Lava Burst

Lava Burst (Deckmasters)
Tom Wänerstrand

Lava Burst deals X damage to any target. If Lava Burst would deal damage to a creature, that damage can't be prevented or dealt instead to another permanent or player.

"Overkill? This isn't a game of kick-the-ouphe!" —Jaya Ballard, task mage

Jalum Tome (Rinascimento)
Tom Wänerstrand

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Royal Assassin (Limited Edition Beta)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Trained in the arts of stealth, the royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.

Samite Alchemist (Homelands)
Tom Wänerstrand

{W}{W}, {T}: Prevent the next 4 damage that would be dealt this turn to target creature you control. Tap that creature. It doesn't untap during your next untap step.

"The wisest of Aysen dwell not in the Abbey, but in the laboratory." —Taysir

City of Brass (Classic Sixth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

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

Capsize (World Championship Decks 1998)
Tom Wänerstrand

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Urza's Blueprints (Dominaria Remastered)
Tom Wänerstrand

Echo {6} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) {T}: Draw a card.

From concept to paper to reality.

Pirate Ship (Unlimited Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Flash Flood (Chronicles)
Tom Wänerstrand

Choose one — • Destroy target red permanent. • Return target Mountain to its owner's hand.

Many people say that no power can bring the mountains low. Many people are fools.

Mountain (Deckmasters)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {R}.)

Icatian Town (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Tom Wänerstrand

Create four 1/1 white Citizen creature tokens.

Icatia's once-peaceful towns faced increasing attacks from orcs and goblins as the climate cooled. By the time the empire fell, they were little more than armed camps.

Blood Moon (The Dark)
Tom Wänerstrand

Nonbasic lands are Mountains.

Heavy light flooded across the landscape, cloaking everything in deep crimson.

Brushland (World Championship Decks 2000)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Samite Healer (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Jalum Tome (Anthologies)
Tom Wänerstrand

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

This timeworn relic was responsible for many of Urza's victories, though he never fully comprehended its mystic runes.

Snow-Covered Mountain (Ice Age)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {R}.)

Unyaro Bees (Time Spiral)
Tom Wänerstrand

Flying {G}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. {3}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 2 damage to any target.

With no jungle left to contain it, the "plague of daggers" spread across Dominaria.

Pirate Ship (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Plains (Classic Sixth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {W}.)

Ghost Ship (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Tom Wänerstrand

Flying {U}{U}{U}: Regenerate this creature.

"That phantom prow split the storm as lightning cast its long shadow on the battlefield below." —Mireille Gaetane, *The Valeriad*

Pirate Ship (Fifth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Royal Assassin (Fourth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Trained in the arts of stealth, the Royal Assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.

Samite Healer (Anthologies)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Thallid Germinator (Time Spiral Remastered)
Tom Wänerstrand

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature. Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. Sacrifice a Saproling: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Pirate Ship (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Lat-Nam's Legacy (Alliances)
Tom Wänerstrand

Shuffle a card from your hand into your library. If you do, draw two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"All the knowledge of Lat-Nam could not protect its sages from the Brothers' War." —Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen

Bronze Tablet (Rinascimento)
Tom Wänerstrand

Remove this card from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. This artifact enters tapped. {4}, {T}: Exile this artifact and target nontoken permanent an opponent owns. That player may pay 10 life. If they do, put this card into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player owns this card and you own the other exiled card.

Well of Life (Prophecy)
Tom Wänerstrand

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no untapped lands, you gain 2 life.

When you have given everything, then you have everything to gain. —Well inscription

Pirate Ship (Foreign Black Border)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Mountain (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {R}.)

Samite Healer (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Reef Pirates (Fifth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player mills a card.

Relentless as the tides, souls dark as a moonless night. Bloodshed on their minds, and greed burning in their hearts like molten gold.

