Ascending Aven

Ascending Aven (Onslaught)
Ron Spencer

Flying This creature can block only creatures with flying. Morph {2}{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.)

Crookclaw Transmuter (Jumpstart)
Ron Spencer

Flash Flying When this creature enters, switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Order of the Ebon Hand (Fallen Empires)
Ron Spencer

Protection from white {B}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {B}{B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Dedicated to the principles of Tourach, members of the Order of the Ebon Hand demonstrated their devotion with grisly rituals.

Rout (The List)
Ron Spencer

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.) Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Merfolk Looter (Exodus)
Ron Spencer

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

In the depths of Rootwater, salvage and sewage differ only in texture.

Vhati il-Dal (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Ron Spencer

{T}: Until end of turn, target creature has base power 1 or base toughness 1.

"Sir, I just thought . . . ," explained Vhati. "Don't think," interrupted Greven. "It doesn't suit you."

Terror (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Plated Spider (Urza's Destiny)
Ron Spencer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Most spiders wait patiently for their prey to arrive. Most spiders aren't forty feet tall.

Pili-Pala (Shadowmoor)
Ron Spencer

Flying {2}, {Q}: Add one mana of any color. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

It wasn't really expected to fly. Then again, it wasn't expected to move, either.

In the Web of War (The List)
Ron Spencer

Whenever a creature you control enters, it gets +2/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

"In desperation, Konda sent warriors to parley with the ogre-magi. No one knows whether they were slaughtered at Shinka or if they even reached its bloodstained walls." —*Observations of the Kami War*

Terror (30th Anniversary Edition)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Schismotivate (Guildpact)
Ron Spencer

Target creature gets +4/+0 until end of turn. Another target creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn.

"I ran the experiment through the brain of a schizophrenic lab-goblin. My burners' flames fell asleep while the beakers jumped about and shattered. Success!" —Myznar, Izzet psychomancer

Hornet (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition Tokens)
Ron Spencer

Flying, haste

Swamp (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition)
Ron Spencer

({T}: Add {B}.)

Ransack (Starter 1999)
Ron Spencer

Look at the top five cards of target player's library. Put any number of them on the bottom of that library in any order and the rest on top of the library in any order.

Marker Beetles (Urza's Destiny)
Ron Spencer

When this creature dies, target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. {2}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

In case of emergency, crush bug.

Renegade Warlord (Tempest)
Ron Spencer

First strike Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"His tongue must be honey, the way he gathers ants to fight with him." —Volrath

Cone of Flame (Weatherlight)
Ron Spencer

Cone of Flame deals 1 damage to any target, 2 damage to another target, and 3 damage to a third target.

"Mine is not the warmth of compassion." —Ertai, wizard adept

Dragon Blood (Mirrodin)
Ron Spencer

{3}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

A single drop turns skin to scale and fist to claw.

Word of Binding (Fourth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Tap X target creatures.

"That was the worst experience of my days: standing there helpless as they killed my whole troop." —Maeveen O'Donagh, *Memoirs of a Soldier*

Mimeoplasm, Revered One (Aetherdrift Promos)
Ron Spencer

As Mimeoplasm enters, exile up to X creature cards from your graveyard. It enters with three +1/+1 counters on it for each creature card exiled this way. {2}: Mimeoplasm becomes a copy of target creature card exiled with it, except it's 0/0 and has this ability.

Craven Giant (Portal)
Ron Spencer

This creature can't block.

"The best armor is to keep out of range." —Italian proverb

Squirrel Farm (Unsanctioned)
Ron Spencer

{1}{G}: Reveal a card in your hand, covering the artist credit. Target opponent guesses the artist. If they guess wrong, create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token.

"And the ignorant shall fall to the squirrels." —Chip 2:54

Soulcatcher (Odyssey)
Ron Spencer

Flying Whenever a creature with flying dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"Holy couriers guide aven spirits up to the home of the Ancestor." —Mystic elder

Infernius Spawnington III, Esq. (The List (Unfinity Foil Edition))
Ron Spencer

Flying, first strike, trample, haste This spell costs {3} less to cast for each card you've revealed this turn. When this creature enters, you may say "I'm here." If you do, it deals 3 damage to target player.

See evil, hear evil, speak evil.

Soldier (Magic Player Rewards 2002)
Ron Spencer

Duty brings them together. Loyalty keeps them together.

Warp World (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Ron Spencer

Each player shuffles all permanents they own into their library, then reveals that many cards from the top of their library. Each player puts all artifact, creature, and land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then does the same for enchantment cards, then puts all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield on the bottom of their library.

Dragon Blood (Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters)
Ron Spencer

{3}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

A single drop turns skin to scale and fist to claw.

Razor Barrier (Mirrodin)
Ron Spencer

Target permanent you control gains protection from artifacts or from the color of your choice until end of turn.

"We protect our homelands. Why should they not protect us?"

B-I-N-G-O (The List (Unfinity Foil Edition))
Ron Spencer

Trample Whenever a player casts a spell, put a chip counter on its mana value. This creature gets +9/+9 for each set of three numbers in a row with chip counters on them.

There was a farmer, had a hound . . .

Skizzik (Invasion)
Ron Spencer

Kicker {R} (You may pay an additional {R} as you cast this spell.) Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, if this creature wasn't kicked, sacrifice it.

Mudbrawler Raiders (Shadowmoor)
Ron Spencer

This creature can't be blocked by blue creatures.

To reach the ravine of the Wanderbrine River, they were told to take the shortcut "through the mountains." They took the directions literally.

Dragon Blood (Jumpstart 2022)
Ron Spencer

{3}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

A single drop turns skin to scale and fist to claw.

Crovax (Vanguard Series)
Ron Spencer

Whenever a creature you control deals damage to a creature or player, you gain 1 life.

How does one escape a curse? For Crovax, a wealthy noble, the answer may lie in joining the crew of the *Weatherlight* as they seek to rescue their abducted captain Sisay. Secretly, he hopes in his journeys to find Selenia, the angelic being who abandoned him and his family years ago.

Turtleshell Changeling (Lorwyn)
Ron Spencer

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {1}{U}: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

A changeling involuntarily mimics the nearest being at hand, sometimes trading a borrowed shell for borrowed claws.

Infernal Spawn of Evil (Unglued)
Ron Spencer

Flying, first strike {1}{B}, Reveal this card from your hand, Say "It's coming": This card deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker. Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.

Sylvan Basilisk (Portal Second Age)
Ron Spencer

Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature.

Damnation (Magic Player Rewards 2008)
Ron Spencer

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Aether Mutation (Apocalypse)
Ron Spencer

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is that creature's mana value.

Vebulid (Urza's Saga)
Ron Spencer

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature attacks or blocks, destroy it at end of combat.

Barbed Wire (Mercadian Masques)
Ron Spencer

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this artifact deals 1 damage to that player. {2}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt by this artifact this turn.

A steel snake with ten thousand teeth.

Feedback Bolt (Fifth Dawn)
Ron Spencer

Feedback Bolt deals damage to target player or planeswalker equal to the number of artifacts you control.

The path of least resistance is often through your enemies.

Bog Imp (Renaissance)
Ron Spencer

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

Endless Cockroaches (Commander 2013)
Ron Spencer

When this creature dies, return it to its owner's hand.

There is nothing more repulsive than a cockroach—except a cockroach and all its friends.

Squirming Mass (Urza's Destiny)
Ron Spencer

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Only the coldest hearts and the strongest stomachs can stand against it.

Kjeldoran Knight (Ice Age)
Ron Spencer

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.) {1}{W}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {W}{W}: This creature gets +0/+2 until end of turn.

"Those who do not ride the wind on Aesthir still command loyalty and respect." —Arna Kennerüd, Skyknight

Word of Binding (The Dark)
Ron Spencer

Tap X target creatures.

"That was the worst experience of my days, standing there helpless as they killed my whole troop." —Maeveen O'Donagh, *Memoirs of a Soldier*

Terror (Friday Night Magic 2000)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Terror (Anthologies)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Skirge Familiar (Urza's Saga)
Ron Spencer

Flying Discard a card: Add {B}.

The first Yawgmoth priest to harness their power was rewarded with several unique mutilations.

