Steam Augury

Steam Augury (Theros)
Dave Kendall

Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Keranos is a fickle god, delivering punishment as readily as prophecy.

Steam Augury (Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning)
Dave Kendall

Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Keranos is a fickle god, delivering punishment as readily as prophecy.

Lightning Mauler (Innistrad Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as this creature is paired with another creature, both creatures have haste.

Watchwolf (Masters 25)
Dave Kendall

Only in Ravnica do the wolves watch the flock.

Wildslayer Elves (Shadowmoor)
Dave Kendall

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Some elves battled too long in the deep shadow, their swords dipped too often in tainted flesh and poisoned blood.

Phyrexian Processor (From the Vault: Lore)
Dave Kendall

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

Hollowhenge Beast (Dark Ascension)
Dave Kendall

In a world of monsters, it's the stuff of nightmares.

Ruthless Disposal (Jumpstart 2022)
Dave Kendall

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card and sacrifice a creature. Two target creatures each get -13/-13 until end of turn.

"Do try to pull your weight, Geralf. I feel like I'm doing everything." —Ghoulcaller Gisa

Rakdos Cackler (Friday Night Magic 2013)
Dave Kendall

Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Devil-blades and dripping blood make music Rakdos never tires of hearing.

Necromantic Selection (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Dave Kendall

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

It shambled from the cloud of ash and bone dust, undeterred by its own extinction.

Shrine of Burning Rage (New Phyrexia)
Dave Kendall

At the beginning of your upkeep and whenever you cast a red spell, put a charge counter on this artifact. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to any target.

Rise from the Tides (Shadows over Innistrad)
Dave Kendall

Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

"Dear brother, it's sweet that you have chosen to share your toys with Ludevic, but I too have found some new playmates." —Ghoulcaller Gisa

Grisly Salvage (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Dave Kendall

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

To the Golgari, anything buried is treasure.

Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund (The List)
Dave Kendall

Flying, haste When Karrthus enters, gain control of all Dragons, then untap all Dragons. Other Dragon creatures you control have haste.

Diregraf Ghoul (Foundations)
Dave Kendall

This creature enters tapped.

"At least this one still has arms and legs. Well, most of its legs." —Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Trace of Abundance (Alara Reborn)
Dave Kendall

Enchant land Enchanted land has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Sentry of the Underworld (Theros)
Dave Kendall

Flying, vigilance {W}{B}, Pay 3 life: Regenerate this creature.

When Athreos gathers the newly dead to be ferried across the Five Rivers That Ring the World, he sends skeletal griffins to fetch those who stray.

Grenzo's Rebuttal (Conspiracy)
Dave Kendall

Create a 4/4 red Ogre creature token. Starting with you, each player chooses an artifact, a creature, and a land from among the permanents controlled by the player to their left. Destroy each permanent chosen this way.

Rottenheart Ghoul (Shadows over Innistrad)
Dave Kendall

When this creature dies, target player discards a card.

"To die failing to save a loved one is just so sad—or, more to the point, pathetic." —Liliana Vess

Ruthless Disposal (Eldritch Moon)
Dave Kendall

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card and sacrifice a creature. Two target creatures each get -13/-13 until end of turn.

"Do try to pull your weight, Geralf. I feel like I'm doing everything." —Ghoulcaller Gisa

Thornweald Archer (Eternal Masters)
Dave Kendall

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Their arrows are tipped with basilisk eyes and fletched with cockatrice feathers.

Calciderm (DCI Promos)
Dave Kendall

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Vanishing 4 (This creature enters with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)

Bladestitched Skaab (Innistrad Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Other Zombies you control get +1/+0.

The surviving militia members reunited with their fallen comrades sooner than they'd hoped.

Mountain (Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters)
Dave Kendall

({T}: Add {R}.)

Zombie (Planechase Anthology Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Carnage Wurm (Magic 2012)
Dave Kendall

Bloodthirst 3 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.) Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Necropotence (From the Vault: Exiled)
Dave Kendall

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Minion (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Phyrexian Processor (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Dave Kendall

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

Insatiable Souleater (New Phyrexia)
Dave Kendall

{G/P}: This creature gains trample until end of turn. ({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.)

"We thank the souleaters for culling our sick so that the strong may earn their triumphs." —Drones' hymn of gratitude

Crypt Ripper (Zendikar)
Dave Kendall

Haste {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

The tender light of the living quickens the pulse of the dead.

Prey Upon (Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters)
Dave Kendall

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"You don't find many old werewolf hunters." —Paulin, trapper of Somberwald

Crumbling Necropolis (New Capenna Commander)
Dave Kendall

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

"They say the ruins of Sedraxis were once a shining capital in Vithia. Now it is a blight, a place to be avoided by the living." —Olcot, Rider of Joffik

Crumbling Necropolis (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Dave Kendall

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

"They say the ruins of Sedraxis were once a shining capital in Vithia. Now it is a blight, a place to be avoided by the living." —Olcot, Rider of Joffik

Psychotrope Thallid (Planar Chaos)
Dave Kendall

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature. Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. {1}, Sacrifice a Saproling: Draw a card.

Lightning Mauler (Avacyn Restored)
Dave Kendall

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as this creature is paired with another creature, both creatures have haste.

Feast on the Fallen (Magic 2015)
Dave Kendall

At the beginning of each upkeep, if an opponent lost life last turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

"As our numbers dwindle, the ranks of the dead grow ever stronger." —Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Synthetic Destiny (Kaldheim Commander)
Dave Kendall

Exile all creatures you control. At the beginning of the next end step, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal that many creature cards, put all creature cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then shuffle the rest of the revealed cards into your library.

To Jin-Gitaxias, perfection is not a goal, but a process.

Drunau Corpse Trawler (Shadows over Innistrad)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. {2}{B}: Target Zombie gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Seagrafs yield an abundance of resources for stitchers and ghoulcallers alike.

Intervention Pact (Future Sight)
Dave Kendall

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {1}{W}{W}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Sandstorm Charger (The List)
Dave Kendall

Megamorph {4}{W} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

"May our foes choke upon its horns!" —Urdnan, Dromoka warrior

Planewide Disaster (Planechase 2012 Planes)
Dave Kendall

When you encounter Planewide Disaster, destroy all creatures. (Then planeswalk away from this phenomenon.)

Gruul Ragebeast (Gatecrash)
Dave Kendall

Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, that creature fights target creature an opponent controls.

"If the other guilds want a war, they should know we've been ready the whole time." —Ruric Thar, Ghor-Clan chieftain

Cadaver Imp (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Dave Kendall

Flying When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The mouth must be pried open before rigor mortis sets in. Otherwise the returning soul can find no ingress.

Zombie (Innistrad: Crimson Vow Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Hallowed Burial (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Dave Kendall

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries.

