Chandra, the Firebrand

Chandra, the Firebrand (Magic 2013)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Chandra deals 1 damage to any target. −2: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. −6: Chandra deals 6 damage to each of up to six targets.

Chandra, the Firebrand (Magic 2012)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Chandra deals 1 damage to any target. −2: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. −6: Chandra deals 6 damage to each of up to six targets.

Despondency (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-0. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Warrior's Honor (Classic Sixth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Forbidden Crypt (Classic Sixth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

If you would draw a card, return a card from your graveyard to your hand instead. If you can't, you lose the game. If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile that card instead.

Angel of Salvation (March of the Machine Commander)
D. Alexander Gregory

Flash; 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.) Flying When this creature enters, prevent the next 5 damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of targets, divided as you choose.

Elvish Visionary (Commander 2014)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, draw a card.

"From a tiny sprout, the greatest trees grow and flourish. May the seeds of your mind be equally fruitful."

Aura of Silence (World Championship Decks 1998)
D. Alexander Gregory

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast. Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Aura of Silence (Commander 2015)
D. Alexander Gregory

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast. Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Not all silences are easily broken.

Serene Heart (Mirage)
D. Alexander Gregory

Destroy all Auras.

"If magic is your crutch, cast it aside and learn to walk without it." —Teferi

Forbidden Crypt (Mirage)
D. Alexander Gregory

If you would draw a card, return a card from your graveyard to your hand instead. If you can't, you lose the game. If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile that card instead.

Angel of Salvation (Time Spiral Remastered)
D. Alexander Gregory

Flash; 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.) Flying When this creature enters, prevent the next 5 damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of targets, divided as you choose.

Cursed Scroll (World Championship Decks 1999)
D. Alexander Gregory

{3}, {T}: Choose a card name, then reveal a card at random from your hand. If that card has the chosen name, Cursed Scroll deals 2 damage to any target.

Coral Trickster (Time Spiral Remastered)
D. Alexander Gregory

Morph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, you may tap or untap target permanent.

They wait in darkened depths, laughing eagerly.

Persecute (Urza's Saga)
D. Alexander Gregory

Choose a color. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.

"My finest warrior was lost to the Phyrexians. I pray that Lady Selenia died honorably." —Radiant, archangel

Dream Cache (Mirage)
D. Alexander Gregory

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand both on top of your library or both on the bottom of your library.

Dreams' riches are easily spent. —Suq'Ata adage

Venerable Monk (Portal)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.

His presence brings not only a strong arm but also renewed hope.

Aura of Silence (Weatherlight)
D. Alexander Gregory

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast. Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Liliana of the Dark Realms (Media and Collaboration Promos)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. −3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control. −6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Lightwielder Paladin (Magic 2010)
D. Alexander Gregory

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may exile target black or red permanent that player controls.

Kalastria Highborn (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

Whenever this creature or another Vampire you control dies, you may pay {B}. If you do, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Each of Malakir's great families boasts a contingent of nulls appropriate to its rank in society.

Dream Cache (Classic Sixth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand both on top of your library or both on the bottom of your library.

Dreams' riches are easily spent. —Suq'Ata adage

Ajani, Caller of the Pride (Magic 2013)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. −3: Target creature gains flying and double strike until end of turn. −8: Create X 2/2 white Cat creature tokens, where X is your life total.

Empyrial Armor (Weatherlight)
D. Alexander Gregory

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each card in your hand.

"An angel appeared in the smoldering skies above the fray, her clothes as flames, her armor as fire." —"Hymn of Angelfire"

Liliana of the Dark Realms (Magic 2013)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. −3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control. −6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Goblin Lore (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

Draw four cards, then discard three cards at random.

"I done forgot more than you'll ever know, pipsqueak." "Yeah—that's your problem."

Nicol Bolas (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Nicol Bolas unless you pay {U}{B}{R}. Whenever Nicol Bolas deals damage to an opponent, that player discards their hand.

Dominaria's most ancient evil.

