Hunger of the Howlpack

Hunger of the Howlpack (Dark Ascension)
Nils Hamm

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Morbid — Put three +1/+1 counters on that creature instead if a creature died this turn.

"Werewolves are an unholy mix of a predator's instinct and a human's hatred." —Alena, trapper of Kessig

Hunger of the Howlpack (Jumpstart 2022)
Nils Hamm

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Morbid — Put three +1/+1 counters on that creature instead if a creature died this turn.

"Werewolves are an unholy mix of a predator's instinct and a human's hatred." —Alena, trapper of Kessig

Hunger of the Howlpack (Conspiracy)
Nils Hamm

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Morbid — Put three +1/+1 counters on that creature instead if a creature died this turn.

"Werewolves are an unholy mix of a predator's instinct and a human's hatred." —Alena, trapper of Kessig

Hunger of the Howlpack (The List)
Nils Hamm

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Morbid — Put three +1/+1 counters on that creature instead if a creature died this turn.

"Werewolves are an unholy mix of a predator's instinct and a human's hatred." —Alena, trapper of Kessig

Ludevic's Test Subject (Innistrad)
Nils Hamm

Amoeboid Changeling (The List)
Nils Hamm

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {T}: Target creature gains all creature types until end of turn. {T}: Target creature loses all creature types until end of turn.

Nine-Fingers Keene (Battle for Baldur's Gate Promos)
Nils Hamm

Menace Ward—Pay 9 life. Whenever Nine-Fingers Keene deals combat damage to a player, look at the top nine cards of your library. You may put a Gate card from among them onto the battlefield. Then if you control nine or more Gates, put the rest into your hand. Otherwise, put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Herald of the Host (Commander 2015)
Nils Hamm

Flying, vigilance Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)

Plumeveil (Ultimate Masters)
Nils Hamm

Flash Defender, flying

"It was vast, a great sheet of soaring wings, and equally silent. It caught us unawares and blocked our view of the kithkin stronghold." —Grensch, merrow cutthroat

Recover (Rivals of Ixalan)
Nils Hamm

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Draw a card.

"No more fear of death's oblivion—is this not the greatest treasure of all?" —Gurezan, Legion resurrectionist

Walker (Secret Lair Drop)
Nils Hamm

"Things are changing again. So maybe we change." —Jadis

Herald of the Host (Commander Masters)
Nils Hamm

Flying, vigilance Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)

Mistral Charger (Ravnica Remastered)
Nils Hamm

Flying

Some sky steeds break from the thundering herd to ride free on the open winds.

Nine-Fingers Keene (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Nils Hamm

Menace Ward—Pay 9 life. Whenever Nine-Fingers Keene deals combat damage to a player, look at the top nine cards of your library. You may put a Gate card from among them onto the battlefield. Then if you control nine or more Gates, put the rest into your hand. Otherwise, put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Plains (Core Set 2019)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {W}.)

Eyes Everywhere (Ravnica Remastered)
Nils Hamm

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. {5}{U}: Exchange control of this enchantment and target nonland permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

"They've got eyes inside my head!"

Plumeveil (Shadowmoor)
Nils Hamm

Flash Defender, flying

"It was vast, a great sheet of soaring wings, and equally silent. It caught us unawares and blocked our view of the kithkin stronghold." —Grensch, merrow cutthroat

Human Wizard (Eldritch Moon Tokens)
Nils Hamm

Shrine of Burning Rage (DCI Promos)
Nils Hamm

At the beginning of your upkeep and whenever you cast a red spell, put a charge counter on this artifact. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to any target.

Horned Loch-Whale (Wilds of Eldraine)
Nils Hamm

Corpseweft (Dragons of Tarkir)
Nils Hamm

{1}{B}, Exile one or more creature cards from your graveyard: Create a tapped X/X black Zombie Horror creature token, where X is twice the number of cards exiled this way.

Sidisi hated to limit her options.

Rally the Ancestors (Fate Reforged)
Nils Hamm

Return each creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile those creatures at the beginning of your next upkeep. Exile Rally the Ancestors.

"The family is a tree, and in times of need, every branch can be a weapon." —Daghatar the Adamant

Tireless Tracker (Secret Lair Drop)
Nils Hamm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"Tell me, Muse, of that man, so ready at need, who wandered far and wide." —Homer, *The Odyssey*

Necrobite (Avacyn Restored)
Nils Hamm

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. Regenerate it. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

An undead snake doesn't bite in self-defense. It hungers as any zombie, never sated.

Cairn Wanderer (Commander 2020)
Nils Hamm

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As long as a creature card with flying is in a graveyard, this creature has flying. The same is true for fear, first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, landwalk, lifelink, protection, reach, trample, shroud, and vigilance.

Delver of Secrets (Innistrad)
Nils Hamm

Zombie Outlander (Conflux)
Nils Hamm

Protection from green

The ripe smell of life drifted into Grixis. The dead caught the scent and with reckless hunger followed it back into Jund.

Elderwood Scion (Planechase Anthology)
Nils Hamm

Trample, lifelink Spells you cast that target this creature cost {2} less to cast. Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost {2} more to cast.

The Sunbriar druids believe that every life begins in its heart and ends under its hooves.

Festerhide Boar (Innistrad Remastered)
Nils Hamm

Trample Morbid — This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it if a creature died this turn.

"Bury your dead deep. The boars are hungriest while the corpse is still warm." —Paulin, trapper of Somberwald

Brute Strength (Foundations Jumpstart)
Nils Hamm

Target creature gets +3/+1 and gains trample until end of turn. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

"Oketra had our crop build an obelisk to prove the power of working together. But I am stronger without the weak."

Plains (Commander 2015)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {W}.)

Rot Wolf (Mirrodin Besieged)
Nils Hamm

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by Rot Wolf this turn dies, you may draw a card.

Grindclock (Magic 2015)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of charge counters on this artifact.

Pray you never hear it chime.

Virtue of Courage (Wilds of Eldraine)
Nils Hamm

Skullbriar, the Walking Grave (Double Masters 2022)
Nils Hamm

Haste Whenever Skullbriar deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Counters remain on Skullbriar as it moves to any zone other than a player's hand or library.

Stitchwing Skaab (Shadows over Innistrad)
Nils Hamm

Flying {1}{U}, Discard two cards: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

"Amazing, isn't it, how scraps can come together to create such a wonder?" —Stitcher Geralf

Ral's Reinforcements (March of the Machine)
Nils Hamm

Create two 1/1 blue and red Elemental creature tokens.

"Good thing maintenance never got around to decatalyzing the bithermic plasma displacement conduits!"

Skullbriar, the Walking Grave (Commander 2011 Launch Party)
Nils Hamm

Haste Whenever Skullbriar deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Counters remain on Skullbriar as it moves to any zone other than a player's hand or library.

Cairn Wanderer (The List)
Nils Hamm

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As long as a creature card with flying is in a graveyard, this creature has flying. The same is true for fear, first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, landwalk, lifelink, protection, reach, trample, shroud, and vigilance.

Rain of Revelation (Modern Horizons)
Nils Hamm

Draw three cards, then discard a card.

"As the sky opened up, we ran for shelter. Halfway there I came to the sudden realization that, already soaked, there might be more to gain from experiencing the rain than running from it."

Paradoxical Outcome (Mystery Booster 2)
Nils Hamm

Return any number of target nonland, nontoken permanents you control to their owners' hands. Draw a card for each card returned to your hand this way.

The results of Rashmi's experimentation forced her to consider the possibility that multitudinous realities existed beyond her own.

Ravenous Rotbelly (Secret Lair Drop)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice up to three Zombies. When you sacrifice one or more Zombies this way, each opponent sacrifices that many creatures of their choice.

The patrol found the graf empty save for a few well-chewed bones.

Gilder Bairn (Eventide)
Nils Hamm

{2}{G/U}, {Q}: Double the number of each kind of counter on target permanent. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Do the glowing trinkets show it the way home, or do they set a twisted path for someone else to follow?

