Sea Serpent

Sea Serpent (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Sea Serpent (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Sea Serpent (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Sea Serpent (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Sea Serpent (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Sea Serpent (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Sea Serpent (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Sea Serpent (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Sea Serpent (Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Sea Serpent (Fourth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Sea Serpent (Fifth Edition)
Ian Miller

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Sea Serpent (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Battering Ram (Fifth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.) Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Zombie Master (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

They say the Zombie Master controlled these foul creatures even before his own death, but now that he is one of them, nothing can make them betray him.

Bounty of the Hunt (Deckmasters)
Jeff A. Menges

You may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Distribute three +1/+1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures. For each +1/+1 counter you put on a creature this way, remove a +1/+1 counter from that creature at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Divine Offering (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Destroy target artifact. You gain life equal to its mana value.

D'Haren stared at the twisted lump of metal that had been a prized artifact. The fight was getting ugly.

Water Elemental (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Unpredictable as the sea itself, Water Elementals shift without warning from tranquility to tempest. Capricious and fickle, they flow restlessly from one shape to another, expressing their moods with their physical forms.

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

Most human scholars believe that Merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from Merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier.

Scavenging Ghoul (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on this creature for each creature that died this turn. Remove a corpse counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.

Bounty of the Hunt (World Championship Decks 1997)
Jeff A. Menges

You may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Distribute three +1/+1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures. For each +1/+1 counter you put on a creature this way, remove a +1/+1 counter from that creature at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (Fourth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Most human scholars believe that Merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from Merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier.

Raise Dead (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Raise Dead (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Skeleton (30th Anniversary Tokens)
Jeff A. Menges

Battering Ram (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.) Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

Aspect of Wolf (Fourth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +X/+Y, where X is half the number of Forests you control, rounded down, and Y is half the number of Forests you control, rounded up.

Bog Wraith (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

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

'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.

Swords to Plowshares (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

War Mammoth (Fifth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Trample

I didn't think mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.

Scavenging Ghoul (Fourth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on this creature for each creature that died this turn. Remove a corpse counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.

Martyr's Cry (The Dark)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile all white creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller draws a card.

"It is only fitting that one such as I should die in pursuit of knowledge." —Vervamon the Elder

Swords to Plowshares (Fourth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Mons's Goblin Raiders (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Jeff A. Menges

The intricate dynamics of Rundvelt Goblin affairs are often confused with anarchy. The chaos, however, is the chaos of a thundercloud, and direction will sporadically and violently appear. Pashalik Mons and his raiders are the thunderhead that leads in the storm.

Scavenging Ghoul (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on this creature for each creature that died this turn. Remove a corpse counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.

Firestorm Phoenix (Legends)
Jeff A. Menges

Flying If this creature would die, return it to its owner's hand instead. Until that player's next turn, that player plays with that card revealed in their hand and can't play it.

"The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,/ Her ashes new-create another heir/ As great in admiration as herself." —William Shakespeare, *King Henry the Eighth*

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Most human scholars believe that Merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from Merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier.

Water Elemental (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Jeff A. Menges

Unpredictable as the sea itself, Water Elementals shift without warning from tranquility to tempest. Capricious and fickle, they flow restlessly from one shape to another, expressing their moods with their physical forms.

Sea Serpent (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Mons's Goblin Raiders (Fourth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

The intricate dynamics of Rundvelt Goblin affairs are often confused with anarchy. The chaos, however, is the chaos of a thundercloud, and direction will sporadically and violently appear. Pashalik Mons and his Raiders are the thunderhead that leads in the storm.

Bazaar of Baghdad (Arabian Nights)
Jeff A. Menges

{T}: Draw two cards, then discard three cards.

Scavenging Ghoul (Revised Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on this creature for each creature that died this turn. Remove a corpse counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.

Mons's Goblin Raiders (Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Rock Hydra (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. For each 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature, if it has a +1/+1 counter on it, remove a +1/+1 counter from it and prevent that 1 damage. {R}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn. {R}{R}{R}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.

Dwarven Lieutenant (Fallen Empires)
Jeff A. Menges

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

"Dwarven officers were tireless in battle, moving up and down the lines to rally their troops and boost morale." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV*

Mons's Goblin Raiders (Revised Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

The intricate dynamics of Rundvelt Goblin affairs are often confused with anarchy. The chaos, however, is the chaos of a thundercloud, and direction will sporadically and violently appear. Pashalik Mons and his raiders are the thunderhead that leads in the storm.

