Grasp of Fate

Grasp of Fate (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

When this enchantment enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

"And I suppose, if it's one last chance to say it, Rose Tyler..."

Grasp of Fate (Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting Tales)
WFlemming Illustration

When this enchantment enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

"The witch wrapped her heart in briar vines, hid it away in the ancient keep in the depths of the forest. If none could find it, the prophecy could never come to pass." —*Beyond the Great Henge*

Grasp of Fate (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

When this enchantment enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

"And I suppose, if it's one last chance to say it, Rose Tyler..."

Grasp of Fate (The List)
Tomasz Jedruszek

When this enchantment enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

Grasp of Fate (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

When this enchantment enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

"And I suppose, if it's one last chance to say it, Rose Tyler..."

Grasp of Fate (Commander 2015)
Tomasz Jedruszek

When this enchantment enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

Grasp of Fate (Commander Masters)
Lie Setiawan

When this enchantment enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

Few escape the Underworld. Fewer still escape fate.

Haunted Cadaver (Onslaught)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. If you do, that player discards three cards. Morph {1}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Curfew (Urza's Saga)
Randy Gallegos

Each player returns a creature they control to its owner's hand.

". . . But I'm not tired!"

The Bears of Littjara (Kaldheim Promos)
Randy Gallegos

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. II — Any number of target Shapeshifter creatures you control have base power and toughness 4/4. III — Choose up to one target creature or planeswalker. Each creature with power 4 or greater you control deals damage equal to its power to that permanent.

Dingus Egg (Eighth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Legend has it that the world was hatched from a dingus egg.

Razorverge Thicket (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos)
Randy Gallegos

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

Where evolution meets austerity, primal might bucks against the yoke of hierarchy.

Thornglint Bridge (The List)
Randy Gallegos

This land enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

The path to growth is forged in balance.

Island (World Championship Decks 1998)
Randy Gallegos

({T}: Add {U}.)

Shock (Beatdown Box Set)
Randy Gallegos

Shock deals 2 damage to any target.

Lightning tethers souls to the world. —Kor saying

Tangled Islet (Dominaria United)
Randy Gallegos

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) This land enters tapped.

Many of Terisiare's islands are merely extensions of the root system of the Yavimaya magnigoth forests.

Gruul Guildgate (Ravnica Remastered)
Randy Gallegos

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Enter and leave the shackles of society behind.

Park Heights Pegasus (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Randy Gallegos

Flying, trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card if you had two or more creatures enter the battlefield under your control this turn.

The burglar turned, bowed, and dropped from the ledge onto her waiting mount.

Expanding Ooze (Modern Horizons 3)
Randy Gallegos

{B}{G}: Adapt 1. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target modified creature you control. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

"It eats the royal garbage. Of course it's growing!" —Prince Bolbuss

Soul Warden (Magic 2010)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

"One does not question the size or shape of the grains of sand in an hourglass. Nor do I question the temperament of the souls under my guidance."

Arcane Signet (Tales of Middle-earth Commander)
Randy Gallegos

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

"Magic rings are, well, magical; and they are rare and curious." —Gandalf

Hour of Reckoning (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Randy Gallegos

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Destroy all nontoken creatures.

"Ravnica, like a hedge, must be pruned, leaving only leaves of verdant uniformity." —Niszka, Selesnya evangel

Grasp of Fate (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

When this enchantment enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

"And I suppose, if it's one last chance to say it, Rose Tyler..."

Sage Aven (Onslaught)
Randy Gallegos

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

From their mountain aeries, aven scholars see far more than the distant horizon.

Tranquil Landscape (Modern Horizons 3)
Randy Gallegos

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

Ballynock Trapper (Eventide)
Randy Gallegos

{T}: Tap target creature. Whenever you cast a white spell, you may untap this creature.

No matter how large or small, fierce or fleeting, the kithkin have a trap for it.

Tanglepool Bridge (Aetherdrift Commander)
Randy Gallegos

This land enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

The path to change is forged in insight.

