Unwilling Recruit

Unwilling Recruit (Eventide)
Dave Allsop

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gets +X/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

Frorn didn't want to be kept, but he didn't want to be thrown back either.

Behemoth Sledge (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Dave Allsop

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has trample and lifelink. Equip {3}

"May this grant you all the strength of the behemoths and none of their serenity." —Ajani

Walker (Secret Lair Drop)
Dave Allsop

"Bonus points for covering their heads and protecting them from head trauma from hostiles and calamities." —Eugene Porter

Plague Sliver (Secret Lair Drop)
Dave Allsop

All Slivers have "At the beginning of your upkeep, this permanent deals 1 damage to you."

A sliver shares everything with its hive—even its afflictions.

Plague Sliver (Secret Lair Drop)
Dave Allsop

All Slivers have "At the beginning of your upkeep, this permanent deals 1 damage to you."

A sliver shares everything with its hive—even its afflictions.

Shimatsu the Bloodcloaked (Champions of Kamigawa)
Dave Allsop

As Shimatsu enters, sacrifice any number of permanents. Shimatsu enters with that many +1/+1 counters on it.

Their dominion over dark and destructive forces twisted the oni into beings of pure malevolence.

Duergar Hedge-Mage (The List)
Dave Allsop

When this creature enters, if you control two or more Mountains, you may destroy target artifact. When this creature enters, if you control two or more Plains, you may destroy target enchantment.

Faerie Rogue (Ultimate Masters Tokens)
Dave Allsop

Flying

Slippery Bogle (Eventide)
Dave Allsop

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Bogles are very tasty if you can get the skin off. It's getting a blade on them that's the problem.

Fleshwrither (Future Sight)
Dave Allsop

Transfigure {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a creature card with the same mana value as this creature, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Transfigure only as a sorcery.)

Corrupt (Shadowmoor)
Dave Allsop

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

There are things beneath the murk for whom the bog is a stew, a thin broth in need of meat.

Murderous Redcap (Ultimate Masters)
Dave Allsop

When this creature enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target. 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.)

Beast Within (Time Spiral Remastered)
Dave Allsop

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Kill the weak so they can't drag the strong down to their level. This is true compassion." —Benzir, archdruid of Temple Might

Glint Hawk Idol (Modern Masters 2015)
Dave Allsop

Whenever another artifact you control enters, you may have this artifact become a 2/2 Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn. {W}: This artifact becomes a 2/2 Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

Beast Within (Wizards Play Network 2023)
Dave Allsop

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Cemetery Reaper (Magic 2010)
Dave Allsop

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Every grave cradles a recruit.

Agony Warp (Archenemy)
Dave Allsop

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn. Target creature gets -0/-3 until end of turn.

Life's circle has become inverted in Grixis. The same energy is endlessly recycled and becomes more stagnant with each pass.

Font of Mythos (The List)
Dave Allsop

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws two additional cards.

Those who drink from Malfegor's cup are tainted with hunger and stained with lies.

Goblin Blastronauts (Unfinity)
Dave Allsop

When this creature enters, open an Attraction. Whenever you roll a 6, you may copy the spell, ability, or Attraction visit that caused you to roll that die. You may choose new targets for the copy.

The goblins really put themselves into the fireworks show, despite Myra's pleas to stop.

Duergar Hedge-Mage (Planechase)
Dave Allsop

When this creature enters, if you control two or more Mountains, you may destroy target artifact. When this creature enters, if you control two or more Plains, you may destroy target enchantment.

Bloodmark Mentor (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Dave Allsop

Red creatures you control have first strike.

Boggarts divide the world into two categories: things you can eat, and things you have to chase down and pummel before you can eat.

Goblin (Unstable Tokens)
Dave Allsop

Goblin Warrior (Shadowmoor Tokens)
Dave Allsop

Cemetery Reaper (Midnight Hunt Commander)
Dave Allsop

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Every grave cradles a recruit.

Gristle Grinner (Jumpstart)
Dave Allsop

Whenever a creature dies, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"There it was, clawing the ice as it chittered and clicked its teeth. We fled in horror before it unearthed its grisly meal." —Aevar Borg, northern guide, journal entry

Necrotic Sliver (The List)
Dave Allsop

All Slivers have "{3}, Sacrifice this permanent: Destroy target permanent."

Though Volrath is long dead, the slivers have become everything he wanted them to be: mindless instruments of destruction and despair.