Rock Hydra (Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. For each 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature, if it has a +1/+1 counter on it, remove a +1/+1 counter from it and prevent that 1 damage. {R}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn. {R}{R}{R}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.

Aspect of Wolf (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +X/+Y, where X is half the number of Forests you control, rounded down, and Y is half the number of Forests you control, rounded up.

Mons's Goblin Raiders (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

The intricate dynamics of Rundvelt Goblin affairs are often confused with anarchy. The chaos, however, is the chaos of a thundercloud, and direction will sporadically and violently appear. Pashalik Mons and his raiders are the thunderhead that leads in the storm.

Aspect of Wolf (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +X/+Y, where X is half the number of Forests you control, rounded down, and Y is half the number of Forests you control, rounded up.

Water Elemental (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Pestilence Rats (Ice Age)
Jeff A. Menges

Pestilence Rats's power is equal to the number of other Rats on the battlefield. (For example, as long as there are two other Rats on the battlefield, Pestilence Rats's power and toughness are 2/3.)

Human Cleric (30th Anniversary Tokens)
Jeff A. Menges

Zombie Master (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

They say the Zombie Master controlled these foul creatures even before his own death, but now that he is one of them, nothing can make them betray him.

Black Knight (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

War Mammoth (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Trample

I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.

Scavenging Ghoul (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on this creature for each creature that died this turn. Remove a corpse counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.

Raise Dead (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Black Knight (Friday Night Magic 2002)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

"The chill, to him who breathed it, drew / Down with his blood, till all his heart was cold." —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, *Idyls of the King*

Swords to Plowshares (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Swords to Plowshares (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Black Knight (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Adun Oakenshield (Legends)
Jeff A. Menges

{B}{R}{G}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

". . . And at his passing, the bodies of the world's great warriors shall rise from their graves and follow him to battle." —*The Anvilonian Grimoire*

Water Elemental (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

Unpredictable as the sea itself, Water Elementals shift without warning from tranquility to tempest. Capricious and fickle, they flow restlessly from one shape to another, expressing their moods with their physical forms.

Wolverine Pack (Legends)
Jeff A. Menges

Rampage 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

"Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils." —William Shakespeare, *King Henry V*

Bog Wraith (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

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

'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.

Swords to Plowshares (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Battering Ram (Rinascimento)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.) Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

Bog Wraith (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Jeff A. Menges

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

'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.

Water Elemental (Starter 1999)
Jeff A. Menges

The water that a ship sails on is the same water that swallows it up. —Chinese proverb

Black Knight (Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Swords to Plowshares (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Human (30th Anniversary Tokens)
Jeff A. Menges

Swords to Plowshares (Battle Royale Box Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Most human scholars believe that Merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from Merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier.

Rock Hydra (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. For each 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature, if it has a +1/+1 counter on it, remove a +1/+1 counter from it and prevent that 1 damage. {R}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn. {R}{R}{R}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.

Consecrate Land (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant land Enchanted land has indestructible and can't be enchanted by other Auras.

Sea Serpent (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Swords to Plowshares (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Water Elemental (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Unpredictable as the sea itself, Water Elementals shift without warning from tranquility to tempest. Capricious and fickle, they flow restlessly from one shape to another, expressing their moods with their physical forms.

Zombie Master (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Jeff A. Menges

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

They say the Zombie Master controlled these foul creatures even before his own death, but now that he is one of them, nothing can make them betray him.

War Mammoth (Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Trample

Ghost Hounds (Homelands)
Jeff A. Menges

Vigilance Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a white creature, this creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Deep Water (The Dark)
Jeff A. Menges

{U}: Until end of turn, if you tap a land you control for mana, it produces {U} instead of any other type.

Thawing Glaciers (World Championship Decks 1997)
Jeff A. Menges

This land enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Return this land to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Mons's Goblin Raiders (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

The intricate dynamics of Rundvelt Goblin affairs are often confused with anarchy. The chaos, however, is the chaos of a thundercloud, and direction will sporadically and violently appear. Pashalik Mons and his raiders are the thunderhead that leads in the storm.

