Phantom Nishoba

Phantom Nishoba (Judgment)
Arnie Swekel

Trample This creature enters with seven +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life. If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature.

Phantom Nishoba (World Championship Decks 2003)
Arnie Swekel

Trample This creature enters with seven +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life. If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature.

Phantom Nishoba (World Championship Decks 2002)
Arnie Swekel

Trample This creature enters with seven +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life. If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature.

Phantom Nishoba (Dominaria Remastered)
Arnie Swekel

Trample This creature enters with seven +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life. If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature.

Phantom Nishoba (Dominaria Remastered)
Arnie Swekel

Trample This creature enters with seven +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life. If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature.

Hired Muscle (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Arnie Swekel

Fist of Suns (Commander 2017)
Arnie Swekel

You may pay {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast.

"It is all in my grasp. Every petty dream, every grand scheme, every soul, every fear. It all flows through me and from me." —Memnarch

Towering Baloth (Onslaught)
Arnie Swekel

Morph {6}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

The Mirari twisted all that lived in the Krosan Forest into gross mockeries of their former selves.

Aquamoeba (Dominaria Remastered)
Arnie Swekel

Discard a card: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Some tides need no moon.

Flame-Kin Zealot (Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning)
Arnie Swekel

When this creature enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain haste until end of turn.

Boros soldiers are like a cache of bombs ready to explode, and the flame-kin light their fuses.

Anurid Brushhopper (World Championship Decks 2002)
Arnie Swekel

Discard two cards: Exile this creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

It's so tough it can frighten *itself* into hiding.

Aquamoeba (Torment)
Arnie Swekel

Discard a card: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Some tides need no moon.

Dehydration (Eighth Edition)
Arnie Swekel

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

"Cry to the sun and watch as even your tears forsake you." —Acolyte of Marit Lage

Phantom Nishoba (Judgment)
Arnie Swekel

Trample This creature enters with seven +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life. If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature.

Thought Nibbler (Odyssey)
Arnie Swekel

Flying Your maximum hand size is reduced by two.

Balshan wizards have long used them to gnaw away the memories they wish to forget.

Flame-Kin Zealot (Eternal Masters)
Arnie Swekel

When this creature enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain haste until end of turn.

Boros soldiers are like a cache of bombs ready to explode, and the flame-kin light their fuses.

Rust Elemental (Mirrodin)
Arnie Swekel

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice another artifact. If you can't, tap this creature and you lose 4 life.

Stitch Together (World Championship Decks 2003)
Arnie Swekel

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Kyren Toy (Mercadian Masques)
Arnie Swekel

{1}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}, Remove X charge counters from this artifact: Add an amount of {C} equal to X plus one.

Clockwork Dragon (Mirrodin)
Arnie Swekel

Flying This creature enters with six +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat. {3}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Sire of the Storm (Crimson Vow Commander)
Arnie Swekel

Flying Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may draw a card.

This storm blows gales through the dreams of mortals.

Swirl the Mists (Champions of Kamigawa)
Arnie Swekel

As this enchantment enters, choose a color word. All instances of color words in the text of spells and permanents are changed to the chosen color word.

Bend or Break (Invasion)
Arnie Swekel

Each player separates all nontoken lands they control into two piles. For each player, one of their piles is chosen by one of their opponents of their choice. Destroy all lands in the chosen piles. Tap all lands in the other piles.

Elephant (Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana Tokens)
Arnie Swekel

Silt Crawler (Prophecy)
Arnie Swekel

When this creature enters, tap all lands you control.

If they could replenish the land instead of draining it, Jamuraa would be teeming with them.

Phantom Nishoba (World Championship Decks 2003)
Arnie Swekel

Trample This creature enters with seven +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life. If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature.

Clockwork Condor (Mirrodin)
Arnie Swekel

Flying This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.

Goblin Raider (Seventh Edition)
Arnie Swekel

This creature can't block.

He's smart for a goblin. He can do *two* things: hit *and* run.

Tangle Golem (Darksteel)
Arnie Swekel

Affinity for Forests (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Forest you control.)

The longer it weaves through the twisted vines of the Tangle, the more it adopts their hidden strength.