Parting Gust (Bloomburrow)
Nils Hamm

Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.) Exile target nontoken creature. If the gift wasn't promised, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Lurebound Scarecrow (Shadowmoor)
Nils Hamm

As this creature enters, choose a color. When you control no permanents of the chosen color, sacrifice this creature.

It's a fool's race to run if all is lost if it be won.

Paradoxical Outcome (Kaladesh Promos)
Nils Hamm

Return any number of target nonland, nontoken permanents you control to their owners' hands. Draw a card for each card returned to your hand this way.

The results of Rashmi's experimentation forced her to consider the possibility that multitudinous realities existed beyond her own.

Baleful Strix (Dominaria United Commander)
Nils Hamm

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Obelisk of Grixis (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Like most features of Grixis, the obelisks that remain from the time of Alara now exist only for dark exploitation.

Plains (Magic 2015)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {W}.)

Supply Caravan (Amonkhet)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, if you control a tapped creature, create a 1/1 white Warrior creature token with vigilance.

"We each have a weight to carry on the road to the afterlife." —Oketra, god of solidarity

Death Wind (Dragons of Tarkir)
Nils Hamm

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

"I am a dragonslayer for Lord Silumgar. There is no dragon save him whom I fear." —Xathi the Infallible

Brazen Wolves (Eldritch Moon)
Nils Hamm

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

With fewer patrols about, Kessig's roads have become prime hunting grounds.

Misfortune Teller (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Nils Hamm

Deathtouch Whenever this creature enters or deals combat damage to a player, exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, create a 2/2 black Rogue creature token. If it was a land card, create a Treasure token. Otherwise, you gain 3 life.

Cower in Fear (Magic 2013)
Nils Hamm

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

"You will fully understand fear when you discover it is the final thing you put your faith in." —Nicol Bolas

Rosemane Centaur (Guilds of Ravnica)
Nils Hamm

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.) Vigilance

"I long for peaceful times, when I may tend to my garden instead of our borders."

Mortify (Commander 2016)
Nils Hamm

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Many who cross Sorin's path come down with a sudden and fatal case of being-in-the-way-of-a-millennia-old-vampire.

Elderwood Scion (Commander 2018)
Nils Hamm

Trample, lifelink Spells you cast that target this creature cost {2} less to cast. Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost {2} more to cast.

The Sunbriar druids believe that every life begins in its heart and ends under its hooves.

Fetid Imp (The List)
Nils Hamm

Flying {B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Shambling Remains (The List)
Nils Hamm

This creature can't block. Unearth {B}{R} ({B}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Distinguished Conjurer (Modern Horizons 3)
Nils Hamm

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life. {4}{W}, {T}: Exile another target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Paradoxical Outcome (Kaladesh)
Nils Hamm

Return any number of target nonland, nontoken permanents you control to their owners' hands. Draw a card for each card returned to your hand this way.

The results of Rashmi's experimentation forced her to consider the possibility that multitudinous realities existed beyond her own.

Blighted Bat (Amonkhet)
Nils Hamm

Flying {1}: This creature gains haste until end of turn.

Amonkhet's dual suns don't allow for the darkness of night, so bats are most active under the gloom of the frequent sandstorms.

Grixis Battlemage (Shards of Alara)
Nils Hamm

{U}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {R}, {T}: Target creature can't block this turn.

Vitals of Grixis who eschew undeath must scrape and scratch to retain their mortality. The result is a breed of inventive mages.

Rakshasa Vizier (Khans of Tarkir)
Nils Hamm

Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from your graveyard, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Rakshasa offer deals that sound advantageous to those who forget who they are dealing with.

Minions' Murmurs (Future Sight)
Nils Hamm

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creatures you control.

"They are quick to offer advice, those whose mistakes doomed them to undeath. How can I not listen to the wisdom of failure?" —Ratadrabik of Urborg

Fetid Imp (Jumpstart 2022)
Nils Hamm

Flying {B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Many deaths are distasteful, but only a few are truly repugnant.

Distinguished Conjurer (Jumpstart 2022)
Nils Hamm

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life. {4}{W}, {T}: Exile another target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Dungeon Geists (Core Set 2020)
Nils Hamm

Flying When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature.

Final Act (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Nils Hamm

Choose one or more — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all planeswalkers. • Destroy all battles. • Exile all graveyards. • Each opponent loses all counters.

Misfortune Teller (New Capenna Commander)
Nils Hamm

Toque mortal. Siempre que la Pitonisa de desgracias entre al campo de batalla o haga daño de combate a un jugador, exilia la carta objetivo de un cementerio. Si era una carta de criatura, crea una ficha de criatura Bribón negra 2/2. Si era una carta de tierra, crea una ficha de Tesoro. De lo contrario, ganas 3 vidas.

Undergrowth Scavenger (Magic 2015)
Nils Hamm

This creature enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

It sees a rotting carcass as a good wine which has been aged properly.

Baleful Strix (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Nils Hamm

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Thragtusk (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, you gain 5 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Always carry two spears." —Mokgar, Kalonian hunter

Contagion Engine (Secret Lair Drop)
Nils Hamm

When this artifact enters, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature target player controls. {4}, {T}: Proliferate twice. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Then do it again.)

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing." —Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"

Warden of Evos Isle (Eternal Masters)
Nils Hamm

Flying Creature spells with flying you cast cost {1} less to cast.

On Evos Isle, the swift and formidable aven enforce the will of the ruling sphinxes.

March of Otherworldly Light (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Nils Hamm

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of white cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Exile target artifact, creature, or enchantment with mana value X or less.

Gravepurge (Dragons of Tarkir)
Nils Hamm

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card.

"Lord Silumgar has given you a second chance to please him." —Siara, the Dragon's Mouth

Paradise Druid (Secret Lair Drop)
Nils Hamm

This creature has hexproof as long as it's untapped. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) {T}: Add one mana of any color.

"There are many kinds of duty, and mine is to see our world grow and endure."

Amoeboid Changeling (Premium Deck Series: Slivers)
Nils Hamm

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {T}: Target creature gains all creature types until end of turn. {T}: Target creature loses all creature types until end of turn.

Deranged Assistant (Double Masters 2022)
Nils Hamm

{T}, Mill a card: Add {C}. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

"Garl, adjust the slurry dispensers. Garl, fetch more corpses. Garl, quit crying and give me your brain tissue. If he doesn't stop being so rude, I'm quitting."

Grixis Panorama (Shards of Alara)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

There is no height above Grixis that is free from the stench of death.

Silumgar's Command (Dragons of Tarkir)
Nils Hamm

Choose two — • Counter target noncreature spell. • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. • Destroy target planeswalker.

Grixis (Planechase Planes)
Nils Hamm

Blue, black, and/or red creature cards in your graveyard have unearth. The unearth cost is equal to the card's mana cost. (Pay the card's mana cost: Return it to the battlefield. The creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.) Whenever chaos ensues, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Merciless Javelineer (Amonkhet)
Nils Hamm

{2}, Discard a card: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. That creature can't block this turn.

"My mind is the calm in the midst of the storm, and my javelin the lightning."

Baleful Strix (Eternal Masters)
Nils Hamm

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Sigiled Starfish (Magic Origins)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Kruphix hid the most dire prophecies about humankind where humans would never find them and tritons wouldn't care to read them.

Mortify (Explorers of Ixalan)
Nils Hamm

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Many who cross Sorin's path come down with a sudden and fatal case of being-in-the-way-of-a-millennia-old-vampire.

Gaze of Granite (Commander 2021)
Nils Hamm

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less.

Golgari reclaimers resent the gorgons, begrudging the loss of so many fine nutrients locked away in stone.

Nighthowler (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Nils Hamm

Bestow {2}{B}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.) This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Phantasmal Image (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Nils Hamm

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

Thragtusk (Modern Masters 2017)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, you gain 5 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Always carry two spears." —Mokgar, Kalonian hunter

Niblis of Dusk (Shadows over Innistrad)
Nils Hamm

Flying Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

It fuels its lanterns by leaching the warmth from its surroundings.