Sea Serpent (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Raise Dead (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Mons's Goblin Raiders (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Jeff A. Menges

The intricate dynamics of Rundvelt Goblin affairs are often confused with anarchy. The chaos, however, is the chaos of a thundercloud, and direction will sporadically and violently appear. Pashalik Mons and his Raiders are the thunderhead that leads in the storm.

Scavenging Ghoul (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on this creature for each creature that died this turn. Remove a corpse counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.

Aspect of Wolf (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +X/+Y, where X is half the number of Forests you control, rounded down, and Y is half the number of Forests you control, rounded up.

Mons's Goblin Raiders (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

The intricate dynamics of Rundvelt Goblin affairs are often confused with anarchy. The chaos, however, is the chaos of a thundercloud, and direction will sporadically and violently appear. Pashalik Mons and his raiders are the thunderhead that leads in the storm.

Divine Offering (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Destroy target artifact. You gain life equal to its mana value.

D'Haren stared at the twisted lump of metal that had been a prized artifact. The fight was getting ugly.

Bounty of the Hunt (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Jeff A. Menges

You may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Distribute three +1/+1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures. For each +1/+1 counter you put on a creature this way, remove a +1/+1 counter from that creature at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Black Knight (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Swords to Plowshares (Revised Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Water Elemental (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Unpredictable as the sea itself, Water Elementals shift without warning from tranquility to tempest. Capricious and fickle, they flow restlessly from one shape to another, expressing their moods with their physical forms.

Aspect of Wolf (Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +X/+Y, where X is half the number of Forests you control, rounded down, and Y is half the number of Forests you control, rounded up.

Scavenging Ghoul (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on this creature for each creature that died this turn. Remove a corpse counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.

Black Knight (Fourth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Thalakos Lowlands (Battle Royale Box Set)
Jeff A. Menges

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This land doesn't untap during your next untap step.

Swords to Plowshares (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Most human scholars believe that Merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from Merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier.

Black Knight (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Tracker (The Dark)
Jeff A. Menges

{G}{G}, {T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to this creature.

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (Revised Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Most human scholars believe that Merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from Merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier.

Black Knight (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Swords to Plowshares (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Swords to Plowshares (Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Soldevi Machinist (Ice Age)
Jeff A. Menges

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to activate abilities of artifacts.

"Perhaps this time the power of the artificers shall be used wisely." —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Swords to Plowshares (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Bog Wraith (Classic Sixth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

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

It moved through the troops leaving no footprints, save on their souls.

Sea Serpent (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Ice Floe (Ice Age)
Jeff A. Menges

You may choose not to untap this land during your untap step. {T}: Tap target creature without flying that's attacking you. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as this land remains tapped.

Swords to Plowshares (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Fire and Brimstone (The Dark)
Jeff A. Menges

Fire and Brimstone deals 4 damage to target player who attacked this turn and 4 damage to you.

Willow Satyr (Legends)
Jeff A. Menges

You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step. {T}: Gain control of target legendary creature for as long as you control this creature and this creature remains tapped.

Bog Wraith (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

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

'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.

Aspect of Wolf (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +X/+Y, where X is half the number of Forests you control, rounded down, and Y is half the number of Forests you control, rounded up.

Raise Dead (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Swords to Plowshares (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

Most human scholars believe that Merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from Merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier.

Iceberg (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Jeff A. Menges

This enchantment enters with X ice counters on it. {3}: Put an ice counter on this enchantment. Remove an ice counter from this enchantment: Add {C}.

Snow Fortress (Ice Age)
Jeff A. Menges

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {1}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {1}: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn. {3}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature without flying that's attacking you.

Black Knight (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Bog Wraith (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

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

'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.

Timberline Ridge (Ice Age)
Jeff A. Menges

This land doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a depletion counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a depletion counter from this land. {T}: Add {R} or {G}. Put a depletion counter on this land.

Zombie Master (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

They say the Zombie Master controlled these foul creatures even before his own death, but now that he is one of them, nothing can make them betray him.

Zombie Master (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

Zombie Master (Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

Zombie Master (Classic Sixth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

He controlled the zombies even before his own death; now nothing can make them betray him.

Iceberg (Ice Age)
Jeff A. Menges

This enchantment enters with X ice counters on it. {3}: Put an ice counter on this enchantment. Remove an ice counter from this enchantment: Add {C}.

