Defense Grid

Defense Grid (Ninth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

It lights up the sky, beckoning enemies only to repel them.

Defense Grid (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Mark Tedin

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

"Properly installed, each powerstone emits a targeted electromagnetic field that halts momentum as sure as stone." —*Tome of Obstructions*

Defense Grid (Ninth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

It lights up the sky, beckoning enemies only to repel them.

Defense Grid (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Mark Tedin

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

It lights up the sky, beckoning enemies only to repel them.

Defense Grid (Urza's Legacy)
Mark Tedin

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

"We've managed to keep the goblins in their assigned areas, but there's little we can do about the smell." —Whip Tongue, viashino technician

Defense Grid (Kaladesh Inventions)
Jonas De Ro

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

"Woven together, strands of aether can form a mesh of surprising stability, though such a network tends to pull power from nearby devices." —Consulate engineer's log

Defense Grid (Eighth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

"A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection." —Crystal Eastman, "Equality or Protection"

Defense Grid (World Championship Decks 2000)
Mark Tedin

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

"We've managed to keep the goblins in their assigned areas, but there's little we can do about the smell." —Whip Tongue, viashino technician

Defense Grid (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Mark Tedin

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

"Properly installed, each powerstone emits a targeted electromagnetic field that halts momentum as sure as stone." —*Tome of Obstructions*

Enormous Baloth (Tenth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Its diet consists of fruits, plants, small woodland animals, large woodland animals, woodlands, fruit groves, fruit farmers, and small cities.

Kami of Ancient Law (Champions of Kamigawa)
Mark Tedin

Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target enchantment.

"Duty and law are the foundation on which civilization stands. They must not fall, for when they do, they take everything with them." —Lord Konda

Sulfurous Springs (Dominaria United)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Kami of Ancient Law (Jumpstart 2022)
Mark Tedin

Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target enchantment.

"Duty and law are the foundation on which civilization stands. They must not fall, for when they do, they take everything with them." —Lord Konda

Terashi's Grasp (Modern Masters 2015)
Mark Tedin

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

"The jeweler, the potter, the smith . . . They all imbue a bit of their souls into their creations. The kami destroy that crafted mortal shell and absorb the soul within." —Noboru, master kitemaker

Terashi's Grasp (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Mark Tedin

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

"The jeweler, the potter, the smith . . . They all imbue a bit of their souls into their creations. The kami destroy that crafted mortal shell and absorb the soul within." —Noboru, master kitemaker

Swamp (Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {B}.)

Time Vault (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. If you would begin your turn while this artifact is tapped, you may skip that turn instead. If you do, untap this artifact. {T}: Take an extra turn after this one.

Primal Beyond (Morningtide)
Mark Tedin

As this land enters, you may reveal an Elemental card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast an Elemental spell or activate an ability of an Elemental.

Wall of Wood (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Everybody knows that to ward off trouble, you knock on wood. But usually it's better to make a wall out of the wood and let trouble do the knocking.

Pangosaur (Mercadian Masques)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a player plays a land, return this creature to its owner's hand.

Only Rushwood is vast enough to swallow this creature whole.

Smoldering Crater (Commander 2015)
Mark Tedin

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

Vengeful Dreams (Torment)
Mark Tedin

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Exile X target attacking creatures.

Teroh dreams of his enemies' doom.

Fireball (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Karn Liberated (Double Masters)
Mark Tedin

+4: Target player exiles a card from their hand. −3: Exile target permanent. −14: Restart the game, leaving in exile all non-Aura permanent cards exiled with Karn. Then put those cards onto the battlefield under your control.

Lord of the Pit (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

Flying, trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature. If you can't, this creature deals 7 damage to you.

Helm of Chatzuk (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

{1}, {T}: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Feldon's Cane (Fifth Edition)
Mark Tedin

{T}, Exile this artifact: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Feldon found the first of these canes frozen in the Ronom Glacier.

Ashnod's Transmogrant (Chronicles)
Mark Tedin

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonartifact creature. That creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.

Ashnod found few willing to trade their humanity for the power she offered them.

Flying Carpet (Revised Edition)
Mark Tedin

{2}, {T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Elite Vanguard (Magic 2011)
Mark Tedin

The vanguard is skilled at waging war alone. The enemy is often defeated before its reinforcements reach the front.

Wooden Sphere (Fourth Edition)
Mark Tedin

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

Planar Portal (Invasion)
Mark Tedin

{6}, {T}: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

The sky split, and the air crackled and roiled. The Phyrexian invasion of Dominaria had finally begun.

Tyrannize (Shadowmoor)
Mark Tedin

Target player discards their hand unless they pay 7 life.

"I can stab you where it hurts, or where you will feel absolutely nothing." —Illulia of Nighthearth

Sol Ring (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder (Commander 2013)
Mark Tedin

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr.

Braingeyser (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

Target player draws X cards.

Winter Orb (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Phyrexian Debaser (Dominaria Remastered)
Mark Tedin

Flying {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

"The second stage of the illness: high fever and severe infectiousness." —Phyrexian progress notes

Forest (Mirrodin Besieged)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Leviathan (Fourth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Trample This creature enters tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice two Islands. If you do, untap this creature. This creature can't attack unless you sacrifice two Islands. (This cost is paid as attackers are declared.)

Belbe's Portal (Nemesis)
Mark Tedin

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. {3}, {T}: You may put a creature card of the chosen type from your hand onto the battlefield.

The fight will continue on a new battlefield.

Nemesis of Reason (The List)
Mark Tedin

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player mills ten cards.

Words describing it fail. Pages relating it shrivel. Tales recounting it end.

Temporal Adept (Ninth Edition)
Mark Tedin

{U}{U}{U}, {T}: Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

"If yesterday was two days ago tomorrow, will the day after tomorrow be today or yesterday?" —Temporal Manipulation 101 final exam, Tolarian Academy

Eater of Days (The List)
Mark Tedin

Flying, trample When this creature enters, you skip your next two turns.

When Mirrodin's varied civilizations developed ways to fight the levelers, Memnarch upped the stakes.

Nemesis of Reason (Alara Reborn)
Mark Tedin

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player mills ten cards.

Words describing it fail. Pages relating it shrivel. Tales recounting it end.

Smoldering Crater (Commander 2014)
Mark Tedin

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

Mountain (Planechase)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {R}.)

City of Brass (Arabian Nights)
Mark Tedin

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Lord of the Pit (Limited Edition Alpha)
Mark Tedin

Flying, trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature. If you can't, this creature deals 7 damage to you.

Mana Clash (Fourth Edition)
Mark Tedin

You and target opponent each flip a coin. Mana Clash deals 1 damage to each player whose coin comes up tails. Repeat this process until both players' coins come up heads on the same flip.

