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

{U}, {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Red Ward (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from red. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Animate Wall (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant Wall Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Blue Ward (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from blue. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Resurrection (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Harvest Mage (Nemesis)
Dan Frazier

{G}, {T}, Discard a card: Until end of turn, if you tap a land for mana, it produces one mana of a color of your choice instead of any other type and amount.

"Why should one limit oneself to the resources at hand?"

Armistice (Mercadian Masques)
Dan Frazier

{3}{W}{W}: You draw a card and target opponent gains 3 life.

We all must profit for peace to last. —Mercadian saying

Jester's Cap (Fifth Edition)
Dan Frazier

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search target player's library for three cards and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

"Know your foes' strengths as well as their weaknesses." —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi machinist

Juggernaut (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

This creature attacks each combat if able. This creature can't be blocked by Walls.

We had taken refuge in a small cave, thinking the entrance was too narrow for it to follow. To our horror, its gigantic head smashed into the mountainside, ripping itself a new entrance.

Chrome Mox (Secret Lair 30th Anniversary Countdown Kit)
Dan Frazier

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Animate Wall (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

Enchant Wall Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

White Ward (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from white. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Swamp (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Goblin Grenade (Fallen Empires)
Dan Frazier

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a Goblin. Goblin Grenade deals 5 damage to any target.

"I don't suppose we could teach them to *throw* the cursed things?" —Ivra Jursdotter

Master of Arms (The List)
Dan Frazier

First strike {1}{W}: Tap target creature blocking this creature.

"Being the best usually means proving it to everyone." —Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Xenic Poltergeist (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Until your next upkeep, target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Blue Ward (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from blue. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Resurrection (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Walking Dead (Legends)
Dan Frazier

{B}: Regenerate this creature.

The Walking Dead are the remains of freakish experiments by the Necromantic Lords.

Blue Ward (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from blue. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Phyrexian Battleflies (Invasion)
Dan Frazier

Flying {B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.

After encountering them, Squee finally lost his appetite for bugs.

Dingus Egg (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Swamp (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Green Ward (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from green. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Dwarven Song (Legends)
Dan Frazier

One or more target creatures become red until end of turn.

Earth Elemental (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Earth Elementals have the eternal strength of stone and the endurance of mountains. Primordially connected to the land they inhabit, they take a long-term view of things, scorning the impetuous haste of short-lived mortal creatures.

Gustcloak Harrier (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Kiora)
Dan Frazier

Flying Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may untap it and remove it from combat.

Banking steeply, the aven streaked toward the ground—and vanished.

Orcish Oriflamme (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

Berserk (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Cast this spell only before the combat damage step. Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy that creature if it attacked this turn.

Treasure (30th Anniversary Tokens)
Dan Frazier

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Sacrifice (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Mox Sapphire (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {U}.

Swamp (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Animate Wall (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Enchant Wall Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Swamp (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Gloom (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

White spells cost {3} more to cast. Activated abilities of white enchantments cost {3} more to activate.

Thicket Basilisk (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Moss-covered statues littered the area, a macabre monument to the Basilisk's power.

Green Ward (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from green. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Disrupting Scepter (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

{3}, {T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn.

Sunglasses of Urza (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

You may spend white mana as though it were red mana.

Green Ward (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from green. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Swamp (Eighth Edition)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Sedge Troll (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp. {B}: Regenerate this creature.

The stench in the hovel was overpowering; something loathsome was cooking. Occasionally something surfaced in the thick paste, but my host would casually push it down before I could make out what it was.

Gaea's Herald (Eighth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Creature spells can't be countered.

The elves' battle cries cut paths through the Æther, guiding those who would stand in Gaea's defense.

Mox Sapphire (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {U}.

Mahamoti Djinn (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti Djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection.

Orcish Oriflamme (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

Enlightened Tutor (Arena League 2000)
Dan Frazier

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

"I do not teach. I simply reveal." —Daudi, Femeref tutor

Animate Wall (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

Enchant Wall Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Iron Star (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Sedge Troll (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp. {B}: Regenerate this creature.

The stench in the hovel was overpowering; something loathsome was cooking. Occasionally something surfaced in the thick paste, but my host would casually push it down before I could make out what it was.

Goblin Gardener (Urza's Destiny)
Dan Frazier

When this creature dies, destroy target land.

"Grow food in dirt? Save time—eat dirt."