Gifts Ungiven (Champions of Kamigawa)
D. Alexander Gregory

Search your library for up to four cards with different names and reveal them. Target opponent chooses two of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your graveyard and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle.

Lure (Tenth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Her true theft was to steal the soldiers away from their posts.

Garruk, Primal Hunter (Magic 2013)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. −3: Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. −6: Create a 6/6 green Wurm creature token for each land you control.

Aura of Silence (World Championship Decks 1998)
D. Alexander Gregory

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast. Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Lightning Elemental (Battle Royale Box Set)
D. Alexander Gregory

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)

A lightning elemental once killed an entire tribe of merfolk—simply by going for a swim.

Viridian Acolyte (Darksteel)
D. Alexander Gregory

{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

"We have no sun to guide our dead, so I tend the prismatic flames of the spirit fires that show the souls their way. When I die, I hope there is one left to guide my spirit home."

Venerable Monk (Starter 1999)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.

Age wears the flesh but galvanizes the soul.

Vampiric Feast (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

Vampiric Feast deals 4 damage to any target and you gain 4 life.

It's not always gold the thief is after.

Empyrial Armor (Arena League 2001)
D. Alexander Gregory

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each card in your hand.

"An angel appeared in the smoldering skies above the fray, her clothes as flames, her armor as fire." —"Hymn of Angelfire"

Persecute (World Championship Decks 1999)
D. Alexander Gregory

Choose a color. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.

"My finest warrior was lost to the Phyrexians. I pray that Lady Selenia died honorably." —Radiant, archangel

Lure (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

It makes the insignificant conspicuous, the repulsive alluring, and the deadly irresistible.

Deconstruct (Mirrodin)
D. Alexander Gregory

Destroy target artifact. Add {G}{G}{G}.

"Nothing in this world, not even magic, likes to be caged."

Personal Tutor (Portal)
D. Alexander Gregory

Search your library for a sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Land Grant (Mercadian Masques)
D. Alexander Gregory

If you have no land cards in hand, you may reveal your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Search your library for a Forest card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Bone Mask (Mirage)
D. Alexander Gregory

{2}, {T}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. Exile cards from the top of your library equal to the damage prevented this way.

"The protection offered comes at a price. How numerous are your kin?" —Purraj of Urborg

Wicked Reward (Visions)
D. Alexander Gregory

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Target creature gets +4/+2 until end of turn.

"The blood on my hands is merely proof of my ambition." —Kaervek

Gifts Ungiven (Modern Masters 2017)
D. Alexander Gregory

Search your library for up to four cards with different names and reveal them. Target opponent chooses two of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your graveyard and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle.

Venerable Monk (Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.

Age wears the flesh but galvanizes the soul.

Scorching Winds (Portal)
D. Alexander Gregory

Cast this spell only during the declare attackers step and only if you've been attacked this step. Scorching Winds deals 1 damage to each attacking creature.

Dream Cache (Commander 2018)
D. Alexander Gregory

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand both on top of your library or both on the bottom of your library.

Dreams' riches are easily spent. —Suq'Ata adage

Arenson's Aura (Fifth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

{W}, Sacrifice an enchantment: Destroy target enchantment. {3}{U}{U}: Counter target enchantment spell.

"Cloak me in mystery, hide my names from my enemies, and let me draw from the well of power." —Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Sky Diamond (Mirage)
D. Alexander Gregory

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Cursed Scroll (World Championship Decks 1999)
D. Alexander Gregory

{3}, {T}: Choose a card name, then reveal a card at random from your hand. If that card has the chosen name, Cursed Scroll deals 2 damage to any target.

Enchantment Alteration (Urza's Saga)
D. Alexander Gregory

Attach target Aura attached to a creature or land to another permanent of that type.

Elvish Champion (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
D. Alexander Gregory

Other Elf creatures get +1/+1 and have forestwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

"For what are leaves but countless blades To fight a countless foe on high." —Elvish hymn

Spirit Mirror (Tempest)
D. Alexander Gregory

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no Reflection tokens on the battlefield, create a 2/2 white Reflection creature token. {0}: Destroy target Reflection.