Predator, Flagship (Commander Anthology)
Mark Tedin

{2}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn. {5}, {T}: Destroy target creature with flying.

"The scourge of Skyshroud is airborne once more." —Oracle *en*-Vec

Sol Ring (MagicFest 2019)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

An arcane device with the power to rouse armies, raze enemies, and reward emperors.

Elvish Skysweeper (Commander Anthology)
Mark Tedin

{4}{G}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target creature with flying.

The spires of Ravnica are no different from the tall trees of other planes. The elves navigate and protect them just the same.

Forgotten Ancient (The List)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Its blood is life. Its body is growth.

Memory Lapse (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Mark Tedin

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

"Oh, I had a conscience once. But alas, I seem to have forgotten where I put it." —Chandler

Phyrexian Colossus (Seventh Edition)
Mark Tedin

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Pay 8 life: Untap this creature. This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Swamp (Mirrodin)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {B}.)

Time Vault (Limited Edition Alpha)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. If you would begin your turn while this artifact is tapped, you may skip that turn instead. If you do, untap this artifact. {T}: Take an extra turn after this one.

Circle of Protection: Red (Limited Edition Beta)
Mark Tedin

{1}: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Mountain (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {R}.)

Braingeyser (Limited Edition Alpha)
Mark Tedin

Target player draws X cards.

Necropotence (Ice Age)
Mark Tedin

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

Brothers of Fire (Fifth Edition)
Mark Tedin

{1}{R}{R}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target and 1 damage to you.

Fire is never a gentle master.

Chaos Orb (Limited Edition Beta)
Mark Tedin

{1}, {T}: If this artifact is on the battlefield, flip it onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If this artifact turns over completely at least once during the flip, destroy all nontoken permanents it touches. Then destroy this artifact.

Thrull (Modern Masters 2015 Tokens)
Mark Tedin

Torture (Homelands)
Mark Tedin

Enchant creature {1}{B}: Put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature.

"It helps you pass the time until you die." —Grandmother Sengir

Time Vault (Unlimited Edition)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. If you would begin your turn while this artifact is tapped, you may skip that turn instead. If you do, untap this artifact. {T}: Take an extra turn after this one.

Leviathan (Fifth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Trample This creature enters tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice two Islands. If you do, untap this creature. This creature can't attack unless you sacrifice two Islands. (This cost is paid as attackers are declared.)

Composite Golem (Fifth Dawn)
Mark Tedin

Sacrifice this creature: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}.

It binds the five suns in human form.

Nevinyrral's Disk (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Memory Lapse (Judge Gift Cards 1999)
Mark Tedin

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

"Um...oh...what was I saying?" —Reveka, wizard savant

Temple Bell (Commander 2013)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Each player draws a card.

Enlightenment is not gained by striking the bell or hearing its toll. It's found in the silence that follows.

Emrakul, the Aeons Torn (Ultimate Masters)
Mark Tedin

This spell can't be countered. When you cast this spell, take an extra turn after this one. Flying, protection from spells that are one or more colors, annihilator 6 When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Elvish Skysweeper (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Mark Tedin

{4}{G}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target creature with flying.

The spires of Ravnica are no different from the tall trees of other planes. The elves navigate and protect them just the same.

Myr Matrix (Darksteel)
Mark Tedin

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.) Myr creatures get +1/+1. {5}: Create a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.

Urza's Power Plant (Antiquities)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Artifact construction required immense resources.

Mobile Fort (Urza's Saga)
Mark Tedin

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {3}: This creature gets +3/-1 until end of turn and can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. Activate only once each turn.

Juzám Djinn (Arabian Nights)
Mark Tedin

At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to you.

"Expect my visit when the darkness comes. The night I think is best for hiding all." —Ouallada

Reprocess (Urza's Saga)
Mark Tedin

Sacrifice any number of artifacts, creatures, and/or lands. Draw a card for each permanent sacrificed this way.

Everything will find its use in Phyrexia. Eventually.

Memory Lapse (Classic Sixth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

"Um . . . oh . . . what was I saying?" —Reveka, wizard savant

Delif's Cube (Fallen Empires)
Mark Tedin

{2}, {T}: This turn, when target creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, it assigns no combat damage this turn and you put a cube counter on this artifact. {2}, Remove a cube counter from this artifact: Regenerate target creature.

Dismantling Blow (Invasion)
Mark Tedin

Kicker {2}{U} (You may pay an additional {2}{U} as you cast this spell.) Destroy target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, draw two cards.

Cage of Hands (Commander Legends)
Mark Tedin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block. {1}{W}: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.

Urza (Vanguard Series)
Mark Tedin

{3}: Urza deals 1 damage to any target.

An artificer of unparalleled renown, Urza was a powerful cipher even before he was able to planeswalk. Seeing the world as a large, integrated machine is his greatest strength and weakness, enabling him to solve almost any problem but blinding him to his solutions' effects on others.

Braingeyser (Unlimited Edition)
Mark Tedin

Target player draws X cards.

Emrakul, the Aeons Torn (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Mark Tedin

This spell can't be countered. When you cast this spell, take an extra turn after this one. Flying, protection from spells that are one or more colors, annihilator 6 When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Time Vault (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. If you would begin your turn while this artifact is tapped, you may skip that turn instead. If you do, untap this artifact. {T}: Take an extra turn after this one.

Feldon's Cane (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Mark Tedin

{T}, Exile this artifact: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Feldon found the first of these canes frozen in the Ronom Glacier.

Timetwister (Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. (Then put Timetwister into its owner's graveyard.)

Emrakul, the Aeons Torn (The List)
Mark Tedin

This spell can't be countered. When you cast this spell, take an extra turn after this one. Flying, protection from spells that are one or more colors, annihilator 6 When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Fertile Ground (Wilds of Eldraine Commander)
Mark Tedin

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Pretty, valuable, and delicious—a boggart thief's trifecta.

Flying Carpet (Arabian Nights)
Mark Tedin

{2}, {T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Greven il-Vec (Vanguard Series)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a creature you control deals damage to a creature, destroy the other creature. It can't be regenerated.

As a ruthless leader for Volrath, Greven *il*-Vec serves his lord by commanding the flying ship *Predator*. Greven has attained his powerful rank through a series of underhanded schemes and assassinations, the majority of which were blessed by Volrath himself.

Swamp (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {B}.)

Forgotten Ancient (Commander 2016)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Its blood is life. Its body is growth.

Predator, Flagship (Commander 2014)
Mark Tedin

{2}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn. {5}, {T}: Destroy target creature with flying.

"The scourge of Skyshroud is airborne once more." —Oracle *en*-Vec

Smoldering Crater (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Mark Tedin

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

Mana Vault (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

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}.

Temple Bell (Commander 2016)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Each player draws a card.