"I'd rather hear the screams of battle than the quiet that follows." —Talara, elvish safewright

Gavony (Planechase Anthology Planes)
Dave Kendall

All creatures have vigilance. Whenever chaos ensues, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Nested Ghoul (Mirrodin Besieged)
Dave Kendall

Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, create a 2/2 black Phyrexian Zombie creature token.

"The chest cavity is cleared of useless meat. I know just what to do with the space." —Gyed, Vault Priest

Shambling Ghast (The List)
Dave Kendall

When this creature dies, choose one — • Target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn. • Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Goblin Piledriver (Judge Gift Cards 2008)
Dave Kendall

Protection from blue (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything blue.) Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking Goblin.

Stitched Mangler (Innistrad Remastered)
Dave Kendall

This creature enters tapped. When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Undead Executioner (Avacyn Restored)
Dave Kendall

When this creature dies, you may have target creature get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Heartless killer in life, brainless killer in death.

Gravelgill Axeshark (Shadowmoor)
Dave Kendall

Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

"Their sharp scales would make good armor, if they'd just stay dead." —Taeryn, cinder armorkeep

The Pit (March of the Machine Commander)
Dave Kendall

When you planeswalk to The Pit, each player creates their choice of a 3/3 white Angel creature token with flying or a 6/6 black Demon creature token with flying, trample, and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice another creature. If you can't, this token deals 6 damage to you." Whenever chaos ensues, each player sacrifices a nonartifact creature of their choice.

Thornweald Archer (Duel Decks: Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis)
Dave Kendall

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Their arrows are tipped with basilisk eyes and fletched with cockatrice feathers.

Skullcrack (Ravnica Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Players can't gain life this turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn. Skullcrack deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.

The lawmage's argument was clever and well reasoned, but Blunk's response proved irrefutable.

Bladestitched Skaab (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Dave Kendall

Other Zombies you control get +1/+0.

The surviving militia members reunited with their fallen comrades sooner than they'd hoped.

Spineseeker Centipede (Duskmourn: House of Horror)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Delirium — This creature gets +1/+2 and has vigilance as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Grisly Salvage (The List)
Dave Kendall

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

To the Golgari, anything buried is treasure.

Prey Upon (Eldritch Moon)
Dave Kendall

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

The Somberwald has become a hunting ground for the Dronepack, the group of werewolves that have succumbed to the flesh-twisting power of Emrakul.

The Fourth Sphere (Planechase Anthology Planes)
Dave Kendall

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a nonblack creature. Whenever chaos ensues, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Mercy Killing (The List)
Dave Kendall

Target creature's controller sacrifices it, then creates X 1/1 green and white Elf Warrior creature tokens, where X is that creature's power.

"We will give you the peace you seek, though you may not yet know you seek it."

Tidewalker (Planar Chaos)
Dave Kendall

This creature enters with a time counter on it for each Island you control. Vanishing (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from this creature. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) Tidewalker's power and toughness are each equal to the number of time counters on it.

Foul-Tongue Shriek (Dragons of Tarkir)
Dave Kendall

Target opponent loses 1 life for each attacking creature you control. You gain that much life.

Foul-Tongue shamans draw their powers from a dark twisting of the Draconic language.

Collective Brutality (Innistrad Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Escalate—Discard a card. (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.) Choose one or more — • Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it. That player discards that card. • Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. • Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Mountain (Planechase)
Dave Kendall

({T}: Add {R}.)

Arboria (Dominaria Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Creatures can't attack a player unless that player cast a spell or put a nontoken permanent onto the battlefield during their last turn.

"I have never before felt so unwelcome in a forest." —Jolrael

Necromantic Selection (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Dave Kendall

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

It shambled from the cloud of ash and bone dust, undeterred by its own extinction.

Flooded Grove (Bloomburrow Commander)
Dave Kendall

{T}: Add {C}. {G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

At full moon, the river seeps over its banks and crawls through the woods like a blanket of serpents.

Goblin (Eternal Masters Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Cleaver Riot (Duel Decks: Merfolk vs. Goblins)
Dave Kendall

Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. (They deal both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Measure once, cut twice.

Demon (Battle for Baldur's Gate Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Defeat (The List)
Dave Kendall

Destroy target creature with power 2 or less.

"Wars are decided one life at a time." —Gvar Barzeel, Kolaghan warrior

Diregraf Ghoul (Core Set 2019)
Dave Kendall

This creature enters tapped.

"At least this one still has arms and legs. Well, most of its legs." —Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Scourge of Skola Vale (Born of the Gods)
Dave Kendall

Trample This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Put a number of +1/+1 counters on this creature equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Cadaver Imp (Commander Masters)
Dave Kendall

Flying When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The mouth must be pried open before rigor mortis sets in. Otherwise the returning soul can find no ingress.

Guise of Fire (Avacyn Restored)
Dave Kendall

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 and attacks each combat if able.

"Fire will eventually destroy a zombie, but a fiery zombie destroys a lot of other things first." —Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors

Goblin Bombardment (The List)
Dave Kendall

Sacrifice a creature: This enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

With one motion, a pest is removed and a scourge inflicted.

Fleshformer (Conflux)
Dave Kendall

{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: This creature gets +2/+2 and gains fear until end of turn. Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Activate only during your turn. (A creature with fear can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Necromancers who discovered the new sources of mana were quick to dream up new nightmares with them.

Blackcleave Cliffs (Scars of Mirrodin)
Dave Kendall

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

Where the Oxidda Chain mingles with the Mephidross, oil-suffused metal crumbles away, leaving walls of blackened bones.

Caravan Hurda (Zendikar)
Dave Kendall

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

"Not too bright, but good enough for the job required—carrying and walking in a straight line." —Bruse Tarl, Goma Fada nomad

Magnigoth Sentry (Dominaria United)
Dave Kendall

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

When one of Yavimaya's enormous magnigoth trees awakens into a treefolk, it is a towering presence of physical strength and ancient wisdom.

Mire Blight (Zendikar)
Dave Kendall

Enchant creature When enchanted creature is dealt damage, destroy it.

"Is there anything in Guul Draz that *doesn't* suck the life out of you?" —Tarsa, Sea Gate sell-sword

Scourge Devil (Shards of Alara)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn. Unearth {2}{R} ({2}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Goblin (Tenth Edition Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Balduvian Fallen (Coldsnap)
Dave Kendall

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.) Whenever this creature's cumulative upkeep is paid, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each {B} or {R} spent this way.

Goblin Bombardment (Modern Horizons 2)
Dave Kendall

Sacrifice a creature: This enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

With one motion, a pest is removed and a scourge inflicted.

Brave the Sands (Commander 2016)
Dave Kendall

Creatures you control have vigilance. Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.