Venerable Monk (Ninth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.

Age wears the flesh but galvanizes the soul.

Jace, Memory Adept (Magic 2013)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Draw a card. Target player mills a card. 0: Target player mills ten cards. −7: Any number of target players each draw twenty cards.

Dream Cache (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand both on top of your library or both on the bottom of your library.

Dreams' riches are easily spent. —Suq'Ata adage

Elvish Visionary (Game Night: Free-for-All)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, draw a card.

"From a tiny sprout, the greatest trees grow and flourish. May the seeds of your mind be equally fruitful."

Lightwielder Paladin (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
D. Alexander Gregory

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may exile target black or red permanent that player controls.

Garruk, Primal Hunter (Commander 2021)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. −3: Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. −6: Create a 6/6 green Wurm creature token for each land you control.

Ajani, Caller of the Pride (Foundations)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. −3: Target creature gains flying and double strike until end of turn. −8: Create X 2/2 white Cat creature tokens, where X is your life total.

Lure (Magic 2012)
D. Alexander Gregory

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

It makes the insignificant conspicuous, the repulsive alluring, and the deadly irresistible.

Ajani, Caller of the Pride (Starter Commander Decks)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. −3: Target creature gains flying and double strike until end of turn. −8: Create X 2/2 white Cat creature tokens, where X is your life total.

Reviving Dose (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

You gain 3 life. Draw a card.

Samite healers never mix their pungent elixir with sweetener or tea. The threat of a second dose is enough to get most warriors back on their feet.

Cursed Scroll (Tempest)
D. Alexander Gregory

{3}, {T}: Choose a card name, then reveal a card at random from your hand. If that card has the chosen name, Cursed Scroll deals 2 damage to any target.

Belbe's Armor (Nemesis)
D. Alexander Gregory

{X}, {T}: Target creature gets -X/+X until end of turn.

It protects her from the ravages of Phyrexia and the savages of Rath.

Maze of Shadows (Tempest)
D. Alexander Gregory

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Untap target attacking creature with shadow. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Searing Touch (Tempest)
D. Alexander Gregory

Buyback {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Searing Touch deals 1 damage to any target.

Well of Knowledge (Weatherlight)
D. Alexander Gregory

{2}: Draw a card. Any player may activate this ability but only during their draw step.

Devouring Strossus (Invasion)
D. Alexander Gregory

Flying, trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature.

Air Elemental (Fifth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Flying

These spirits of the air are winsome and wild and cannot be truly contained. Only marginally intelligent, they often substitute whimsy for strategy, delighting in mischief and mayhem.

Jace, Memory Adept (Magic 2014)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Draw a card. Target player mills a card. 0: Target player mills ten cards. −7: Any number of target players each draw twenty cards.

Lifeline (Urza's Saga)
D. Alexander Gregory

Whenever a creature dies, if another creature is on the battlefield, return the first card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker (Conflux)
D. Alexander Gregory

+3: Destroy target noncreature permanent. −2: Gain control of target creature. −9: Nicol Bolas deals 7 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards seven cards, then sacrifices seven permanents of their choice.

Elvish Champion (Invasion)
D. Alexander Gregory

Other Elf creatures get +1/+1 and have forestwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

"For what are leaves but countless blades To fight a countless foe on high." —Skyshroud hymn

Reviving Dose (Tenth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

You gain 3 life. Draw a card.

Samite healers never mix their pungent elixir with sweetener or tea. The threat of a second dose is enough to get most warriors back on their feet.

Calming Licid (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

{W}, {T}: This creature loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay {W} to end this effect. Enchanted creature can't attack.

Stern Marshal (Portal)
D. Alexander Gregory

{T}: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Entangler (Prophecy)
D. Alexander Gregory

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can block any number of creatures.

"Tell me again," said Latulla, raising her fist, "how just one woman held back an entire Keldon platoon."

Nicol Bolas (From the Vault: Dragons)
D. Alexander Gregory

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Nicol Bolas unless you pay {U}{B}{R}. Whenever Nicol Bolas deals damage to an opponent, that player discards their hand.