Enlightenment is not gained by striking the bell or hearing its toll. It's found in the silence that follows.

Braingeyser (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

Target player draws X cards.

Rootwater Commando (Tenth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Rootwater merfolk are seldom seen these days, but elf corpses are as numerous as ever.

Scalpelexis (Tenth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top four cards of their library. If two or more of those cards have the same name, repeat this process.

Elemental Resonance (Dissension)
Mark Tedin

Enchant permanent At the beginning of your first main phase, add mana equal to enchanted permanent's mana cost. (Mana cost includes color. If a mana symbol has multiple colors, choose one.)

Mountain (Shards of Alara)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {R}.)

Forgotten Ancient (Dominaria Remastered)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Its blood is life. Its body is growth.

Phantasmal Sphere (Alliances)
Mark Tedin

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then sacrifice this creature unless you pay {1} for each +1/+1 counter on it. When this creature leaves the battlefield, target opponent creates an X/X blue Orb creature token with flying, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Urza's Factory (Champs and States)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}. {7}, {T}: Create a 2/2 colorless Assembly-Worker artifact creature token.

Wooden Sphere (Unlimited Edition)
Mark Tedin

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

Mindstab (Time Spiral)
Mark Tedin

Target player discards three cards. Suspend 4—{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {B} and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Second Chance (Urza's Legacy)
Mark Tedin

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 5 or less life, sacrifice this enchantment and take an extra turn after this one.

The greatest gift is the opportunity to right one's wrongs.

Helm of Chatzuk (Limited Edition Beta)
Mark Tedin

{1}, {T}: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Eldrazi Monument (Commander Anthology)
Mark Tedin

Creatures you control get +1/+1 and have flying and indestructible. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. If you can't, sacrifice this artifact.

"Gods don't die. They merely slumber." —Ayli, Kamsa cleric

Goblin Bushwhacker (The List)
Mark Tedin

Kicker {R} (You may pay an additional {R} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain haste until end of turn.

Chaos Confetti (Unglued)
Mark Tedin

{4}, {T}: Tear this artifact into pieces. Throw the pieces onto the battlefield from a distance of at least five feet. Destroy each permanent that a piece touches. Remove the pieces from the game.

And you thought that was just an urban legend.

Mana Vault (Unlimited Edition)
Mark Tedin

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}.

Ashnod's Transmogrant (Fifth Edition)
Mark Tedin

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonartifact creature. That creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.

Ashnod found few willing to trade their humanity for the power she offered.

Nevinyrral's Disk (Fourth Edition)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Heal (Ice Age)
Mark Tedin

Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Sometimes even the smallest boon can save a life." —Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest

Swords to Plowshares (Strixhaven Mystical Archive)
Mark Tedin

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

"The blademaster turned his fury to his new foes: root rot and cabbage slugs." —*Myths and Miracles, Vol. VII*

Tectonic Fiend (Time Spiral)
Mark Tedin

Echo {4}{R}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) This creature attacks each combat if able.

The barbarians of Pardia are long dead, but its mountains still smolder with rage.

Barbarian Outcast (Torment)
Mark Tedin

When you control no Swamps, sacrifice this creature.

"We offer power to anyone willing to take it. Sadly, few are unburdened enough by their prejudices to accept." —Cabal surgeon

Swamp (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {B}.)

Grixis Illusionist (Conflux)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Target land you control becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.

"It's simple, really. If they can't find us, they can't kill us."

Eldrazi Spawn (Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi)
Mark Tedin

Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}.

Treacherous Werewolf (Judgment)
Mark Tedin

Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "When this creature dies, you lose 4 life."

Composite Golem (Tenth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Sacrifice this creature: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}.

An artificer's experiment in cross-material engineering found its own purpose as an interpreter between cultures.

Death Spark (Deckmasters)
Mark Tedin

Death Spark deals 1 damage to any target. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with a creature card directly above it, you may pay {1}. If you do, return this card to your hand.

Rebirth (Legends)
Mark Tedin

Remove this card from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. Each player may ante the top card of their library. If a player does, that player's life total becomes 20.

Urza's Power Plant (Chronicles)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Artifact construction required immense resources.

Fireball (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Mark Tedin

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Wall of Swords (Limited Edition Beta)
Mark Tedin

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

Just as the evil ones approached to slay Justina, she cast a great spell, imbuing her weapons with her own life force. Thus she fulfilled the prophecy: "In the death of your savior will you find salvation."

Mana Vault (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

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}.

The Dalek Emperor (Doctor Who)
Mark Tedin

Affinity for Daleks (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Dalek you control.) Other Daleks you control have haste. At the beginning of combat on your turn, each opponent faces a villainous choice — That player sacrifices a creature of their choice, or you create a 3/3 black Dalek artifact creature token with menace.

Feldon's Cane (Rinascimento)
Mark Tedin

{T}, Exile this artifact: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Ponder (Lorwyn)
Mark Tedin

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

"We see the same sky as you, just through a different lens."

Phyrexian Rager (Dominaria Remastered)
Mark Tedin

When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

It takes no prisoners, but it keeps the choicest bits for Phyrexia.

Urza, Lord High Artificer (Mystery Booster 2)
Mark Tedin

When Urza enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control." Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add {U}. {5}: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.

Thorn Thallid (Fallen Empires)
Mark Tedin

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature. Remove three spore counters from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

"Scholars still debate whether the Thallids were truly sentient." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. III*

Chaos Orb (Unlimited Edition)
Mark Tedin

{1}, {T}: If this artifact is on the battlefield, flip it onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If this artifact turns over completely at least once during the flip, destroy all nontoken permanents it touches. Then destroy this artifact.

Forgotten Ancient (Commander 2015)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Its blood is life. Its body is growth.

Gloomwidow (Shadowmoor)
Mark Tedin

Reach This creature can block only creatures with flying.

When gloomwidows mature, they abandon venom in favor of massive webs that span the eaves of cliffs.

Phyrexian Rager (Apocalypse)
Mark Tedin

When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

It takes no prisoners, but it keeps the choicest bits for Phyrexia.

Grassland Crusader (Onslaught)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Target Elf or Soldier creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"Everyone deserves a chance to live. My job is to make sure they get it."

Corpse Harvester (The List)
Mark Tedin

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a Zombie card and a Swamp card, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Helm of Chatzuk (Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

{1}, {T}: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Rootwater Commando (Nemesis)
Mark Tedin

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Rootwater merfolk are seldom seen these days, but elf corpses are as numerous as ever.

Celestial Ancient (Commander 2015)
Mark Tedin

Flying Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

"We thought the clouds had moved from the night sky. Then the night sky moved, and the horizon grew wings." —Josuri

Urza's Power Plant (Rinascimento)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Fireball (Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Urza's Factory (Jumpstart 2022)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}. {7}, {T}: Create a 2/2 colorless Assembly-Worker artifact creature token.

