Pact of the Serpent

Pact of the Serpent (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Donato Giancola

Choose a creature type. Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of creatures they control of the chosen type.

"Our quarrels behind us. Our foes before us. Death or triumph for us all!"

Pact of the Serpent (Kaldheim Commander)
Donato Giancola

Choose a creature type. Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of creatures they control of the chosen type.

"Our quarrels behind us. Our foes before us. Death or triumph for us all!"

Glory (World Championship Decks 2002)
Donato Giancola

Flying {2}{W}: Choose a color. Creatures you control gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn. Activate only if this card is in your graveyard.

"Glory was gone; Glory was everywhere." —*Scroll of Beginnings*

Genesis Hydra (Neon Dynasty Commander)
Donato Giancola

When you cast this spell, reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle the rest into your library. This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Shivan Dragon (Magic 2010)
Donato Giancola

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

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Silver Scrutiny (Dominaria United Promos)
Donato Giancola

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if X is 3 or less. Draw X cards.

Karn's creation allowed him to monitor events across Dominaria—and everything he saw worried him.

Skyclave Apparition (Bloomburrow Commander)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less. When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Iron Star (Eighth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Forged by a thousand flames.

Iron Star (Fifth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Valorous Steed (The List)
Donato Giancola

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) When this creature enters, create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.

A unicorn chooses only the most virtuous and noble of knights to be its companion.

Sisay's Ring (Visions)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

"With this ring, you have friends in worlds you've never heard of." —Sisay, Captain of the *Weatherlight*

Truce (Fifth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Each player may draw up to two cards. For each card less than two a player draws this way, that player gains 2 life.

Not all victories require defeat. —Onean idiom

Mimic Vat (New Capenna Commander)
Donato Giancola

Imprint — Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile that card. If you do, return each other card exiled with this artifact to its owner's graveyard. {3}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of a card exiled with this artifact. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Disenchant (Iconic Masters)
Donato Giancola

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"The tools of evil are mere things. And like all things, they cannot last forever." —*Song of All*, canto 881

Deathgazer (Mercadian Masques)
Donato Giancola

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a nonblack creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Sovereigns of Lost Alara (Alara Reborn)
Donato Giancola

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, you may search your library for an Aura card that could enchant that creature, put it onto the battlefield attached to that creature, then shuffle.

Mystic Redaction (Modern Horizons 2)
Donato Giancola

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. Whenever you discard a card, each opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

"I'm sorry, but this information is classified."

Island (Battle Royale Box Set)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {U}.)

Chrome Host Seedshark (March of the Machine Promos)
Donato Giancola

Flying Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, incubate X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Seat of the Synod (The Brothers' War Commander)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add {U}.

"Full of immense beauty and power, the falls at Orleason inspired the empire's greatest dreamers." —*Fall of the Thran*

Razia, Boros Archangel (Planechase)
Donato Giancola

Flying, vigilance, haste {T}: The next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature you control this turn is dealt to another target creature instead.

Her sword burns with such brightness that foes avert their eyes and arrows divert their paths.

Sovereigns of Lost Alara (Ultimate Masters)
Donato Giancola

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, you may search your library for an Aura card that could enchant that creature, put it onto the battlefield attached to that creature, then shuffle.

True Love's Kiss (Throne of Eldraine)
Donato Giancola

Exile target artifact or enchantment. Draw a card.

"Be careful, dear. Some people deserve their curses." —Marawen, barrow witch

Crystal Chimes (Urza's Saga)
Donato Giancola

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to your hand.

As Serra was to learn, the peace and sanctity of her realm were as fragile as glass.

Plains (Secret Lair Drop)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {W}.)

Brine Seer (Urza's Destiny)
Donato Giancola

{2}{U}, {T}: Reveal any number of blue cards in your hand. Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card revealed this way.

Jhessian Lookout (Shards of Alara)
Donato Giancola

She stands ready, always watchful, knowing that weeks of peace and serenity can be overturned by a single distant sail.

Dismiss (Jumpstart 2022)
Donato Giancola

Counter target spell. Draw a card.

"There is nothing you can do that I cannot simply deny." —Ertai, wizard adept

Thousand-Year Storm (Double Masters 2022)
Donato Giancola

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it for each other instant and sorcery spell you've cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Cloudy with a chance of chaos.

Star Compass (Eighth Edition)
Donato Giancola

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

It doesn't point north. It points home.

Dismiss (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Donato Giancola

Counter target spell. Draw a card.

"There is nothing you can do that I cannot simply deny." —Ertai, wizard adept

Sigiled Behemoth (Alara Reborn)
Donato Giancola

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

"Do not mistake a behemoth's assistance for subservience." —Mayael the Anima

Peacekeeper (Weatherlight)
Donato Giancola

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {1}{W}. Creatures can't attack.

"I have always imagined my mother as such a woman, strong and wise." —Sisay, journal

Desertion (Special Guests)
Donato Giancola

Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

"It is one thing to run away. It is quite another to escape your fate." —Oko

Solemn Simulacrum (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Skyclave Apparition (Zendikar Rising)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less. When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Crystal Rod (Classic Sixth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Spore Frog (Bloomburrow Commander)
Donato Giancola

Sacrifice this creature: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

A progenitor of tadpoles and allergies in equal measure.

Teferi's Puzzle Box (Jumpstart 2022)
Donato Giancola

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player puts the cards in their hand on the bottom of their library in any order, then draws that many cards.

Altar's Reap (Commander 2015)
Donato Giancola

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

"Don't worry, your death will be as informative as possible." —Gorghul, augur of skulls

Glory (Judgment Promos)
Donato Giancola

יכולת תﬠופה {W}{2}:יצורים שנמצאים בשליטתך נהנים מהגנתו של הצבﬠ שבחרת, ﬠד לסיום התור. השתמש/י ביכולת זו רק במקרה, שתהילה נמצאת בבית-הקברות שלך.

"תהילה נﬠלמה; תהילה הייתה בכל מקום." —מגילת ההיווצרות והמקור

Patchwork Automaton (The List)
Donato Giancola

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) Whenever you cast an artifact spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

It dwells happily near the ever-burning forges of Sokenzan City, crafting small things of beauty from discarded scraps.

Strategic Planning (Kaldheim)
Donato Giancola

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Alrund sees the future as a whorl of signs and symbols, omens interwoven in an intricate knotwork only he can decipher.

Juju Bubble (Visions)
Donato Giancola

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.) When you play a card, sacrifice this artifact. {2}: You gain 1 life.

"If my heart had a lid, I would lift it and show you my joy." —From Suq'Ata wedding ceremony

Tura Kennerüd, Skyknight (Dominaria United)
Donato Giancola

Flying Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

"The sky is my birthright. I dare you to try and take it from me."

Toluz, Clever Conductor (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Donato Giancola

When Toluz enters, it connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever you discard one or more cards, exile them from your graveyard. When Toluz dies, put the cards exiled with it into their owner's hand.

Agent of Shauku (Prophecy)
Donato Giancola

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a land: Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

"Go ahead. Take it. You'll be so very powerful . . . and what harm can it do?"

Mana Cylix (Planeshift)
Donato Giancola

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

Overflowing with visions of the possible future, it lends power to those in the present.

Skyclave Apparition (Mystery Booster 2)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less. When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Village Elder (Battle Royale Box Set)
Donato Giancola

{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a Forest: Regenerate target creature.

Caparocti Sunborn (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Donato Giancola

Whenever Caparocti Sunborn attacks, you may tap two untapped artifacts and/or creatures you control. If you do, discover 3. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 3 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Jayemdae Tome (Magic 2013)
Donato Giancola

{4}, {T}: Draw a card.