Dominaria's most ancient evil.

Liliana of the Dark Realms Emblem (Magic 2014 Tokens)
D. Alexander Gregory

Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'

Land Grant (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

If you have no land cards in hand, you may reveal your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Search your library for a Forest card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Vampiric Feast (Portal)
D. Alexander Gregory

Vampiric Feast deals 4 damage to any target and you gain 4 life.

It's not always gold the thief is after.

Bequeathal (Exodus)
D. Alexander Gregory

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, you draw two cards.

"On my death, I give you this treasure: the knowledge that life is hard, yet too soon past." —Dal funeral rite

Femeref Enchantress (Visions)
D. Alexander Gregory

Whenever an enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

"Then she spread a fine dust over the land, like a butterfly shaking its wing." —"The Enchantress," Femeref tale

Reviving Dose (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
D. Alexander Gregory

You gain 3 life. Draw a card.

Samite healers never mix their pungent elixir with sweetener or tea. The threat of a second dose is enough to get most warriors back on their feet.

Elvish Visionary (Shards of Alara)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, draw a card.

Before any major undertaking, a Cylian elf seeks the guidance of a visionary to learn the will of the gargantuan ancients.

Inner Sanctum (Weatherlight)
D. Alexander Gregory

Cumulative upkeep—Pay 2 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures you control.

"Save me from Maraxus," Starke pleaded, "or condemn me to his wrath. Either way, do not ignore me!"

Willow Dryad (Portal)
D. Alexander Gregory

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Some think that dryads are the dreams of trees.

Cursed Scroll (World Championship Decks 1999)
D. Alexander Gregory

{3}, {T}: Choose a card name, then reveal a card at random from your hand. If that card has the chosen name, Cursed Scroll deals 2 damage to any target.

Empyrial Armor (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each card in your hand.

"An angel appeared in the smoldering skies above the fray, her clothes as flames, her armor as fire." —"Hymn of Angelfire"

Shaper Guildmage (Mirage)
D. Alexander Gregory

{W}, {T}: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn. {B}, {T}: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Shape this world in Zhalfir's image. —Shaper Guild maxim

Seraph (Fifth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Flying Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put that card onto the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step. Sacrifice the creature when you lose control of this creature.

Keeper of the Light (Exodus)
D. Alexander Gregory

{W}, {T}: Choose target opponent who has more life than you do as you activate this ability. You gain 3 life.

Elvish Visionary (Commander Legends)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, draw a card.

"From a tiny sprout, the greatest trees grow and flourish. May the seeds of your mind be equally fruitful."

Elvish Visionary (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, draw a card.

Before any major undertaking, a Cylian elf seeks the guidance of a visionary to learn the will of the gargantuan ancients.

Mystic Veil (Visions)
D. Alexander Gregory

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. Enchant creature Enchanted creature has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"Magic is my thread, my will the needle. I weave over you as if you never were." —Poetics of Hanan

Stormscape Apprentice (Invasion)
D. Alexander Gregory

{W}, {T}: Tap target creature. {B}, {T}: Target player loses 1 life.

Elvish Visionary (Secret Lair Drop)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, draw a card.

"From a tiny sprout, the greatest trees grow and flourish. May the seeds of your mind be equally fruitful."

Shimmering Barrier (Urza's Saga)
D. Alexander Gregory

Defender (This creature can't attack.) First strike Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Jace, Memory Adept (Media and Collaboration Promos)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Draw a card. Target player mills a card. 0: Target player mills ten cards. −7: Any number of target players each draw twenty cards.

Liliana of the Dark Realms Emblem (Magic 2013 Tokens)
D. Alexander Gregory

Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'

Outrider en-Kor (Time Spiral Remastered)
D. Alexander Gregory

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) {0}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn is dealt to target creature you control instead.

Clay Pigeon (Unglued)
D. Alexander Gregory

Flying {1}, Throw this creature into the air at least two feet above your head while seated: If you catch this creature with one hand, prevent all damage a source of your choice would deal to you this turn and tap this creature. Otherwise, sacrifice it.