Enduring the most desolate and dangerous conditions, Abzan sentries unfailingly guard the stronghold gates.

Goblin Bombardment (Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning)
Dave Kendall

Sacrifice a creature: This enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

With one motion, a pest is removed and a scourge inflicted.

Stitched Mangler (Shadows over Innistrad)
Dave Kendall

This creature enters tapped. When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Giant Ankheg (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Dave Kendall

Trample Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) Other creatures you control have trample and ward {2}.

Stonehorn Dignitary (The List)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, target opponent skips their next combat phase.

It did not escape the ambassador's notice that the sound of war drums could also marshal the city to attention.

Thornweald Archer (The List)
Dave Kendall

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Their arrows are tipped with basilisk eyes and fletched with cockatrice feathers.

Gruul War Chant (The List)
Dave Kendall

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0 and have menace.

"We are the heart of the wild, the fire in its eyes, and the howl in its throat. Come, join the battle to which you were born." —Kroshkar, Gruul shaman

Sulfur Elemental (Time Spiral Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Flash Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) White creatures get +1/-1.

Unbreathing Horde (Innistrad)
Dave Kendall

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie you control and each Zombie card in your graveyard. If this creature would be dealt damage, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

Zombie (Shards of Alara Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Bladestitched Skaab (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt)
Dave Kendall

Other Zombies you control get +1/+0.

The surviving militia members reunited with their fallen comrades sooner than they'd hoped.

Inexorable Tide (Scars of Mirrodin)
Dave Kendall

Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"See how gratefully this world accepts our blessings." —Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Plains (Shadowmoor)
Dave Kendall

({T}: Add {W}.)

Stalker Hag (Eventide)
Dave Kendall

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

Her hunt is silent until a bone snaps or flesh tears. Her victims never know to scream.

Grisly Salvage (Return to Ravnica)
Dave Kendall

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

To the Golgari, anything buried is treasure.

Pine Walker (Khans of Tarkir)
Dave Kendall

Morph {4}{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.) Whenever this creature or another creature you control is turned face up, untap that creature.

Deathforge Shaman (Conspiracy)
Dave Kendall

Multikicker {R} (You may pay an additional {R} any number of times as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, it deals damage to target player or planeswalker equal to twice the number of times it was kicked.

Tear Asunder (Bloomburrow Commander)
Dave Kendall

Kicker {1}{B} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} as you cast this spell.) Exile target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, exile target nonland permanent instead.

No one knew why the spiritmongers were so enraged by Phyrexian technology, but it was a stroke of good luck for the Coalition.

Thornweald Archer (Game Night: Free-for-All)
Dave Kendall

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Their arrows are tipped with basilisk eyes and fletched with cockatrice feathers.

Tear Asunder (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Dave Kendall

Kicker {1}{B} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} as you cast this spell.) Exile target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, exile target nonland permanent instead.

No one knew why the spiritmongers were so enraged by Phyrexian technology, but it was a stroke of good luck for the Coalition.

Grisly Salvage (Commander 2018)
Dave Kendall

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

To the Golgari, anything buried is treasure.

Leatherback Baloth (Worldwake)
Dave Kendall

Heavy enough to withstand the Roil, leatherback skeletons are havens for travelers in storms and landshifts.

Unbreathing Horde (Starter Commander Decks)
Dave Kendall

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie you control and each Zombie card in your graveyard. If this creature would be dealt damage, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

Gruul War Chant (Modern Masters 2017)
Dave Kendall

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0 and have menace.

"We are the heart of the wild, the fire in its eyes, and the howl in its throat. Come, join the battle to which you were born." —Kroshkar, Gruul shaman

Prey Upon (Ultimate Masters)
Dave Kendall

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"You don't find many old werewolf hunters." —Paulin, trapper of Somberwald

Silumgar Spell-Eater (Dragons of Tarkir)
Dave Kendall

Megamorph {4}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Sanguimancy (Born of the Gods)
Dave Kendall

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Diregraf Ghoul (The List)
Dave Kendall

This creature enters tapped.

"At least this one still has arms and legs. Well, most of its legs." —Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Pillar of Flame (Friday Night Magic 2012)
Dave Kendall

Pillar of Flame deals 2 damage to any target. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

"May the worthy spend an eternity in Blessed Sleep. May the wicked find the peace of oblivion."

Trace of Abundance (Secret Lair Drop)
Dave Kendall

Enchant land Enchanted land has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Leatherback Baloth (The List)
Dave Kendall

Heavy enough to withstand the Roil, leatherback skeletons are havens for travelers in storms and landshifts.

Oil-Gorger Troll (Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, you gain 3 life. Then if you control a permanent with an oil counter on it, draw a card.

Metal or flesh, it didn't matter—seasoned with ichor, it all tasted so good.

Grisly Salvage (GRN Guild Kit)
Dave Kendall

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

To the Golgari, anything buried is treasure.

Calciderm (Planar Chaos)
Dave Kendall

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Vanishing 4 (This creature enters with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)

Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund (Commander's Arsenal Oversized)
Dave Kendall

Flying, haste When Karrthus enters, gain control of all Dragons, then untap all Dragons. Other Dragon creatures you control have haste.

Thornweald Archer (Time Spiral Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Their arrows are tipped with basilisk eyes and fletched with cockatrice feathers.

Tear Asunder (The List)
Dave Kendall

Kicker {1}{B} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} as you cast this spell.) Exile target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, exile target nonland permanent instead.

No one knew why the spiritmongers were so enraged by Phyrexian technology, but it was a stroke of good luck for the Coalition.

Arctic Nishoba (Coldsnap)
Dave Kendall

Trample Cumulative upkeep {G} or {W} (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, you gain 2 life for each age counter on it.

Flooded Grove (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Dave Kendall

{T}: Add {C}. {G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

At full moon, the river seeps over its banks and crawls through the woods like a blanket of serpents.

Tireless Missionaries (Magic 2015)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, you gain 3 life.

If they succeed in their holy work, their order will vanish into welcome obscurity, for there will be no more souls to redeem.

Goblin (Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Gavony (Planechase 2012 Planes)
Dave Kendall

All creatures have vigilance. Whenever chaos ensues, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Shivan Sand-Mage (Future Sight)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, choose one — • Remove two time counters from target permanent or suspended card. • Put two time counters on target permanent with a time counter on it or suspended card. Suspend 4—{R}

Goblin Rogue (Modern Masters Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Hallowed Burial (Eventide)
Dave Kendall

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries.

"I'd rather hear the screams of battle than the quiet that follows." —Talara, elvish safewright

Bloodcrazed Neonate (Wizards Play Network 2011)
Dave Kendall

This creature attacks each combat if able. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

While elder vampires select their meals with care, the newly sired frenzy at the first whiff.

