Guardian of Solitude

Guardian of Solitude (Champions of Kamigawa)
Stephen Tappin

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"It seemed an easy thing, to step into the nothingness, to fall, to die. But then, for an instant, I saw it, eyes filled with endless sorrow, and I turned back to face my pain." —Snow-Fur, kitsune poet

Nullmage Shepherd (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Stephen Tappin

Tap four untapped creatures you control: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

The shepherds work in secret, seeking out abominations against nature and returning them to earth and dust.

Forest (Planechase Anthology)
Stephen Tappin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Sensei Golden-Tail (The List)
Stephen Tappin

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {1}{W}, {T}: Put a training counter on target creature. That creature gains bushido 1 and becomes a Samurai in addition to its other creature types. Activate only as a sorcery.

Verdant Embrace (Jumpstart)
Stephen Tappin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has "At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token."

Chant of Vitu-Ghazi (March of the Machine Commander)
Stephen Tappin

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Prevent all damage that would be dealt by creatures this turn. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

Verdant Embrace (Time Spiral)
Stephen Tappin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has "At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token."

Brine Elemental (Masters 25)
Stephen Tappin

Morph {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, each opponent skips their next untap step.

Water calls to water, and the world is left exhausted and withered in its wake.

Death Cloud (The List)
Stephen Tappin

Each player loses X life, discards X cards, sacrifices X creatures of their choice, then sacrifices X lands of their choice.

The swarm's million wings stir the foulest of breezes.

Promise of Bunrei (Masters 25)
Stephen Tappin

When a creature you control dies, sacrifice this enchantment. If you do, create four 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens.

"I am not afraid to die today nor afraid of what death will bring."

Goblin Charbelcher (World Championship Decks 2004)
Stephen Tappin

{3}, {T}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. This artifact deals damage equal to the number of nonland cards revealed this way to any target. If the revealed land card was a Mountain, this artifact deals double that damage instead. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

Auriok Transfixer (Mirrodin)
Stephen Tappin

{W}, {T}: Tap target artifact.

"My grandfather knew enough spells to fill a hundred scrolls. Nowadays, if a spell cannot fight the levelers, it is not even taught to our young."

Guardian of Solitude (Champions of Kamigawa)
Stephen Tappin

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"It seemed an easy thing, to step into the nothingness, to fall, to die. But then, for an instant, I saw it, eyes filled with endless sorrow, and I turned back to face my pain." —Snow-Fur, kitsune poet

Brine Elemental (Time Spiral)
Stephen Tappin

Morph {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, each opponent skips their next untap step.

Water calls to water, and the world is left exhausted and withered in its wake.

Goblin Charbelcher (Mystery Booster 2)
Stephen Tappin

{3}, {T}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. This artifact deals damage equal to the number of nonland cards revealed this way to any target. If the revealed land card was a Mountain, this artifact deals double that damage instead. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

Goblin Charbelcher (Mirrodin)
Stephen Tappin

{3}, {T}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. This artifact deals damage equal to the number of nonland cards revealed this way to any target. If the revealed land card was a Mountain, this artifact deals double that damage instead. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

Spellshift (Planar Chaos)
Stephen Tappin

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal an instant or sorcery card. That player may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then the player shuffles.

Balduvian Frostwaker (Coldsnap)
Stephen Tappin

{U}, {T}: Target snow land becomes a 2/2 blue Elemental creature with flying. It's still a land.

"Whether frozen or fertile, the land is our ally. It awaits the call to battle."

Field Marshal (Tenth Edition)
Stephen Tappin

Other Soldier creatures get +1/+1 and have first strike. (They deal combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

He is the only one who sees the patterns in the overlapping maps and conflicting reports.

Chant of Vitu-Ghazi (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Stephen Tappin

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Prevent all damage that would be dealt by creatures this turn. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

Forest (Time Spiral)
Stephen Tappin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Icatian Priest (Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic)
Stephen Tappin

{1}{W}{W}: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Grelden knelt and felt the cool, dry hand of the priest on his brow. Hours later, when his wits returned, he was covered in his enemies' blood on the field of victory.

Death Cloud (Darksteel)
Stephen Tappin

Each player loses X life, discards X cards, sacrifices X creatures of their choice, then sacrifices X lands of their choice.

The swarm's million wings stir the foulest of breezes.

Infused Arrows (Fifth Dawn)
Stephen Tappin

Sunburst (This enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {T}, Remove X charge counters from this artifact: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Thrill of the Hunt (Time Spiral)
Stephen Tappin

Target creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn. Flashback {W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Forest (Commander 2014)
Stephen Tappin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Forest (Planechase 2012)
Stephen Tappin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Nuisance Engine (Mirrodin)
Stephen Tappin

{2}, {T}: Create a 0/1 colorless Pest artifact creature token.

All Auriok children know the tale, "Bolgri and the Long Day of Squashing."

Ordruun Commando (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Stephen Tappin

{W}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn.