Firebolt (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra)
Ron Spencer

Firebolt deals 2 damage to any target. Flashback {4}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Reach out and torch someone.

Sidewinder Sliver (Time Spiral)
Ron Spencer

All Sliver creatures have flanking. (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks a Sliver, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

"They encircled our patrol with the stealth of snakes, corralling us like livestock." —Merrik Aidar, Benalish patrol

Crystal Ball (Magic 2011)
Ron Spencer

{1}, {T}: Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

It glints with arcane truths to those who know how to glimpse them.

Sungrass Prairie (Commander 2019)
Ron Spencer

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

On Otaria, peace and harmony are rare. Places that provide both are cherished.

Island (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)
Ron Spencer

({T}: Add {U}.)

Bloodfell Caves (Aetherdrift)
Ron Spencer

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

To the Endriders, racing is worship. Their prayers rise on the howls of straining engines. Explosions punctuate their chorus of shouts, forming a hymn of glory to the open road and all roads to come.

Knight of Dawn (Tempest)
Ron Spencer

First strike {W}{W}: This creature gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Flash like daybreak to the fray. —Motto of the Knights of Dawn

Liege of the Hollows (Weatherlight)
Ron Spencer

When this creature dies, each player may pay any amount of mana. Then each player creates a number of 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens equal to the amount of mana they paid this way.

Aether Flash (Classic Sixth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Whenever a creature enters, this enchantment deals 2 damage to it.

"You can't get there from here. Well, you can—it just won't be fun." —Ertai, wizard adept

Quicksilver Dragon (The List)
Ron Spencer

Flying {U}: If target spell has only one target and that target is this creature, change that spell's target to another creature. Morph {4}{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.)

Knight of Dawn (The List)
Ron Spencer

First strike {W}{W}: This creature gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Flash like daybreak to the fray. —Motto of the Knights of Dawn

Pithing Needle (Double Masters 2022)
Ron Spencer

As this artifact enters, choose a card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Phyrexians spent countless hours unsuccessfully trying to harvest and recreate blinkmoth serum.

Overblaze (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Ron Spencer

Each time target permanent would deal damage to a permanent or player this turn, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead. Splice onto Arcane {2}{R}{R} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

The Hive (Tenth Edition)
Ron Spencer

{5}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying named Wasp. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

"Their buzzing makes my bones hum from a mile away." —Galenti, treasure hunter

Grist, Voracious Larva (Modern Horizons 3)
Ron Spencer

Thallid (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Ron Spencer

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature. Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Mimeoplasm, Revered One (Aetherdrift Promos)
Ron Spencer

As Mimeoplasm enters, exile up to X creature cards from your graveyard. It enters with three +1/+1 counters on it for each creature card exiled this way. {2}: Mimeoplasm becomes a copy of target creature card exiled with it, except it's 0/0 and has this ability.

Splintering Wind (Alliances)
Ron Spencer

{2}{G}: This enchantment deals 1 damage to target creature. Create a 1/1 green Splinter creature token. It has flying and "Cumulative upkeep {G}." When it leaves the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to you and each creature you control. (At the beginning of its controller's upkeep, that player puts an age counter on it, then sacrifices it unless they pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Terror (Magic Player Rewards 2005)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Ant Queen (Magic 2010 Promos)
Ron Spencer

{1}{G}: Create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

"Kill the queen first, or we'll be fighting her drones forever. It is not in a queen's nature to have enough servants." —Borzard, exterminator captain

Aura Shards (The List)
Ron Spencer

Whenever a creature you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Gaea forged her soldiers into self-wielding weapons that struck down all impurities.

Sungrass Prairie (Midnight Hunt Commander)
Ron Spencer

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

On Otaria, peace and harmony are rare. Places that provide both are cherished.

Cabal Therapy (World Championship Decks 2003)
Ron Spencer

Choose a nonland card name. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards with that name. Flashback—Sacrifice a creature. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Crookclaw Elder (Legions)
Ron Spencer

Flying Tap two untapped Birds you control: Draw a card. Tap two untapped Wizards you control: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Trap Runner (Mercadian Masques)
Ron Spencer

{T}: Target unblocked attacking creature becomes blocked. Activate only during combat after blockers are declared. (This ability works on creatures that can't be blocked.)

"How could I catch her when the trees conspired to stop me?"

Infernal Spawn of Infernal Spawn of Evil (The List (Unfinity Foil Edition))
Ron Spencer

Flying, first strike, trample Once each turn, while you're searching your library, you may pay {1}{B}, reveal this card from your library and say "I'm coming, too" If you do, this card deals 2 damage to a player of your choice.

Heavy Ballista (Weatherlight)
Ron Spencer

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

"Archers, ballistae—you can't even get near the island of Avenant." —Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Terror (Fourth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Plow Through Reito (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Ron Spencer

Sweep — Return any number of Plains you control to their owner's hand. Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each Plains returned this way.

The paths of the kami crisscrossed Kamigawa like scars left by a maddened surgeon.

Soulless Revival (Champions of Kamigawa)
Ron Spencer

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Splice onto Arcane {1}{B} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Ventifact Bottle (Mirage)
Ron Spencer

{X}{1}, {T}: Put X charge counters on this artifact. Activate only as a sorcery. At the beginning of your first main phase, if this artifact has a charge counter on it, tap it and remove all charge counters from it. Add {C} for each charge counter removed this way.

Fanning the Flames (Stronghold)
Ron Spencer

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Fanning the Flames deals X damage to any target.

Sporesower Thallid (Time Spiral)
Ron Spencer

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on each Fungus you control. Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Soul Echo (Mirage)
Ron Spencer

This enchantment enters with X echo counters on it. You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment if there are no echo counters on it. Otherwise, target opponent may choose that for each 1 damage that would be dealt to you until your next upkeep, you remove an echo counter from this enchantment instead.

Ivy Elemental (Planechase)
Ron Spencer

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

In the gardens of the centaurs, many travelers have mysteriously vanished while admiring the elaborate topiaries.

Lightning Blast (Seventh Edition)
Ron Spencer

Lightning Blast deals 4 damage to any target.

"I'll climb down soon. Don't worry, it's just a thundersto—" —Former elvish scout

Goblin Grenade (Anthologies)
Ron Spencer

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a Goblin. Goblin Grenade deals 5 damage to any target.

"I don't suppose we could teach them to throw the cursed things?" —Ivra Jursdotter

Last Stand (Planechase Anthology)
Ron Spencer

Target opponent loses 2 life for each Swamp you control. Last Stand deals damage to target creature equal to the number of Mountains you control. Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each Forest you control. You gain 2 life for each Plains you control. Draw a card for each Island you control, then discard that many cards.

Venomspout Brackus (Onslaught)
Ron Spencer

{1}{G}, {T}: This creature deals 5 damage to target attacking or blocking creature with flying. Morph {3}{G}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Bear Cub (Foundations)
Ron Spencer

Every little cub has its mother's teeth to guard it. —Elvish saying

Change of Heart (Stronghold)
Ron Spencer

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Target creature can't attack this turn.

Razor Barrier (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
Ron Spencer

Target permanent you control gains protection from artifacts or from the color of your choice until end of turn.

"We protect our homelands. Why should they not protect us?"

Sungrass Prairie (March of the Machine Commander)
Ron Spencer

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

On Otaria, peace and harmony are rare. Places that provide both are cherished.

Rite of Consumption (Shadowmoor)
Ron Spencer

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Rite of Consumption deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Sungrass Prairie (Commander 2016)
Ron Spencer

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

On Otaria, peace and harmony are rare. Places that provide both are cherished.

Serrated Biskelion (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
Ron Spencer

{T}: Put a -1/-1 counter on this creature and a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

"Whereas I was created to protect, the biskelion was created to destroy." —Karn, silver golem

Cursed Flesh (The List)
Ron Spencer

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 and has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

A farewell to arms . . . and feet . . . and legs . . . .

Crashing Boars (Exodus)
Ron Spencer

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player chooses an untapped creature they control. That creature blocks this creature this turn if able.

Bores ruin a party. Boars are party to ruin.

Knight of Dusk (Tempest)
Ron Spencer

{B}{B}: Destroy target creature blocking this creature.