Goblin (Modern Masters Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Steam Augury (Commander 2015)
Dave Kendall

Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Keranos is a fickle god, delivering punishment as readily as prophecy.

Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund (Double Masters)
Dave Kendall

Flying, haste When Karrthus enters, gain control of all Dragons, then untap all Dragons. Other Dragon creatures you control have haste.

Necromantic Selection (Zendikar Rising Commander)
Dave Kendall

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

It shambled from the cloud of ash and bone dust, undeterred by its own extinction.

Vithian Stinger (Shards of Alara)
Dave Kendall

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. Unearth {1}{R} ({1}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Brave the Sands (Khans of Tarkir)
Dave Kendall

Creatures you control have vigilance. Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.

Enduring the most desolate and dangerous conditions, Abzan sentries unfailingly guard the stronghold gates.

Glissa's Courier (Mirrodin Besieged)
Dave Kendall

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

"So, the survivors from Oxid Ridge are on the move. Let them come and witness predation in its purest form." —Glissa

Mutagenic Growth (Modern Masters 2015)
Dave Kendall

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.) Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"Sympathy is for weaklings. Whoever survives, wins." —Benzir, archdruid of Temple Might

Foxfire Oak (Shadowmoor)
Dave Kendall

{R/G}{R/G}{R/G}: This creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

"The brethren shall blaze with unnatural fire, and the flame shall consume and purify our rage." —Treefolk catastrophe myth

Tribute to Hunger (Innistrad)
Dave Kendall

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Marella was delighted. The ball had attracted so many suitors for her daughter, including that handsome stranger. She wondered where the two were now . . . .

Pillar of Flame (Jumpstart 2022)
Dave Kendall

Pillar of Flame deals 2 damage to any target. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

May the worthy spend an eternity in Blessed Sleep. May the wicked find the peace of oblivion.

Prey Upon (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Dave Kendall

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"You don't find many old werewolf hunters." —Paulin, trapper of Somberwald

Widespread Panic (Commander 2013)
Dave Kendall

Whenever a spell or ability causes its controller to shuffle their library, that player puts a card from their hand on top of their library.

"How thin is the veneer of civilization! A modest measure of panic will wash it off completely." —Guard Erdrud of An Karras

Necromantic Selection (Commander 2017)
Dave Kendall

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

It shambled from the cloud of ash and bone dust, undeterred by its own extinction.

Ghoulcaller's Accomplice (Jumpstart)
Dave Kendall

{3}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.

"Once in the box, we're all the same."

Grisly Salvage (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Dave Kendall

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

To the Golgari, anything buried is treasure.

Pestilent Kathari (Conflux)
Dave Kendall

Flying Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) {2}{R}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Rise from the Tides (Innistrad Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

"Dear brother, it's sweet that you have chosen to share your toys with Ludevic, but I too have found some new playmates." —Ghoulcaller Gisa

Pillar of Flame (Jumpstart)
Dave Kendall

Pillar of Flame deals 2 damage to any target. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

May the worthy spend an eternity in Blessed Sleep. May the wicked find the peace of oblivion.

Stonehorn Dignitary (Magic 2012)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, target opponent skips their next combat phase.

It did not escape the ambassador's notice that the sound of war drums could also marshal the city to attention.

Goblin (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Silumgar Butcher (The List)
Dave Kendall

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

Silumgar takes pride in the diversity of his sibsig.

Phyrexian Processor (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Dave Kendall

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

Flooded Grove (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Dave Kendall

{T}: Add {C}. {G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

At full moon, the river seeps over its banks and crawls through the woods like a blanket of serpents.

Lightning Mauler (The List)
Dave Kendall

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as this creature is paired with another creature, both creatures have haste.

Gruul War Chant (Dragon's Maze)
Dave Kendall

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0 and have menace.

"We are the heart of the wild, the fire in its eyes, and the howl in its throat. Come, join the battle to which you were born." —Kroshkar, Gruul shaman

Cadaver Imp (Planechase 2012)
Dave Kendall

Flying When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The mouth must be pried open before rigor mortis sets in. Otherwise the returning soul can find no ingress.

Lavafume Invoker (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Dave Kendall

{8}: Creatures you control get +3/+0 until end of turn.

"Then the ancient masters themselves, towers of rapacity, rose and began their calamitous feast." —*The Invokers' Tales*

Thornweald Archer (Foundations Jumpstart)
Dave Kendall

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Their arrows are tipped with basilisk eyes and fletched with cockatrice feathers.

Slavering Nulls (Worldwake)
Dave Kendall

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if you control a Swamp, you may have that player discard a card.

Having lost their minds, they now want yours.

Wrath of God (Dominaria Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Each side prayed for the gods to smite the other. In the end, all their prayers were answered.

Slinking Giant (Shadowmoor)
Dave Kendall

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

"I need a better hiding place."

Shiv's Embrace (Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons)
Dave Kendall

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

Scourge Devil (Modern Masters 2017)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn. Unearth {2}{R} ({2}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Molten Ravager (Jumpstart)
Dave Kendall

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

"Only the foolhardy would venture into the Akoum Mountains without a lullmage to tame the raging rocks and living fires." —Sachir, Akoum Expeditionary House

Savage Silhouette (Zendikar)
Dave Kendall

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has "{1}{G}: Regenerate this creature."

Some elves believe that their survival instincts are born of many cycles of reincarnation.

Skullcrack (Ravnica Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Players can't gain life this turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn. Skullcrack deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.

The lawmage's argument was clever and well reasoned, but Blunk's response proved irrefutable.

Cadaver Imp (Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi)
Dave Kendall

Flying When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The mouth must be pried open before rigor mortis sets in. Otherwise the returning soul can find no ingress.

Steam Augury (Theros)
Dave Kendall

Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Keranos is a fickle god, delivering punishment as readily as prophecy.

Bonepicker Skirge (Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
Dave Kendall

Flying Corrupted — As long as an opponent has three or more poison counters, this creature has deathtouch and lifelink.

"Get away from there! I must rebuild that one for the next bout. Shoo, shoo!" —Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor

Rooftop Storm (Innistrad Remastered)
Dave Kendall

You may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for Zombie creature spells you cast.

"What nature creates cannot be unnatural!" —"Doctor" Zilky Grebbs

Antler Skulkin (Eventide)
Dave Kendall

{2}: Target white creature gains persist until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Every skull has a tale to tell, and a skulkin is many dire tales cobbled together.

Spell Queller (Innistrad Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Flash Flying When this creature enters, exile target spell with mana value 4 or less. When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

Molten Ravager (Zendikar)
Dave Kendall

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

"Only the foolhardy would venture into the Akoum Mountains without a lullmage to tame the raging rocks and living fires." —Sachir, Akoum Expeditionary House

Sea Gate Loremaster (Zendikar)
Dave Kendall

{T}: Draw a card for each Ally you control.