Bog Wraith (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

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

Bog Wraith (Fourth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

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

'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.

Bog Wraith (Fifth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

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

'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave; 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.

Bog Wraith (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

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

'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.

Moat (Legends)
Jeff A. Menges

Creatures without flying can't attack.

The purpose of any moat is to impede attack. Some are filled with water, some with thistles. Some are filled with things best left unseen.

Consecrate Land (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant land Enchanted land has indestructible and can't be enchanted by other Auras.

Dwarven Catapult (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Dwarven Catapult deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among all creatures target opponent controls.

"Often greatly outnumbered in battle, Dwarves relied on catapults as one means of damaging a large army." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV*

Giant Turtle (Legends)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack if it attacked during your last turn.

"The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks/ Which practically conceal its sex./ I think it clever of the turtle/ In such a fix to be so fertile." —Ogden Nash, "The Turtle"

Hail Storm (Alliances)
Jeff A. Menges

Hail Storm deals 2 damage to each attacking creature and 1 damage to you and each creature you control.

"If they can't take the hail, they'd better stay home." —Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain

Stampede (Ice Age)
Jeff A. Menges

Attacking creatures get +1/+0 and gain trample until end of turn.

"We could see the horizon blacken with the great beasts, but it was too late. The icefield offered no immediate safety, but luckily most of us reached a crevasse in which we could take cover." —Disa the Restless, journal entry

Water Elemental (Fourth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Unpredictable as the sea itself, Water Elementals shift without warning from tranquility to tempest. Capricious and fickle, they flow restlessly from one shape to another, expressing their moods with their physical forms.

Wolf (30th Anniversary Tokens)
Jeff A. Menges

Grizzly Bears (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

Don't try to outrun one of Dominia's Grizzlies; it'll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you'll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you.

Bog Wraith (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

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

'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.

Bog Wraith (Revised Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

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

'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.

Battering Ram (Antiquities)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.) Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

Battering Ram (Renaissance)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.) Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

Battering Ram (Fourth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.) Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

Consecrate Land (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant land Enchanted land has indestructible and can't be enchanted by other Auras.

Consecrate Land (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant land Enchanted land has indestructible and can't be enchanted by other Auras.

Consecrate Land (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant land Enchanted land has indestructible and can't be enchanted by other Auras.

Grizzly Bears (Revised Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Don't try to outrun one of Dominia's Grizzlies; it'll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you'll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you.

Grizzly Bears (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

Don't try to outrun one of Dominia's Grizzlies; it'll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you'll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you.

Grizzly Bears (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Don't try to outrun one of Dominia's Grizzlies; it'll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you'll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you.

Grizzly Bears (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Don't try to outrun one of Dominia's Grizzlies; it'll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you'll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you.

Rock Hydra (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. For each 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature, if it has a +1/+1 counter on it, remove a +1/+1 counter from it and prevent that 1 damage. {R}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn. {R}{R}{R}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.

Swords to Plowshares (Friday Night Magic 2001)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

"Peace hath her victories No less renownd than war." —John Milton, "To the Lord General Cromwell"

Rock Hydra (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. For each 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature, if it has a +1/+1 counter on it, remove a +1/+1 counter from it and prevent that 1 damage. {R}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn. {R}{R}{R}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.

Rock Hydra (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. For each 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature, if it has a +1/+1 counter on it, remove a +1/+1 counter from it and prevent that 1 damage. {R}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn. {R}{R}{R}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.

Swords to Plowshares (Anthologies)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Hail Storm (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Jeff A. Menges

Hail Storm deals 2 damage to each attacking creature and 1 damage to you and each creature you control.

"If they can't take the hail, they'd better stay home." —Arna Kennerüd, skycaptain

Mons's Goblin Raiders (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Mons's Goblin Raiders (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

The intricate dynamics of Rundvelt Goblin affairs are often confused with anarchy. The chaos, however, is the chaos of a thundercloud, and direction will sporadically and violently appear. Pashalik Mons and his raiders are the thunderhead that leads in the storm.

Mons's Goblin Raiders (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

The intricate dynamics of Rundvelt Goblin affairs are often confused with anarchy. The chaos, however, is the chaos of a thundercloud, and direction will sporadically and violently appear. Pashalik Mons and his raiders are the thunderhead that leads in the storm.