Giant Caterpillar (Jumpstart 2022)
Arnie Swekel

{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Create a 1/1 green Insect creature token with flying named Butterfly at the beginning of the next end step.

Laccolith Grunt (Nemesis)
Arnie Swekel

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature. If you do, this creature assigns no combat damage this turn.

They leave a trail of ash and sorrow.

Unspeakable Symbol (The List)
Arnie Swekel

Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

The symbols are spread throughout Aphetto, marking sites where minions of the Raven Guild and the Cabal can seek refuge.

Crosis's Attendant (Invasion)
Arnie Swekel

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Add {U}{B}{R}.

"Crosis is the eye of the ur-dragon, piercing illusion and darkness."

Metal Fatigue (Darksteel)
Arnie Swekel

Tap all artifacts.

The Auriok have fought the metal hordes for so long now that knowing how to cripple them has become an instinct.

Stitch Together (World Championship Decks 2003)
Arnie Swekel

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Swamp (Odyssey)
Arnie Swekel

({T}: Add {B}.)

Wipe Clean (Scourge)
Arnie Swekel

Exile target enchantment. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"The light of the Ancestor will scour the taint of darkness from the land."

Pulsating Illusion (Odyssey)
Arnie Swekel

Flying Discard a card: This creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

Dwarven Bloodboiler (Judgment)
Arnie Swekel

Tap an untapped Dwarf you control: Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

His battle cry unleashes an avalanche of dwarves.

Flame-Kin Zealot (The List)
Arnie Swekel

When this creature enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain haste until end of turn.

Boros soldiers are like a cache of bombs ready to explode, and the flame-kin light their fuses.

Juggernaut (Archenemy)
Arnie Swekel

This creature attacks each combat if able. This creature can't be blocked by Walls.

Built with neither a way to steer nor a way to stop, the juggernauts were simply aimed at an enemy's best defenses and told to charge.

Ravenous Baloth (Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Arnie Swekel

Sacrifice a Beast: You gain 4 life.

"All we know about the Krosan Forest we have learned from those few who made it out alive." —Elvish refugee

Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho (Champions of Kamigawa)
Arnie Swekel

Equipped creature gets +3/+1. Whenever equipped creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control if it's a Samurai card. When Oathkeeper is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile equipped creature. Equip {2}

Aquamoeba (World Championship Decks 2003)
Arnie Swekel

Discard a card: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Some tides need no moon.

Goblin Brigand (Ninth Edition)
Arnie Swekel

This creature attacks each combat if able.

Like a loaded cannon—point and shoot.

Haunting Echoes (Odyssey)
Arnie Swekel

Exile all cards from target player's graveyard other than basic land cards. For each card exiled this way, search that player's library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Haunted Angel (Apocalypse)
Arnie Swekel

Flying When this creature dies, exile it and each other player creates a 3/3 black Angel creature token with flying.

Implode (The List)
Arnie Swekel

Destroy target land. Draw a card.

To save Dominaria, nine planeswalkers sought the annihilation of Phyrexia itself.

Phantom Nishoba (World Championship Decks 2002)
Arnie Swekel

Trample This creature enters with seven +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life. If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature.

Scaled Hulk (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Arnie Swekel

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"Say, what rhymes with 'run for your lives'?" —Ku-Ku, akki poet

Hoodwink (Mercadian Masques)
Arnie Swekel

Return target artifact, enchantment, or land to its owner's hand.

The youths of Rishada's marketplace are always ready for a quick footrace.

Genju of the Cedars (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Arnie Swekel

Enchant Forest {2}: Enchanted Forest becomes a 4/4 green Spirit creature until end of turn. It's still a land. When enchanted Forest is put into a graveyard, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Dampen Thought (Modern Masters)
Arnie Swekel

Target player mills four cards. Splice onto Arcane {1}{U} (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.)

Elephant (Magic Player Rewards 2002)
Arnie Swekel

When elephants thunder, death is lightning quick.

Anurid Brushhopper (Judgment)
Arnie Swekel

Discard two cards: Exile this creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

It's so tough it can frighten *itself* into hiding.

Hydromorph Gull (Torment)
Arnie Swekel

Flying {U}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell that targets a creature you control.