"He's a living library. He remembers everything our band of explorers has seen, and we can use that to our advantage." —Zahr Gada, Halimar expedition leader

Goblin (Commander Anthology Volume II Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Slavering Nulls (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Dave Kendall

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if you control a Swamp, you may have that player discard a card.

Having lost their minds, they now want yours.

Venom Sliver (Magic 2015)
Dave Kendall

Sliver creatures you control have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

"We attacked with arrows dipped in poison. The slivers that did not die began to change." —Hastric, Thunian scout

Watchwolf (Friday Night Magic 2009)
Dave Kendall

Only in Ravnica do the wolves watch the flock.

Mutagenic Growth (New Phyrexia)
Dave Kendall

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.) Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"Sympathy is for weaklings. Whoever survives, wins." —Benzir, archdruid of Temple Might

Tribute to Hunger (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
Dave Kendall

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Marella was delighted. The ball had attracted so many suitors for her daughter, including that handsome stranger. She wondered where the two were now . . . .

Batterhorn (Return to Ravnica)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact.

Novice shopkeeps spend hours deciding how best to display their wares. Veterans focus on portability.

Ogre (Conspiracy Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Vampires' Vengeance (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Dave Kendall

Vampires' Vengeance deals 2 damage to each non-Vampire creature. Create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

She was ghastly, chalkily pale; the red seemed to have gone even from her lips and gums, and the bones of her face stood out prominently; her breathing was painful to see or hear.

One-Eyed Scarecrow (Innistrad)
Dave Kendall

Defender Creatures with flying your opponents control get -1/-0.

Farmhands and priests mutter curses at the ragged thing; it unnerves more than just the crows.

Diver Skaab (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Dave Kendall

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, target creature's owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

It doesn't need to breathe, but the suit does help keep the parts together.

Kneel Before My Legions (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Dave Kendall

When you set this scheme in motion, choose one — • Create a 4/4 colorless Scarecrow artifact creature token with vigilance. • Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain vigilance and trample until end of turn.

"You wish to beg for mercy? Save your breath for screaming."

Soul Tithe (Return to Ravnica)
Dave Kendall

Enchant nonland permanent At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted permanent's controller, that player sacrifices it unless they pay {X}, where X is its mana value.

Rise from the Tides (Ultimate Masters)
Dave Kendall

Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

"Dear brother, it's sweet that you have chosen to share your toys with Ludevic, but I too have found some new playmates." —Ghoulcaller Gisa

Mountain (Shadowmoor)
Dave Kendall

({T}: Add {R}.)

Pashalik Mons (Dominaria Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Whenever Pashalik Mons or another Goblin you control dies, Pashalik Mons deals 1 damage to any target. {3}{R}, Sacrifice a Goblin: Create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

The thunderhead that leads in the storm.

Sword of the Squeak (Bloomburrow Commander)
Dave Kendall

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each creature you control with base power or toughness 1. Whenever a Hamster, Mouse, Rat, or Squirrel you control enters, you may attach this Equipment to that creature. Equip {2}

Plains (Planechase)
Dave Kendall

({T}: Add {W}.)

Thornweald Archer (Future Sight)
Dave Kendall

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Their arrows are tipped with basilisk eyes and fletched with cockatrice feathers.

Ghoulcaller's Accomplice (Ultimate Masters)
Dave Kendall

{3}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.

"Once in the box, we're all the same."

Crumbling Necropolis (Commander 2017)
Dave Kendall

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

"They say the ruins of Sedraxis were once a shining capital in Vithia. Now it is a blight, a place to be avoided by the living." —Olcot, Rider of Joffik

Rise from the Tides (Game Night 2019)
Dave Kendall

Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

"Dear brother, it's sweet that you have chosen to share your toys with Ludevic, but I too have found some new playmates." —Ghoulcaller Gisa

Murasa Behemoth (Modern Horizons)
Dave Kendall

Trample This creature gets +3/+3 as long as there is a land card in your graveyard.

The loss of its hunting grounds made it all the more dangerous.

Cadaver Imp (Planechase Anthology)
Dave Kendall

Flying When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The mouth must be pried open before rigor mortis sets in. Otherwise the returning soul can find no ingress.

Mindshrieker (Innistrad)
Dave Kendall

Flying {2}: Target player mills a card. This creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the milled card's mana value.

Drowned Catacomb (Aetherdrift Commander)
Dave Kendall

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Stonehorn Dignitary (Time Spiral Remastered)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, target opponent skips their next combat phase.

It did not escape the ambassador's notice that the sound of war drums could also marshal the city to attention.

Thornweald Archer (Commander Anthology)
Dave Kendall

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Their arrows are tipped with basilisk eyes and fletched with cockatrice feathers.

Shivan Sand-Mage (Time Spiral Remastered)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, choose one — • Remove two time counters from target permanent or suspended card. • Put two time counters on target permanent with a time counter on it or suspended card. Suspend 4—{R}

Gruul War Chant (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Dave Kendall

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0 and have menace.

"We are the heart of the wild, the fire in its eyes, and the howl in its throat. Come, join the battle to which you were born." —Kroshkar, Gruul shaman

Necropotence (Eternal Masters)
Dave Kendall

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Magnigoth Sentry (Foundations)
Dave Kendall

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

When one of Yavimaya's enormous magnigoth trees awakens into a treefolk, it is a towering presence of physical strength and ancient wisdom.

Thornweald Archer (Foundations)
Dave Kendall

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Their arrows are tipped with basilisk eyes and fletched with cockatrice feathers.

Diver Skaab (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Dave Kendall

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, target creature's owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

It doesn't need to breathe, but the suit does help keep the parts together.

Defeat (Dragons of Tarkir)
Dave Kendall

Destroy target creature with power 2 or less.

"Wars are decided one life at a time." —Gvar Barzeel, Kolaghan warrior

Illusionary Servant (Magic 2010)
Dave Kendall

Flying When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

"Illusion is a handy but fragile medium. Use it only in a pinch, or against the dim-witted." —Jace Beleren

Phyrexian Processor (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition)
Dave Kendall

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

Nightfire Giant (The List)
Dave Kendall

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Mountain. {4}{R}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target.

Nightfire turns the greatest weakness of the undead into formidable strength.

Drowned Catacomb (Magic 2013)
Dave Kendall

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Planewide Disaster (March of the Machine Commander)
Dave Kendall

When you encounter Planewide Disaster, destroy all creatures. (Then planeswalk away from this phenomenon.)

Shiv's Embrace (Magic 2014)
Dave Kendall

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

When you see the world as a dragon sees it, everything looks fit to burn.

