Baird, Steward of Argive

Baird, Steward of Argive (Commander Masters)
Christine Choi

Vigilance Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

"The walls of Argive were built by a peaceful dynastic union that has guarded us against war for fifteen centuries. The lesson is clear."

Baird, Steward of Argive (Dominaria)
Christine Choi

Vigilance Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

"The walls of Argive were built by a peaceful dynastic union that has guarded us against war for fifteen centuries. The lesson is clear."

Baird, Steward of Argive (The List)
Christine Choi

Vigilance Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

"The walls of Argive were built by a peaceful dynastic union that has guarded us against war for fifteen centuries. The lesson is clear."

Baird, Steward of Argive (Dominaria Promos)
Christine Choi

Vigilance Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

"The walls of Argive were built by a peaceful dynastic union that has guarded us against war for fifteen centuries. The lesson is clear."

Hound of the Farbogs (Shadows over Innistrad)
Christine Choi

Delirium — This creature has menace as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

As you hear it baying in the distance, you'll feel its breath on your neck.

Giant Adephage (Gatecrash)
Christine Choi

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

"To a creature like that, we must seem like, well, bugs." —Dars Gostok, Firefist captain

Oketra's Monument (Amonkhet)
Christine Choi

White creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 1/1 white Warrior creature token with vigilance.

"The worthy shall respect the worthy. In the afterlife, all will stand united." —Monument inscription

Forest (Ixalan)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {G}.)

Fleeting Memories (Shadows over Innistrad)
Christine Choi

When this enchantment enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, target player mills three cards.

Shed Weakness (Amonkhet)
Christine Choi

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You may remove a -1/-1 counter from it.

To prepare for the Trial of Strength, nagas shed their old skin—and with it their scars, their doubts, and their fears.

Evolving Wilds (Aetherdrift Commander)
Christine Choi

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Don't you ever wonder what lies beyond the Hekma? Beyond the reach of the gods? Beyond the horns on the horizon?" —Samut, initiate of Tah crop

Guardian of the Great Conduit (Kaladesh)
Christine Choi

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) As long as you control a Nissa planeswalker, this creature gets +2/+0 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)

Grim Strider (Amonkhet)
Christine Choi

This creature gets -1/-1 for each card in your hand.

"As a child I saw something walking in the distance, far beyond the Hekma—shadow-dark, and taller than the gods. Even now, it passes through my dreams." —Pytamun, initiate of Nef crop

Woodland Cemetery (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

"They never found the body of young Josu, or that of his murderous sister." —"The Fall of the House of Vess"

Oketra's Monument (Dominaria United Commander)
Christine Choi

White creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 1/1 white Warrior creature token with vigilance.

"The worthy shall respect the worthy. In the afterlife, all will stand united." —Monument inscription

Mana Vault (Ultimate Box Topper)
Christine Choi

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}.

Clifftop Retreat (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

The sunlight falls pristine on the temple at Epityr, softened by the remembered shadows of angelic saviors' wings.

Island (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {U}.)

Scattered Groves (Amonkhet)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Clifftop Retreat (Dominaria Remastered)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

The sunlight falls pristine on the temple at Epityr, softened by the remembered shadows of angelic saviors' wings.

Sunbird's Invocation (Starter Commander Decks)
Christine Choi

Whenever you cast a spell from your hand, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from among cards revealed this way without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Fetid Heath (Zendikar Expeditions)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {W/B}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Hound of the Farbogs (The List)
Christine Choi

Delirium — This creature has menace as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

As you hear it baying in the distance, you'll feel its breath on your neck.

To the Slaughter (Shadows over Innistrad Promos)
Christine Choi

Target player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead that player sacrifices a creature and a planeswalker of their choice.

"Where has little Gossamer gone?" —Thaniel, Gatstaf shepherd

Pyromancer's Gauntlet (Magic 2014)
Christine Choi

If a red instant or sorcery spell you control or a red planeswalker you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals that much damage plus 2 to that permanent or player instead.

An inferno is just a gesture away.

Curator of Mysteries (Amonkhet Promos)
Christine Choi

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, scry 1. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

To consult a sphinx is a test in patience. Perhaps that's the point.

Rogue's Passage (The List)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Desert of the Mindful (Jumpstart 2022)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Rogue's Passage (Commander Legends)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Opaline Unicorn (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Purphoros once loved Nylea, the god of the hunt. His passion inspired his most astounding works of art.