"The only kind of water that should fly through the air is rain." —Kamahl, pit fighter

Haunting Echoes (World Championship Decks 2003)
Arnie Swekel

Exile all cards from target player's graveyard other than basic land cards. For each card exiled this way, search that player's library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Fist of Suns (The List)
Arnie Swekel

You may pay {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast.

"It is all in my grasp. Every petty dream, every grand scheme, every soul, every fear. It all flows through me and from me." —Memnarch

Soul Foundry (Commander 2019)
Arnie Swekel

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a creature card from your hand. {X}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card. X is the mana value of that card.

Implode (Planeshift)
Arnie Swekel

Destroy target land. Draw a card.

To save Dominaria, nine planeswalkers sought the annihilation of Phyrexia itself.

Raka Disciple (Apocalypse)
Arnie Swekel

{W}, {T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. {U}, {T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"The strong can also be subtle."

Crenellated Wall (Mercadian Masques)
Arnie Swekel

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {T}: Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.

Mercadian soldiers excel at finding things to stand behind.

Sylvan Might (Odyssey)
Arnie Swekel

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

Boomerang (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Arnie Swekel

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Early Jamuraan hunters devised a weapon that would return to its source. Tolarian Æthermancers developed a spell that skipped the weapon entirely.

Dehydration (Ninth Edition)
Arnie Swekel

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Yawgmoth's Agenda (Invasion)
Arnie Swekel

You can't cast more than one spell each turn. You may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard. If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Dehydration (Tenth Edition)
Arnie Swekel

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Swamp (World Championship Decks 2002)
Arnie Swekel

({T}: Add {B}.)

Clockwork Vorrac (Mirrodin)
Arnie Swekel

Trample This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Juggernaut (Tenth Edition)
Arnie Swekel

This creature attacks each combat if able. This creature can't be blocked by Walls.

Built with neither a way to steer nor a way to stop, the juggernauts were simply aimed at an enemy's best defenses and told to charge.

Genju of the Cedars (Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Arnie Swekel

Enchant Forest {2}: Enchanted Forest becomes a 4/4 green Spirit creature until end of turn. It's still a land. When enchanted Forest is put into a graveyard, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Caldera Kavu (Planeshift)
Arnie Swekel

{1}{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. {G}: This creature becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

As powerful and malleable as the molten rock it calls home.

Juggernaut (Darksteel)
Arnie Swekel

This creature attacks each combat if able. This creature can't be blocked by Walls.

The goblins built it far larger than the cave opening, but to their glee, it smashed into the mountainside, ripping itself a new exit.

Stronghold Zeppelin (Nemesis)
Arnie Swekel

Flying This creature can block only creatures with flying.

As long as the stronghold controlled the sky, the rebels were doomed.

Lightning Dart (Invasion)
Arnie Swekel

Lightning Dart deals 1 damage to target creature. If that creature is white or blue, Lightning Dart deals 4 damage to it instead.

Broken and punctured by dozens of Phyrexian portals, the angry sky began to spit lightning back at the world.

Stitch Together (The List)
Arnie Swekel

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Coffin Puppets (Prophecy)
Arnie Swekel

Sacrifice two lands: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your upkeep and only if you control a Swamp.

The ground won't accept them.

Anurid Brushhopper (World Championship Decks 2003)
Arnie Swekel

Discard two cards: Exile this creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

It's so tough it can frighten itself into hiding.

Fog (Seventh Edition)
Arnie Swekel

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Giant Caterpillar (Mercadian Masques)
Arnie Swekel

{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Create a 1/1 green Insect creature token with flying named Butterfly at the beginning of the next end step.

Dralnu's Crusade (Dominaria Remastered)
Arnie Swekel

All Goblins get +1/+1. All Goblins are black and are Zombies in addition to their other creature types.

"Don't you agree that mogg intellects are improved by zombification?" —Lord Dralnu

Flight (Eighth Edition)
Arnie Swekel

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Yawgmoth's Agenda (The List)
Arnie Swekel

You can't cast more than one spell each turn. You may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard. If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Veil of Secrecy (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Arnie Swekel

Target creature gains shroud until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. (A creature with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Splice onto Arcane—Return a blue creature you control to its owner's hand. (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.)