Toil (Dragon's Maze)
Nils Hamm

Everdream (The List)
Nils Hamm

Draw a card. Splice onto instant or sorcery {2}{U} (As you cast an instant or sorcery 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.)

Hellspark Elemental (DCI Promos)
Nils Hamm

Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature. Unearth {1}{R} ({1}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Paradise Druid (Wilds of Eldraine Commander)
Nils Hamm

This creature has hexproof as long as it's untapped. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) {T}: Add one mana of any color.

"There are many kinds of duty, and mine is to see our world grow and endure."

Death Baron (Core Set 2019 Promos)
Nils Hamm

Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

For the necromancer barons, killing and recruitment are one and the same.

Gilder Bairn (The List)
Nils Hamm

{2}{G/U}, {Q}: Double the number of each kind of counter on target permanent. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Do the glowing trinkets show it the way home, or do they set a twisted path for someone else to follow?

Blastoderm (The List)
Nils Hamm

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Fading 3 (This creature enters with three fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Stinkweed Imp (Time Spiral Remastered)
Nils Hamm

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Catacomb Slug (Magic Origins)
Nils Hamm

"The entire murder scene was covered in dripping, oozing slime. No need for a soothsayer to solve that one." —Pel Javya, Wojek investigator

Insatiable Gorgers (Eldritch Moon)
Nils Hamm

This creature attacks each combat if able. Madness {3}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

"Drink deeply, for there is no tomorrow!" —Anje Falkenrath

Gaze of Granite (GRN Guild Kit)
Nils Hamm

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less.

Golgari reclaimers resent the gorgons, begrudging the loss of so many fine nutrients locked away in stone.

Dungeon Geists (Commander 2013)
Nils Hamm

Flying When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature.

Deepglow Skate (Secret Lair Drop)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, double the number of each kind of counter on any number of target permanents.

"Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire." —Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Deranged Assistant (Innistrad)
Nils Hamm

{T}, Mill a card: Add {C}. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

"Garl, adjust the slurry dispensers. Garl, fetch more corpses. Garl, quit crying and give me your brain tissue. If he doesn't stop being so rude, I'm quitting."

Blastoderm (Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Nils Hamm

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Fading 3 (This creature enters with three fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Hold at Bay (Born of the Gods)
Nils Hamm

Prevent the next 7 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

It was Daeron's bravery that brought him to Odunos. But it was the magic of Meletis that brought him home.

Stinkweed Imp (The List)
Nils Hamm

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Thragtusk (Double Masters)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, you gain 5 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Always carry two spears." —Mokgar, Kalonian hunter

Skull Prophet (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Add {B} or {G}. {T}: Mill two cards.

"I study bone because that's where truth dwells. One monster knucklebone is wiser than all that damp meat in your head."

Fodder Launch (Lorwyn)
Nils Hamm

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a Goblin. Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn. Fodder Launch deals 5 damage to that creature's controller.

Leave it to a boggart to come up with a projectile as disgusting as it is deadly.

Grixis Panorama (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

There is no height above Grixis that is free from the stench of death.

Drogskol Shieldmate (Innistrad Remastered)
Nils Hamm

Flash When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.

"I will join you so that you will not yet join me."

Coursers' Accord (Return to Ravnica)
Nils Hamm

Create a 3/3 green Centaur creature token, then populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Bleak rumors reached Trostani's ears. She decreed that no one should travel alone.

Strix Serenade (Modern Horizons 3)
Nils Hamm

Counter target artifact, creature, or planeswalker spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Grafdigger's Cage (Mystery Booster 2)
Nils Hamm

Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.

Broken Wings (Aetherdrift)
Nils Hamm

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying.

An early lead puts a target on your back.

Catacomb Crocodile (The List)
Nils Hamm

"I am sewer-king!" said Rat. "I am quick and cunning and I know every tunnel." "No, I am king!" said Zombie. "I am cold and deadly and no rot can harm me." Then Croc came and ate them both.

Rosemane Centaur (The List)
Nils Hamm

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.) Vigilance

"I long for peaceful times, when I may tend to my garden instead of our borders."

Sip of Hemlock (Theros)
Nils Hamm

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life.

Conspirators poisoned the oracle not because her visions were wrong, but because they were right.

Rat (Gatecrash Tokens)
Nils Hamm

Phantasmal Image (Modern Masters 2017)
Nils Hamm

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

Curator Beastie (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Nils Hamm

Reach Colorless creatures you control enter with two additional +1/+1 counters on them. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Cultivator Colossus (Innistrad Remastered)
Nils Hamm

Trample Cultivator Colossus's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control. When this creature enters, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. If you do, draw a card and repeat this process.

Herald of the Host (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Nils Hamm

Flying, vigilance Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)

Lucid Dreams (Modern Horizons 2)
Nils Hamm

Draw X cards, where X is the number of card types among cards in your graveyard.

Never be afraid to look where others can't—or won't.

Sinister Starfish (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

"Throw that one back. I don't like how it's looking at me." —Netos, Meletian fisherman

Grixis Panorama (New Capenna Commander)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

There is no height above Grixis that is free from the stench of death.

Grixis Panorama (Commander 2017)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

There is no height above Grixis that is free from the stench of death.

Tattered Haunter (Eldritch Moon)
Nils Hamm

Flying This creature can block only creatures with flying.

When the Nebelgast recedes, there are often stragglers.

Curator Beastie (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Nils Hamm

Reach Colorless creatures you control enter with two additional +1/+1 counters on them. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Briarhorn (Duel Decks: Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis)
Nils Hamm

Flash When this creature enters, target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Evoke {1}{G} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Nighthowler (The List)
Nils Hamm

Bestow {2}{B}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.) This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Brazen Wolves (Jumpstart 2022)
Nils Hamm

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

With fewer patrols about, Kessig's roads have become prime hunting grounds.

Wretched Banquet (Conflux)
Nils Hamm

Destroy target creature if it has the least power or is tied for least power among creatures on the battlefield.

"The meek inherit nothing." —Sedris, the Traitor King

Sigiled Starfish (Journey into Nyx)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Kruphix hid the most dire prophecies about humankind where humans would never find them and tritons wouldn't care to read them.

Choose Your Demise (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas Schemes)
Nils Hamm

When you set this scheme in motion, look at the top four cards of your library and separate them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put the cards in that pile into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Cosmos Charger (Kaldheim)
Nils Hamm

Flash Flying Foretelling cards from your hand costs {1} less and can be done on any player's turn. Foretell {2}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Briarhorn (Lorwyn)
Nils Hamm

Flash When this creature enters, target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Evoke {1}{G} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Path of Peace (The List)
Nils Hamm

Destroy target creature. Its owner gains 4 life.

As Hedrax stepped into oblivion, he welcomed the unwavering silence.

Blastoderm (Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Nils Hamm

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Fading 3 (This creature enters with three fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Bartizan Bats (The List)
Nils Hamm

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

"Bats are welcome to eat thousands of my pets. I have multitudes more that will ultimately eat the bats." —Izoni

March of Otherworldly Light (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos)
Nils Hamm

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of white cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Exile target artifact, creature, or enchantment with mana value X or less.

Mortify (Conspiracy)
Nils Hamm

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Many who cross Sorin's path come down with a sudden and fatal case of being-in-the-way-of-a-millennia-old-vampire.

Grave Titan (Commander 2014)
Nils Hamm

Deathtouch Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Death in form and function.

Aberrant Researcher (Shadows over Innistrad)
Nils Hamm

Skullbriar, the Walking Grave (Commander 2011)
Nils Hamm

Haste Whenever Skullbriar deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Counters remain on Skullbriar as it moves to any zone other than a player's hand or library.

Cairn Wanderer (Lorwyn)
Nils Hamm

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As long as a creature card with flying is in a graveyard, this creature has flying. The same is true for fear, first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, landwalk, lifelink, protection, reach, trample, shroud, and vigilance.

