Forbidding Watchtower

Forbidding Watchtower (Urza's Legacy)
Mark Brill

Forbidding Watchtower enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}: Forbidding Watchtower becomes a 1/5 white Soldier creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

Forbidding Watchtower (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Forbidding Watchtower enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}: Forbidding Watchtower becomes a 1/5 white Soldier creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

Forbidding Watchtower (Tenth Edition)
Aleksi Briclot

Forbidding Watchtower enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}: Forbidding Watchtower becomes a 1/5 white Soldier creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

Venser, Shaper Savant (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

His marvels of artifice pale in comparison to the developing machinery of his mind.

Primeval Titan (Iconic Masters)
Aleksi Briclot

Trample Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

When nature calls, *run*.

Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre (From the Vault: Legends)
Aleksi Briclot

When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent. Indestructible Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Ulamog is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Breya's Apprentice (Modern Horizons 2)
Aleksi Briclot

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Choose one — • Exile the top card of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card. • Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Avenger of Zendikar (Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi)
Aleksi Briclot

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.

Stigma Lasher (Eventide)
Aleksi Briclot

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player can't gain life for the rest of the game.

The Extinguisher's curse lasted long after her departure.

Purphoros's Intervention (Theros Beyond Death)
Aleksi Briclot

Choose one — • Create an X/1 red Elemental creature token with trample and haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. • Purphoros's Intervention deals twice X damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Commune with the Gods (Theros)
Aleksi Briclot

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or enchantment card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

For the first time in many years, Elspeth asked for help.

Sapseep Forest (Shadowmoor)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {G}.) This land enters tapped. {G}, {T}: You gain 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more green permanents.

Commune with the Gods (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or enchantment card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

For the first time in many years, Elspeth asked for help.

Champion of Stray Souls (Commander 2015)
Aleksi Briclot

{3}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice X other creatures: Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. {5}{B}{B}: Put this card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Vraska the Unseen (Commander 2019)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Until your next turn, whenever a creature deals combat damage to Vraska, destroy that creature. −3: Destroy target nonland permanent. −7: Create three 1/1 black Assassin creature tokens with "Whenever this token deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."

Jace Beleren (Media and Collaboration Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

+2: Each player draws a card. −1: Target player draws a card. −10: Target player mills twenty cards.

Sliver Hivelord (Commander Masters)
Aleksi Briclot

Sliver creatures you control have indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

"This is the source, the line unbroken since the calamity that brought such monsters to our shores." —Hastric, Thunian scout

Akroma's Vengeance (Commander 2020)
Aleksi Briclot

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"Many must die for the one who should not have perished."

Garruk Wildspeaker (Lorwyn)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Untap two target lands. −1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. −4: Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

Forest (Shards of Alara)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {G}.)

Chandra's Phoenix (Magic 2012)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) Whenever an opponent is dealt damage by a red instant or sorcery spell you control or by a red planeswalker you control, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Primeval Titan (Modern Masters 2015)
Aleksi Briclot

Trample Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

When nature calls, *run*.

Chandra Nalaar (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Chandra Nalaar deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. −X: Chandra Nalaar deals X damage to target creature. −8: Chandra Nalaar deals 10 damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.

Angel of Serenity (Commander 2021)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying When this creature enters, you may exile up to three other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

Borborygmos Enraged (Ravnica Remastered)
Aleksi Briclot

Trample Whenever Borborygmos Enraged deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Discard a land card: Borborygmos Enraged deals 3 damage to any target.

Gideon Jura (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Aleksi Briclot

+2: During target opponent's next turn, creatures that player controls attack Gideon Jura if able. −2: Destroy target tapped creature. 0: Until end of turn, Gideon Jura becomes a 6/6 Human Soldier creature that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.

Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer (Commander Legends)
Aleksi Briclot

When Ich-Tekik enters, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token. Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Ich-Tekik and a +1/+1 counter on each Golem you control. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Primordial Hydra (Magic 2012)
Aleksi Briclot

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. This creature has trample as long as it has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it.

Liliana Vess (Magic 2015)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Target player discards a card. −2: Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. −8: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Ravaging Blaze (Commander Masters)
Aleksi Briclot

Ravaging Blaze deals X damage to target creature. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, Ravaging Blaze also deals X damage to that creature's controller.

In time, not even the fire monks could keep up with Chandra.

Hellkite Tyrant (Commander 2016)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying, trample Whenever Hellkite Tyrant deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game.

Kozilek, the Great Distortion (Oath of the Gatewatch)
Aleksi Briclot

When you cast this spell, if you have fewer than seven cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference. Menace Discard a card with mana value X: Counter target spell with mana value X.

A void as cryptic as reality itself.

Aegis Angel (Magic Origins)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) When this creature enters, another target permanent gains indestructible for as long as you control this creature. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. A creature with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

Eldrazi Spawn (Rise of the Eldrazi Tokens)
Aleksi Briclot

Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}.

Hellkite Tyrant (Ravnica Remastered)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying, trample Whenever Hellkite Tyrant deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game.

Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre (Ultimate Masters)
Aleksi Briclot

When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent. Indestructible Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Ulamog is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Akroma's Vengeance (From the Vault: Twenty)
Aleksi Briclot

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"Many must die for the one who should not have perished."

