Expressive Iteration

Expressive Iteration (Special Guests)
Kai Carpenter

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

"Art exposes truth. Each step of my dance brings me closer to the secrets of the universe."

Expressive Iteration (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Prismari students dance in the tension between passion and perfection.

Expressive Iteration (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Prismari students dance in the tension between passion and perfection.

Expressive Iteration (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Prismari students dance in the tension between passion and perfection.

Expressive Iteration (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Prismari students dance in the tension between passion and perfection.

Expressive Iteration (Secret Lair Showdown)
Dominik Mayer

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Expressive Iteration (Mystery Booster 2)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Prismari students dance in the tension between passion and perfection.

Expressive Iteration (The Brothers' War Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Prismari students dance in the tension between passion and perfection.

Grisly Ritual (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Create two Blood tokens. (They're artifacts with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

"You can always tell who's new from the screaming." —Tinua, Skirsdag cultist

Human Monk (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Tokens)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{T}: Add {G}.

Blessed Sanctuary (Jumpstart)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to you and creatures you control. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, create a 2/2 white Unicorn creature token.

Blessed Sanctuary (Jumpstart 2022)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to you and creatures you control. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, create a 2/2 white Unicorn creature token.

Astral Dragon (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Project Image — When this creature enters, create two tokens that are copies of target noncreature permanent, except they're 3/3 Dragon creatures in addition to their other types, and they have flying.

Blossoming Defense (Kaladesh)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains hexproof until end of turn.

Those who move harmoniously with the flow of aether can channel the power of the natural world.

Skyraker Giant (Foundations)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

She will not be content until hers is the highest head in the sky.

Hidden Dragonslayer (Dragons of Tarkir Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Lifelink Megamorph {2}{W} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target creature with power 4 or greater an opponent controls.

Endurance (Modern Horizons 2 Timeshifts)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flash Reach When this creature enters, up to one target player puts all the cards from their graveyard on the bottom of their library in a random order. Evoke—Exile a green card from your hand.

Bootleggers' Stash (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Lands you control have "{T}: Create a Treasure token."

Labyrinths of tunnels beneath the streets of the Caldaia offer an ample array of discreet routes for enterprising smugglers.

Suffocating Fumes (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"Yesterday it was flying tigers and crumbling bridges. Who knows what today will bring?" —Dol, Lavabrink quartermaster

Expressive Iteration (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Prismari students dance in the tension between passion and perfection.

Expressive Iteration (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Prismari students dance in the tension between passion and perfection.

Skyraker Giant (Magic Origins)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

She will not be content until hers is the highest head in the sky.

Dusk Feaster (Eldritch Moon)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Delirium — This spell costs {2} less to cast if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard. Flying

The Voldaren lands remained well protected when Olivia's army marched from Lurenbraum Fortress.

Timeless Dragon (Modern Horizons 2)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.) Eternalize {2}{W}{W} ({2}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Dragon with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

It has flown the sky for eons without ever touching ground.

Harmonious Archon (Throne of Eldraine)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Non-Archon creatures have base power and toughness 3/3. When this creature enters, create two 1/1 white Human creature tokens.

The World Tree (Kaldheim)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. As long as you control six or more lands, lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for any number of God cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sage of the Inward Eye (Khans of Tarkir Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

"No one petal claims beauty for the lotus."

Lunarch Mantle (Innistrad Remastered)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has "{1}, Sacrifice a permanent: This creature gains flying until end of turn."

"A boon from the angels should never be cast aside." —Manfried Ulmach, Chief Inquisitor

Timeless Dragon (Modern Horizons 2)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.) Eternalize {2}{W}{W} ({2}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Dragon with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Lavabrink Floodgates (Commander 2020)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{T}: Add {R}{R}. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may put a doom counter on this artifact or remove a doom counter from it. Then if it has three or more doom counters on it, sacrifice this artifact. When you do, it deals 6 damage to each creature.