Hideous Visage (Magic 2012)
Nils Hamm

Creatures you control gain intimidate until end of turn. (Each of those creatures can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

"Seeing you cower before me is its own reward."

Mountain (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {R}.)

Swift Spinner (Eldritch Moon)
Nils Hamm

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Its web is woven so tightly that not even geists can avoid capture.

Tapping at the Window (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt)
Nils Hamm

Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard. Flashback {2}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Paradise Druid (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Nils Hamm

This creature has hexproof as long as it's untapped. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) {T}: Add one mana of any color.

"There are many kinds of duty, and mine is to see our world grow and endure."

Baleful Strix (Planechase Anthology)
Nils Hamm

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Garruk's Packleader (Magic 2011)
Nils Hamm

Whenever another creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, you may draw a card.

"He has learned much in his long years. And unlike selfish humans, he's willing to share." —Garruk Wildspeaker

Silumgar's Command (Commander 2017)
Nils Hamm

Choose two — • Counter target noncreature spell. • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. • Destroy target planeswalker.

Druid of Horns (Core Set 2019)
Nils Hamm

Whenever you cast an Aura spell that targets this creature, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

No welcome for those who trespass. Only fang and horn and claw.

Stinkweed Imp (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Nils Hamm

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Celestial Purge (Magic Player Rewards 2010)
Nils Hamm

Exile target black or red permanent.

Brute Strength (Amonkhet)
Nils Hamm

Target creature gets +3/+1 and gains trample until end of turn. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

"Oketra had our crop build an obelisk to prove the power of working together. But I am stronger without the weak."

Ravenous Rotbelly (Midnight Hunt Commander)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice up to three Zombies. When you sacrifice one or more Zombies this way, each opponent sacrifices that many creatures of their choice.

Serra's Emissary (Modern Horizons 2)
Nils Hamm

Flying As this creature enters, choose a card type. You and creatures you control have protection from the chosen card type.

Grave Titan (The List)
Nils Hamm

Deathtouch Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Death in form and function.

Harvest Gwyllion (Eventide)
Nils Hamm

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

She speaks only in vile epithets, spitting out curses and obscenities that harm others just by the hearing.

Moan of the Unhallowed (Game Night: Free-for-All)
Nils Hamm

Create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Flashback {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

For a ghoul, every village is a buffet and every disaster is a reunion.

Skull Prophet (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Add {B} or {G}. {T}: Mill two cards.

"I study bone because that's where truth dwells. One monster knucklebone is wiser than all that damp meat in your head."

Souls of the Lost (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Nils Hamm

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or sacrifice a permanent. Fathomless descent — Souls of the Lost's power is equal to the number of permanent cards in your graveyard and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.

"Do you remember us?"

Phantasmal Image (Magic 2012)
Nils Hamm

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

Obelisk of Grixis (Shards of Alara)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Like most features of Grixis, the obelisks that remain from the time of Alara now exist only for dark exploitation.

Misfortune Teller (New Capenna Commander Promos)
Nils Hamm

Deathtouch Whenever this creature enters or deals combat damage to a player, exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, create a 2/2 black Rogue creature token. If it was a land card, create a Treasure token. Otherwise, you gain 3 life.

Kor Spiritdancer (Wilds of Eldraine Commander)
Nils Hamm

This creature gets +2/+2 for each Aura attached to it. Whenever you cast an Aura spell, you may draw a card.

She reaches beyond the physical realm, touching the ideals from which all creatures draw their power.

Call of the Full Moon (Magic Origins)
Nils Hamm

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+2 and has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) At the beginning of each upkeep, if a player cast two or more spells last turn, sacrifice this Aura.

Obelisk of Grixis (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Like most features of Grixis, the obelisks that remain from the time of Alara now exist only for dark exploitation.

Skullbriar, the Walking Grave (The List)
Nils Hamm

Haste Whenever Skullbriar deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Counters remain on Skullbriar as it moves to any zone other than a player's hand or library.

Deranged Assistant (Ultimate Masters)
Nils Hamm

{T}, Mill a card: Add {C}. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

"Garl, adjust the slurry dispensers. Garl, fetch more corpses. Garl, quit crying and give me your brain tissue. If he doesn't stop being so rude, I'm quitting."

Aberrant Researcher (Innistrad Remastered)
Nils Hamm

Eyes Everywhere (Ravnica Allegiance)
Nils Hamm

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. {5}{U}: Exchange control of this enchantment and target nonland permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

"They've got eyes inside my head!"

Baleful Strix (Commander 2016)
Nils Hamm

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Dungeon Geists (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Nils Hamm

Flying When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature.

Cosmos Charger (Kaldheim)
Nils Hamm

Flash Flying Foretelling cards from your hand costs {1} less and can be done on any player's turn. Foretell {2}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Sigiled Starfish (Jumpstart)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Kruphix hid the most dire prophecies about humankind where humans would never find them and tritons wouldn't care to read them.

Cower in Fear (The List)
Nils Hamm

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

"You will fully understand fear when you discover it is the final thing you put your faith in." —Nicol Bolas

Scab-Clan Charger (Gatecrash)
Nils Hamm

Bloodrush — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Target attacking creature gets +2/+4 until end of turn.

"The only roads I wish to see are those beaten flat by wild hooves."

Island (Throne of Eldraine)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {U}.)

Sigiled Starfish (Foundations Jumpstart)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Kruphix hid the most dire prophecies about humankind where humans would never find them and tritons wouldn't care to read them.

Insatiable Appetite (Throne of Eldraine)
Nils Hamm

You may sacrifice a Food. If you do, target creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn. Otherwise, that creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

He ate them out of house and home and shed and barn and flock and herd.

Deadbridge Shaman (Eternal Masters)
Nils Hamm

When this creature dies, target opponent discards a card.

Ending her life won't end the infestation.

Cosmos Charger (Kaldheim Promos)
Nils Hamm

Flash Flying Foretelling cards from your hand costs {1} less and can be done on any player's turn. Foretell {2}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Grave Titan (Magic 2012)
Nils Hamm

Deathtouch Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Death in form and function.

Nighthowler (Theros)
Nils Hamm

Bestow {2}{B}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.) This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Blighted Bat (Jumpstart)
Nils Hamm

Flying {1}: This creature gains haste until end of turn.

Amonkhet's dual suns don't allow for the darkness of night, so bats are most active under the gloom of the frequent sandstorms.

Mountain (Game Night)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {R}.)

Garruk's Packleader (Commander 2019)
Nils Hamm

Whenever another creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, you may draw a card.

"He has learned much in his long years. And unlike selfish humans, he's willing to share." —Garruk Wildspeaker

Elemental (Commander Anthology Tokens)
Nils Hamm

Moan of the Unhallowed (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
Nils Hamm

Create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Flashback {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

For a ghoul, every village is a buffet and every disaster is a reunion.

Baleful Strix (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Nils Hamm

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Thragtusk (Magic 2013)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, you gain 5 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Always carry two spears." —Mokgar, Kalonian hunter

Once and Future (Throne of Eldraine)
Nils Hamm

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Put up to one other target card from your graveyard on top of your library. Exile Once and Future. Adamant — If at least three green mana was spent to cast this spell, instead return those cards to your hand and exile Once and Future.

Sanctum Spirit (Dominaria)
Nils Hamm

Lifelink Discard a historic card: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

"When history becomes too mournful, even good souls may choose to forget." —Shalai, voice of Plenty

Garruk's Packleader (Bloomburrow Commander)
Nils Hamm

Whenever another creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, you may draw a card.

"He has learned much in his long years. And unlike selfish humans, he's willing to share." —Garruk Wildspeaker

Everdream (Modern Horizons)
Nils Hamm

Draw a card. Splice onto instant or sorcery {2}{U} (As you cast an instant or sorcery 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.)