"Though their ideals are leagues apart, Urza's and Mishra's creations have a surprising harmony with one another." —Tocasia, journal entry

Smoldering Crater (Dominaria Remastered)
Mark Tedin

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

Volrath's Motion Sensor (Unglued)
Mark Tedin

Enchant player As this Aura enters, choose one of enchanted player's hands. That player balances this Aura on the back of that hand. When this Aura falls off the chosen hand, sacrifice this Aura and enchanted player loses 3 life.

Wall of Swords (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

Shelldock Isle (Lorwyn)
Mark Tedin

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if a library has twenty or fewer cards in it.

Battle Squadron (Eternal Masters)
Mark Tedin

Flying Battle Squadron's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control.

The goblins made an unruly pile with military precision.

Aladdin's Lamp (Revised Edition)
Mark Tedin

{X}, {T}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead look at the top X cards of your library, put all but one of them on the bottom of your library in a random order, then draw a card. X can't be 0.

Thought Lash (Alliances)
Mark Tedin

Cumulative upkeep—Exile the top card of your library. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When a player doesn't pay this enchantment's cumulative upkeep, that player exiles all cards from their library. Exile the top card of your library: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Urza's Power Plant (Rinascimento)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Wall of Swords (Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

Just as the evil ones approached to slay Justina, she cast a great spell, imbuing her weapons with her own life force. Thus she fulfilled the prophecy: "In the death of your savior will you find salvation."

Urza's Factory (Commander 2013)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}. {7}, {T}: Create a 2/2 colorless Assembly-Worker artifact creature token.

"Though their ideals are leagues apart, Urza's and Mishra's creations have a surprising harmony with one another." —Tocasia, journal entry

No Mercy (Urza's Legacy)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

"We had years to prepare, while they had mere minutes." —Kerrick, sleeper agent

Tetravus (Fourth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Flying This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature. If you do, create that many 1/1 colorless Tetravite artifact creature tokens. They each have flying and "This token can't be enchanted." At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile any number of tokens created with this creature. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Winter Orb (Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Sol Ring (Unlimited Edition)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Swamp (Planechase)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {B}.)

Helm of Chatzuk (Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

{1}, {T}: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Celestial Ancient (The List)
Mark Tedin

Flying Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

"We thought the clouds had moved from the night sky. Then the night sky moved, and the horizon grew wings." —Josuri

Nevinyrral's Disk (World Championship Decks 1998)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Circle of Protection: Red (Revised Edition)
Mark Tedin

{1}: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Vinelasher Kudzu (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Mark Tedin

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

It grows to hate you.

City of Brass (World Championship Decks 1998)
Mark Tedin

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Bleachbone Verge (Aetherdrift Promos)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control a Plains or a Swamp.

"Despite being older than nearly every living thing here, Loot is still just a kid. That doesn't change what we need from him." —Jace

Mana Matrix (Legends)
Mark Tedin

Instant and enchantment spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.

Mana Vault (Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

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}.

Lord of the Pit (Unlimited Edition)
Mark Tedin

Flying, trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature. If you can't, this creature deals 7 damage to you.

Experiment Kraj (Commander Masters)
Mark Tedin

Experiment Kraj has all activated abilities of each other creature with a +1/+1 counter on it. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

"Of course it will grow beyond control—it was designed to choose its own evolution." —Momir Vig

Guiltfeeder (World Championship Decks 2003)
Mark Tedin

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, defending player loses 1 life for each card in their graveyard.

Lord of the Pit (Fifth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Flying, trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature. If you can't, this creature deals 7 damage to you.

Vinelasher Kudzu (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska)
Mark Tedin

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

It grows to hate you.

Helm of Chatzuk (Fourth Edition)
Mark Tedin

{1}, {T}: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Defense Grid (Ninth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

It lights up the sky, beckoning enemies only to repel them.

Flying Carpet (Classic Sixth Edition)
Mark Tedin

{2}, {T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Swamp (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {B}.)

Forest (Mirrodin Besieged)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Deathcurse Ogre (Champions of Kamigawa)
Mark Tedin

When this creature dies, each player loses 3 life.

After their worship of oni began, only a few of Kamigawa's ogres remained in the bitter cold of the Tendo Peaks. Most were drawn to the darkness of Takenuma.

Forest (Mirrodin)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Wirewood Guardian (The List)
Mark Tedin

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

Tall as a tree and probably related.

Fireball (Fourth Edition)
Mark Tedin

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Wall of Wood (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Planar Portal (Eighth Edition)
Mark Tedin

{6}, {T}: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

These devices have been known to pull entire worlds through the Æther.

Nevinyrral's Disk (Revised Edition)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Wooden Sphere (Revised Edition)
Mark Tedin

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

Browbeat (Premium Deck Series: Fire and Lightning)
Mark Tedin

Any player may have Browbeat deal 5 damage to them. If no one does, target player draws three cards.

"Even the threat of power has power." —Jeska, warrior adept

Smoldering Crater (Anthologies)
Mark Tedin

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

Celestial Ancient (Planechase Anthology)
Mark Tedin

Flying Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

"We thought the clouds had moved from the night sky. Then the night sky moved, and the horizon grew wings." —Josuri

Forest (Scars of Mirrodin)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Telepathy (Seventh Edition)
Mark Tedin

Your opponents play with their hands revealed.

"Secrets? What secrets?"

City of Brass (Chronicles)
Mark Tedin

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Aladdin's Lamp (Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

{X}, {T}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead look at the top X cards of your library, put all but one of them on the bottom of your library in a random order, then draw a card. X can't be 0.

Phyrexian Devourer (Alliances)
Mark Tedin

When Phyrexian Devourer's power is 7 or greater, sacrifice it. Exile the top card of your library: Put X +1/+1 counters on Phyrexian Devourer, where X is the exiled card's mana value.

Lifeblood (Legends)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a Mountain an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

"Foolish wizard! As you tap the power of your lofty keep, so grows my strength." —Malvern Xelionos, *Letters*

Winter Orb (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Experiment Kraj (Dissension)
Mark Tedin

Experiment Kraj has all activated abilities of each other creature with a +1/+1 counter on it. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

"Of course it will grow beyond control—it was designed to choose its own evolution." —Momir Vig

Mind Control (Magic 2010)
Mark Tedin

Enchant creature You control enchanted creature.

"Why fight the body when you can dominate the mind that rules it?" —Jace Beleren

Cave-In (Mercadian Masques)
Mark Tedin

You may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Cave-In deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

One fleet was gone; others were poised.

Mana Vault (Fourth Edition)
Mark Tedin

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}.

Slipstream Eel (Commander 2011)
Mark Tedin

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"It's a fine way to travel, if you don't mind the smell."