A true scribe devotes an entire lifetime to the creation of a single volume, a masterpiece as unique as its maker.

Shivan Dragon (Dominaria Remastered)
Donato Giancola

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

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Mirari (From the Vault: Relics)
Donato Giancola

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay {3}. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"It offers you what you want, not what you need." —Braids, dementia summoner

Razia, Boros Archangel (GRN Guild Kit)
Donato Giancola

Flying, vigilance, haste {T}: The next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature you control this turn is dealt to another target creature instead.

Her sword burns with such brightness that foes avert their eyes and arrows divert their paths.

Deekah, Fractal Theorist (Commander 2021)
Donato Giancola

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is that spell's mana value. {3}{U}: Target creature token can't be blocked this turn.

Doomsday Specter (The List)
Donato Giancola

Flying When this creature enters, return a blue or black creature you control to its owner's hand. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand and choose a card from it. The player discards that card.

Plains (Secret Lair Drop)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {W}.)

Genesis Hydra (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Donato Giancola

When you cast this spell, reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle the rest into your library. This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Memory Jar (Urza's Legacy)
Donato Giancola

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Each player exiles all cards from their hand face down and draws seven cards. At the beginning of the next end step, each player discards their hand and returns to their hand each card they exiled this way.

Altar's Reap (Innistrad)
Donato Giancola

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

"The demons don't care if we mutter niceties and act out ceremonies. Just kill him." —Bishop Volpaig, servant of Griselbrand

King Darien XLVIII (Dominaria United Promos)
Donato Giancola

Other creatures you control get +1/+1. {3}{G}{W}: Put a +1/+1 counter on King Darien and create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token. Sacrifice King Darien: Creature tokens you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Preacher of the Schism (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Donato Giancola

Deathtouch Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink. Whenever this creature attacks while you have the most life or are tied for most life, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Mountain (Grand Prix Promos)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {R}.)

Ivory Cup (Eighth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Blessed by a thousand prayers.

Solemn Simulacrum (Core Set 2021)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Soulless Jailer (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos)
Donato Giancola

Permanent cards in graveyards can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast noncreature spells from graveyards or exile.

"Lock the door and eat the key." —Vraan, Executioner Thane

Dismiss (Arena League 2001)
Donato Giancola

Counter target spell. Draw a card.

"There is nothing you can do that I cannot simply deny." —Ertai, wizard adept

King Darien XLVIII (Dominaria United)
Donato Giancola

Other creatures you control get +1/+1. {3}{G}{W}: Put a +1/+1 counter on King Darien and create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token. Sacrifice King Darien: Creature tokens you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Oculus Whelp (March of the Machine)
Donato Giancola

Flying As long as you control a transformed permanent, this creature has "When this creature dies, draw a card."

Even before Phyrexia's forces arrived on Tarkir, Silumgar's draconic brood had a discerning eye for valuables.

Cauldron Dance (The List)
Donato Giancola

Cast this spell only during combat. Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Return it to your hand at the beginning of the next end step. You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Its controller sacrifices it at the beginning of the next end step.

Agrus Kos, Wojek Veteran (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Donato Giancola

Whenever Agrus Kos attacks, attacking red creatures get +2/+0 and attacking white creatures get +0/+2 until end of turn.

Lieutenant Kos has never met a group of recruits he could not inspire or a mob he could not quell.

Valorous Steed (Jumpstart 2022)
Donato Giancola

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) When this creature enters, create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.

A unicorn chooses only the most virtuous and noble of knights to be its companion.

Silver Scrutiny (Dominaria United)
Donato Giancola

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if X is 3 or less. Draw X cards.

Karn's creation allowed him to monitor events across Dominaria—and everything he saw worried him.

Brightclimb Pathway (Zendikar Rising)
Donato Giancola

Solemn Simulacrum (Core Set 2021 Promos)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Piercing Light (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Donato Giancola

Piercing Light deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

"Creatures of the night dissolve like shadows in the light of faith." —Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Chrome Host Seedshark (March of the Machine)
Donato Giancola

Flying Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, incubate X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Malevolent Witchkite (Wilds of Eldraine)
Donato Giancola

Flying When this creature enters, sacrifice any number of artifacts, enchantments, and/or tokens, then draw that many cards.

Getaway Car (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Donato Giancola

Haste Whenever this Vehicle attacks or blocks, return up to one target creature that crewed it this turn to its owner's hand. Crew 1

For those who need to make a quick departure without attracting undue attention.

Ivy Seer (Urza's Destiny)
Donato Giancola

{2}{G}, {T}: Reveal any number of green cards in your hand. Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards revealed this way.

Memory Jar (From the Vault: Relics)
Donato Giancola

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Each player exiles all cards from their hand face down and draws seven cards. At the beginning of the next end step, each player discards their hand and returns to their hand each card they exiled this way.

Shivan Dragon (Ninth Edition)
Donato Giancola

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

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Mimic Vat (The List)
Donato Giancola

Imprint — Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile that card. If you do, return each other card exiled with this artifact to its owner's graveyard. {3}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of a card exiled with this artifact. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Serra Angel (Dominaria)
Donato Giancola

Flying Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

The angel remembers her past lives like dreams. Her song held up meadows. Her blade drove back darkness. Her wings carried her across the ages.

Tyrannical Pitlord (Dominaria United)
Donato Giancola

Flying, trample As this creature enters, choose another creature you control. The chosen creature gets +3/+3 and has flying. When this creature leaves the battlefield, sacrifice the chosen creature.

Serra Angel (Game Night)
Donato Giancola

Flying Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

The angel remembers her past lives like dreams. Her song held up meadows. Her blade drove back darkness. Her wings carried her across the ages.

Genesis Hydra (March of the Machine Commander)
Donato Giancola

When you cast this spell, reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle the rest into your library. This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Shattering Pulse (World Championship Decks 1998)
Donato Giancola

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.) Destroy target artifact.

Glory (Dominaria Remastered)
Donato Giancola

Flying {2}{W}: Choose a color. Creatures you control gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn. Activate only if this card is in your graveyard.

"Glory was gone; Glory was everywhere." —*Scroll of Beginnings*

Contaminated Landscape (Modern Horizons 3)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {W}{U}{B} ({W}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Cut of the Profits (Streets of New Capenna)
Donato Giancola

Casualty 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 3 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.) You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Everybody is worth their weight in gold.

Island (Battle Royale Box Set)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {U}.)

Solemn Simulacrum (Neon Dynasty Commander)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Archivist (Seventh Edition)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Draw a card.

"Knowledge is a feast for the mind. Savor every swallow."

Conjurer's Closet (Innistrad Remastered)
Donato Giancola

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Amber Prison (Mirage)
Donato Giancola

You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step. {4}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land. That permanent doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as this artifact remains tapped.

Getaway Car (Streets of New Capenna)
Donato Giancola

Haste Whenever this Vehicle attacks or blocks, return up to one target creature that crewed it this turn to its owner's hand. Crew 1

For those who need to make a quick departure without attracting undue attention.

Dismiss (Commander 2014)
Donato Giancola

Counter target spell. Draw a card.

"There is nothing you can do that I cannot simply deny." —Ertai, wizard adept

True Love's Kiss (The List)
Donato Giancola

Exile target artifact or enchantment. Draw a card.

"Be careful, dear. Some people deserve their curses." —Marawen, barrow witch

Serra Angel (Game Night: Free-for-All)
Donato Giancola

Flying Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

The angel remembers her past lives like dreams. Her song held up meadows. Her blade drove back darkness. Her wings carried her across the ages.

Reflexes (Ninth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature has first strike. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

The Aetherspark (Aetherdrift)
Donato Giancola

As long as The Aetherspark is attached to a creature, The Aetherspark can't be attacked and has "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage during your turn, put that many loyalty counters on The Aetherspark." +1: Attach The Aetherspark to up to one target creature you control. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. −5: Draw two cards. −10: Add ten mana of any one color.