Stream Hopper (Eventide)
Dave Allsop

{U/R}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Like many who dwell in Shadowmoor now, he was robbed of his better half by the Aurora.

Doomgape (The List)
Dave Allsop

Trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

It eats and eats until the juiciest morsel it can find is itself.

Valley Rannet (Commander 2013)
Dave Allsop

Mountaincycling {2}, forestcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Wort, the Raidmother (Modern Masters 2017)
Dave Allsop

When Wort enters, create two 1/1 red and green Goblin Warrior creature tokens. Each red or green instant or sorcery spell you cast has conspire. (As you cast the spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose new targets for the copy.)

Sinkhole (Judge Gift Cards 2010)
Dave Allsop

Destroy target land.

Phyrexian Digester (Mirrodin Besieged)
Dave Allsop

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

"Our cause will ripen in the fertile flesh of the unworthy." —Sheoldred, Whispering One

Time Out (Unsanctioned)
Dave Allsop

Roll a six-sided die. Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library just beneath the top X cards of that library, where X is the result.

Anyone other than a goblin would've gotten only a hand caught in the cookie jar.

Cemetery Reaper (Starter Commander Decks)
Dave Allsop

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Every grave cradles a recruit.

Duergar Cave-Guard (Eventide)
Dave Allsop

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) {R/W}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Duergars who grow too large to live in the tunnels are sent topside to defend the entrances from intruders.

Corrupt (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
Dave Allsop

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

There are things beneath the murk for whom the bog is a stew, a thin broth in need of meat.

Brindle Boar (Magic 2014)
Dave Allsop

Sacrifice this creature: You gain 4 life.

"Tell the cooks to prepare the fires. Tonight we feast!" —Tolar Wolfbrother, Krosan tracker

Hivestone (Time Spiral Remastered)
Dave Allsop

Creatures you control are Slivers in addition to their other creature types.

Rath's evincars used hivestones to control the slivers, but the overlay put their power into unwitting hands. Now the stones make not masters, but slaves.

Bloodmark Mentor (Shadowmoor)
Dave Allsop

Red creatures you control have first strike.

Boggarts divide the world into two categories: things you can eat, and things you have to chase down and pummel before you can eat.

Corrupt (Magic 2011)
Dave Allsop

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

The power of the fens sleeps lightly, and always awakens hungry.

Nihilith (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Dave Allsop

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Suspend 7—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{B} and exile it with seven time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this card is suspended, you may remove a time counter from this card.

Stingerfling Spider (Commander Legends)
Dave Allsop

Reach When this creature enters, you may destroy target creature with flying.

The juiciest prey is that which grows lazy, thinking itself beyond the reach of danger.

Agony Warp (The List)
Dave Allsop

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn. Target creature gets -0/-3 until end of turn.

Life's circle has become inverted in Grixis. The same energy is endlessly recycled and becomes more stagnant with each pass.

Corrupt (Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Dave Allsop

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

There are things beneath the murk for whom the bog is a stew, a thin broth in need of meat.

Twilight Drover (Crimson Vow Commander)
Dave Allsop

Whenever a creature token leaves the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. {2}{W}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying.

Murderous Redcap (Modern Masters)
Dave Allsop

When this creature enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target. 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.)

Agony Warp (Shards of Alara)
Dave Allsop

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn. Target creature gets -0/-3 until end of turn.

Life's circle has become inverted in Grixis. The same energy is endlessly recycled and becomes more stagnant with each pass.

Grave Scrabbler (Future Sight)
Dave Allsop

Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.) When this creature enters, if its madness cost was paid, you may return target creature card from a graveyard to its owner's hand.

Boggart Ram-Gang (Shadowmoor)
Dave Allsop

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

"We're going to need a bigger gate." —Bowen, Barrenton guardcaptain

Cemetery Reaper (Magic 2012)
Dave Allsop

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Every grave cradles a recruit.

Qasali Pridemage (Friday Night Magic 2010)
Dave Allsop

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

An elder in one pride, of the Sigiled caste in another.

Necrotic Sliver (Planar Chaos)
Dave Allsop

All Slivers have "{3}, Sacrifice this permanent: Destroy target permanent."

Though Volrath is long dead, the slivers have become everything he wanted them to be: mindless instruments of destruction and despair.

Unwilling Recruit (Eventide)
Dave Allsop

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gets +X/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

Frorn didn't want to be kept, but he didn't want to be thrown back either.