Sea Serpent (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Swords to Plowshares (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Raise Dead (Revised Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Thawing Glaciers (Alliances)
Jeff A. Menges

This land enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Return this land to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Swords to Plowshares (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Bog Wraith (Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

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

Water Elemental (Revised Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Unpredictable as the sea itself, Water Elementals shift without warning from tranquility to tempest. Capricious and fickle, they flow restlessly from one shape to another, expressing their moods with their physical forms.

War Mammoth (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

Trample

I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.

Water Elemental (Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Grizzly Bears (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Don't try to outrun one of Dominia's Grizzlies; it'll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you'll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you.

Kjeldoran Outpost (Alliances)
Jeff A. Menges

If this land would enter, sacrifice a Plains instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

War Mammoth (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Trample

I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.

Raise Dead (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Stone Spirit (Ice Age)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't be blocked by creatures with flying.

"The spirit of the stone is the spirit of strength." —Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Sea Serpent (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Dwarven Catapult (Fifth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Dwarven Catapult deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among all creatures target opponent controls.

"Often greatly outnumbered in battle, dwarves relied on catapults as one means of damaging a large army." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV*

Black Knight (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Scavenging Ghoul (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on this creature for each creature that died this turn. Remove a corpse counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.

Armor Thrull (Fallen Empires)
Jeff A. Menges

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Put a +1/+2 counter on target creature.

"Except for a bare spot at the base of their skulls, Armor Thrulls bear interlocking plates and spikes with the strength of steel. Their design is almost artistic." —Endrek Sahr, "Thrulls"

Aliban's Tower (Homelands)
Jeff A. Menges

Target blocking creature gets +3/+1 until end of turn.

"The people of Aysen built their roads with stones from these wonders. Aliban would be pleased with their ingenuity." —Baki, Wizard Attendant

Swords to Plowshares (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Grizzly Bears (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Bounty of the Hunt (World Championship Decks 1997)
Jeff A. Menges

You may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Distribute three +1/+1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures. For each +1/+1 counter you put on a creature this way, remove a +1/+1 counter from that creature at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Bog Wraith (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

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

'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.

Zombie Master (Revised Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

They say the Zombie Master controlled these foul creatures even before his own death, but now that he is one of them, nothing can make them betray him.

Divine Offering (Legends)
Jeff A. Menges

Destroy target artifact. You gain life equal to its mana value.

D'Haren stared at the twisted lump of metal that had been a prized artifact. The fight was getting ugly.

Black Knight (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Scavenging Ghoul (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on this creature for each creature that died this turn. Remove a corpse counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Most human scholars believe that Merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from Merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier.

Zombie Master (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

They say the Zombie Master controlled these foul creatures even before his own death, but now that he is one of them, nothing can make them betray him.

Zombie Master (Fourth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

They say the Zombie Master controlled these foul creatures even before his own death, but now that he is one of them, nothing can make them betray him.

Rock Hydra (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. For each 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature, if it has a +1/+1 counter on it, remove a +1/+1 counter from it and prevent that 1 damage. {R}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn. {R}{R}{R}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.

War Mammoth (Fourth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Trample

I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.

Grizzly Bears (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Don't try to outrun one of Dominia's Grizzlies; it'll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you'll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you.

Grizzly Bears (Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Citanul Druid (Antiquities)
Jeff A. Menges

Whenever an opponent casts an artifact spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Driven mad by the fall of Argoth, the Citanul Druids found peace only in battle.

Bounty of the Hunt (Alliances)
Jeff A. Menges

You may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Distribute three +1/+1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures. For each +1/+1 counter you put on a creature this way, remove a +1/+1 counter from that creature at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Water Elemental (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

Unpredictable as the sea itself, Water Elementals shift without warning from tranquility to tempest. Capricious and fickle, they flow restlessly from one shape to another, expressing their moods with their physical forms.

Rock Hydra (Revised Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. For each 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature, if it has a +1/+1 counter on it, remove a +1/+1 counter from it and prevent that 1 damage. {R}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn. {R}{R}{R}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.

War Mammoth (Revised Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Trample

I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.

Scavenging Ghoul (Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on this creature for each creature that died this turn. Remove a corpse counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.