Fall like night upon the foe. —Motto of the Knights of Dusk

Ivy Elemental (Odyssey)
Ron Spencer

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

In the gardens of the centaurs, many travelers have mysteriously vanished while admiring the elaborate topiaries.

Armor Thrull (Fallen Empires)
Ron Spencer

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Put a +1/+2 counter on target creature.

"They gave their lives to strengthen the Order's armies, until they declined this honor in favor of joining the Thrull Rebellion." —Jherana Rure, Counter-Insurgency Commander

Svyelunite Priest (Fallen Empires)
Ron Spencer

{U}{U}, {T}: Target creature gains shroud until end of turn. Activate only during your upkeep. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"Early Vodalians worshipped Svyelun, goddess of the Pearl Moon. Later she became a more abstract figure." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. V*

Radiant Kavu (Planeshift)
Ron Spencer

{R}{G}{W}: Prevent all combat damage blue creatures and black creatures would deal this turn.

When angered or frightened, it protects itself with a burst of blinding light.

Krazy Kow (Unglued)
Ron Spencer

At the beginning of your upkeep, roll a six-sided die. If you a roll a 1, sacrifice this creature and it deals 3 damage to each creature and each player.

"I got your milk right here!"

Bog Rats (Classic Sixth Edition)
Ron Spencer

This creature can't be blocked by Walls.

Their stench was vile and strong enough, but not nearly as powerful as their hunger.

Forest (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)
Ron Spencer

({T}: Add {G}.)

Bone Shredder (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition)
Ron Spencer

Flying Echo {2}{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.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.

Goblin Dynamo (Legions)
Ron Spencer

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. {X}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals X damage to any target.

False Memories (Torment)
Ron Spencer

Mill seven cards. At the beginning of the next end step, exile seven cards from your graveyard.

"My enemies will forget everything but their anguish." —Ambassador Laquatus

Paralyze (Fifth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Burning Sands (Odyssey)
Ron Spencer

Whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller sacrifices a land of their choice.

"Pain teaches lessons no scholar can." —Kamahl, pit fighter

Commando Raid (Onslaught)
Ron Spencer

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature that player controls."

Rampaging Aetherhood (Aetherdrift Commander)
Ron Spencer

Trample, ward {2} At the beginning of your upkeep, you get an amount of {E} (energy counters) equal to this creature's power. Then you may pay one or more {E}. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Unsummon (Tenth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Tolarian apprentices learn to liberate Ætheric energy long before they are taught to bind it.

Thrull Retainer (Fallen Empires)
Ron Spencer

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. Sacrifice this Aura: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"Until the Rebellion, Thrulls served their masters faithfully—even at the cost of their own lives." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. II*

Wasp (Tenth Edition Tokens)
Ron Spencer

Flying

Goblin Shrine (Chronicles)
Ron Spencer

Enchant land As long as enchanted land is a basic Mountain, Goblin creatures get +1/+0. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to each Goblin creature.

"I knew it weren't no ordinary pile of—you know." —Norin the Wary

Sibilant Spirit (Fifth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, defending player may draw a card.

She had expected death to roar, to thunder, to growl. She did not recognize it when it came hissing to her side.

Bog Rats (Chronicles)
Ron Spencer

This creature can't be blocked by Walls.

Their stench was vile and strong enough, but not nearly as powerful as their hunger.

Serrated Biskelion (Weatherlight)
Ron Spencer

{T}: Put a -1/-1 counter on this creature and a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

"Whereas I was created to protect, the biskelion was created to destroy." —Karn, silver golem

Ransack (Stronghold)
Ron Spencer

Look at the top five cards of target player's library. Put any number of them on the bottom of that library in any order and the rest on top of the library in any order.

Sungrass Prairie (Wilds of Eldraine Commander)
Ron Spencer

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

On Otaria, peace and harmony are rare. Places that provide both are cherished.

Rustrazor Butcher (Shadowmoor)
Ron Spencer

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

A Bloodwort's blade is salted with blood and peppered with rust, seasoning and slaughtering in a single swipe.

Battle Rampart (Mercadian Masques)
Ron Spencer

Defender {T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

Bloodforged Battle-Axe (Double Masters 2022)
Ron Spencer

Equipped creature gets +2/+0. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this Equipment. Equip {2}

She awoke with blood on her brow, an axe in her hand, and heads at her feet.

Slinking Skirge (Urza's Destiny)
Ron Spencer

Flying {2}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Davvol encouraged the skirges; they made excellent sentries and were quite edible if properly seasoned.

Hammer of Bogardan (World Championship Decks 1997)
Ron Spencer

Hammer of Bogardan deals 3 damage to any target. {2}{R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.

Goham Djinn (Invasion)
Ron Spencer

{1}{B}: Regenerate this creature. This creature gets -2/-2 as long as black is the most common color among all permanents or is tied for most common.

Warp World (Magic 2010)
Ron Spencer

Each player shuffles all permanents they own into their library, then reveals that many cards from the top of their library. Each player puts all artifact, creature, and land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then does the same for enchantment cards, then puts all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield on the bottom of their library.

Goblin Sledder (Duel Decks Anthology: Elves vs. Goblins)
Ron Spencer

Sacrifice a Goblin: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Let's play 'sled.' Here's how it works: you're the sled."

Spined Sliver (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Ron Spencer

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

"Slivers are evil and slivers are sly; And if you get eaten, then no one will cry." —Mogg children's rhyme

Kami of the Painted Road (Champions of Kamigawa)
Ron Spencer

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, this creature gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

In ancient times, precepts of kami law were inscribed onto bridges as a gesture of respect. During the war, humans regarded them as warnings of where not to travel.

Plains (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)
Ron Spencer

({T}: Add {W}.)

Crucible of Worlds (Double Masters 2022)
Ron Spencer

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Amidst the darkest ashes grow the strongest seeds.

Skittering Skirge (Arena League 1999)
Ron Spencer

Flying When you cast a creature spell, sacrifice this creature.

The imps' warbling cries echo through Phyrexia's towers like those of mourning doves in a cathedral.

Aura Shards (Commander 2011)
Ron Spencer

Whenever a creature you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Gaea forged her soldiers into self-wielding weapons that struck down all impurities.

Rhystic Syphon (Prophecy)
Ron Spencer

Unless target player pays {3}, that player loses 5 life and you gain 5 life.

Jamuraan wizards are linked together by magic, a bond that only the wicked dare exploit.

Insect (Magic 2010 Tokens)
Ron Spencer

Grist, Voracious Larva (Modern Horizons 3)
Ron Spencer

Phyrexian Processor (World Championship Decks 2000)
Ron Spencer

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

Degavolver (Apocalypse)
Ron Spencer

Kicker {1}{B} and/or {R} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} and/or {R} as you cast this spell.) If this creature was kicked with its {1}{B} kicker, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it and with "Pay 3 life: Regenerate this creature." If this creature was kicked with its {R} kicker, it enters with a +1/+1 counter on it and with first strike.

Word of Binding (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Ron Spencer

Tap X target creatures.

Goatnapper (Lorwyn)
Ron Spencer

When this creature enters, untap target Goat and gain control of it until end of turn. It gains haste until end of turn.

Kith goats are just for practice. The real prize, of course, is a giant's cloudgoat.

Plaguebearer (Exodus)
Ron Spencer

{X}{X}{B}: Destroy target nonblack creature with mana value X.

Its respiration is your expiration.

Thicket Elemental (Duel Decks: Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis)
Ron Spencer

Kicker {1}{G} (You may pay an additional {1}{G} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, you may reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. If you do, put that card onto the battlefield and shuffle all other cards revealed this way into your library.

B-I-N-G-O (Unsanctioned)
Ron Spencer

Trample Whenever a player casts a spell, put a chip counter on its mana value. This creature gets +9/+9 for each set of three numbers in a row with chip counters on them.

There was a farmer, had a hound . . .

Ashen Ghoul (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Ron Spencer

Haste {B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your upkeep and only if three or more creature cards are above this card.

Shard Phoenix (Junior Series Europe)
Ron Spencer

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Sacrifice this creature: It deals 2 damage to each creature without flying. {R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.

