Duh

Duh (Unhinged)
Dave Dorman

Destroy target creature with reminder text. (Reminder text is any italicized text in parentheses that explains rules you already know.)

Will players understand that the creature is being crushed by two parentheses? Not a chance.

Fleeting Image (Eighth Edition)
Dave Dorman

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) {1}{U}: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." —Aesop, *Fables*, trans. Jacobs

Summon the School (Lorwyn)
Dave Dorman

Create two 1/1 blue Merfolk Wizard creature tokens. Tap four untapped Merfolk you control: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

"When merrows talk, listeners grow fins." —Kithkin saying

Flamewave Invoker (Legions)
Dave Dorman

{7}{R}: This creature deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker.

The Mirari burns in his heart.

Kitsune Palliator (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Dave Dorman

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to each creature and each player this turn.

"Who am I to judge who is deserving and who is not? That is a question for lords, not healers."

Mirror Strike (Prophecy)
Dave Dorman

All combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn by target unblocked creature is dealt to its controller instead.

"Enemies can be your weapons or your shields. Simply show them which they are." —*The Teachings of Zho*

Aladdin's Ring (Ninth Edition)
Dave Dorman

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

"A good lamp will light your way. A good ring will clear it." —Nervan, royal jeweler

Oraxid (Nemesis)
Dave Dorman

Protection from red

"I'm constantly amazed by the tenacity of living creatures on this plane. Even in the stronghold's white-hot core, life persists." —Ertai

Necravolver (Apocalypse)
Dave Dorman

Kicker {1}{G} and/or {W} (You may pay an additional {1}{G} and/or {W} as you cast this spell.) If this creature was kicked with its {1}{G} kicker, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it and with trample. If this creature was kicked with its {W} kicker, it enters with a +1/+1 counter on it and with "Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life."

Dromar, the Banisher (The List)
Dave Dorman

Flying Whenever Dromar deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{U}. If you do, choose a color, then return all creatures of that color to their owners' hands.

Timberwatch Elf (Legions)
Dave Dorman

{T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Elves on the battlefield.

Even through the Mirari's voice, the elves still hear the call of their kinship.

Guided Strike (The List)
Dave Dorman

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Draw a card.

"May the Ancestor strengthen my hand and guide my blade." —Nomad war prayer

Charging Troll (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition)
Dave Dorman

Vigilance {G}: Regenerate this creature.

They stop for nothing, not even the end of a battle.

Erhnam Djinn (Mystery Booster 2)
Dave Dorman

At the beginning of your upkeep, target non-Wall creature an opponent controls gains forestwalk until your next upkeep. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Impulsive Maneuvers (Odyssey)
Dave Dorman

Whenever a creature attacks, flip a coin. If you win the flip, the next time that creature would deal combat damage this turn, it deals double that damage instead. If you lose the flip, the next time that creature would deal combat damage this turn, prevent that damage.

Din of the Fireherd (Shadowmoor)
Dave Dorman

Create a 5/5 black and red Elemental creature token. Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice for each black creature you control, then sacrifices a land of their choice for each red creature you control.

Vengeance in stampede form.

Flamewave Invoker (Battlebond)
Dave Dorman

{7}{R}: This creature deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Inside even the humblest goblin lurks the potential for far greater things—and far worse.

Kamahl's Desire (Odyssey)
Dave Dorman

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has first strike. Threshold — Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Prophetic Bolt (Commander 2011)
Dave Dorman

Prophetic Bolt deals 4 damage to any target. Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Prophetic Bolt (Apocalypse)
Dave Dorman

Prophetic Bolt deals 4 damage to any target. Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Recoup (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
Dave Dorman

Target sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (Mana cost includes color.) Flashback {3}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Grizzly Fate (The List)
Dave Dorman

Create two 2/2 green Bear creature tokens. Threshold — Create four 2/2 green Bear creature tokens instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard. Flashback {5}{G}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Duh (Unhinged)
Dave Dorman

Destroy target creature with reminder text. (Reminder text is any italicized text in parentheses that explains rules you already know.)

Will players understand that the creature is being crushed by two parentheses? Not a chance.