Stratus Dancer (Dragons of Tarkir)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Megamorph {1}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, counter target instant or sorcery spell.

Angel (Oath of the Gatewatch Tokens)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying

Lunarch Mantle (Innistrad Remastered)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has "{1}, Sacrifice a permanent: This creature gains flying until end of turn."

"A boon from the angels should never be cast aside." —Manfried Ulmach, Chief Inquisitor

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death (Fate Reforged)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

First strike Whenever Alesha attacks, you may pay {W/B}{W/B}. If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

"Greet death with sword in hand."

The Magic Mirror (Throne of Eldraine Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror, then draw a card for each knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror.

Relief Captain (Double Masters 2022)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

When this creature enters, support 3. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to three other target creatures.)

Sometimes gestures of support are small. Sometimes not.

Commander's Insignia (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Creatures you control get +1/+1 for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game.

At the general's triumphant return, renewed strength surged through the soldiers' ranks.

Blossoming Defense (Starter Commander Decks)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains hexproof until end of turn.

Those who move harmoniously with the flow of aether can channel the power of the natural world.

Halo Fountain (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{W}, {T}, Untap a tapped creature you control: Create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token. {W}{W}, {T}, Untap two tapped creatures you control: Draw a card. {W}{W}{W}{W}{W}, {T}, Untap fifteen tapped creatures you control: You win the game.

Lock and Load (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Draw a card, then draw a card for each other instant and sorcery spell you've cast this turn. Plot {3}{U} (You may pay {3}{U} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

"Always bring a little extra thunder."

Usher of the Fallen (Kaldheim)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Boast — {1}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Human Warrior creature token. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

"I have led ten thousand through these mists and never lost the way."

Oran-Rief Invoker (Duel Decks: Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{8}：ターン終了時まで、オラン＝リーフの発動者は＋５/＋５の修整を受けるとともにトランプルを得る。

「この世界は我々に敵意など持っていない。我々は取るに足らぬ存在で、脅威でも何でもないのだから。」 ――発動者伝

Dragon's Eye Sentry (Dragons of Tarkir)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Defender, first strike

Even the humblest guard of Ojutai's strongholds ponders the puzzles of the Great Teacher's lessons.

Voice of the Blessed (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. As long as this creature has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has flying and vigilance. As long as this creature has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has indestructible.

Battle Screech (Modern Horizons)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Create two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying. Flashback—Tap three untapped white creatures you control. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

All sounds harmonize with the Worldsoul.

Cloudkin Seer (Core Set 2020)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying When this creature enters, draw a card.

"I can see which way the wind is blowing."

Commander's Insignia (Starter Commander Decks)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Creatures you control get +1/+1 for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game.

At the general's triumphant return, renewed strength surged through the soldiers' ranks.

Subtlety (Modern Horizons 2)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flash Flying When this creature enters, choose up to one target creature spell or planeswalker spell. Its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library. Evoke—Exile a blue card from your hand.

Cloudkin Seer (The List)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying When this creature enters, draw a card.

"I can see which way the wind is blowing."

Prophet of Kruphix (Magic 2015 Clash Pack)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Untap all creatures and lands you control during each other player's untap step. You may cast creature spells as though they had flash.

"Time is fluid as a dance, and truth as fleeting."

Relief Captain (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

When this creature enters, support 3. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to three other target creatures.)

Sometimes gestures of support are small. Sometimes not.

Expressive Iteration (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Prismari students dance in the tension between passion and perfection.

Archon's Glory (Wilds of Eldraine)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If this spell was bargained, that creature also gains flying and lifelink until end of turn.

A winged dawn dispels the terrors of night.

The World Tree (Kaldheim Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. As long as you control six or more lands, lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for any number of God cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Arcane Subtraction (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Target creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn. Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

The class learned little that day.

Endurance (Modern Horizons 2)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flash Reach When this creature enters, up to one target player puts all the cards from their graveyard on the bottom of their library in a random order. Evoke—Exile a green card from your hand.