Guul Draz Specter (Zendikar)
Mark Tedin

Flying This creature gets +3/+3 as long as an opponent has no cards in hand. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Fireball (Limited Edition Beta)
Mark Tedin

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Serpent Generator (Legends)
Mark Tedin

{4}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Snake artifact creature token. It has "Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player gets a poison counter." (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Phyrexian Debaser (Jumpstart)
Mark Tedin

Flying {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

"The second stage of the illness: high fever and severe infectiousness." —Phyrexian progress notes

Mana Clash (Fifth Edition)
Mark Tedin

You and target opponent each flip a coin. Mana Clash deals 1 damage to each player whose coin comes up tails. Repeat this process until both players' coins come up heads on the same flip.

Draining Whelk (Time Spiral Remastered)
Mark Tedin

Flash Flying When this creature enters, counter target spell. Put X +1/+1 counters on this creature, where X is that spell's mana value.

Gallantry (Odyssey)
Mark Tedin

Target blocking creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. Draw a card.

The courageous accomplish more in a single moment than the cowardly do in a lifetime.

Nightstalker Engine (Portal Second Age)
Mark Tedin

Nightstalker Engine's power is equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Part metal, part bone, and all death.

Wall of Wood (Limited Edition Alpha)
Mark Tedin

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Everybody knows that to ward off trouble, you knock on wood. But usually it's better to make a wall out of the wood and let trouble do the knocking.

Mind Bomb (The Dark)
Mark Tedin

Each player may discard up to three cards. Mind Bomb deals damage to each player equal to 3 minus the number of cards they discarded this way.

Urza's Power Plant (Antiquities)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Artifact construction required immense resources.

Dark Heart of the Wood (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Mark Tedin

Sacrifice a Forest: You gain 3 life.

"The soil here is rich with the rotting dead, and the sun's fingers barely penetrate the dark canopy. Plant our brethren here. This shall be our sanctuary." —Savra

Imperial Seal (Double Masters 2022)
Mark Tedin

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

"Oh, for heaven's sake, of course it was a death threat! What did you think was in an envelope like that, a wedding invitation?" —Magistrate's assistant

Flying Carpet (Fourth Edition)
Mark Tedin

{2}, {T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Wall of Wood (Fourth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Everybody knows that to ward off trouble, you knock on wood. But usually it's better to make a wall out of the wood and let trouble do the knocking.

Corpse Harvester (Legions)
Mark Tedin

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a Zombie card and a Swamp card, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Urza's Power Plant (Chronicles)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Artifact construction required immense resources.

Wall of Wood (Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Everybody knows that to ward off trouble, you knock on wood. But usually it's better to make a wall out of the wood and let trouble do the knocking.

City of Brass (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Mark Tedin

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Forgotten Ancient (The List)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Its blood is life. Its body is growth.

Tetravus (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

Flying This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature. If you do, create that many 1/1 colorless Tetravite artifact creature tokens. They each have flying and "This token can't be enchanted." At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile any number of tokens created with this creature. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Temple Bell (Magic 2011)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Each player draws a card.

Enlightenment is not gained by striking the bell or hearing its toll. It's found in the silence that follows.

Fireball (Fifth Edition)
Mark Tedin

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Forgotten Ancient (New Capenna Commander)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Its blood is life. Its body is growth.

Despark (Strixhaven Mystical Archive)
Mark Tedin

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

"A tale of a tyrant being humiliated and losing all his power? I'm inspired already!" —Killian, Silverquill mage-student

Elite Vanguard (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
Mark Tedin

The vanguard is skilled at waging war alone. The enemy is often defeated before its reinforcements reach the front.

Slipstream Eel (Onslaught)
Mark Tedin

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"It's a fine way to travel, if you don't mind the smell."

The Dalek Emperor (Doctor Who)
Mark Tedin

Affinity for Daleks (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Dalek you control.) Other Daleks you control have haste. At the beginning of combat on your turn, each opponent faces a villainous choice — That player sacrifices a creature of their choice, or you create a 3/3 black Dalek artifact creature token with menace.

Urza's Factory (Time Spiral)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}. {7}, {T}: Create a 2/2 colorless Assembly-Worker artifact creature token.

"Though their ideals are leagues apart, Urza's and Mishra's creations have a surprising harmony with one another." —Tocasia, journal entry

The Antiquities War (Dominaria)
Mark Tedin

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. III — Artifacts you control become artifact creatures with base power and toughness 5/5 until end of turn.

Orcish Captain (Fallen Empires)
Mark Tedin

{1}: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, target Orc creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. If you lose the flip, it gets -0/-2 until end of turn.

There's a chance to win every battle.

Mana Vault (Revised Edition)
Mark Tedin

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}.

Winter Orb (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Skyshroud Ranger (Tenth Edition)
Mark Tedin

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Not even the elves truly know the Skyshroud Forest. The rangers are merely the best equipped to handle its uncertainty.

Elite Vanguard (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
Mark Tedin

La vanguardia sabe cómo luchar una guerra sola. El enemigo normalmente es derrotado antes de que los refuerzos alcancen el frente.

Defense Grid (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Mark Tedin

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

It lights up the sky, beckoning enemies only to repel them.

Eater of Days (Darksteel)
Mark Tedin

Flying, trample When this creature enters, you skip your next two turns.

When Mirrodin's varied civilizations developed ways to fight the levelers, Memnarch upped the stakes.

Jayemdae Tome (Limited Edition Alpha)
Mark Tedin

{4}, {T}: Draw a card.

Fireball (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Nevinyrral's Disk (Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Sol Ring (Limited Edition Alpha)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Cage of Hands (Commander 2015)
Mark Tedin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block. {1}{W}: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.

Forgotten Ancient (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Its blood is life. Its body is growth.

Nevinyrral's Disk (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Experiment Kraj (RNA Guild Kit)
Mark Tedin

Experiment Kraj has all activated abilities of each other creature with a +1/+1 counter on it. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

"Of course it will grow beyond control—it was designed to choose its own evolution." —Momir Vig

Circle of Protection: Red (Limited Edition Alpha)
Mark Tedin

{1}: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Freyalise's Winds (Ice Age)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a permanent becomes tapped, put a wind counter on it. If a permanent with a wind counter on it would untap during its controller's untap step, remove all wind counters from it instead.

Vengeful Dreams (World Championship Decks 2003)
Mark Tedin

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Exile X target attacking creatures.

Teroh dreams of his enemies' doom.

Brothers of Fire (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

{1}{R}{R}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target and 1 damage to you.

Abomination (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a green or white creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Dreamcatcher (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Mark Tedin

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may sacrifice this creature. If you do, draw a card.

"Be careful where your mind wanders. Even in the quietest moments, the kami are listening, and your thoughts give them shape." —Lady Azami

Nevinyrral's Disk (World Championship Decks 1997)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Timetwister (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. (Then put Timetwister into its owner's graveyard.)