Unified Strike (Onslaught)
Dave Dorman

Exile target attacking creature if its power is less than or equal to the number of Soldiers on the battlefield.

The tall, reedy grass of the Daru Plains rustles loudly in the winds, a perfect cover for any ambush.

Glory Seeker (Eighth Edition)
Dave Dorman

The turning of the tide always begins with one soldier's decision to head back into the fray.

Larceny (Eighth Edition)
Dave Dorman

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Opportunity makes the thief. —Roman proverb

Urza's Filter (Invasion)
Dave Dorman

Multicolored spells cost {2} less to cast.

"It's a tool for aiding my other tools," explained Urza. "Now they'll work in harmony."

Fireball (Magic 2010)
Dave Dorman

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Renewed Faith (Onslaught)
Dave Dorman

You gain 6 life. Cycling {1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may gain 2 life.

Bog Wraith (Seventh Edition)
Dave Dorman

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

The bodies of its victims are the only tracks it leaves.

Elfsworn Giant (Foundations)
Dave Dorman

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.

He upheld his vow to the elves by watching their woods and blazing their trails.

Auriok Bladewarden (Mirrodin)
Dave Dorman

{T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power.

The Auriok have learned through constant struggle that allies are more precious than water.

Suncrusher (Fifth Dawn)
Dave Dorman

Sunburst (This enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {4}, {T}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Destroy target creature. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

Vigilant Drake (Seventh Edition)
Dave Dorman

Flying {2}{U}: Untap this creature.

It can stay aloft for weeks with little or no sleep.

Blind Seer (Invasion)
Dave Dorman

{1}{U}: Target spell or permanent becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

"I think he sees more than he lets on." —Gerrard

Kyren Legate (Mercadian Masques)
Dave Dorman

If an opponent controls a Plains and you control a Mountain, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Haste

Aladdin's Ring (Eighth Edition)
Dave Dorman

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

"A good lamp will light your way. A good ring will clear it." —Nervan, royal jeweler

Fireball (Iconic Masters)
Dave Dorman

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

The spell fell upon the crowd like a dragon, ancient and full of death.

Vizzerdrix (Eighth Edition)
Dave Dorman

A bored wizard once created a vizzerdrix out of a bunny and a piranha. He never made *that* mistake again.

Fallen Cleric (Onslaught)
Dave Dorman

Protection from Clerics Morph {4}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

The most terrifying zombies are those with just a hint of their old selves left.

Renewed Faith (World Championship Decks 2003)
Dave Dorman

You gain 6 life. Cycling {1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may gain 2 life.

Fireball (Archenemy)
Dave Dorman

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Flamewave Invoker (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra)
Dave Dorman

{7}{R}: This creature deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Inside even the humblest goblin lurks the potential for far greater things—and far worse.

Erhnam Djinn (Beatdown Box Set)
Dave Dorman

At the beginning of your upkeep, target non-Wall creature an opponent controls gains forestwalk until your next upkeep. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Guerrilla Tactics (The List)
Dave Dorman

Guerrilla Tactics deals 2 damage to any target. When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, it deals 4 damage to any target.

Timberwatch Elf (Secret Lair Drop)
Dave Dorman

{T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Elves on the battlefield.

Even through the Mirari's voice, the elves still hear the call of their kinship.

Cephalid Broker (The List)
Dave Dorman

{T}: Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards.

Cephalids value the free exchange of ideas—except for the "free" part.

Cephalid Broker (Iconic Masters)
Dave Dorman

{T}: Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards.

Cephalids value the free exchange of ideas—except for the "free" part.

Roar of the Crowd (Morningtide)
Dave Dorman

Choose a creature type. Roar of the Crowd deals damage to any target equal to the number of permanents you control of the chosen type.

One voice is but a pebble to the rest of the world. A thousand voices at once is an avalanche.

Guided Strike (Iconic Masters)
Dave Dorman

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Draw a card.

"May the Ancestor strengthen my hand and guide my blade." —Nomad war prayer

Recoup (World Championship Decks 2003)
Dave Dorman

Target sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (Mana cost includes color.) Flashback {3}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Jötun Owl Keeper (Coldsnap)
Dave Dorman

Cumulative upkeep {W} or {U} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying for each age counter on it.