Sungrass Prairie (Bloomburrow Commander)
Ron Spencer

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

On Otaria, peace and harmony are rare. Places that provide both are cherished.

Instill Energy (Fifth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can attack as though it had haste. {0}: Untap enchanted creature. Activate only during your turn and only once each turn.

Crypt Cobra (Mirage)
Ron Spencer

Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, defending player gets a poison counter. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Insect (Masters 25 Tokens)
Ron Spencer

Entropic Specter (Exodus)
Ron Spencer

Flying As this creature enters, choose an opponent. Entropic Specter's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in the chosen player's hand. Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Skirge Familiar (The List)
Ron Spencer

Flying Discard a card: Add {B}.

The first Yawgmoth priest to harness their power was rewarded with several unique mutilations.

Crystal Ball (Commander 2018)
Ron Spencer

{1}, {T}: Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

It glints with arcane truths to those who know how to glimpse them.

Menacing Ogre (Onslaught)
Ron Spencer

Trample, haste When this creature enters, each player secretly chooses a number. Then those numbers are revealed. Each player with the highest number loses that much life. If you are one of those players, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Flow of Maggots (Ice Age)
Ron Spencer

Cumulative upkeep {1} (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.) This creature can't be blocked by non-Wall creatures.

"The very earth seemed alive and made a sound like the writhing of the damned." —Lucilde Fiksdotter, Leader of the Order of the White Shield

Norwood Ranger (Portal Second Age)
Ron Spencer

Some trees bear deadly fruit.

Guerrilla Tactics (Ninth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Guerrilla Tactics deals 2 damage to any target. When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, it deals 4 damage to any target.

Whipkeeper (Odyssey)
Ron Spencer

{T}: This creature deals damage to target creature equal to the damage already dealt to it this turn.

"If you don't hit your adversaries while they're down, they might get up again."

Glitterfang (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Ron Spencer

Haste At the beginning of the end step, return this creature to its owner's hand.

"Through the veil's rip spilled hundreds of minor kami, rushing over the battlefield like embers from a kicked campfire. Then they were gone." —*Great Battles of Kamigawa*

Chromeshell Crab (Commander 2011)
Ron Spencer

Morph {4}{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 exchange control of target creature you control and target creature an opponent controls.

Crystal Ball (The List)
Ron Spencer

{1}, {T}: Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

It glints with arcane truths to those who know how to glimpse them.

Misfortune (Alliances)
Ron Spencer

An opponent chooses one — • You put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and gain 4 life. • You put a -1/-1 counter on each creature that player controls and Misfortune deals 4 damage to that player.

Diamond Kaleidoscope (Visions)
Ron Spencer

{3}, {T}: Create a 0/1 colorless Prism artifact creature token. Sacrifice a Prism token: Add one mana of any color.

"A pretty toy. Now show me its tactical applications." —Telim'Tor

Pyrokinesis (World Championship Decks 1997)
Ron Spencer

You may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Pyrokinesis deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

"Anybody want some . . . *toast*?" —Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Hammer of Bogardan (Premium Deck Series: Fire and Lightning)
Ron Spencer

Hammer of Bogardan deals 3 damage to any target. {2}{R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.

Sidewinder Sliver (Time Spiral Remastered)
Ron Spencer

All Sliver creatures have flanking. (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks a Sliver, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

"They encircled our patrol with the stealth of snakes, corralling us like livestock." —Merrik Aidar, Benalish patrol

Squirrel Farm (Unglued)
Ron Spencer

{1}{G}: Reveal a card in your hand, covering the artist credit. Target opponent guesses the artist. If they guess wrong, create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token.

"And the ignorant shall fall to the squirrels." —*Chip 2:54*

Sporogenesis (Urza's Saga)
Ron Spencer

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fungus counter on target nontoken creature. Whenever a creature with a fungus counter on it dies, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each fungus counter on that creature. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, remove all fungus counters from all creatures.

Wall of Fire (Seventh Edition)
Ron Spencer

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

The erupting flames work as both barrier and weapon.

Menacing Ogre (Planechase)
Ron Spencer

Trample, haste When this creature enters, each player secretly chooses a number. Then those numbers are revealed. Each player with the highest number loses that much life. If you are one of those players, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Flame Burst (Odyssey)
Ron Spencer

Flame Burst deals X damage to any target, where X is 2 plus the number of cards named Flame Burst in all graveyards.

As hot as a dwarf's rage.

Skittering Skirge (Urza's Saga)
Ron Spencer

Flying When you cast a creature spell, sacrifice this creature.

The imps' warbling cries echo through Phyrexia's towers like those of mourning doves in a cathedral.

Disrupt Decorum (Commander Masters)
Ron Spencer

Goad all creatures you don't control. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

*Strixhaven Star* food critic Aspen Van Gnoot's coverage of the fight would go on to win a student journalism award for outstanding war reporting.

Goblin Grenade (Fallen Empires)
Ron Spencer

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a Goblin. Goblin Grenade deals 5 damage to any target.

"According to accepted theory, the Grenade held some kind of flammable mixture and was carried to its target by a hapless Goblin." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV*

Dire Wolves (Ice Age)
Ron Spencer

This creature has banding as long as you control a Plains. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"It's amazing how scared a city kid can get at a dog. Now, of course, I'd cross Terisiare alone, and keep no watch if I had a pack of greys hanging on my flanks as I went." —Oddveig Ulfsson, caravan scout

Terror (Beatdown Box Set)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Bear Cub (Portal Second Age)
Ron Spencer

Every little cub has its mother's teeth to guard it. —Elvish saying

Mad Dog (Odyssey)
Ron Spencer

At the beginning of your end step, if this creature didn't attack or come under your control this turn, sacrifice it.

The bones it buries may be yours.

Sungrass Prairie (Commander Masters)
Ron Spencer

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

On Otaria, peace and harmony are rare. Places that provide both are cherished.

Last Stand (Apocalypse)
Ron Spencer

Target opponent loses 2 life for each Swamp you control. Last Stand deals damage to target creature equal to the number of Mountains you control. Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each Forest you control. You gain 2 life for each Plains you control. Draw a card for each Island you control, then discard that many cards.

Angelic Chorus (Urza's Saga)
Ron Spencer

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain life equal to its toughness.

The very young and the very old know best the song the angels sing.

Yare (Mirage)
Ron Spencer

Target creature defending player controls gets +3/+0 until end of turn. That creature can block up to two additional creatures this turn.

Release the Ants (The List)
Ron Spencer

Release the Ants deals 1 damage to any target. Clash with an opponent. If you win, return Release the Ants to its owner's hand. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.)

Pyrokinesis (Anthologies)
Ron Spencer

You may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Pyrokinesis deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

Heart Sliver (Premium Deck Series: Slivers)
Ron Spencer

All Sliver creatures have haste.

Gerrard looked all around for the source of the mysterious pulse, and at that moment the slivers boiled forth from the crevasses.

Rite of Consumption (The List)
Ron Spencer

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Rite of Consumption deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Deadly Rollick (Commander Masters)
Ron Spencer

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Exile target creature.

"Anyone can make their audience beg for an encore . . . I prefer mine to beg for mercy!"

Diabolic Edict (Tempest)
Ron Spencer

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Greven *il*-Vec lifted Vhati off his feet. "The fall will give you time to think on your failure."

Soul Net (Seventh Edition)
Ron Spencer

Whenever a creature dies, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

In the Web of War (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Ron Spencer

Whenever a creature you control enters, it gets +2/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

"In desperation, Konda sent warriors to parley with the ogre-magi. No one knows whether they were slaughtered at Shinka or if they even reached its bloodstained walls." —*Observations of the Kami War*

Hammer of Bogardan (Classic Sixth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Hammer of Bogardan deals 3 damage to any target. {2}{R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.

Mountain (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)
Ron Spencer

({T}: Add {R}.)

Skullcage (Fifth Dawn)
Ron Spencer

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, this artifact deals 2 damage to that player unless they have exactly three or exactly four cards in hand.

Only a focused mind can survive it.

Firebolt (Odyssey)
Ron Spencer

Firebolt deals 2 damage to any target. Flashback {4}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Reach out and torch someone.

Standard Bearer (The List)
Ron Spencer

While an opponent is choosing targets as part of casting a spell they control or activating an ability they control, that player must choose at least one Flagbearer on the battlefield if able.