Eldrazi Monument (Commander 2015)
Mark Tedin

Creatures you control get +1/+1 and have flying and indestructible. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. If you can't, sacrifice this artifact.

"Gods don't die. They merely slumber." —Ayli, Kamsa cleric

Aladdin's Lamp (Arabian Nights)
Mark Tedin

{X}, {T}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead look at the top X cards of your library, put all but one of them on the bottom of your library in a random order, then draw a card. X can't be 0.

Urza's Power Plant (Chronicles)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Artifact construction required immense resources.

Mind Bomb (Fifth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Each player may discard up to three cards. Mind Bomb deals damage to each player equal to 3 minus the number of cards they discarded this way.

Urza's Factory (Time Spiral Remastered)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}. {7}, {T}: Create a 2/2 colorless Assembly-Worker artifact creature token.

"Though their ideals are leagues apart, Urza's and Mishra's creations have a surprising harmony with one another." —Tocasia, journal entry

Forest (Scars of Mirrodin)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Sol Ring (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Braingeyser (Limited Edition Beta)
Mark Tedin

Target player draws X cards.

Lava Spike (Champions of Kamigawa)
Mark Tedin

Lava Spike deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Some kami attacks during the war were rife with trickery, subterfuge, and subtlety, draining hope and pride from the mortal world. Other attacks were a lot more straightforward.

Phyrexian Boon (Alliances)
Mark Tedin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 as long as it's black. Otherwise, it gets -1/-2.

"Dagsson should have paid attention to the lessons of Phyrexia before attempting to create a mechanical utopia." —Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Dismantling Blow (Commander 2018)
Mark Tedin

Kicker {2}{U} (You may pay an additional {2}{U} as you cast this spell.) Destroy target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, draw two cards.

Wall of Distortion (Mercadian Masques)
Mark Tedin

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {2}{B}, {T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

It reflects only nightmares.

Winter Orb (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Mark Tedin

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

The Dalek Emperor (Doctor Who)
Mark Tedin

Affinity for Daleks (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Dalek you control.) Other Daleks you control have haste. At the beginning of combat on your turn, each opponent faces a villainous choice — That player sacrifices a creature of their choice, or you create a 3/3 black Dalek artifact creature token with menace.

Circle of Protection: Red (Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

{1}: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Lord of the Pit (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

Flying, trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature. If you can't, this creature deals 7 damage to you.

Isleback Spawn (Shadowmoor)
Mark Tedin

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) This creature gets +4/+8 as long as a library has twenty or fewer cards in it.

The more deadly the lake monster, the shorter the tale.

Enormous Baloth (Ninth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Its diet consists of fruits, plants, small woodland animals, large woodland animals, woodlands, fruit groves, fruit farmers, and small cities.

Winter Orb (Revised Edition)
Mark Tedin

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Ideas Unbound (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Mark Tedin

Draw three cards. Discard three cards at the beginning of the next end step.

The apprentice stared in puzzlement. "But Master, you finished writing those spells just yesterday. Don't you remember?" The jushi's heart froze.

Oni of Wild Places (Commander 2011)
Mark Tedin

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, return a red creature you control to its owner's hand.

The oni leapt easily from peak to peak, toying with its victims, its voice a purr from the rumbling depths of nightmare.

Fireball (Limited Edition Alpha)
Mark Tedin

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Flying Carpet (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

{2}, {T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Mana Drain (Legends)
Mark Tedin

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Mana Clash (The Dark)
Mark Tedin

You and target opponent each flip a coin. Mana Clash deals 1 damage to each player whose coin comes up tails. Repeat this process until both players' coins come up heads on the same flip.

Guiltfeeder (Commander 2016)
Mark Tedin

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, defending player loses 1 life for each card in their graveyard.

Slipstream Eel (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Mark Tedin

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"It's a fine way to travel, if you don't mind the smell."

Forest (Planechase)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Grixis Illusionist (Conspiracy)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Target land you control becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.

"It's simple, really. If they can't find us, they can't kill us."

Wistful Selkie (Eventide)
Mark Tedin

When this creature enters, draw a card.

Selkies call to a sea they never swam, in a tongue they never spoke, with a song they never learned.

Forgotten Ancient (Planechase)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Its blood is life. Its body is growth.

Nevinyrral's Disk (Unlimited Edition)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Wooden Sphere (Limited Edition Alpha)
Mark Tedin

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

Slipstream Eel (The List)
Mark Tedin

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"It's a fine way to travel, if you don't mind the smell."

Mana Vault (Fifth Edition)
Mark Tedin

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}.

Lord of the Pit (Revised Edition)
Mark Tedin

Flying, trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature. If you can't, this creature deals 7 damage to you.

Dark Sphere (The Dark)
Mark Tedin

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent half that damage, rounded down.

"I was struck senseless for a moment, but revived when the strange curiosity I carried fell to the ground, screaming like a dying animal." —Barl, Lord Ith

Death Spark (Alliances)
Mark Tedin

Death Spark deals 1 damage to any target. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with a creature card directly above it, you may pay {1}. If you do, return this card to your hand.

Sol Ring (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Ideas Unbound (The List)
Mark Tedin

Draw three cards. Discard three cards at the beginning of the next end step.

The apprentice stared in puzzlement. "But Master, you finished writing those spells just yesterday. Don't you remember?" The jushi's heart froze.

Plague Boiler (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Mark Tedin

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a plague counter on this artifact. {1}{B}{G}: Put a plague counter on this artifact or remove a plague counter from it. When this artifact has three or more plague counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, destroy all nonland permanents.

Shelldock Isle (The List)
Mark Tedin

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if a library has twenty or fewer cards in it.

Mana Vault (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

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}.

Fireball (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Forest (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Inventors)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Steam Catapult (Portal Second Age)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

"You idiots! Turn it around! Turn it around!"

Chimeric Idol (Prophecy)
Mark Tedin

{0}: Tap all lands you control. This artifact becomes a 3/3 Turtle artifact creature until end of turn.

After a chimeric idol attacked them, the Keldons smashed all unfamiliar statues.

Feldon's Cane (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Mark Tedin

{T}, Exile this artifact: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Feldon found the first of these canes frozen in the Ronom Glacier.

Wall of Swords (Fourth Edition)
Mark Tedin

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

Just as the evil ones approached to slay Justina, she cast a great spell, imbuing her weapons with her own life force. Thus she fulfilled the prophecy: "In the death of your savior will you find salvation."

Bleachbone Verge (Aetherdrift)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control a Plains or a Swamp.

"Despite being older than nearly every living thing here, Loot is still just a kid. That doesn't change what we need from him." —Jace

Bleachbone Verge (Aetherdrift Promos)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control a Plains or a Swamp.