Nefarox, Overlord of Grixis (Magic 2013)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever Nefarox attacks alone, defending player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Chandra's Phoenix (Magic 2014)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) Whenever an opponent is dealt damage by a red instant or sorcery spell you control or by a red planeswalker you control, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Samut, Tyrant Smasher (Secret Lair Drop)
Aleksi Briclot

Creatures you control have haste. −1: Target creature gets +2/+1 and gains haste until end of turn. Scry 1.

Borborygmos Enraged (Ravnica Remastered)
Aleksi Briclot

Trample Whenever Borborygmos Enraged deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Discard a land card: Borborygmos Enraged deals 3 damage to any target.

Stigma Lasher (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player can't gain life for the rest of the game.

The Extinguisher's curse lasted long after her departure.

Asmodeus the Archfiend (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Aleksi Briclot

Binding Contract — If you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead. {B}{B}{B}: Draw seven cards. {B}: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.

Astral Cornucopia (Born of the Gods)
Aleksi Briclot

This artifact enters with X charge counters on it. {T}: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color for each charge counter on this artifact.

Gruesome Slaughter (Battle for Zendikar)
Aleksi Briclot

Until end of turn, colorless creatures you control gain "{T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature."

Though Gideon arrived at Sea Gate too late to prevent the massacre, he still had enough time to lead its survivors to relative safety.

Aegis Angel (Magic 2012)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) When this creature enters, another target permanent gains indestructible for as long as you control this creature. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. A creature with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

Jace Beleren (Magic 2010)
Aleksi Briclot

+2: Each player draws a card. −1: Target player draws a card. −10: Target player mills twenty cards.

Jace Beleren (Signature Spellbook: Jace)
Aleksi Briclot

+2: Each player draws a card. −1: Target player draws a card. −10: Target player mills twenty cards.

Simic Guildmage (Dissension)
Aleksi Briclot

({G/U} can be paid with either {G} or {U}.) {1}{G}: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto another target creature with the same controller. {1}{U}: Attach target Aura attached to a permanent to another permanent with the same controller.

Primordial Hydra (Magic 2013)
Aleksi Briclot

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. This creature has trample as long as it has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it.

Storm Herald (Theros Beyond Death Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

Haste When this creature enters, return any number of Aura cards from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to creatures you control. Exile those Auras at the beginning of your next end step. If those Auras would leave the battlefield, exile them instead of putting them anywhere else.

Astral Cornucopia (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Aleksi Briclot

This artifact enters with X charge counters on it. {T}: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color for each charge counter on this artifact.

Sliver Hivelord (Magic 2015)
Aleksi Briclot

Sliver creatures you control have indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

"This is the source, the line unbroken since the calamity that brought such monsters to our shores." —Hastric, Thunian scout

Flames of the Blood Hand (Premium Deck Series: Fire and Lightning)
Aleksi Briclot

Flames of the Blood Hand deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. The damage can't be prevented. If that player or that planeswalker's controller would gain life this turn, that player gains no life instead.

Many ogres extracted blood oaths from the oni they summoned. Others simply extracted blood.

Sarkhan Unbroken (Dragons of Tarkir)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Draw a card, then add one mana of any color. −2: Create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying. −8: Search your library for any number of Dragon creature cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Worldheart Phoenix (Modern Masters 2015)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} rather than paying its mana cost. If you do, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Tower of Calamities (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

{8}, {T}: This artifact deals 12 damage to target creature.

The ur-golems concealed one of their towers out of fear that its power would be abused, and in anticipation of a time when its power would be sorely needed.

Mountain (Planechase)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {R}.)

Forest (Planechase Anthology)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {G}.)

Quicken (Ravnica Remastered)
Aleksi Briclot

The next sorcery spell you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash. (It can be cast any time you could cast an instant.) Draw a card.

A skilled Izzet chronarch can carry out an epic vendetta between the fall of one hourglass grain and the next.

Purphoros's Intervention (Theros Beyond Death Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

Choose one — • Create an X/1 red Elemental creature token with trample and haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. • Purphoros's Intervention deals twice X damage to target creature or planeswalker.

"I bring a fire to recast all the world."

Asmodeus the Archfiend (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Aleksi Briclot

Binding Contract — If you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead. {B}{B}{B}: Draw seven cards. {B}: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.

Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre (Double Masters 2022)
Aleksi Briclot

When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent. Indestructible Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Ulamog is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Samut, Voice of Dissent (Amonkhet Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

Flash Double strike, vigilance, haste Other creatures you control have haste. {W}, {T}: Untap another target creature.

"I'll fight no more just for the honor of dying. The afterlife will have to wait."

Mountain (Planechase Anthology)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {R}.)

Chandra's Pyrohelix (War of the Spark)
Aleksi Briclot

Chandra's Pyrohelix deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets.

"Now that I've dealt with your little toys, I can focus on the real problem: you." —Chandra Nalaar, to Dovin Baan

Gideon Jura (Magic 2012)
Aleksi Briclot

+2: During target opponent's next turn, creatures that player controls attack Gideon Jura if able. −2: Destroy target tapped creature. 0: Until end of turn, Gideon Jura becomes a 6/6 Human Soldier creature that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.