The standard was a rallying point for the army and a target for the enemy.

Sungrass Prairie (Commander 2020)
Ron Spencer

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

On Otaria, peace and harmony are rare. Places that provide both are cherished.

Bloodfire Dwarf (Apocalypse)
Ron Spencer

{R}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 1 damage to each creature without flying.

For them, the only honorable death is one that leaves a crater.

Bog Rats (Fifth Edition)
Ron Spencer

This creature can't be blocked by Walls.

Their stench was vile and strong enough, but not nearly as powerful as their hunger.

Sidewinder Sliver (Secret Lair Drop)
Ron Spencer

All Sliver creatures have flanking. (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks a Sliver, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

"They encircled our patrol with the stealth of snakes, corralling us like livestock." —Merrik Aidar, Benalish patrol

Bog Imp (The Dark)
Ron Spencer

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

On guard for larger dangers, we underestimated the power and speed of the Imp's muck-crusted claws.

Infernal Genesis (Prophecy)
Ron Spencer

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player mills a card. Then they create X 1/1 black Minion creature tokens, where X is the milled card's mana value.

Terror (Limited Edition Beta)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Vhati il-Dal (Tempest)
Ron Spencer

{T}: Until end of turn, target creature has base power 1 or base toughness 1.

"Sir, I just thought . . . ," explained Vhati. "Don't think," interrupted Greven. "It doesn't suit you."

Scarwood Goblins (The Dark)
Ron Spencer

Larger and more cunning than most Goblins, Scarwood Goblins are thankfully found only in isolated pockets.

Sibilant Spirit (Classic Sixth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, defending player may draw a card.

She had expected death to roar, to thunder, to growl. She did not recognize it when it came hissing to her side.

Lifeforce (Fifth Edition)
Ron Spencer

{G}{G}: Counter target black spell.

"Every fallen tree nourishes a thousand seedlings." —Autumn Willow to Baron Sengir

Monstrous Growth (Seventh Edition)
Ron Spencer

Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Get in touch with your inner monster.

Terror (Revised Edition)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Surging Flame (Arena League 2006)
Ron Spencer

Ripple 4 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as this spell from among those cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.) Surging Flame deals 2 damage to any target.

Krark's Thumb (The List)
Ron Spencer

If you would flip a coin, instead flip two coins and ignore one.

"I can think of *one* goblin it ain't so lucky for." —Slobad, goblin tinkerer

Rout (Invasion)
Ron Spencer

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.) Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Bone Shredder (The List)
Ron Spencer

Flying Echo {2}{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.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.

Swamp (World Championship Decks 2001)
Ron Spencer

({T}: Add {B}.)

Liquify (Torment)
Ron Spencer

Counter target spell with mana value 3 or less. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Thallid Devourer (Fallen Empires)
Ron Spencer

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature. Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. Sacrifice a Saproling: This creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

Endless Cockroaches (Portal)
Ron Spencer

When this creature dies, return it to its owner's hand.

Avenger en-Dal (Nemesis)
Ron Spencer

{2}{W}, {T}, Discard a card: Exile target attacking creature. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness.

Chain of Acid (Onslaught)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target noncreature permanent. Then that permanent's controller may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Rath's Edge (Nemesis)
Ron Spencer

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Rath's Edge deals 1 damage to any target.

Guerrilla Tactics (Eighth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Guerrilla Tactics deals 2 damage to any target. When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, it deals 4 damage to any target.

Ashnod (Vanguard Series)
Ron Spencer

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Ashnod served as Mishra's confidante while he led Fallaji weapons development before the Brothers' War. Whereas Mishra works in metals and stone, however, Ashnod works in living flesh. She sees all living things as prototype machines; her "improvements" to them make her as feared by allies as by enemies.

Diabolic Edict (Beatdown Box Set)
Ron Spencer

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Greven *il*-Vec lifted Vhati off his feet. "The fall will give you time to think on your failure."

Diabolic Edict (World Championship Decks 1999)
Ron Spencer

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Greven *il*-Vec lifted Vhati off his feet. "The fall will give you time to think on your failure."

Thicket Elemental (Invasion)
Ron Spencer

Kicker {1}{G} (You may pay an additional {1}{G} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, you may reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. If you do, put that card onto the battlefield and shuffle all other cards revealed this way into your library.

Terror (Classic Sixth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Water Wurm (The Dark)
Ron Spencer

This creature gets +0/+1 as long as an opponent controls an Island.

Cursed Flesh (Exodus)
Ron Spencer

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 and has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

A farewell to arms . . . and feet . . . and legs . . . .

Sporesower Thallid (Modern Masters)
Ron Spencer

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on each Fungus you control. Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Trokin High Guard (Portal Second Age)
Ron Spencer

Battle tempers soldiers as fire tempers steel.

Rolling Spoil (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target land. If {B} was spent to cast this spell, all creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

The shadow that fell over the grove was silent yet horribly alive, roiling with millions of tiny minions dedicated to the process of rot.

Spined Sliver (Premium Deck Series: Slivers)
Ron Spencer

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

"Slivers are evil and slivers are sly; And if you get eaten, then no one will cry." —Mogg children's rhyme

Savaen Elves (The Dark)
Ron Spencer

{G}{G}, {T}: Destroy target Aura attached to a land.

"Purity of magic can only come from purity of the land. How can a meal nourish if the ingredients are spoiled?" —Sidaine of Savaen

Spellbinder (Darksteel)
Ron Spencer

Imprint — When this Equipment enters, you may exile an instant card from your hand. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Equip {4}

Miracle Worker (The Dark)
Ron Spencer

{T}: Destroy target Aura attached to a creature you control.

"Those blessed hands could bring surcease to even the most tainted soul." —Sister Betje, *Miracles of the Saints*

Crashing Boars (Beatdown Box Set)
Ron Spencer

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player chooses an untapped creature they control. That creature blocks this creature this turn if able.

Bores ruin a party. Boars are party to ruin.

Sibilant Spirit (Ice Age)
Ron Spencer

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, defending player may draw a card.

"Relax. I'm sure it's just a snake hissing." —Avram Garrisson, Leader of the Knights of Stromgald

Desperate Research (Invasion)
Ron Spencer

Choose a card name other than a basic land card name. Reveal the top seven cards of your library and put all of them with that name into your hand. Exile the rest.

Blades of Velis Vel (Lorwyn)
Ron Spencer

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Up to two target creatures each get +2/+0 and gain all creature types until end of turn.

"The changing kind suffers as we do. We must join as one to quench our tyrants!"

Bone Shredder (March of the Machine Commander)
Ron Spencer

Flying Echo {2}{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.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.

Reaping the Graves (The List)
Ron Spencer

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Carrion Beetles (Urza's Saga)
Ron Spencer

{2}{B}, {T}: Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Plated Spider (Beatdown Box Set)
Ron Spencer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Most spiders wait patiently for their prey to arrive. Most spiders aren't forty feet tall.

Crucible of Worlds (Fifth Dawn)
Ron Spencer

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Amidst the darkest ashes grow the strongest seeds.

Swamp (Tarkir: Dragonstorm)
Ron Spencer

({T}: Add {B}.)

Wrath of God (Magic Player Rewards 2007)
Ron Spencer

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Yawgmoth's Will (Urza's Saga)
Ron Spencer

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard. If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Yawgmoth's Will (World Championship Decks 2000)
Ron Spencer

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard. If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Hammer of Bogardan (World Championship Decks 1999)
Ron Spencer

Hammer of Bogardan deals 3 damage to any target. {2}{R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.

Blatant Thievery (Commander 2015)
Ron Spencer

For each opponent, gain control of target permanent that player controls.

"I'll leave subtlety to the rich."

Kodama's Reach (Commander Masters)
Ron Spencer

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The trees keep our history better than any digital device." —Satsuki, the Living Lore

Ashen Ghoul (Ice Age)
Ron Spencer

Haste {B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your upkeep and only if three or more creature cards are above this card.

Warp World (The List)
Ron Spencer

Each player shuffles all permanents they own into their library, then reveals that many cards from the top of their library. Each player puts all artifact, creature, and land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then does the same for enchantment cards, then puts all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield on the bottom of their library.