"Despite being older than nearly every living thing here, Loot is still just a kid. That doesn't change what we need from him." —Jace

City of Brass (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Mark Tedin

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Chaos Orb (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

{1}, {T}: If this artifact is on the battlefield, flip it onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If this artifact turns over completely at least once during the flip, destroy all nontoken permanents it touches. Then destroy this artifact.

Balduvian Conjurer (Ice Age)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Target snow land becomes a 2/2 creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

"The very lands of Balduvia are alive." —Arna Kennerüd, Skyknight

Nacre Talisman (Ice Age)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay {3}. If you do, untap target permanent.

Jayemdae Tome (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Mark Tedin

{4}, {T}: Draw a card.

Defense Grid (Urza's Legacy)
Mark Tedin

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

"We've managed to keep the goblins in their assigned areas, but there's little we can do about the smell." —Whip Tongue, viashino technician

Wall of Wood (Limited Edition Beta)
Mark Tedin

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Everybody knows that to ward off trouble, you knock on wood. But usually it's better to make a wall out of the wood and let trouble do the knocking.

Sol Ring (Judge Gift Cards 2005)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Psychic Possession (Dissension)
Mark Tedin

Enchant opponent Skip your draw step. Whenever enchanted opponent draws a card, you may draw a card.

"You will do the thinking for the both of us!"

Genesis Chamber (Darksteel)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a nontoken creature enters, if this artifact is untapped, that creature's controller creates a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.

"As the experimental population grows, so do the number of myr. It's a perfect equilibrium." —Memnarch

Whipstitched Zombie (Prophecy)
Mark Tedin

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {B}.

Pity the tailor.

Nevinyrral's Disk (Anthologies)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Cage of Hands (Foundations Jumpstart)
Mark Tedin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block. {1}{W}: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.

Nevinyrral's Disk (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Denizen of the Deep (Dominaria Remastered)
Mark Tedin

When this creature enters, return each other creature you control to its owner's hand.

"Don't be silly, Grandfather. If the tides were caused by some monster drinking the ocean, wouldn't more ships go missing?" —Leda, Vodalian youth

Forest (Scars of Mirrodin)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Helm of Chatzuk (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

{1}, {T}: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Winter Orb (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Mark Tedin

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Oni of Wild Places (Commander Anthology)
Mark Tedin

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, return a red creature you control to its owner's hand.

The oni leapt easily from peak to peak, toying with its victims, its voice a purr from the rumbling depths of nightmare.

Guul Draz Specter (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Mark Tedin

Flying This creature gets +3/+3 as long as an opponent has no cards in hand. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Abomination (Legends)
Mark Tedin

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a green or white creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Red Mana Battery (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

{2}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}, Remove any number of charge counters from this artifact: Add {R}, then add an additional {R} for each charge counter removed this way.

Mana Clash (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

You and target opponent each flip a coin. Mana Clash deals 1 damage to each player whose coin comes up tails. Repeat this process until both players' coins come up heads on the same flip.

Winter Orb (Unlimited Edition)
Mark Tedin

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Urza's Power Plant (Antiquities)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Artifact construction required immense resources.

Death Spark (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Mark Tedin

Death Spark deals 1 damage to any target. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with a creature card directly above it, you may pay {1}. If you do, return this card to your hand.

Browbeat (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Mark Tedin

Any player may have Browbeat deal 5 damage to them. If no one does, target player draws three cards.

"Even the threat of power has power." —Jeska, warrior adept

Leviathan (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

Trample This creature enters tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice two Islands. If you do, untap this creature. This creature can't attack unless you sacrifice two Islands. (This cost is paid as attackers are declared.)

Jayemdae Tome (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

{4}, {T}: Draw a card.

Forgotten Ancient (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Its blood is life. Its body is growth.

Winter Orb (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Jayemdae Tome (Unlimited Edition)
Mark Tedin

{4}, {T}: Draw a card.

Tetravus (Renaissance)
Mark Tedin

Flying This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature. If you do, create that many 1/1 colorless Tetravite artifact creature tokens. They each have flying and "This token can't be enchanted." At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile any number of tokens created with this creature. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Clue (30th Anniversary Tokens)
Mark Tedin

{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Elvish Skysweeper (Game Night: Free-for-All)
Mark Tedin

{4}{G}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target creature with flying.

The spires of Ravnica are no different from the tall trees of other planes. The elves navigate and protect them just the same.

Ertai, the Corrupted (Planeshift)
Mark Tedin

{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature or enchantment: Counter target spell.

Altered by Phyrexian science, corrupted by black mana, and twisted by rage, Ertai still looked in the mirror and saw only glory.

Timetwister (Limited Edition Beta)
Mark Tedin

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. (Then put Timetwister into its owner's graveyard.)

Nevinyrral's Disk (Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Nevinyrral's Disk (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Helm of Chatzuk (Revised Edition)
Mark Tedin

{1}, {T}: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Keldon Champion (The List)
Mark Tedin

Haste Echo {2}{R}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, it deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Mindstab Thrull (Fallen Empires)
Mark Tedin

Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, defending player discards three cards.

Mountain (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {R}.)

Forgotten Ancient (Scourge)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Its blood is life. Its body is growth.

Cage of Hands (Champions of Kamigawa)
Mark Tedin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block. {1}{W}: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.

"Our own actions built the prisons that now hold us. Our hands reached too far and tried to hold too much." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Necropotence (Fifth Edition)
Mark Tedin

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

Urza's Power Plant (Chronicles)
Mark Tedin

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Artifact construction required immense resources.

Charging Slateback (Onslaught)
Mark Tedin

This creature can't block. Morph {4}{R} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Goblins prize its hide for building rock sled runners.

Mana Crypt (HarperPrism Book Promos)
Mark Tedin

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, this artifact deals 3 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Nevinyrral's Disk (Limited Edition Beta)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Wooden Sphere (Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

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

Keldon Champion (Planechase)
Mark Tedin

Haste Echo {2}{R}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, it deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Circle of Protection: Red (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Mark Tedin

{1}: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Jayemdae Tome (Revised Edition)
Mark Tedin

{4}, {T}: Draw a card.

Timetwister (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. (Then put Timetwister into its owner's graveyard.)

City of Brass (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Mark Tedin

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Nevinyrral's Disk (Fifth Edition)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Tetravus (Antiquities)
Mark Tedin

Flying This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature. If you do, create that many 1/1 colorless Tetravite artifact creature tokens. They each have flying and "This token can't be enchanted." At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile any number of tokens created with this creature. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Winter Orb (World Championship Decks 1997)
Mark Tedin

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

"When once winter has ahold, Not willingly does she withdraw Her icy touch, wistfully caressing— The deepened air sleeps its cold." —Aline Corralurn, "Late Thaw"

Mountain (Duel Decks: Venser vs. Koth)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {R}.)