Cower in Fear (Modern Masters 2017)
Nils Hamm

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

"You will fully understand fear when you discover it is the final thing you put your faith in." —Nicol Bolas

Henchfiend of Ukor (Time Spiral Remastered)
Nils Hamm

Haste Echo {1}{B} (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.) {B/R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Hunger of the Howlpack (Dark Ascension)
Nils Hamm

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Morbid — Put three +1/+1 counters on that creature instead if a creature died this turn.

"Werewolves are an unholy mix of a predator's instinct and a human's hatred." —Alena, trapper of Kessig

Elderwood Scion (Planechase 2012)
Nils Hamm

Trample, lifelink Spells you cast that target this creature cost {2} less to cast. Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost {2} more to cast.

The Sunbriar druids believe that every life begins in its heart and ends under its hooves.

March of Otherworldly Light (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Nils Hamm

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of white cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Exile target artifact, creature, or enchantment with mana value X or less.

Wavesifter (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Nils Hamm

Flying When this creature enters, investigate twice. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Evoke {G}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Harpy (Theros Tokens)
Nils Hamm

Flying

Grave Titan (Magic 2011)
Nils Hamm

Deathtouch Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Death in form and function.

Baleful Strix (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Nils Hamm

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Mogg Fanatic (DCI Promos)
Nils Hamm

Sacrifice this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

"As if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it." —Herman Melville, *Moby Dick*

Necrotic Hex (Commander Legends)
Nils Hamm

Each player sacrifices six creatures of their choice. You create six tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Inexorable Blob (Shadows over Innistrad Promos)
Nils Hamm

Delirium — Whenever this creature attacks, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, create a 3/3 green Ooze creature token that's tapped and attacking.

Deathless Ancient (Ixalan)
Nils Hamm

Flying Tap three untapped Vampires you control: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Ancient one, we have reached the promised shore. The Immortal Sun is near. Drink and awake."

Warden of Evos Isle (Magic 2014)
Nils Hamm

Flying Creature spells with flying you cast cost {1} less to cast.

On Evos Isle, the swift and formidable aven enforce the will of the ruling sphinxes.

Illness in the Ranks (Gatecrash)
Nils Hamm

Creature tokens get -1/-1.

"Selesnya denied us tribute. Let's show them the error of their ways." —Milana, Orzhov prelate

Garruk's Packleader (The List)
Nils Hamm

Whenever another creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, you may draw a card.

"He has learned much in his long years. And unlike selfish humans, he's willing to share." —Garruk Wildspeaker

Hunger of the Howlpack (Jumpstart 2022)
Nils Hamm

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Morbid — Put three +1/+1 counters on that creature instead if a creature died this turn.

"Werewolves are an unholy mix of a predator's instinct and a human's hatred." —Alena, trapper of Kessig

Mortify (Commander 2017)
Nils Hamm

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Many who cross Sorin's path come down with a sudden and fatal case of being-in-the-way-of-a-millennia-old-vampire.

Warden of Evos Isle (Starter Commander Decks)
Nils Hamm

Flying Creature spells with flying you cast cost {1} less to cast.

On Evos Isle, the swift and formidable aven enforce the will of the ruling sphinxes.

Warden of Evos Isle (The List)
Nils Hamm

Flying Creature spells with flying you cast cost {1} less to cast.

On Evos Isle, the swift and formidable aven enforce the will of the ruling sphinxes.

Sauroform Hybrid (Ravnica Allegiance)
Nils Hamm

{4}{G}{G}: Adapt 4. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put four +1/+1 counters on it.)

"Within each of us, the potential for great power waits to be released." —Zija, Simic mutationist

Deadbridge Shaman (Magic Origins)
Nils Hamm

When this creature dies, target opponent discards a card.

Ending her life won't end the infestation.

Frontier Mastodon (The List)
Nils Hamm

Ferocious — This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Each bronze disk on its harness is an offering from a young Temur hunter, a sign of respect to the spirits of the wild.

Amoeboid Changeling (Jumpstart 2022)
Nils Hamm

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {T}: Target creature gains all creature types until end of turn. {T}: Target creature loses all creature types until end of turn.

Locthwain Gargoyle (Jumpstart 2022)
Nils Hamm

{4}: This creature gets +2/+0 and gains flying until end of turn.

"As the traitor hurried across the courtyard, its eyes snapped open. It was time to pay the queen a visit." —*Beyond the Great Henge*

Docent of Perfection (Eldritch Moon)
Nils Hamm

Stinkweed Imp (Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic)
Nils Hamm

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Exquisite Blood (Secret Lair Drop)
Nils Hamm

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

"Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace."

Sewer Nemesis (The List)
Nils Hamm

As this creature enters, choose a player. Sewer Nemesis's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in the chosen player's graveyard. Whenever the chosen player casts a spell, that player mills a card.

Festerhide Boar (Innistrad)
Nils Hamm

Trample Morbid — This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it if a creature died this turn.

"Bury your dead deep. The boars are hungriest while the corpse is still warm." —Paulin, trapper of Somberwald

Dark Betrayal (Theros)
Nils Hamm

Destroy target black creature.

"You're just like me: ruthless, cunning, and ambitious. Obviously you're a threat." —Basarios the Blade

Henrika Domnathi (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Nils Hamm

Talonrend (Eventide)
Nils Hamm

Flying {U/R}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Change is a denizen of Shadowmoor as much as ouphes and noggles are.

Arc Runner (Magic 2011)
Nils Hamm

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

The storms of the wastelands form quickly and hit hard. Few have anything to do with rain.

Haunting Echoes (Magic 2010)
Nils Hamm

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.

Mountain (Commander 2015)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {R}.)

Nighthowler (Zendikar Rising Commander)
Nils Hamm

Bestow {2}{B}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.) This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Souls of the Lost (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Nils Hamm

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or sacrifice a permanent. Fathomless descent — Souls of the Lost's power is equal to the number of permanent cards in your graveyard and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.

"Do you remember us?"

Thragtusk (Commander 2019)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, you gain 5 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Always carry two spears." —Mokgar, Kalonian hunter

Stinkweed Imp (GRN Guild Kit)
Nils Hamm

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Sewer Nemesis (Commander 2011)
Nils Hamm

As this creature enters, choose a player. Sewer Nemesis's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in the chosen player's graveyard. Whenever the chosen player casts a spell, that player mills a card.

Blightsoil Druid (Morningtide)
Nils Hamm

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G}.

"See the beauty in death: the clean white bones lying in the fertile soil and the brightly colored moonglove sprouting from the fell earth."

Mountain (Game Night 2019)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {R}.)

Festerhide Boar (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska)
Nils Hamm

Trample Morbid — This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it if a creature died this turn.

"Bury your dead deep. The boars are hungriest while the corpse is still warm." —Paulin, trapper of Somberwald

Plains (Core Set 2021)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {W}.)

Baleful Strix (The Brothers' War Commander)
Nils Hamm

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Plains (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {W}.)

The Gitrog Monster (Bloomburrow Commander)
Nils Hamm

Deathtouch At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice The Gitrog Monster unless you sacrifice a land. You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, draw a card.

Moan of the Unhallowed (Ultimate Masters)
Nils Hamm

Create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Flashback {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

For a ghoul, every village is a buffet and every disaster is a reunion.

Souls of the Lost (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos)
Nils Hamm

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or sacrifice a permanent. Fathomless descent — Souls of the Lost's power is equal to the number of permanent cards in your graveyard and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.

"Do you remember us?"

Bitterblossom (Judge Gift Cards 2011)
Nils Hamm

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

In Lorwyn's brief evenings, the sun pauses at the horizon long enough for a certain species of violet to bloom with the fragrance of mischief.

Paradise Druid (Foundations Jumpstart)
Nils Hamm

This creature has hexproof as long as it's untapped. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) {T}: Add one mana of any color.

"There are many kinds of duty, and mine is to see our world grow and endure."

Captured Sunlight (Alara Reborn)
Nils Hamm

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

Dungeon Geists (Dark Ascension)
Nils Hamm

Flying When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature.