Subtlety (Modern Horizons 2 Timeshifts)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flash Flying When this creature enters, choose up to one target creature spell or planeswalker spell. Its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library. Evoke—Exile a blue card from your hand.

Supernatural Rescue (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

This spell has flash as long as you control a Spirit. When you cast this spell, tap up to two target creatures you don't control. Enchant creature you control Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Akroan Jailer (Magic Origins)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

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

He ensures escape attempts are just that—attempts.

Timeless Dragon (Aetherdrift Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.) Eternalize {2}{W}{W} ({2}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Dragon with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Suspicious Bookcase (Jumpstart)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Defender {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

All the books were dusty with disuse, save the one titled *Camouflage and Its Practical Applications*.

Stratus Dancer (Dragons of Tarkir Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Megamorph {1}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, counter target instant or sorcery spell.

Monastery Mentor (Judge Gift Cards 2019)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess.

"The past does not determine our present."

Usher of the Fallen (Kaldheim)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Boast — {1}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Human Warrior creature token. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

"I have led ten thousand through these mists and never lost the way."

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death (Double Masters 2022)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

First strike Whenever Alesha attacks, you may pay {W/B}{W/B}. If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

"Greet death with sword in hand."

Cloudkin Seer (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying When this creature enters, draw a card.

"I can see which way the wind is blowing."

Gates of Istfell (Kaldheim)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {2}{W}{U}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You gain 2 life and draw two cards.

Voice of the Blessed (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. As long as this creature has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has flying and vigilance. As long as this creature has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has indestructible.

Essence Scatter (Dominaria United)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Counter target creature spell.

"Phyrexians pollute everything they touch, so the solution is simple: don't let them touch anything." —Teferi

Hazardous Conditions (Kaladesh)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Creatures with no counters on them get -2/-2 until end of turn.

"There are many reasons we invent, of which survival is not the least."

Cabal Coffers (Modern Horizons 2)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

The Cabal required a suitably immense space to house the lucrative fruits of their religious zeal.

Skirsdag Supplicant (Eldritch Moon)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Each player loses 2 life.

"I can no longer stand by as these Skirsdag infiltrators rot the church from within. Even the Lunarch Council is compromised. What a fool I've been." —Odric

Bootleggers' Stash (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Lands you control have "{T}: Create a Treasure token."

Labyrinths of tunnels beneath the streets of the Caldaia offer an ample array of discreet routes for enterprising smugglers.

The Modern Age (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flotsam (Murders at Karlov Manor)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Supernatural Rescue (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

This spell has flash as long as you control a Spirit. When you cast this spell, tap up to two target creatures you don't control. Enchant creature you control Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Lost Legion (Throne of Eldraine)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

When this creature enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Even death cannot diminish the persistence of the knights of Locthwain.

The World Tree (Kaldheim)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. As long as you control six or more lands, lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for any number of God cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Timeless Dragon (Modern Horizons 2)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.) Eternalize {2}{W}{W} ({2}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Dragon with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Expressive Iteration (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Prismari students dance in the tension between passion and perfection.

Sight Beyond Sight (Dragons of Tarkir)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Shiko, Paragon of the Way (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying, vigilance When Shiko enters, exile target nonland card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. Copy it, then you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Voice of the Blessed (Innistrad Remastered)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. As long as this creature has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has flying and vigilance. As long as this creature has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has indestructible.

Lock and Load (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Draw a card, then draw a card for each other instant and sorcery spell you've cast this turn. Plot {3}{U} (You may pay {3}{U} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

"Always bring a little extra thunder."

Vampiric Rites (Starter Commander Decks)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Scions of the Markov line take particular pleasure in the perversion of humans' holy rituals.

Harmonious Archon (Throne of Eldraine Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Non-Archon creatures have base power and toughness 3/3. When this creature enters, create two 1/1 white Human creature tokens.