Bronze Tablet (Antiquities)
Tom Wänerstrand

Remove this card from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. This artifact enters tapped. {4}, {T}: Exile this artifact and target nontoken permanent an opponent owns. That player may pay 10 life. If they do, put this card into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player owns this card and you own the other exiled card.

Royal Assassin (Foreign Black Border)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Goblin Flotilla (Fallen Empires)
Tom Wänerstrand

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) At the beginning of each combat, unless you pay {R}, whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature this combat, that creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Exceptionally poor sailors, Goblins usually arrived at their destination retching and in no condition to fight.

Corrupted Key (Mystery Booster Playtest Cards 2021)
Tom Wänerstrand

As long as Corrupted Key is tapped, creatures you control have menace and deathtouch.

Venomous Dragonfly (Mercadian Masques)
Tom Wänerstrand

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

A pretty little death is still death.

Barl's Cage (Chronicles)
Tom Wänerstrand

{3}: Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

For a dozen years the Cage had held Lord Ith, but as the Pretender Mairsil's power weakened, so did the bars.

Pirate Ship (Limited Edition Alpha)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Plains (Starter 1999)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {W}.)

Balduvian Trading Post (Alliances)
Tom Wänerstrand

If this land would enter, sacrifice an untapped Mountain instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. {T}: Add {C}{R}. {1}, {T}: This land deals 1 damage to target attacking creature.

Samite Healer (Limited Edition Alpha)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Arena of the Ancients (Legends)
Tom Wänerstrand

Legendary creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. When this artifact enters, tap all legendary creatures.

Mountain (Deckmasters)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {R}.)

Adventurers' Guildhouse (Legends)
Tom Wänerstrand

Green legendary creatures you control have "bands with other legendary creatures." (Any legendary creatures can attack in a band as long as at least one has "bands with other legendary creatures." Bands are blocked as a group. If at least two legendary creatures you control, one of which has "bands with other legendary creatures," are blocking or being blocked by the same creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Mountain (Deckmasters)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {R}.)

Wind Drake (Seventh Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

Flying

"But high she shoots through air and light, Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, Nor shadow dims her way." —Thomas Moore, "Oh that I had Wings"

Royal Assassin (30th Anniversary Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Trained in the arts of stealth, the royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.

Goblins of the Flarg (The Dark)
Tom Wänerstrand

Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.) When you control a Dwarf, sacrifice this creature.

Blood Moon (Chronicles)
Tom Wänerstrand

Nonbasic lands are Mountains.

Heavy light flooded across the landscape, cloaking everything in deep crimson.

Samite Healer (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Pirate Ship (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Mountain (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {R}.)

Plains (Mirage)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {W}.)

Brushland (Fifth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Samite Healer (Fourth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Corrupted Key (Mystery Booster Playtest Cards 2019)
Tom Wänerstrand

As long as Corrupted Key is tapped, creatures you control have menace and deathtouch.

Ghost Ship (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Tom Wänerstrand

Flying {U}{U}{U}: Regenerate this creature.

Samite Healer (Unlimited Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Bloodrock Cyclops (Weatherlight)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature attacks each combat if able.

"He's big an' dumb an' ready to fight. A lot like ol' Hornhead here." —Squee, goblin cabin hand, scouting report

Mountain (Ice Age)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {R}.)

Royal Assassin (Unlimited Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Trained in the arts of stealth, the royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.

Obelisk of Undoing (Chronicles)
Tom Wänerstrand

{6}, {T}: Return target permanent you both own and control to your hand.

The Battle of Tomakul taught Urza not to rely on fickle reinforcements.

Giant Shark (The Dark)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature that has been dealt damage this turn, this creature gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Mountain (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {R}.)

Royal Assassin (Limited Edition Alpha)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Trained in the arts of stealth, the royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.

Wind Drake (Eighth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

Flying

"But high she shoots through air and light, Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, Nor shadow dims her way." —Thomas Moore, "Oh that I had Wings"

Barl's Cage (Fifth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{3}: Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

For a dozen years the cage had held Lord Ith, but as the Pretender Mairsil's power weakened, so did the bars.