Thick of muscle, stout of heart, and possessing a burning love of justice and the battlefield, the Ordruun minotaurs are the foundation of the Boros Legion.

Verdant Embrace (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Stephen Tappin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has "At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token."

Kashi-Tribe Warriors (Champions of Kamigawa)
Stephen Tappin

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, tap that creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

The orochi and the monks had always had an unspoken agreement: live and let live. But when the kami began raging, some warrior youths began questioning that agreement.

Thought Courier (Ninth Edition)
Stephen Tappin

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

"There's an assortment to satisfy all your needs: deep, fleeting, dirty, pure, scientific, philosophical, after, and even fore. For a price."

Brine Elemental (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra)
Stephen Tappin

Morph {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, each opponent skips their next untap step.

Water calls to water, and the world is left exhausted and withered in its wake.

Flash Conscription (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Stephen Tappin

Untap target creature and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn. If {W} was spent to cast this spell, the creature gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage, you gain that much life" until end of turn.

Verdant Embrace (Wilds of Eldraine Commander)
Stephen Tappin

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has "At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token."

Rend Flesh (The List)
Stephen Tappin

Destroy target non-Spirit creature.

"The Reito Massacre was a testament to the kami's unstoppable power. The human defenders might as well have been moths battling a forest fire." —*Great Battles of Kamigawa*

Iname as One (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Stephen Tappin

When Iname as One enters, if you cast it from your hand, you may search your library for a Spirit permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. When Iname as One dies, you may exile it. If you do, return target Spirit permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Pyrohemia (Commander Anthology)
Stephen Tappin

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment. {R}: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Gaze of the Gorgon (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Stephen Tappin

({B/G} can be paid with either {B} or {G}.) Regenerate target creature. At this turn's next end of combat, destroy all creatures that blocked or were blocked by it this turn.

Even the dead give way to the mineral gaze of the gorgon.

Temporal Isolation (Time Spiral Remastered)
Stephen Tappin

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature has shadow. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Prevent all damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.

Kami of Old Stone (Ninth Edition)
Stephen Tappin

"There was a wall here. Now it is dust. A tower rose here. Now it is fallen. An army fought here. Now it is dead. A spirit was here. It is all that remains." —Snow-Fur, kitsune poet

Forest (Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might)
Stephen Tappin

({T}: Add {G}.)

AWOL (Unhinged)
Stephen Tappin

Exile target attacking creature. Then remove it from the game. Then put it into the absolutely-removed-from-the-freaking-game-forever zone.

Blasting Station (Fifth Dawn)
Stephen Tappin

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target. Whenever a creature enters, you may untap this artifact.

Promise of Bunrei (Crimson Vow Commander)
Stephen Tappin

When a creature you control dies, sacrifice this enchantment. If you do, create four 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens.

"I am not afraid to die today nor afraid of what death will bring."

Temporal Isolation (The List)
Stephen Tappin

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature has shadow. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Prevent all damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.

Brine Elemental (Time Spiral Remastered)
Stephen Tappin

Morph {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, each opponent skips their next untap step.

Water calls to water, and the world is left exhausted and withered in its wake.

Thrill of the Hunt (Time Spiral Remastered)
Stephen Tappin

Target creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn. Flashback {W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Inner Calm, Outer Strength (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Stephen Tappin

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

The ghostly objects around the kami circled faster and faster, creating a dizzying cyclone of motion. When it opened its eyes, it struck.

Aether Shockwave (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Stephen Tappin

Choose one — • Tap all Spirits. • Tap all non-Spirit creatures.

"The strain upon the veil between worlds began to show near the end of the Kami War. Strange happenings that neither side could control lashed out across Kamigawa." —*Observations of the Kami War*

Rebuff the Wicked (Planar Chaos)
Stephen Tappin

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

"I cannot teach you their brand of magic, but I can teach you how to defend against it." —Tavalus, priest of Korlis

Brine Elemental (Commander 2014)
Stephen Tappin

Morph {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, each opponent skips their next untap step.

Water calls to water, and the world is left exhausted and withered in its wake.

AWOL (Unsanctioned)
Stephen Tappin

Exile target attacking creature. Then remove it from the game. Then put it into the absolutely-removed-from-the-freaking-game-forever zone.

Rebuff the Wicked (Time Spiral Remastered)
Stephen Tappin

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

"I cannot teach you their brand of magic, but I can teach you how to defend against it." —Tavalus, priest of Korlis

Urza's Hot Tub (Unhinged)
Stephen Tappin

{2}, Discard a card: Search your library for a card that shares a complete word in its name with the discarded card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

www.wizards.com/hottub

Field Marshal (Tenth Edition)
Stephen Tappin

Other Soldier creatures get +1/+1 and have first strike. (They deal combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

He is the only one who sees the patterns in the overlapping maps and conflicting reports.

Rend Spirit (Champions of Kamigawa)
Stephen Tappin

Destroy target Spirit.