Sea Serpent (Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Thalakos Lowlands (Tempest)
Jeff A. Menges

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This land doesn't untap during your next untap step.

Sea Serpent (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Sea Serpent (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Divine Offering (Fifth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Destroy target artifact. You gain life equal to its mana value.

These tears of pain I weep to the skies, Not bitter drops, but water made divine. Each gem of sorrow slips, no longer mine, But proffered thus to echo other cries.

Bog Wraith (Starter 1999)
Jeff A. Menges

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

It moved through the troops leaving no footprints, save on their souls.

Aspect of Wolf (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +X/+Y, where X is half the number of Forests you control, rounded down, and Y is half the number of Forests you control, rounded up.

Raise Dead (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Raise Dead (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Consecrate Land (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant land Enchanted land has indestructible and can't be enchanted by other Auras.

Dwarven Catapult (Fallen Empires)
Jeff A. Menges

Dwarven Catapult deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among all creatures target opponent controls.

"Often greatly outnumbered in battle, Dwarves relied on catapults as one means of damaging a large army." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV*

Stampede (Fifth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Attacking creatures get +1/+0 and gain trample until end of turn.

"When are beasts like a river?" —*The One Thousand Questions*

Raise Dead (Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Raise Dead (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Zombie Master (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

They say the Zombie Master controlled these foul creatures even before his own death, but now that he is one of them, nothing can make them betray him.

Raise Dead (Fourth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Aliban's Tower (Homelands)
Jeff A. Menges

Target blocking creature gets +3/+1 until end of turn.

"Those who hide in hollow towers would do well to remember the rain." —Reyhan, Samite Alchemist

Master of the Hunt (Legends)
Jeff A. Menges

{2}{G}{G}: Create a 1/1 green Wolf creature token named Wolves of the Hunt. It has "bands with other creatures named Wolves of the Hunt." (Any creatures named Wolves of the Hunt can attack in a band as long as at least one has "bands with other creatures named Wolves of the Hunt." Bands are blocked as a group. If at least two creatures named Wolves of the Hunt you control, one of which has "bands with other creatures named Wolves of the Hunt," are blocking or being blocked by the same creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Haunting Wind (Antiquities)
Jeff A. Menges

Whenever an artifact becomes tapped or a player activates an artifact's ability without {T} in its activation cost, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that artifact's controller.

These devices lured so many spirits that sometimes entire battlefields would become haunted at once.

Divine Offering (Chronicles)
Jeff A. Menges

Destroy target artifact. You gain life equal to its mana value.

D'Haren stared at the twisted lump of metal that had been a prized artifact. The fight was getting ugly.

War Mammoth (Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Trample

I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Jeff A. Menges

Most human scholars believe that Merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from Merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier.

Grizzly Bears (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Don't try to outrun one of Dominia's Grizzlies; it'll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you'll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you.

Zombie Master (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

They say the Zombie Master controlled these foul creatures even before his own death, but now that he is one of them, nothing can make them betray him.

Divine Offering (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Destroy target artifact. You gain life equal to its mana value.

D'Haren stared at the twisted lump of metal that had been a prized artifact. The fight was getting ugly.

Divine Offering (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Destroy target artifact. You gain life equal to its mana value.

D'Haren stared at the twisted lump of metal that had been a prized artifact. The fight was getting ugly.

War Mammoth (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Trample

I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.

Scavenging Ghoul (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on this creature for each creature that died this turn. Remove a corpse counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.

Black Knight (Revised Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

Zombie Master (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

They say the Zombie Master controlled these foul creatures even before his own death, but now that he is one of them, nothing can make them betray him.

War Mammoth (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Trample

I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Most human scholars believe that Merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from Merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier.

Mons's Goblin Raiders (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

The intricate dynamics of Rundvelt Goblin affairs are often confused with anarchy. The chaos, however, is the chaos of a thundercloud, and direction will sporadically and violently appear. Pashalik Mons and his raiders are the thunderhead that leads in the storm.

Raise Dead (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Jeff A. Menges

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Aspect of Wolf (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +X/+Y, where X is half the number of Forests you control, rounded down, and Y is half the number of Forests you control, rounded up.

Battering Ram (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.) Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

Rock Hydra (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. For each 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature, if it has a +1/+1 counter on it, remove a +1/+1 counter from it and prevent that 1 damage. {R}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn. {R}{R}{R}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.