Balance (From the Vault: Exiled)
Randy Gallegos

Each player chooses a number of lands they control equal to the number of lands controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Players discard cards and sacrifice creatures the same way.

Park Heights Pegasus (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Randy Gallegos

Flying, trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card if you had two or more creatures enter the battlefield under your control this turn.

The burglar turned, bowed, and dropped from the ledge onto her waiting mount.

Barbed Batterfist (Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
Randy Gallegos

For Mirrodin! (When this Equipment enters, create a 2/2 red Rebel creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"Finally, a safe way to punch the rotters in the face."

Sleeper Agent (The List)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, target opponent gains control of it. At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 2 damage to you.

Dance of the Dead (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Randy Gallegos

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

Call to Heel (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Randy Gallegos

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller draws a card.

On Bant, a sigil is both a prize of honor and a bond of duty. The one who bears it may be called to fulfill that charge at any moment.

Tranquil Landscape (Modern Horizons 3)
Randy Gallegos

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

Boggart Trawler (Modern Horizons 3)
Randy Gallegos

Guildpact Informant (The List)
Randy Gallegos

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"Of course you're being followed!"

Surge of Thoughtweft (Lorwyn)
Randy Gallegos

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. If you control a Kithkin, draw a card.

Kithkin weave together their very thoughts, creating a depth of cooperation unknown to other races.

Tarrian's Journal (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Randy Gallegos

Skyshroud Sentinel (Nemesis)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, you may search your library for up to three cards named Skyshroud Sentinel, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Springbloom Druid (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"New growth applies a healing poultice to wounds long scabbed over."

Stampeding Wildebeests (Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Randy Gallegos

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return a green creature you control to its owner's hand.

The most violent and destructive storms in Femeref occur on cloudless days.

Darkblast (Ravnica Remastered)
Randy Gallegos

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Conquer (Classic Sixth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Enchant land You control enchanted land.

"Why do we trade with those despicable elves? You don't live in forests, you burn them!" —Avram Garrisson, Leader of the Knights of Stromgald

Dan Lewis (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

Noncreature, non-Equipment artifacts you control are Equipment in addition to their other types and have "Equipped creature gets +1/+0" and equip {1}. Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

"What's your plan? Some clever sciencey-spacey thing I won't understand?"

Fire-Belly Changeling (Lorwyn)
Randy Gallegos

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.

"My ears say it hisses. My fingers say it burns." —Auntie Wort

Stampeding Wildebeests (Visions)
Randy Gallegos

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return a green creature you control to its owner's hand.

Prayers for rain are answered with the thunder of hooves.

Expendable Lackey (Foundations Jumpstart)
Randy Gallegos

{1}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token with "This token can't be blocked." Activate only as a sorcery.

"Altonio? No, I'm sorry. No one by that name works here." —Raffine

Benalish Emissary (Invasion)
Randy Gallegos

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

Breaking of the Fellowship (The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth)
Randy Gallegos

Target creature an opponent controls deals damage equal to its power to another target creature that player controls. The Ring tempts you.

"It might have been mine. It should be mine. Give it to me!"

Giant Spider (Magic 2012)
Randy Gallegos

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"The wild is always changing, but it does have a few constants." —Garruk Wildspeaker

Treasonous Ogre (Conspiracy)
Randy Gallegos

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Pay 3 life: Add {R}.

"Everything comes with a price. Especially revolution." —Grenzo, dungeon warden

Court Archers (Shards of Alara)
Randy Gallegos

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

The Sun-Dappled Court of Valeron stands secure behind a wall of steel-tipped arrows.

Springbloom Druid (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"New growth applies a healing poultice to wounds long scabbed over."

Maw of the Obzedat (Dragon's Maze)
Randy Gallegos

Sacrifice a creature: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

The devout sacrifice themselves to it hoping for escape from their debts to the guild, but many end up owing in the afterlife.

Bartolomé del Presidio (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Randy Gallegos

Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Bartolomé del Presidio.

