Zealous Conscripts

Zealous Conscripts (Tales of Middle-earth Commander)
Randy Vargas

Haste When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap that permanent. It gains haste until end of turn.

Buckler and corslet, axe and sword, And shining spears were laid in hoard.

Zealous Conscripts (Innistrad Remastered)
Steve Prescott

Haste When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap that permanent. It gains haste until end of turn.

Zealous Conscripts (Foundations Jumpstart)
Billy Christian

Haste When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap that permanent. It gains haste until end of turn.

Only those who strike without a moment's hesitation may earn Hazoret's favor.

Zealous Conscripts (Avacyn Restored)
Steve Prescott

Haste When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap that permanent. It gains haste until end of turn.

Zealous Conscripts (Modern Masters 2017)
Steve Prescott

Haste When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap that permanent. It gains haste until end of turn.

Zealous Conscripts (Time Spiral Remastered)
Steve Prescott

Haste When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap that permanent. It gains haste until end of turn.

Zealous Conscripts (Innistrad Remastered)
Valera Lutfullina

Haste When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap that permanent. It gains haste until end of turn.

Young Pyromancer (Double Masters 2022)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

"Why do they say you shouldn't play with fire? Fire is the best thing to play with!"

Warriors' Lesson (The List)
Steve Prescott

Until end of turn, up to two target creatures you control each gain "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

"Let each challenge make you a better warrior." —Anthousa of Setessa

Warehouse Tabby (Wilds of Eldraine)
Steve Prescott

Whenever an enchantment you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block." {1}{B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.

For every rat she kills, ten more take its place.

Syndic of Tithes (Gatecrash)
Steve Prescott

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

"Entrance is free. Donations are required." —Notice outside Vizkopa Bank

Phyrexian Fleshgorger (The Brothers' War Promos)
Steve Prescott

Prototype {1}{B}{B} — 3/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.) Menace, lifelink Ward—Pay life equal to this creature's power.

Press for Answers (Jumpstart 2022)
Steve Prescott

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Imperial Recovery Unit (Jumpstart 2022)
Steve Prescott

Whenever this Vehicle attacks, return target creature or Vehicle card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand. Crew 2 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Divine Deflection (Avacyn Restored)
Steve Prescott

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to you and/or permanents you control this turn. If damage is prevented this way, Divine Deflection deals that much damage to any target.

Vodalian Mindsinger (Dominaria United Promos)
Steve Prescott

Kicker {1}{R} and/or {1}{G} This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it for each time it was kicked. When this creature enters, gain control of target creature with power less than this creature's power for as long as you control this creature.

Ember Hauler (Magic 2011)
Steve Prescott

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 2 damage to any target.

Flurk's crude goblin language didn't differentiate between "I *bring* the flame" and "I *am* the flame."

Enlisted Wurm (Planechase Anthology)
Steve Prescott

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

A match for any army—even its own.

Ruinous Gremlin (Kaladesh)
Steve Prescott

{2}{R}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact.

City officials once sent twenty gleaming automatons to exterminate a nest of gremlins. They soon saw the error of their ways.

Goldmeadow Harrier (The List)
Steve Prescott

{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

"It's a proven fact that sling-stones from the dawn side of the riverbank sail the farthest and truest." —Deagan, cenn of Burrenton

Ghoulraiser (Jumpstart)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, return a Zombie card at random from your graveyard to your hand.

"Come. Bring your brothers. Tonight, you feast on living flesh." —Jadar, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Hydrosurge (Magic 2015)
Steve Prescott

Target creature gets -5/-0 until end of turn.

"Thirsty?" —Drunvalus, hydromancer

Merfolk Thaumaturgist (The List)
Steve Prescott

{T}: Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

"Blasted fishtails! It's not enough that they meddle with my head, but they twist my body as well." —Tahngarth of the *Weatherlight*

Rhys the Redeemed (Double Masters)
Steve Prescott

{2}{G/W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 green and white Elf Warrior creature token. {4}{G/W}{G/W}, {T}: For each creature token you control, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Whole again in honor and horn.

Guttersnipe (Commander 2013)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

He wants to watch Ravnica burn, one soul at a time.

Chorus of the Tides (Born of the Gods)
Steve Prescott

Flying Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, scry 1. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.)

Gift of the Deity (Eventide)
Steve Prescott

Enchant creature As long as enchanted creature is black, it gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.) As long as enchanted creature is green, it gets +1/+1 and all creatures able to block it do so.

Feral Hydra (Jumpstart 2022)
Steve Prescott

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {3}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Any player may activate this ability.

It shreds its prey as each head fights for the choicest bits.

Prognostic Sphinx (Theros)
Steve Prescott

Flying Discard a card: This creature gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it. Whenever this creature attacks, scry 3.

Gideon's Lawkeeper (The List)
Steve Prescott

{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

"The essence of a lawful society is swift deterrence."

Dreamshaper Shaman (Double Masters 2022)
Steve Prescott

At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {2}{R} and sacrifice a nonland permanent. If you do, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland permanent card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Magic is the true artist's medium.

Nacatl Hunt-Pride (Conflux)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance {R}, {T}: Target creature can't block this turn. {G}, {T}: Target creature blocks this turn if able.

"We must hunt and kill the dragon before it can return to raze our ancient city."

Augury Adept (Shadowmoor)
Steve Prescott

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You gain life equal to its mana value.

Moonstones grant limited foresight but unlimited advantages.

Apprentice Sharpshooter (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Steve Prescott

Reach Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Innistrad's best archers are trained by the Quiver of Kessig, an order of cathars who specialize in ranged combat.

Valley Questcaller (Bloomburrow Promos)
Steve Prescott

Whenever one or more other Rabbits, Bats, Birds, and/or Mice you control enter, scry 1. Other Rabbits, Bats, Birds, and Mice you control get +1/+1.

No battle is fought, or won, alone.

Ranger's Guile (The List)
Steve Prescott

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

"You don't survive in the wild by standing in plain sight." —Garruk Wildspeaker

Terisian Mindbreaker (The Brothers' War Promos)
Steve Prescott

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player mills half their library, rounded up. Unearth {1}{U}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}{U}: 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.)

Rampaging Baloths (Commander Legends)
Steve Prescott

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

"When the land is angry, so are they." —Nissa Revane

Goldmeadow Harrier (Lorwyn)
Steve Prescott

{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

"It's a proven fact that sling-stones from the dawn side of the riverbank sail the farthest and truest." —Deagan, cenn of Burrenton

Dragonlord's Servant (Dragons of Tarkir)
Steve Prescott

Dragon spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Atarka serving-goblins coat themselves with grease imbued with noxious herbs, hoping to discourage their ravenous masters from adding them to the meal.

Roiling Terrain (Worldwake)
Steve Prescott

Destroy target land, then Roiling Terrain deals damage to that land's controller equal to the number of land cards in that player's graveyard.

"The trembling lands ruptured, leaving an open door for things from below to emerge." —Screed of the Mul Daya

Stun Sniper (Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters)
Steve Prescott

{1}, {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature. Tap that creature.

The tips of her bolts are blunt, but her aim is deadly sharp.

Ember Weaver (Conflux)
Steve Prescott

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) As long as you control a red permanent, this creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike.

"Each night, the sun unravels and blows away. Each day, the spiders set a new one in the sky." —Sunseeder myth

Thopter Engineer (The List)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Artifact creatures you control have haste. (They can attack and {T} as soon as they come under your control.)

Jace, Memory Adept (San Diego Comic-Con 2013)
Steve Prescott

+1: Draw a card. Target player mills a card. 0: Target player mills ten cards. −7: Any number of target players each draw twenty cards.

Reckless Scholar (Jumpstart)
Steve Prescott

{T}: Target player draws a card, then discards a card.

Progress comes at a price.

Nearheath Stalker (Wizards Play Network 2012)
Steve Prescott

Undying (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.)

"Do not speak of this to the elders. They look unfavorably upon my indulgences."