Ghoulcaller's Accomplice (Shadows over Innistrad)
Dave Kendall

{3}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.

"Once in the box, we're all the same."

Sulfur Elemental (Planar Chaos)
Dave Kendall

Flash Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) White creatures get +1/-1.

Typhoid Rats (Fate Reforged)
Dave Kendall

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

When Tasigur sent his ambassadors to the Abzan outpost, the true envoys were not the naga but the infectious rats they carried with them.

Sword of the Squeak (Bloomburrow Commander)
Dave Kendall

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each creature you control with base power or toughness 1. Whenever a Hamster, Mouse, Rat, or Squirrel you control enters, you may attach this Equipment to that creature. Equip {2}

Vithian Stinger (Modern Masters 2017)
Dave Kendall

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. Unearth {1}{R} ({1}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Crumbling Necropolis (Shards of Alara)
Dave Kendall

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

"They say the ruins of Sedraxis were once a shining capital in Vithia. Now it is a blight, a place to be avoided by the living." —Olcot, Rider of Joffik

Prey Upon (Innistrad)
Dave Kendall

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"You don't find many old werewolf hunters." —Paulin, trapper of Somberwald

Tireless Missionaries (Magic 2011)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, you gain 3 life.

If they succeed in their holy work, their order will vanish into welcome obscurity, for there will be no more souls to redeem.

Dread Slaver (Avacyn Restored)
Dave Kendall

Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, return it to the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Half a brain rules the mindless.

Drowned Catacomb (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Dave Kendall

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Adaptive Sporesinger (Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
Dave Kendall

Vigilance When this creature enters, choose one — • Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains vigilance until end of turn. • Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Grixis Slavedriver (Modern Masters 2017)
Dave Kendall

When this creature leaves the battlefield, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Unearth {3}{B} ({3}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Necromantic Selection (Commander 2014)
Dave Kendall

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

It shambled from the cloud of ash and bone dust, undeterred by its own extinction.

Shambling Ghast (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Dave Kendall

When this creature dies, choose one — • Target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn. • Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Surrakar Spellblade (Modern Masters 2015)
Dave Kendall

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put a charge counter on this creature. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw X cards, where X is the number of charge counters on it.

Paladin en-Vec (The List)
Dave Kendall

First strike, protection from black and from red (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike. It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything black or red.)

Rapid Augmenter (Bloomburrow Commander)
Dave Kendall

Haste Whenever another creature you control with base power 1 enters, it gains haste until end of turn. Whenever another creature you control enters, if it wasn't cast, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and this creature can't be blocked this turn.

Abhorrent Overlord (Theros Promos)
Dave Kendall

Flying When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 black Harpy creature tokens with flying equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

Graf Reaver (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Dave Kendall

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, destroy target planeswalker. At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to you.

Bladestitched Skaab (Innistrad Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Other Zombies you control get +1/+0.

The surviving militia members reunited with their fallen comrades sooner than they'd hoped.

Brave the Sands (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Dave Kendall

Creatures you control have vigilance. Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.

Enduring the most desolate and dangerous conditions, Abzan sentries unfailingly guard the stronghold gates.

Drowned Catacomb (Magic 2010)
Dave Kendall

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Cadaver Imp (Duel Decks: Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis)
Dave Kendall

Flying When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The mouth must be pried open before rigor mortis sets in. Otherwise the returning soul can find no ingress.

Grisly Salvage (Commander 2015)
Dave Kendall

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

To the Golgari, anything buried is treasure.

Cadaver Imp (Jumpstart)
Dave Kendall

Flying When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The mouth must be pried open before rigor mortis sets in. Otherwise the returning soul can find no ingress.

Dread Slaver (Jumpstart 2022)
Dave Kendall

Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, return it to the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Half a brain rules the mindless.

Flooded Grove (Double Masters)
Dave Kendall

{T}: Add {C}. {G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

At full moon, the river seeps over its banks and crawls through the woods like a blanket of serpents.

Flooded Grove (Masters 25)
Dave Kendall

{T}: Add {C}. {G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

At full moon, the river seeps over its banks and crawls through the woods like a blanket of serpents.

Sandstorm Charger (Dragons of Tarkir)
Dave Kendall

Megamorph {4}{W} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

"May our foes choke upon its horns!" —Urdnan, Dromoka warrior

Unbreathing Horde (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
Dave Kendall

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie you control and each Zombie card in your graveyard. If this creature would be dealt damage, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

Sanctified Charge (Magic 2015)
Dave Kendall

Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. White creatures you control also gain first strike until end of turn. (They deal combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

You need only raise your spear to receive this blessing.

Goblin (Commander 2014 Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Ghoulcaller's Accomplice (The List)
Dave Kendall

{3}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.

"Once in the box, we're all the same."

Grisly Salvage (Commander Anthology)
Dave Kendall

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

To the Golgari, anything buried is treasure.

Crumbling Necropolis (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Dave Kendall

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

"They say the ruins of Sedraxis were once a shining capital in Vithia. Now it is a blight, a place to be avoided by the living." —Olcot, Rider of Joffik

Scourge Devil (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn. Unearth {2}{R} ({2}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Rapid Augmenter (Bloomburrow Commander)
Dave Kendall

Haste Whenever another creature you control with base power 1 enters, it gains haste until end of turn. Whenever another creature you control enters, if it wasn't cast, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and this creature can't be blocked this turn.

Skullcrack (Gatecrash)
Dave Kendall

Players can't gain life this turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn. Skullcrack deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.

The lawmage's argument was clever and well reasoned, but Blunk's response proved irrefutable.

Alpha Authority (Gatecrash)
Dave Kendall

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has hexproof and can't be blocked by more than one creature.

Even the bitterest enemies of the Burning-Tree Clan respect the strength of Borborygmos's rule.

Mire Blight (Jumpstart 2022)
Dave Kendall

Enchant creature When enchanted creature is dealt damage, destroy it.

"Is there anything in Guul Draz that *doesn't* suck the life out of you?" —Tarsa, Sea Gate sell-sword

Signal the Clans (Gatecrash)
Dave Kendall

Search your library for three creature cards and reveal them. If you reveal three cards with different names, choose one of them at random and put that card into your hand. Shuffle the rest into your library.

Gruul clanfolk obey few rules, but all feel bound to answer the call of the horn.

Vithian Stinger (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
Dave Kendall

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. Unearth {1}{R} ({1}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Planewide Disaster (Planechase Anthology Planes)
Dave Kendall

When you encounter Planewide Disaster, destroy all creatures. (Then planeswalk away from this phenomenon.)

Cleaver Riot (Magic 2013)
Dave Kendall

Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. (They deal both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Measure once, cut twice.