Fireball (Revised Edition)
Mark Tedin

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Wooden Sphere (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

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

Leviathan (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Mark Tedin

Trample This creature enters tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice two Islands. If you do, untap this creature. This creature can't attack unless you sacrifice two Islands. (This cost is paid as attackers are declared.)

No Mercy (Dominaria Remastered)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

"We had years to prepare, while they had mere minutes." —Kerrick, sleeper agent

Forgotten Ancient (Archenemy)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Its blood is life. Its body is growth.

Phyrexian Colossus (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition)
Mark Tedin

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Pay 8 life: Untap this creature. This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Angel of Mercy (Invasion)
Mark Tedin

Flying When this creature enters, you gain 3 life.

"In times like these, people need to be reminded of compassion." —Sisay

Wall of Wood (Unlimited Edition)
Mark Tedin

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Everybody knows that to ward off trouble, you knock on wood. But usually it's better to make a wall out of the wood and let trouble do the knocking.

Hexavus (The Brothers' War Commander)
Mark Tedin

Flying This creature enters with six +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a flying counter on another target creature. {1}, Remove a counter from another creature you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Helm of Chatzuk (Limited Edition Alpha)
Mark Tedin

{1}, {T}: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Phyrexian Colossus (Eighth Edition)
Mark Tedin

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Pay 8 life: Untap this creature. This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Aether Storm (Homelands)
Mark Tedin

Creature spells can't be cast. Pay 4 life: Destroy Aether Storm. It can't be regenerated. Any player may activate this ability.

"I do love the rain . . . but this storm feels somehow wrong, Taysir." —Daria

Homarid (Fallen Empires)
Mark Tedin

This creature enters with a tide counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a tide counter on this creature. As long as there is exactly one tide counter on this creature, it gets -1/-1. As long as there are exactly three tide counters on this creature, it gets +1/+1. Whenever there are four or more tide counters on this creature, remove all tide counters from it.

Mana Vault (Limited Edition Beta)
Mark Tedin

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}.

Phyrexian Colossus (Urza's Saga)
Mark Tedin

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Pay 8 life: Untap this creature. This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Smoldering Crater (Commander 2013)
Mark Tedin

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

City of Brass (Rinascimento)
Mark Tedin

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

The Antiquities War (Dominaria Promos)
Mark Tedin

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. III — Artifacts you control become artifact creatures with base power and toughness 5/5 until end of turn.

Eldrazi Monument (Zendikar)
Mark Tedin

Creatures you control get +1/+1 and have flying and indestructible. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. If you can't, sacrifice this artifact.

"Gods don't die. They merely slumber." —Ayli, Kamsa cleric

Nevinyrral's Disk (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Elvish Skysweeper (Commander 2013)
Mark Tedin

{4}{G}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target creature with flying.

The spires of Ravnica are no different from the tall trees of other planes. The elves navigate and protect them just the same.

Circle of Protection: Red (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

{1}: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Wayward Angel (Odyssey)
Mark Tedin

Flying, vigilance Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, this creature gets +3/+3, is black, has trample, and has "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature."

Memory Lapse (World Championship Decks 1998)
Mark Tedin

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

"Um . . . oh . . . what was I saying?" —Reveka, Wizard Savant

Horror of Horrors (Legends)
Mark Tedin

Sacrifice a Swamp: Regenerate target black creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

"And a horror of outer darkness after,/ And dust returneth to dust again." —Adam Lindsay Gordon, The Swimmer

Wooden Sphere (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

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

Circle of Protection: Red (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Mark Tedin

{1}: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Winter Orb (Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Forgotten Ancient (Commander 2021)
Mark Tedin

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Its blood is life. Its body is growth.

Chaos Orb (Collectors' Edition)
Mark Tedin

{1}, {T}: If this artifact is on the battlefield, flip it onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If this artifact turns over completely at least once during the flip, destroy all nontoken permanents it touches. Then destroy this artifact.

Doubling Cube (Fifth Dawn)
Mark Tedin

{3}, {T}: Double the amount of each type of unspent mana you have.

The cube's surface is pockmarked with jagged runes that seem to shift when unobserved.

Goblin Hero (The Dark)
Mark Tedin

They attacked in an orgy of rage and madness, but only one seemed as focused on killing us as on the sheer joy of battle.

Mana Vault (Foreign Black Border)
Mark Tedin

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}.

Winter Orb (Fourth Edition)
Mark Tedin

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Emrakul, the World Anew (Modern Horizons 3)
Mark Tedin

When you cast this spell, gain control of all creatures target player controls. Flying, protection from spells and from permanents that were cast this turn When Emrakul leaves the battlefield, sacrifice all creatures you control. Madness—Pay six {C}.

Polar Kraken (Ice Age)
Mark Tedin

Trample This creature enters tapped. Cumulative upkeep—Sacrifice a land. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

"It was big. Really, really, big. No, bigger than that. It was *big!*" —Arna Kennerüd, Skyknight

Abomination (Renaissance)
Mark Tedin

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a green or white creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Enormous Baloth (Legions)
Mark Tedin

Its diet consists of fruits, plants, small woodland animals, large woodland animals, woodlands, fruit groves, fruit farmers, and small cities.

Island (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Mark Tedin

({T}: Add {U}.)

Phyrexian Boon (Alliances)
Mark Tedin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 as long as it's black. Otherwise, it gets -1/-2.

"Phyrexia's touch is painful to all but the blackest of hearts." —Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen

Chaos Orb (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mark Tedin

{1}, {T}: If this artifact is on the battlefield, flip it onto the battlefield from a height of at least one foot. If this artifact turns over completely at least once during the flip, destroy all nontoken permanents it touches. Then destroy this artifact.

Brothers of Fire (The Dark)
Mark Tedin

{1}{R}{R}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target and 1 damage to you.

Fire is never a gentle master.

Phyrexian Bloodstock (Planeshift)
Mark Tedin

When this creature leaves the battlefield, destroy target white creature. It can't be regenerated.

It reeks of terror and chaos.

Helm of Chatzuk (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Mark Tedin

{1}, {T}: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Abyssal Gatekeeper (Weatherlight)
Mark Tedin

When this creature dies, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

"There are two ways for me to pass this gate. One involves you remaining conscious." —Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Mana Clash (Renaissance)
Mark Tedin

You and target opponent each flip a coin. Mana Clash deals 1 damage to each player whose coin comes up tails. Repeat this process until both players' coins come up heads on the same flip.

Keldon Champion (Premium Deck Series: Fire and Lightning)
Mark Tedin

Haste Echo {2}{R}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, it deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Helm of Chatzuk (Fifth Edition)
Mark Tedin