Evangel of Heliod (Kaldheim Commander)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens equal to your devotion to white. (Each {W} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.)

Necrotic Hex (Starter Commander Decks)
Nils Hamm

Each player sacrifices six creatures of their choice. You create six tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

"You foolish knights pound your breastplates and vow to fight until your last breath. As if that's when it ends." —Tormod, the Desecrator

Mortify (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
Nils Hamm

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Many who cross Sorin's path come down with a sudden and fatal case of being-in-the-way-of-a-millennia-old-vampire.

Briarhorn (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Nils Hamm

Flash When this creature enters, target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Evoke {1}{G} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Sewer Nemesis (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Nils Hamm

As this creature enters, choose a player. Sewer Nemesis's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in the chosen player's graveyard. Whenever the chosen player casts a spell, that player mills a card.

Reanimate (Commander Collection: Black)
Nils Hamm

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

"Death is a small price to pay for immortality." —Baron Sengir

Trigon of Corruption (Scars of Mirrodin)
Nils Hamm

This artifact enters with three charge counters on it. {B}{B}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {2}, {T}, Remove a charge counter from this artifact: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Path of Peace (Masters 25)
Nils Hamm

Destroy target creature. Its owner gains 4 life.

As Hedrax stepped into oblivion, he welcomed the unwavering silence.

Chancellor of the Spires (New Phyrexia)
Nils Hamm

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, each opponent mills seven cards. Flying When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

Sewer Shambler (Ravnica Remastered)
Nils Hamm

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Scavenge {2}{B} ({2}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Pathbreaker Wurm (Avacyn Restored)
Nils Hamm

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as this creature is paired with another creature, both creatures have trample.

Mountain (Magic 2015)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {R}.)

Blightsoil Druid (Eternal Masters)
Nils Hamm

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G}.

"See the beauty in death: the clean white bones lying in the fertile soil and the brightly colored moonglove sprouting from the fell earth."

Hunger of the Howlpack (The List)
Nils Hamm

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Morbid — Put three +1/+1 counters on that creature instead if a creature died this turn.

"Werewolves are an unholy mix of a predator's instinct and a human's hatred." —Alena, trapper of Kessig

Temur War Shaman (Fate Reforged)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, manifest the top card of your library. (Put that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, if it's a creature, you may have it fight target creature you don't control.

Docent of Perfection (Innistrad Remastered)
Nils Hamm

Fetid Imp (Magic Origins)
Nils Hamm

Flying {B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Garruk Wildspeaker (Duels of the Planeswalkers 2009 Promos )
Nils Hamm

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

Thragtusk (Time Spiral Remastered)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, you gain 5 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Always carry two spears." —Mokgar, Kalonian hunter

Evangel of Heliod (Theros)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens equal to your devotion to white. (Each {W} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.)

Nighthowler (Commander 2015)
Nils Hamm

Bestow {2}{B}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.) This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Hunger of the Howlpack (Conspiracy)
Nils Hamm

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Morbid — Put three +1/+1 counters on that creature instead if a creature died this turn.

"Werewolves are an unholy mix of a predator's instinct and a human's hatred." —Alena, trapper of Kessig

Cryptborn Horror (Return to Ravnica Promos)
Nils Hamm

Trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total life lost by your opponents this turn.

Serra's Emissary (Modern Horizons 2)
Nils Hamm

Flying As this creature enters, choose a card type. You and creatures you control have protection from the chosen card type.

Where swords fail, faith transcends.

Silumgar's Command (Zendikar Rising Commander)
Nils Hamm

Choose two — • Counter target noncreature spell. • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. • Destroy target planeswalker.

Trostani's Summoner (Dragon's Maze Promos)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance, a 3/3 green Centaur creature token, and a 4/4 green Rhino creature token with trample.

Bartizan Bats (Guilds of Ravnica)
Nils Hamm

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

"Bats are welcome to eat thousands of my pets. I have multitudes more that will ultimately eat the bats." —Izoni

Blightsoil Druid (The List)
Nils Hamm

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G}.

"See the beauty in death: the clean white bones lying in the fertile soil and the brightly colored moonglove sprouting from the fell earth."

Hornet Harasser (Lorwyn)
Nils Hamm

When this creature dies, target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

"And though she didn't get her honey, Auntie found something far more interesting." —A tale of Auntie Grub

Plumeveil (Modern Masters)
Nils Hamm

Flash Defender, flying

"It was vast, a great sheet of soaring wings, and equally silent. It caught us unawares and blocked our view of the kithkin stronghold." —Grensch, merrow cutthroat

Shambling Remains (Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning)
Nils Hamm

This creature can't block. Unearth {B}{R} ({B}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Necrotic Hex (Commander Legends)
Nils Hamm

Each player sacrifices six creatures of their choice. You create six tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

"You foolish knights pound your breastplates and vow to fight until your last breath. As if that's when it ends." —Tormod, the Desecrator

Niblis of Dusk (The List)
Nils Hamm

Flying Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

It fuels its lanterns by leaching the warmth from its surroundings.

Grave Titan (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Nils Hamm

Deathtouch Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Death in form and function.

Glarewielder (The List)
Nils Hamm

Haste When this creature enters, up to two target creatures can't block this turn. Evoke {1}{R} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Thragtusk (Jumpstart)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, you gain 5 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Always carry two spears." —Mokgar, Kalonian hunter

Rakshasa Vizier (Khans of Tarkir Promos)
Nils Hamm

Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from your graveyard, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Rakshasa offer deals that sound advantageous to those who forget who they are dealing with.

Warden of Evos Isle (Core Set 2020)
Nils Hamm

Flying Creature spells with flying you cast cost {1} less to cast.

On Evos Isle, the swift and formidable aven enforce the will of the ruling sphinxes.

Mountain (Magic 2013)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {R}.)

Catacomb Slug (Return to Ravnica)
Nils Hamm

"The entire murder scene was covered in dripping, oozing slime. No need for a soothsayer to solve that one." —Pel Javya, Wojek investigator

March of Otherworldly Light (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos)
Nils Hamm

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of white cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Exile target artifact, creature, or enchantment with mana value X or less.

Mortify (The List)
Nils Hamm

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Many who cross Sorin's path come down with a sudden and fatal case of being-in-the-way-of-a-millennia-old-vampire.

Ravenous Rotbelly (Midnight Hunt Commander)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice up to three Zombies. When you sacrifice one or more Zombies this way, each opponent sacrifices that many creatures of their choice.

The patrol found the graf empty save for a few well-chewed bones.

Plains (Magic 2014)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {W}.)

Garruk's Packleader (Magic 2015)
Nils Hamm

Whenever another creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, you may draw a card.

"He has learned much in his long years. And unlike selfish humans, he's willing to share." —Garruk Wildspeaker

Plains (Core Set 2020)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {W}.)

Mortify (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Nils Hamm

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Many who cross Sorin's path come down with a sudden and fatal case of being-in-the-way-of-a-millennia-old-vampire.

Wrecking Ogre (Gatecrash)
Nils Hamm

Double strike Bloodrush — {3}{R}{R}, Discard this card: Target attacking creature gets +3/+3 and gains double strike until end of turn.

If no opponent can be found, ogres of the Bolrac Clan will often pick fights with buildings.

Moan of the Unhallowed (The List)
Nils Hamm

Create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Flashback {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

For a ghoul, every village is a buffet and every disaster is a reunion.

Frontier Mastodon (Jumpstart 2022)
Nils Hamm

Ferocious — This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Each bronze disk on its harness is an offering from a young Temur hunter, a sign of respect to the spirits of the wild.

Amoeboid Changeling (Lorwyn)
Nils Hamm

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {T}: Target creature gains all creature types until end of turn. {T}: Target creature loses all creature types until end of turn.

Warden of Evos Isle (Commander Legends)
Nils Hamm

Flying Creature spells with flying you cast cost {1} less to cast.

On Evos Isle, the swift and formidable aven enforce the will of the ruling sphinxes.