Rack and Ruin (World Championship Decks 2000)
Donato Giancola

Destroy two target artifacts.

"My people are bound by masters centuries dead. Each artifact we destroy is another link broken in that chain." —Barb Tail, viashino heretic

Flame Wave (The List)
Donato Giancola

Flame Wave deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.

"I hear the roaring of a wave whose waters are red and whose mists are black." —Oracle *en*-Vec

Panacea (Mercadian Masques)
Donato Giancola

{X}{X}, {T}: Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

A drop numbs the tongue. A sip sends the heart racing. A draught reforges the body.

Jayemdae Tome (Seventh Edition)
Donato Giancola

{4}, {T}: Draw a card.

"Knowledge is power." —Sir Francis Bacon, *Meditationes Sacrae*

Forest (Grand Prix Promos)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {G}.)

Shattered Sanctum (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Donato Giancola

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Heartfire Immolator (Foundations)
Donato Giancola

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {R}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker.

"I'd rather go out in a blaze of glory than fade away and be forgotten."

Mirari (Odyssey)
Donato Giancola

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay {3}. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"It offers you what you want, not what you need." —Braids, dementia summoner

Mirari (Commander 2013)
Donato Giancola

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay {3}. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"It offers you what you want, not what you need." —Braids, dementia summoner

Ivory Cup (Fifth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Island (Tenth Edition)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {U}.)

Steel Golem (Weatherlight)
Donato Giancola

You can't cast creature spells.

"Although I would give my life to protect Gerrard, my conscience will not let me take another's. There are many who would not hesitate." —Karn, silver golem

Echo Chamber (Tempest)
Donato Giancola

{4}, {T}: An opponent chooses target creature they control. Create a token that's a copy of that creature. That token gains haste until end of turn. Exile the token at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.

Shivan Dragon (Magic Origins)
Donato Giancola

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

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Island (Urza's Saga)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {U}.)

Caught Red-Handed (Murders at Karlov Manor)
Donato Giancola

This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.) Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.)

"Wait, stop! I've been framed! Extremely convincingly!"

Tolsimir Wolfblood (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Donato Giancola

Other green creatures you control get +1/+1. Other white creatures you control get +1/+1. {T}: Create Voja, a legendary 2/2 green and white Wolf creature token.

Thran Tome (Weatherlight)
Donato Giancola

{5}, {T}: Reveal the top three cards of your library. Target opponent chooses one of those cards. Put that card into your graveyard, then draw two cards.

Every line holds a tale, and between lie a thousand more.

Flame Wave (Ninth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Flame Wave deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.

"I hear the roaring of a wave whose waters are red and whose mists are black." —Oracle *en*-Vec

Scrap (Urza's Saga)
Donato Giancola

Destroy target artifact. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Bant Panorama (Shards of Alara)
Donato Giancola

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

Bant's hearts are as pure as its air and as bright as its skies.

Solemn Simulacrum (Core Set 2021 Promos)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Coalition Relic (Time Spiral Remastered)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. At the beginning of your first main phase, remove all charge counters from this artifact. Add one mana of any color for each charge counter removed this way.

Island (Grand Prix Promos)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {U}.)

Archivist (Eighth Edition)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Draw a card.

"Words—so innocent and powerless are they, as standing in a dictionary; how potent for good and evil they become to one who knows how to combine them!" —Nathaniel Hawthorne

Experimental Augury (Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
Donato Giancola

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Jukai Preserver (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Channel — {2}{G}, Discard this card: Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures you control.

"The kami grant you this boon, not I."

Glory (Dominaria Remastered)
Donato Giancola

Flying {2}{W}: Choose a color. Creatures you control gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn. Activate only if this card is in your graveyard.

"Glory was gone; Glory was everywhere." —*Scroll of Beginnings*

Foil (The List)
Donato Giancola

You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Among wizards, poor timing is the most consistent mistake.

Shivan Reef (Dominaria United)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Silver Scrutiny (Dominaria United Promos)
Donato Giancola

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if X is 3 or less. Draw X cards.

Karn's creation allowed him to monitor events across Dominaria—and everything he saw worried him.

Sanctum Guardian (Battle Royale Box Set)
Donato Giancola

Sacrifice this creature: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to any target this turn, prevent that damage.

"Protect our mother in her womb."

Wooden Sphere (Classic Sixth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Neverwinter Dryad (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Donato Giancola

{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Its life force entwined with its tree, a dryad is an elusive and solitary being that wishes only to be left alone.

Lurking Crocodile (Magic 2012)
Donato Giancola

Bloodthirst 1 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.) Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Teferi's Puzzle Box (Ninth Edition)
Donato Giancola

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player puts the cards in their hand on the bottom of their library in any order, then draws that many cards.

Altar's Reap (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Donato Giancola

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

"Don't worry, your death will be as informative as possible." —Gorghul, augur of skulls

Fyndhorn Elder (Fifth Edition)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add {G}{G}.

"Do we know what we're doing? Yes—the will of Freyalise." —Laina of the Elvish Council

Lava Runner (Mercadian Masques)
Donato Giancola

Haste Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, that spell or ability's controller sacrifices a land of their choice.

Mishra, Excavation Prodigy (The Brothers' War)
Donato Giancola

Haste {1}, {T}, Discard a card: Draw a card. Whenever you discard one or more artifact cards, add {R}{R}. This ability triggers only once each turn.

While Urza read books, Mishra learned to read the desert itself.

Island (Modern Horizons 2)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {U}.)

Shattering Pulse (World Championship Decks 1999)
Donato Giancola

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.) Destroy target artifact.

Coalition Relic (Dominaria United Commander)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. At the beginning of your first main phase, remove all charge counters from this artifact. Add one mana of any color for each charge counter removed this way.

Cauldron Dance (Invasion)
Donato Giancola

Cast this spell only during combat. Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Return it to your hand at the beginning of the next end step. You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Its controller sacrifices it at the beginning of the next end step.

Solemn Simulacrum (Jumpstart 2022)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Tyrannical Pitlord (Dominaria United)
Donato Giancola

Flying, trample As this creature enters, choose another creature you control. The chosen creature gets +3/+3 and has flying. When this creature leaves the battlefield, sacrifice the chosen creature.

Island (Urza's Saga)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {U}.)

Urza, Powerstone Prodigy (The Brothers' War)
Donato Giancola

Vigilance {1}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. Whenever you discard one or more artifact cards, create a tapped Powerstone token. This ability triggers only once each turn. (The token is an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")

Wooden Sphere (Eighth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Strengthened by a thousand limbs.

Tolsimir Wolfblood (Ravnica Remastered)
Donato Giancola

Other green creatures you control get +1/+1. Other white creatures you control get +1/+1. {T}: Create Voja, a legendary 2/2 green and white Wolf creature token.

Force of Will (Dominaria Remastered)
Donato Giancola

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

"Your artillery will burn itself out before I allow my focus to waver."

Spinal Embrace (Dominaria Remastered)
Donato Giancola

Cast this spell only during combat. Untap target creature you don't control and gain control of it. It gains haste until end of turn. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it. If you do, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Amber Prison (The List)
Donato Giancola

You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step. {4}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land. That permanent doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as this artifact remains tapped.

Iron Star (Classic Sixth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Dismiss (World Championship Decks 1998)
Donato Giancola

Counter target spell. Draw a card.

"There is nothing you can do that I cannot simply deny." —Ertai, wizard adept

Cut of the Profits (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Donato Giancola

Casualty 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 3 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.) You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Everybody is worth their weight in gold.