Silent-Blade Oni (Commander 2018)
Steve Prescott

Ninjutsu {4}{U}{B} ({4}{U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand. You may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

Aim High (Shadows over Innistrad)
Steve Prescott

Untap target creature. It gets +2/+2 and gains reach until end of turn.

"A slayer gets by on wits and reflexes." —Higa, slayer-captain of Gatstaf

Elite Scaleguard (Commander 2021)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.

Thopter Engineer (Commander 2021)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Artifact creatures you control have haste. (They can attack and {T} as soon as they come under your control.)

Guttersnipe (Ravnica Remastered)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

He wants to watch Ravnica burn, one soul at a time.

Spinerock Knoll (Commander 2015)
Steve Prescott

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if an opponent was dealt 7 or more damage this turn.

Rowdy Crew (Ixalan)
Steve Prescott

Trample When this creature enters, draw three cards, then discard two cards at random. If two cards that share a card type are discarded this way, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Reckless Scholar (Battlebond)
Steve Prescott

{T}: Target player draws a card, then discards a card.

Progress comes at a price.

Garruk's Horde (Magic 2012)
Steve Prescott

Trample Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may cast creature spells from the top of your library. (Do this only any time you could cast that creature spell. You still pay the spell's costs.)

Goblin Goon (Jumpstart)
Steve Prescott

This creature can't attack unless you control more creatures than defending player. This creature can't block unless you control more creatures than attacking player.

Elite Scaleguard (Fate Reforged)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.

Lightform (Commander 2018)
Steve Prescott

When this enchantment enters, it becomes an Aura with enchant creature. Manifest the top card of your library and attach this enchantment to it. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Enchanted creature has flying and lifelink.

Ranger's Guile (Magic 2014)
Steve Prescott

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

"You don't survive in the wild by standing in plain sight." —Garruk Wildspeaker

Ghoulraiser (Innistrad)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, return a Zombie card at random from your graveyard to your hand.

"Come. Bring your brothers. Tonight, you feast on living flesh." —Jadar, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Treasure Hunt (Magic Player Rewards 2011)
Steve Prescott

Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card, then put all cards revealed this way into your hand.

Satyr Wayfinder (Born of the Gods)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

The first satyr to wake after a revel must search for the site of the next one.

Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea (The Brothers' War)
Steve Prescott

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creature sources. Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on Gwenna and untap it.

Berserk (From the Vault: Exiled)
Steve Prescott

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

Twenty-Toed Toad (Bloomburrow Commander)
Steve Prescott

Your maximum hand size is twenty. Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, put a +1/+1 counter on Twenty-Toed Toad and draw a card. Whenever Twenty-Toed Toad attacks, you win the game if there are twenty or more counters on it or you have twenty or more cards in hand.

Gift Horse (Unstable)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you crank this Contraption, roll two six-sided dice. Create a number of 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens equal to the difference between those results.

Kiora's Follower (Born of the Gods Promos)
Steve Prescott

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Rhys the Redeemed (The List)
Steve Prescott

{2}{G/W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 green and white Elf Warrior creature token. {4}{G/W}{G/W}, {T}: For each creature token you control, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Whole again in honor and horn.

Twenty-Toed Toad (The List)
Steve Prescott

Your maximum hand size is twenty. Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, put a +1/+1 counter on Twenty-Toed Toad and draw a card. Whenever Twenty-Toed Toad attacks, you win the game if there are twenty or more counters on it or you have twenty or more cards in hand.

Kami of Transience (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos)
Steve Prescott

Trample Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of each end step, if an enchantment was put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Battle Rampart (Battlebond)
Steve Prescott

Defender {T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

"I will build no sanctuaries. The safety you seek can be won only by the sword." —Yannash, outpost builder

Riptide Pilferer (Planar Chaos)
Steve Prescott

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

Jeering Homunculus (The List)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, you may goad target creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Mklthd had always hated crowds . . . and they had always hated him.

Belligerent Hatchling (Eventide)
Steve Prescott

First strike This creature enters with four -1/-1 counters on it. Whenever you cast a red spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature. Whenever you cast a white spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature.

Spinerock Knoll (Commander 2016)
Steve Prescott

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if an opponent was dealt 7 or more damage this turn.

Silent-Blade Oni (Planechase 2012)
Steve Prescott

Ninjutsu {4}{U}{B} ({4}{U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand. You may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

True Polymorph (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Steve Prescott

Target artifact or creature becomes a copy of another target artifact or creature.

Maybe a little *too* convincing.

Beast (Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana Tokens)
Steve Prescott

Reckoner Bankbuster (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos)
Steve Prescott

This Vehicle enters with three charge counters on it. {2}, {T}, Remove a charge counter from this Vehicle: Draw a card. Then if there are no charge counters on this Vehicle, create a Treasure token and a 1/1 colorless Pilot creature token with "This token crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater." Crew 3

Gyome, Master Chef (Commander 2021)
Steve Prescott

Trample At the beginning of your end step, create a number of Food tokens equal to the number of nontoken creatures you had enter under your control this turn. {1}, Sacrifice a Food: Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Lightform (The List)
Steve Prescott

When this enchantment enters, it becomes an Aura with enchant creature. Manifest the top card of your library and attach this enchantment to it. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Enchanted creature has flying and lifelink.

Blue Dragon (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Steve Prescott

Flying Lightning Breath — When this creature enters, until your next turn, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-0, up to one other target creature gets -2/-0, and up to one other target creature gets -1/-0.

Ajani, Caller of the Pride (San Diego Comic-Con 2013)
Steve Prescott

+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. −3: Target creature gains flying and double strike until end of turn. −8: Create X 2/2 white Cat creature tokens, where X is your life total.

Press into Service (Oath of the Gatewatch)
Steve Prescott

Support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.) Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Trumpet Blast (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Steve Prescott

Attacking creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn.

"Do you hear that, Sarkhan? The glory of the horde! I made a legend from what you abandoned." —Zurgo, khan of the Mardu

Felidar Cub (Battle for Zendikar)
Steve Prescott

Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target enchantment.

Felidars that make it through their first year of life can easily live to see a hundred years more.

Berserk (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Steve Prescott

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

Ember Gale (Shadowmoor)
Steve Prescott

Creatures target player controls can't block this turn. Ember Gale deals 1 damage to each white and/or blue creature that player controls.

"Terrible wind. It whipped sparks into our skin, then stoked them even hotter!" —Bowen, Barrenton guardcaptain

Mirror Match (Commander 2015)
Steve Prescott

Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step. For each creature attacking you or a planeswalker you control, create a token that's a copy of that creature and that's blocking that creature. Exile those tokens at end of combat.

Sword of Body and Mind (Double Masters)
Steve Prescott

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from blue. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token and that player mills ten cards. Equip {2}

Forest (Lorwyn)
Steve Prescott

({T}: Add {G}.)

Enlisted Wurm (Alara Reborn)
Steve Prescott

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

A match for any army—even its own.

Enlisted Wurm (Foundations Jumpstart)
Steve Prescott

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

A match for any army—even its own.

Felidar Cub (Foundations)
Steve Prescott

Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target enchantment.

Felidars that make it through their first year of life can easily live to see a hundred years more.

Felidar Cub (Jumpstart 2022)
Steve Prescott

Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target enchantment.

Felidars that make it through their first year of life can easily live to see a hundred years more.

Beast (Iconic Masters Tokens)
Steve Prescott

Guttersnipe (The List)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

He wants to watch Ravnica burn, one soul at a time.

Munda's Vanguard (Oath of the Gatewatch Promos)
Steve Prescott

Cohort — {T}, Tap an untapped Ally you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

"Do not let yourselves fall now. Zendikar is depending on us—on you!"

Chainer, Nightmare Adept (The List)
Steve Prescott

Discard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.

Turbo-Thwacking Auto-Hammer (Unstable)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you crank this Contraption, target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Apprentice Sharpshooter (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Steve Prescott

Reach Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Innistrad's best archers are trained by the Quiver of Kessig, an order of cathars who specialize in ranged combat.

Dragon Trainer (Foundations)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying.