"Bless this sinner, who sacrificed his blood so that I may live."

Razorverge Thicket (Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
Randy Gallegos

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

Where evolution meets austerity, primal might bucks against the yoke of hierarchy.

Curfew (Battle Royale Box Set)
Randy Gallegos

Each player returns a creature they control to its owner's hand.

". . . But I'm not tired!"

Mesa Enchantress (Eternal Masters)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may draw a card.

"Scholars seek to understand the way the world is. I wish to shape the world into what it should be."

Mazemind Tome (Commander Masters)
Randy Gallegos

{T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {2}, {T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Draw a card. When there are four or more page counters on this artifact, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.

Giant Spider (Core Set 2019)
Randy Gallegos

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"After everything I've survived, it's hard to be frightened by anything anymore." —Vivien Reid

Giant Spider (Eighth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Watching the spider's web —Llanowar expression meaning "focusing on the wrong thing"

Giant Spider (Magic 2014)
Randy Gallegos

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"It has a quickness about it that seems unnatural for its large size, yet its hunger is about right." —Endril, Kalonian naturalist

Giant Spider (Portal)
Randy Gallegos

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

It's not far into the trap, as the crow flies.

Giant Spider (Dominaria Remastered)
Randy Gallegos

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

The giant spider's silk naturally resists gravity, almost weaving itself as it blankets the forest canopy.

Shock (Classic Sixth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Shock deals 2 damage to any target.

Lightning tethers souls to the world. —Kor saying

Burgeoning (Stronghold)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever an opponent plays a land, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"The plants said, 'We will fight the stone with root and stem and seed. We are patient. We will win.'" —Skyshroud myth of the forest

Island (Tempest)
Randy Gallegos

({T}: Add {U}.)

Loxodon Mystic (Tenth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

Elder mystics take their vow of silence so seriously that they impose it on any who enter their presence.

Sword of Hearth and Home (Tales of Middle-earth Commander)
Randy Gallegos

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from white. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target creature you own, then search your library for a basic land card. Put both cards onto the battlefield under your control, then shuffle. Equip {2}

Razorverge Thicket (The List)
Randy Gallegos

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

Where evolution meets austerity, primal might bucks against the yoke of hierarchy.

Floodfarm Verge (Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos)
Randy Gallegos

{T}: Add {W}. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.

Here, the Mistmoors slump like a grieving parent, the once-thriving fields drowned by the relentless deluge.

Dive Bomber (Onslaught)
Randy Gallegos

Flying {T}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

"Your graves will lie beneath my final nest."

Gruul Guildgate (Zendikar Rising Commander)
Randy Gallegos

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Enter and leave the shackles of society behind.

Scalding Tongs (Tempest)
Randy Gallegos

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have three or fewer cards in hand, this artifact deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

"This has nothing to do with what you know and everything to do with what I wish." —Volrath

Invert the Skies (Eventide)
Randy Gallegos

Creatures your opponents control lose flying until end of turn if {G} was spent to cast this spell, and creatures you control gain flying until end of turn if {U} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {G}{U} was spent.)

Floodfarm Verge (Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos)
Randy Gallegos

{T}: Add {W}. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.

Here, the Mistmoors slump like a grieving parent, the once-thriving fields drowned by the relentless deluge.

Island (Tempest)
Randy Gallegos

({T}: Add {U}.)

Springbloom Druid (Kaldheim Commander)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"New growth applies a healing poultice to wounds long scabbed over."

Accumulated Knowledge (Friday Night Magic 2004)
Randy Gallegos

Draw a card, then draw cards equal to the number of cards named Accumulated Knowledge in all graveyards.

"I have seen and heard much here. There are secrets within secrets. Let me show you." —Takara, to Eladamri

Reverse the Polarity (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

Choose one — • Counter all other spells. • Switch each creature's power and toughness until end of turn. • Creatures can't be blocked this turn.

"You see, before you reactivated it, I reversed the polarity of the neutron flow."