Ebon Dragon (From the Vault: Dragons)
Donato Giancola

Flying When this creature enters, you may have target opponent discard a card.

"The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth." —*Troilus and Cressida*, William Shakespeare

Crystal Chimes (The List)
Donato Giancola

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to your hand.

As Serra was to learn, the peace and sanctity of her realm were as fragile as glass.

Cut of the Profits (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Donato Giancola

Casualty 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 3 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.) You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Everybody is worth their weight in gold.

The End (Wilds of Eldraine)
Donato Giancola

This spell costs {2} less to cast if your life total is 5 or less. Exile target creature or planeswalker. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that permanent and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.

Mordenkainen (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Donato Giancola

+2: Draw two cards, then put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library. −2: Create a blue Dog Illusion creature token with "This token's power and toughness are each equal to twice the number of cards in your hand." −10: Exchange your hand and library, then shuffle. You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size."

Fyndhorn Elder (The List)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add {G}{G}.

"It is useful to be able to speak to the trees. But it is truly wondrous to be able to listen to them."

Coalition Relic (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. At the beginning of your first main phase, remove all charge counters from this artifact. Add one mana of any color for each charge counter removed this way.

Lunar Rejection (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Donato Giancola

Cleave {3}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Return target [Wolf or Werewolf] creature to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

Konda's Banner (Champions of Kamigawa)
Donato Giancola

Konda's Banner can be attached only to a legendary creature. Creatures that share a color with equipped creature get +1/+1. Creatures that share a creature type with equipped creature get +1/+1. Equip {2}

Archangel (Media and Collaboration Promos)
Donato Giancola

Flying, vigilance

Throne of Bone (Fifth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Razia, Boros Archangel (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Donato Giancola

Flying, vigilance, haste {T}: The next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature you control this turn is dealt to another target creature instead.

Her sword burns with such brightness that foes avert their eyes and arrows divert their paths.

Funeral Longboat (Kaldheim)
Donato Giancola

Vigilance Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

"Cast onto the windless water, he drifted until the sea turned to sky." —*Saga of the Lost King*

Celestine Reef (Planechase Anthology Planes)
Donato Giancola

Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack. Whenever chaos ensues, until a player planeswalks, you can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

Jayemdae Tome (Eighth Edition)
Donato Giancola

{4}, {T}: Draw a card.

"Knowledge is power." —Sir Francis Bacon, *Meditationes Sacrae*

Sanctum Guardian (Urza's Saga)
Donato Giancola

Sacrifice this creature: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to any target this turn, prevent that damage.

"Protect our mother in her womb."

Rhox Meditant (The List)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, if you control a green permanent, draw a card.

The weight of her conviction balances on the harmony of her soul.

Helm of Kaldra (Fifth Dawn Promos)
Donato Giancola

Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste. {1}: If you control Equipment named Helm of Kaldra, Sword of Kaldra, and Shield of Kaldra, create Kaldra, a legendary 4/4 colorless Avatar creature token. Attach those Equipment to it. Equip {2}

Shivan Dragon (Tenth Edition)
Donato Giancola

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

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Mighty Servant of Leuk-o (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Donato Giancola

Trample Ward—Discard a card. Whenever this Vehicle becomes crewed for the first time each turn, if it was crewed by exactly two creatures, it gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw two cards" until end of turn. Crew 4

Coalition Relic (Future Sight)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. At the beginning of your first main phase, remove all charge counters from this artifact. Add one mana of any color for each charge counter removed this way.

Glory (Judgment)
Donato Giancola

Flying {2}{W}: Choose a color. Creatures you control gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn. Activate only if this card is in your graveyard.

"Glory was gone; Glory was everywhere." —*Scroll of Beginnings*

Ivory Cup (Classic Sixth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Star Compass (Planeshift)
Donato Giancola

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

It doesn't point north. It points home.

Lunar Rejection (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Donato Giancola

Cleave {3}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Return target [Wolf or Werewolf] creature to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

Sisters of Stone Death (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Donato Giancola

{G}: Target creature blocks Sisters of Stone Death this turn if able. {B}{G}: Exile target creature blocking or blocked by Sisters of Stone Death. {2}{B}: Put a creature card exiled with Sisters of Stone Death onto the battlefield under your control.

Strategic Planning (Kaldheim)
Donato Giancola

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Alrund sees the future as a whorl of signs and symbols, omens interwoven in an intricate knotwork only he can decipher.

Patron Wizard (Odyssey)
Donato Giancola

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

"The best way to teach is by example."

Experimental Augury (The List)
Donato Giancola

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Ebon Dragon (Portal)
Donato Giancola

Flying When this creature enters, you may have target opponent discard a card.

Megrim (Stronghold)
Donato Giancola

Whenever an opponent discards a card, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

"You can run from your pain," explained Gerrard to Crovax, "but take it from experience: you will tire before it does."

Foil (Ultimate Masters)
Donato Giancola

You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Among wizards, poor timing is the most consistent mistake.

Asari Captain (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Donato Giancola

Haste Whenever a Samurai or Warrior you control attacks alone, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each Samurai or Warrior you control.

"Go! Show them your fury!"

Goldhound (Jumpstart 2022)
Donato Giancola

First strike Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Add one mana of any color.

The staccato clatter of its metal claws on pavement is unmistakable.

Shivan Dragon (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Donato Giancola

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

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Heartfire Immolator (Core Set 2021)
Donato Giancola

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {R}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker.

"I'd rather go out in a blaze of glory than fade away and be forgotten."

Island (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {U}.)

Meltdown (Modern Horizons 3)
Donato Giancola

Destroy each artifact with mana value X or less.

Catastrophes happened so often at the mana rig that the viashino language had a special word to describe them.

The End (Wilds of Eldraine Promos)
Donato Giancola

This spell costs {2} less to cast if your life total is 5 or less. Exile target creature or planeswalker. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that permanent and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.

Solemn Simulacrum (Commander 2020)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Grove of the Burnwillows (Zendikar Rising Expeditions)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {G}. Each opponent gains 1 life.

Air Bladder (Nemesis)
Donato Giancola

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying. Enchanted creature can block only creatures with flying.

Random mutations among Rootwater merfolk were common—and disturbing.

Bitter Triumph (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Donato Giancola

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Though he wept at Inti's death, Caparocti's eyes were keen, and his spear pierced cleanly through Clavileño's tainted heart.

Cauldron Dance (Commander 2017)
Donato Giancola

Cast this spell only during combat. Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Return it to your hand at the beginning of the next end step. You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Its controller sacrifices it at the beginning of the next end step.

Lyra Dawnbringer (Dominaria Remastered)
Donato Giancola

Flying First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.

An angel among angels, she carries the hopes of the world skyward.

Toluz, Clever Conductor (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Donato Giancola

When Toluz enters, it connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever you discard one or more cards, exile them from your graveyard. When Toluz dies, put the cards exiled with it into their owner's hand.

Getaway Car (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Donato Giancola

Haste Whenever this Vehicle attacks or blocks, return up to one target creature that crewed it this turn to its owner's hand. Crew 1

For those who need to make a quick departure without attracting undue attention.

Spinal Embrace (Invasion)
Donato Giancola

Cast this spell only during combat. Untap target creature you don't control and gain control of it. It gains haste until end of turn. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it. If you do, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Privileged Position (Double Masters 2022)
Donato Giancola

({G/W} can be paid with either {G} or {W}.) Other permanents you control have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

There's no better defense than simply being out of reach.

Goldhound (Streets of New Capenna)
Donato Giancola

First strike Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Add one mana of any color.

The staccato clatter of its metal claws on pavement is unmistakable.