Mimeoplasm, Revered One (Aetherdrift)
Ron Spencer

As Mimeoplasm enters, exile up to X creature cards from your graveyard. It enters with three +1/+1 counters on it for each creature card exiled this way. {2}: Mimeoplasm becomes a copy of target creature card exiled with it, except it's 0/0 and has this ability.

Release the Ants (Morningtide)
Ron Spencer

Release the Ants deals 1 damage to any target. Clash with an opponent. If you win, return Release the Ants to its owner's hand. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.)

Squirrel (Unglued Tokens)
Ron Spencer

Reflect Damage (Mirage)
Ron Spencer

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage this turn, that damage is dealt to that source's controller instead.

From you to me, so me to you. —Femeref children's taunt

Terror (Unlimited Edition)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Reckless One (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins)
Ron Spencer

Haste Reckless One's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Goblins on the battlefield.

"Release chaos with me!"

Spider Climb (Visions)
Ron Spencer

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 gets +0/+3 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Chatter of the Squirrel (Secret Lair Drop)
Ron Spencer

Create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token. Flashback {1}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Some rumors are just plain nuts.

Serpent Warrior (Stronghold)
Ron Spencer

When this creature enters, you lose 3 life.

A hiss before dying.

Pyrokinesis (World Championship Decks 1997)
Ron Spencer

You may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Pyrokinesis deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

"Anybody want some . . . *toast*?" —Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Sliver Queen (Commander's Arsenal Oversized)
Ron Spencer

{2}: Create a 1/1 colorless Sliver creature token.

Her children are ever part of her.

Walking Sponge (Urza's Legacy)
Ron Spencer

{T}: Target creature loses your choice of flying, first strike, or trample until end of turn.

Not only does it catch fish, it cleans them too.

Endless Cockroaches (Foundations Jumpstart)
Ron Spencer

When this creature dies, return it to its owner's hand.

There is nothing more repulsive than a cockroach—except a cockroach and all its friends.

Lightning Dragon (Urza's Saga Promos)
Ron Spencer

Flying Echo {2}{R}{R} (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.) {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Warp World (Tenth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Each player shuffles all permanents they own into their library, then reveals that many cards from the top of their library. Each player puts all artifact, creature, and land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then does the same for enchantment cards, then puts all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield on the bottom of their library.

Volrath's Shapeshifter (Stronghold)
Ron Spencer

As long as the top card of your graveyard is a creature card, this creature has the full text of that card and has the text "{2}: Discard a card." (This creature has that card's name, mana cost, color, types, abilities, power, and toughness.) {2}: Discard a card.

Pili-Pala (The List)
Ron Spencer

Flying {2}, {Q}: Add one mana of any color. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

It wasn't really expected to fly. Then again, it wasn't expected to move, either.

Terror (Foreign Black Border)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Cone of Flame (The List)
Ron Spencer

Cone of Flame deals 1 damage to any target, 2 damage to another target, and 3 damage to a third target.

"Mine is not the warmth of compassion." —Ertai, wizard adept

Unsummon (Foundations)
Ron Spencer

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Tolarian apprentices learn to liberate aetheric energy long before they are taught to bind it.

Venomous Vines (Judgment)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target enchanted permanent.

"True strength comes from within. The false promise of unnatural power only incurs Krosa's wrath." —Seton, centaur druid

Brainstorm (Double Masters)
Ron Spencer

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

"In all my years of research, I have yet to accurately quantify that baffling mental process known as 'inspiration.'" —Elmora, mage-analyst

Doubling Season (Double Masters)
Ron Spencer

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead. If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.

Goblin Shrine (The Dark)
Ron Spencer

Enchant land As long as enchanted land is a basic Mountain, Goblin creatures get +1/+0. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to each Goblin creature.

"I knew it weren't no ordinary pile of—you know." —Norin the Wary

Insect (Modern Masters 2015 Tokens)
Ron Spencer

Skyshroud Poacher (Nemesis)
Ron Spencer

{3}, {T}: Search your library for an Elf permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"It's OK. They're just elves."

Goblin Sledder (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins)
Ron Spencer

Sacrifice a Goblin: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Let's play 'sled.' Here's how it works: you're the sled."

Repentance (Tempest)
Ron Spencer

Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

"The cannon wasn't aimed at you!" pleaded Vhati. "I'm not sure which is more pathetic," replied Greven, "your judgment or your aim."

Ascending Aven (Onslaught)
Ron Spencer

Flying This creature can block only creatures with flying. Morph {2}{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.)

Marsh Viper (The Dark)
Ron Spencer

Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

"All we had left were their black and bloated bodies." —Maeveen O'Donagh, *Memoirs of a Soldier*

Lightning Dragon (Urza's Saga)
Ron Spencer

Flying Echo {2}{R}{R} (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.) {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Crucible of Worlds (Judge Gift Cards 2013)
Ron Spencer

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Amidst the darkest ashes grow the strongest seeds.

Mind Maggots (Exodus)
Ron Spencer

When this creature enters, discard any number of creature cards. For each card discarded this way, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Mitotic Slime (DCI Promos)
Ron Spencer

When this creature dies, create two 2/2 green Ooze creature tokens. They have "When this token dies, create two 1/1 green Ooze creature tokens."

Maggot Carrier (Planeshift)
Ron Spencer

When this creature enters, each player loses 1 life.

"The mere sight of our undead allies sickens me. What unholy bargain have you struck?" —Grizzlegom, to Agnate

Thrull Retainer (Fifth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. Sacrifice this Aura: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"Until the Rebellion, thrulls served their masters faithfully—even at the cost of their own lives." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. II*

Whipcorder (Onslaught)
Ron Spencer

{W}, {T}: Tap target creature. Morph {W} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

His bolas whirl like galaxies, but it's his enemies who see stars.

Bear Cub (The List)
Ron Spencer

Every little cub has its mother's teeth to guard it. —Elvish saying

Diabolic Edict (Arena League 2001)
Ron Spencer

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Greven *il*-Vec lifted Vhati off his feet. "The fall will give you time to think on your failure."

Chromeshell Crab (Legions)
Ron Spencer

Morph {4}{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 exchange control of target creature you control and target creature an opponent controls.

B-I-N-G-O (Unhinged)
Ron Spencer

Trample Whenever a player casts a spell, put a chip counter on its mana value. This creature gets +9/+9 for each set of three numbers in a row with chip counters on them.

There was a farmer, had a hound . . .

Hammer of Bogardan (Mirage)
Ron Spencer

Hammer of Bogardan deals 3 damage to any target. {2}{R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.

Metamorphose (Scourge)
Ron Spencer

Put target permanent an opponent controls on top of its owner's library. That opponent may put an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card from their hand onto the battlefield.

If it's not one thing, it's another.

Shard Phoenix (Junior Super Series)
Ron Spencer

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Sacrifice this creature: It deals 2 damage to each creature without flying. {R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.

Serpent Warrior (Ninth Edition)
Ron Spencer

When this creature enters, you lose 3 life.

They are incubated by swamp gases and cut their teeth on zombie flesh. Serpent warriors are not to be trifled with.

Order of the Ebon Hand (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Ron Spencer

Protection from white {B}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {B}{B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Dedicated to the principles of Tourach, members of the Order of the Ebon Hand demonstrated their devotion with grisly rituals.

Marsh Viper (Fifth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

"And the seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued." —Edgar Allan Poe, "The Conqueror Wurm"

Ensnaring Bridge (Eighth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Creatures with power greater than the number of cards in your hand can't attack.

"Why build a bridge that needs to be guarded?" —Elvish champion

Quicksilver Dragon (Onslaught)
Ron Spencer

Flying {U}: If target spell has only one target and that target is this creature, change that spell's target to another creature. Morph {4}{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.)

Swamp (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition)
Ron Spencer

({T}: Add {B}.)

Phyrexian Processor (World Championship Decks 2000)
Ron Spencer

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

Hammer of Bogardan (Eighth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Hammer of Bogardan deals 3 damage to any target. {2}{R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.

Diabolic Edict (Media and Collaboration Promos)
Ron Spencer

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Greven *il*-Vec lifted Vhati off his feet. "The fall will give you time to think on your failure."