Liliana of the Dark Realms (Magic 2014)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. −3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control. −6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Elvish Visionary (Duel Decks: Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, draw a card.

"From a tiny sprout, the greatest trees grow and flourish. May the seeds of your mind be equally fruitful."

Fleet-Footed Monk (Portal)
D. Alexander Gregory

This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or greater.

"Hesitation is for the faithless. My belief lends me speed."

Goblin Lore (Starter 1999)
D. Alexander Gregory

Draw four cards, then discard three cards at random.

"I done forgot more than you'll ever know, pipsqueak." "Yeah—that's your problem."

Jester's Cap (Ninth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search target player's library for three cards and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

"Know your foes' strengths as well as their weaknesses." —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi machinist

Warrior's Honor (Tenth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"The day will come when the righteous warrior faces a battle she cannot win. She will greet that day as she has any other." —Asmira, holy avenger

Steal Strength (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Another target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

With each grunt of pain from Haddad, Greel's grin widened.

Aura of Silence (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast. Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Not all silences are easily broken.

Mountain (Planechase Anthology)
D. Alexander Gregory

({T}: Add {R}.)

Warrior's Honor (Anthologies)
D. Alexander Gregory

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"We are to be bound together as the reeds of a basket." —Asmira, Rashida, and Jabari, unity chant

Cursed Totem (Mirage)
D. Alexander Gregory

Activated abilities of creatures can't be activated.

Pass me from soul to soul / soldier to herder, herder to beast, beast to soil / until I am everywhere. / Then pass me those souls. —Totem inscription (translated)

Elvish Visionary (Commander 2015)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, draw a card.

"From a tiny sprout, the greatest trees grow and flourish. May the seeds of your mind be equally fruitful."

Lobotomy (Invasion)
D. Alexander Gregory

Target player reveals their hand, then you choose a card other than a basic land card from it. Search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as the chosen card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Convalescence (Exodus)
D. Alexander Gregory

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 10 or less life, you gain 1 life.

Selenia had hurt Mirri terribly, but injuries of the flesh could be treated. The wounds she had torn in Crovax's soul would never close.

Warrior's Honor (Ninth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." —Calvin Coolidge

Venerable Monk (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.

Age wears the flesh but galvanizes the soul.

Ajani, Caller of the Pride (Foundations Promos)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. −3: Target creature gains flying and double strike until end of turn. −8: Create X 2/2 white Cat creature tokens, where X is your life total.

Garruk, Primal Hunter (Magic 2012)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. −3: Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. −6: Create a 6/6 green Wurm creature token for each land you control.

Persecute (Ninth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Choose a color. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.

"Of all the tyrannies on humane kind The worst is that which persecutes the mind." —John Dryden, "The Hind and the Panther"

Garruk, Primal Hunter (Commander 2019)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. −3: Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. −6: Create a 6/6 green Wurm creature token for each land you control.

Goblin Lore (Tenth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Draw four cards, then discard three cards at random.

"Now listen closely, my young gob. There are many ways to eat pimple bugs, but I say the best way is all smashed together between two slug chips."

Thunderscape Apprentice (Invasion)
D. Alexander Gregory

{B}, {T}: Target player loses 1 life. {G}, {T}: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Reviving Dose (Invasion)
D. Alexander Gregory

You gain 3 life. Draw a card.

As healers battled each plague, they learned more about the next.

Elvish Champion (Tenth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Other Elf creatures get +1/+1 and have forestwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

"For what are leaves but countless blades To fight a countless foe on high." —Elvish hymn

Redeem (Urza's Saga)
D. Alexander Gregory

Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn to up to two target creatures.

"That they are saved from death is immaterial. What is important is that they know the source of their benefaction." —Radiant, archangel

Aura of Silence (Tenth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast. Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Not all silences are easily broken.

Elvish Visionary (Commander Anthology)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, draw a card.