"I was hardly a month old when he hatched. We grew up together. Even shared a crib!"

True Polymorph (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Steve Prescott

Target artifact or creature becomes a copy of another target artifact or creature.

Maybe a little *too* convincing.

Well of Ideas (Double Masters)
Steve Prescott

When this enchantment enters, draw two cards. At the beginning of each other player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. At the beginning of your draw step, draw two additional cards.

Patrol Signaler (Eventide)
Steve Prescott

{1}{W}, {Q}: Create a 1/1 white Kithkin Soldier creature token. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Many a keen-eared bogle has run afoul of a clever and silently orchestrated kithkin ambush.

Prognostic Sphinx (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Steve Prescott

Flying Discard a card: This creature gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it. Whenever this creature attacks, scry 3.

Rampaging Baloths (Bloomburrow Commander)
Steve Prescott

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

"When the land is angry, so are they." —Nissa Revane

Rowdy Crew (Ixalan Promos)
Steve Prescott

Trample When this creature enters, draw three cards, then discard two cards at random. If two cards that share a card type are discarded this way, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Feral Hydra (Battlebond)
Steve Prescott

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {3}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Any player may activate this ability.

It shreds its prey as each head fights for the choicest bits.

Turnabout (The List)
Steve Prescott

Choose artifact, creature, or land. Tap all untapped permanents of the chosen type target player controls, or untap all tapped permanents of that type that player controls.

Frondland Felidar (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance Creatures you control with vigilance have "{1}, {T}: Tap target creature."

"Fear not the behemoth heard from miles away. Fear the stalking felidar, which reveals itself only for the kill." —Rielle, the Everwise

Heartlash Cinder (Eventide)
Steve Prescott

Haste Chroma — When this creature enters, it gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of red mana symbols in the mana costs of permanents you control.

Horde of Boggarts (Shadowmoor)
Steve Prescott

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Horde of Boggarts's power and toughness are each equal to the number of red permanents you control.

Strategies don't come easily to the boggarts' feral minds, but full-on assault hasn't failed them yet.

Aim High (Innistrad Remastered)
Steve Prescott

Untap target creature. It gets +2/+2 and gains reach until end of turn.

"A slayer gets by on wits and reflexes." —Higa, slayer-captain of Gatstaf

Elvish Vanguard (Secret Lair Drop)
Steve Prescott

Whenever another Elf enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"Our lives are woven together like the trees' branches over our heads, forming a canopy that protects us all."

Goblin Guide (Grand Prix Promos)
Steve Prescott

Haste Whenever this creature attacks, defending player reveals the top card of their library. If it's a land card, that player puts it into their hand.

"I've been all over this world. I even remember some of those places."

Mischievous Mystic (Foundations)
Steve Prescott

Flying Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 blue Faerie creature token with flying.

"Don't worry about where they're taking me. The more pressing question is, why aren't they taking you?"

Gryffwing Cavalry (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Steve Prescott

Flying Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay {1}{W}. If you do, target attacking creature without flying gains flying until end of turn.

Rampaging Baloths (Commander 2021)
Steve Prescott

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

"When the land is angry, so are they." —Nissa Revane

Rampaging Baloths (Commander 2018)
Steve Prescott

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

"When the land is angry, so are they." —Nissa Revane

Elvish Vanguard (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Inventors)
Steve Prescott

他のエルフが１体戦場に出るたび、エルフの先兵の上に＋１/＋１カウンターを１個置く。

「我等の生命は、この頭上の木の枝のように絡まりあい、すべてを護る梢となっているのだ。」

Rhys the Redeemed (Shadowmoor)
Steve Prescott

{2}{G/W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 green and white Elf Warrior creature token. {4}{G/W}{G/W}, {T}: For each creature token you control, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Whole again in honor and horn.

Thopter Engineer (Bloomburrow Commander)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Artifact creatures you control have haste. (They can attack and {T} as soon as they come under your control.)

Riptide Pilferer (Time Spiral Remastered)
Steve Prescott

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

Cylian Elf (Shards of Alara)
Steve Prescott

From her sunsail tent high above the forest floor, an elf harkener can hear the footfalls of a single creature through the cacophony of Naya's jungle sounds.

Vigilante Justice (Commander 2020)
Steve Prescott

Whenever a Human you control enters, this enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

It begins as a whisper and ends with the red roar of fire.

Fauna Shaman (Magic 2011)
Steve Prescott

{G}, {T}, Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

She wears the talismans of every creature she can evoke.

Garruk's Horde (Magic 2014)
Steve Prescott

Trample Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may cast creature spells from the top of your library. (Do this only any time you could cast that creature spell. You still pay the spell's costs.)

Intercessor's Arrest (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Steve Prescott

Enchant permanent Enchanted permanent can't attack, block, or crew Vehicles. Its activated abilities can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Frondland Felidar (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance Creatures you control with vigilance have "{1}, {T}: Tap target creature."

Hallowed Spiritkeeper (Commander 2014)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance When this creature dies, create X 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Reckless Scholar (Innistrad Remastered)
Steve Prescott

{T}: Target player draws a card, then discards a card.

Progress comes at a price.

Rampaging Baloths (Iconic Masters)
Steve Prescott

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

"When the land is angry, so are they." —Nissa Revane

Nessian Courser (Theros)
Steve Prescott

Khestes the Adamant, the Champion's closest ally among the centaurs, took one stone to his shoulder and another to his flank. He held his stride and his aim, and let fly the arrow that killed the giant Grinthax. —*The Theriad*

Open the Armory (Commander Legends)
Steve Prescott

Search your library for an Aura or Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"Once Avacyn returned, I hoped I'd never need these things again. I didn't think I'd be dusting them off to use against angels."

Merfolk Thaumaturgist (Planar Chaos)
Steve Prescott

{T}: Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

"Blasted fishtails! It's not enough that they meddle with my head, but they twist my body as well." —Tahngarth of the *Weatherlight*

Zurgo, Thunder's Decree (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)
Steve Prescott

Mobilize 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, create two tapped and attacking 1/1 red Warrior creature tokens. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step.) During your end step, Warrior tokens you control have "This token can't be sacrificed."

"Hear me, Mardu! Our freedom is only beginning!"

Imperial Recovery Unit (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Steve Prescott

Whenever this Vehicle attacks, return target creature or Vehicle card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand. Crew 2 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Dragonlord's Servant (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Steve Prescott

Dragon spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Atarka serving-goblins coat themselves with grease imbued with noxious herbs, hoping to discourage their ravenous masters from adding them to the meal.

Spinerock Knoll (New Capenna Commander)
Steve Prescott

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if an opponent was dealt 7 or more damage this turn.

Elite Scaleguard (Commander 2016)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.

Slaughterhorn (Modern Masters 2017)
Steve Prescott

Bloodrush — {G}, Discard this card: Target attacking creature gets +3/+2 until end of turn.

The Orzhov clergy would never cross its path, but sending thrull couriers to do so is cheap and entertaining.

Rotted Ones, Lay Siege (Archenemy Schemes)
Steve Prescott

When you set this scheme in motion, for each opponent, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token that attacks that player each combat if able.

"Don't come back until you've got brains in your teeth."

Mighty Emergence (Shards of Alara)
Steve Prescott

Whenever a creature you control with power 5 or greater enters, you may put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Why settle for mere enormity?

Abzan Guide (Khans of Tarkir)
Steve Prescott

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Morph {2}{W}{B}{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.)

"These roads are desolate and changeable. Follow me, or die in the wastes."

Jalira, Master Polymorphist (Masters 25)
Steve Prescott

{2}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonlegendary creature card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

"You can become anything if I just put my mind to it."

Thoughtweft Gambit (Shadowmoor)
Steve Prescott

Tap all creatures your opponents control and untap all creatures you control.

The kithkin mind-bond is even tighter in Shadowmoor, reinforcing the unity of their community to the point of xenophobia.

Thopter Engineer (Commander 2018)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Artifact creatures you control have haste. (They can attack and {T} as soon as they come under your control.)