Diregraf Ghoul (Innistrad)
Dave Kendall

This creature enters tapped.

"At least this one still has arms and legs. Well, most of its legs." —Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Venom Sliver (The List)
Dave Kendall

Sliver creatures you control have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

"We attacked with arrows dipped in poison. The slivers that did not die began to change." —Hastric, Thunian scout

Tribute to Hunger (Foundations)
Dave Kendall

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

"Secluded park. Dual puncture wounds. I told you these aren't random murders. Get the stakes ready. —Rem Karolus, monster slayer

Vrock (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Dave Kendall

Flying Toxic Spores — At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn, each opponent loses 3 life.

"Don't try to bribe them. They'll take your gold *and* your liver." —Volo's field notes

Prey Upon (Jumpstart 2022)
Dave Kendall

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"You don't find many old werewolf hunters." —Paulin, trapper of Somberwald

Curse of Thirst (Wizards Play Network 2012)
Dave Kendall

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, this Aura deals damage to that player equal to the number of Curses attached to them.

"May you drink until you drown but never be sated." —Odila, witch of Morkrut

Ruination Wurm (Gatecrash)
Dave Kendall

When the architects of Ravnica claim a structure will stand against a wurm, they never mention for how long.

Mutagenic Growth (The List)
Dave Kendall

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.) Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"Sympathy is for weaklings. Whoever survives, wins." —Benzir, archdruid of Temple Might

Flooded Grove (New Capenna Commander)
Dave Kendall

{T}: Add {C}. {G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

At full moon, the river seeps over its banks and crawls through the woods like a blanket of serpents.

Gavony (March of the Machine Commander)
Dave Kendall

All creatures have vigilance. Whenever chaos ensues, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Seasoned Warrenguard (Bloomburrow)
Dave Kendall

Whenever this creature attacks while you control a token, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Never underestimate what a rabbit can do with a root vegetable and some moxie.

Goblin (Duel Decks Anthology: Elves vs. Goblins Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Rotcrown Ghoul (Avacyn Restored)
Dave Kendall

When this creature dies, target player mills five cards.

"Don't look into its eyes. It's thinking things no dead thing should think." —Captain Eberhart

Flooded Grove (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Dave Kendall

{T}: Add {C}. {G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

At full moon, the river seeps over its banks and crawls through the woods like a blanket of serpents.

Shadowfeed (Shards of Alara)
Dave Kendall

Exile target card from a graveyard. You gain 3 life.

"The future is a snake, devouring your life backwards through time. And when you die, believe me, it doesn't stop feeding." —Sedris, the Traitor King

Vedalken Ghoul (Alara Reborn)
Dave Kendall

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 4 life.

For four nights following Ennor's death and the reclaiming of his etherium, its recipients were found slain, the etherium ripped from their bodies.

Shiv's Embrace (Magic 2011)
Dave Kendall

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

Paladin en-Vec (Tenth Edition)
Dave Kendall

First strike, protection from black and from red (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike. It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything black or red.)

"I do not consider myself a hero. I know only what the Vec teach: justice must always be served and corruption must always be opposed."

Rise from the Tides (The List)
Dave Kendall

Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

"Dear brother, it's sweet that you have chosen to share your toys with Ludevic, but I too have found some new playmates." —Ghoulcaller Gisa

Glissa's Courier (The List)
Dave Kendall

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

"So, the survivors from Oxid Ridge are on the move. Let them come and witness predation in its purest form." —Glissa

Scab-Clan Berserker (Magic Origins)
Dave Kendall

Haste Renown 1 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes renowned.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, if this creature is renowned, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.

Grixis Slavedriver (Conflux)
Dave Kendall

When this creature leaves the battlefield, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Unearth {3}{B} ({3}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Graf Reaver (Innistrad: Crimson Vow Promos)
Dave Kendall

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, destroy target planeswalker. At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to you.

Rimebound Dead (Coldsnap)
Dave Kendall

{S}: Regenerate this creature. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

"Tresserhorn is ours now. Dredge the lake and bring me all the bones you find. We'll build you a new army, the likes of which Terisiare has never seen." —Heidar, Rimewind master, to Haakon

Prey Upon (Magic 2013)
Dave Kendall

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"You don't find many old werewolf hunters." —Paulin, trapper of Somberwald

Typhoid Rats (Foundations Jumpstart)
Dave Kendall

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

When Tasigur sent his ambassadors to the Abzan outpost, the true envoys were not the naga but the infectious rats they carried with them.

Beast (Magic 2015 Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Deathtouch

Graf Reaver (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Dave Kendall

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, destroy target planeswalker. At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to you.

Inexorable Tide (Modern Masters 2015)
Dave Kendall

Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"See how gratefully this world accepts our blessings." —Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Drowned Catacomb (Magic 2011)
Dave Kendall

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Silumgar Butcher (Dragons of Tarkir)
Dave Kendall

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

Silumgar takes pride in the diversity of his sibsig.

Crumbling Necropolis (Commander 2016)
Dave Kendall

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

"They say the ruins of Sedraxis were once a shining capital in Vithia. Now it is a blight, a place to be avoided by the living." —Olcot, Rider of Joffik

Cadaver Imp (The List)
Dave Kendall

Flying When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The mouth must be pried open before rigor mortis sets in. Otherwise the returning soul can find no ingress.

Thought Shucker (Bloomburrow)
Dave Kendall

Threshold — {1}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and draw a card. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard and only once.

Many rats have found their minds while lost in the mud-slicked gyre of a snail shell.

Blazethorn Scarecrow (Shadowmoor)
Dave Kendall

This creature has haste as long as you control a red creature. This creature has wither as long as you control a green creature. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Grixis Slavedriver (The List)
Dave Kendall

When this creature leaves the battlefield, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Unearth {3}{B} ({3}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Slavering Nulls (The List)
Dave Kendall

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if you control a Swamp, you may have that player discard a card.

Having lost their minds, they now want yours.

Zombie (Mirrodin Besieged Tokens)
Dave Kendall

The Fourth Sphere (Planechase Planes)
Dave Kendall

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a nonblack creature. Whenever chaos ensues, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Kelinore Bat (Magic 2010)
Dave Kendall

Flying

The nesting bats of Kelinore sleep soundly while the sun passes, nestled among their grisly collections.

Feral Animist (Dragon's Maze)
Dave Kendall

{3}: This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power.

"Channeling the rage of the beast is the easy part. Explaining why you woke up with no memory in a pile of mangled lawmages—that's trickier."

Graf Reaver (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Dave Kendall

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, destroy target planeswalker. At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to you.