"From a tiny sprout, the greatest trees grow and flourish. May the seeds of your mind be equally fruitful."

Venerable Monk (Tenth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.

Age wears the flesh but galvanizes the soul.

Credit Voucher (Mercadian Masques)
D. Alexander Gregory

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Shuffle any number of cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

Air Elemental (Battle Royale Box Set)
D. Alexander Gregory

Flying

These spirits of the air are winsome and wild and cannot be truly contained. Only marginally intelligent, they often substitute whimsy for strategy, delighting in mischief and mayhem.

Predatory Nightstalker (Portal Second Age)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, you may have target opponent sacrifice a creature of their choice.

Warrior's Honor (Visions)
D. Alexander Gregory

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"We are to be bound together as the reeds of a basket." —Asmira, Rashida, and Jabari, unity chant

Predatory Nightstalker (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, you may have target opponent sacrifice a creature of their choice.

Lure (Champions of Kamigawa)
D. Alexander Gregory

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Jukai Forest was known for its secrets, which drew in many wayfarers and wizards. But it was those same secrets that kept most of those seekers from ever being heard from again.

Coral Trickster (Time Spiral)
D. Alexander Gregory

Morph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, you may tap or untap target permanent.

They wait in darkened depths, laughing eagerly.

Calming Licid (Stronghold)
D. Alexander Gregory

{W}, {T}: This creature loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay {W} to end this effect. Enchanted creature can't attack.

Despondency (Urza's Saga)
D. Alexander Gregory

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-0. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Krosan Avenger (Odyssey)
D. Alexander Gregory

Trample Threshold — {1}{G}: Regenerate this creature. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

She'd have a fearsome reputation if she left any survivors.

Willow Dryad (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Some think that dryads are the dreams of trees.

Chandra, the Firebrand (Magic 2013)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Chandra deals 1 damage to any target. −2: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. −6: Chandra deals 6 damage to each of up to six targets.

Angel of Salvation (Future Sight)
D. Alexander Gregory

Flash; 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.) Flying When this creature enters, prevent the next 5 damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of targets, divided as you choose.

Elvish Visionary (Battlebond)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, draw a card.

"From a tiny sprout, the greatest trees grow and flourish. May the seeds of your mind be equally fruitful."

Elvish Champion (Ninth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Other Elf creatures get +1/+1 and have forestwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

"For what are leaves but countless blades To fight a countless foe on high." —Elvish hymn

Titania's Song (Fifth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Each noncreature artifact loses all abilities and becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value. If this enchantment leaves the battlefield, this effect continues until end of turn.

Chandra, the Firebrand (Magic 2012)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Chandra deals 1 damage to any target. −2: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. −6: Chandra deals 6 damage to each of up to six targets.

Jester's Cap (From the Vault: Relics)
D. Alexander Gregory

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search target player's library for three cards and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

"Know your foes' strengths as well as their weaknesses." —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi machinist

Mountain (Time Spiral)
D. Alexander Gregory

({T}: Add {R}.)

Double Dip (Unglued)
D. Alexander Gregory

Choose another player. You gain 5 life. At the beginning of the first upkeep in your next game with that player, you gain 5 life.

In a duel and taking a lickin' . . .

Unfulfilled Desires (Mirage)
D. Alexander Gregory

{1}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card, then discard a card.

"Like Day from Night, / I'll live my life apart from you, just glimpsing you across the sky, / because you cannot change, my dear, and nor can I." —"Love Song of Night and Day"

Final Fortune (World Championship Decks 1998)
D. Alexander Gregory

Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game.

Want all, lose all. —Zhalfirin aphorism

Sworn Defender (Alliances)
D. Alexander Gregory

{1}: This creature's power becomes the toughness of target creature blocking or being blocked by this creature minus 1 until end of turn, and its toughness becomes 1 plus the power of that creature until end of turn.

Jace, Memory Adept (Magic 2012)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Draw a card. Target player mills a card. 0: Target player mills ten cards. −7: Any number of target players each draw twenty cards.