Mountain (Unglued)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {R}.)

Relentless Assault (Mystery Booster 2)
Tom Wänerstrand

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

Venom (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Tom Wänerstrand

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy the other creature at end of combat.

Samite Healer (Foreign Black Border)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Obelisk of Undoing (Fifth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{6}, {T}: Return target permanent you both own and control to your hand.

The Battle of Tomakul taught Urza not to rely on fickle reinforcements.

Obelisk of Undoing (Rinascimento)
Tom Wänerstrand

{6}, {T}: Return target permanent you both own and control to your hand.

Arcum's Weathervane (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Tom Wänerstrand

{2}, {T}: Target snow land is no longer snow. {2}, {T}: Target nonsnow basic land becomes snow.

Ravenous Rats (Invasion)
Tom Wänerstrand

When this creature enters, target opponent discards a card.

Nothing is sacred to the rats. Everything is simply another meal.

Helm of Awakening (Dominaria Remastered)
Tom Wänerstrand

Spells cost {1} less to cast.

Perhaps things would have ended differently had its first gasping breath not been lost in the susurrus of shifting sands.

War Barge (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Tom Wänerstrand

{3}: Target creature gains islandwalk until end of turn. When this artifact leaves the battlefield this turn, destroy that creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated. (A creature with islandwalk can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Chittering Rats (Darksteel)
Tom Wänerstrand

When this creature enters, target opponent puts a card from their hand on top of their library.

Bottom feeders sometimes rise to the top.

Lat-Nam's Legacy (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Tom Wänerstrand

Shuffle a card from your hand into your library. If you do, draw two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"All the knowledge of Lat-Nam could not protect its sages from the Brothers' War." —Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen

Plains (Mirage)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {W}.)

Plains (Mirage)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {W}.)

Thunderclap (Mercadian Masques)
Tom Wänerstrand

You may sacrifice a Mountain rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Thunderclap deals 3 damage to target creature.

Ghost Ship (Fourth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

Flying {U}{U}{U}: Regenerate this creature.

"That phantom prow split the storm as lightning cast its long shadow on the battlefield below." —Mireille Gaetane, *The Valeriad*

Pirate Ship (30th Anniversary Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Pirate Ship (Revised Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Reef Pirates (Homelands)
Tom Wänerstrand

Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player mills a card.

"Zeki sails with a dead crew not out of villainy, but pragmatism." —Baron Sengir

Capsize (Friday Night Magic 2003)
Tom Wänerstrand

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Icatian Town (Classic Sixth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

Create four 1/1 white Citizen creature tokens.

Icatia's once-peaceful towns faced increasing attacks from orcs and goblins as the climate cooled. By the time the empire fell, they were little more than armed camps.

Lava Zombie (Planeshift)
Tom Wänerstrand

When this creature enters, return a black or red creature you control to its owner's hand. {2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Jalum Tome (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Tom Wänerstrand

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

This timeworn relic was responsible for many of Urza's victories, though he never fully comprehended its mystical runes.

Bronze Tablet (Renaissance)
Tom Wänerstrand

Remove this card from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. This artifact enters tapped. {4}, {T}: Exile this artifact and target nontoken permanent an opponent owns. That player may pay 10 life. If they do, put this card into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player owns this card and you own the other exiled card.

Iron Maiden (Urza's Legacy)
Tom Wänerstrand

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, this artifact deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

The maiden is a jealous lover.

Boiling Seas (Portal)
Tom Wänerstrand

Destroy all Islands.

What burns the land, boils the seas.

Urza's Blueprints (Urza's Legacy)
Tom Wänerstrand

Echo {6} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) {T}: Draw a card.

From concept to paper to reality.

Pirate Ship (Fourth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Royal Assassin (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Ravenous Rats (Eighth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

When this creature enters, target opponent discards a card.

Nothing is sacred to the rats. Everything is simply another meal.