Scourge of Numai (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Arnie Swekel

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life if you don't control an Ogre.

"Where a once-proud human city stood, only the ruins of Numai remain, deep amid rotting bamboo and plagued by oni." —*The History of Kamigawa*

Krosan Drover (Scourge)
Arnie Swekel

Creature spells you cast with mana value 6 or greater cost {2} less to cast.

"Sit."

Distorting Wake (Invasion)
Arnie Swekel

Return X target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Gerrard savored a grim smile as the Phyrexian portals disappeared behind the *Weatherlight*.

Tombfire (Odyssey)
Arnie Swekel

Target player exiles all cards with flashback from their graveyard.

The fondest memories burn brightest. As they're lost forever, the flames grow hotter still.

Dampen Thought (Champions of Kamigawa)
Arnie Swekel

Target player mills four cards. Splice onto Arcane {1}{U} (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.)

Phantom Nishoba (Dominaria Remastered)
Arnie Swekel

Trample This creature enters with seven +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life. If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature.

Ravenous Baloth (Onslaught)
Arnie Swekel

Sacrifice a Beast: You gain 4 life.

"All we know about the Krosan Forest we have learned from those few who made it out alive." —Elvish refugee

Rustspore Ram (Mirrodin)
Arnie Swekel

When this creature enters, destroy target Equipment.

Where herds have passed, the dented ground is lined with piles of rust.

Fallen Angel (Seventh Edition)
Arnie Swekel

Flying Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

"Why do you weep for the dead? I rejoice, for they have died for me." —Fallen angel, to Serra

Boomerang (Tenth Edition)
Arnie Swekel

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Early Jamuraan hunters devised a weapon that would return to its source. Tolarian Aethermancers developed a spell that skipped the weapon entirely.

Root-Kin Ally (Modern Masters 2015)
Arnie Swekel

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.) Tap two untapped creatures you control: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Stitch Together (Commander 2011)
Arnie Swekel

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Armored Guardian (Invasion)
Arnie Swekel

{1}{W}{W}: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. {1}{U}{U}: This creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Sylvan Might (Eternal Masters)
Arnie Swekel

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

Shambling Swarm (Torment)
Arnie Swekel

When this creature dies, distribute three -1/-1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures. For each -1/-1 counter you put on a creature this way, remove a -1/-1 counter from that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Chainer's madness personified, it exists only to slaughter the innocent.

Phantom Nishoba (Dominaria Remastered)
Arnie Swekel

Trample This creature enters with seven +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life. If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature.

Stitch Together (Commander 2018)
Arnie Swekel

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Fist of Suns (Fifth Dawn)
Arnie Swekel

You may pay {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast.

"It is all in my grasp. Every petty dream, every grand scheme, every soul, every fear. It all flows through me and from me." —Memnarch

Riptide Shapeshifter (Onslaught)
Arnie Swekel

{2}{U}{U}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose a creature type. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card of that type. Put that card onto the battlefield and shuffle the rest into your library.

Clockwork Beetle (Mirrodin)
Arnie Swekel

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.

Dwarven Bloodboiler (The List)
Arnie Swekel

Tap an untapped Dwarf you control: Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

His battle cry unleashes an avalanche of dwarves.

Raging Kavu (Invasion)
Arnie Swekel

Flash Haste

It took Yavimaya a thousand years to breed them, but it took only seconds for them to prove their worth.

Ravenous Baloth (Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Arnie Swekel

Sacrifice a Beast: You gain 4 life.

"All we know about the Krosan Forest we have learned from those few who made it out alive." —Elvish refugee

Elephant (Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana Tokens)
Arnie Swekel

Stitch Together (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Arnie Swekel

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Genju of the Cedars (Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Arnie Swekel

Enchant Forest {2}: Enchanted Forest becomes a 4/4 green Spirit creature until end of turn. It's still a land. When enchanted Forest is put into a graveyard, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Unspeakable Symbol (Scourge)
Arnie Swekel

Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

The symbols are spread throughout Aphetto, marking sites where minions of the Raven Guild and the Cabal can seek refuge.