Showstopper (Dragon's Maze)
Steve Prescott

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain "When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to target creature an opponent controls."

The audience quickly realized a few things: it wasn't a magic trick, there wasn't candy in there, and they'd need new clothes.

Guttersnipe (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

He wants to watch Ravnica burn, one soul at a time.

Rampaging Baloths (Commander 2019)
Steve Prescott

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

"When the land is angry, so are they." —Nissa Revane

Forest (Shadowmoor)
Steve Prescott

({T}: Add {G}.)

Grasping Scoundrel (Core Set 2019)
Steve Prescott

Пока Алчный Головорез атакует, он получает +1/+0.

«Я уже слышу, как зовет добыча. Она зовет меня по имени».

Spinerock Knoll (Lorwyn)
Steve Prescott

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if an opponent was dealt 7 or more damage this turn.

Riddlekeeper (Commander 2011)
Steve Prescott

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller mills two cards.

Fools surrender their sanity to his riddles. Even greater fools try to solve them.

Flamekin Harbinger (Planechase)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an Elemental card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Rampaging Baloths (Commander 2014)
Steve Prescott

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

"When the land is angry, so are they." —Nissa Revane

Kami of Transience (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos)
Steve Prescott

Trample Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of each end step, if an enchantment was put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Guttersnipe (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

He wants to watch Ravnica burn, one soul at a time.

Boggart Harbinger (The List)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Goblin card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Gyome, Master Chef (Commander 2021)
Steve Prescott

Trample At the beginning of your end step, create a number of Food tokens equal to the number of nontoken creatures you had enter under your control this turn. {1}, Sacrifice a Food: Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Enlisted Wurm (The List)
Steve Prescott

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

A match for any army—even its own.

Boggart Harbinger (Lorwyn)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Goblin card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Elite Scaleguard (Zendikar Rising Commander)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.

Rampaging Baloths (Zendikar Rising Commander)
Steve Prescott

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

"When the land is angry, so are they." —Nissa Revane

Shadow Glider (Battle for Zendikar)
Steve Prescott

Flying

A few bands of kor sought refuge from the Eldrazi in Zendikar's vast cave networks, relying on their ability to survive in harsh vertical landscapes.

Zealous Conscripts (Innistrad Remastered)
Steve Prescott

Haste When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap that permanent. It gains haste until end of turn.

Kami of Transience (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Steve Prescott

Trample Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of each end step, if an enchantment was put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Mistwalker (The List)
Steve Prescott

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Flying {1}{U}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

"To escape Littjara, follow a bird." —Tuskeri folklore

Goldmeadow Harrier (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
Steve Prescott

{W}, {T}: Tappe eine Kreatur deiner Wahl.

„Es ist eine erwiesene Tatsache, dass die Steine von der Morgendämmerungsseite des Flusses besser in der Schleuder liegen und sowohl weiter als auch genauer fliegen." —Deagan, Schulze von Burrenton

Body Double (Planar Chaos)
Steve Prescott

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature card in a graveyard.

Where the dead outnumbered the living, mimics scavenged faces from the fallen.

Stonehewer Giant (Double Masters)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance {1}{W}, {T}: Search your library for an Equipment card, put it onto the battlefield, attach it to a creature you control, then shuffle.

"No matter how strong, an unarmed fighter is no more than a fool."

Descent of the Dragons (Dragons of Tarkir)
Steve Prescott

Destroy any number of target creatures. For each creature destroyed this way, its controller creates a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying.

Dragons emerge from tempests fully formed and terribly hungry.

Malamet Veteran (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Steve Prescott

Trample Descend 4 — Whenever this creature attacks, if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

The mightiest Malamet warriors train as titan-killers, elite champions capable of facing down the caverns' most fearsome beasts.

Wily Goblin (Ixalan)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Goblins climb and swing with ease, whether through a pirate ship's rigging or a tree's branches.

Roon of the Hidden Realm (Commander 2013)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance, trample {2}, {T}: Exile another target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"Time and space are just new battlefields to be mastered."

Mistwalker (Jumpstart 2022)
Steve Prescott

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Flying {1}{U}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

"To escape Littjara, follow a bird." —Tuskeri folklore

Runed Halo (Core Set 2021)
Steve Prescott

As this enchantment enters, choose a card name. You have protection from the chosen card name. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything with that name.)

Mistwalker (Kaldheim)
Steve Prescott

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Flying {1}{U}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

"To escape Littjara, follow a bird." —Tuskeri folklore

Orcish Lumberjack (Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters)
Steve Prescott

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

"Wood is wasted in the dirt." —Orcish proverb

Open the Armory (Shadows over Innistrad)
Steve Prescott

Search your library for an Aura or Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"Once Avacyn returned, I hoped I'd never need these things again. I didn't think I'd be dusting them off to use against angels."

Stonehewer Giant (Modern Masters)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance {1}{W}, {T}: Search your library for an Equipment card, put it onto the battlefield, attach it to a creature you control, then shuffle.

"No matter how strong, an unarmed fighter is no more than a fool."

Runed Halo (Core Set 2021)
Steve Prescott

As this enchantment enters, choose a card name. You have protection from the chosen card name. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything with that name.)

Affectionate Indrik (Foundations)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, you may have it fight target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

The problem isn't the indrik's enthusiasm, it's Ravnica's lack of guardrails.

Silent-Blade Oni (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Steve Prescott

Ninjutsu {4}{U}{B} ({4}{U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand. You may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

Merrow Harbinger (Lorwyn)
Steve Prescott

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Merfolk card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Steve Prescott

Enchanter's Bane (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Steve Prescott

At the beginning of your end step, target enchantment deals damage equal to its mana value to its controller unless that player sacrifices it.

Those who fail to respect power will soon be consumed by it.

Dig Through Time (Secret Lair Drop)
Steve Prescott

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

No matter how deep the treasure is buried, Hunter can always sniff it out.

Zealous Conscripts (Avacyn Restored)
Steve Prescott

Haste When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap that permanent. It gains haste until end of turn.

Terisian Mindbreaker (The Brothers' War)
Steve Prescott

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player mills half their library, rounded up. Unearth {1}{U}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}{U}: 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.)

Dragonlord's Servant (Foundations)
Steve Prescott

Dragon spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Atarka serving-goblins coat themselves with grease imbued with noxious herbs, hoping to discourage their ravenous masters from adding them to the meal.

Shriekmaw (Lorwyn Promos)
Steve Prescott

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Valley Questcaller (Bloomburrow Promos)
Steve Prescott

Whenever one or more other Rabbits, Bats, Birds, and/or Mice you control enter, scry 1. Other Rabbits, Bats, Birds, and Mice you control get +1/+1.

No battle is fought, or won, alone.

Which of You Burns Brightest? (Archenemy Schemes)
Steve Prescott

When you set this scheme in motion, you may pay {X}. If you do, this scheme deals X damage to target opponent or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.

"Let that be a lesson to you, your family, and everyone you've ever known."

Warteye Witch (Modern Horizons)
Steve Prescott

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, scry 1.

Eyeballs that portend unpleasant futures become slimy snacks instead.

Stonehewer Giant (The List)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance {1}{W}, {T}: Search your library for an Equipment card, put it onto the battlefield, attach it to a creature you control, then shuffle.

"No matter how strong, an unarmed fighter is no more than a fool."

Contradict (The List)
Steve Prescott

Counter target spell. Draw a card.

Those who question Ojutai may not like the answers they receive.

Mana Vault (Double Masters 2022)
Steve Prescott

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact. At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Thriving Grubs (Kaladesh)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay {E}{E}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Some passengers ride without tickets.

Flamekin Harbinger (The List)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an Elemental card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Runed Halo (Ultimate Masters)
Steve Prescott

As this enchantment enters, choose a card name. You have protection from the chosen card name. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything with that name.)

Wilt-Leaf Cavaliers (Shadowmoor)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance

Every elf in Shadowmoor is charged from birth with a terrible duty: to strike back against the ugliness and darkness, even though they are all around and seemingly without end.