Nahiri, the Harbinger (Commander 2020)
Aleksi Briclot

+2: You may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. −2: Exile target enchantment, tapped artifact, or tapped creature. −8: Search your library for an artifact or creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. It gains haste. Return it to your hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Breya's Apprentice (Modern Horizons 2)
Aleksi Briclot

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Choose one — • Exile the top card of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card. • Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch (Dragon's Maze)
Aleksi Briclot

First strike, haste Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.) Each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has haste.

Delirium Skeins (Modern Masters 2017)
Aleksi Briclot

Each player discards three cards.

There came a rush, a sudden fire in the mind. Then the two saw only the sooty fog of madness, heard only the crackling of their last thoughts burning away.

Sliver Hivelord (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Sliver creatures you control have indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

"This is the source, the line unbroken since the calamity that brought such monsters to our shores." —Hastric, Thunian scout

Garruk Wildspeaker (Magic 2011)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Untap two target lands. −1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. −4: Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

Angel of Serenity (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying When this creature enters, you may exile up to three other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

Chandra Nalaar (Magic 2011)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Chandra Nalaar deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. −X: Chandra Nalaar deals X damage to target creature. −8: Chandra Nalaar deals 10 damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.

Ajani Goldmane (Magic 2010)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: You gain 2 life. −1: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn. −6: Create a white Avatar creature token. It has "This token's power and toughness are each equal to your life total."

Heliod's Punishment (Theros Beyond Death)
Aleksi Briclot

Enchant creature This Aura enters with four task counters on it. Enchanted creature can't attack or block. It loses all abilities and has "{T}: Remove a task counter from Heliod's Punishment. Then if it has no task counters on it, destroy Heliod's Punishment."

Light from Within (Eventide)
Aleksi Briclot

Chroma — Each creature you control gets +1/+1 for each white mana symbol in its mana cost.

"Muscle does not make one strong. It only masks the soul's light. True strength lies in purity of purpose." —Donal Alloway, cenn of Kinscaer

Hellkite Tyrant (Gatecrash)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying, trample Whenever Hellkite Tyrant deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game.

Eldrazi Spawn (Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi)
Aleksi Briclot

Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}.

Rosheen Meanderer (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}{C}. Spend this mana only on costs that contain {X}.

Night after night, Rosheen babbled about a bygone sunlit world, her every word dismissed as a madwoman's ravings.

Aura Barbs (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Aleksi Briclot

Each enchantment deals 2 damage to its controller, then each Aura attached to a creature deals 2 damage to the creature it's attached to.

Purphoros's Intervention (Theros Beyond Death)
Aleksi Briclot

Choose one — • Create an X/1 red Elemental creature token with trample and haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. • Purphoros's Intervention deals twice X damage to target creature or planeswalker.

"I bring a fire to recast all the world."

Astral Cornucopia (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Aleksi Briclot

This artifact enters with X charge counters on it. {T}: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color for each charge counter on this artifact.

Thoughtseize (Iconic Masters)
Aleksi Briclot

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

"Any dream is a robust harvest. Still, I prefer the timeworn dreams, heavy with import, that haunt the obsessive mind."

Zurgo Helmsmasher (Khans of Tarkir)
Aleksi Briclot

Haste Zurgo attacks each combat if able. During your turn, Zurgo has indestructible. Whenever a creature dealt damage by Zurgo this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Zurgo.

Wulfgar of Icewind Dale (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Aleksi Briclot

Melee (Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each opponent you attacked this combat.) If a creature you control attacking causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Vision Skeins (Dissension)
Aleksi Briclot

Each player draws two cards.

"I could see in the other mage's eyes that he'd thought of it too. Then it became a race to exploit the knowledge first."

Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Aleksi Briclot

When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent. Indestructible Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Ulamog is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Gideon Jura (Signature Spellbook: Gideon)
Aleksi Briclot

+2: During target opponent's next turn, creatures that player controls attack Gideon Jura if able. −2: Destroy target tapped creature. 0: Until end of turn, Gideon Jura becomes a 6/6 Human Soldier creature that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.

Pain Magnification (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Whenever an opponent is dealt 3 or more damage by a single source, that player discards a card.

The Rakdos make sure their victims remember their pain—or at least give up a little bit of their sanity in order to forget.

Oblivion Sower (Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi)
Aleksi Briclot

When you cast this spell, target opponent exiles the top four cards of their library, then you may put any number of land cards that player owns from exile onto the battlefield under your control.

The Eldrazi hunger without limit and consume without pause.

Carnifex Demon (Scars of Mirrodin)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying This creature enters with two -1/-1 counters on it. {B}, Remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on each other creature.

Every contagion has a host.

Bituminous Blast (Magic Player Rewards 2010)
Aleksi Briclot

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Bituminous Blast deals 4 damage to target creature.

Mountain (Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {R}.)

Angel of Serenity (Kaldheim Commander)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying When this creature enters, you may exile up to three other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

Borborygmos Enraged (Ravnica Remastered)
Aleksi Briclot

Trample Whenever Borborygmos Enraged deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Discard a land card: Borborygmos Enraged deals 3 damage to any target.

Gruesome Slaughter (Battle for Zendikar Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

Until end of turn, colorless creatures you control gain "{T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature."

Though Gideon arrived at Sea Gate too late to prevent the massacre, he still had enough time to lead its survivors to relative safety.