Jalum Tome (Classic Sixth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

This timeworn relic was responsible for many of Urza's victories, though he never fully comprehended its mystic runes.

Urza's Blueprints (The List)
Tom Wänerstrand

Echo {6} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) {T}: Draw a card.

From concept to paper to reality.

Samite Healer (30th Anniversary Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Royal Assassin (Revised Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Trained in the arts of stealth, the royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.

Thallid Germinator (Time Spiral)
Tom Wänerstrand

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature. Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. Sacrifice a Saproling: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Grimclaw Bats (Darksteel)
Tom Wänerstrand

Flying {B}, Pay 1 life: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Even on a world of metal, there are those who thirst for blood.

Ghost Town (The List)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Add {C}. {0}: Return this land to its owner's hand. Activate only if it's not your turn.

"The air here smells like a grave." —Crovax

Goblins of the Flarg (Chronicles)
Tom Wänerstrand

Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.) When you control a Dwarf, sacrifice this creature.

Reef Pirates (Homelands)
Tom Wänerstrand

Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player mills a card.

"Corpses for crew don't sit well with me. Zeki and his dead ship had best keep their distance." —Joskun, An-Havva Constable

Samite Alchemist (Homelands)
Tom Wänerstrand

{W}{W}, {T}: Prevent the next 4 damage that would be dealt this turn to target creature you control. Tap that creature. It doesn't untap during your next untap step.

"Powders and potions are nothing compared to faith." —Baris, Serra Inquisitor

Plains (World Championship Decks 2000)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {W}.)

Plains (Mirage)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {W}.)

Jalum Tome (Antiquities)
Tom Wänerstrand

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

This timeworn relic was responsible for many of Urza's victories, though he never fully comprehended its mystical runes.

Royal Assassin (Collectors' Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Trained in the arts of stealth, the royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.

Royal Assassin (Junior Super Series)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Trained in the arts of stealth, royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.

Venom (Fifth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy the other creature at end of combat.

"I told him it was just a flesh wound, but the next time I looked at him, poor Tadhg was dead and gone." —Maeveen O'Donagh, *Memoirs of a Soldier*

Venom (Fourth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy the other creature at end of combat.

"I told him it was just a flesh wound, but the next time I looked at him, poor Tadhg was dead and gone." —Maeveen O'Donagh, *Memoirs of a Soldier*

Plains (Starter 1999)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {W}.)

Lat-Nam's Legacy (Alliances)
Tom Wänerstrand

Shuffle a card from your hand into your library. If you do, draw two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Lat-Nam has bequeathed us its secrets. With them we shall attain true enlightenment." —Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen

Tidal Influence (Fallen Empires)
Tom Wänerstrand

Cast this spell only if no permanents named Tidal Influence are on the battlefield. This enchantment enters with a tide counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a tide counter on this enchantment. As long as there is exactly one tide counter on this enchantment, all blue creatures get -2/-0. As long as there are exactly three tide counters on this enchantment, all blue creatures get +2/+0. Whenever there are four or more tide counters on this enchantment, remove all tide counters from it.

Mountain (Arena League 2001)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {R}.)

Plains (Classic Sixth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {W}.)

Venom (Renaissance)
Tom Wänerstrand

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy the other creature at end of combat.

City of Brass (Fifth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

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

Jalum Tome (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Tom Wänerstrand

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

This timeworn relic was responsible for many of Urza's victories, though he never fully comprehended its mystical runes.

City of Shadows (The Dark)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}, Exile a creature you control: Put a storage counter on this land. {T}: Add {C} for each storage counter on this land.

Boiling Seas (Ninth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

Destroy all Islands.

What burns the land, boils the seas.

Venom (The Dark)
Tom Wänerstrand

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy the other creature at end of combat.

"I told him it was just a flesh wound, a wee scratch, but the next time I looked at him, poor Tadhg was dead and gone." —Maeveen O'Donagh, *Memoirs of a Soldier*

Ghost Ship (The Dark)
Tom Wänerstrand

Flying {U}{U}{U}: Regenerate this creature.

