Meishin, the Mind Cage

Neverending Torment (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Thomas Gianni

Search target player's library for X cards, where X is the number of cards in your hand, and exile them. Then that player shuffles. Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)

Wall of Stone (Fifth Edition)
Thomas Gianni

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

The ground itself lends its strength to these walls of living stone, which possess the stability of ancient mountains. These mighty bulwarks thwart ground-based troops, providing welcome relief for weary warriors who defend the land.

Uktabi Wildcats (Seventh Edition)
Thomas Gianni

Uktabi Wildcats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Forests you control. {G}, Sacrifice a Forest: Regenerate this creature.

Favorable Destiny (Mirage)
Thomas Gianni

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2 as long as it's white. Enchanted creature has shroud as long as its controller controls another creature. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Torture Chamber (Tempest)
Thomas Gianni

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a pain counter on this artifact. At the beginning of your end step, this artifact deals damage to you equal to the number of pain counters on it. {1}, {T}, Remove all pain counters from this artifact: It deals damage to target creature equal to the number of pain counters removed this way.

Waterspout Djinn (Visions)
Thomas Gianni

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand.

"Fly us higher, out of its storm." —Sisay, Captain of the *Weatherlight*

Turf Wound (Invasion)
Thomas Gianni

Target player can't play lands this turn. Draw a card.

"I can't imagine how anyone lives in Shiv, let alone why they choose to stay." —Sisay

Head to Head (Unhinged)
Thomas Gianni

You and target opponent play Seven Questions with the top card of that player's library. If you win, prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn by a source of your choice. (To play Seven Questions, that player looks at the card, then you ask up to six yes-or-no questions about the card that they answer truthfully. You guess the card's name—that's question seven—then the player reveals the card.)

Sphere of Purity (Mirrodin)
Thomas Gianni

If an artifact would deal damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.

Purity rejects artifice.

Frenetic Efreet (World Championship Decks 1997)
Thomas Gianni

Flying {0}: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, this creature phases out. If you lose the flip, sacrifice this creature. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before you untap during your next untap step.)

Gang of Elk (Seventh Edition)
Thomas Gianni

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

"I felt the ground shake, so I hid in my tent until the earthquake passed. It passed all right, and it left hoofprints." —Femeref explorer

Reverse Damage (Classic Sixth Edition)
Thomas Gianni

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

Seht's Tiger (Future Sight)
Thomas Gianni

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, you gain protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything of the chosen color.)

First Come, First Served (Unhinged)
Thomas Gianni

Each attacking or blocking creature with the lowest collector number among attacking or blocking creatures has first strike.

Yotian soldiers hoped that one day R&D would make an artifact creature whose name starts with Z. And in their dreams, it's a 4/1.

Prismatic Boon (Mirage)
Thomas Gianni

Choose a color. X target creatures gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.

"How ironic that the greatest forge of civilization is battle." —Mangara

Manriki-Gusari (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Thomas Gianni

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has "{T}: Destroy target Equipment." Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Pit Raptor (Prophecy)
Thomas Gianni

Flying, first strike At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {2}{B}{B}.

Dregs of Sorrow (Commander 2014)
Thomas Gianni

Destroy X target nonblack creatures. Draw X cards.

Crovax gazed on the dead, and for one dark moment he saw a banquet.

Fledgling Djinn (The List)
Thomas Gianni

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

"The young can be quite dangerous. Trust me, I should know." —Ertai, wizard adept

Reverse Damage (Fifth Edition)
Thomas Gianni

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

Waterspout Djinn (Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra)
Thomas Gianni

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand.

"Fly us higher, out of its storm." —Sisay, captain of the *Weatherlight*

Waterspout Djinn (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra)
Thomas Gianni

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand.

"Fly us higher, out of its storm." —Sisay, captain of the *Weatherlight*

Tower of the Magistrate (Mercadian Masques)
Thomas Gianni

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Target creature gains protection from artifacts until end of turn.

Like the city, weakest at its foundation.

Abeyance (World Championship Decks 1997)
Thomas Gianni

Until end of turn, target player can't cast instant or sorcery spells, and that player can't activate abilities that aren't mana abilities. Draw a card.

"I'm too modest a wizard to reveal the full extent of my abilities." —Ertai, wizard adept

Sea's Claim (Ninth Edition)
Thomas Gianni

Enchant land (Target a land as you cast this. This card enters attached to that land.) Enchanted land is an Island.

"Who's the crazy one now!?" —Torgle, mountaintop boatmaker

Seht's Tiger (Commander 2017)
Thomas Gianni

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, you gain protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything of the chosen color.)

Seht's Tiger (The List)
Thomas Gianni

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, you gain protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything of the chosen color.)

Prison Barricade (Invasion)
Thomas Gianni

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Kicker {1}{W} (You may pay an additional {1}{W} as you cast this spell.) If this creature was kicked, it enters with a +1/+1 counter on it and with "This creature can attack as though it didn't have defender."

Fledgling Djinn (Weatherlight)
Thomas Gianni

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

"The young can be quite dangerous. Trust me, I should know." —Ertai, wizard adept

Familiar Ground (Seventh Edition)
Thomas Gianni

Each creature you control can't be blocked by more than one creature.

More than any other battlefield, the forest gives the advantage to those who know it best.

Shimmering Efreet (Visions)
Thomas Gianni

Flying Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.) Whenever this creature phases in, target creature phases out. (It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Life or death: which is the illusion?" —Naimah, Femeref philosopher

Reverse Damage (Ninth Edition)
Thomas Gianni

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

"My enemy's hatred is his weakness. My enemy's anger is my strength." —Remin, venerable monk

Abeyance (World Championship Decks 1998)
Thomas Gianni

Until end of turn, target player can't cast instant or sorcery spells, and that player can't activate abilities that aren't mana abilities. Draw a card.

"I'm too modest a wizard to reveal the full extent of my abilities." —Ertai, wizard adept

Gang of Elk (Seventh Edition)
Thomas Gianni

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

"I felt the ground shake, so I hid in my tent until the earthquake passed. It passed all right, and it left hoofprints." —Femeref explorer

Untamed Wilds (Seventh Edition)
Thomas Gianni

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

No forest is so remote that the elves don't know its secrets.

Tower of the Magistrate (Mystery Booster 2)
Thomas Gianni

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Target creature gains protection from artifacts until end of turn.

Like the city, weakest at its foundation.

Dregs of Sorrow (Tempest)
Thomas Gianni

Destroy X target nonblack creatures. Draw X cards.

Crovax gazed upon the dead, and for one dark moment he saw a banquet.

Frenetic Efreet (World Championship Decks 1997)
Thomas Gianni

Flying {0}: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, this creature phases out. If you lose the flip, sacrifice this creature. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before you untap during your next untap step.)

Abeyance (Weatherlight)
Thomas Gianni

Until end of turn, target player can't cast instant or sorcery spells, and that player can't activate abilities that aren't mana abilities. Draw a card.

"I'm too modest a wizard to reveal the full extent of my abilities." —Ertai, wizard adept

Game of Chaos (Fifth Edition)
Thomas Gianni

Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 1 life and target opponent loses 1 life, and you decide whether to flip again. If you lose the flip, you lose 1 life and that opponent gains 1 life, and that player decides whether to flip again. Double the life stakes with each flip.

Frenetic Efreet (Mirage)
Thomas Gianni

Flying {0}: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, this creature phases out. If you lose the flip, sacrifice this creature. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before you untap during your next untap step.)