Breeding Pool (Secret Lair Drop)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Where Jin-Gitaxias's ingenuity meets Vorinclex's inhumanity.

Kozilek, the Great Distortion (Commander Masters)
Aleksi Briclot

When you cast this spell, if you have fewer than seven cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference. Menace Discard a card with mana value X: Counter target spell with mana value X.

A void as cryptic as reality itself.

Psionic Blast (Magic Player Rewards 2007)
Aleksi Briclot

Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

Chandra's Phoenix (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) Whenever an opponent is dealt damage by a red instant or sorcery spell you control or by a red planeswalker you control, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Liliana Vess (Magic 2010)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Target player discards a card. −2: Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. −8: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Titan of Eternal Fire (Commander 2020)
Aleksi Briclot

Each Human creature you control has "{R}, {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."

There is no gift more precious or more perilous than fire.

Samut, Tyrant Smasher (War of the Spark)
Aleksi Briclot

Creatures you control have haste. −1: Target creature gets +2/+1 and gains haste until end of turn. Scry 1.

Thought-Knot Seer (Secret Lair Drop)
Aleksi Briclot

({C} represents colorless mana.) When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card. When this creature leaves the battlefield, target opponent draws a card.

Chandra's Pyrohelix (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Chandra's Pyrohelix deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets.

"Now that I've dealt with your little toys, I can focus on the real problem: you." —Chandra Nalaar, to Dovin Baan

Smothering Abomination (Battle for Zendikar Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

Devoid (This card has no color.) Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card.

Astral Cornucopia (Commander 2016)
Aleksi Briclot

This artifact enters with X charge counters on it. {T}: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color for each charge counter on this artifact.

Nahiri, the Harbinger (Shadows over Innistrad Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

+2: You may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. −2: Exile target enchantment, tapped artifact, or tapped creature. −8: Search your library for an artifact or creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. It gains haste. Return it to your hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Gideon Jura (Commander Masters)
Aleksi Briclot

+2: During target opponent's next turn, creatures that player controls attack Gideon Jura if able. −2: Destroy target tapped creature. 0: Until end of turn, Gideon Jura becomes a 6/6 Human Soldier creature that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.

Mountain (Planechase 2012)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {R}.)

Samut's Sprint (War of the Spark)
Aleksi Briclot

Target creature gets +2/+1 and gains haste until end of turn. Scry 1.

Samut's war was intensely personal. Every hour she faced enemies she once loved as friends and horrors she once revered as gods.

Forest (Planechase 2012)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {G}.)

Nahiri, Storm of Stone (War of the Spark)
Aleksi Briclot

During your turn, creatures you control have first strike and equip abilities you activate cost {1} less to activate. −X: Nahiri deals X damage to target tapped creature.

Jund (Planechase Anthology Planes)
Aleksi Briclot

Whenever a player casts a creature spell that's black, red, or green, it gains devour 5. (As that creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with five times that many +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever chaos ensues, create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

Jund (March of the Machine Commander)
Aleksi Briclot

Whenever a player casts a creature spell that's black, red, or green, it gains devour 5. (As that creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with five times that many +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever chaos ensues, create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

Thoughtseize (Double Masters)
Aleksi Briclot

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

"Any dream is a robust harvest. Still, I prefer the timeworn dreams, heavy with import, that haunt the obsessive mind."

Borborygmos Enraged (Gatecrash)
Aleksi Briclot

Trample Whenever Borborygmos Enraged deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Discard a land card: Borborygmos Enraged deals 3 damage to any target.

Flameborn Hellion (Scars of Mirrodin)
Aleksi Briclot

Haste This creature attacks each combat if able.

"The most reliable omen of a future hellion attack is a past hellion attack." —Spear-Tribe teaching

Mountain (Premium Deck Series: Fire and Lightning)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {R}.)

Geyadrone Dihada (Modern Horizons 2)
Aleksi Briclot

Protection from permanents with corruption counters on them +1: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Put a corruption counter on up to one other target creature or planeswalker. −3: Gain control of target creature or planeswalker until end of turn. Untap it and put a corruption counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn. −7: Gain control of each permanent with a corruption counter on it.

To Arms! (Ravnica Remastered)
Aleksi Briclot

Untap all creatures you control. Draw a card.

"The call came, spell-borne through mortar and stone to the ear of every soldier. The call came, and the advantage was ours." —Lodusz, captain of the watch

Mountain (Commander 2018)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mountain (Planechase)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {R}.)

Heliod's Punishment (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Enchant creature This Aura enters with four task counters on it. Enchanted creature can't attack or block. It loses all abilities and has "{T}: Remove a task counter from Heliod's Punishment. Then if it has no task counters on it, destroy Heliod's Punishment."

Vraska the Unseen (Return to Ravnica)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Until your next turn, whenever a creature deals combat damage to Vraska, destroy that creature. −3: Destroy target nonland permanent. −7: Create three 1/1 black Assassin creature tokens with "Whenever this token deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."

Chandra Nalaar (Magic 2010)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Chandra Nalaar deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. −X: Chandra Nalaar deals X damage to target creature. −8: Chandra Nalaar deals 10 damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.

Kozilek, the Great Distortion (Oath of the Gatewatch Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

When you cast this spell, if you have fewer than seven cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference. Menace Discard a card with mana value X: Counter target spell with mana value X.

A void as cryptic as reality itself.