"That phantom prow split the storm as lightning cast its long shadow on the battlefield below." —Mireille Gaetane, *The Valeriad*

City of Brass (World Championship Decks 2000)
Tom Wänerstrand

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

Jalum Tome (Fifth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

This timeworn relic was responsible for many of Urza's victories, though he never fully comprehended its mystic runes.

War Barge (The Dark)
Tom Wänerstrand

{3}: Target creature gains islandwalk until end of turn. When this artifact leaves the battlefield this turn, destroy that creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated. (A creature with islandwalk can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Icatian Town (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Tom Wänerstrand

Create four 1/1 white Citizen creature tokens.

Icatia's once-peaceful towns faced increasing attacks from orcs and goblins as the climate cooled. By the time the empire fell, they were little more than armed camps.

Obelisk of Undoing (Antiquities)
Tom Wänerstrand

{6}, {T}: Return target permanent you both own and control to your hand.

The Battle of Tomakul taught Urza not to rely on fickle reinforcements.

Elven Fortress (Fallen Empires)
Tom Wänerstrand

{1}{G}: Target blocking creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"Burn it down, you say? Now *there's* a stupid idea. What do you suppose will become of those overhanging branches, hmm? And then what do you suppose will become of us?" —Ivra Jursdotter

Samite Healer (Fifth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Capsize (Tempest)
Tom Wänerstrand

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Winter's Grasp (Tempest)
Tom Wänerstrand

Destroy target land.

Summer is buried there, centuries deep; A crypt of years where seasons sleep.

Royal Assassin (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Trained in the arts of stealth, the royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.

Arcum's Sleigh (Ice Age)
Tom Wänerstrand

{2}, {T}: Target creature gains vigilance until end of turn. Activate only during combat and only if defending player controls a snow land.

"With the proper equipment and caution, one can travel anywhere." —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Skull of Orm (The Dark)
Tom Wänerstrand

{5}, {T}: Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Though lifeless, the Skull still possessed a strange power over the flow of magic.

Pirate Ship (Collectors' Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Urza's Blueprints (Dominaria Remastered)
Tom Wänerstrand

Echo {6} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) {T}: Draw a card.

From concept to paper to reality.

Barl's Cage (The Dark)
Tom Wänerstrand

{3}: Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

For a dozen years the Cage had held Lord Ith, but as the Pretender Mairsil's power weakened, so did the bars.

Merchant Ship (Arabian Nights)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you gain 2 life. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Royal Assassin (Junior Series Europe)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Trained in the arts of stealth, royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.

Ghost Town (Tempest)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Add {C}. {0}: Return this land to its owner's hand. Activate only if it's not your turn.

"The air here smells like a grave." —Crovax

City of Brass (World Championship Decks 1997)
Tom Wänerstrand

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

Bronze Tablet (Fourth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

Remove this card from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. This artifact enters tapped. {4}, {T}: Exile this artifact and target nontoken permanent an opponent owns. That player may pay 10 life. If they do, put this card into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player owns this card and you own the other exiled card.

Samite Healer (30th Anniversary Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Pirate Ship (Limited Edition Beta)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Royal Assassin (30th Anniversary Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Trained in the arts of stealth, the royal assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.

Mountain (Ice Age)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {R}.)

Arena of the Ancients (Chronicles)
Tom Wänerstrand

Legendary creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. When this artifact enters, tap all legendary creatures.

Icatian Town (Fifth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

Create four 1/1 white Citizen creature tokens.

Icatia's once-peaceful towns faced increasing attacks from orcs and goblins as the climate cooled. By the time the empire fell, they were little more than armed camps.

City of Brass (World Championship Decks 1997)
Tom Wänerstrand

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

City of Brass (World Championship Decks 1997)
Tom Wänerstrand

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

Flash Flood (Legends)
Tom Wänerstrand

Choose one — • Destroy target red permanent. • Return target Mountain to its owner's hand.