Szadek, Lord of Secrets (Commander 2011)
Donato Giancola

Flying If Szadek would deal combat damage to a player, instead put that many +1/+1 counters on Szadek and that player mills that many cards.

Feed the Cycle (Bloomburrow)
Donato Giancola

As an additional cost to cast this spell, forage or pay {B}. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Sleeping beneath the sumac —Squirrelfolk expression meaning "death"

Deekah, Fractal Theorist (Commander 2021)
Donato Giancola

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is that spell's mana value. {3}{U}: Target creature token can't be blocked this turn.

Brand (The List)
Donato Giancola

Gain control of all permanents you own. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"By this glyph I affirm your role." —Urza, to Karn

Force of Will (Dominaria Remastered)
Donato Giancola

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

"Your artillery will burn itself out before I allow my focus to waver."

Shivan Dragon (Magic 2014)
Donato Giancola

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

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Shivan Dragon (Core Set 2019)
Donato Giancola

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

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Wooden Sphere (Fifth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Kura, the Boundless Sky (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Donato Giancola

Flying, deathtouch When Kura dies, choose one — • Search your library for up to three land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. • Create an X/X green Spirit creature token, where X is the number of lands you control.

Patchwork Automaton (Foundations Jumpstart)
Donato Giancola

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) Whenever you cast an artifact spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

It dwells happily near the ever-burning forges of Sokenzan City, crafting small things of beauty from discarded scraps.

Solemn Simulacrum (Commander Masters)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Solemn Simulacrum (Dominaria United Commander)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Solemn Simulacrum (Commander 2019)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Amber Prison (Classic Sixth Edition)
Donato Giancola

You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step. {4}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land. That permanent doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as this artifact remains tapped.

Brand (Urza's Saga)
Donato Giancola

Gain control of all permanents you own. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"By this glyph I affirm your role." —Urza, to Karn

Bant Panorama (Commander Anthology)
Donato Giancola

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

Bant's hearts are as pure as its air and as bright as its skies.

Tolsimir Wolfblood (Ravnica Remastered)
Donato Giancola

Other green creatures you control get +1/+1. Other white creatures you control get +1/+1. {T}: Create Voja, a legendary 2/2 green and white Wolf creature token.

Moss Diamond (Mirage)
Donato Giancola

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

Patchwork Automaton (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Donato Giancola

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) Whenever you cast an artifact spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

It dwells happily near the ever-burning forges of Sokenzan City, crafting small things of beauty from discarded scraps.

Divining Witch (The List)
Donato Giancola

{1}{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.

Carth the Lion (Modern Horizons 2)
Donato Giancola

Whenever Carth enters or a planeswalker you control dies, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal a planeswalker card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Planeswalkers' loyalty abilities you activate cost an additional [+1] to activate.

Kura, the Boundless Sky (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Donato Giancola

Flying, deathtouch When Kura dies, choose one — • Search your library for up to three land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. • Create an X/X green Spirit creature token, where X is the number of lands you control.

Soulless Jailer (Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
Donato Giancola

Permanent cards in graveyards can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast noncreature spells from graveyards or exile.

Antagonism (Urza's Saga)
Donato Giancola

At the beginning of each player's end step, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player unless one of their opponents was dealt damage this turn.

Shattering Pulse (Exodus)
Donato Giancola

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.) Destroy target artifact.

Forest (Mercadian Masques)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {G}.)

Essence Bottle (Tempest)
Donato Giancola

{3}, {T}: Put an elixir counter on this artifact. {T}, Remove all elixir counters from this artifact: You gain 2 life for each elixir counter removed this way.

Nightshade Seer (Urza's Destiny)
Donato Giancola

{2}{B}, {T}: Reveal any number of black cards in your hand. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards revealed this way.

Teferi's Puzzle Box (The List)
Donato Giancola

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player puts the cards in their hand on the bottom of their library in any order, then draws that many cards.

Mimic Vat (Commander 2019)
Donato Giancola

Imprint — Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile that card. If you do, return each other card exiled with this artifact to its owner's graveyard. {3}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of a card exiled with this artifact. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Hisoka, Minamo Sensei (Champions of Kamigawa)
Donato Giancola

{2}{U}, Discard a card: Counter target spell if it has the same mana value as the discarded card.

"By all rights we should have perished in the Kami War. Our perseverence is a tribute to mortal ingenuity. And perhaps a few forgotten secrets found in the nick of time."

Skyclave Apparition (Zendikar Rising Promos)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less. When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Jayemdae Tome (Magic Origins)
Donato Giancola

{4}, {T}: Draw a card.

A true scribe devotes an entire lifetime to the creation of a single volume, a masterpiece as unique as its maker.

Solemn Simulacrum (Starter Commander Decks)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Serra Angel (Jumpstart)
Donato Giancola

Flying Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

The angel remembers her past lives like dreams. Her song held up meadows. Her blade drove back darkness. Her wings carried her across the ages.

Soulless Jailer (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos)
Donato Giancola

Permanent cards in graveyards can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast noncreature spells from graveyards or exile.

"Lock the door and eat the key." —Vraan, Executioner Thane

Piercing Light (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Donato Giancola

Piercing Light deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

"Creatures of the night dissolve like shadows in the light of faith." —Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Moss Diamond (Classic Sixth Edition)
Donato Giancola

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

Swamp (Grand Prix Promos)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {B}.)

Sword of Kaldra (Mirrodin)
Donato Giancola

Equipped creature gets +5/+5. Whenever equipped creature deals damage to a creature, exile that creature. (Exile it only if it's still on the battlefield.) Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Bitter Triumph (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Donato Giancola

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Though he wept at Inti's death, Caparocti's eyes were keen, and his spear pierced cleanly through Clavileño's tainted heart.

Troll-Horn Cameo (Invasion)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

"I found a troll-horn fragment in the wooded foothills of Hurloon, and it keeps growing larger. I wonder, is the horn recreating itself or the troll?" —Isel, master carver

Kura, the Boundless Sky (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos)
Donato Giancola

Flying, deathtouch When Kura dies, choose one — • Search your library for up to three land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. • Create an X/X green Spirit creature token, where X is the number of lands you control.

Lagrella, the Magpie (Streets of New Capenna)
Donato Giancola

When Lagrella enters, exile any number of other target creatures controlled by different players until Lagrella leaves the battlefield. When an exiled card enters under your control this way, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Show and Tell (Special Guests)
Donato Giancola

Each player may put an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Flaming Gambit (Torment)
Donato Giancola

Flaming Gambit deals X damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller may choose a creature they control and have Flaming Gambit deal that damage to it instead. Flashback {X}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Jayemdae Tome (Tenth Edition)
Donato Giancola

{4}, {T}: Draw a card.

Getaway Car (Streets of New Capenna)
Donato Giancola

Haste Whenever this Vehicle attacks or blocks, return up to one target creature that crewed it this turn to its owner's hand. Crew 1

Spore Frog (Prophecy)
Donato Giancola

Sacrifice this creature: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

The end of one life is merely the beginning of thousands more.

Teferi's Puzzle Box (Seventh Edition)
Donato Giancola

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player puts the cards in their hand on the bottom of their library in any order, then draws that many cards.

Kura, the Boundless Sky (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos)
Donato Giancola

Flying, deathtouch When Kura dies, choose one — • Search your library for up to three land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. • Create an X/X green Spirit creature token, where X is the number of lands you control.

Throne of Bone (Eighth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Tainted by a thousand fears.

Bant Battlemage (Shards of Alara)
Donato Giancola

{G}, {T}: Target creature gains trample until end of turn. {U}, {T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"A night attack will be easy. We'll make an air raid over the Akrasan border. Just get me some flint to light the war torches."

Crystal Rod (Fifth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Carth the Lion (Modern Horizons 2)
Donato Giancola

Whenever Carth enters or a planeswalker you control dies, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal a planeswalker card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Planeswalkers' loyalty abilities you activate cost an additional [+1] to activate.

Mana Tithe (Magic Player Rewards 2008)
Donato Giancola

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Golgari Rot Farm (Double Masters 2022)
Donato Giancola

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

Brink of Madness (Urza's Legacy)
Donato Giancola

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have no cards in hand, sacrifice this enchantment and target opponent discards their hand.

"The fools thought me dead. But I built an empire inside my tomb." —Kerrick, sleeper agent

Spore Frog (Modern Horizons)
Donato Giancola

Sacrifice this creature: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

A progenitor of tadpoles and allergies in equal measure.

Bant Panorama (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Donato Giancola

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

Bant's hearts are as pure as its air and as bright as its skies.

Altar's Reap (Magic 2014)
Donato Giancola

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

"Don't worry, your death will be as informative as possible." —Gorghul, augur of skulls

Fyndhorn Elder (Eighth Edition)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add {G}{G}.

"It is useful to be able to speak to the trees. But it is truly wondrous to be able to listen to them."

Spinal Embrace (Commander 2013)
Donato Giancola

Cast this spell only during combat. Untap target creature you don't control and gain control of it. It gains haste until end of turn. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it. If you do, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Spinal Embrace (Dominaria Remastered)
Donato Giancola

Cast this spell only during combat. Untap target creature you don't control and gain control of it. It gains haste until end of turn. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it. If you do, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Plains (Grand Prix Promos)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {W}.)

Cartographer's Survey (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Donato Giancola

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put up to two land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

She monitors the roads in every province, mapping safe routes through hunting grounds and haunting grounds alike.

Cinder Seer (Urza's Destiny)
Donato Giancola

{2}{R}, {T}: Reveal any number of red cards in your hand. This creature deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of cards revealed this way.

Valorous Steed (Core Set 2021)
Donato Giancola

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) When this creature enters, create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.

A unicorn chooses only the most virtuous and noble of knights to be its companion.

Chrome Mox (World Championship Decks 2004)
Donato Giancola

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

The Aetherspark (Aetherdrift Promos)
Donato Giancola

As long as The Aetherspark is attached to a creature, The Aetherspark can't be attacked and has "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage during your turn, put that many loyalty counters on The Aetherspark." +1: Attach The Aetherspark to up to one target creature you control. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. −5: Draw two cards. −10: Add ten mana of any one color.

Cabal Surgeon (Torment)
Donato Giancola

{2}{B}{B}, {T}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Clerics give up when their patients die. Can I help it if I'm more compassionate?"

Nature's Revolt (Tempest)
Donato Giancola

All lands are 2/2 creatures that are still lands.

"One day the land will don the semblance of flesh and challenge even the plowshare's blade." —Oracle *en*-Vec

Island (Urza's Saga)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {U}.)

Pact of the Serpent (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Donato Giancola

Choose a creature type. Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of creatures they control of the chosen type.

"Our quarrels behind us. Our foes before us. Death or triumph for us all!"

Perilous Research (Modern Masters)
Donato Giancola

Draw two cards, then sacrifice a permanent.

When the School of the Unseen fell, so many magical treasures lay abandoned that no amount of death could deter the stream of thieves and desperate scholars.

Silver Scrutiny (Dominaria United)
Donato Giancola

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if X is 3 or less. Draw X cards.

Steel Golem (Tenth Edition)
Donato Giancola

You can't cast creature spells.

"Once you create perfection, what else is there to make?" —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi machinist

Cut of the Profits (Streets of New Capenna)
Donato Giancola

Casualty 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 3 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.) You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Orim's Prayer (Tempest)
Donato Giancola

Whenever one or more creatures attack you, you gain 1 life for each attacking creature.

"As usual, there will be time for prayer only *after* the worst happens." —Orim, Samite healer

Plains (Jumpstart)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {W}.)

Deathgazer (Ninth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a nonblack creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Your entire life passes before its eyes.

Helm of Kaldra (The List)
Donato Giancola

Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste. {1}: If you control Equipment named Helm of Kaldra, Sword of Kaldra, and Shield of Kaldra, create Kaldra, a legendary 4/4 colorless Avatar creature token. Attach those Equipment to it. Equip {2}

Solemn Simulacrum (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Archivist (Ninth Edition)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Draw a card.

"Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts." —Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

Glory (World Championship Decks 2002)
Donato Giancola

Flying {2}{W}: Choose a color. Creatures you control gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn. Activate only if this card is in your graveyard.

"Glory was gone; Glory was everywhere." —*Scroll of Beginnings*

Intruder Alarm (Stronghold)
Donato Giancola

Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.

Mirri was startled by Volrath's apparition—it had no scent.

Toluz, Clever Conductor (Streets of New Capenna)
Donato Giancola

When Toluz enters, it connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever you discard one or more cards, exile them from your graveyard. When Toluz dies, put the cards exiled with it into their owner's hand.

Gerrard's Wisdom (Seventh Edition)
Donato Giancola

You gain 2 life for each card in your hand.

A picture is worth a thousand swords.

Invoke Despair (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Donato Giancola

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card. Then repeat this process for an enchantment and a planeswalker.

Although officials said it was a sewer failure, the people whispered that it was a warning of night's reach.

Spinal Embrace (Zendikar Rising Commander)
Donato Giancola

Cast this spell only during combat. Untap target creature you don't control and gain control of it. It gains haste until end of turn. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it. If you do, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Tideforce Elemental (Worldwake)
Donato Giancola

{U}, {T}: You may tap or untap another target creature. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may untap this creature.

Ebb and flow, high tide and low, quick as sand and just as slow.

Cromat (Apocalypse)
Donato Giancola

{W}{B}: Destroy target creature blocking or blocked by Cromat. {U}{R}: Cromat gains flying until end of turn. {B}{G}: Regenerate Cromat. {R}{W}: Cromat gets +1/+1 until end of turn. {G}{U}: Put Cromat on top of its owner's library.

Doomsday Specter (Planeshift)
Donato Giancola

Flying When this creature enters, return a blue or black creature you control to its owner's hand. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand and choose a card from it. The player discards that card.

Coalition Relic (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. At the beginning of your first main phase, remove all charge counters from this artifact. Add one mana of any color for each charge counter removed this way.

Tireless Tracker (Special Guests)
Donato Giancola

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

Court of Ardenvale (Wilds of Eldraine Commander)
Donato Giancola

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand. If you're the monarch, return that permanent card to the battlefield instead.

Shivan Dragon (Seventh Edition)
Donato Giancola

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

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Fyndhorn Elder (Classic Sixth Edition)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add {G}{G}.

"Do we know what we're doing? Yes—the will of Freyalise." —Laina of the Elvish Council

Star Compass (Eighth Edition)
Donato Giancola

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

It doesn't point north. It points home.

Throne of Bone (Eighth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Tainted by a thousand fears.

Dredge (Invasion)
Donato Giancola

Sacrifice a creature or land. Draw a card.

"I'd strip away the world to see what's under it, but I'd never just leave it to these Phyrexian parasites and their false god." —Urborg witch

Mirari's Wake (Modern Horizons 2)
Donato Giancola

Creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced.

Its passage through history is marked by warped desires and insatiable greed.

Malevolent Witchkite (Wilds of Eldraine)
Donato Giancola

Flying When this creature enters, sacrifice any number of artifacts, enchantments, and/or tokens, then draw that many cards.

"Was there a fearsome witch around here? Or was it a cruel dragon? The tales were confu—oh no." —Osval, adventurer

Island (Urza's Saga)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {U}.)

Overgrown Farmland (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt)
Donato Giancola

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Solemn Simulacrum (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Mighty Servant of Leuk-o (Battle for Baldur's Gate Promos)
Donato Giancola

Trample Ward—Discard a card. Whenever this Vehicle becomes crewed for the first time each turn, if it was crewed by exactly two creatures, it gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw two cards" until end of turn. Crew 4

Skyswimmer Koi (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Donato Giancola

Flying Whenever an artifact you control enters, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Once they swam alone among the clouds, but now the people of Kamigawa have built high enough to reach them.

Shivan Dragon (Dominaria Remastered)
Donato Giancola

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

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Crystal Rod (Eighth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Polished by a thousand waves.

Throne of Bone (Classic Sixth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Crystal Chimes (Commander 2015)
Donato Giancola

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to your hand.

As Serra was to learn, the peace and sanctity of her realm were as fragile as glass.

Tolsimir Wolfblood (GRN Guild Kit)
Donato Giancola

Other green creatures you control get +1/+1. Other white creatures you control get +1/+1. {T}: Create Voja, a legendary 2/2 green and white Wolf creature token.

Shivan Dragon (Welcome Deck 2016)
Donato Giancola

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

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Tolsimir Wolfblood (Ravnica Remastered)
Donato Giancola

Other green creatures you control get +1/+1. Other white creatures you control get +1/+1. {T}: Create Voja, a legendary 2/2 green and white Wolf creature token.

Chrome Mox (Mirrodin)
Donato Giancola

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Shivan Dragon (Media and Collaboration Promos)
Donato Giancola

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

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Cartographer's Hawk (Commander 2020)
Donato Giancola

Flying When this creature deals combat damage to a player who controls more lands than you, return it to its owner's hand. If you do, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Star Compass (Iconic Masters)
Donato Giancola

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

It doesn't point north. It points home.

Chrome Host Seedshark (March of the Machine Promos)
Donato Giancola

Flying Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, incubate X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Star Compass (The List)
Donato Giancola

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

It doesn't point north. It points home.

Deathgazer (Eighth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a nonblack creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Your entire life passes before its eyes.

Meltdown (Modern Horizons 3)
Donato Giancola

Destroy each artifact with mana value X or less.

Catastrophes happened so often at the mana rig that the viashino language had a special word to describe them.

Solemn Simulacrum (New Capenna Commander)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Solemn Simulacrum (The Brothers' War Commander)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Skyclave Apparition (Zendikar Rising Promos)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less. When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Preacher of the Schism (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Donato Giancola

Deathtouch Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink. Whenever this creature attacks while you have the most life or are tied for most life, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Solemn Simulacrum (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Mirari (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Donato Giancola

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay {3}. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"It offers you what you want, not what you need." —Braids, dementia summoner

Patron Wizard (The List)
Donato Giancola

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

"The best way to teach is by example."

Havoc (Tempest)
Donato Giancola

Whenever an opponent casts a white spell, they lose 2 life.

As Orim put the lightning rod into place on the bow, she cast a spell of protection to shield herself from the heat. That's when the Furnace got personal.

Cartographer's Hawk (Commander Masters)
Donato Giancola

Flying When this creature deals combat damage to a player who controls more lands than you, return it to its owner's hand. If you do, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Brink of Madness (The List)
Donato Giancola

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have no cards in hand, sacrifice this enchantment and target opponent discards their hand.

"The fools thought me dead. But I built an empire inside my tomb." —Kerrick, sleeper agent

Chrome Host Seedshark (March of the Machine)
Donato Giancola

Flying Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, incubate X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Rack and Ruin (Urza's Legacy)
Donato Giancola

Destroy two target artifacts.

"My people are bound by masters centuries dead. Each artifact we destroy is another link broken in that chain." —Barb Tail, viashino heretic

Inkshield (Secret Lair Drop)
Donato Giancola

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn. For each 1 damage prevented this way, create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.

"You did it to yourself."

Pact of the Serpent (Kaldheim Commander)
Donato Giancola

Choose a creature type. Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of creatures they control of the chosen type.

"Our quarrels behind us. Our foes before us. Death or triumph for us all!"

Shivan Dragon (Game Night: Free-for-All)
Donato Giancola

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

"It's just playing with us, Marsden." —Dafynne the Radiant, last words

Jhessian Infiltrator (Shards of Alara)
Donato Giancola

This creature can't be blocked.

The Jhessian navy makes successful raids on Valeron's coastal towns thanks to their spies planted during peacetime.

Court of Ardenvale (Wilds of Eldraine Commander)
Donato Giancola

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand. If you're the monarch, return that permanent card to the battlefield instead.

Shivan Dragon (Magic 2015)
Donato Giancola

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

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Revered Elder (Mercadian Masques)
Donato Giancola

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

The Cho-Arrim worship life and revere those who've experienced it longest.

The Aetherspark (Aetherdrift)
Donato Giancola

As long as The Aetherspark is attached to a creature, The Aetherspark can't be attacked and has "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage during your turn, put that many loyalty counters on The Aetherspark." +1: Attach The Aetherspark to up to one target creature you control. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. −5: Draw two cards. −10: Add ten mana of any one color.

Sacred Knight (Portal)
Donato Giancola

This creature can't be blocked by black and/or red creatures.

"No flame, no horror can sway me from my cause."

Wrenn and Six (Double Masters 2022)
Donato Giancola

+1: Return up to one target land card from your graveyard to your hand. −1: Wrenn and Six deals 1 damage to any target. −7: You get an emblem with "Instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard have retrace." (You may cast instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)

Szadek, Lord of Secrets (GRN Guild Kit)
Donato Giancola

Flying If Szadek would deal combat damage to a player, instead put that many +1/+1 counters on Szadek and that player mills that many cards.

Chrome Mox (World Championship Decks 2004)
Donato Giancola

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Village Elder (Mirage)
Donato Giancola

{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a Forest: Regenerate target creature.

"Enchant me with your tale-telling. Tell about Tree, Grass, River, and Wind. / Tell why Truth must fight with Falsehood, and why Truth will always win." —"Love Song of Night and Day"

Needlethorn Drake (Strixhaven: School of Mages)
Donato Giancola

Flying, deathtouch

As they learn to fly, young drakes have a tendency to accidentally impale trees, cliffs, and unsuspecting students.

Foil (Mystery Booster 2)
Donato Giancola

You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Among wizards, poor timing is the most consistent mistake.

Sunken Field (Prophecy)
Donato Giancola

Enchant land Enchanted land has "{T}: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}."

The land is heavy with promise, the harvest ripe with betrayal.

Shivan Dragon (Eighth Edition)
Donato Giancola

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

The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.

Helm of Kaldra (Fifth Dawn)
Donato Giancola

Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste. {1}: If you control Equipment named Helm of Kaldra, Sword of Kaldra, and Shield of Kaldra, create Kaldra, a legendary 4/4 colorless Avatar creature token. Attach those Equipment to it. Equip {2}

Sword of Kaldra (Mirrodin Promos)
Donato Giancola

Equipped creature gets +5/+5. Whenever equipped creature deals damage to a creature, exile that creature. (Exile it only if it's still on the battlefield.) Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Branchloft Pathway (Secret Lair: Ultimate Edition)
Donato Giancola

Grinning Totem (Mirage)
Donato Giancola

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card. At the beginning of your next upkeep, if you haven't played it, put it into its owner's graveyard.

Serra Angel (Dominaria Remastered)
Donato Giancola

Flying Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

The angel remembers her past lives like dreams. Her song held up meadows. Her blade drove back darkness. Her wings carried her across the ages.

Carth the Lion (Modern Horizons 2 Promos)
Donato Giancola

Whenever Carth enters or a planeswalker you control dies, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal a planeswalker card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Planeswalkers' loyalty abilities you activate cost an additional [+1] to activate.

Sisters of Stone Death (GRN Guild Kit)
Donato Giancola

{G}: Target creature blocks Sisters of Stone Death this turn if able. {B}{G}: Exile target creature blocking or blocked by Sisters of Stone Death. {2}{B}: Put a creature card exiled with Sisters of Stone Death onto the battlefield under your control.

Kindle (Tempest)
Donato Giancola

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

Hope of deliverance is scorched by the fire of futility.

Island (Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {U}.)

Rank and File (Urza's Legacy)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, green creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Left, right, left, right . . . hmm. Okay—left, left, left, left, . . ."

King Darien XLVIII (Dominaria United Promos)
Donato Giancola

Other creatures you control get +1/+1. {3}{G}{W}: Put a +1/+1 counter on King Darien and create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token. Sacrifice King Darien: Creature tokens you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Preacher of the Schism (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos)
Donato Giancola

Deathtouch Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink. Whenever this creature attacks while you have the most life or are tied for most life, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Agrus Kos, Wojek Veteran (GRN Guild Kit)
Donato Giancola

Whenever Agrus Kos attacks, attacking red creatures get +2/+0 and attacking white creatures get +0/+2 until end of turn.

Lieutenant Kos has never met a group of recruits he could not inspire or a mob he could not quell.

Island (Arena League 1999)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {U}.)

Dismiss (Tempest)
Donato Giancola

Counter target spell. Draw a card.

"There is nothing you can do that I cannot simply deny." —Ertai, wizard adept

Starke (Vanguard Series)
Donato Giancola

At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw an additional card. If you do, put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library.

Starke believes in situational ethics—the situation determines the ethics. He's switched sides so often that he has become everyone's ally yet no one's friend. This former merchant of Rath accompanies the *Weatherlight* crew on their journey to his home world.

Reflexes (Seventh Edition)
Donato Giancola

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature has first strike. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

"Be as fast as lightning, and you will be just as deadly." —Combat trainer

Coalition Relic (The List)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. At the beginning of your first main phase, remove all charge counters from this artifact. Add one mana of any color for each charge counter removed this way.

Celestine Reef (DCI Promos)
Donato Giancola

Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack. Whenever chaos ensues, until a player planeswalks, you can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

Szadek, Lord of Secrets (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Donato Giancola

Flying If Szadek would deal combat damage to a player, instead put that many +1/+1 counters on Szadek and that player mills that many cards.

Demonic Tutor (Commander Masters)
Donato Giancola

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

"Is the knowledge really forbidden because it is dangerous to you? Or perhaps because it is dangerous to those who seek to control you?"

Command Tower (Commander Masters)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

"I'm not sure who's in charge around here, but I'm pretty sure I know where to go to find out." —Corliss the Wanderer

Cartographer (Odyssey)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may return target land card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Finding the way once is luck. Finding the way twice takes a good map."

Experimental Augury (Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
Donato Giancola

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Teferi's Puzzle Box (Eighth Edition)
Donato Giancola

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player puts the cards in their hand on the bottom of their library in any order, then draws that many cards.

Wrenn and Six (Double Masters 2022)
Donato Giancola

+1: Return up to one target land card from your graveyard to your hand. −1: Wrenn and Six deals 1 damage to any target. −7: You get an emblem with "Instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard have retrace." (You may cast instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)

Perilous Research (The List)
Donato Giancola

Draw two cards, then sacrifice a permanent.

When the School of the Unseen fell, so many magical treasures lay abandoned that no amount of death could deter the stream of thieves and desperate scholars.

Yawgmoth's Edict (Seventh Edition)
Donato Giancola

Whenever an opponent casts a white spell, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

The warping of bodies and souls has become the heart of Yawgmoth's existence.

Mighty Servant of Leuk-o (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Donato Giancola

Trample Ward—Discard a card. Whenever this Vehicle becomes crewed for the first time each turn, if it was crewed by exactly two creatures, it gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw two cards" until end of turn. Crew 4

Tigereye Cameo (Invasion)
Donato Giancola

{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

"An elvish adventurer unearthed this stone in Jolrael's jungle. Now it's truly fit for display in one of her palaces." —Isel, master carver

Kentaro, the Smiling Cat (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Donato Giancola

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) You may pay {X} rather than pay the mana cost for Samurai spells you cast, where X is that spell's mana value.

"The bonds of bushido will draw the dishonored back someday, and I will be there waiting."

Bant Panorama (New Capenna Commander)
Donato Giancola

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

Bant's hearts are as pure as its air and as bright as its skies.

Skyclave Apparition (Zendikar Rising)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less. When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Rack and Ruin (World Championship Decks 1999)
Donato Giancola

Destroy two target artifacts.

"My people are bound by masters centuries dead. Each artifact we destroy is another link broken in that chain." —Barb Tail, viashino heretic

Serra Angel (Dominaria Remastered)
Donato Giancola

Flying Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

The angel remembers her past lives like dreams. Her song held up meadows. Her blade drove back darkness. Her wings carried her across the ages.

Meltdown (Urza's Saga)
Donato Giancola

Destroy each artifact with mana value X or less.

Catastrophes happened so often at the mana rig that the viashino language had a special word to describe them.

Cartographer's Hawk (Starter Commander Decks)
Donato Giancola

Flying When this creature deals combat damage to a player who controls more lands than you, return it to its owner's hand. If you do, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Asha's Favor (Conflux)
Donato Giancola

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying, first strike, and vigilance.

As his new wings lifted him high above Bant, Taric felt his earthly aspirations transform into heavenly resolve.

Heartfire Immolator (Core Set 2021)
Donato Giancola

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {R}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker.

"I'd rather go out in a blaze of glory than fade away and be forgotten."

Shattering Pulse (World Championship Decks 1999)
Donato Giancola

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.) Destroy target artifact.

Skyclave Apparition (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less. When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Grinning Totem (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Donato Giancola

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card. At the beginning of your next upkeep, if you haven't played it, put it into its owner's graveyard.

Mirari (World Championship Decks 2003)
Donato Giancola

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay {3}. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"It offers you what you want, not what you need." —Braids, dementia summoner

Disenchant (Urza's Saga)
Donato Giancola

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"Let Phyrexia breed evil in the darkness; my holy light will reveal its taint." —Serra

Altar's Reap (Commander Anthology)
Donato Giancola

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

"Don't worry, your death will be as informative as possible." —Gorghul, augur of skulls

Forest (World Championship Decks 2001)
Donato Giancola

({T}: Add {G}.)

Altar's Reap (Conspiracy)
Donato Giancola

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

"Don't worry, your death will be as informative as possible." —Gorghul, augur of skulls

Sandstalker Moloch (March of the Machine)
Donato Giancola

Flash When this creature enters, if an opponent cast a blue and/or black spell this turn, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a permanent card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Divining Witch (Nemesis)
Donato Giancola

{1}{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.

Solemn Simulacrum (Commander 2021)
Donato Giancola

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Dismiss (Commander 2013)
Donato Giancola

Counter target spell. Draw a card.

"There is nothing you can do that I cannot simply deny." —Ertai, wizard adept

Grinning Totem (Classic Sixth Edition)
Donato Giancola

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card. At the beginning of your next upkeep, if you haven't played it, put it into its owner's graveyard.

Feroz's Ban (Seventh Edition)
Donato Giancola

Creature spells cost {2} more to cast.

Feroz is gone, but what remains is his final gift to his people: the right to be left alone.

Sanctum Guardian (Ninth Edition)
Donato Giancola

Sacrifice this creature: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to any target this turn, prevent that damage.