Vodalian Mindsinger (Dominaria United)
Steve Prescott

Kicker {1}{R} and/or {1}{G} This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it for each time it was kicked. When this creature enters, gain control of target creature with power less than this creature's power for as long as you control this creature.

Lightform (Fate Reforged)
Steve Prescott

When this enchantment enters, it becomes an Aura with enchant creature. Manifest the top card of your library and attach this enchantment to it. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Enchanted creature has flying and lifelink.

Zephyr Charge (Core Set 2020)
Steve Prescott

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

"The knights charged forward on wings of wind, and the necromancer's horde roared in helpless rage." —Krinnea, *Siege of the Bone Spire*

Valley Questcaller (Bloomburrow)
Steve Prescott

Whenever one or more other Rabbits, Bats, Birds, and/or Mice you control enter, scry 1. Other Rabbits, Bats, Birds, and Mice you control get +1/+1.

No battle is fought, or won, alone.

Press for Answers (Shadows over Innistrad)
Steve Prescott

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Silent-Blade Oni (Planechase Anthology)
Steve Prescott

Ninjutsu {4}{U}{B} ({4}{U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand. You may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

Guttersnipe (Ravnica Remastered)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

He wants to watch Ravnica burn, one soul at a time.

Beast (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas Tokens)
Steve Prescott

Wind Drake (Magic 2013)
Steve Prescott

Flying

A smaller cousin to the dragon, drakes are often seen at the side of powerful wizards who use them as airborne eyes and ears.

Shriekmaw (The List)
Steve Prescott

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Spinerock Knoll (Commander 2020)
Steve Prescott

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if an opponent was dealt 7 or more damage this turn.

Terisian Mindbreaker (The Brothers' War)
Steve Prescott

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player mills half their library, rounded up. Unearth {1}{U}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}{U}: 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.)

Crowned Ceratok (Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters)
Steve Prescott

Trample Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

The best way to calm a rampaging ceratok is to wait until it dies of natural causes.

Yotian Dissident (The Brothers' War)
Steve Prescott

Whenever an artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

"I joined this war to protect my homeland, not to destroy someone else's."

Knollspine Dragon (Shadowmoor)
Steve Prescott

Flying When this creature enters, you may discard your hand and draw cards equal to the damage dealt to target opponent this turn.

It woke to find a vast world in need of a master.

Affectionate Indrik (The List)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, you may have it fight target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

The problem isn't the indrik's enthusiasm, it's Ravnica's lack of guardrails.

Hurly-Burly (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Steve Prescott

Choose one — • Hurly-Burly deals 1 damage to each creature without flying. • Hurly-Burly deals 1 damage to each creature with flying.

Canyon Minotaur (Magic 2010)
Steve Prescott

"We'll scale these cliffs, traverse Brittle Bridge, and then fight our way down the volcanic slopes on the other side." "Isn't the shortest route through the canyon?" "Yes." "So shouldn't we—" "No."

Kronch Wrangler (War of the Spark)
Steve Prescott

Trample Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Looking over two city blocks of destruction, he could only cackle with pride.

Behemoth Sledge (Commander 2013)
Steve Prescott

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

Those who worship the great gargantuans could hardly be expected to fight with a subtle weapon.

Reckless Scholar (Conspiracy)
Steve Prescott

{T}: Target player draws a card, then discards a card.

"Any good prospector must sift the gold from the sand."

Ambassador Oak (Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.

Treefolk and elves share a common interest in the forests, but really the elves just feel at home with the view from above.

Hydrosurge (Magic 2013)
Steve Prescott

Target creature gets -5/-0 until end of turn.

"Thirsty?" —Drunvalus, hydromancer

Warteye Witch (The List)
Steve Prescott

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, scry 1.

Eyeballs that portend unpleasant futures become slimy snacks instead.

Battlefront Krushok (Fate Reforged)
Steve Prescott

This creature can't be blocked by more than one creature. Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it can't be blocked by more than one creature.

Krushoks clear debris from fertile fields, fallow fields, and battlefields.

Thud-for-Duds (Unstable)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you crank this Contraption, roll two six-sided dice. This Contraption deals damage to target creature equal to the difference between those results.

Trumpet Blast (Core Set 2019)
Steve Prescott

Attacking creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn.

The sound of the trumpets lights a fire in the hearts of the bold and snuffs the courage of the cowardly.

Abzan Guide (The List)
Steve Prescott

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Morph {2}{W}{B}{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.)

"These roads are desolate and changeable. Follow me, or die in the wastes."

Zealous Conscripts (Modern Masters 2017)
Steve Prescott

Haste When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap that permanent. It gains haste until end of turn.

Spinerock Knoll (The List)
Steve Prescott

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if an opponent was dealt 7 or more damage this turn.

Gideon's Lawkeeper (Modern Masters 2017)
Steve Prescott

{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

"The essence of a lawful society is swift deterrence."

Arrow Storm (Khans of Tarkir)
Steve Prescott

Arrow Storm deals 4 damage to any target. Raid — If you attacked this turn, instead Arrow Storm deals 5 damage to that permanent or player and the damage can't be prevented.

First the thunder, then the rain.

Elite Scaleguard (Midnight Hunt Commander)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.

Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea (The Brothers' War)
Steve Prescott

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creature sources. Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on Gwenna and untap it.

Minimus Containment (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Steve Prescott

Enchant nonland permanent Enchanted permanent is a Treasure artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color," and it loses all other abilities. (If it was a creature, it's no longer a creature.)

Seasoned Pyromancer (Double Masters 2022)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, discard two cards, then draw two cards. For each nonland card discarded this way, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token. {3}{R}{R}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create two 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens.

Fleetfeather Sandals (Theros)
Steve Prescott

Equipped creature has flying and haste. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"The gods gave us no wings to fly, but they gave us an even greater gift: imagination." —Daxos of Meletis

Nav Squad Commandos (Gatecrash)
Steve Prescott

Battalion — Whenever this creature and at least two other creatures attack, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Untap it.

Funded by the Azorius to keep current maps of the undercity, the Boros nav squads survey even the most unsavory areas.

Contradict (Dragons of Tarkir)
Steve Prescott

Counter target spell. Draw a card.

Those who question Ojutai may not like the answers they receive.

Reckoner Bankbuster (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Steve Prescott

This Vehicle enters with three charge counters on it. {2}, {T}, Remove a charge counter from this Vehicle: Draw a card. Then if there are no charge counters on this Vehicle, create a Treasure token and a 1/1 colorless Pilot creature token with "This token crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater." Crew 3

Reckoner Bankbuster (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos)
Steve Prescott

This Vehicle enters with three charge counters on it. {2}, {T}, Remove a charge counter from this Vehicle: Draw a card. Then if there are no charge counters on this Vehicle, create a Treasure token and a 1/1 colorless Pilot creature token with "This token crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater." Crew 3

Battlefront Krushok (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Steve Prescott

This creature can't be blocked by more than one creature. Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it can't be blocked by more than one creature.

Krushoks clear debris from fertile fields, fallow fields, and battlefields.

Head Banger (Unstable)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you crank this Contraption, target creature must be blocked this turn if able.

Satyr Wayfinder (Ultimate Masters)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

The first satyr to wake after a revel must search for the site of the next one.

Satyr Wayfinder (Zendikar Rising Commander)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

The first satyr to wake after a revel must search for the site of the next one.

Rampaging Baloths (Zendikar)
Steve Prescott

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

"When the land is angry, so are they." —Nissa Revane

Shriekmaw (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Steve Prescott

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Trumpet Blast (Khans of Tarkir)
Steve Prescott

Attacking creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn.

"Do you hear that, Sarkhan? The glory of the horde! I made a legend from what you abandoned." —Zurgo, khan of the Mardu

Fauna Shaman (Ultimate Masters)
Steve Prescott

{G}, {T}, Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

She wears the talismans of every creature she can evoke.

Roon of the Hidden Realm (Commander Anthology)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance, trample {2}, {T}: Exile another target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"Time and space are just new battlefields to be mastered."