Swamp (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Green Ward (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from green. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Osai Vultures (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Flying At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a carrion counter on this creature. Remove two carrion counters from this creature: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Mox Emerald (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {G}.

Gloom (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

White spells cost {3} more to cast. Activated abilities of white enchantments cost {3} more to activate.

Jhoira's Timebug (Time Spiral)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Choose target permanent you control or suspended card you own. If that permanent or card has a time counter on it, you may remove a time counter from it or put another time counter on it.

Ashes of the Fallen (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Dan Frazier

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Each creature card in your graveyard has the chosen creature type in addition to its other types.

The ashes of the dead mingle with the soil, and both become as one.

Forcefield (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

{1}: The next time an unblocked creature of your choice would deal combat damage to you this turn, prevent all but 1 of that damage.

Animate Wall (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

Enchant Wall Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Rending Vines (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Dan Frazier

Destroy target artifact or enchantment if its mana value is less than or equal to the number of cards in your hand. Draw a card.

Cockatrice (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Flying Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Jandor's Ring (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

{2}, {T}, Discard the last card you drew this turn: Draw a card.

Orcish Oriflamme (Fifth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

Jeweled Amulet (Ice Age)
Dan Frazier

{1}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. Note the type of mana spent to pay this activation cost. Activate only if there are no charge counters on this artifact. {T}, Remove a charge counter from this artifact: Add one mana of this artifact's last noted type.

Resurrection (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Mahamoti Djinn (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti Djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection.

Swamp (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Black Ward (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from black. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Sunglasses of Urza (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

You may spend white mana as though it were red mana.

Selesnya Signet (Secret Lair Drop)
Dan Frazier

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

Thicket Basilisk (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Moss-covered statues littered the area, a macabre monument to the Basilisk's power.

Jade Statue (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

{2}: This artifact becomes a 3/6 Golem artifact creature until end of combat. Activate only during combat.

"Some of the other guys dared me to touch it, but I knew it weren't no ordinary hunk o' rock." —Norin the Wary

Sacrifice (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Shapeshifter (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

As this creature enters, choose a number between 0 and 7. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may choose a number between 0 and 7. Shapeshifter's power is equal to the last chosen number and its toughness is equal to 7 minus that number.

Seasoned Tactician (Alliances)
Dan Frazier

{3}, Exile the top four cards of your library: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

"The benefits of peace far outweigh the pride of Generals." —King Darien of Kjeldor

Enlightened Tutor (Classic Sixth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

"I do not teach. I simply reveal." —Daudi, Femeref tutor

Horn of Deafening (Chronicles)
Dan Frazier

{2}, {T}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target creature this turn.

"A blast, an echo . . . then silence."

Talisman of Hierarchy (Secret Lair Drop)
Dan Frazier

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

Orcish Oriflamme (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

Orcish Oriflamme (Classic Sixth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

Black Ward (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from black. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Oracle (Vanguard Series)
Dan Frazier

{0}: Untap target attacking creature you control and remove it from combat.

Known simply by her title, Oracle uses her gift of prophecy to aid her people. She believes Gerrard to be the *Korvecdal*, the one who will unite the people of Rath against Volrath's tyranny. Her only doubt is whether she will be strong enough to guide him to his destiny.

Mox Jet (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {B}.

Hill Giant (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

Fortunately, Hill Giants have large blind spots in which a human can easily hide. Unfortunately, these blind spots are beneath the bottoms of their feet.

Talisman of Indulgence (Secret Lair Drop)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Orzhov Signet (Secret Lair Drop)
Dan Frazier

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Disrupting Scepter (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

{3}, {T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn.

Wall of Tombstones (Legends)
Dan Frazier

Defender (This creature can't attack.) At the beginning of your upkeep, change this creature's base toughness to 1 plus the number of creature cards in your graveyard. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Healing Salve (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Choose one — • Target player gains 3 life. • Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Firebreathing (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature {R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Red Ward (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from red. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Tunnel (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

Destroy target Wall. It can't be regenerated.

Mercadian Atlas (Mercadian Masques)
Dan Frazier

At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't play a land this turn, you may draw a card.

One may as well chart the clouds as try to map Mercadia.

Sedge Troll (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp. {B}: Regenerate this creature.

The stench in the hovel was overpowering; something loathsome was cooking. Occasionally something surfaced in the thick paste, but my host would casually push it down before I could make out what it was.