Fireball (Magic 2012)
Dave Dorman

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Fault Riders (Prophecy)
Dave Dorman

Sacrifice a land: This creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

They turn geological upheaval into tactical advantage.

Fireball (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra)
Dave Dorman

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

The spell fell upon the crowd like a dragon, ancient and full of death.

Recoup (World Championship Decks 2003)
Dave Dorman

Target sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (Mana cost includes color.) Flashback {3}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sunflare Shaman (Morningtide)
Dave Dorman

{1}{R}, {T}: This creature deals X damage to any target and X damage to itself, where X is the number of Elemental cards in your graveyard.

A spark to light the guttered heart.

Richard Garfield, Ph.D. (30th Anniversary Misc Promos)
Dave Dorman

You may play cards as though they were other cards of your choice with the same mana cost. You can't choose the same card twice. (Mana cost includes color.)

And yea he doth spake: "Let there be Magic."

Daru Spiritualist (Scourge)
Dave Dorman

Whenever a Cleric creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability, it gets +0/+2 until end of turn.

He lifts the spirits of his people so they may descend in wrath upon their foes.

Goblin Assassin (The List)
Dave Dorman

Whenever this creature or another Goblin enters, each player flips a coin. Each player whose coin comes up tails sacrifices a creature of their choice.

The more victims he kills, the more likely he is to get the right one.

Skirk Commando (Archenemy)
Dave Dorman

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may have it deal 2 damage to target creature that player controls. Morph {2}{R} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Richard Garfield, Ph.D. (The List (Unfinity Foil Edition))
Dave Dorman

You may play cards as though they were other cards of your choice with the same mana cost. You can't choose the same card twice. (Mana cost includes color.)

And yea he doth spake: "Let there be Magic."

Dromar, the Banisher (Invasion)
Dave Dorman

Flying Whenever Dromar deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{U}. If you do, choose a color, then return all creatures of that color to their owners' hands.

Guided Strike (Judgment)
Dave Dorman

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Draw a card.

"May the Ancestor strengthen my hand and guide my blade." —Nomad war prayer

Fireball (The List)
Dave Dorman

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

The spell fell upon the crowd like a dragon, ancient and full of death.

Nagao, Bound by Honor (The List)
Dave Dorman

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever Nagao attacks, Samurai creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Bog Wraith (Eighth Edition)
Dave Dorman

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

The bodies of its victims are the only tracks it leaves.

Richard Garfield, Ph.D. (Unsanctioned)
Dave Dorman

You may play cards as though they were other cards of your choice with the same mana cost. You can't choose the same card twice. (Mana cost includes color.)

And yea he doth spake: "Let there be Magic."

Renewed Faith (World Championship Decks 2004)
Dave Dorman

You gain 6 life. Cycling {1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may gain 2 life.

Howl from Beyond (Dominaria Remastered)
Dave Dorman

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

Whether it howls for hunger or for joy, you're in trouble just the same.

Rouse (Mercadian Masques)
Dave Dorman

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 2 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Grapeshot Catapult (Seventh Edition)
Dave Dorman

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

The Southern Paladin taught the airborne vermin to fear the storm that rains upward.

Laccolith Whelp (Nemesis)
Dave Dorman

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature. If you do, this creature assigns no combat damage this turn.

They don't feed; they stoke.

Vizzerdrix (Ninth Edition)
Dave Dorman

A bored wizard once created a vizzerdrix out of a bunny and a piranha. He never made *that* mistake again.

Patron of the Wild (Legions)
Dave Dorman

Morph {2}{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, target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Pyroclasm (Magic Player Rewards 2006)
Dave Dorman

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

Myr Mindservant (Mirrodin)
Dave Dorman

{2}, {T}: Shuffle your library.

It knows what you are planning, and does not approve.

Howl from Beyond (Seventh Edition)
Dave Dorman

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

Whether it howls for hunger or for joy, you're in trouble just the same.

Savage Gorilla (Apocalypse)
Dave Dorman

{U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. Draw a card.

These omnivorous gorillas have no qualms about a diet composed of equal parts fruit and Phyrexians.