Elemental (Eternal Masters Tokens)
Randy Gallegos

Flying

Dingus Egg (Fifth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Sword of Hearth and Home (Tales of Middle-earth Commander)
Randy Gallegos

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from white. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target creature you own, then search your library for a basic land card. Put both cards onto the battlefield under your control, then shuffle. Equip {2}

Infuse (Ice Age)
Randy Gallegos

Untap target artifact, creature, or land. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"The potential for change lies in all things. Know a thing's nature, know its possibilities, and know it anew." —Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran Royal Mage

Fell the Pheasant (Throne of Eldraine)
Randy Gallegos

Fell the Pheasant deals 5 damage to target creature with flying. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

"A keen eye and steady hand are essential for defeating most foes, including hunger." —Syr Grenphire, knight of Garenbrig

Furor of the Bitten (Innistrad)
Randy Gallegos

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and attacks each combat if able.

Those who only believe themselves infected with lycanthropy can be as dangerous as those who really are.

Razorverge Thicket (Bloomburrow Commander)
Randy Gallegos

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

Where evolution meets austerity, primal might bucks against the yoke of hierarchy.

Park Heights Pegasus (Streets of New Capenna)
Randy Gallegos

Flying, trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card if you had two or more creatures enter the battlefield under your control this turn.

The burglar turned, bowed, and dropped from the ledge onto her waiting mount.

Darkblast (GRN Guild Kit)
Randy Gallegos

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Theft of Dreams (Portal Second Age)
Randy Gallegos

Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls.

"First they fight, then they sleep, then they dream. And finally I receive my reward."

Dead Weight (Shadows over Innistrad)
Randy Gallegos

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.

"Dungeons and cages offer far too little sport." —Relio Voldaren

Island (Premium Deck Series: Slivers)
Randy Gallegos

({T}: Add {U}.)

Lotus Blossom (Urza's Saga)
Randy Gallegos

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a petal counter on this artifact. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of petal counters on this artifact.

Sprite Noble (Eternal Masters)
Randy Gallegos

Flying Other creatures you control with flying get +0/+1. {T}: Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+0 until end of turn.

"By thorn and by stone, we will fight to see the day when beauty returns to this world."

Park Heights Pegasus (Streets of New Capenna)
Randy Gallegos

Flying, trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card if you had two or more creatures enter the battlefield under your control this turn.

Hero's Blade (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

Equipped creature gets +3/+2. Whenever a legendary creature you control enters, you may attach this Equipment to it. Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Flaming Sword (Mercadian Masques)
Randy Gallegos

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike.

"It's not Talruum crystal, but I must admit—it gets the job done." —Tahngarth

Mosquito Guard (Morningtide)
Randy Gallegos

First strike Reinforce 1—{1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.)

His aim is as sure as a mosquito's sting, but with none of the warning.

Call to Arms (Ice Age)
Randy Gallegos

As this enchantment enters, choose a color and an opponent. White creatures get +1/+1 as long as the chosen color is the most common color among nontoken permanents the chosen player controls but isn't tied for most common. When the chosen color isn't the most common color among nontoken permanents the chosen player controls or is tied for most common, sacrifice this enchantment.

Gruul Guildgate (Commander 2013)
Randy Gallegos

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Enter and leave the shackles of society behind.

Brazen Freebooter (Jumpstart 2022)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Finders, keepers.

Sprite Noble (The List)
Randy Gallegos

Flying Other creatures you control with flying get +0/+1. {T}: Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+0 until end of turn.

"By thorn and by stone, we will fight to see the day when beauty returns to this world."

Conquer (Ice Age)
Randy Gallegos

Enchant land You control enchanted land.

"Why do we trade with those despicable Elves? You don't live in forests, you burn them!" —Avram Garrisson, Leader of the Knights of Stromgald

Soltari Crusader (Tempest)
Randy Gallegos

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) {1}{W}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Carry war to the Dauthi, no matter the way, no matter the world." —Soltari battle chant

Steeling Stance (Dissension)
Randy Gallegos

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Forecast — {W}, Reveal this card from your hand: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. (Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Fire-Belly Changeling (The List)
Randy Gallegos

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.