Doomgape (Eventide)
Dave Allsop

Trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

It eats and eats until the juiciest morsel it can find is itself.

Dross Hopper (Scars of Mirrodin)
Dave Allsop

Sacrifice a creature: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Bred in the vicious Mephidross, dross hoppers learned to eat quickly and escape faster.

Stingerfling Spider (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Dave Allsop

到達（このクリーチャーは飛行を持つクリーチャーをブロックできる。） 棘投げの蜘蛛が戦場に出たとき、飛行を持つクリーチャー１体を対象とする。あなたはそれを破壊してもよい。

最も美味しい獲物とは、自分が危険に逢わなくなっていると思い込んだ怠け者だ。

Beast Within (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Dave Allsop

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Kill the weak so they can't drag the strong down to their level. This is true compassion." —Benzir, archdruid of Temple Might

Font of Mythos (Conflux)
Dave Allsop

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws two additional cards.

Those who drink from Malfegor's cup are tainted with hunger and stained with lies.

Corrupt (Magic 2014)
Dave Allsop

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

One misstep in the swamp and the evil that sleeps beneath will rise to find you.

Sudden Death (Time Spiral)
Dave Allsop

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Some mages tapped into the time rifts, forcing upon others alternate timelines in which unimaginable horrors befall them.

Stuffy Doll (Time Spiral Remastered)
Dave Allsop

Indestructible As this creature enters, choose a player. Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to the chosen player. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to itself.

Necrotic Sliver (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Dave Allsop

All Slivers have "{3}, Sacrifice this permanent: Destroy target permanent."

Though Volrath is long dead, the slivers have become everything he wanted them to be: mindless instruments of destruction and despair.

Twilight Drover (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Dave Allsop

Whenever a creature token leaves the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. {2}{W}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying.

Valley Rannet (Commander 2011)
Dave Allsop

Mountaincycling {2}, forestcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Dross Hopper (Foundations Jumpstart)
Dave Allsop

Sacrifice a creature: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Bred in the vicious Mephidross, dross hoppers learned to eat quickly and escape faster.

Putrid Leech (Alara Reborn)
Dave Allsop

Pay 2 life: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

It reacted to Naya's overabundant food supply by growing additional mouths.

Time Out (Unstable)
Dave Allsop

Roll a six-sided die. Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library just beneath the top X cards of that library, where X is the result.

Anyone other than a goblin would've gotten only a hand caught in the cookie jar.

Beast Within (New Phyrexia)
Dave Allsop

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Kill the weak so they can't drag the strong down to their level. This is true compassion." —Benzir, archdruid of Temple Might

Beast Within (The List)
Dave Allsop

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Kill the weak so they can't drag the strong down to their level. This is true compassion." —Benzir, archdruid of Temple Might

Hammerfest Boomtacular (Unstable)
Dave Allsop

Whenever you cast a spell with a Goblin Explosioneers watermark, this enchantment deals 2 damage to any target.

It's less "music" and more "straightforward hearing damage."

Lich Lord of Unx (Alara Reborn)
Dave Allsop

{U}{B}, {T}: Create a 1/1 blue and black Zombie Wizard creature token. {U}{U}{B}{B}: Target player loses X life and mills X cards, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

Wort, the Raidmother (Commander 2020)
Dave Allsop

When Wort enters, create two 1/1 red and green Goblin Warrior creature tokens. Each red or green instant or sorcery spell you cast has conspire. (As you cast the spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose new targets for the copy.)

Goblin Blastronauts (Unfinity)
Dave Allsop

When this creature enters, open an Attraction. Whenever you roll a 6, you may copy the spell, ability, or Attraction visit that caused you to roll that die. You may choose new targets for the copy.

The goblins really put themselves into the fireworks show, despite Myra's pleas to stop.

Duergar Hedge-Mage (Commander Anthology)
Dave Allsop

When this creature enters, if you control two or more Mountains, you may destroy target artifact. When this creature enters, if you control two or more Plains, you may destroy target enchantment.

Fresh Meat (Commander Anthology)
Dave Allsop

Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token for each creature put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.

A scavenger's favorite appetizer is death.

Duergar Hedge-Mage (March of the Machine Commander)
Dave Allsop

When this creature enters, if you control two or more Mountains, you may destroy target artifact. When this creature enters, if you control two or more Plains, you may destroy target enchantment.