Swords to Plowshares (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

War Mammoth (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Jeff A. Menges

Trample

War Mammoth (Limited Edition Alpha)
Jeff A. Menges

Trample

I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.

Sea Serpent (Fourth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Grizzly Bears (Fourth Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Don't try to outrun one of Dominia's Grizzlies; it'll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you'll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you.

Bog Wraith (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Jeff A. Menges

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

'Twas in the bogs of Cannelbrae My mate did meet an early grave 'Twas nothing left for us to save In the peat-filled bogs of Cannelbrae.

Grizzly Bears (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Don't try to outrun one of Dominia's Grizzlies; it'll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you'll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you.

Goblin Sappers (Ice Age)
Jeff A. Menges

{R}{R}, {T}: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn. Destroy it and this creature at end of combat. {R}{R}{R}{R}, {T}: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn. Destroy it at end of combat.

Juniper Order Druid (Ice Age)
Jeff A. Menges

{T}: Untap target land.

"The filthy towns of Kjeldor are no place for anyone to live. Fyndhorn is our home now." —Kolbjörn, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Divine Offering (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Jeff A. Menges

Destroy target artifact. You gain life equal to its mana value.

D'Haren stared at the twisted lump of metal that had been a prized artifact. The fight was getting ugly.

Aspect of Wolf (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +X/+Y, where X is half the number of Forests you control, rounded down, and Y is half the number of Forests you control, rounded up.

Consecrate Land (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant land Enchanted land has indestructible and can't be enchanted by other Auras.

Urza's Chalice (Antiquities)
Jeff A. Menges

Whenever a player casts an artifact spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

When sorely wounded or tired, Urza would often retreat to the workshops of his apprentices. They were greatly amazed at how much better he looked each time he took a sip of water.

Grizzly Bears (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Jeff A. Menges

Don't try to outrun one of Dominia's Grizzlies; it'll catch you, knock you down, and eat you. Of course, you could run up a tree. In that case you'll get a nice view before it knocks the tree down and eats you.

Mons's Goblin Raiders (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

The intricate dynamics of Rundvelt Goblin affairs are often confused with anarchy. The chaos, however, is the chaos of a thundercloud, and direction will sporadically and violently appear. Pashalik Mons and his raiders are the thunderhead that leads in the storm.

War Mammoth (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Jeff A. Menges

Trample

I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.

Aspect of Wolf (Revised Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +X/+Y, where X is half the number of Forests you control, rounded down, and Y is half the number of Forests you control, rounded up.

Kjeldoran Outpost (World Championship Decks 1997)
Jeff A. Menges

If this land would enter, sacrifice a Plains instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Vodalian Soldiers (Fallen Empires)
Jeff A. Menges

"You think you know everything there is to know about battle? You know Orc droppings! Underwater combat is three dimensional. Those thrice-damned Vodalians don't attack in ranks; they attack in schools." —Ivra Jursdotter

Water Elemental (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Unpredictable as the sea itself, Water Elementals shift without warning from tranquility to tempest. Capricious and fickle, they flow restlessly from one shape to another, expressing their moods with their physical forms.

War Mammoth (Unlimited Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Trample

I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.

Swords to Plowshares (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Water Elemental (30th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Unpredictable as the sea itself, Water Elementals shift without warning from tranquility to tempest. Capricious and fickle, they flow restlessly from one shape to another, expressing their moods with their physical forms.

Goblin War Drums (Fallen Empires)
Jeff A. Menges

Creatures you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

When creating a new War Drum, Goblin designers sought out the highest quality skulls. Serra Angel skulls were most highly prized, although most acknowledged that the skull of the exotic Sea Serpent made for a richer tone.

Sea Serpent (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Jeff A. Menges

Most human scholars believe that Merfolk are the survivors of sunken Atlantis, humans adapted to the water. Merfolk, however, believe that humans sprang forth from Merfolk who adapted themselves in order to explore their last frontier.

Scavenging Ghoul (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Jeff A. Menges

At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on this creature for each creature that died this turn. Remove a corpse counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.

Rock Hydra (Limited Edition Beta)
Jeff A. Menges

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. For each 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature, if it has a +1/+1 counter on it, remove a +1/+1 counter from it and prevent that 1 damage. {R}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn. {R}{R}{R}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.