Nahiri, the Harbinger (Commander Masters)
Aleksi Briclot

+2: You may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. −2: Exile target enchantment, tapped artifact, or tapped creature. −8: Search your library for an artifact or creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. It gains haste. Return it to your hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Samut, the Tested (Hour of Devastation Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Up to one target creature gains double strike until end of turn. −2: Samut deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets. −7: Search your library for up to two creature and/or planeswalker cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Firebreathing (Magic 2010)
Aleksi Briclot

Enchant creature {R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

The mage breathed in life-giving air and breathed out death-bringing fire.

Hellkite Tyrant (Ravnica Remastered)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying, trample Whenever Hellkite Tyrant deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game.

Demonic Pact (Magic Origins)
Aleksi Briclot

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one that hasn't been chosen — • This enchantment deals 4 damage to any target and you gain 4 life. • Target opponent discards two cards. • Draw two cards. • You lose the game.

Storm Herald (Theros Beyond Death)
Aleksi Briclot

Haste When this creature enters, return any number of Aura cards from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to creatures you control. Exile those Auras at the beginning of your next end step. If those Auras would leave the battlefield, exile them instead of putting them anywhere else.

Forbidding Watchtower (Tenth Edition)
Aleksi Briclot

Forbidding Watchtower enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}: Forbidding Watchtower becomes a 1/5 white Soldier creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

Champion of Stray Souls (Commander Anthology)
Aleksi Briclot

{3}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice X other creatures: Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. {5}{B}{B}: Put this card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Ajani Goldmane (Magic 2011)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: You gain 2 life. −1: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn. −6: Create a white Avatar creature token. It has "This token's power and toughness are each equal to your life total."

To Arms! (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Untap all creatures you control. Draw a card.

"The call came, spell-borne through mortar and stone to the ear of every soldier. The call came, and the advantage was ours." —Lodusz, captain of the watch

Windreaver (RNA Guild Kit)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying {W}: This creature gains vigilance until end of turn. {W}: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn. {U}: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn. {U}: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

Shatterskull Minotaur (Zendikar Rising)
Aleksi Briclot

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.) Haste

"We just pay him and point him at problems." —Aro, Sea Gate adventurer

Venser, Shaper Savant (Time Spiral Remastered)
Aleksi Briclot

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

His marvels of artifice pale in comparison to the developing machinery of his mind.

Inquisition of Kozilek (Secret Lair Drop)
Aleksi Briclot

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card.

You have been found wanting, though not for much longer.

Jace Beleren (Commander Masters)
Aleksi Briclot

+2: Each player draws a card. −1: Target player draws a card. −10: Target player mills twenty cards.

Ulamog's Nullifier (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Aleksi Briclot

Devoid (This card has no color.) Flash Flying When this creature enters, you may put two cards your opponents own from exile into their owners' graveyards. If you do, counter target spell.

Commune with the Gods (Eternal Masters)
Aleksi Briclot

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or enchantment card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

For the first time in many years, Elspeth asked for help.

Rosheen Meanderer (Shadowmoor)
Aleksi Briclot

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}{C}. Spend this mana only on costs that contain {X}.

Night after night, Rosheen babbled about a bygone sunlit world, her every word dismissed as a madwoman's ravings.

Rosheen Meanderer (Iconic Masters)
Aleksi Briclot

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}{C}. Spend this mana only on costs that contain {X}.

Night after night, Rosheen babbled about a bygone sunlit world, her every word dismissed as a madwoman's ravings.

Reality Smasher (Secret Lair Drop)
Aleksi Briclot

({C} represents colorless mana.) Trample, haste Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, counter that spell unless its controller discards a card.

New perspectives are often fleeting.

Aegis Angel (Magic 2015)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) When this creature enters, another target permanent gains indestructible for as long as you control this creature. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. A creature with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

Firebreathing (Magic 2012)
Aleksi Briclot

Enchant creature {R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

The mage breathed in life-giving air and breathed out death-bringing fire.

Storm Herald (Theros Beyond Death)
Aleksi Briclot

Haste When this creature enters, return any number of Aura cards from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to creatures you control. Exile those Auras at the beginning of your next end step. If those Auras would leave the battlefield, exile them instead of putting them anywhere else.

Asmodeus the Archfiend (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

Binding Contract — If you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead. {B}{B}{B}: Draw seven cards. {B}: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.

Hellkite Tyrant (Commander 2021)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying, trample Whenever Hellkite Tyrant deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game.

Tombstalker (Time Spiral Remastered)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)

When it ran out of bodies, it broke down the crypt door and sought new sustenance.

Thought-Knot Seer (Secret Lair Drop)
Aleksi Briclot

({C} represents colorless mana.) When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card. When this creature leaves the battlefield, target opponent draws a card.

It thinks, therefore you aren't.

Samut, Tyrant Smasher (War of the Spark Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

Creatures you control have haste. −1: Target creature gets +2/+1 and gains haste until end of turn. Scry 1.

Sapseep Forest (Commander 2021)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {G}.) This land enters tapped. {G}, {T}: You gain 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more green permanents.