Gristle Grinner (Coldsnap)
Dave Allsop

Whenever a creature dies, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"There it was, clawing the ice as it chittered and clicked its teeth. We fled in horror before it unearthed its grisly meal." —Aevar Borg, northern guide, journal entry

Agony Warp (Modern Masters 2017)
Dave Allsop

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn. Target creature gets -0/-3 until end of turn.

Life's circle has become inverted in Grixis. The same energy is endlessly recycled and becomes more stagnant with each pass.

Cemetery Reaper (Aetherdrift Commander)
Dave Allsop

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Every grave cradles a recruit.

Gleancrawler (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Dave Allsop

({B/G} can be paid with either {B} or {G}.) Trample At the beginning of your end step, return to your hand all creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Strands of Undeath (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Dave Allsop

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, target player discards two cards. {B}: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"Why limit yourself to mortal law when you can outlive those who enforce it?" —Czaric, Orzhov prelate

Lich Lord of Unx (The List)
Dave Allsop

{U}{B}, {T}: Create a 1/1 blue and black Zombie Wizard creature token. {U}{U}{B}{B}: Target player loses X life and mills X cards, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

Necrotic Sliver (Time Spiral Remastered)
Dave Allsop

All Slivers have "{3}, Sacrifice this permanent: Destroy target permanent."

Though Volrath is long dead, the slivers have become everything he wanted them to be: mindless instruments of destruction and despair.

Beast (Planechase Anthology Tokens)
Dave Allsop

Razor Swine (New Phyrexia)
Dave Allsop

First strike Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

"They aren't helping the forges. Send them to the surface." —Furnace boss, sector 12

Beast (New Phyrexia Tokens)
Dave Allsop

Beast Within (Planechase Anthology)
Dave Allsop

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Kill the weak so they can't drag the strong down to their level. This is true compassion." —Benzir, archdruid of Temple Might

Corrupt (Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic)
Dave Allsop

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

There are things beneath the murk for whom the bog is a stew, a thin broth in need of meat.

Murderous Redcap (The List)
Dave Allsop

When this creature enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target. 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.)

Rock Star (Unfinity)
Dave Allsop

Reach When this creature enters, you may discard a card. If you do, reveal the top five cards of your library. Ask a person outside the game to choose which of them is most like a rock band. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Born to, and of, rock.

Duergar Hedge-Mage (Eventide)
Dave Allsop

When this creature enters, if you control two or more Mountains, you may destroy target artifact. When this creature enters, if you control two or more Plains, you may destroy target enchantment.

Agony Warp (Double Masters 2022)
Dave Allsop

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn. Target creature gets -0/-3 until end of turn.

Life's circle has become inverted in Grixis. The same energy is endlessly recycled and becomes more stagnant with each pass.

Boggart Ram-Gang (The List)
Dave Allsop

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

"We're going to need a bigger gate." —Bowen, Barrenton guardcaptain

Corrupt (Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Dave Allsop

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

There are things beneath the murk for whom the bog is a stew, a thin broth in need of meat.

Pus Kami (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Dave Allsop

{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target nonblack creature. Soulshift 6 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 6 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Necrotic Sliver (Premium Deck Series: Slivers)
Dave Allsop

All Slivers have "{3}, Sacrifice this permanent: Destroy target permanent."

Though Volrath is long dead, the slivers have become everything he wanted them to be: mindless instruments of destruction and despair.

Traitor's Clutch (Time Spiral)
Dave Allsop

Target creature gets +1/+0, becomes black, and gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Flashback {1}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Faerie Rogue (Modern Masters 2015 Tokens)
Dave Allsop

Flying

Twilight Drover (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
Dave Allsop

Whenever a creature token leaves the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. {2}{W}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying.

Nihilith (Future Sight)
Dave Allsop

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Suspend 7—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{B} and exile it with seven time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this card is suspended, you may remove a time counter from this card.

Flensermite (Mirrodin Besieged)
Dave Allsop

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Necrotic Sliver (Secret Lair Drop)
Dave Allsop

All Slivers have "{3}, Sacrifice this permanent: Destroy target permanent."

Though Volrath is long dead, the slivers have become everything he wanted them to be: mindless instruments of destruction and despair.

Rotting Rats (Planechase)
Dave Allsop

When this creature enters, each player discards a card. Unearth {1}{B} ({1}{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.)

Brindle Boar (Magic 2012)
Dave Allsop

Sacrifice this creature: You gain 4 life.