"My ears say it hisses. My fingers say it burns." —Auntie Wort

Sprite Noble (Time Spiral)
Randy Gallegos

Flying Other creatures you control with flying get +0/+1. {T}: Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+0 until end of turn.

"By thorn and by stone, we will fight to see the day when beauty returns to this world."

Kithkin Soldier (Modern Masters Tokens)
Randy Gallegos

Sway of the Stars (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Randy Gallegos

Each player shuffles their hand, graveyard, and all permanents they own into their library, then draws seven cards. Each player's life total becomes 7.

Deadly Insect (Mercadian Masques)
Randy Gallegos

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

With his newfound sense of self-importance, Squee set his sights on ever-bigger bugs.

Disruptive Student (Urza's Saga)
Randy Gallegos

{T}: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

"Teferi is a problem student. Always late for class. No appreciation for constructive use of time." —Barrin, progress report

Karplusan Forest (Classic Sixth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

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

Shock (Friday Night Magic 2000)
Randy Gallegos

Shock deals 2 damage to any target.

Lightning tethers souls to the world. —Kor saying

Bilbo's Ring (The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth)
Randy Gallegos

During your turn, equipped creature has hexproof and can't be blocked. Whenever equipped creature attacks alone, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Equip Halfling {1} ({1}: Attach to target Halfling you control. Equip only as a sorcery.) Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Farsight Ritual (Wilds of Eldraine Promos)
Randy Gallegos

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Look at the top four cards of your library. If this spell was bargained, look at the top eight cards of your library instead. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Soul Warden (World Championship Decks 1998)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Count carefully the souls and see that none are lost. —Vec teaching

Search for Tomorrow (Modern Masters)
Randy Gallegos

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Grasp of Fate (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

When this enchantment enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

"And I suppose, if it's one last chance to say it, Rose Tyler..."

Trip Noose (Shadowmoor)
Randy Gallegos

{2}, {T}: Tap target creature.

A taut slipknot trigger is the only thing standing between you and standing.

Grizzled Outcasts (Innistrad)
Randy Gallegos

Soul Warden (The List)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

"One does not question the size or shape of the grains of sand in an hourglass. Nor do I question the temperament of the souls under my guidance."

Primeval Force (Portal)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice three Forests.

Lórien Revealed (The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth)
Randy Gallegos

Draw three cards. Islandcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

"Look on us now with friendly eyes! Behold the trees of the Naith of Lórien and be glad!" —Haldir

Oath of Eorl (Tales of Middle-earth Commander)
Randy Gallegos

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Create two 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens. II — Create two 2/2 red Human Knight creature tokens with trample and haste. III — Put an indestructible counter on up to one target Human. You become the monarch.

Leonin Bladetrap (Commander Anthology)
Randy Gallegos

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) {2}, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 2 damage to each attacking creature without flying.

Incandescent Aria (Streets of New Capenna)
Randy Gallegos

Incandescent Aria deals 3 damage to each nontoken creature.

As the assassins converged on Kitt Kanto, she struck a high note and held it, unbroken, for nearly a minute. When the room fell silent, she was surrounded only by rose petals falling gently to the floor.

Treasonous Ogre (The List)
Randy Gallegos

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Pay 3 life: Add {R}.

"Everything comes with a price. Especially revolution." —Grenzo, dungeon warden

Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant (The List)
Randy Gallegos

Giant Spider (Magic 2011)
Randy Gallegos

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

The giant spider's silk naturally resists gravity, almost weaving itself as it blankets the forest canopy.

Battle Screech (Dominaria Remastered)
Randy Gallegos

Create two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying. Flashback—Tap three untapped white creatures you control. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Mesa Enchantress (Magic 2012)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may draw a card.

"Scholars seek to understand the way the world is. I wish to shape the world into what it should be."