Garruk Wildspeaker (Magic 2010)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Untap two target lands. −1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. −4: Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

Angel of Serenity (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying When this creature enters, you may exile up to three other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

Windreaver (Dissension)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying {W}: This creature gains vigilance until end of turn. {W}: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn. {U}: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn. {U}: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

Samut's Sprint (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Target creature gets +2/+1 and gains haste until end of turn. Scry 1.

Samut's war was intensely personal. Every hour she faced enemies she once loved as friends and horrors she once revered as gods.

Quicken (Ravnica Remastered)
Aleksi Briclot

The next sorcery spell you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash. (It can be cast any time you could cast an instant.) Draw a card.

A skilled Izzet chronarch can carry out an epic vendetta between the fall of one hourglass grain and the next.

Seize the Soul (Guildpact)
Aleksi Briclot

Destroy target nonwhite, nonblack creature. Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. Haunt (When this spell card is put into a graveyard after resolving, exile it haunting target creature.) When the creature this card haunts dies, destroy target nonwhite, nonblack creature. Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Angel of Serenity (Return to Ravnica)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying When this creature enters, you may exile up to three other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

Quicken (Magic 2014)
Aleksi Briclot

The next sorcery spell you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash. (It can be cast any time you could cast an instant.) Draw a card.

A skilled Izzet chronarch can carry out an epic vendetta between the fall of one hourglass grain and the next.

Swamp (Shards of Alara)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {B}.)

Wulfgar of Icewind Dale (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Aleksi Briclot

Melee (Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each opponent you attacked this combat.) If a creature you control attacking causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Pillar of War (Born of the Gods)
Aleksi Briclot

Defender As long as this creature is enchanted, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Just because a temple has no guards doesn't mean it's undefended.

Smothering Abomination (Battle for Zendikar)
Aleksi Briclot

Devoid (This card has no color.) Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card.

Cloud Crusader (Magic 2011)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Each crusader bonds with a griffin fledgling while still a child, and the two grow up as siblings.

Tower of Calamities (Scars of Mirrodin)
Aleksi Briclot

{8}, {T}: This artifact deals 12 damage to target creature.

The ur-golems concealed one of their towers out of fear that its power would be abused, and in anticipation of a time when its power would be sorely needed.

Eyes of the Wisent (Lorwyn)
Aleksi Briclot

Whenever an opponent casts a blue spell during your turn, you may create a 4/4 green Elemental creature token.

Calm as a wisent's watch —Elvish expression meaning "safe"

Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre (Ultimate Box Topper)
Aleksi Briclot

When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent. Indestructible Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Ulamog is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Emberstrike Duo (Shadowmoor)
Aleksi Briclot

Whenever you cast a black spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Whenever you cast a red spell, this creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Champion of Stray Souls (Born of the Gods)
Aleksi Briclot

{3}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice X other creatures: Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. {5}{B}{B}: Put this card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Aura Barbs (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Each enchantment deals 2 damage to its controller, then each Aura attached to a creature deals 2 damage to the creature it's attached to.

Ajani Goldmane (Lorwyn)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: You gain 2 life. −1: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn. −6: Create a white Avatar creature token. It has "This token's power and toughness are each equal to your life total."

Clattering Skeletons (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Aleksi Briclot

When this creature dies, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Those who die in the dungeon become its guardians.

Windreaver (Duel Decks: Venser vs. Koth)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying {W}: This creature gains vigilance until end of turn. {W}: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn. {U}: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn. {U}: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

To Arms! (Guildpact)
Aleksi Briclot

Untap all creatures you control. Draw a card.

"The call came, spell-borne through mortar and stone to the ear of every soldier. The call came, and the advantage was ours." —Lodusz, captain of the watch

Angel of Serenity (Commander 2015)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying When this creature enters, you may exile up to three other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

Oni Possession (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
Aleksi Briclot

Enchant creature At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has trample. Enchanted creature is a Demon Spirit.

Chandra Nalaar (Lorwyn)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Chandra Nalaar deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. −X: Chandra Nalaar deals X damage to target creature. −8: Chandra Nalaar deals 10 damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.

Breya's Apprentice (Modern Horizons 2 Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Choose one — • Exile the top card of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card. • Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Venser, Shaper Savant (Future Sight)
Aleksi Briclot

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

His marvels of artifice pale in comparison to the developing machinery of his mind.

Champion of Stray Souls (Commander 2019)
Aleksi Briclot

{3}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice X other creatures: Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. {5}{B}{B}: Put this card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Borborygmos Enraged (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Trample Whenever Borborygmos Enraged deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Discard a land card: Borborygmos Enraged deals 3 damage to any target.

Vision Skeins (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Aleksi Briclot

Each player draws two cards.

"I could see in the other mage's eyes that he'd thought of it too. Then it became a race to exploit the knowledge first."

Wurmcoil Engine (Kaladesh Inventions)
Aleksi Briclot

Deathtouch, lifelink When this creature dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

Horobi's Whisper (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Aleksi Briclot

If you control a Swamp, destroy target nonblack creature. Splice onto Arcane—Exile four cards from your graveyard. (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Primordial Hydra (Jumpstart 2022)
Aleksi Briclot

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. This creature has trample as long as it has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it.

Nahiri, Storm of Stone (War of the Spark Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

During your turn, creatures you control have first strike and equip abilities you activate cost {1} less to activate. −X: Nahiri deals X damage to target tapped creature.