Crumbling Necropolis (Modern Masters 2017)
Dave Kendall

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

"They say the ruins of Sedraxis were once a shining capital in Vithia. Now it is a blight, a place to be avoided by the living." —Olcot, Rider of Joffik

Drunau Corpse Trawler (Innistrad Remastered)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. {2}{B}: Target Zombie gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Seagrafs yield an abundance of resources for stitchers and ghoulcallers alike.

Barren Glory (Future Sight)
Dave Kendall

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control no permanents other than this enchantment and have no cards in hand, you win the game.

"The only perfect world is an empty world, with no one to sin or wage war." —Tarran, magus of the disk

Calciderm (Time Spiral Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Vanishing 4 (This creature enters with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)

Nightfire Giant (Magic 2015)
Dave Kendall

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Mountain. {4}{R}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target.

Nightfire turns the greatest weakness of the undead into formidable strength.

Scourge Devil (Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn. Unearth {2}{R} ({2}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Drowned Catacomb (Magic 2012)
Dave Kendall

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Crumbling Necropolis (The List)
Dave Kendall

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

"They say the ruins of Sedraxis were once a shining capital in Vithia. Now it is a blight, a place to be avoided by the living." —Olcot, Rider of Joffik

Gravecrawler (Dark Ascension Promos)
Dave Kendall

This creature can't block. You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

"Innistrad's ghoulcallers are talented enough, but let me show you what someone with real power can create." —Liliana Vess

Phyrexian Processor (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Dave Kendall

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

Tear Asunder (Dominaria United)
Dave Kendall

Kicker {1}{B} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} as you cast this spell.) Exile target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, exile target nonland permanent instead.

No one knew why the spiritmongers were so enraged by Phyrexian technology, but it was a stroke of good luck for the Coalition.

Brain Maggot (Friday Night Magic 2014)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card until this creature leaves the battlefield.

Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund (Alara Reborn)
Dave Kendall

Flying, haste When Karrthus enters, gain control of all Dragons, then untap all Dragons. Other Dragon creatures you control have haste.

Mercy Killing (Shadowmoor)
Dave Kendall

Target creature's controller sacrifices it, then creates X 1/1 green and white Elf Warrior creature tokens, where X is that creature's power.

"We will give you the peace you seek, though you may not yet know you seek it."

Goblin (Magic 2010 Tokens)
Dave Kendall

Mirran Spy (Mirrodin Besieged)
Dave Kendall

Flying Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may untap target creature.

Accurate information is a precious commodity in times of war.

Rise from the Tides (Innistrad Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

"Dear brother, it's sweet that you have chosen to share your toys with Ludevic, but I too have found some new playmates." —Ghoulcaller Gisa

Grisly Salvage (Commander 2020)
Dave Kendall

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

To the Golgari, anything buried is treasure.

Shore Snapper (Shards of Alara)
Dave Kendall

{U}: This creature gains islandwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Kathari, the sickly aven of Grixis, have learned that the corpses by the shoreline are more trap than treat.

Pashalik Mons (Dominaria Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Whenever Pashalik Mons or another Goblin you control dies, Pashalik Mons deals 1 damage to any target. {3}{R}, Sacrifice a Goblin: Create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

The thunderhead that leads in the storm.

Necropotence (Iconic Masters)
Dave Kendall

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Steam Augury (Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning)
Dave Kendall

Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Keranos is a fickle god, delivering punishment as readily as prophecy.

Surrakar Spellblade (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Dave Kendall

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put a charge counter on this creature. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw X cards, where X is the number of charge counters on it.

Deathforge Shaman (Worldwake)
Dave Kendall

Multikicker {R} (You may pay an additional {R} any number of times as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, it deals damage to target player or planeswalker equal to twice the number of times it was kicked.

Lightning Mauler (Innistrad Remastered)
Dave Kendall

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as this creature is paired with another creature, both creatures have haste.

Nested Ghoul (Jumpstart 2022)
Dave Kendall

Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, create a 2/2 black Phyrexian Zombie creature token.

"The chest cavity is cleared of useless meat. I know just what to do with the space." —Gyed, Vault Priest

Scab-Clan Berserker (Magic Origins Promos)
Dave Kendall

Haste Renown 1 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes renowned.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, if this creature is renowned, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.

Crumbling Necropolis (Commander 2013)
Dave Kendall

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

"They say the ruins of Sedraxis were once a shining capital in Vithia. Now it is a blight, a place to be avoided by the living." —Olcot, Rider of Joffik

Grisly Salvage (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Dave Kendall

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

To the Golgari, anything buried is treasure.

Thornweald Archer (Commander 2014)
Dave Kendall

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Their arrows are tipped with basilisk eyes and fletched with cockatrice feathers.

Diregraf Ghoul (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
Dave Kendall

This creature enters tapped.

"At least this one still has arms and legs. Well, most of its legs." —Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Ghor-Clan Rampager (Friday Night Magic 2013)
Dave Kendall

Trample Bloodrush — {R}{G}, Discard this card: Target attacking creature gets +4/+4 and gains trample until end of turn.

"The Simic come from the cold slow depths. How could they understand the fire in a wild heart?" —Kroshkar, Gruul shaman

Alpha Tyrranax (Scars of Mirrodin)
Dave Kendall

Hunger seized the tyrranax, and the Sylvok's vision quest ended in disaster.

Synthetic Destiny (Commander 2015)
Dave Kendall

Exile all creatures you control. At the beginning of the next end step, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal that many creature cards, put all creature cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then shuffle the rest of the revealed cards into your library.

To Jin-Gitaxias, perfection is not a goal, but a process.

Scourge Devil (The List)
Dave Kendall

When this creature enters, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn. Unearth {2}{R} ({2}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Cradle to Grave (Planar Chaos)
Dave Kendall

Destroy target nonblack creature that entered this turn.

"As the fell soil's appetite grows, it gulps down passersby upon their first footfall." —Ezrith, druid of the Dark Hours

Flooded Grove (Eventide)
Dave Kendall

{T}: Add {C}. {G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

At full moon, the river seeps over its banks and crawls through the woods like a blanket of serpents.

Necromantic Selection (Starter Commander Decks)
Dave Kendall

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

It shambled from the cloud of ash and bone dust, undeterred by its own extinction.

Calciderm (Eternal Masters)
Dave Kendall

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Vanishing 4 (This creature enters with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)

Demon of Wailing Agonies (Commander 2014)
Dave Kendall

Flying Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice."

Mutated Cultist (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Dave Kendall

Devoid (This card has no color.) When you cast this spell, remove all counters from up to one target permanent or opponent. The next spell you cast this turn costs {1} less to cast for each counter removed this way. Deathtouch

It tirelessly gurgles Emrakul's blessings from inhuman mouths.

Eruth, Tormented Prophet (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Dave Kendall

If you would draw a card, exile the top two cards of your library instead. You may play those cards this turn.

"The blood is the life! The blood is the life!"