First among equals.

Leaping Master (The List)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{2}{W}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

"Strength batters down barriers. Discipline ignores them."

Watchful Naga (Amonkhet)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

You may exert this creature as it attacks. When you do, draw a card. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)

The forked tongue of the naga is sensitive to drifting scent trails from the past, present, and sometimes even the future.

Thundering Djinn (Modern Horizons)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, it deals damage to any target equal to the number of cards you've drawn this turn.

It strikes like a bolt from a brainstorm.

Sakura-Tribe Elder (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

He'd chosen a sunlit clearing with open skies and an ample brook. All that remained was to find a worthy sapling.

Skyraker Giant (Commander Legends)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

She will not be content until hers is the highest head in the sky.

Pixie Illusionist (Dominaria United)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Kicker {3}{G} (You may pay an additional {3}{G} as you cast this spell.) Flying If this creature was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {T}: Target land you control becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.

Oran-Rief Invoker (Duel Decks: Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{8}: This creature gets +5/+5 and gains trample until end of turn.

"The world was not hostile to us—we were beneath its notice, and presented no danger." —*The Invokers' Tales*

Sakura-Tribe Elder (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

He'd chosen a sunlit clearing with open skies and an ample brook. All that remained was to find a worthy sapling.

Commander's Insignia (Commander 2019)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Creatures you control get +1/+1 for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game.

At the general's triumphant return, renewed strength surged through the soldiers' ranks.

Rite of Undoing (Fate Reforged)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Return target nonland permanent you control and target nonland permanent you don't control to their owners' hands.

Harmonious Archon (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Non-Archon creatures have base power and toughness 3/3. When this creature enters, create two 1/1 white Human creature tokens.

First among equals.

Citadel Castellan (The List)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) Renown 2 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put two +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes renowned.)

"I am the first line of defense. You will not encounter the second."

Vampiric Rites (Double Masters 2022)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Scions of the Markov line take particular pleasure in the perversion of humans' holy rituals.

Subtlety (Modern Horizons 2 Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flash Flying When this creature enters, choose up to one target creature spell or planeswalker spell. Its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library. Evoke—Exile a blue card from your hand.

Halo Fountain (The List)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{W}, {T}, Untap a tapped creature you control: Create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token. {W}{W}, {T}, Untap two tapped creatures you control: Draw a card. {W}{W}{W}{W}{W}, {T}, Untap fifteen tapped creatures you control: You win the game.

The Magic Mirror (Throne of Eldraine)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror, then draw a card for each knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror.

Glass Casket (Throne of Eldraine)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

When this artifact enters, exile target creature an opponent controls with mana value 3 or less until this artifact leaves the battlefield.

Fate will decide whether it's a bed or a tomb.

Vampiric Rites (Jumpstart 2022)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

For vampires, blood carries more than life. Memories long eroded from the minds of bloodchiefs can be reclaimed from the veins of their sired kin.

Bootleggers' Stash (Aetherdrift Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Lands you control have "{T}: Create a Treasure token."

Labyrinths of tunnels beneath the streets of the Caldaia offer an ample array of discreet routes for enterprising smugglers.

Battle Screech (March of the Machine Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Create two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying. Flashback—Tap three untapped white creatures you control. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

All sounds harmonize with the Worldsoul.

Blossoming Defense (The List)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains hexproof until end of turn.

Those who move harmoniously with the flow of aether can channel the power of the natural world.

Cult of the Waxing Moon (Shadows over Innistrad)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Whenever a permanent you control transforms into a non-Human creature, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token.

In times of madness, people cling to the familiar, monstrous though it may be.

Tajuru Warcaller (Battle for Zendikar)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Rally — Whenever this creature or another Ally you control enters, creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.

Her rallying cry reaches far beyond the Tajuru elves, inspiring all those who hear it.

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death (The List)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

First strike Whenever Alesha attacks, you may pay {W/B}{W/B}. If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

"Greet death with sword in hand."