Soldier (Magic Origins Tokens)
Steve Prescott

Affectionate Indrik (Jumpstart)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, you may have it fight target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

The problem isn't the indrik's enthusiasm, it's Ravnica's lack of guardrails.

Ambassador Oak (Jumpstart)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.

Treefolk and elves share a common interest in the forests, but really the elves just feel at home with the view from above.

Garruk, Caller of Beasts (San Diego Comic-Con 2013)
Steve Prescott

+1: Reveal the top five cards of your library. Put all creature cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. −3: You may put a green creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. −7: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may search your library for a creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle."

Precinct Captain (Return to Ravnica)
Steve Prescott

First strike Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

"In troubled times, we all need someone to watch our back."

Reckless Scholar (Foundations Jumpstart)
Steve Prescott

{T}: Target player draws a card, then discards a card.

Progress comes at a price.

Gluttonous Cyclops (Journey into Nyx)
Steve Prescott

{5}{R}{R}: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

The cyclops had learned to never eat a shepherd. Instead he gently flung the "pit" aside to grow a new flock.

Soldier (Return to Ravnica Tokens)
Steve Prescott

Gideon's Lawkeeper (Magic 2012)
Steve Prescott

{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

"The essence of a lawful society is swift deterrence."

Ember Hauler (Core Set 2020)
Steve Prescott

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 2 damage to any target.

Not every job in the goblin army is glamorous. Actually, *no* job in the goblin army is glamorous.

Precinct Captain (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Kiora)
Steve Prescott

First strike Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

"In troubled times, we all need someone to watch our back."

Xathrid Slyblade (Magic 2015)
Steve Prescott

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) {3}{B}: Until end of turn, this creature loses hexproof and gains first strike and deathtouch. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike. Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Designed by Rob Pardo

Roon of the Hidden Realm (Double Masters 2022)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance, trample {2}, {T}: Exile another target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"Time and space are just new battlefields to be mastered."

Gryffwing Cavalry (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Steve Prescott

Flying Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay {1}{W}. If you do, target attacking creature without flying gains flying until end of turn.

Hellhole Flailer (Return to Ravnica)
Steve Prescott

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.) {2}{B}{R}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals damage equal to its power to target player or planeswalker.

Hanweir Lancer (Modern Masters 2017)
Steve Prescott

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 first strike.

Spinerock Knoll (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Steve Prescott

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if an opponent was dealt 7 or more damage this turn.

Shriekmaw (Ultimate Masters)
Steve Prescott

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Satyr Wayfinder (Magic 2015)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

The first satyr to wake after a revel must search for the site of the next one.

Siege Dragon (Magic 2015 Promos)
Steve Prescott

Flying When this creature enters, destroy all Walls your opponents control. Whenever this creature attacks, if defending player controls no Walls, it deals 2 damage to each creature without flying that player controls.

Orcish Lumberjack (The List)
Steve Prescott

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

"Wood is wasted in the dirt." —Orcish proverb

Giant Harbinger (Lorwyn)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Giant card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Shriekmaw (Time Spiral Remastered)
Steve Prescott

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Buzz Buggy (Unstable)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you crank this Contraption, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

Elite Scaleguard (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.

Dragonlord's Servant (Foundations Jumpstart)
Steve Prescott

Dragon spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Atarka serving-goblins coat themselves with grease imbued with noxious herbs, hoping to discourage their ravenous masters from adding them to the meal.

Akroan Phalanx (The List)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance {2}{R}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Shields up, spears out, heels set, hearts firm.

Grasping Scoundrel (Rivals of Ixalan)
Steve Prescott

This creature gets +1/+0 as long as it's attacking.

"I can hear the plunder calling. It asks for me by name."

Obelisk of Naya (Shards of Alara)
Steve Prescott

{T}: Add {R}, {G}, or {W}.

Centuries have passed since the plane shattered, yet the obelisks of each shard faithfully serve their long-forgotten purpose.

Battle Rampart (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Steve Prescott

Defender {T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

"I will build no sanctuaries. The safety you seek can be won only by the sword." —Yannash, outpost builder

Ghoulraiser (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, return a Zombie card at random from your graveyard to your hand.

"Come. Bring your brothers. Tonight, you feast on living flesh." —Jadar, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Akroan Phalanx (Born of the Gods)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance {2}{R}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Shields up, spears out, heels set, hearts firm.

Shattering Blow (Gatecrash)
Steve Prescott

Exile target artifact.

"Aurelia seems too eager to solve her problems by delivering them to oblivion." —Prime Speaker Zegana

Canyon Minotaur (Conflux)
Steve Prescott

On Jund, the deep canyons were the best places to hide. When the goblins wandered into Naya, they found that was not so true.

Grasping Scoundrel (Core Set 2019)
Steve Prescott

This creature gets +1/+0 as long as it's attacking.

"I can hear the plunder calling. It asks for me by name."

Jeering Homunculus (Game Night: Free-for-All)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, you may goad target creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Mklthd had always hated crowds . . . and they had always hated him.

Guttersnipe (Return to Ravnica)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

He wants to watch Ravnica burn, one soul at a time.

Rampaging Baloths (Commander 2013)
Steve Prescott

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

"When the land is angry, so are they." —Nissa Revane

Satyr Wayfinder (Commander 2016)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

The first satyr to wake after a revel must search for the site of the next one.

Liliana of the Dark Realms (San Diego Comic-Con 2013)
Steve Prescott

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. −3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control. −6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Silent-Blade Oni (New Capenna Commander)
Steve Prescott

Ninjutsu {4}{U}{B} ({4}{U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand. You may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

Shriekmaw (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Steve Prescott

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Gideon's Lawkeeper (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Steve Prescott

{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

"The essence of a lawful society is swift deterrence."

Thopter Engineer (Double Masters)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Artifact creatures you control have haste. (They can attack and {T} as soon as they come under your control.)

Garbage Fire (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Steve Prescott

Reveal this card as you draft it and note how many cards you've drafted this draft round, including this card. Garbage Fire deals damage to target creature equal to the highest number you noted for cards named Garbage Fire.

Woodland Acolyte (Wilds of Eldraine)
Steve Prescott

He left knighthood behind to heal the scars of the invasion.

Shriekmaw (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Steve Prescott

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Mountain (Shadowmoor)
Steve Prescott

({T}: Add {R}.)

Jeering Homunculus (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, you may goad target creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Mklthd had always hated crowds . . . and they had always hated him.

Satyr Wayfinder (Commander 2020)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

The first satyr to wake after a revel must search for the site of the next one.

Dance, Pathetic Marionette (Archenemy Schemes)
Steve Prescott

When you set this scheme in motion, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. Choose one of the revealed creature cards and put it onto the battlefield under your control. Put all other cards revealed this way into their owners' graveyards.

Elite Scaleguard (Commander Masters)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.

Ember Hauler (Duel Decks: Merfolk vs. Goblins)
Steve Prescott

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 2 damage to any target.

Flurk's crude goblin language didn't differentiate between "I *bring* the flame" and "I *am* the flame."

Titanic Ultimatum (Shards of Alara)
Steve Prescott

Until end of turn, creatures you control get +5/+5 and gain first strike, trample, and lifelink.

"Retribution is best delivered by claws and rage, with both magnified." —Ajani

Shriekmaw (Commander 2015)
Steve Prescott

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Frondland Felidar (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Promos)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance Creatures you control with vigilance have "{1}, {T}: Tap target creature."

"Fear not the behemoth heard from miles away. Fear the stalking felidar, which reveals itself only for the kill." —Rielle, the Everwise

My Wish Is Your Command (Archenemy Schemes)
Steve Prescott

When you set this scheme in motion, each opponent reveals their hand. You may choose a noncreature, nonland card revealed this way and cast it without paying its mana cost.

"Indulge me. Just one spell. One potentially fatal spell gone horribly awry."

Crowned Ceratok (Iconic Masters)
Steve Prescott

Trample Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

The best way to calm a rampaging ceratok is to wait until it dies of natural causes.