Ajani, Caller of the Pride (Magic 2014)
D. Alexander Gregory

+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. −3: Target creature gains flying and double strike until end of turn. −8: Create X 2/2 white Cat creature tokens, where X is your life total.

Mine Bearer (Prophecy)
D. Alexander Gregory

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target attacking creature.

"The Keldons may have explosive tempers, but *I* have explosives."

Lobotomy (World Championship Decks 2001)
D. Alexander Gregory

Target player reveals their hand, then you choose a card other than a basic land card from it. Search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as the chosen card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Belbe's Armor (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

{X}, {T}: Target creature gets -X/+X until end of turn.

It protects her from the ravages of Phyrexia and the savages of Rath.

Elvish Visionary (Magic Origins)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, draw a card.

"From a tiny sprout, the greatest trees grow and flourish. May the seeds of your mind be equally fruitful."

Elvish Champion (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

Other Elf creatures get +1/+1 and have forestwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

"For what are leaves but countless blades To fight a countless foe on high." —Skyshroud hymn

Steal Strength (Prophecy)
D. Alexander Gregory

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Another target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

With each grunt of pain from Haddad, Greel's grin widened.

Persecute (Eighth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Choose a color. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.

"Of all the tyrannies on humane kind The worst is that which persecutes the mind." —John Dryden, "The Hind and the Panther"

Mountain (Planechase 2012)
D. Alexander Gregory

({T}: Add {R}.)

Elvish Visionary (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, draw a card.

"From a tiny sprout, the greatest trees grow and flourish. May the seeds of your mind be equally fruitful."

Cursed Scroll (World Championship Decks 1998)
D. Alexander Gregory

{3}, {T}: Choose a card name, then reveal a card at random from your hand. If that card has the chosen name, Cursed Scroll deals 2 damage to any target.

Cursed Totem (Classic Sixth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Activated abilities of creatures can't be activated.

Pass me from soul to soul, / soldier to herder, herder to beast, beast to soil / until I am everywhere. / Then pass me those souls. —Totem inscription (translated)

Tranquil Domain (Mirage)
D. Alexander Gregory

Destroy all non-Aura enchantments.

"An ancient court mage unified the houses into guilds to serve Zhalfir above their own interests. Even during the civil war, the guilds stood together, a testament to the wisdom of Teferi." —Afari, *Tales*

Pianna, Nomad Captain (Commander Masters)
D. Alexander Gregory

Whenever Pianna attacks, attacking creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Some find inspiration in their swords. Others find it in their leaders.

Cursed Totem (World Championship Decks 2000)
D. Alexander Gregory

Activated abilities of creatures can't be activated.

Pass me from soul to soul, / soldier to herder, herder to beast, beast to soil / until I am everywhere. / Then pass me those souls. —Totem inscription (translated)

Coat of Arms (Seventh Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

Coral Trickster (The List)
D. Alexander Gregory

Morph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, you may tap or untap target permanent.

They wait in darkened depths, laughing eagerly.

Sky Diamond (World Championship Decks 2000)
D. Alexander Gregory

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Final Fortune (Classic Sixth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game.

Want all, lose all. —Zhalfirin aphorism

Nicol Bolas (Masters 25)
D. Alexander Gregory

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Nicol Bolas unless you pay {U}{B}{R}. Whenever Nicol Bolas deals damage to an opponent, that player discards their hand.

Dominaria's most ancient evil.

Coral Trickster (Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning)
D. Alexander Gregory

Morph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, you may tap or untap target permanent.

They wait in darkened depths, laughing eagerly.

Goblin Lore (Portal Second Age)
D. Alexander Gregory

Draw four cards, then discard three cards at random.

"I done forgot more than you'll ever know, pipsqueak." "Yeah—that's your problem."

Pianna, Nomad Captain (Odyssey)
D. Alexander Gregory

Whenever Pianna attacks, attacking creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Some find inspiration in their swords. Others find it in their leaders.

Kalastria Highborn (Worldwake)
D. Alexander Gregory

Whenever this creature or another Vampire you control dies, you may pay {B}. If you do, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Each of Malakir's great families boasts a contingent of nulls appropriate to its rank in society.