Clarion Spirit (The List)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

To the living, the horn sounds faint and mournful, but to the spirits of Istfell, it is a thunderous call that must be obeyed.

Halo Fountain (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{W}, {T}, Untap a tapped creature you control: Create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token. {W}{W}, {T}, Untap two tapped creatures you control: Draw a card. {W}{W}{W}{W}{W}, {T}, Untap fifteen tapped creatures you control: You win the game.

Harmonious Archon (Throne of Eldraine)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Non-Archon creatures have base power and toughness 3/3. When this creature enters, create two 1/1 white Human creature tokens.

First among equals.

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death (Time Spiral Remastered)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

First strike Whenever Alesha attacks, you may pay {W/B}{W/B}. If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

"Greet death with sword in hand."

Skirsdag Supplicant (Jumpstart 2022)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Each player loses 2 life.

"I can no longer stand by as these Skirsdag infiltrators rot the church from within. Even the Lunarch Council is compromised. What a fool I've been." —Odric

Suspicious Bookcase (Core Set 2019)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Defender {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

All the books were dusty with disuse, save the one titled *Camouflage and Its Practical Applications*.

Igneous Elemental (Modern Horizons)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

This spell costs {2} less to cast if there is a land card in your graveyard. When this creature enters, you may have it deal 2 damage to target creature.

Volcanic violence made manifest.

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death (Commander 2016)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

First strike Whenever Alesha attacks, you may pay {W/B}{W/B}. If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

"Greet death with sword in hand."

Roving Harper (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

When this creature enters, draw a card.

The Harpers value peaceful coexistence, historical preservation, and harmony with nature, and each day they spread their ideals a little farther.

Vampiric Rites (Battle for Zendikar)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

For vampires, blood carries more than life. Memories long eroded from the minds of bloodchiefs can be reclaimed from the veins of their sired kin.

Vampiric Rites (Foundations)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Scions of the Markov line take particular pleasure in the perversion of humans' holy rituals.

Sakura-Tribe Elder (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

He'd chosen a sunlit clearing with open skies and an ample brook. All that remained was to find a worthy sapling.

Pestilent Spirit (Ravnica Allegiance)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Menace, deathtouch Instant and sorcery spells you control have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Its stench corrodes steel. Its miasma sickens angels. Its finality ends hope.

Bootleggers' Stash (Bloomburrow Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Lands you control have "{T}: Create a Treasure token."

Labyrinths of tunnels beneath the streets of the Caldaia offer an ample array of discreet routes for enterprising smugglers.

The World Tree (Kaldheim Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. As long as you control six or more lands, lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for any number of God cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Clarion Spirit (Kaldheim)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

To the living, the horn sounds faint and mournful, but to the spirits of Istfell, it is a thunderous call that must be obeyed.

Lunarch Mantle (Eldritch Moon)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has "{1}, Sacrifice a permanent: This creature gains flying until end of turn."

"A boon from the angels should never be cast aside." —Manfried Ulmach, Chief Inquisitor

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death (Dominaria United Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

First strike Whenever Alesha attacks, you may pay {W/B}{W/B}. If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

"Greet death with sword in hand."

Battle Screech (Commander Masters)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Create two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying. Flashback—Tap three untapped white creatures you control. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

All sounds harmonize with the Worldsoul.

Tuinvale Guide (Wilds of Eldraine)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Celebration — This creature gets +1/+0 and has lifelink as long as two or more nonland permanents entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

"Weary traveler, follow me. The night is a cage, and my light is the key."

Endurance (Modern Horizons 2 Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flash Reach When this creature enters, up to one target player puts all the cards from their graveyard on the bottom of their library in a random order. Evoke—Exile a green card from your hand.

Sakura-Tribe Elder (Neon Dynasty Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

He'd chosen a sunlit clearing with open skies and an ample brook. All that remained was to find a worthy sapling.