Kithkin Harbinger (Lorwyn)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Kithkin card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Her ears are open to even the softest voice.

Shriekmaw (Archenemy)
Steve Prescott

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Parallel Lives (Innistrad)
Steve Prescott

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

"There will come a time when the only prey left will be each other." —Ulrich of Krallenhorde Pack

Merrow Harbinger (The List)
Steve Prescott

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Merfolk card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Runed Halo (Core Set 2021 Promos)
Steve Prescott

As this enchantment enters, choose a card name. You have protection from the chosen card name. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything with that name.)

Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea (The Brothers' War Promos)
Steve Prescott

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creature sources. Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on Gwenna and untap it.

Camellia, the Seedmiser (Bloomburrow)
Steve Prescott

Menace Other Squirrels you control have menace. Whenever you sacrifice one or more Foods, create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token. {2}, Forage: Put a +1/+1 counter on each other Squirrel you control. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food.)

Augury Adept (Commander 2013)
Steve Prescott

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You gain life equal to its mana value.

Moonstones grant limited foresight but unlimited advantages.

Bamboo Grove Archer (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Steve Prescott

Defender, reach Channel — {4}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target creature with flying.

"Do not mistake tranquility for domestication. This land is wild, and will always remain so."

Ambassador Oak (Morningtide)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.

Treefolk and elves share a common interest in the forests, but really the elves just feel at home with the view from above.

Hanweir Lancer (Avacyn Restored)
Steve Prescott

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 first strike.

Incinerate (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra)
Steve Prescott

Incinerate deals 3 damage to any target. A creature dealt damage this way can't be regenerated this turn.

"Who said there are no assurances in life? I assure you this is going to hurt."

Enchanter's Bane (Commander 2018)
Steve Prescott

At the beginning of your end step, target enchantment deals damage equal to its mana value to its controller unless that player sacrifices it.

Those who fail to respect power will soon be consumed by it.

Goldmeadow Harrier (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
Steve Prescott

{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

"It's a proven fact that sling-stones from the dawn side of the riverbank sail the farthest and truest." —Deagan, cenn of Burrenton

Sapphire Drake (Gatecrash)
Steve Prescott

Flying Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying.

Sapphire drakes can communicate over great distances, their calls resonating in the gems fixed in their skulls.

Greta, Sweettooth Scourge (Wilds of Eldraine)
Steve Prescott

When Greta enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") {G}, Sacrifice a Food: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery. {1}{B}, Sacrifice a Food: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

In the Presence of Ages (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Steve Prescott

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

"Finally, those glowing purple bone-monsters are gone and we can get back to the real excitement: archaeology!" —Quintorius Kand

Increasing Savagery (Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might)
Steve Prescott

Put five +1/+1 counters on target creature. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, put ten +1/+1 counters on that creature instead. Flashback {5}{G}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

True Polymorph (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Steve Prescott

Target artifact or creature becomes a copy of another target artifact or creature.

Battlewand Oak (Lorwyn)
Steve Prescott

Whenever a Forest you control enters, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Whenever you cast a Treefolk spell, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Slaughter Games (Return to Ravnica)
Steve Prescott

This spell can't be countered. Choose a nonland card name. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Wren's Run Packmaster (Lorwyn Promos)
Steve Prescott

Champion an Elf (When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you exile another Elf you control. When this creature leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.) {2}{G}: Create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token. Wolves you control have deathtouch.

Twenty-Toed Toad (Bloomburrow Commander)
Steve Prescott

Your maximum hand size is twenty. Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, put a +1/+1 counter on Twenty-Toed Toad and draw a card. Whenever Twenty-Toed Toad attacks, you win the game if there are twenty or more counters on it or you have twenty or more cards in hand.

Beast (Commander Anthology Tokens)
Steve Prescott

Shriekmaw (Lorwyn)
Steve Prescott

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Ambassador Oak (The List)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.

Treefolk and elves share a common interest in the forests, but really the elves just feel at home with the view from above.

Ranger's Guile (Innistrad)
Steve Prescott

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

In the remote corners of Kessig, protection is found in secret powers unknown to the Church of Avacyn.

Incinerate (Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra)
Steve Prescott

Incinerate deals 3 damage to any target. A creature dealt damage this way can't be regenerated this turn.

"Who said there are no assurances in life? I assure you this is going to hurt."

Elvish Vanguard (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Inventors)
Steve Prescott

Whenever another Elf enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"Our lives are woven together like the trees' branches over our heads, forming a canopy that protects us all."

Flamekin Harbinger (Lorwyn)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an Elemental card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Chainer, Nightmare Adept (Commander 2019)
Steve Prescott

Discard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.

Grasping Scoundrel (The List)
Steve Prescott

This creature gets +1/+0 as long as it's attacking.

"I can hear the plunder calling. It asks for me by name."

Elvish Vanguard (Eternal Masters)
Steve Prescott

Whenever another Elf enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"Our lives are woven together like the trees' branches over our heads, forming a canopy that protects us all."

Elite Scaleguard (The List)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.

Hallowed Spiritkeeper (Crimson Vow Commander)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance When this creature dies, create X 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Battletide Alchemist (Morningtide)
Steve Prescott

If a source would deal damage to a player, you may prevent X of that damage, where X is the number of Clerics you control.

"I do not heal. Healing means that the pain has already been felt. To stop suffering, one must prevent the world's wounds altogether."

Timely Hordemate (Khans of Tarkir)
Steve Prescott

Raid — When this creature enters, if you attacked this turn, return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Brigid, Hero of Kinsbaile (Lorwyn)
Steve Prescott

First strike {T}: Brigid deals 2 damage to each attacking or blocking creature target player controls.

Thanks to one champion archer, the true borders of Kinsbaile extend an arrow's flight beyond the buildings.

Hugs, Grisly Guardian (Bloomburrow)
Steve Prescott

Trample When Hugs enters, exile the top X cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Most of his scars tell tales. A few tell jokes.

Zealous Conscripts (Time Spiral Remastered)
Steve Prescott

Haste When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap that permanent. It gains haste until end of turn.

Deep-Slumber Titan (Shadowmoor)
Steve Prescott

This creature enters tapped. This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Whenever this creature is dealt damage, untap it.

Do not disturb.

Slaughterhorn (Gatecrash)
Steve Prescott

Bloodrush — {G}, Discard this card: Target attacking creature gets +3/+2 until end of turn.

The Orzhov clergy would never cross its path, but sending thrull couriers to do so is cheap and entertaining.

Runed Halo (Shadowmoor)
Steve Prescott

As this enchantment enters, choose a card name. You have protection from the chosen card name. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything with that name.)

Hagi Mob (Kaldheim)
Steve Prescott

Boast — {1}{R}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

"Graarg!"

Goblin Battle Jester (Magic 2013)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you cast a red spell, target creature can't block this turn.

Somehow goblins found a tactical advantage by sending a clown to war.

Reckoner Bankbuster (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Steve Prescott

This Vehicle enters with three charge counters on it. {2}, {T}, Remove a charge counter from this Vehicle: Draw a card. Then if there are no charge counters on this Vehicle, create a Treasure token and a 1/1 colorless Pilot creature token with "This token crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater." Crew 3

Battlewand Oak (The List)
Steve Prescott

Whenever a Forest you control enters, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Whenever you cast a Treefolk spell, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Dragonlord's Servant (Starter Commander Decks)
Steve Prescott

Dragon spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Atarka serving-goblins coat themselves with grease imbued with noxious herbs, hoping to discourage their ravenous masters from adding them to the meal.

Hard Hat Area (Unstable)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you crank this Contraption, roll two six-sided dice. This Contraption assembles a number of Contraptions equal to the difference between those results. (To assemble a Contraption, put the top card of your Contraption deck face up onto one of your sprockets.)

Kami of Transience (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Steve Prescott

Trample Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of each end step, if an enchantment was put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Gilt-Leaf Archdruid (Morningtide)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you cast a Druid spell, you may draw a card. Tap seven untapped Druids you control: Gain control of all lands target player controls.