Whip Silk (Invasion)
Dave Dorman

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.) {G}: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.

Llanowar forges weapons of steel. Yavimaya grows her weapons within.

Goblin Assassin (Legions)
Dave Dorman

Whenever this creature or another Goblin enters, each player flips a coin. Each player whose coin comes up tails sacrifices a creature of their choice.

The more victims he kills, the more likely he is to get the right one.

Charging Troll (Invasion)
Dave Dorman

Vigilance {G}: Regenerate this creature.

They stop for nothing, not even the end of a battle.

Wirewood Pride (Onslaught)
Dave Dorman

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Elves on the battlefield.

"Though you may leave this haven we have found, may our strength never leave you."

Ball Lightning (Beatdown Box Set)
Dave Dorman

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

Fleeting Image (Ninth Edition)
Dave Dorman

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) {1}{U}: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." —Aesop, *Fables*, trans. Jacobs

Guerrilla Tactics (Tenth Edition)
Dave Dorman

Guerrilla Tactics deals 2 damage to any target. When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, it deals 4 damage to any target.

Necravolver (The List)
Dave Dorman

Kicker {1}{G} and/or {W} (You may pay an additional {1}{G} and/or {W} as you cast this spell.) If this creature was kicked with its {1}{G} kicker, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it and with trample. If this creature was kicked with its {W} kicker, it enters with a +1/+1 counter on it and with "Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life."

Irradiate (Mirrodin)
Dave Dorman

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each artifact you control.

The blast ignores the cage of metal but devours the flesh inside.

Flamecore Elemental (Time Spiral)
Dave Dorman

Echo {2}{R}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

To a fire elemental, fools and fuels are one and the same.

False Dawn (Apocalypse)
Dave Dorman

Until end of turn, spells and abilities you control that would add colored mana instead add that much white mana. Until end of turn, you may spend white mana as though it were mana of any color. Draw a card.

Shrapnel Blast (World Championship Decks 2004)
Dave Dorman

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact. Shrapnel Blast deals 5 damage to any target.

From trinket to trauma.

Fireball (The List)
Dave Dorman

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

The spell fell upon the crowd like a dragon, ancient and full of death.

Magnetic Theft (Fifth Dawn)
Dave Dorman

Attach target Equipment to target creature. (Control of the Equipment doesn't change.)

Among the Vulshok, the most prized blades are those that killed their original owners.

Tahngarth, Talruum Hero (Planeshift)
Dave Dorman

Vigilance {1}{R}, {T}: Tahngarth deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to Tahngarth.

Fickle Efreet (Prophecy)
Dave Dorman

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, flip a coin at end of combat. If you lose the flip, an opponent gains control of this creature.

Flame chooses its own course.

Timberwatch Elf (Commander Anthology)
Dave Dorman

{T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Elves on the battlefield.

Even through the Mirari's voice, the elves still hear the call of their kinship.

Fireball (Premium Deck Series: Fire and Lightning)
Dave Dorman

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Nature's Revolt (Seventh Edition)
Dave Dorman

All lands are 2/2 creatures that are still lands.

The land rises up to defend against those who would spoil its beauty.

Aladdin's Ring (Seventh Edition)
Dave Dorman

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

Some say Aladdin's third wish was for this ring.

Vassal's Duty (Champions of Kamigawa)
Dave Dorman

{1}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to target legendary creature you control this turn is dealt to you instead.

"My life is yours, my lord. There is no greater service than to yield it for your safety."

Aspect of Mongoose (Time Spiral)
Dave Dorman

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Detonate (Mirrodin)
Dave Dorman

Destroy target artifact with mana value X. It can't be regenerated. Detonate deals X damage to that artifact's controller.

The goblins have forty-two different words for "ow."

Rune Snag (Coldsnap)
Dave Dorman

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2} plus an additional {2} for each card named Rune Snag in each graveyard.

"Concentration is key. Without it, a mage conjures nothing but a splitting headache." —Zur the Enchanter

Howl from Beyond (Seventh Edition)
Dave Dorman

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

Whether it howls for hunger or for joy, you're in trouble just the same.