Guardian Kirin (Modern Horizons 2)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Whenever another creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Followed the kirin —Ojutai expression meaning "died a hero's death"

Voice of the Blessed (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. As long as this creature has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has flying and vigilance. As long as this creature has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has indestructible.

Expressive Iteration (Mystery Booster 2)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Prismari students dance in the tension between passion and perfection.

Defiant Strike (Khans of Tarkir)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Draw a card.

"Stand where the whole battle can see you. Strike so they'll never forget." —Anafenza, khan of the Abzan

Voice of the Blessed (Innistrad: Crimson Vow Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. As long as this creature has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has flying and vigilance. As long as this creature has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has indestructible.

Harmonious Archon (Throne of Eldraine Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Non-Archon creatures have base power and toughness 3/3. When this creature enters, create two 1/1 white Human creature tokens.

First among equals.

Dragon's Eye Sentry (The List)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Defender, first strike

Even the humblest guard of Ojutai's strongholds ponders the puzzles of the Great Teacher's lessons.

Citadel Castellan (Magic Origins)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) Renown 2 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put two +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes renowned.)

"I am the first line of defense. You will not encounter the second."

Oran-Rief Invoker (The List)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{8}: This creature gets +5/+5 and gains trample until end of turn.

"The world was not hostile to us—we were beneath its notice, and presented no danger." —*The Invokers' Tales*

Cult of the Waxing Moon (The List)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Whenever a permanent you control transforms into a non-Human creature, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token.

In times of madness, people cling to the familiar, monstrous though it may be.

Chaplain of Alms (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Hidden Dragonslayer (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Lifelink Megamorph {2}{W} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target creature with power 4 or greater an opponent controls.

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death (Fate Reforged Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

First strike Whenever Alesha attacks, you may pay {W/B}{W/B}. If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

"Greet death with sword in hand."

Stratus Dancer (Commander 2019)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Megamorph {1}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, counter target instant or sorcery spell.

Voice of the Blessed (Innistrad: Crimson Vow Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. As long as this creature has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has flying and vigilance. As long as this creature has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has indestructible.

Relief Captain (Oath of the Gatewatch)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

When this creature enters, support 3. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to three other target creatures.)

Sometimes gestures of support are small. Sometimes not.

The Magic Mirror (Throne of Eldraine)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror, then draw a card for each knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror.

Lunarch Mantle (The List)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has "{1}, Sacrifice a permanent: This creature gains flying until end of turn."

"A boon from the angels should never be cast aside." —Manfried Ulmach, Chief Inquisitor

The Magic Mirror (Throne of Eldraine Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror, then draw a card for each knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror.

Glass Casket (Throne of Eldraine)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

When this artifact enters, exile target creature an opponent controls with mana value 3 or less until this artifact leaves the battlefield.

Fate will decide whether it's a bed or a tomb.

Timeless Dragon (The List)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.) Eternalize {2}{W}{W} ({2}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Dragon with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Grisly Ritual (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Create two Blood tokens. (They're artifacts with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

"You can always tell who's new from the screaming." —Tinua, Skirsdag cultist

Underhanded Designs (Kaladesh)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Whenever an artifact you control enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {1}{B}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target creature. Activate only if you control two or more artifacts.

Nimbus Champion (Battlebond)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, you may return target creature to its owner's hand if that creature's power is less than or equal to the number of Warriors your team controls.

Boon of Boseiju (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the greatest mana value among permanents you control. Untap it.

She closed her eyes and remembered the smell of the leaves of Jukai Forest. When she opened them, the buildings of Towashi had grown small.

Relief Captain (Foundations Jumpstart)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

When this creature enters, support 3. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to three other target creatures.)

Sometimes gestures of support are small. Sometimes not.

Chaplain of Alms (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Sakura-Tribe Elder (Starter Commander Decks)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

He'd chosen a sunlit clearing with open skies and an ample brook. All that remained was to find a worthy sapling.