Many people say that no power can bring the mountains low. Many people are fools.

Icatian Town (Fallen Empires)
Tom Wänerstrand

Create four 1/1 white Citizen creature tokens.

Icatia's once peaceful towns faced increasing attacks from Orcs and Goblins as the climate cooled. By the time the empire fell, they were little more than armed camps.

Pirate Ship (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Mountain Stronghold (Legends)
Tom Wänerstrand

Red legendary creatures you control have "bands with other legendary creatures." (Any legendary creatures can attack in a band as long as at least one has "bands with other legendary creatures." Bands are blocked as a group. If at least two legendary creatures you control, one of which has "bands with other legendary creatures," are blocking or being blocked by the same creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Venom (Renaissance)
Tom Wänerstrand

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy the other creature at end of combat.

Arcum's Weathervane (Ice Age)
Tom Wänerstrand

{2}, {T}: Target snow land is no longer snow. {2}, {T}: Target nonsnow basic land becomes snow.

Jalum Tome (Chronicles)
Tom Wänerstrand

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

This timeworn relic was responsible for many of Urza's victories, though he never fully comprehended its mystic runes.

Brushland (Classic Sixth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Samite Healer (Limited Edition Beta)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Samite Healer (Collectors' Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Bloodrock Cyclops (Beatdown Box Set)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature attacks each combat if able.

"He's big an' dumb an' ready to fight. A lot like ol' Hornhead here." —Squee, goblin cabin hand, scouting report

Pirate Ship (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Energy Vortex (Mirage)
Tom Wänerstrand

As this enchantment enters, choose an opponent. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove all vortex counters from this enchantment. At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 3 damage to that player unless they pay {1} for each vortex counter on this enchantment. {X}: Put X vortex counters on this enchantment. Activate only during your upkeep.

Plains (Anthologies)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {W}.)

Samite Healer (Classic Sixth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Mountain (Ice Age)
Tom Wänerstrand

({T}: Add {R}.)

Volcanic Dragon (Portal)
Tom Wänerstrand

Flying, haste

Relentless Assault (Portal Second Age)
Tom Wänerstrand

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

Emmessi Tome (Tempest)
Tom Wänerstrand

{5}, {T}: Draw two cards, then discard a card.

It is like life and destiny: we think we know the story, but we have read only half the tale.

Seafarer's Quay (Legends)
Tom Wänerstrand

Blue legendary creatures you control have "bands with other legendary creatures." (Any legendary creatures can attack in a band as long as at least one has "bands with other legendary creatures." Bands are blocked as a group. If at least two legendary creatures you control, one of which has "bands with other legendary creatures," are blocking or being blocked by the same creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Lava Burst (Deckmasters)
Tom Wänerstrand

Lava Burst deals X damage to any target. If Lava Burst would deal damage to a creature, that damage can't be prevented or dealt instead to another permanent or player.

"Overkill? This isn't a game of kick-the-ouphe!" —Jaya Ballard, task mage

Bronze Tablet (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Tom Wänerstrand

Remove this card from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. This artifact enters tapped. {4}, {T}: Exile this artifact and target nontoken permanent an opponent owns. That player may pay 10 life. If they do, put this card into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player owns this card and you own the other exiled card.

Pirate Ship (30th Anniversary Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.

Wintermoon Mesa (Prophecy)
Tom Wänerstrand

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Tap two target lands.

Dark is light and day is night When the winter moon shines.

Ghost Ship (Renaissance)
Tom Wänerstrand

Flying {U}{U}{U}: Regenerate this creature.

Wind Drake (Ninth Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

Flying

"But high she shoots through air and light, Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, Nor shadow dims her way." —Thomas Moore, "Oh that I had Wings"

Samite Healer (Revised Edition)
Tom Wänerstrand

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Thunderclap (The List)
Tom Wänerstrand

You may sacrifice a Mountain rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Thunderclap deals 3 damage to target creature.