Mana Vault (Double Masters 2022)
Christine Choi

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}.

Jungle Barrier (Explorers of Ixalan)
Christine Choi

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When this creature enters, draw a card.

Within silent clearings guarded by living palisades, the natural world guards its most precious secrets.

True-Faith Censer (Shadows over Innistrad)
Christine Choi

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has vigilance. As long as equipped creature is a Human, it gets an additional +1/+0. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Rogue's Passage (Magic Origins)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Opaline Unicorn (Theros)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Purphoros once loved Nylea, the god of the hunt. His passion inspired his most astounding works of art.

Merchant's Dockhand (Aether Revolt)
Christine Choi

{3}{U}, {T}, Tap X untapped artifacts you control: Look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"If you can build it, we can move it." —Bes Tavani, Bomat merchant

Primeval Bounty (Bloomburrow Commander)
Christine Choi

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 3 life.

Whir of Invention (Aether Revolt Promos)
Christine Choi

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Rogue's Passage (Commander 2015)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Forest (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {G}.)

To the Slaughter (Shadows over Innistrad)
Christine Choi

Target player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead that player sacrifices a creature and a planeswalker of their choice.

"Where has little Gossamer gone?" —Thaniel, Gatstaf shepherd

Giant Adephage (Commander 2019)
Christine Choi

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

"To a creature like that, we must seem like, well, bugs." —Dars Gostok, Firefist captain

Blood Moon (Amonkhet Invocations)
Christine Choi

Nonbasic lands are Mountains.

Yavimaya Sapherd (The List)
Christine Choi

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

"When their community grows cluttered, thallids begin a traditional bobbing dance, then trek out in all directions." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. III*

Rogue's Passage (Commander Masters)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Rogue's Passage (New Capenna Commander)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Island (Ixalan)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {U}.)

Clifftop Retreat (Dominaria Remastered)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

The sunlight falls pristine on the temple at Epityr, softened by the remembered shadows of angelic saviors' wings.

Rogue's Passage (The List)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Curator of Mysteries (Commander 2020)
Christine Choi

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, scry 1. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

To consult a sphinx is a test in patience. Perhaps that's the point.

Evolving Wilds (Amonkhet)
Christine Choi

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Don't you ever wonder what lies beyond the Hekma? Beyond the reach of the gods? Beyond the horns on the horizon?" —Samut, initiate of Tah crop

Basilica Screecher (Gatecrash)
Christine Choi

Flying 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.)

A screech in the night is all it takes for Orzhov debtors to clutch at their coin purses.

Yavimaya Sapherd (Dominaria)
Christine Choi

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

"When their community grows cluttered, thallids begin a traditional bobbing dance, then trek out in all directions." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. III*

Primeval Bounty (Jumpstart)
Christine Choi

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 3 life.

Primeval Bounty (Magic 2014)
Christine Choi

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 3 life.

Swamp (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {B}.)

Paradox Engine (Aether Revolt)
Christine Choi

Whenever you cast a spell, untap all nonland permanents you control.

"One look at this glorious item convinced me that Kaladesh deserved my full attention. Sure enough, my time here has yielded exquisite fruit." —Tezzeret

Plains (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {W}.)

Power Without Equal (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas Schemes)
Christine Choi

When you set this scheme in motion, draw three cards. You have no maximum hand size until your next turn. If you control six or more lands, you may cast up to three spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.

Saproling Migration (The List)
Christine Choi

Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.) Create two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens. If this spell was kicked, create four of those tokens instead.

Thallids herd saprolings from place to place in search of detritus to feed them.

Seasons Past (Shadows over Innistrad Promos)
Christine Choi

Return any number of cards with different mana values from your graveyard to your hand. Put Seasons Past on the bottom of its owner's library.

The seeds of new life take root in the soil of old.

Ishkanah, Grafwidow (The List)
Christine Choi

Reach Delirium — When Ishkanah enters, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, create three 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach. {6}{B}: Target opponent loses 1 life for each Spider you control.

Ishkanah, Grafwidow (Eldritch Moon)
Christine Choi

Reach Delirium — When Ishkanah enters, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, create three 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach. {6}{B}: Target opponent loses 1 life for each Spider you control.