Gideon Jura (Starter Commander Decks)
Aleksi Briclot

+2: During target opponent's next turn, creatures that player controls attack Gideon Jura if able. −2: Destroy target tapped creature. 0: Until end of turn, Gideon Jura becomes a 6/6 Human Soldier creature that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.

Oni Possession (Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic)
Aleksi Briclot

Enchant creature At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has trample. Enchanted creature is a Demon Spirit.

Skarrg Guildmage (Gatecrash)
Aleksi Briclot

{R}{G}: Creatures you control gain trample until end of turn. {1}{R}{G}: Target land you control becomes a 4/4 Elemental creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

Primeval Titan (Time Spiral Remastered)
Aleksi Briclot

Trample Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

When nature calls, *run*.

Ravaging Blaze (Magic Origins)
Aleksi Briclot

Ravaging Blaze deals X damage to target creature. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, Ravaging Blaze also deals X damage to that creature's controller.

In time, not even the fire monks could keep up with Chandra.

Samut, Voice of Dissent (Amonkhet)
Aleksi Briclot

Flash Double strike, vigilance, haste Other creatures you control have haste. {W}, {T}: Untap another target creature.

"I'll fight no more just for the honor of dying. The afterlife will have to wait."

Delirium Skeins (Dissension)
Aleksi Briclot

Each player discards three cards.

There came a rush, a sudden fire in the mind. Then the two saw only the sooty fog of madness, heard only the crackling of their last thoughts burning away.

Quicken (Guildpact)
Aleksi Briclot

The next sorcery spell you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash. (It can be cast any time you could cast an instant.) Draw a card.

A skilled Izzet chronarch can carry out an epic vendetta between the fall of one hourglass grain and the next.

Nahiri, the Harbinger (Shadows over Innistrad)
Aleksi Briclot

+2: You may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. −2: Exile target enchantment, tapped artifact, or tapped creature. −8: Search your library for an artifact or creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. It gains haste. Return it to your hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Entropic Eidolon (Dissension)
Aleksi Briclot

{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Tombstalker (Future Sight)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)

Vision Skeins (Commander 2011)
Aleksi Briclot

Each player draws two cards.

"I could see in the other mage's eyes that he'd thought of it too. Then it became a race to exploit the knowledge first."

Firebreathing (Tenth Edition)
Aleksi Briclot

Enchant creature {R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Cradle your rage close to your heart and nurture your grudge with hatred that you may unleash upon your foes a dragon's fury." —Tomor, dragonspeaker shaman

Aegis Angel (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) When this creature enters, another target permanent gains indestructible for as long as you control this creature. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. A creature with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

Aegis Angel (Welcome Deck 2016)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) When this creature enters, another target permanent gains indestructible for as long as you control this creature. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. A creature with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

Thoughtseize (Lorwyn)
Aleksi Briclot

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

"Any dream is a robust harvest. Still, I prefer the timeworn dreams, heavy with import, that haunt the obsessive mind."

Hellkite Tyrant (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying, trample Whenever Hellkite Tyrant deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game.

Asmodeus the Archfiend (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

Binding Contract — If you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead. {B}{B}{B}: Draw seven cards. {B}: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.

Storm Herald (Theros Beyond Death Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

Haste When this creature enters, return any number of Aura cards from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to creatures you control. Exile those Auras at the beginning of your next end step. If those Auras would leave the battlefield, exile them instead of putting them anywhere else.

Garruk Wildspeaker (Commander 2011)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Untap two target lands. −1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. −4: Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

Mountain (Premium Deck Series: Fire and Lightning)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {R}.)

Akroma's Vengeance (Masters 25)
Aleksi Briclot

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"Many must die for the one who should not have perished."

Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas (Mythic Edition)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: 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 any order. −1: Target artifact becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5. −4: Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is twice the number of artifacts you control.

Tarox Bladewing (Future Sight)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying, haste Grandeur — Discard another card named Tarox Bladewing: Tarox Bladewing gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is its power.

Despising his siblings as insults to his line, he finds and devours each in turn.

Horobi's Whisper (Modern Masters)
Aleksi Briclot

If you control a Swamp, destroy target nonblack creature. Splice onto Arcane—Exile four cards from your graveyard. (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Jace Beleren (Lorwyn)
Aleksi Briclot

+2: Each player draws a card. −1: Target player draws a card. −10: Target player mills twenty cards.

Quicken (Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might)
Aleksi Briclot

The next sorcery spell you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash. (It can be cast any time you could cast an instant.) Draw a card.

A skilled Izzet chronarch can carry out an epic vendetta between the fall of one hourglass grain and the next.

Liliana Vess (Magic 2011)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Target player discards a card. −2: Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. −8: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Hellkite Tyrant (Ravnica Remastered)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying, trample Whenever Hellkite Tyrant deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game.

Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas (Mirrodin Besieged)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: 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 any order. −1: Target artifact becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5. −4: Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is twice the number of artifacts you control.

Liliana Vess (Lorwyn)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Target player discards a card. −2: Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. −8: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Asmodeus the Archfiend (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

Binding Contract — If you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead. {B}{B}{B}: Draw seven cards. {B}: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.

Eldrazi Spawn (Modern Masters 2015 Tokens)
Aleksi Briclot

Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}.

Oni Possession (Champions of Kamigawa)
Aleksi Briclot

Enchant creature At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has trample. Enchanted creature is a Demon Spirit.