Headless Specter (Modern Horizons)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Hellbent — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if you have no cards in hand, that player discards a card at random.

No tongue to chant, yet the forsaken hymn still emanates from its body.

Timeless Dragon (Modern Horizons 2 Promos)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.) Eternalize {2}{W}{W} ({2}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Dragon with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Tajuru Warcaller (The List)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Rally — Whenever this creature or another Ally you control enters, creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.

Her rallying cry reaches far beyond the Tajuru elves, inspiring all those who hear it.

Oran-Rief Invoker (Battle for Zendikar)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{8}: This creature gets +5/+5 and gains trample until end of turn.

"The world was not hostile to us—we were beneath its notice, and presented no danger." —*The Invokers' Tales*

Suffocating Fumes (The List)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"Yesterday it was flying tigers and crumbling bridges. Who knows what today will bring?" —Dol, Lavabrink quartermaster

Cloudkin Seer (Foundations Jumpstart)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying When this creature enters, draw a card.

"I can see which way the wind is blowing."

The World Tree (The List)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. As long as you control six or more lands, lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for any number of God cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Astral Dragon (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flying Project Image — When this creature enters, create two tokens that are copies of target noncreature permanent, except they're 3/3 Dragon creatures in addition to their other types, and they have flying.

Expressive Iteration (The Brothers' War Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Prismari students dance in the tension between passion and perfection.

Sakura-Tribe Elder (Bloomburrow Commander)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

He'd chosen a sunlit clearing with open skies and an ample brook. All that remained was to find a worthy sapling.

Bootleggers' Stash (Streets of New Capenna)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Lands you control have "{T}: Create a Treasure token."

Labyrinths of tunnels beneath the streets of the Caldaia offer an ample array of discreet routes for enterprising smugglers.

Hidden Dragonslayer (Dragons of Tarkir)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Lifelink Megamorph {2}{W} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target creature with power 4 or greater an opponent controls.

It Doesn't Add Up (Murders at Karlov Manor)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.)

Etrata had committed dozens of murders, all of which she recalled in perfect, loving detail. But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't remember killing Zegana.

Dragonback Assault (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

When this enchantment enters, it deals 3 damage to each creature and each planeswalker. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying.

Firmament Sage (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

If it's neither day nor night, it becomes day as this creature enters. Whenever day becomes night or night becomes day, draw a card.

The cause remained unclear, but the fact was undeniable: nights were lengthening faster than in any autumn past.

Leaping Master (Khans of Tarkir)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{2}{W}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

"Strength batters down barriers. Discipline ignores them."

Firmament Sage (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

If it's neither day nor night, it becomes day as this creature enters. Whenever day becomes night or night becomes day, draw a card.

The cause remained unclear, but the fact was undeniable: nights were lengthening faster than in any autumn past.

Suspicious Bookcase (The List)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Defender {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

All the books were dusty with disuse, save the one titled *Camouflage and Its Practical Applications*.

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death (Commander 2020)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

First strike Whenever Alesha attacks, you may pay {W/B}{W/B}. If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

"Greet death with sword in hand."

Lunarch Mantle (Masters 25)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has "{1}, Sacrifice a permanent: This creature gains flying until end of turn."

"A boon from the angels should never be cast aside." —Manfried Ulmach, Chief Inquisitor

Flame Rift (Modern Horizons 2)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

Flame Rift deals 4 damage to each player.

"You might want to step back." —Jaya Ballard, task mage

Relief Captain (Game Night 2019)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

When this creature enters, support 3. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to three other target creatures.)

Sometimes gestures of support are small. Sometimes not.

Halo Fountain (Streets of New Capenna)
Anastasia Ovchinnikova

{W}, {T}, Untap a tapped creature you control: Create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token. {W}{W}, {T}, Untap two tapped creatures you control: Draw a card. {W}{W}{W}{W}{W}, {T}, Untap fifteen tapped creatures you control: You win the game.