Glissa's Scorn (New Phyrexia)
Nils Hamm

Destroy target artifact. Its controller loses 1 life.

"If it were fit to survive, it wouldn't have been so easily put down." —Glissa

Introductions Are in Order (Archenemy Schemes)
Nils Hamm

When you set this scheme in motion, choose one — • Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. • You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Meet my newest minion. Come now, don't be shy—shake her pincer."

Fiery Bombardment (Eventide)
Nils Hamm

Chroma — {2}, Sacrifice a creature: This enchantment deals damage to any target equal to the number of red mana symbols in the sacrificed creature's mana cost.

It kills two beasts with one thrown.

Gravepurge (The List)
Nils Hamm

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card.

"Lord Silumgar has given you a second chance to please him." —Siara, the Dragon's Mouth

Inexorable Blob (Shadows over Innistrad)
Nils Hamm

Delirium — Whenever this creature attacks, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, create a 3/3 green Ooze creature token that's tapped and attacking.

Warden of Evos Isle (Foundations Jumpstart)
Nils Hamm

Flying Creature spells with flying you cast cost {1} less to cast.

On Evos Isle, the swift and formidable aven enforce the will of the ruling sphinxes.

Bone Splinters (Avacyn Restored)
Nils Hamm

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Destroy target creature.

"Which do you deserve, the heft of a femur or the graceful sharpness of a forearm? Decisions, decisions . . ." —Gisa the Mad

Warden of Evos Isle (Jumpstart)
Nils Hamm

Flying Creature spells with flying you cast cost {1} less to cast.

On Evos Isle, the swift and formidable aven enforce the will of the ruling sphinxes.

Aberrant Researcher (Innistrad Remastered)
Nils Hamm

Cosmos Charger (Kaldheim Promos)
Nils Hamm

Flash Flying Foretelling cards from your hand costs {1} less and can be done on any player's turn. Foretell {2}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Shambling Remains (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
Nils Hamm

This creature can't block. Unearth {B}{R} ({B}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Mortify (Commander 2018)
Nils Hamm

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Many who cross Sorin's path come down with a sudden and fatal case of being-in-the-way-of-a-millennia-old-vampire.

Battle Hymn (Avacyn Restored)
Nils Hamm

Add {R} for each creature you control.

"A church is just wood and walls. A congregation is the faithful praising the angels." —Kolman, elder of Gatstaf

Dungeon Geists (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Nils Hamm

Flying When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature.

Bartizan Bats (Core Set 2020)
Nils Hamm

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

At night, bats will feast on whatever is drawn to lanterns and streetlights.

Fetid Imp (Duel Decks: Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis)
Nils Hamm

Flying {B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Mountain (Magic 2010)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {R}.)

Death Baron (Foundations)
Nils Hamm

Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

For the necromancer barons, killing and recruitment are one and the same.

Deranged Outcast (Dark Ascension)
Nils Hamm

{1}{G}, Sacrifice a Human: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Cast out by his village, he now takes grim offense at refugees who seek shelter in his forest.

Deadbridge Shaman (The List)
Nils Hamm

When this creature dies, target opponent discards a card.

Ending her life won't end the infestation.

Ooze (Shadows over Innistrad Tokens)
Nils Hamm

Grindclock (Scars of Mirrodin)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of charge counters on this artifact.

Pray you never hear it chime.

Fume Spitter (Scars of Mirrodin)
Nils Hamm

Sacrifice this creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

"Our archers made sport of it as it fumbled its way up the slag ridge. As it collapsed we thought ourselves safe, but the foul thing carried more than necrogen." —Adaran, Tangle hunter

Mountain (Planechase)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {R}.)

Vampire Revenant (Rivals of Ixalan)
Nils Hamm

Flying

"A thick fog obscures the port of Leor, but it's not thick enough to muffle the screams." —Admiral Beckett Brass

Deranged Assistant (Commander Legends)
Nils Hamm

{T}, Mill a card: Add {C}. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

"Garl, adjust the slurry dispensers. Garl, fetch more corpses. Garl, quit crying and give me your brain tissue. If he doesn't stop being so rude, I'm quitting."

Death Wind (Jumpstart 2022)
Nils Hamm

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

"I am a dragonslayer for Lord Silumgar. There is no dragon save him whom I fear." —Xathi the Infallible

Death Baron (Core Set 2019)
Nils Hamm

Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

For the necromancer barons, killing and recruitment are one and the same.

Chant of the Skifsang (Dark Ascension)
Nils Hamm

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -13/-0.

The skifsang, seafarers of Nephalia, craft spells like other sailors craft nets—making them strong enough to snare even the deadliest catch.

Locthwain Gargoyle (Throne of Eldraine)
Nils Hamm

{4}: This creature gets +2/+0 and gains flying until end of turn.

"As the traitor hurried across the courtyard, its eyes snapped open. It was time to pay the queen a visit." —*Beyond the Great Henge*

Deranged Assistant (Innistrad Remastered)
Nils Hamm

{T}, Mill a card: Add {C}. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

"Garl, adjust the slurry dispensers. Garl, fetch more corpses. Garl, quit crying and give me your brain tissue. If he doesn't stop being so rude, I'm quitting."

Stinkweed Imp (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
Nils Hamm

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Rally the Ancestors (Fate Reforged Promos)
Nils Hamm

Return each creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile those creatures at the beginning of your next upkeep. Exile Rally the Ancestors.

"The family is a tree, and in times of need, every branch can be a weapon." —Daghatar the Adamant

Blackcleave Goblin (Scars of Mirrodin)
Nils Hamm

Haste Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

"Bitten? Save time, amputate now." —Lephar, loxodon surgeon

Bile Blight (Friday Night Magic 2014)
Nils Hamm

Target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Not an arrow loosed, javelin thrown, nor sword raised. None were needed.

Baleful Strix (Double Masters)
Nils Hamm

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Evangel of Heliod (The List)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens equal to your devotion to white. (Each {W} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.)

Mountain (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {R}.)

Paradise Druid (Jumpstart 2022)
Nils Hamm

This creature has hexproof as long as it's untapped. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) {T}: Add one mana of any color.

"There are many kinds of duty, and mine is to see our world grow and endure."

Moan of the Unhallowed (Innistrad)
Nils Hamm

Create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Flashback {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

For a ghoul, every village is a buffet and every disaster is a reunion.

Nyxborn Eidolon (Born of the Gods)
Nils Hamm

Bestow {4}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.) Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

A body Returned, a soul still lost.

Doomwake Giant (Journey into Nyx Promos)
Nils Hamm

Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Crippling fear precedes it. A foul stench accompanies it. Death follows in its wake.

Boneyard Lurker (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Nils Hamm

Mutate {2}{B/G}{B/G} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.) Whenever this creature mutates, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Briarhorn (Planechase)
Nils Hamm

Flash When this creature enters, target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Evoke {1}{G} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Serra's Emissary (Modern Horizons 2 Promos)
Nils Hamm

Flying As this creature enters, choose a card type. You and creatures you control have protection from the chosen card type.

Where swords fail, faith transcends.

Amoeboid Changeling (The List)
Nils Hamm

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {T}: Target creature gains all creature types until end of turn. {T}: Target creature loses all creature types until end of turn.

Baleful Strix (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Nils Hamm

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Wavesifter (Modern Horizons 2)
Nils Hamm

Flying When this creature enters, investigate twice. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Evoke {G}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Thragtusk (New Capenna Commander)
Nils Hamm

When this creature enters, you gain 5 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

"Always carry two spears." —Mokgar, Kalonian hunter

Bone Splinters (Jumpstart)
Nils Hamm

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Destroy target creature.

"Which do you deserve, the heft of a femur or the graceful sharpness of a forearm? Decisions, decisions . . ." —Gisa the Mad

Sewer Shambler (Return to Ravnica)
Nils Hamm

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Scavenge {2}{B} ({2}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Paradoxical Outcome (Time Spiral Remastered)
Nils Hamm

Return any number of target nonland, nontoken permanents you control to their owners' hands. Draw a card for each card returned to your hand this way.