Vision Skeins (Commander 2013)
Aleksi Briclot

Each player draws two cards.

"I could see in the other mage's eyes that he'd thought of it too. Then it became a race to exploit the knowledge first."

Worldheart Phoenix (Conflux)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} rather than paying its mana cost. If you do, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Flames of the Blood Hand (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Aleksi Briclot

Flames of the Blood Hand deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. The damage can't be prevented. If that player or that planeswalker's controller would gain life this turn, that player gains no life instead.

Many ogres extracted blood oaths from the oni they summoned. Others simply extracted blood.

Tombstalker (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)

Venser, Shaper Savant (Double Masters 2022)
Aleksi Briclot

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

His marvels of artifice pale in comparison to the developing machinery of his mind.

Glimpse the Sun God (Born of the Gods)
Aleksi Briclot

Tap X target creatures. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Better to be beneath Heliod's notice than beneath his heel.

Pain Magnification (Dissension)
Aleksi Briclot

Whenever an opponent is dealt 3 or more damage by a single source, that player discards a card.

The Rakdos make sure their victims remember their pain—or at least give up a little bit of their sanity in order to forget.

Eldrazi Temple (Secret Lair Drop)
Aleksi Briclot

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.

It housed a congregation of broken, screaming souls.

Swamp (Premium Deck Series: Graveborn)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {B}.)

Zurgo Helmsmasher (Khans of Tarkir Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

Haste Zurgo attacks each combat if able. During your turn, Zurgo has indestructible. Whenever a creature dealt damage by Zurgo this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Zurgo.

Samut, the Tested (Hour of Devastation)
Aleksi Briclot

+1: Up to one target creature gains double strike until end of turn. −2: Samut deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets. −7: Search your library for up to two creature and/or planeswalker cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Simic Guildmage (Ravnica Remastered)
Aleksi Briclot

({G/U} can be paid with either {G} or {U}.) {1}{G}: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto another target creature with the same controller. {1}{U}: Attach target Aura attached to a permanent to another permanent with the same controller.

Tombstalker (Modern Masters)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)

Mountain (Shards of Alara)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mountain (Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {R}.)

Nahiri, Storm of Stone (Secret Lair Drop)
Aleksi Briclot

During your turn, creatures you control have first strike and equip abilities you activate cost {1} less to activate. −X: Nahiri deals X damage to target tapped creature.

Ulamog's Nullifier (Battle for Zendikar)
Aleksi Briclot

Devoid (This card has no color.) Flash Flying When this creature enters, you may put two cards your opponents own from exile into their owners' graveyards. If you do, counter target spell.

Jace Beleren (Magic 2011)
Aleksi Briclot

+2: Each player draws a card. −1: Target player draws a card. −10: Target player mills twenty cards.

Primeval Titan (Magic 2012)
Aleksi Briclot

Trample Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

When nature calls, *run*.

Chandra's Pyrohelix (Jumpstart 2022)
Aleksi Briclot

Chandra's Pyrohelix deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets.

"Now that I've dealt with your little toys, I can focus on the real problem: you." —Chandra Nalaar, to Dovin Baan

Akroma's Vengeance (Commander 2018)
Aleksi Briclot

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"Many must die for the one who should not have perished."

Angel of Serenity (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Flying When this creature enters, you may exile up to three other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

Swamp (Commander 2018)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {B}.)

Sapseep Forest (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {G}.) This land enters tapped. {G}, {T}: You gain 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more green permanents.

Purphoros's Intervention (Theros Beyond Death Promos)
Aleksi Briclot

Choose one — • Create an X/1 red Elemental creature token with trample and haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. • Purphoros's Intervention deals twice X damage to target creature or planeswalker.

"I bring a fire to recast all the world."

Jund (Planechase 2012 Planes)
Aleksi Briclot

Whenever a player casts a creature spell that's black, red, or green, it gains devour 5. (As that creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with five times that many +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever chaos ensues, create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

Treasure Hunt (IDW Comics Inserts)
Aleksi Briclot

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

"Some call me a thief. I prefer to think of myself as a discreet borrower." —Dack Fayden, Planeswalker

Jace Beleren (Mystery Booster 2)
Aleksi Briclot

+2: Each player draws a card. −1: Target player draws a card. −10: Target player mills twenty cards.

Forbidding Watchtower (The List)
Aleksi Briclot

Forbidding Watchtower enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}: Forbidding Watchtower becomes a 1/5 white Soldier creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

Mountain (Shards of Alara)
Aleksi Briclot

({T}: Add {R}.)

Story Circle (Tenth Edition)
Aleksi Briclot

As this enchantment enters, choose a color. {W}: The next time a source of your choice of the chosen color would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre (Modern Masters 2015)
Aleksi Briclot

When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent. Indestructible Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Ulamog is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Titan of Eternal Fire (Theros)
Aleksi Briclot

Each Human creature you control has "{R}, {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."

There is no gift more precious or more perilous than fire.

Thoughtseize (Time Spiral Remastered)
Aleksi Briclot

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

"Any dream is a robust harvest. Still, I prefer the timeworn dreams, heavy with import, that haunt the obsessive mind."

Primeval Titan (Magic 2011)
Aleksi Briclot

Trample Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

When nature calls, *run*.