Berserk Murlodont (Legions)
Arnie Swekel

Whenever a Beast becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

"The harder we press forward, the harder Krosa pushes us back." —Aven scout

Goblin Brigand (Scourge)
Arnie Swekel

This creature attacks each combat if able.

After the Skirk Ridge collapsed, the goblins erected a system of ropes and pulleys to hold up what was left.

Sylvan Might (Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might)
Arnie Swekel

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

Sire of the Storm (Champions of Kamigawa)
Arnie Swekel

Flying Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may draw a card.

This storm blows gales through the dreams of men.

Raging Kavu (Invasion Promos)
Arnie Swekel

Festinatio (animali oppugnare et {T} licet ordine penes tuum venit.) Kavu Furentem adhibere tibi licet quandocumque subitum adhibere potes.

"Yavaimayae necesse mille annis fuit ut illa aluerent, sed modo momentum necesse fuit ut illa pretium probaverent."

Distorting Wake (Commander 2014)
Arnie Swekel

Return X target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Gerrard savored a grim smile as the Phyrexian portals disappeared behind the *Weatherlight*.

Dual Nature (Prophecy)
Arnie Swekel

Whenever a nontoken creature enters, its controller creates a token that's a copy of that creature. Whenever a nontoken creature leaves the battlefield, exile all tokens with the same name as that creature. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, exile all tokens created with this enchantment.

Metathran Zombie (Invasion)
Arnie Swekel

{B}: Regenerate this creature.

"Rise, metathran. You shall serve a nobler cause in death." —Tsabo Tavoc, Phyrexian general

Flight (Ninth Edition)
Arnie Swekel

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Springing Tiger (Odyssey)
Arnie Swekel

Threshold — This creature gets +2/+2 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

The ground trembled in a violent purr.

Clockwork Dragon (The List)
Arnie Swekel

Flying This creature enters with six +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat. {3}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Dralnu's Crusade (Planeshift)
Arnie Swekel

All Goblins get +1/+1. All Goblins are black and are Zombies in addition to their other creature types.

"Don't you agree that mogg intellects are improved by zombification?" —Lord Dralnu

Stitch Together (Judgment)
Arnie Swekel

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Soul Foundry (Mirrodin)
Arnie Swekel

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a creature card from your hand. {X}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card. X is the mana value of that card.

Explosive Growth (Invasion)
Arnie Swekel

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.) Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, that creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn instead.

Dralnu's Crusade (Dominaria Remastered)
Arnie Swekel

All Goblins get +1/+1. All Goblins are black and are Zombies in addition to their other creature types.

"Don't you agree that mogg intellects are improved by zombification?" —Lord Dralnu

Hollow Dogs (Seventh Edition)
Arnie Swekel

Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

A hollow dog is never empty. It is filled with thirst for the hunt.

Mirrorwood Treefolk (Planeshift)
Arnie Swekel

{2}{R}{W}: The next time damage would be dealt to this creature this turn, that damage is dealt to any target instead.

It doesn't need a bite. The bark works just fine.

Crenellated Wall (The List)
Arnie Swekel

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {T}: Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.

Mercadian soldiers excel at finding things to stand behind.

Root-Kin Ally (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Arnie Swekel

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.) Tap two untapped creatures you control: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Part the Veil (Champions of Kamigawa)
Arnie Swekel

Return all creatures you control to their owner's hand.

At the waterfall, the border between the humanoid and the spirit worlds was weakest. The kami moved across it with ease and at will.

Blistering Firecat (Onslaught)
Arnie Swekel

Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature. Morph {R}{R} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Grid Monitor (Mirrodin)
Arnie Swekel

You can't cast creature spells.

The vedalken protect the Knowledge Pool at any cost.

Boomerang (Ninth Edition)
Arnie Swekel

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

"Returne from whence ye came. . . ." —Edmund Spenser, *The Faerie Queene*

Flame-Kin Zealot (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Arnie Swekel

When this creature enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain haste until end of turn.

Boros soldiers are like a cache of bombs ready to explode, and the flame-kin light their fuses.

Sylvan Might (Double Masters)
Arnie Swekel

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

Riptide Mangler (Legions)
Arnie Swekel

{1}{U}: Change this creature's base power to target creature's power. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

It wants you to be its chum.

Clockwork Condor (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
Arnie Swekel

Flying This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.