"The battle at Ganzan Pass was a testament to human endurance. The untrained and frightened group escaped three legions of kami, leaving more than their share of slain foes in their wake." —*Great Battles of Kamigawa*

Field Marshal (Coldsnap)
Stephen Tappin

Other Soldier creatures get +1/+1 and have first strike. (They deal combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

The Knights of Stromgald struck Darien's Roost from two sides. They would have caught Kjeldor in a pincer attack were it not for Darien's tacticians.

Pyrohemia (The List)
Stephen Tappin

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment. {R}: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Nuisance Engine (Planechase)
Stephen Tappin

{2}, {T}: Create a 0/1 colorless Pest artifact creature token.

All Auriok children know the tale, "Bolgri and the Long Day of Squashing."

Leonin Battlemage (Darksteel)
Stephen Tappin

{T}: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Whenever you cast a spell, you may untap this creature.

The strongest of the pride are measured not by the steel in their hands but by the steel in their souls.

Mnemonic Nexus (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Stephen Tappin

Each player shuffles their graveyard into their library.

True enlightenment comes not with a new thought, but with understanding of all the old ones.

Nuisance Engine (The List)
Stephen Tappin

{2}, {T}: Create a 0/1 colorless Pest artifact creature token.

All Auriok children know the tale, "Bolgri and the Long Day of Squashing."

Sensei Golden-Tail (Champions of Kamigawa)
Stephen Tappin

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {1}{W}, {T}: Put a training counter on target creature. That creature gains bushido 1 and becomes a Samurai in addition to its other creature types. Activate only as a sorcery.

AWOL (Unhinged)
Stephen Tappin

Exile target attacking creature. Then remove it from the game. Then put it into the absolutely-removed-from-the-freaking-game-forever zone.

Forest (Commander Anthology)
Stephen Tappin

({T}: Add {G}.)

Icatian Priest (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
Stephen Tappin

{1}{W}{W}: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Grelden knelt and felt the cool, dry hand of the priest on his brow. Hours later, when his wits returned, he was covered in his enemies' blood on the field of victory.

Summoning Station (Fifth Dawn)
Stephen Tappin

{T}: Create a 2/2 colorless Pincher creature token. Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may untap this artifact.

Death Cloud (Modern Masters)
Stephen Tappin

Each player loses X life, discards X cards, sacrifices X creatures of their choice, then sacrifices X lands of their choice.

The swarm's million wings stir the foulest of breezes.

Icatian Priest (Tenth Edition)
Stephen Tappin

{1}{W}{W}: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Grelden knelt and felt the cool, dry hand of the priest on his brow. Hours later, when his wits returned, he was covered in his enemies' blood on the field of victory.

Pyrohemia (Commander 2011)
Stephen Tappin

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment. {R}: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Kami of Old Stone (Champions of Kamigawa)
Stephen Tappin

"There was a wall here. Now it is dust. A tower rose here. Now it is fallen. An army fought here. Now it is dead. A spirit was here. It is all that remains." —Snow-Fur, kitsune poet

Brine Elemental (Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra)
Stephen Tappin

Morph {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, each opponent skips their next untap step.

Water calls to water, and the world is left exhausted and withered in its wake.

Thought Courier (Fifth Dawn)
Stephen Tappin

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

It is telling of the vedalkens' culture that they trust human couriers more than their own comrades.

Rend Flesh (Champions of Kamigawa)
Stephen Tappin

Destroy target non-Spirit creature.

"The Reito Massacre was a testament to the kami's unstoppable power. The human defenders might as well have been moths battling a forest fire." —*Great Battles of Kamigawa*

Blasting Station (The List)
Stephen Tappin

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target. Whenever a creature enters, you may untap this artifact.

Thought Courier (The List)
Stephen Tappin

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

It is telling of the vedalkens' culture that they trust human couriers more than their own comrades.

Promise of Bunrei (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Stephen Tappin

When a creature you control dies, sacrifice this enchantment. If you do, create four 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens.

"I am not afraid to die today nor afraid of what death will bring."

Brine Elemental (The List)
Stephen Tappin

Morph {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, each opponent skips their next untap step.

Water calls to water, and the world is left exhausted and withered in its wake.

Fury of the Horde (Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning)
Stephen Tappin

You may exile two red cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

Fury of the Horde (Coldsnap)
Stephen Tappin

You may exile two red cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

Promise of Bunrei (The List)
Stephen Tappin

When a creature you control dies, sacrifice this enchantment. If you do, create four 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens.

"I am not afraid to die today nor afraid of what death will bring."

Pyrohemia (Planar Chaos)
Stephen Tappin

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment. {R}: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Rebuff the Wicked (The List)
Stephen Tappin

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

"I cannot teach you their brand of magic, but I can teach you how to defend against it." —Tavalus, priest of Korlis

Temporal Isolation (Time Spiral)
Stephen Tappin

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature has shadow. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Prevent all damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.