Fireball (World Championship Decks 2004)
Dave Dorman

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

The spell fell upon the crowd like a dragon, ancient and full of death.

Spiketail Drakeling (Time Spiral Remastered)
Dave Dorman

Flying Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Drakelings fish with their tails, angling to snare succulent thoughts and memories on their psychic hooks.

Solar Tide (Mirrodin)
Dave Dorman

Choose one — • Destroy all creatures with power 2 or less. • Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater. Entwine—Sacrifice two lands. (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Timberwatch Elf (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins)
Dave Dorman

{T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Elves on the battlefield.

Even through the Mirari's voice, the elves still hear the call of their kinship.

Timberwatch Elf (Duel Decks Anthology: Elves vs. Goblins)
Dave Dorman

{T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Elves on the battlefield.

Even through the Mirari's voice, the elves still hear the call of their kinship.

Opaline Sliver (Time Spiral)
Dave Dorman

All Slivers have "Whenever this permanent becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, you may draw a card."

"When struck, its hide shimmers through sequences of color—a signaling language I am eager to unravel." —Rukarumel, field journal

Timberwatch Elf (Commander 2014)
Dave Dorman

{T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Elves on the battlefield.

Even through the Mirari's voice, the elves still hear the call of their kinship.

Detonate (The List)
Dave Dorman

Destroy target artifact with mana value X. It can't be regenerated. Detonate deals X damage to that artifact's controller.

The goblins have forty-two different words for "ow."

Battle Strain (Odyssey)
Dave Dorman

Whenever a creature blocks, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.

The pits swallow the weak as predators swallow prey.

Book Burning (Judgment)
Dave Dorman

Any player may have Book Burning deal 6 damage to them. If no one does, target player mills six cards.

The wizard's spellbook was full of burning questions.

Swallowing Plague (Champions of Kamigawa)
Dave Dorman

Swallowing Plague deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life.

"We are recalling all forces from the Takenuma Swamp. We lose men daily to kami attacks, and it seems our defeats only encourage them further." —General Takeno, letter to Lord Konda

Dimensional Breach (Scourge)
Dave Dorman

Exile all permanents. For as long as any of those cards remain exiled, at the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player returns one of the exiled cards they own to the battlefield.

Opaline Sliver (Secret Lair Drop)
Dave Dorman

All Slivers have "Whenever this permanent becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, you may draw a card."

"When struck, its hide shimmers through sequences of color—a signaling language I am eager to unravel." —Rukarumel, field journal

Flamewave Invoker (Tenth Edition)
Dave Dorman

{7}{R}: This creature deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Inside even the humblest goblin lurks the potential for far greater things—and far worse.

Shrapnel Blast (Mirrodin)
Dave Dorman

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact. Shrapnel Blast deals 5 damage to any target.

From trinket to trauma.

Fleeting Image (Seventh Edition)
Dave Dorman

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) {1}{U}: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

"It was as if we fought a shadow." —Onean soldier

Blockbuster (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Dave Dorman

{1}{R}, Sacrifice this enchantment: It deals 3 damage to each tapped creature and each player.

Vendors hung cords heavy with roots and laid out boxes of salted meat, unaware of the fiery disaster swiftly approaching.

Restrain (Invasion)
Dave Dorman

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking creature this turn. Draw a card.

"Hanna would give up her own life before she'd abandon the *Weatherlight*." —Sisay

Fireball (Darksteel)
Dave Dorman

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

The spell fell upon the crowd like a dragon, ancient and full of death.

Akroma's Devoted (Legions)
Dave Dorman

Cleric creatures have vigilance.

Akroma asked for only one thing from her troops: unwavering, unconditional loyalty.

Glory Seeker (Ninth Edition)
Dave Dorman

The turning of the tide always begins with one soldier's decision to head back into the fray.

Skirk Commando (Onslaught)
Dave Dorman

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may have it deal 2 damage to target creature that player controls. Morph {2}{R} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Larceny (Mercadian Masques)
Dave Dorman

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Whip Silk (The List)
Dave Dorman

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.) {G}: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.

Llanowar forges weapons of steel. Yavimaya grows her weapons within.