"In our hands, the natural world finds more beauty than nature alone could ever provide."

Crowned Ceratok (The List)
Steve Prescott

Trample Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

The best way to calm a rampaging ceratok is to wait until it dies of natural causes.

Phyrexian Fleshgorger (The Brothers' War)
Steve Prescott

Prototype {1}{B}{B} — 3/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.) Menace, lifelink Ward—Pay life equal to this creature's power.

Rampaging Baloths (Commander Anthology)
Steve Prescott

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

"When the land is angry, so are they." —Nissa Revane

Bloodrage Vampire (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
Steve Prescott

Bloodthirst 1 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

The most genteel facades hide the most abominable desires.

Silver Knight (Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons)
Steve Prescott

First strike, protection from red

"Hammer out your doubts as you forge your weapon. To slay a dragon, your resolve must be stronger than your steel."

Beast (Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana Tokens)
Steve Prescott

Increasing Savagery (Dark Ascension)
Steve Prescott

Put five +1/+1 counters on target creature. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, put ten +1/+1 counters on that creature instead. Flashback {5}{G}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Ruinous Gremlin (The List)
Steve Prescott

{2}{R}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact.

City officials once sent twenty gleaming automatons to exterminate a nest of gremlins. They soon saw the error of their ways.

Slaughter-Priest of Mogis (Theros Beyond Death)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. {2}, Sacrifice another creature or an enchantment: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"Mogis is pleased by this offering. Bring him more!"

Gilt-Leaf Ambush (Lorwyn)
Steve Prescott

Create two 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens. Clash with an opponent. If you win, those creatures gain deathtouch until end of turn. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value. Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Resounding Roar (Shards of Alara)
Steve Prescott

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Cycling {5}{R}{G}{W} ({5}{R}{G}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, target creature gets +6/+6 until end of turn.

Camellia, the Seedmiser (Bloomburrow Promos)
Steve Prescott

Menace Other Squirrels you control have menace. Whenever you sacrifice one or more Foods, create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token. {2}, Forage: Put a +1/+1 counter on each other Squirrel you control. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food.)

Behemoth Sledge (Commander 2017)
Steve Prescott

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

Those who worship the great gargantuans could hardly be expected to fight with a subtle weapon.

True Polymorph (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Steve Prescott

Target artifact or creature becomes a copy of another target artifact or creature.

Maybe a little *too* convincing.

Titanic Ultimatum (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Steve Prescott

Until end of turn, creatures you control get +5/+5 and gain first strike, trample, and lifelink.

"Retribution is best delivered by claws and rage, with both magnified." —Ajani

Sibsig Host (Fate Reforged)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, each player mills three cards.

"They were your friends, your family, your clan. They want only to welcome you." —Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Canyon Minotaur (Magic 2011)
Steve Prescott

"We'll scale these cliffs, traverse Brittle Bridge, and then fight our way down the volcanic slopes on the other side." "Isn't the shortest route through the canyon?" "Yes." "So shouldn't we—" "No."

Satyr Wayfinder (Commander Anthology)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

The first satyr to wake after a revel must search for the site of the next one.

Shriekmaw (Commander 2011)
Steve Prescott

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Knollspine Dragon (Game Night: Free-for-All)
Steve Prescott

Flying When this creature enters, you may discard your hand and draw cards equal to the damage dealt to target opponent this turn.

It woke to find a vast world in need of a master.

Satyr Wayfinder (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

The first satyr to wake after a revel must search for the site of the next one.

Hugs, Grisly Guardian (Bloomburrow Promos)
Steve Prescott

Trample When Hugs enters, exile the top X cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Most of his scars tell tales. A few tell jokes.

Yule Ooze (Happy Holidays)
Steve Prescott

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy another nonland permanent chosen at random, then put a number of +1/+1 counters on Yule Ooze equal to that permanent's converted mana cost. {R}{G}, Eat some food: Regenerate Yule Ooze.

It loves having family for dinner.

Behemoth Sledge (Alara Reborn)
Steve Prescott

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

Those who worship the great gargantuans could hardly be expected to fight with a subtle weapon.

Jeering Homunculus (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, you may goad target creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Mklthd had always hated crowds . . . and they had always hated him.

Ellywick Tumblestrum (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Steve Prescott

+1: Venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.) −2: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. If it's legendary, you gain 3 life. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. −7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control have trample and haste and get +2/+2 for each differently named dungeon you've completed."

Feral Hydra (Shards of Alara)
Steve Prescott

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {3}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Any player may activate this ability.

It shreds its prey as each head fights for the choicest bits.

Hydra Broodmaster (Journey into Nyx)
Steve Prescott

{X}{X}{G}: Monstrosity X. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put X +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) When this creature becomes monstrous, create X X/X green Hydra creature tokens.

Trumpet Blast (Iconic Masters)
Steve Prescott

Attacking creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn.

"Do you hear that, Sarkhan? The glory of the horde! I made a legend from what you abandoned." —Zurgo, khan of the Mardu

Roon of the Hidden Realm (Commander 2013 Oversized)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance, trample {2}, {T}: Exile another target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"Time and space are just new battlefields to be mastered."

Rampaging Baloths (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Steve Prescott

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

"When the land is angry, so are they." —Nissa Revane

Satyr Wayfinder (Commander 2015)
Steve Prescott

When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

The first satyr to wake after a revel must search for the site of the next one.

Boomflinger (Unstable)
Steve Prescott

Whenever you crank this Contraption, roll two six-sided dice. This Contraption deals damage to target player or planeswalker equal to the difference between those results.

Canyon Minotaur (Magic 2014)
Steve Prescott

"We'll scale these cliffs, traverse Brittle Bridge, and then fight our way down the volcanic slopes on the other side." "Isn't the shortest route through the canyon?" "Yes." "So shouldn't we—" "No."

Feral Hydra (Jumpstart)
Steve Prescott

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {3}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Any player may activate this ability.

It shreds its prey as each head fights for the choicest bits.

Beast (Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might Tokens)
Steve Prescott

Beast (Zendikar Tokens)
Steve Prescott

Shriekmaw (Commander 2020)
Steve Prescott

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Ranger's Guile (Core Set 2021)
Steve Prescott

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

"You don't survive in the wild by standing in plain sight." —Garruk Wildspeaker

Hurly-Burly (Lorwyn)
Steve Prescott

Choose one — • Hurly-Burly deals 1 damage to each creature without flying. • Hurly-Burly deals 1 damage to each creature with flying.

"Things were popping like corn in a skillet. Olly landed in the pig pen with his prize sow on top of him, both squealin' like boggarts." —Deagan, cenn of Burrenton

Munda's Vanguard (Oath of the Gatewatch)
Steve Prescott

Cohort — {T}, Tap an untapped Ally you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

"Do not let yourselves fall now. Zendikar is depending on us—on you!"

War Oracle (Magic Origins)
Steve Prescott

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

"When you are felled by my mace, you shall know it was divine fate."

Knollspine Dragon (The List)
Steve Prescott

Flying When this creature enters, you may discard your hand and draw cards equal to the damage dealt to target opponent this turn.

It woke to find a vast world in need of a master.

Stonehewer Giant (Morningtide)
Steve Prescott

Vigilance {1}{W}, {T}: Search your library for an Equipment card, put it onto the battlefield, attach it to a creature you control, then shuffle.

"No matter how strong, an unarmed fighter is no more than a fool."

Feral Hydra (Archenemy)
Steve Prescott

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {3}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Any player may activate this ability.

It shreds its prey as each head fights for the choicest bits.

Give (Dragon's Maze)
Steve Prescott

Feral Hydra (The List)
Steve Prescott

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {3}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Any player may activate this ability.

It shreds its prey as each head fights for the choicest bits.

Kronch Wrangler (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Steve Prescott

Trample Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Looking over two city blocks of destruction, he could only cackle with pride.

Gideon's Lawkeeper (Jumpstart 2022)
Steve Prescott

{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

"The essence of a lawful society is swift deterrence."