Shinen of Fury's Fire (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Dan Frazier

Haste Channel — {R}, Discard this card: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

Mox Poison (Mystery Booster 2)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add one mana of any color. You get two poison counters.

Disrupting Scepter (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

{3}, {T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn.

Swamp (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Swamp (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Tawnos's Weaponry (Rinascimento)
Dan Frazier

You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step. {2}, {T}: Target creature gets +1/+1 for as long as this artifact remains tapped.

Cockatrice (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Flying Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Shapeshifter (Renaissance)
Dan Frazier

As this creature enters, choose a number between 0 and 7. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may choose a number between 0 and 7. Shapeshifter's power is equal to the last chosen number and its toughness is equal to 7 minus that number.

Swamp (Commander 2011)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Dingus Egg (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Mahamoti Djinn (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti Djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection.

Black Ward (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from black. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Berserk (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

Cast this spell only before the combat damage step. Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy that creature if it attacked this turn.

Ingenious Thief (Starter 1999)
Dan Frazier

Flying When this creature enters, look at target player's hand.

Scars of the Veteran (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Dan Frazier

You may exile a white card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Prevent the next 7 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. If it's a creature, put a +0/+1 counter on it for each 1 damage prevented this way at the beginning of the next end step.

Jade Statue (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

{2}: This artifact becomes a 3/6 Golem artifact creature until end of combat. Activate only during combat.

"Some of the other guys dared me to touch it, but I knew it weren't no ordinary hunk o' rock." —Norin the Wary

Healing Salve (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Choose one — • Target player gains 3 life. • Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Swamp (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Berserk (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Cast this spell only before the combat damage step. Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy that creature if it attacked this turn.

Sedge Troll (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp. {B}: Regenerate this creature.

The stench in the hovel was overpowering; something loathsome was cooking. Occasionally something surfaced in the thick paste, but my host would casually push it down before I could make out what it was.

Mahamoti Djinn (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti Djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection.

Talisman of Dominance (Secret Lair Drop)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Pygmy Pyrosaur (Urza's Legacy)
Dan Frazier

This creature can't block. {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Do not judge a lizard by its size. —Ghitu proverb

Brassclaw Orcs (Fallen Empires)
Dan Frazier

This creature can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.

"Brassclaws were typical Orcs—quick to laud their own prowess in battle, quick to jeer at their opponents, and quicker still to run away when things started to look slightly dangerous." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV*

Orcish Artillery (Classic Sixth Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

Thicket Basilisk (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Moss-covered statues littered the area, a macabre monument to the Basilisk's power.

Red Ward (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from red. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Animate Wall (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Enchant Wall Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Goblin Warrens (Fallen Empires)
Dan Frazier

{2}{R}, Sacrifice two Goblins: Create three 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

"Goblins bred underground, their numbers hidden from the enemy until it was too late." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV*

Swamp (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Woolly Mammoths (Ice Age)
Dan Frazier

This creature has trample as long as you control a snow land.

"Mammoths may be good to ride on, but they're certainly bad to fall off of!" —Disa the Restless, journal entry

Swamp (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Earth Elemental (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Earth Elementals have the eternal strength of stone and the endurance of mountains. Primordially connected to the land they inhabit, they take a long-term view of things, scorning the impetuous haste of short-lived mortal creatures.

Swamp (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Mox Sapphire (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {U}.

White Ward (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from white. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

White Ward (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from white. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Disrupting Scepter (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Dan Frazier

{3}, {T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn.

Healing Salve (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Choose one — • Target player gains 3 life. • Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Arrest (Mercadian Masques)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Orim had no memory of the previous night—the first thing she could remember was waking up with the dead guard's blood on her hands.

Monstrous Growth (Portal)
Dan Frazier

Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Blue Ward (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from blue. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Tunnel (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Destroy target Wall. It can't be regenerated.

Iron Star (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Invigorate (Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Dan Frazier

If you control a Forest, rather than pay this spell's mana cost, you may have an opponent gain 3 life. Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Dingus Egg (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Sacrifice (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Green Ward (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from green. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Gray Ogre (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Sunglasses of Urza (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

You may spend white mana as though it were red mana.

Hasran Ogress (Arabian Nights)
Dan Frazier

Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 3 damage to you unless you pay {2}.

Berserk (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

Cast this spell only before the combat damage step. Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy that creature if it attacked this turn.

Cockatrice (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Dan Frazier

Flying Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Animate Wall (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant Wall Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Swamp (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Cockatrice (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

Flying Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Earthquake (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Dan Frazier

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Sengir Bats (Homelands)
Dan Frazier

Flying Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"They are the eyes of the Baron, and they know your fears." —Ihsan's Shade

Swamp (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

White Ward (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from white. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Jade Statue (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

{2}: This artifact becomes a 3/6 Golem artifact creature until end of combat. Activate only during combat.

"Some of the other guys dared me to touch it, but I knew it weren't no ordinary hunk o' rock." —Norin the Wary

Powder Keg (Urza's Destiny)
Dan Frazier

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fuse counter on this artifact. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each artifact and creature with mana value equal to the number of fuse counters on this artifact.

Apprentice Wizard (Renaissance)
Dan Frazier

{U}, {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Wall of Stone (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Hill Giant (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Fortunately, Hill Giants have large blind spots in which a human can easily hide. Unfortunately, these blind spots are beneath the bottoms of their feet.

Hazduhr the Abbot (Homelands)
Dan Frazier

{X}, {T}: The next X damage that would be dealt this turn to target white creature you control is dealt to Hazduhr instead.

"Soon, Serra will return and choose the Abbot's successor, else we are lost." —Gulsen, Abbey Matron

Death Bomb (Planeshift)
Dan Frazier

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller loses 2 life.

There's no higher honor in Phyrexia than dying for Yawgmoth's glorious vision.

Armistice (Commander 2014)
Dan Frazier

{3}{W}{W}: You draw a card and target opponent gains 3 life.

We all must profit for peace to last. —Mercadian saying

Orcish Oriflamme (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

Black Ward (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from black. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Dingus Egg (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Vendetta (Mercadian Masques)
Dan Frazier

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Starke knew the voice was Takara's, but the venom was Volrath's.

Iron Star (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Goblin Mime (Arena League 2004)
Dan Frazier

When you speak, sacrifice this creature.

Mung noticed a few clouds gathering in the sky. Perhaps today he could perform his "walking against the wind" routine.

Dingus Egg (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Blue Ward (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from blue. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Firebreathing (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature {R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"And topples round the dreary west A looming bastion fringed with fire." —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam"

Horn of Deafening (Legends)
Dan Frazier

{2}, {T}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target creature this turn.

"A blast, an echo . . . then silence."

Tawnos's Weaponry (Renaissance)
Dan Frazier

You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step. {2}, {T}: Target creature gets +1/+1 for as long as this artifact remains tapped.

Tawnos's Weaponry (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step. {2}, {T}: Target creature gets +1/+1 for as long as this artifact remains tapped.

Juggernaut (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

This creature attacks each combat if able. This creature can't be blocked by Walls.

We had taken refuge in a small cave, thinking the entrance was too narrow for it to follow. To our horror, its gigantic head smashed into the mountainside, ripping itself a new entrance.

Orcish Artillery (Fifth Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

Sunglasses of Urza (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

You may spend white mana as though it were red mana.

White Ward (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from white. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Earthquake (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Mox Jet (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {B}.

Mox Pearl (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {W}.

Mox Emerald (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {G}.

Mox Ruby (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {R}.

Rakdos Signet (Secret Lair Drop)
Dan Frazier

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

Gustcloak Skirmisher (Onslaught)
Dan Frazier

Flying Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may untap it and remove it from combat.

They're trained in the art of pressing their luck.

Earthquake (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Dan Frazier

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

White Ward (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from white. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Red Ward (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from red. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Aladdin's Ring (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

{8}, {T}: This artifact deals 4 damage to any target.

"After these words the magician drew a ring off his finger, and put it on one of Aladdin's, saying: 'It is a talisman against all evil, so long as you obey me.'" —The Arabian Nights, Junior Classics trans.

Black Ward (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from black. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Thicket Basilisk (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Moss-covered statues littered the area, a macabre monument to the Basilisk's power.

Dirtcowl Wurm (Battle Royale Box Set)
Dan Frazier

Whenever an opponent plays a land, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Few of Rath's rivers follow a steady course, so many new channels are carved for them.

Iron Star (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Knight Errant (Starter 1999)
Dan Frazier

". . . Before honor is humility." —*The Bible*, Proverbs 15:33

Gloom (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

White spells cost {3} more to cast. Activated abilities of white enchantments cost {3} more to activate.

Goblin Grenadiers (Weatherlight)
Dan Frazier

Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, destroy target creature and target land.

For once, Squee realized, *he* wasn't the dumb one.

Mox Sapphire (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {U}.

Earthquake (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Thicket Basilisk (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Moss-covered statues littered the area, a macabre monument to the Basilisk's power.

Talisman of Progress (Secret Lair Drop)
Dan Frazier

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

Storm Cauldron (Alliances)
Dan Frazier

Each player may play an additional land during each of their turns. Whenever a land is tapped for mana, return it to its owner's hand.

Green Ward (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from green. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Earthquake (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Healing Salve (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Dan Frazier

Choose one — • Target player gains 3 life. • Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Dirtcowl Wurm (Tempest)
Dan Frazier

Whenever an opponent plays a land, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Few of Rath's rivers follow a steady course, so many new channels are carved for them.

Swamp (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Sword of the Ages (Legends)
Dan Frazier

This artifact enters tapped. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact and any number of creatures you control: This artifact deals X damage to any target, where X is the total power of the creatures sacrificed this way, then exile this artifact and those creature cards.

Sunglasses of Urza (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

You may spend white mana as though it were red mana.

Gaea's Herald (Planeshift)
Dan Frazier

Creature spells can't be countered.

"I bring word from Gaea. Fight on! She will never allow her children to die alone."

Mox Pearl (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {W}.

Ice Storm (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Destroy target land.

Juggernaut (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

This creature attacks each combat if able. This creature can't be blocked by Walls.

We had taken refuge in a small cave, thinking the entrance was too narrow for it to follow. To our horror, its gigantic head smashed into the mountainside, ripping itself a new entrance.

Blue Ward (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from blue. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Animate Wall (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant Wall Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Iron Star (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Goblin Gardener (The List)
Dan Frazier

When this creature dies, destroy target land.

"Grow food in dirt? Save time—eat dirt."

Iron Star (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Dan Frazier

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Cockatrice (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

Flying Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Earth Elemental (Limited Edition Alpha)
Dan Frazier

Earth Elementals have the eternal strength of stone and the endurance of mountains. Primordially connected to the land they inhabit, they take a long-term view of things, scorning the impetuous haste of short-lived mortal creatures.

Blue Ward (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from blue. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Hill Giant (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Dan Frazier

Fortunately, Hill Giants have large blind spots in which a human can easily hide. Unfortunately, these blind spots are beneath the bottoms of their feet.

Gauntlets of Chaos (Chronicles)
Dan Frazier

{5}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exchange control of target artifact, creature, or land you control and target permanent an opponent controls that shares one of those types with it. If those permanents are exchanged this way, destroy all Auras attached to them.

Iron Star (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Talisman of Curiosity (Secret Lair Drop)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Xenic Poltergeist (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Until your next upkeep, target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Iron Star (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Mesmeric Trance (Ice Age)
Dan Frazier

Cumulative upkeep {1} (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.) {U}, Discard a card: Draw a card.

"Magic overused can freeze the mind. Creativity is more important than power." —Zur the Enchanter

Tunnel (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Destroy target Wall. It can't be regenerated.

Forcefield (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

{1}: The next time an unblocked creature of your choice would deal combat damage to you this turn, prevent all but 1 of that damage.

Orcish Lumberjack (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Dan Frazier

{T}, Sacrifice a Forest: Add three mana in any combination of {R} and/or {G}.

"How did I ever let myself get talked into this project?" —Toothlicker Harj, orcish captain

Knight Errant (Starter 2000)
Dan Frazier

". . . Before honor is humility." —*The Bible*, Proverbs 15:33

Mountain Yeti (Legends)
Dan Frazier

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

The Yeti's single greatest asset is its unnerving ability to blend in with its surroundings.

An-Havva Constable (Homelands)
Dan Frazier

An-Havva Constable's toughness is equal to 1 plus the number of green creatures on the battlefield.

"Joskun and the other Constables serve with passion, if not with grace." —Devin, Faerie Noble

Powder Keg (World Championship Decks 1999)
Dan Frazier

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fuse counter on this artifact. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each artifact and creature with mana value equal to the number of fuse counters on this artifact.

Forcefield (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

{1}: The next time an unblocked creature of your choice would deal combat damage to you this turn, prevent all but 1 of that damage.

Cockatrice (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Flying Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Sacrifice (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Disrupting Scepter (Unlimited Edition)
Dan Frazier

{3}, {T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn.

Swamp (Ninth Edition)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Goblin War Drums (Fifth Edition)
Dan Frazier

Creatures you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

"Goblins charge with a deafening war cry. The cry doesn't mean anything—it just drowns out the drums!" —Reod Dai, mercenary

Hill Giant (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Fortunately, Hill Giants have large blind spots in which a human can easily hide. Unfortunately, these blind spots are beneath the bottoms of their feet.

Osai Vultures (Legends)
Dan Frazier

Flying At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a carrion counter on this creature. Remove two carrion counters from this creature: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

A sign of battle, the Vultures circle and wait for the victorious to depart.

Shapeshifter (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

As this creature enters, choose a number between 0 and 7. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may choose a number between 0 and 7. Shapeshifter's power is equal to the last chosen number and its toughness is equal to 7 minus that number.

Enlightened Tutor (Mirage)
Dan Frazier

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

"I do not teach. I simply reveal." —Daudi, Femeref tutor

Amulet of Quoz (Ice Age)
Dan Frazier

Remove this card from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target opponent may ante the top card of their library. If they don't, you flip a coin. If you win the flip, that player loses the game. If you lose the flip, you lose the game. Activate only during your upkeep.

Hyperion Blacksmith (Legends)
Dan Frazier

{T}: You may tap or untap target artifact an opponent controls.

"The smith a mighty man is he/ With large and sinewy hands./ And the muscles of his brawny arms/ Are strong as iron bands." —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Village Blacksmith

Mahamoti Djinn (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti Djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection.

White Ward (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from white. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Shrieking Mogg (Nemesis)
Dan Frazier

Haste When this creature enters, tap all other creatures.

You have to admire its enthusiasm.

Wall of Stone (Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

The Earth herself lends her strength to these walls of living stone, which possess the stability of ancient mountains. These mighty bulwarks thwart ground-based troops, providing welcome relief for weary warriors who defend the land.

Quagmire (Legends)
Dan Frazier

Creatures with swampwalk can be blocked as though they didn't have swampwalk.

Resurrection (Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Ice Storm (Limited Edition Beta)
Dan Frazier

Destroy target land.

Thicket Basilisk (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Dan Frazier

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Duplicity (Tempest)
Dan Frazier

When this enchantment enters, exile the top five cards of your library face down. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile all cards from your hand face down. If you do, put all other cards you own exiled with this enchantment into your hand. At the beginning of your end step, discard a card. When you lose control of this enchantment, put all cards exiled with this enchantment into their owner's graveyard.

Swamp (Starter 1999)
Dan Frazier

({T}: Add {B}.)

Black Ward (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from black. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

Tawnos's Weaponry (Fourth Edition)
Dan Frazier

You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step. {2}, {T}: Target creature gets +1/+1 for as long as this artifact remains tapped.

When war machines became too costly, Tawnos's Weaponry replaced them.

Mox Ruby (30th Anniversary Edition)
Dan Frazier

{T}: Add {R}.

Dingus Egg (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Healing Salve (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Dan Frazier

Choose one — • Target player gains 3 life. • Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Togglodyte (Unhinged)
Dan Frazier

This creature enters turned on. Whenever a player casts a spell, toggle this creature's ON/OFF switch. As long as this creature is turned off, it can't attack or block, and prevent all damage it would deal.

Earth Elemental (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

Earth Elementals have the eternal strength of stone and the endurance of mountains. Primordially connected to the land they inhabit, they take a long-term view of things, scorning the impetuous haste of short-lived mortal creatures.

Orcish Oriflamme (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

Sedge Troll (Revised Edition)
Dan Frazier

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp. {B}: Regenerate this creature.

The stench in the hovel was overpowering; something loathsome was cooking. Occasionally something surfaced in the thick paste, but my host would casually push it down before I could make out what it was.

Shapeshifter (Antiquities)
Dan Frazier

As this creature enters, choose a number between 0 and 7. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may choose a number between 0 and 7. Shapeshifter's power is equal to the last chosen number and its toughness is equal to 7 minus that number.

Born like a Phoenix from the Flame, But neither Bulk nor Shape the same. —Jonathan Swift, "Vanbrug's House"