Glory Seeker (Eighth Edition)
Dave Dorman

The turning of the tide always begins with one soldier's decision to head back into the fray.

Glory Seeker (Onslaught)
Dave Dorman

The turning of the tide always begins with one soldier's decision to head back into the fray.

Rune Snag (Ultimate Masters)
Dave Dorman

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2} plus an additional {2} for each card named Rune Snag in each graveyard.

"Concentration is key. Without it, a mage conjures nothing but a splitting headache." —Zur the Enchanter

Brightflame (GRN Guild Kit)
Dave Dorman

Radiance — Brightflame deals X damage to target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

"Let the pyres of the unbelievers light our way." —Razia

Mogg Alarm (Nemesis)
Dave Dorman

You may sacrifice two Mountains rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

They make mountains into mogg holes.

Elemental (Shadowmoor Tokens)
Dave Dorman

Vizzerdrix (Seventh Edition)
Dave Dorman

A bored wizard once created a vizzerdrix out of a bunny and a piranha. He never made *that* mistake again.

Fleeting Image (Ninth Edition)
Dave Dorman

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) {1}{U}: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." —Aesop, *Fables*, trans. Jacobs

Renewed Faith (World Championship Decks 2003)
Dave Dorman

You gain 6 life. Cycling {1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may gain 2 life.

Flamewave Invoker (The List)
Dave Dorman

{7}{R}: This creature deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Inside even the humblest goblin lurks the potential for far greater things—and far worse.

Searing Meditation (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Dave Dorman

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, this enchantment deals 2 damage to any target.

"When I meditate I see the world as it should be. All that does not fit, I remove." —Alovnek, Boros guildmage

Brightflame (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Dave Dorman

Radiance — Brightflame deals X damage to target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

"Let the pyres of the unbelievers light our way." —Razia

Nagao, Bound by Honor (Champions of Kamigawa)
Dave Dorman

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever Nagao attacks, Samurai creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Char (15th Anniversary Cards)
Dave Dorman

Char deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

If you've never choked on the embers of your own spell, you aren't casting it hard enough.

Snapping Drake (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Dave Dorman

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

The irritable drakes are solitary nesters. Even brooding females barely contain the urge to attack their own young.

Jötun Owl Keeper (The List)
Dave Dorman

Cumulative upkeep {W} or {U} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying for each age counter on it.

Kjeldoran Javelineer (Coldsnap)
Dave Dorman

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.) {T}: This creature deals damage equal to the number of age counters on it to target attacking or blocking creature.

Dedicated Martyr (Odyssey)
Dave Dorman

{W}, Sacrifice this creature: You gain 3 life.

"If he's so willing to suffer for his cause, then by all means, let us oblige him." —Cabal Patriarch

Flamewave Invoker (Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra)
Dave Dorman

{7}{R}: This creature deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Inside even the humblest goblin lurks the potential for far greater things—and far worse.

Minotaur Explorer (Odyssey)
Dave Dorman

When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you discard a card at random.

After the invasion devastated the Talruum and Hurloon tribes, the survivors began to search for other minotaurs.

Impulsive Maneuvers (The List)
Dave Dorman

Whenever a creature attacks, flip a coin. If you win the flip, the next time that creature would deal combat damage this turn, it deals double that damage instead. If you lose the flip, the next time that creature would deal combat damage this turn, prevent that damage.

Shoving Match (Mercadian Masques)
Dave Dorman

Until end of turn, all creatures gain "{T}: Tap target creature."

Rishadan barkeeps know something the Mercadians have yet to learn: if you keep pushing, someone will eventually push back.

Snapping Drake (Tenth Edition)
Dave Dorman

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

The irritable drakes are solitary nesters. Even brooding females barely contain the urge to attack their own young.

Recoup (The List)
Dave Dorman

Target sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (Mana cost includes color.) Flashback {3}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Traveling Plague (Odyssey)
Dave Dorman

Enchant creature At the beginning of each upkeep, put a plague counter on this Aura. Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 for each plague counter on this Aura. When enchanted creature leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller returns this Aura from its owner's graveyard to the battlefield.

Mortipede (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Dave Dorman

{2}{G}: All creatures able to block this creature this turn do so.