The results of Rashmi's experimentation forced her to consider the possibility that multitudinous realities existed beyond her own.

Illusory Demon (Alara Reborn)
Nils Hamm

Flying When you cast a spell, sacrifice this creature.

In the Maelstrom, a trick of the light can feast on human flesh.

Skin Invasion (Shadows over Innistrad)
Nils Hamm

Grixis (Planechase Anthology Planes)
Nils Hamm

Blue, black, and/or red creature cards in your graveyard have unearth. The unearth cost is equal to the card's mana cost. (Pay the card's mana cost: Return it to the battlefield. The creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.) Whenever chaos ensues, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Haunting Echoes (Magic 2011)
Nils Hamm

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.

Blighted Bat (The List)
Nils Hamm

Flying {1}: This creature gains haste until end of turn.

Amonkhet's dual suns don't allow for the darkness of night, so bats are most active under the gloom of the frequent sandstorms.

Minions' Murmurs (Time Spiral Remastered)
Nils Hamm

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creatures you control.

"They are quick to offer advice, those whose mistakes doomed them to undeath. How can I not listen to the wisdom of failure?" —Ratadrabik of Urborg

Dungeon Geists (Commander Anthology)
Nils Hamm

Flying When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature.

Glimmer Bairn (Modern Horizons 2)
Nils Hamm

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

"Tricks and treats, souls and sweets! On wooded path, whom shall we meet?"

Noxious Hatchling (Eventide)
Nils Hamm

This creature enters with four -1/-1 counters on it. Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Whenever you cast a black spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature. Whenever you cast a green spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature.

Frontier Mastodon (Fate Reforged)
Nils Hamm

Ferocious — This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Each bronze disk on its harness is an offering from a young Temur hunter, a sign of respect to the spirits of the wild.

Baleful Strix (The List)
Nils Hamm

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Pith Driller (New Phyrexia)
Nils Hamm

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) When this creature enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

After boring up through the crust of Mirrodin, it turned its expertise upon the surface dwellers.

Gaze of Granite (Commander 2018)
Nils Hamm

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less.

Golgari reclaimers resent the gorgons, begrudging the loss of so many fine nutrients locked away in stone.

Catacomb Crocodile (Ravnica Allegiance)
Nils Hamm

"I am sewer-king!" said Rat. "I am quick and cunning and I know every tunnel." "No, I am king!" said Zombie. "I am cold and deadly and no rot can harm me." Then Croc came and ate them both.

Mountain (Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {R}.)

Baleful Strix (Commander 2013)
Nils Hamm

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Zombie Horror (Dragons of Tarkir Tokens)
Nils Hamm

Fetid Imp (Core Set 2021)
Nils Hamm

Flying {B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Final Act (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Nils Hamm

Choose one or more — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all planeswalkers. • Destroy all battles. • Exile all graveyards. • Each opponent loses all counters.

Docent of Perfection (Eldritch Moon Promos)
Nils Hamm

Mountain (Magic 2011)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {R}.)

Paradise Druid (War of the Spark Promos)
Nils Hamm

This creature has hexproof as long as it's untapped. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) {T}: Add one mana of any color.

"There are many kinds of duty, and mine is to see our world grow and endure."

Plains (Magic 2013)
Nils Hamm

({T}: Add {W}.)

Sauroform Hybrid (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Nils Hamm

{4}{G}{G}: Adapt 4. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put four +1/+1 counters on it.)

"Within each of us, the potential for great power waits to be released." —Zija, Simic mutationist

Insatiable Appetite (Foundations Jumpstart)
Nils Hamm

You may sacrifice a Food. If you do, target creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn. Otherwise, that creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

He ate them out of house and home and shed and barn and flock and herd.

Death Baron (Midnight Hunt Commander)
Nils Hamm

Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

For the necromancer barons, killing and recruitment are one and the same.

Last Breath (Theros)
Nils Hamm

Exile target creature with power 2 or less. Its controller gains 4 life.

In time, all things turn to dust. Some things just take less time.

Delver of Secrets (Innistrad Remastered)
Nils Hamm

Elemental (Commander 2014 Tokens)
Nils Hamm

Felhide Brawler (Born of the Gods)
Nils Hamm

This creature can't block unless you control another Minotaur.

Burial rites among the Felhide minotaurs involve devouring those who fell in battle, to remove their shame from memory and to fuel the survivors' revenge.

Grixis Panorama (Commander 2013)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

There is no height above Grixis that is free from the stench of death.

Catacomb Slug (The List)
Nils Hamm

"The entire murder scene was covered in dripping, oozing slime. No need for a soothsayer to solve that one." —Pel Javya, Wojek investigator

Henchfiend of Ukor (Future Sight)
Nils Hamm

Haste Echo {1}{B} (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.) {B/R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Drogskol Shieldmate (Eldritch Moon)
Nils Hamm

Flash When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.

"I will join you so that you will not yet join me."

Corrupted Harvester (Scars of Mirrodin)
Nils Hamm

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature.

"Before the blessed assault begins, we must seek specimens that are well-adapted to our way of . . . life." —Sheoldred, Whispering One

Bad River (Dominaria United Commander)
Nils Hamm

This land enters tapped. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Alive (Dragon's Maze)
Nils Hamm

Tapping at the Window (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Nils Hamm

Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard. Flashback {2}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Burn Trail (Shadowmoor)
Nils Hamm

Burn Trail deals 3 damage to any target. Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)

Misfortune Teller (New Capenna Commander)
Nils Hamm

Deathtouch Whenever this creature enters or deals combat damage to a player, exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, create a 2/2 black Rogue creature token. If it was a land card, create a Treasure token. Otherwise, you gain 3 life.

Sanctum Spirit (Double Masters)
Nils Hamm

Lifelink Discard a historic card: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

"When history becomes too mournful, even good souls may choose to forget." —Shalai, voice of Plenty

Impaler Shrike (New Phyrexia)
Nils Hamm

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. If you do, draw three cards.

"Interrogation is an unnecessary step for acquiring information." —Politus, Gitaxian morphologist

Sowing Mycospawn (Modern Horizons 3)
Nils Hamm

Devoid (This card has no color.) Kicker {1}{C} (You may pay an additional {1}{C} as you cast this spell.) When you cast this spell, search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. When you cast this spell, if it was kicked, exile target land.

Souls of the Lost (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos)
Nils Hamm

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or sacrifice a permanent. Fathomless descent — Souls of the Lost's power is equal to the number of permanent cards in your graveyard and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.

"Do you remember us?"

Chittering Skitterling (Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
Nils Hamm

Corrupted — Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Draw a card. Activate only if an opponent has three or more poison counters and only once each turn.

What cannot be remade will be unmade, one scrap at a time.

Fume Spitter (Ultimate Masters)
Nils Hamm

Sacrifice this creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

"Our archers made sport of it as it fumbled its way up the slag ridge. As it collapsed we thought ourselves safe, but the foul thing carried more than necrogen." —Adaran, Tangle hunter

Obelisk of Grixis (Commander 2013)
Nils Hamm

{T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Like most features of Grixis, the obelisks that remain from the time of Alara now exist only for dark exploitation.

Deadbridge Goliath (Return to Ravnica Promos)
Nils Hamm

Scavenge {4}{G}{G} ({4}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Some Golgari insects live for centuries—and they never stop growing.

Delver of Secrets (Innistrad Remastered)
Nils Hamm

Unsummon (Hour of Devastation)
Nils Hamm

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Skills mastered by initiates are preserved within cartouches, so Eternals remain adept at their preferred combat styles.

Shambling Remains (Conflux)
Nils Hamm

This creature can't block. Unearth {B}{R} ({B}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Moan of the Unhallowed (Foundations Jumpstart)
Nils Hamm

Create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Flashback {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

For a ghoul, every village is a buffet and every disaster is a reunion.