"Tell the cooks to prepare the fires. Tonight we feast!" —Tolar Wolfbrother, Krosan tracker

Banewasp Affliction (Shards of Alara)
Dave Allsop

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller loses life equal to its toughness.

The consuming undeath of Grixis terrifies the survivors of Vithia, but its fauna is just as fearsome.

Fresh Meat (Commander 2014)
Dave Allsop

Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token for each creature put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.

A scavenger's favorite appetizer is death.

Stingerfling Spider (The List)
Dave Allsop

Reach When this creature enters, you may destroy target creature with flying.

The juiciest prey is that which grows lazy, thinking itself beyond the reach of danger.

Core Prowler (Mirrodin Besieged)
Dave Allsop

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) When this creature dies, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Valley Rannet (Alara Reborn)
Dave Allsop

Mountaincycling {2}, forestcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Fresh Meat (New Phyrexia)
Dave Allsop

Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token for each creature put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.

A scavenger's favorite appetizer is death.

Cranial Extraction (Champions of Kamigawa)
Dave Allsop

Choose a nonland card name. Search target player's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Beast Within (Planechase 2012)
Dave Allsop

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Kill the weak so they can't drag the strong down to their level. This is true compassion." —Benzir, archdruid of Temple Might

Goblin Warrior (Modern Masters 2017 Tokens)
Dave Allsop

Twilight Drover (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Dave Allsop

Whenever a creature token leaves the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. {2}{W}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying.

Rotted Hystrix (New Phyrexia)
Dave Allsop

Vorinclex had no grand plan. The oil did its own work, evolving creatures into worthy predators.

Duergar Hedge-Mage (Commander 2011)
Dave Allsop

When this creature enters, if you control two or more Mountains, you may destroy target artifact. When this creature enters, if you control two or more Plains, you may destroy target enchantment.

Stuffy Doll (Time Spiral)
Dave Allsop

Indestructible As this creature enters, choose a player. Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to the chosen player. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to itself.

Doomgape (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Dave Allsop

Trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

It eats and eats until the juiciest morsel it can find is itself.

Caustic Hound (Mirrodin Besieged)
Dave Allsop

When this creature dies, each player loses 4 life.

At first, the Mirrans aimed for its exposed gut. The survivors quickly learned to do otherwise.

Elder Mastery (Conflux)
Dave Allsop

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has flying. Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a player, that player discards two cards.

Taste his power, hunger for his command.

Stingerfling Spider (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Dave Allsop

Reach When this creature enters, you may destroy target creature with flying.

The juiciest prey is that which grows lazy, thinking itself beyond the reach of danger.

Murderous Redcap (Shadowmoor)
Dave Allsop

When this creature enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target. 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.)

Wort, the Raidmother (Shadowmoor)
Dave Allsop

When Wort enters, create two 1/1 red and green Goblin Warrior creature tokens. Each red or green instant or sorcery spell you cast has conspire. (As you cast the spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose new targets for the copy.)

Valley Rannet (Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters)
Dave Allsop

Mountaincycling {2}, forestcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Phyrexian Snowcrusher (The List)
Dave Allsop

This creature attacks each combat if able. {1}{S}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

Its plow wasn't designed for snow, but to carve a path through shrieking armies.

Agony Warp (Modern Masters 2015)
Dave Allsop

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn. Target creature gets -0/-3 until end of turn.

Life's circle has become inverted in Grixis. The same energy is endlessly recycled and becomes more stagnant with each pass.

Zombie Wizard (Alara Reborn Tokens)
Dave Allsop

Putrid Leech (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Dave Allsop

Pay 2 life: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

It reacted to Naya's overabundant food supply by growing additional mouths.

Rotting Rats (Conflux)
Dave Allsop

When this creature enters, each player discards a card. Unearth {1}{B} ({1}{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.)

Brindle Boar (Magic 2011)
Dave Allsop

Sacrifice this creature: You gain 4 life.

The war lasted for generations. The boars didn't need to hunt for food anymore. They fed on the fallen corpses, and the living fed off of them.

Archdemon of Unx (Shards of Alara)
Dave Allsop

Flying, trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a non-Zombie creature, then create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

The necropolis at Unx was once a living city, its streets untrodden by death.

Grave Scrabbler (Time Spiral Remastered)
Dave Allsop

Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.) When this creature enters, if its madness cost was paid, you may return target creature card from a graveyard to its owner's hand.