Venerable Monk (Classic Sixth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.

His presence brings not only a strong arm but also renewed hope.

Prismatic Wardrobe (Unglued)
D. Alexander Gregory

Destroy target nonartifact, nonland permanent that doesn't share a color with clothing worn by its controller.

"Spring in Dominaria means pastels!" —Excerpt from *Mage's Home Journal*

Cursed Scroll (World Championship Decks 1999)
D. Alexander Gregory

{3}, {T}: Choose a card name, then reveal a card at random from your hand. If that card has the chosen name, Cursed Scroll deals 2 damage to any target.

Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker (Magic 2013)
D. Alexander Gregory

+3: Destroy target noncreature permanent. −2: Gain control of target creature. −9: Nicol Bolas deals 7 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards seven cards, then sacrifices seven permanents of their choice.

Elvish Visionary (Magic 2013)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, draw a card.

"From a tiny sprout, the greatest trees grow and flourish. May the seeds of your mind be equally fruitful."

Venerable Monk (Eighth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.

Age wears the flesh but galvanizes the soul.

Final Fortune (Mirage)
D. Alexander Gregory

Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game.

Want all, lose all. —Zhalfirin aphorism

Mountain (Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters)
D. Alexander Gregory

({T}: Add {R}.)

Rackling (Nemesis)
D. Alexander Gregory

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, this creature deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in their hand.

"This may hurt a little."

Gifts Ungiven (From the Vault: Exiled)
D. Alexander Gregory

Search your library for up to four cards with different names and reveal them. Target opponent chooses two of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your graveyard and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle.

Enfeeblement (Tempest)
D. Alexander Gregory

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.

Crovax had witnessed Selenia lead the *Predator* to the *Weatherlight*. As the battle raged on deck, he felt his strength melt in the heat of her betrayal.

Redeem (Eighth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn to up to two target creatures.

"Let me redeem my brothers both from death." —William Shakespeare, *Titus Andronicus*

Lure (Iconic Masters)
D. Alexander Gregory

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

It makes the insignificant conspicuous, the repulsive alluring, and the deadly irresistible.

Elvish Visionary (Magic 2010)
D. Alexander Gregory

When this creature enters, draw a card.

Before any major undertaking, a Cylian elf seeks the guidance of a visionary to learn the will of the gargantuan ancients.

Sky Diamond (Classic Sixth Edition)
D. Alexander Gregory

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Aura of Silence (Friday Night Magic 2002)
D. Alexander Gregory

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast. Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Angel of Salvation (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
D. Alexander Gregory

Flash; 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.) Flying When this creature enters, prevent the next 5 damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of targets, divided as you choose.

Kalastria Highborn (Foundations)
D. Alexander Gregory

Whenever this creature or another Vampire you control dies, you may pay {B}. If you do, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Each of Malakir's great families boasts a contingent of nulls appropriate to its rank in society.

Empyrial Armor (World Championship Decks 1998)
D. Alexander Gregory

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each card in your hand.

"An angel appeared in the smoldering skies above the fray, her clothes as flames, her armor as fire." —"Hymn of Angelfire"

Outrider en-Kor (Time Spiral)
D. Alexander Gregory

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) {0}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn is dealt to target creature you control instead.

Lightning Elemental (Tempest)
D. Alexander Gregory

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)

A lightning elemental once killed an entire tribe of merfolk—simply by going for a swim.

Cursed Scroll (World Championship Decks 1998)
D. Alexander Gregory

{3}, {T}: Choose a card name, then reveal a card at random from your hand. If that card has the chosen name, Cursed Scroll deals 2 damage to any target.

Kalastria Highborn (DCI Promos)
D. Alexander Gregory

Whenever this creature or another Vampire you control dies, you may pay {B}. If you do, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Gifts Ungiven (Modern Masters)
D. Alexander Gregory

Search your library for up to four cards with different names and reveal them. Target opponent chooses two of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your graveyard and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle.