Lifeblood Hydra

Lifeblood Hydra (Commander 2014)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, you gain life and draw cards equal to its power.

Pharika has written her secrets on its bones so that only the worthy may discover them.

Lifeblood Hydra (Commander Anthology)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, you gain life and draw cards equal to its power.

Pharika has written her secrets on its bones so that only the worthy may discover them.

Noble Templar (Masters 25)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Vigilance Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Overwhelming Intellect (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Counter target creature spell. Draw cards equal to that spell's mana value.

"My brain hurts."

Nip Gwyllion (Eventide)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Once your life and all your worldly possessions have been surrendered to her, a gwyllion can be surprisingly civilized.

Decree of Savagery (Scourge)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Put four +1/+1 counters on each creature you control. Cycling {4}{G}{G} ({4}{G}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may put four +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Wirewood Herald (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

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

The goblins laughed as the elf ran away, until more came back.

Custodi Squire (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Flying Will of the council — When this creature enters, starting with you, each player votes for an artifact, creature, or enchantment card in your graveyard. Return each card with the most votes or tied for most votes to your hand.

Brink of Disaster (Worldwake)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Enchant creature or land When enchanted permanent becomes tapped, destroy it.

"You always have a choice. That doesn't mean you always have a good choice." —Alubri, Guul Draz gatekeeper

Mark of Sakiko (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, add that much {G}. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end."

Incite Rebellion (Commander 2014)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

For each player, Incite Rebellion deals damage to that player and each creature that player controls equal to the number of creatures they control.

Nothing breaks the monotony like a good old-fashioned riot.

Discombobulate (Onslaught)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Counter target spell. Look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

"I said 'pick his brain,' not 'tear off his head.'" —Riptide Project researcher

Beastmaster Ascension (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. As long as this enchantment has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

Blaze (Ninth Edition)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Blaze deals X damage to any target.

Fire never dies alone.

Kill-Suit Cultist (Dissension)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

This creature attacks each combat if able. {B}, Sacrifice this creature: The next time damage would be dealt to target creature this turn, destroy that creature instead.

Dressed to kill.

Beastmaster Ascension (Commander 2014)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. As long as this enchantment has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

Dream Leash (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Enchant permanent You can't choose an untapped permanent as this spell's target as you cast it. You control enchanted permanent.

The tendrils of sorcery find easy purchase on the soft underbelly of dreams.

Quicksilver Dagger (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. You draw a card."

The dwarves call their quicksilver techniques "improvisational weaponsmithing."

Possessed Centaur (Torment)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Trample Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, this creature gets +1/+1, is black, and has "{2}{B}, {T}: Destroy target green creature."

Wirewood Herald (Onslaught)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

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

The goblins laughed as the elf ran away, until more came back.

Bathe in Light (Commander 2011)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Radiance — Choose a color. Target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.

"Truth shines even in darkness. Those who march on the side of truth walk always in righteous light."

Disentomb (Magic 2010)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Stop complaining. You can rest when you're dead. Oh—sorry." —Liliana Vess

Nessian Asp (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Reach {6}{G}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

It's not the two heads you should fear. It's the four fangs.

Gravestorm (Odyssey)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent may exile a card from their graveyard. If that player doesn't, you may draw a card.

General's Kabuto (Champions of Kamigawa)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Equipped creature has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to equipped creature. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Quicksilver Dagger (Dominaria Remastered)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. You draw a card."

The dwarves call their quicksilver techniques "improvisational weaponsmithing."

Corrupt (IDW Comics Inserts)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Trained Orgg (Seventh Edition)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

"That arm's for bashin'. That one's for smashin'. That one's for scratchin'. And that one . . . I don't know what that one's for." —Orgg trainer

Wall of Shards (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Defender, flying Cumulative upkeep—An opponent gains 1 life. (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.)

Myr Incubator (Mirrodin)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{6}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for any number of artifact cards, exile them, then create that many 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens. Then shuffle.

Mephitic Ooze (Darksteel)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. The creature can't be regenerated.

In Mephidross, refuse doesn't last long—it's all scavenged, reanimated, or consumed.

Centaur Glade (Onslaught)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{2}{G}{G}: Create a 3/3 green Centaur creature token.

The Mirari called to the centaurs, and all who heard it were forever changed.

Swamp (Magic 2011)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

({T}: Add {B}.)

Nessian Asp (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Kiora)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Reach {6}{G}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

It's not the two heads you should fear. It's the four fangs.

Mire's Toll (Worldwake)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Target player reveals a number of cards from their hand equal to the number of Swamps you control. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.

As the bridge snapped, Berko was sure he heard the swamp laughing at him.

Offalsnout (Morningtide)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

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

Vigean Intuition (Dissension)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Choose a card type, then reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all cards of the chosen type revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, land, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.)

Merrow Wavebreakers (Shadowmoor)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{1}{U}, {Q}: This creature gains flying until end of turn. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

The merrows' prey have retreated from the shore, so they have learned to follow.

Scroll Thief (Magic 2011)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

I've learned how to disable wards, pick locks, and decode the Agaran language—all before even reading the scroll!

Plagued Rusalka (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Look at her, once filled with innocence. Death has a way of wringing away such . . . deficiencies." —Savra

Custodi Squire (Crimson Vow Commander)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Flying Will of the council — When this creature enters, starting with you, each player votes for an artifact, creature, or enchantment card in your graveyard. Return each card with the most votes or tied for most votes to your hand.

Azorius First-Wing (Dissension)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Flying, protection from enchantments

With a steady diet of lawbreakers, Azorius griffins inevitably develop a resistance to the contraband magic that taints much of their prey.

Whirling Dervish (Junior Super Series)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Protection from black At the beginning of each end step, if this creature dealt damage to an opponent this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Amid this whirling hurricane of blades, there is no calm eye in which the hapless can find shelter.

Whirling Dervish (Junior Series Europe)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Protection from black At the beginning of each end step, if this creature dealt damage to an opponent this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Amid this whirling hurricane of blades, there is no calm eye in which the hapless can find shelter.

Pennon Blade (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each creature you control. Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Draped with the pennon of a fallen outpost, the sword came to symbolize the peoples of Zendikar becoming one.

Blaze (Jumpstart 2022)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Blaze deals X damage to any target.

Fire never dies alone.

Blaze (Eighth Edition)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Blaze deals X damage to any target.

Fire never dies alone.

Unquestioned Authority (Judgment)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature has protection from creatures.

"Only the Ancestor should be revered." —Mystic heretic

Nantuko Vigilante (Commander 2019)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Morph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Plagued Rusalka (RNA Guild Kit)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Look at her, once filled with innocence. Death has a way of wringing away such . . . deficiencies." —Savra

Mindmoil (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever you cast a spell, put the cards in your hand on the bottom of your library in any order, then draw that many cards.

"My criticism of the Izzet is that their impulse for learning seems too much like impulse and too little like learning." —Trigori, Azorius senator

War-Torch Goblin (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{R}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 2 damage to target blocking creature.

"In a town shaped by the subtle machinations and political intrigue of its guilds, it's reassuring to see a goblin waving his torch and screaming about some nonsense or other." —Agrus Kos

Viashino Fangtail (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

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

"When the bony terminus gets too large, it's shed from the tail in coinciding periods of heightened aggression and hunger." —Simic research notes

Chromatic Star (Double Masters)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Clock of Omens (Fifth Dawn)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Untap target artifact.

Those near the clock don't hear it anymore, but their every movement is in time with its ticking.

Kolaghan's Command (Double Masters 2022)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Choose two — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Target player discards a card. • Destroy target artifact. • Kolaghan's Command deals 2 damage to any target.

Lifeblood Hydra (Commander 2014)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, you gain life and draw cards equal to its power.