Beast (Commander Anthology Tokens)
Dave Allsop

Strands of Undeath (Double Masters 2022)
Dave Allsop

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, target player discards two cards. {B}: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"Why limit yourself to mortal law when you can outlive those who enforce it?" —Czaric, Orzhov prelate

Plague Sliver (Time Spiral)
Dave Allsop

All Slivers have "At the beginning of your upkeep, this permanent deals 1 damage to you."

A sliver shares everything with its hive—even its afflictions.

Bloodmark Mentor (The List)
Dave Allsop

Red creatures you control have first strike.

Boggarts divide the world into two categories: things you can eat, and things you have to chase down and pummel before you can eat.

Stingerfling Spider (Ultimate Masters)
Dave Allsop

Reach When this creature enters, you may destroy target creature with flying.

The juiciest prey is that which grows lazy, thinking itself beyond the reach of danger.

Fresh Meat (Commander 2019)
Dave Allsop

Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token for each creature put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.

A scavenger's favorite appetizer is death.

Hammer Helper (Unstable)
Dave Allsop

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature and roll a six-sided die. Until end of turn, it gains haste and gets +X/+0, where X is the result.

"Need a hammer? Gotta get your fix? I know a guy."

Slippery Bogle (The List)
Dave Allsop

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Bogles are very tasty if you can get the skin off. It's getting a blade on them that's the problem.

Stingerfling Spider (Commander 2015)
Dave Allsop

Reach When this creature enters, you may destroy target creature with flying.

The juiciest prey is that which grows lazy, thinking itself beyond the reach of danger.

Rock Star (Unfinity)
Dave Allsop

Reach When this creature enters, you may discard a card. If you do, reveal the top five cards of your library. Ask a person outside the game to choose which of them is most like a rock band. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Born to, and of, rock.

Boggart Ram-Gang (Premium Deck Series: Fire and Lightning)
Dave Allsop

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

"We're going to need a bigger gate." —Bowen, Barrenton guardcaptain

Cemetery Reaper (Archenemy)
Dave Allsop

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Every grave cradles a recruit.

Spirit (RNA Guild Kit Tokens)
Dave Allsop

Flying

Secret Base (Unstable)
Dave Allsop

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a spell that shares a watermark with this land.

For the Goblin Explosioneers, there's no crater like home.

Glint Hawk Idol (Scars of Mirrodin)
Dave Allsop

Whenever another artifact you control enters, you may have this artifact become a 2/2 Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn. {W}: This artifact becomes a 2/2 Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

Trigon of Infestation (Scars of Mirrodin)
Dave Allsop

This artifact enters with three charge counters on it. {G}{G}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {2}, {T}, Remove a charge counter from this artifact: Create a 1/1 green Phyrexian Insect creature token with infect.

Necrotic Sliver (Commander Masters)
Dave Allsop

All Slivers have "{3}, Sacrifice this permanent: Destroy target permanent."

Though Volrath is long dead, the slivers have become everything he wanted them to be: mindless instruments of destruction and despair.

Phyrexian Snowcrusher (Coldsnap)
Dave Allsop

This creature attacks each combat if able. {1}{S}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

Its plow wasn't designed for snow, but to carve a path through shrieking armies.

Stingerfling Spider (Magic 2012)
Dave Allsop

Reach When this creature enters, you may destroy target creature with flying.

The juiciest prey is that which grows lazy, thinking itself beyond the reach of danger.

Elder Mastery (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Dave Allsop

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has flying. Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a player, that player discards two cards.

Taste his power, hunger for his command.

Glint Hawk (Scars of Mirrodin)
Dave Allsop

Flying When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you return an artifact you control to its owner's hand.

Its eyes burned nearly blind by the Whitesun, it hunts by metallic gleam.

Bloodmark Mentor (Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons)
Dave Allsop

Red creatures you control have first strike.

Boggarts divide the world into two categories: things you can eat, and things you have to chase down and pummel before you can eat.

Walker (Secret Lair Drop)
Dave Allsop

"I'm sorry this happened to you." —Rick Grimes

Sudden Death (Time Spiral Remastered)
Dave Allsop

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Some mages tapped into the time rifts, forcing upon others alternate timelines in which unimaginable horrors befall them.

Hivestone (Time Spiral)
Dave Allsop

Creatures you control are Slivers in addition to their other creature types.

Rath's evincars used hivestones to control the slivers, but the overlay put their power into unwitting hands. Now the stones make not masters, but slaves.