Rogue's Passage (Ultimate Masters)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Rogue's Passage (Commander 2020)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Scattered Groves (The List)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Boreas Charger (Commander 2021)
Christine Choi

Flying When this creature leaves the battlefield, choose an opponent who controls more lands than you. Search your library for a number of Plains cards equal to the difference, reveal those cards, put one of them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your hand, then shuffle.

Rogue's Passage (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Scattered Groves (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Mana Vault (Ultimate Masters)
Christine Choi

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}.

Clifftop Retreat (The List)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

The sunlight falls pristine on the temple at Epityr, softened by the remembered shadows of angelic saviors' wings.

Ishkanah, Grafwidow (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Christine Choi

Reach Delirium — When Ishkanah enters, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, create three 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach. {6}{B}: Target opponent loses 1 life for each Spider you control.

Desert of the Mindful (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Primeval Bounty (Foundations Jumpstart)
Christine Choi

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 3 life.

Rogue's Passage (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Botanical Sanctum (Kaladesh Promos)
Christine Choi

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

Life inspires technology, which expands life's domain.

Woodland Cemetery (Dominaria Remastered)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

"They never found the body of young Josu, or that of his murderous sister." —"The Fall of the House of Vess"

Submerged Boneyard (Aether Revolt)
Christine Choi

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

Aether currents in the sky mirror water currents below, including the deadly rapids.

Mountain (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {R}.)

Whir of Invention (Aether Revolt Promos)
Christine Choi

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Forest (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {G}.)

Spider (Eldritch Moon Tokens)
Christine Choi

Reach

Merchant's Dockhand (Aether Revolt Promos)
Christine Choi

{3}{U}, {T}, Tap X untapped artifacts you control: Look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"If you can build it, we can move it." —Bes Tavani, Bomat merchant

Gate to the Afterlife (Aetherdrift Commander)
Christine Choi

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you gain 1 life. Then you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named God-Pharaoh's Gift and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Activate only if there are six or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Primeval Bounty (The List)
Christine Choi

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 3 life.

Aethersphere Harvester (Aether Revolt)
Christine Choi

Flying When this Vehicle enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Pay {E}: This Vehicle gains lifelink until end of turn. Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Sylvan Scrying (Friday Night Magic 2016)
Christine Choi

Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"As long as there is a single shred of life, there is hope." —Nissa Revane

Swamp (Core Set 2019)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {B}.)

Baird, Steward of Argive (Commander Masters)
Christine Choi

Vigilance Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

"The walls of Argive were built by a peaceful dynastic union that has guarded us against war for fifteen centuries. The lesson is clear."

Grove of the Guardian (Return to Ravnica)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {3}{G}{W}, {T}, Tap two untapped creatures you control, Sacrifice this land: Create an 8/8 green and white Elemental creature token with vigilance.

Desert of the Mindful (Commander 2020)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Annul (Theros)
Christine Choi

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

"Why pray to the gods, who feed on your worship? Dissolve your illusions and see the true nature of things." —Xenagos, the Reveler

Orchard Elemental (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Christine Choi

Council's dilemma — When this creature enters, starting with you, each player votes for sprout or harvest. Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature for each sprout vote. You gain 3 life for each harvest vote.

Fruits for friends, fists for foes.

Baird, Steward of Argive (Dominaria)
Christine Choi

Vigilance Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

"The walls of Argive were built by a peaceful dynastic union that has guarded us against war for fifteen centuries. The lesson is clear."

Gate to the Afterlife (The List)
Christine Choi

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you gain 1 life. Then you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named God-Pharaoh's Gift and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Activate only if there are six or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Botanical Sanctum (Kaladesh)
Christine Choi

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

Life inspires technology, which expands life's domain.

Swamp (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {B}.)

Swamp (Ixalan)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {B}.)

Saproling Migration (Foundations Jumpstart)
Christine Choi

Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.) Create two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens. If this spell was kicked, create four of those tokens instead.

Thallids herd saprolings from place to place in search of detritus to feed them.

Sunbird's Invocation (Ixalan Promos)
Christine Choi

Whenever you cast a spell from your hand, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from among cards revealed this way without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Swamp (Core Set 2019)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {B}.)

Boreas Charger (Commander 2018)
Christine Choi

Flying When this creature leaves the battlefield, choose an opponent who controls more lands than you. Search your library for a number of Plains cards equal to the difference, reveal those cards, put one of them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your hand, then shuffle.

Curator of Mysteries (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Christine Choi

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, scry 1. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

To consult a sphinx is a test in patience. Perhaps that's the point.