Close Quarters (Mercadian Masques)
Ron Spencer

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, this enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

The Mercadians' ineptitude in close combat sometimes accidentally pays off.

Goblin Sledder (World Championship Decks 2003)
Ron Spencer

Sacrifice a Goblin: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Let's play 'sled.' Here's how it works: you're the sled."

Phyrexian Processor (World Championship Decks 2000)
Ron Spencer

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

Norwood Ranger (Eighth Edition)
Ron Spencer

The song of the forest is in perfect harmony. If a single note is out of place, the elves will find its source.

Swamp (Tenth Edition)
Ron Spencer

({T}: Add {B}.)

Bog Imp (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Ron Spencer

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

On guard for larger dangers, we underestimated the power and speed of the Imp's muck-crusted claws.

Ronom Serpent (Coldsnap)
Ron Spencer

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls a snow land. When you control no snow lands, sacrifice this creature.

With the spread of Rimewind's sorcerous winter, snow dwellers reclaimed their places atop the food chain.

Phyrexian Processor (World Championship Decks 1999)
Ron Spencer

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

Yawgmoth's Will (Judge Gift Cards 2007)
Ron Spencer

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard. If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Strength in Numbers (The List)
Ron Spencer

Until end of turn, target creature gains trample and gets +X/+X, where X is the number of attacking creatures.

"The hermit dies. The outcast dies. The lone wolf dies. Only those who stick together survive this world." —Uros, Pendelhaven elder

Pull Under (Champions of Kamigawa)
Ron Spencer

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

"Although nowhere on Kamigawa was safe during the war, the Takenuma Swamp was the most horrifying. The rotting bamboo itself rebelled against its mortal inhabitants, pulling them into unmarked graves." —*Observations of the Kami War*

Sungrass Prairie (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Ron Spencer

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

On Otaria, peace and harmony are rare. Places that provide both are cherished.

Renegade Warlord (The List)
Ron Spencer

First strike Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"His tongue must be honey, the way he gathers ants to fight with him." —Volrath

Phyrexian Processor (World Championship Decks 2000)
Ron Spencer

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

Marsh Viper (Renaissance)
Ron Spencer

Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Hammer of Bogardan (World Championship Decks 1998)
Ron Spencer

Hammer of Bogardan deals 3 damage to any target. {2}{R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.

Runeboggle (Guildpact)
Ron Spencer

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. Draw a card.

"Ever try to count hyperactive schoolchildren while someone shouts random numbers in your ear? It's like that." —Geetra, frustrated mage

Tolarian Emissary (Invasion)
Ron Spencer

Kicker {1}{W} (You may pay an additional {1}{W} as you cast this spell.) Flying When this creature enters, if it was kicked, destroy target enchantment.

Heart Sliver (Tempest)
Ron Spencer

All Sliver creatures have haste.

Gerrard looked all around for the source of the mysterious pulse, and at that moment the slivers boiled forth from the crevasses.

Skullcage (Archenemy)
Ron Spencer

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, this artifact deals 2 damage to that player unless they have exactly three or exactly four cards in hand.

Only a focused mind can survive it.

Rootwater Diver (Tempest)
Ron Spencer

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Drop a dagger into the murky deep and the merfolk will cut your throat with it." —Skyshroud saying

Spinal Graft (Tempest)
Ron Spencer

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. When enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.

"This one has not screamed enough to show effective implantation. Kill it." —Volrath

Marsh Viper (Fourth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

"All we had left were their black and bloated bodies." —Maeveen O'Donagh, *Memoirs of a Soldier*

Goblin Bomb (Weatherlight)
Ron Spencer

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may flip a coin. If you win the flip, put a fuse counter on this enchantment. If you lose the flip, remove a fuse counter from this enchantment. Remove five fuse counters from this enchantment and sacrifice it: It deals 20 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Earthshaker (Champions of Kamigawa)
Ron Spencer

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each creature without flying.

It scaled the Sokenzan Mountains in search of Kumano's secret. The mountain shook for two days, and the kami never returned.

Saprazzan Bailiff (Mercadian Masques)
Ron Spencer

When this creature enters, exile all artifact and enchantment cards from all graveyards. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return all artifact and enchantment cards from all graveyards to their owners' hands.

Hermetic Study (Urza's Saga)
Ron Spencer

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."

"Books can be replaced; a prize student cannot. Be patient." —Urza, to Barrin

Highland Giant (Portal)
Ron Spencer

Though slow-witted and slow-moving, they are quick to anger.

Thallid (Fallen Empires)
Ron Spencer

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature. Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Swamp (Aetherdrift)
Ron Spencer

({T}: Add {B}.)

Aura Shards (The List)
Ron Spencer

Whenever a creature you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Gaea forged her soldiers into self-wielding weapons that struck down all impurities.

Gruul Turf (Double Masters 2022)
Ron Spencer

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Skittering Skirge (Beatdown Box Set)
Ron Spencer

Flying When you cast a creature spell, sacrifice this creature.

The imps' warbling cries echo through Phyrexia's towers like those of mourning doves in a cathedral.

Sliver Queen (Stronghold)
Ron Spencer

{2}: Create a 1/1 colorless Sliver creature token.

Her children are ever part of her.

Darksteel Gargoyle (Darksteel)
Ron Spencer

Flying Indestructible (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature.)

The ultimate treasure is one that guards itself.

Secretkeeper (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Ron Spencer

As long as you have more cards in hand than each opponent, this creature gets +2/+2 and has flying.

It is all the things that humanity was not meant to know.

Mana Crypt (Double Masters)
Ron Spencer

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, this artifact deals 3 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

At first they thought the vault was empty. Then the walls began to glow.

Bog Rats (The Dark)
Ron Spencer

This creature can't be blocked by Walls.

Their stench was vile and strong enough, but not nearly as powerful as their hunger.

Aether Flash (Weatherlight)
Ron Spencer

Whenever a creature enters, this enchantment deals 2 damage to it.

"You can't get there from here. Well, you *can*—it just won't be fun." —Ertai, wizard adept

Quicksilver Dragon (Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra)
Ron Spencer

Flying {U}: If target spell has only one target and that target is this creature, change that spell's target to another creature. Morph {4}{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.)

Word of Binding (Renaissance)
Ron Spencer

Tap X target creatures.

Ersatz Gnomes (The List)
Ron Spencer

{T}: Target spell becomes colorless. {T}: Target permanent becomes colorless until end of turn.

From jungle to sea, from sea to stone, from stone to field, from field to bone. What am I? —Zhalfirin riddle

Strength in Numbers (Time Spiral)
Ron Spencer

Until end of turn, target creature gains trample and gets +X/+X, where X is the number of attacking creatures.

"The hermit dies. The outcast dies. The lone wolf dies. Only those who stick together survive this world." —Uros, Pendelhaven elder

Ravenous Skirge (Urza's Saga)
Ron Spencer

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

Hunger is a kind of madness—and here, all madness flourishes.

Crookclaw Transmuter (Time Spiral)
Ron Spencer

Flash Flying When this creature enters, switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Wildfire (Seventh Edition)
Ron Spencer

Each player sacrifices four lands of their choice. Wildfire deals 4 damage to each creature.

Fire is always at the top of the food chain, and it has a *big* appetite.

Infernal Spawn of Infernal Spawn of Evil (Unsanctioned)
Ron Spencer

Flying, first strike, trample Once each turn, while you're searching your library, you may pay {1}{B}, reveal this card from your library and say "I'm coming, too" If you do, this card deals 2 damage to a player of your choice.

Terror (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Aura Shards (Invasion)
Ron Spencer

Whenever a creature you control enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Gaea forged her soldiers into self-wielding weapons that struck down all impurities.

Bone Shredder (Modern Horizons 2)
Ron Spencer

Flying Echo {2}{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.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.

Krark's Thumb (Mirrodin)
Ron Spencer

If you would flip a coin, instead flip two coins and ignore one.

"I can think of *one* goblin it ain't so lucky for." —Slobad, goblin tinkerer

Strength in Numbers (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Ron Spencer

Until end of turn, target creature gains trample and gets +X/+X, where X is the number of attacking creatures.