Mortipede pheromones choke the streets with sickly sweetness, luring the rash and unwary into its waiting jaws.

Fireball (Magic 2011)
Dave Dorman

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Daru Spiritualist (The List)
Dave Dorman

Whenever a Cleric creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability, it gets +0/+2 until end of turn.

He lifts the spirits of his people so they may descend in wrath upon their foes.

Hanna, Ship's Navigator (Invasion)
Dave Dorman

{1}{W}{U}, {T}: Return target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I never thought I'd spend my life fighting. I'm a maker, not a destroyer."

Wirewood Pride (Game Night: Free-for-All)
Dave Dorman

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Elves on the battlefield.

"Though you may leave this haven we have found, may our strength never leave you."

Flamewave Invoker (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins)
Dave Dorman

{7}{R}: This creature deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Inside even the humblest goblin lurks the potential for far greater things—and far worse.

Searing Meditation (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Dave Dorman

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, this enchantment deals 2 damage to any target.

"When I meditate I see the world as it should be. All that does not fit, I remove." —Alovnek, Boros guildmage

Flamewave Invoker (Duel Decks Anthology: Elves vs. Goblins)
Dave Dorman

{7}{R}: This creature deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Inside even the humblest goblin lurks the potential for far greater things—and far worse.

Wanderer's Twig (Lorwyn)
Dave Dorman

{1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

For every tree who falls, there are countless sprouts waiting to rise.

Fireball (Commander 2013)
Dave Dorman

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Richard Garfield, Ph.D. (Unhinged)
Dave Dorman

You may play cards as though they were other cards of your choice with the same mana cost. You can't choose the same card twice. (Mana cost includes color.)

And yea he doth spake: "Let there be Magic."

Savage Firecat (Odyssey)
Dave Dorman

Trample This creature enters with seven +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever you tap a land for mana, remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature.

Recoup (Odyssey)
Dave Dorman

Target sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (Mana cost includes color.) Flashback {3}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Ball Lightning (Mystery Booster 2)
Dave Dorman

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

Kami of Fire's Roar (Champions of Kamigawa)
Dave Dorman

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target creature can't block this turn.

"I can hear the shamans chanting in the hills. They say their magic will protect us from the kami, that our gold has bought our safety. But no one sleeps soundly tonight." —Scroll fragment from the ruins of Reito

Fireball (Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra)
Dave Dorman

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

The spell fell upon the crowd like a dragon, ancient and full of death.

Dispersal Shield (Scourge)
Dave Dorman

Counter target spell if its mana value is less than or equal to the highest mana value among permanents you control.

"Maybe next time."

Spiketail Drakeling (Time Spiral)
Dave Dorman

Flying Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Drakelings fish with their tails, angling to snare succulent thoughts and memories on their psychic hooks.

Myr Prototype (Mirrodin)
Dave Dorman

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This creature can't attack or block unless you pay {1} for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Knollspine Invocation (Shadowmoor)
Dave Dorman

{X}, Discard a card with mana value X: This enchantment deals X damage to any target.

Witches tempted by the power of flame gathered to study in the ruins of Spinerock Knoll.

Grizzly Fate (Judgment)
Dave Dorman

Create two 2/2 green Bear creature tokens. Threshold — Create four 2/2 green Bear creature tokens instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard. Flashback {5}{G}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Cephalid Broker (Odyssey)
Dave Dorman

{T}: Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards.

Cephalids value the free exchange of ideas—except for the "free" part.

Blind with Anger (Champions of Kamigawa)
Dave Dorman

Untap target nonlegendary creature and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn.

"I can post only the most honorable and strong-willed samurai to defend your stronghold. I have seen what can happen to lesser men." —General Takeno, letter to Lord Konda

Diabolic Intent (Planeshift)
Dave Dorman

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Richard Garfield, Ph.D. (Unhinged)
Dave Dorman

You may play cards as though they were other cards of your choice with the same mana cost. You can't choose the same card twice. (Mana cost includes color.)

And yea he doth spake: "Let there be Magic."

Rabid Elephant (Odyssey)
Dave Dorman

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

When in doubt, stomp.