Plains (Ixalan)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {W}.)

Desert of the Mindful (Hour of Devastation)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sunbird's Invocation (Ixalan)
Christine Choi

Whenever you cast a spell from your hand, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from among cards revealed this way without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sunbird's Invocation (Commander 2021)
Christine Choi

Whenever you cast a spell from your hand, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from among cards revealed this way without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Curator of Mysteries (Amonkhet Promos)
Christine Choi

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, scry 1. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

To consult a sphinx is a test in patience. Perhaps that's the point.

Jungle Barrier (The List)
Christine Choi

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When this creature enters, draw a card.

Within silent clearings guarded by living palisades, the natural world guards its most precious secrets.

Saproling Migration (Dominaria)
Christine Choi

Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.) Create two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens. If this spell was kicked, create four of those tokens instead.

Thallids herd saprolings from place to place in search of detritus to feed them.

Rogue's Passage (March of the Machine Commander)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Rogue's Passage (Foundations)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Whir of Invention (The List)
Christine Choi

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Dawn Gryff (Eldritch Moon)
Christine Choi

Flying

After facing so many horrors, the survivors of Videns parish couldn't comprehend the hope that the gryff represented.

Rogue's Passage (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Desert of the Mindful (Commander 2021)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Rogue's Passage (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Scattered Groves (Commander Masters)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Clifftop Retreat (Dominaria Promos)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

The sunlight falls pristine on the temple at Epityr, softened by the remembered shadows of angelic saviors' wings.

Rogue's Passage (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Curator of Mysteries (Amonkhet)
Christine Choi

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, scry 1. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

To consult a sphinx is a test in patience. Perhaps that's the point.

Twilight Mire (Zendikar Expeditions)
Christine Choi

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

Woodland Cemetery (Dominaria Promos)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

"They never found the body of young Josu, or that of his murderous sister." —"The Fall of the House of Vess"

Clifftop Retreat (Dominaria)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

The sunlight falls pristine on the temple at Epityr, softened by the remembered shadows of angelic saviors' wings.

Forest (Kaladesh)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {G}.)

Grove of the Guardian (GRN Guild Kit)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {3}{G}{W}, {T}, Tap two untapped creatures you control, Sacrifice this land: Create an 8/8 green and white Elemental creature token with vigilance.

Mountain (Ixalan)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {R}.)

Forest (Kaladesh)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {G}.)

Rogue's Passage (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Woodland Cemetery (Bloomburrow Commander)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

"They never found the body of young Josu, or that of his murderous sister." —"The Fall of the House of Vess"

Mountain (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {R}.)

Baird, Steward of Argive (The List)
Christine Choi

Vigilance Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

"The walls of Argive were built by a peaceful dynastic union that has guarded us against war for fifteen centuries. The lesson is clear."

Paradox Engine (Aether Revolt Promos)
Christine Choi

Whenever you cast a spell, untap all nonland permanents you control.

"One look at this glorious item convinced me that Kaladesh deserved my full attention. Sure enough, my time here has yielded exquisite fruit." —Tezzeret

Oketra's Monument (The List)
Christine Choi

White creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 1/1 white Warrior creature token with vigilance.

"The worthy shall respect the worthy. In the afterlife, all will stand united." —Monument inscription

Basilica Screecher (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Christine Choi

Flying 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.)

A screech in the night is all it takes for Orzhov debtors to clutch at their coin purses.

Rogue's Passage (Commander 2019)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Sunbird's Invocation (Ixalan Promos)
Christine Choi

Whenever you cast a spell from your hand, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from among cards revealed this way without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Whir of Invention (Aether Revolt)
Christine Choi

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Clifftop Retreat (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

The sunlight falls pristine on the temple at Epityr, softened by the remembered shadows of angelic saviors' wings.

Rogue's Passage (Zendikar Rising Commander)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Desert of the Mindful (Aetherdrift Commander)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Primeval Bounty (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Christine Choi

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 3 life.

Island (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {U}.)

Boreas Charger (Crimson Vow Commander)
Christine Choi

Flying When this creature leaves the battlefield, choose an opponent who controls more lands than you. Search your library for a number of Plains cards equal to the difference, reveal those cards, put one of them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your hand, then shuffle.

Cascade Bluffs (Zendikar Expeditions)
Christine Choi

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

Grim Strider (The List)
Christine Choi

This creature gets -1/-1 for each card in your hand.