"The hermit dies. The outcast dies. The lone wolf dies. Only those who stick together survive this world." —Uros, Pendelhaven elder

Strength in Numbers (Time Spiral Remastered)
Ron Spencer

Until end of turn, target creature gains trample and gets +X/+X, where X is the number of attacking creatures.

"The hermit dies. The outcast dies. The lone wolf dies. Only those who stick together survive this world." —Uros, Pendelhaven elder

Cabal Therapy (Friday Night Magic 2005)
Ron Spencer

Choose a nonland card name. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards with that name. Flashback—Sacrifice a creature. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Monstrous Growth (Eighth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Get in touch with your inner monster.

Necrite (Fifth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, destroy target creature defending player controls. It can't be regenerated.

Necrites killed Jherana Rure, ending the counterinsurgency.

Mana Clash (Ninth Edition)
Ron Spencer

You and target opponent each flip a coin. Mana Clash deals 1 damage to each player whose coin comes up tails. Repeat this process until both players' coins come up heads on the same flip.

Ensnaring Bridge (Seventh Edition)
Ron Spencer

Creatures with power greater than the number of cards in your hand can't attack.

Bridges usually get you from one place to another. This one just gets you.

Pyrokinesis (Alliances)
Ron Spencer

You may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Pyrokinesis deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

"Anybody want some . . . *toast*?" —Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Unnerving Assault (Eventide)
Ron Spencer

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0 until end of turn if {U} was spent to cast this spell, and creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn if {R} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {U}{R} was spent.)

The scales of battle rarely balance.

Jackalope Herd (Exodus)
Ron Spencer

When you cast a spell, return this creature to its owner's hand.

There's little more demeaning than getting your butt kicked by a bunch of bunnies.

Marsh Viper (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Ron Spencer

Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Mana Clash (Eighth Edition)
Ron Spencer

You and target opponent each flip a coin. Mana Clash deals 1 damage to each player whose coin comes up tails. Repeat this process until both players' coins come up heads on the same flip.

Unsummon (World Championship Decks 2003)
Ron Spencer

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Turtleshell Changeling (The List)
Ron Spencer

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {1}{U}: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

A changeling involuntarily mimics the nearest being at hand, sometimes trading a borrowed shell for borrowed claws.

Cabal Therapy (Judgment)
Ron Spencer

Choose a nonland card name. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards with that name. Flashback—Sacrifice a creature. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Trokin High Guard (The List)
Ron Spencer

Battle tempers soldiers as fire tempers steel.

Sungrass Prairie (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Ron Spencer

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

On Otaria, peace and harmony are rare. Places that provide both are cherished.

Crucible of Worlds (Core Set 2019)
Ron Spencer

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Amidst the darkest ashes grow the strongest seeds.

Sylvan Basilisk (Starter 1999)
Ron Spencer

Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature.

Terror (Limited Edition Alpha)
Ron Spencer

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Fanning the Flames (The List)
Ron Spencer

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Fanning the Flames deals X damage to any target.

Hornet Cannon (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition)
Ron Spencer

{3}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying and haste named Hornet. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step.

No Mercy (Dominaria Remastered)
Ron Spencer

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

"Leave no survivors. Let the other worlds see what befalls those who attempt to resist the might of Phyrexia." —Sheoldred

Goblin Digging Team (Chronicles)
Ron Spencer

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

"From down here we can make the whole wall collapse!" "Uh, yeah, boss, but how do we get out?"

Firebolt (Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra)
Ron Spencer

Firebolt deals 2 damage to any target. Flashback {4}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Reach out and torch someone.

New Frontiers (Odyssey)
Ron Spencer

Each player may search their library for up to X basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then each player who searched their library this way shuffles.

Spreading a blanket of growth to warm a weary world.

Unstable Hulk (Legions)
Ron Spencer

Morph {3}{R}{R} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, it gets +6/+6 and gains trample until end of turn. You skip your next turn.

Sungrass Prairie (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Ron Spencer

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

On Otaria, peace and harmony are rare. Places that provide both are cherished.

Hammer of Bogardan (Judge Gift Cards 2002)
Ron Spencer

Hammer of Bogardan deals 3 damage to any target. {2}{R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.

Maggot Carrier (Eighth Edition)
Ron Spencer

When this creature enters, each player loses 1 life.

"We do not suddenly fall on death, but advance towards it by slight degrees; we die every day." —Seneca, *Epistles*, trans. Gummere

Order of the Ebon Hand (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Ron Spencer

Protection from white {B}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {B}{B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Dedicated to the principles of Tourach, members of the Order of the Ebon Hand demonstrated their devotion with grisly rituals.

Cabal Therapy (World Championship Decks 2003)
Ron Spencer

Choose a nonland card name. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards with that name. Flashback—Sacrifice a creature. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Necrite (Fallen Empires)
Ron Spencer

Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, destroy target creature defending player controls. It can't be regenerated.

Necrites killed Jherana Rure, ending the counter-insurgency.

Thalakos Seer (Tempest)
Ron Spencer

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card.

"You see our world when you shut your eyes so tightly that tiny shapes float before them." —Lyna, to Ertai

Ersatz Gnomes (Mirage)
Ron Spencer

{T}: Target spell becomes colorless. {T}: Target permanent becomes colorless until end of turn.

From jungle to sea, from sea to stone, from stone to field, from field to bone. What am I? —Zhalfirin riddle

Squirrel (Magic Player Rewards 2002)
Ron Spencer

It's surprising how well cute and vicious go together.

Unsummon (Eighth Edition)
Ron Spencer

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Crashing Boars (The List)
Ron Spencer

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player chooses an untapped creature they control. That creature blocks this creature this turn if able.

Bores ruin a party. Boars are party to ruin.

Blatant Thievery (Onslaught)
Ron Spencer

For each opponent, gain control of target permanent that player controls.

"I'll leave subtlety to the rich."

Goblin Sledder (Onslaught)
Ron Spencer

Sacrifice a Goblin: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Let's play 'sled.' Here's how it works: you're the sled."

Swamp (World Championship Decks 2001)
Ron Spencer

({T}: Add {B}.)

Goblin Digging Team (The Dark)
Ron Spencer

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

"From down here we can make the whole wall collapse!" "Uh, yeah, boss, but how do we get out?"

Mind's Desire (Scourge)
Ron Spencer

Shuffle your library. Then exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Venomspout Brackus (The List)
Ron Spencer

{1}{G}, {T}: This creature deals 5 damage to target attacking or blocking creature with flying. Morph {3}{G}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Bedlam (Seventh Edition)
Ron Spencer

Creatures can't block.

The generals were dead. The battle plans were forgotten. It was everyone for themselves.

Anthroplasm (Urza's Legacy)
Ron Spencer

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {X}, {T}: Remove all +1/+1 counters from this creature and put X +1/+1 counters on it.

I never metamorphosis I didn't like.

Phyrexian Processor (Urza's Saga)
Ron Spencer

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

Skizzik (World Championship Decks 2001)
Ron Spencer

Kicker {R} (You may pay an additional {R} as you cast this spell.) Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, if this creature wasn't kicked, sacrifice it.

Quicksilver Dragon (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra)
Ron Spencer

Flying {U}: If target spell has only one target and that target is this creature, change that spell's target to another creature. Morph {4}{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.)

Crookclaw Transmuter (Time Spiral Remastered)
Ron Spencer

Flash Flying When this creature enters, switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Standard Bearer (Apocalypse)
Ron Spencer

While an opponent is choosing targets as part of casting a spell they control or activating an ability they control, that player must choose at least one Flagbearer on the battlefield if able.

The standard was a rallying point for the army and a target for the enemy.

Reaping the Graves (Scourge)
Ron Spencer

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Burrenton Bombardier (Morningtide)
Ron Spencer

Flying Reinforce 2—{2}{W} ({2}{W}, Discard this card: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.)

The flasks provide ballast, a means of steering, and—with a little luck—a way to deliver ward-spells to cohorts below.

Reckless One (Duel Decks Anthology: Elves vs. Goblins)
Ron Spencer

Haste Reckless One's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Goblins on the battlefield.

"Release chaos with me!"

Swamp (Invasion)
Ron Spencer