Pharika has written her secrets on its bones so that only the worthy may discover them.

Disentomb (Magic 2011)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The armies of the dead always report well rested.

Overwhelming Intellect (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Counter target creature spell. Draw cards equal to that spell's mana value.

"My brain hurts."

Plagued Rusalka (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{B}, クリーチャー１体を生け贄に捧げる：クリーチャー１体を対象とする。それはターン終了時まで－１/－１の修整を受ける。

「彼女を見るがいい。かつては満ち溢れるほど無垢だった。死はこんなにも絞りつくしてしまうのだ……不足分をね。」――サヴラ

Gigadrowse (Guildpact)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Replicate {U} (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Tap target permanent.

Silhana Starfletcher (Guildpact)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) As this creature enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

In light he finds both gift and weapon.

Skirk Drill Sergeant (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever this creature or another Goblin dies, you may pay {2}{R}. If you do, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a Goblin permanent card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your graveyard.

"I order you to volunteer."

Tornado Elemental (Fifth Dawn)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

When this creature enters, it deals 6 damage to each creature with flying. You may have this creature assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.

Guided Passage (Double Masters 2022)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Reveal the cards in your library. An opponent chooses from among them a creature card, a land card, and a noncreature, nonland card. You put the chosen cards into your hand. Then shuffle.

Gelid Shackles (Coldsnap)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't block, and its activated abilities can't be activated. {S}: Enchanted creature gains defender until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

Zoologist (Odyssey)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{3}{G}, {T}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your graveyard.

"With friends like these, who needs people?"

Carom (Dissension)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

The next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn is dealt to another target creature instead. Draw a card.

Her enemy's strength is her own.

Myr Incubator (World Championship Decks 2004)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{6}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for any number of artifact cards, exile them, then create that many 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens. Then shuffle.

Wirewood Herald (Duel Decks Anthology: Elves vs. Goblins)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

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

The goblins laughed as the elf ran away, until more came back.

Elvish Hexhunter (Shadowmoor)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{G/W}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target enchantment.

"All manner of curses, blights, and luckspoils infect Shadowmoor. We stalk them all, one perilous quest at a time."

Festival of the Guildpact (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to you this turn. Draw a card.

Everyone knows that violence at the Festival brings the worst of luck, so for at least one day a year arms are laid down in favor of brimming goblets.

Noble Templar (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Kiora)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Vigilance Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

True Believer (Tenth Edition)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

You have shroud. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

So great is his certainty that mere facts cannot shake it.

Caller of Gales (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{1}{U}, {T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"Some merfolk choose to rest their fins in the water. I believe wisdom exists not only where we were born but where we were told not to go."

Swamp (Magic 2010)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

({T}: Add {B}.)

Beastmaster Ascension (New Capenna Commander)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. As long as this enchantment has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

Bloodrock Cyclops (Tenth Edition)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

This creature attacks each combat if able.

"There are only fifty words in the cyclops language, and ten of them mean 'kill.'" —Ertai

Scroll Thief (Magic 2014)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Kapsho merfolk have infiltrated fortresses as remote as the desert citadel in Sunari in their relentless quest for arcane knowledge.

Quicksilver Dagger (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. You draw a card."

The dwarves call their quicksilver techniques "improvisational weaponsmithing."

Tel-Jilad Justice (Fifth Dawn)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Destroy target artifact. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Carbonize (Scourge)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Carbonize deals 3 damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Gigadrowse (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Replicate {U} (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Tap target permanent.

Narset, Parter of Veils (Secret Lair Drop)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn. −2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Break Open (Onslaught)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Turn target face-down creature an opponent controls face up.

There are two ways to resolve puzzling situations: thoughtful contemplation or force. After thoughtful contemplation, most barbarians choose force.

Blaze (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Blaze deals X damage to any target.

Fire never dies alone.

Anaba Shaman (Eighth Edition)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{R}, {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Just try taking *this* bull by the horns.

Blaze (Tenth Edition)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Blaze deals X damage to any target.

Millikin (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{T}, Mill a card: Add {C}. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

The toymaker frowned in bewilderment. None of his creations had ever sneezed before.

Skirk Drill Sergeant (Legions)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever this creature or another Goblin dies, you may pay {2}{R}. If you do, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a Goblin permanent card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your graveyard.

"I order you to volunteer."

Govern the Guildless (Dissension)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Gain control of target monocolored creature. Forecast — {1}{U}, Reveal this card from your hand: Target creature becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn. (Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Blaze (Battlebond)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Blaze deals X damage to any target.

Fire never dies alone.

Luminous Broodmoth (Bloomburrow Commander)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Flying Whenever a creature you control without flying dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a flying counter on it.

Mindmoil (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever you cast a spell, put the cards in your hand on the bottom of your library in any order, then draw that many cards.

"My criticism of the Izzet is that their impulse for learning seems too much like impulse and too little like learning." —Trigori, Azorius senator

Shriveling Rot (Darksteel)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Choose one — • Until end of turn, whenever a creature is dealt damage, destroy it. • Until end of turn, whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller loses life equal to its toughness. Entwine {2}{B} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Distract the Hydra (Face the Hydra)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Each player may sacrifice a creature. Each player who sacrificed a creature this way chooses a Head and taps it. Each player who didn't sacrifice a creature loses 3 life.

Blaze (Planechase)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Blaze deals X damage to any target.

Fire never dies alone.

Blood Tribute (Zendikar)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Kicker—Tap an untapped Vampire you control. (You may tap a Vampire you control in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.) Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. If this spell was kicked, you gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Plagued Rusalka (Conspiracy)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Look at her, once filled with innocence. Death has a way of wringing away such . . . deficiencies." —Savra

Giant's Ire (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Giant's Ire deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. If you control a Giant, draw a card.

The only feeling greater than hurling something a mile is crushing something else with it that was really, really irritating you.

Scroll Thief (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Kapsho merfolk have infiltrated fortresses as remote as the desert citadel in Sunari in their relentless quest for arcane knowledge.

Mentor of the Meek (Double Masters 2022)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

"Today's the last day you'll fear sewer crocs, Garg. From now on, the sewer crocs will fear you."

Reweave (Champions of Kamigawa)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Target permanent's controller sacrifices it. If the player does, they reveal cards from the top of their library until they reveal a permanent card that shares a card type with the sacrificed permanent, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Splice onto Arcane {2}{U}{U} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Beastmaster Ascension (Zendikar)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. As long as this enchantment has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

Nantuko Vigilante (World Championship Decks 2003)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Morph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Keldon Marauders (Eternal Masters)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Vanishing 2 (This creature enters with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) When this creature enters or leaves the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Orochi Hatchery (Champions of Kamigawa)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

This artifact enters with X charge counters on it. {5}, {T}: Create a 1/1 green Snake creature token for each charge counter on this artifact.

Bathe in Light (Commander Anthology)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Radiance — Choose a color. Target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.

"Truth shines even in darkness. Those who march on the side of truth walk always in righteous light."

Flickering Spirit (Time Spiral)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Flying {3}{W}: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

It disappears each time with the hope that it will not return to the same desolation it left behind.

Beastmaster Ascension (Commander 2016)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. As long as this enchantment has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

Millikin (Eternal Masters)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{T}, Mill a card: Add {C}. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

The toymaker frowned in bewilderment. None of his creations had ever sneezed before.

Scroll Thief (Duel Decks: Venser vs. Koth)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

I've learned how to disable wards, pick locks, and decode the Agaran language—all before even reading the scroll!

Oppression (Seventh Edition)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player discards a card.

"Defeating an enemy is not nearly as satisfying as watching one suffer." —The Western Paladin

Scroll Thief (Duel Decks: Merfolk vs. Goblins)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Kapsho merfolk have infiltrated fortresses as remote as the desert citadel in Sunari in their relentless quest for arcane knowledge.

Chromatic Star (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

"This item is not from . . . now. It reflects a sky no longer ours and gleams with hope that does not exist." —Tavalus, acolyte of Korlis

Necrogen Mists (Mirrodin)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card.

Mephidross filled with roars of fury and wails of despair as the leonin fought to keep their memories from being pulled into the mists.

Nantuko Vigilante (Legions)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Morph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Disentomb (Magic 2012)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Stop complaining. You can rest when you're dead. Oh—sorry." —Liliana Vess

Quicksilver Dagger (Dominaria Remastered)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. You draw a card."

The dwarves call their quicksilver techniques "improvisational weaponsmithing."

Unquestioned Authority (Jumpstart 2022)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature has protection from creatures.

"Only the Ancestor should be revered." —Mystic heretic

Grafted Wargear (Commander Legends)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Equipped creature gets +3/+2. Whenever this Equipment becomes unattached from a permanent, sacrifice that permanent. Equip {0} ({0}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Chromatic Star (Time Spiral)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

"This item is not from . . . now. It reflects a sky no longer ours and gleams with hope that does not exist." —Tavalus, acolyte of Korlis

Grafted Wargear (Fifth Dawn)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Equipped creature gets +3/+2. Whenever this Equipment becomes unattached from a permanent, sacrifice that permanent. Equip {0} ({0}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Kor Dirge (Time Spiral Remastered)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

All damage that would be dealt this turn to target creature you control by a source of your choice is dealt to another target creature instead.

Every new evincar cements their power with a culling as the weak are purged anew from Rath.

Earthblighter (Legions)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a Goblin: Destroy target land.

"A single dedicated mind can bring about the greatest destruction. That, or goblins—goblins work too."

Vengeful Dead (Scourge)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever this creature or another Zombie dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Those who don't learn from their deaths are destined to repeat them.

Keldon Marauders (Planar Chaos)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Vanishing 2 (This creature enters with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) When this creature enters or leaves the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Jackal Familiar (Magic 2010)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

This creature can't attack or block alone.

"Let the gray-hairs keep their ravens and drakes. My familiar will be a reflection of me: bloodthirsty, with a predator's instinct." —Taivang, barbarian warlord

Disentomb (Magic 2013)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I deal so often in rotting corpses that when I come across the freshly dead . . . why, it's like my birthday come early." —Nevinyrral, necromancer

Brink of Disaster (Magic 2012)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Enchant creature or land When enchanted permanent becomes tapped, destroy it.

"When you find yourself teetering on the edge of oblivion, mine will be the hands taking pleasure in giving you the final push." —Liliana Vess

Cabal Inquisitor (Odyssey)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Threshold — {1}{B}, {T}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Target player discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery and only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Quicksilver Dagger (Apocalypse)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. You draw a card."

The dwarves call their quicksilver techniques "improvisational weaponsmithing."

Cephalid Vandal (Torment)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a shred counter on this creature. Then mill a card for each shred counter on this creature.

Psychotic Haze (Torment)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Psychotic Haze deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Carom (Ravnica Remastered)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

The next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn is dealt to another target creature instead. Draw a card.

Her enemy's strength is her own.

Vengeful Dead (Starter Commander Decks)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever this creature or another Zombie dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Those who don't learn from their deaths are destined to repeat them.

Soratami Mindsweeper (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Flying {2}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target player mills two cards.

Beastmaster Ascension (Commander Anthology)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. As long as this enchantment has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

Martyred Rusalka (RNA Guild Kit)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{W}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature can't attack this turn.

Rakdos cultists hanged her for sport in the township square. Her ghost now stands vigil at what has become known as the Tree of Weeping.

Tornado Elemental (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

When this creature enters, it deals 6 damage to each creature with flying. You may have this creature assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.

Cogwork Tracker (Conspiracy)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Reveal this card as you draft it and note the player who passed it to you. This creature attacks each combat if able. This creature attacks a player you noted for cards named Cogwork Tracker each combat if able.

Skirk Drill Sergeant (Duel Decks Anthology: Elves vs. Goblins)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever this creature or another Goblin dies, you may pay {2}{R}. If you do, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a Goblin permanent card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your graveyard.

"I order you to volunteer."

Beastmaster Ascension (Commander 2015)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. As long as this enchantment has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

Custodi Squire (Commander Masters)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Flying Will of the council — When this creature enters, starting with you, each player votes for an artifact, creature, or enchantment card in your graveyard. Return each card with the most votes or tied for most votes to your hand.

Scroll Thief (Magic 2013)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

The arcane academies along the coast were powerless to protect themselves from the brazen raiders of the Kapsho Seas.

Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni (Bloomburrow Commander)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Ninjutsu {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever Ink-Eyes deals combat damage to a player, you may put target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. {1}{B}: Regenerate Ink-Eyes.

Incite War (Mirrodin)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Choose one — • Creatures target player controls attack this turn if able. • Creatures you control gain first strike until end of turn. Entwine {2} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Herald of Leshrac (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Flying Cumulative upkeep—Gain control of a land you don't control. (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.) This creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control but don't own. When this creature leaves the battlefield, each player gains control of each land they own that you control.

Blaze (Seventh Edition)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Blaze deals X damage to any target.

Fire never dies alone.

Neko-Te (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever equipped creature deals damage to a creature, tap that creature. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as this Equipment remains on the battlefield. Whenever equipped creature deals damage to a player, that player loses 1 life. Equip {2}

Quicksilver Dagger (Masters 25)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. You draw a card."

The dwarves call their quicksilver techniques "improvisational weaponsmithing."

Discombobulate (Tenth Edition)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Counter target spell. Look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

"I said 'pick his brain,' not 'tear off his head.'" —Riptide Project researcher

Lifeblood Hydra (Commander Anthology)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, you gain life and draw cards equal to its power.

Pharika has written her secrets on its bones so that only the worthy may discover them.

Caller of Gales (Zendikar)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{1}{U}, {T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"Some merfolk choose to rest their fins in the water. I believe wisdom exists not only where we were born but where we were told not to go."

Blaze (Game Night: Free-for-All)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Blaze deals X damage to any target.

Fire never dies alone.

Wall of Shards (Coldsnap)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Defender, flying Cumulative upkeep—An opponent gains 1 life. (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.)

Chromatic Star (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Nantuko Vigilante (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Morph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Tornado Elemental (Planechase)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

When this creature enters, it deals 6 damage to each creature with flying. You may have this creature assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.

Nessian Asp (Theros)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Reach {6}{G}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

It's not the two heads you should fear. It's the four fangs.

Noble Templar (Scourge)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Vigilance Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Orochi Hatchery (Commander 2015)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

This artifact enters with X charge counters on it. {5}, {T}: Create a 1/1 green Snake creature token for each charge counter on this artifact.

Trained Condor (Magic 2014)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

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

"They're smart enough to understand that war means lots of carrion." —Griv, condor rider

Wanderwine Prophets (Lorwyn)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Champion a Merfolk (When this enters, sacrifice it unless you exile another Merfolk you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice a Merfolk. If you do, take an extra turn after this one.

Plagued Rusalka (Jumpstart)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Look at her, once filled with innocence. Death has a way of wringing away such . . . deficiencies." —Savra

Martyred Rusalka (Guildpact)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{W}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature can't attack this turn.

Rakdos cultists hanged her for sport in the township square. Her ghost now stands vigil at what has become known as the Tree of Weeping.

Breath of Malfegor (IDW Comics Inserts)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Breath of Malfegor deals 5 damage to each opponent.

The draconic demon loomed over Dack, and he suddenly sensed he wasn't the only Planeswalker that Malfegor had encountered.

Akoum Boulderfoot (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to any target.

"If you're in Akoum and you glimpse a shadow overhead, the worst thing you can do is duck." —Chadir the Navigator

Primal Frenzy (Odyssey)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has trample.

"Don't dismiss its anger as mindless fury. I assure you, it has purpose." —Seton, centaur druid

Scarred Vinebreeder (Lorwyn)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{2}{B}, Exile an Elf card from your graveyard: This creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

For disfigured elves, there are few choices beyond death or nettlevine.

Giant's Ire (Lorwyn)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Giant's Ire deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. If you control a Giant, draw a card.

The only feeling greater than hurling something a mile is crushing something else with it that was really, really irritating you.

Goblin Artillery (Jumpstart 2022)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

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

Most goblins get their turn firing the catapult, but few achieve the coveted title of Ammunition Holder.

Plagued Rusalka (Modern Masters 2015)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Look at her, once filled with innocence. Death has a way of wringing away such . . . deficiencies." —Savra

Millikin (Odyssey)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{T}, Mill a card: Add {C}. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

The toymaker frowned in bewilderment. None of his creations had ever sneezed before.

Tomb of Urami (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{T}: Add {B}. Tomb of Urami deals 1 damage to you if you don't control an Ogre. {2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice all lands you control: Create Urami, a legendary 5/5 black Demon Spirit creature token with flying.

Mire's Toll (Duel Decks: Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Target player reveals a number of cards from their hand equal to the number of Swamps you control. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.

As the bridge snapped, Berko was sure he heard the swamp laughing at him.

Bathe in Light (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Radiance — Choose a color. Target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.

"Truth shines even in darkness. Those who march on the side of truth walk always in righteous light."

Incite Rebellion (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

For each player, Incite Rebellion deals damage to that player and each creature that player controls equal to the number of creatures they control.

Nothing breaks the monotony like a good old-fashioned riot.

Keldon Marauders (Premium Deck Series: Fire and Lightning)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Vanishing 2 (This creature enters with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) When this creature enters or leaves the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Swamp (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

({T}: Add {B}.)

True Believer (Onslaught)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

You have shroud. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

So great is his certainty that mere facts cannot shake it.

Hallow (Darksteel)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Prevent all damage target spell would deal this turn. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

"Bend with the storm, then reply in kind."

Guided Passage (Apocalypse)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Reveal the cards in your library. An opponent chooses from among them a creature card, a land card, and a noncreature, nonland card. You put the chosen cards into your hand. Then shuffle.

Malevolent Awakening (Odyssey)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{1}{B}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The most popular pit fighters are brought back for encore performances.

Nantuko Vigilante (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Morph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Noggle Ransacker (Planechase 2012)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

When this creature enters, each player draws two cards, then discards a card at random.

Noggles live purely by what they can scavenge. There is not a single thing a noggle eats, wears, or uses that did not once belong to another.

Custodi Squire (Conspiracy)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Flying Will of the council — When this creature enters, starting with you, each player votes for an artifact, creature, or enchantment card in your graveyard. Return each card with the most votes or tied for most votes to your hand.

Plagued Rusalka (Guildpact)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Look at her, once filled with innocence. Death has a way of wringing away such . . . deficiencies." —Savra

Your Will Is Not Your Own (Archenemy Schemes)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

When you set this scheme in motion, gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gets +3/+3 and gains trample and haste until end of turn.

"Fool. I'll show you how to use that thing."

Noggle Ransacker (Planechase Anthology)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

When this creature enters, each player draws two cards, then discards a card at random.

Noggles live purely by what they can scavenge. There is not a single thing a noggle eats, wears, or uses that did not once belong to another.

Herald of Leshrac (Coldsnap)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Flying Cumulative upkeep—Gain control of a land you don't control. (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.) This creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control but don't own. When this creature leaves the battlefield, each player gains control of each land they own that you control.

Chromatic Star (Tenth Edition)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Bloodrock Cyclops (Jumpstart)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

This creature attacks each combat if able.

"There are only fifty words in the cyclops language, and ten of them mean 'kill.'" —Ertai

Goblin Artillery (Magic 2010)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

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

Most goblins get their turn firing the catapult, but few achieve the coveted title of Ammunition Holder.

My Crushing Masterstroke (Archenemy Schemes)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

When you set this scheme in motion, gain control of all nonland permanents your opponents control until end of turn. Untap those permanents. They gain haste until end of turn. Each of them attacks its owner this turn if able.

Noggle Ransacker (Eventide)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

When this creature enters, each player draws two cards, then discards a card at random.

Noggles live purely by what they can scavenge. There is not a single thing a noggle eats, wears, or uses that did not once belong to another.

Caller of Gales (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{1}{U}, {T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"Some merfolk choose to rest their fins in the water. I believe wisdom exists not only where we were born but where we were told not to go."

Stomping Slabs (Morningtide)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Reveal the top seven cards of your library, then put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order. If a card named Stomping Slabs was revealed this way, Stomping Slabs deals 7 damage to any target.

Guided Passage (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Reveal the cards in your library. An opponent chooses from among them a creature card, a land card, and a noncreature, nonland card. You put the chosen cards into your hand. Then shuffle.

Kami of the Hunt (Champions of Kamigawa)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Don't worry, Jiro. The kami would never attack us this close to home . . . . Jiro?" —Hoto, temple guardian, last words

Kor Firewalker (DCI Promos)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Protection from red Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.

"A river of lava is just another river to cross."

Beastmaster Ascension (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. As long as this enchantment has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

Smogsteed Rider (Guildpact)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gains fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"An entire order of mages who draw their power from Ravnica's smog? Yet another indicator of our world's decay." —Dravash, dowsing shaman

Decimate (Odyssey)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Destroy target artifact, target creature, target enchantment, and target land. (You can't cast this spell unless you have legal choices for all its targets.)

"Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition." —Kamahl, pit fighter

Cephalid Pathmage (Legions)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

This creature can't be blocked. {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Pathmages can open doors that aren't even there.

Shifting Borders (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Exchange control of two target lands. Splice onto Arcane {3}{U} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Seeker of Skybreak (Seventh Edition)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{T}: Untap target creature.

Seekers spend their lives protecting a home they rarely visit.

Yixlid Jailer (DCI Promos)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Cards in graveyards lose all abilities.

He holds the keys to a tombful of incarcerated secrets.

Minamo's Meddling (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Counter target spell. That spell's controller reveals their hand, then discards each card with the same name as a card spliced onto that spell.

Like storm water through the segments of bamboo, the spell followed the links of magic. Then it destroyed them.

Pennon Blade (Commander Legends)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each creature you control. Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Draped with the pennon of a fallen outpost, the sword came to symbolize the peoples of Zendikar becoming one.

Plagued Rusalka (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Look at her, once filled with innocence. Death has a way of wringing away such . . . deficiencies." —Savra

Noble Templar (Conspiracy)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Vigilance Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Fleshpulper Giant (Magic 2014)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

When this creature enters, you may destroy target creature with toughness 2 or less.

He doesn't hate small folk. He just likes the squishing sound they make.

Centaur Glade (The List)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

{2}{G}{G}: Create a 3/3 green Centaur creature token.

The Mirari called to the centaurs, and all who heard it were forever changed.

Decree of Savagery (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Put four +1/+1 counters on each creature you control. Cycling {4}{G}{G} ({4}{G}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may put four +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Aven Envoy (Legions)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Flying

Their grieving faces tell far more than a list of casualties ever could.

Disarm (Mirrodin)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

Unattach all Equipment from target creature.

"Be thankful I left you your clothes."

Kor Dirge (Planar Chaos)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli

All damage that would be dealt this turn to target creature you control by a source of your choice is dealt to another target creature instead.

Rath's new evincar eliminated the brutish moggs and took a new slave race, one more reminiscent of her own feline grace.