"As a child I saw something walking in the distance, far beyond the Hekma—shadow-dark, and taller than the gods. Even now, it passes through my dreams." —Pytamun, initiate of Nef crop

Giant Adephage (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Christine Choi

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

"To a creature like that, we must seem like, well, bugs." —Dars Gostok, Firefist captain

Plains (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {W}.)

Rogue's Passage (Wizards Play Network 2024)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Scattered Groves (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Woodland Cemetery (Dominaria Promos)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

"They never found the body of young Josu, or that of his murderous sister." —"The Fall of the House of Vess"

Jungle Barrier (Iconic Masters)
Christine Choi

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When this creature enters, draw a card.

Within silent clearings guarded by living palisades, the natural world guards its most precious secrets.

Giant Adephage (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Christine Choi

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

"To a creature like that, we must seem like, well, bugs." —Dars Gostok, Firefist captain

Aethersphere Harvester (Aether Revolt Promos)
Christine Choi

Flying When this Vehicle enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Pay {E}: This Vehicle gains lifelink until end of turn. Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Scattered Groves (Amonkhet Promos)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Primeval Bounty (Foundations)
Christine Choi

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 3 life.

Woodland Cemetery (Dominaria)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

"They never found the body of young Josu, or that of his murderous sister." —"The Fall of the House of Vess"

Rogue's Passage (Return to Ravnica)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Seasons Past (Shadows over Innistrad)
Christine Choi

Return any number of cards with different mana values from your graveyard to your hand. Put Seasons Past on the bottom of its owner's library.

The seeds of new life take root in the soil of old.

Contaminated Ground (Gatecrash)
Christine Choi

Enchant land Enchanted land is a Swamp. Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller loses 2 life.

"No one cares about pollution until they can see it." —Gurras, Golgari rot farmer

Nissa's Pilgrimage (Friday Night Magic 2016)
Christine Choi

Search your library for up to two basic Forest cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, search your library for up to three basic Forest cards instead of two.

Baird, Steward of Argive (Dominaria Promos)
Christine Choi

Vigilance Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

"The walls of Argive were built by a peaceful dynastic union that has guarded us against war for fifteen centuries. The lesson is clear."

Clifftop Retreat (Dominaria Promos)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

The sunlight falls pristine on the temple at Epityr, softened by the remembered shadows of angelic saviors' wings.

Gate to the Afterlife (Amonkhet)
Christine Choi

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you gain 1 life. Then you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named God-Pharaoh's Gift and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Activate only if there are six or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Rogue's Passage (Commander 2017)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Rogue's Passage (Commander 2021)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Flooded Grove (Zendikar Expeditions)
Christine Choi

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

Rogue's Passage (Midnight Hunt Commander)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Aethersphere Harvester (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Christine Choi

Flying When this Vehicle enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Pay {E}: This Vehicle gains lifelink until end of turn. Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Clifftop Retreat (Bloomburrow Commander)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

The sunlight falls pristine on the temple at Epityr, softened by the remembered shadows of angelic saviors' wings.

Ishkanah, Grafwidow (Eldritch Moon Promos)
Christine Choi

Reach Delirium — When Ishkanah enters, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, create three 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach. {6}{B}: Target opponent loses 1 life for each Spider you control.

Bomat Bazaar Barge (The List)
Christine Choi

When this Vehicle enters, draw a card. Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Rugged Prairie (Zendikar Expeditions)
Christine Choi

{T}: Add {C}. {R/W}, {T}: Add {R}{R}, {R}{W}, or {W}{W}.

Submerged Boneyard (Amonkhet)
Christine Choi

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

Aether currents in the sky mirror water currents below, including the deadly rapids.

Shed Weakness (Ultimate Masters)
Christine Choi

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You may remove a -1/-1 counter from it.

To prepare for the Trial of Strength, nagas shed their old skin—and with it their scars, their doubts, and their fears.

Giant Adephage (New Capenna Commander)
Christine Choi

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

"To a creature like that, we must seem like, well, bugs." —Dars Gostok, Firefist captain

Swamp (Core Set 2021)
Christine Choi

({T}: Add {B}.)

Woodland Cemetery (Dominaria Remastered)
Christine Choi

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

"They never found the body of young Josu, or that of his murderous sister." —"The Fall of the House of Vess"

Bomat Bazaar Barge (Kaladesh)
Christine Choi

When this Vehicle enters, draw a card. Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)