Search for Tomorrow (The List)
Randy Gallegos

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Horizon Canopy (Tales of Middle-earth Commander)
Randy Gallegos

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {W}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

It was popularly believed, as local legend, that the Hill at Bag End was full of tunnels stuffed with treasure.

Bant Charm (Shards of Alara)
Randy Gallegos

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library. • Counter target instant spell.

Bant is a world where death and chaos hold no sway.

Vindictive Vampire (Ravnica Allegiance)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever another creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

In theory, the Guildpact keeps guild feuds from spiraling out of control. Personal feuds, however, are not covered.

Mesa Enchantress (Dominaria Remastered)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may draw a card.

She shepherds mysteries and dust as others would a flock of sheep.

Karplusan Forest (Dominaria United)
Randy Gallegos

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

Auriok Salvagers (Modern Masters)
Randy Gallegos

{1}{W}: Return target artifact card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

"Memnarch or the vedalken salvage most of the large machines, leaving us only scraps. Scraps are enough."

Dashing Bloodsucker (Duskmourn: House of Horror)
Randy Gallegos

Eerie — Whenever an enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, this creature gets +2/+0 and gains lifelink until end of turn.

"There are worse things here than vampires."

Hero's Blade (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

Equipped creature gets +3/+2. Whenever a legendary creature you control enters, you may attach this Equipment to it. Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Oath of Eorl (Tales of Middle-earth Commander)
Randy Gallegos

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Create two 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens. II — Create two 2/2 red Human Knight creature tokens with trample and haste. III — Put an indestructible counter on up to one target Human. You become the monarch.

Stampeding Wildebeests (Tenth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return a green creature you control to its owner's hand.

The most violent and destructive storms in Femeref occur on cloudless days.

Aethermage's Touch (Commander 2018)
Randy Gallegos

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. It gains "At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to its owner's hand." Then put the rest of the cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Book of Mazarbul (The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth)
Randy Gallegos

(Mentre questa Saga entra e dopo la tua sottofase di acquisizione, aggiungi un segnalino sapere. Sacrifica dopo III.) I — Recluta Orchi 1. (Metti un segnalino +1/+1 su un Esercito che controlli. È anche un Orco. Se non controlli un Esercito, crea prima una pedina creatura Esercito Orco 0/0 nera.) II — Recluta Orchi 2. III — Le creature che controlli prendono +1/+0 e hanno minacciare fino alla fine del turno.

Alpha Brawl (Dark Ascension)
Randy Gallegos

Target creature an opponent controls deals damage equal to its power to each other creature that player controls, then each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to that creature.

Being an alpha means proving it every full moon.

Mazemind Tome (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Randy Gallegos

{T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {2}, {T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Draw a card. When there are four or more page counters on this artifact, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.

Pillar of the Paruns (Tales of Middle-earth Commander)
Randy Gallegos

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a multicolored spell.

"The Road goes ever on and on, Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can." —Frodo's song

Mwonvuli Acid-Moss (The List)
Randy Gallegos

Destroy target land. Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Life gives way to death, and death to new life. Nature feeds upon her own decay." —Ezrith, druid of the Dark Hours

Giant Spider (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Randy Gallegos

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

The giant spider's silk naturally resists gravity, almost weaving itself as it blankets the forest canopy.

Cinder Wall (Weatherlight)
Randy Gallegos

Defender When this creature blocks, destroy it at end of combat.

"Easy. All ya gotta do is push somebody into it." —Squee, goblin cabin hand, scouting report

Stampeding Wildebeests (Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Randy Gallegos

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return a green creature you control to its owner's hand.

The most violent and destructive storms in Femeref occur on cloudless days.

Fierce Guardianship (Commander Masters)
Randy Gallegos

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

"Mindless violence withers in the face of a master's skill."

Tangled Islet (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Randy Gallegos

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) This land enters tapped.

Many of Terisiare's islands are merely extensions of the root system of the Yavimaya magnigoth forests.

Mazemind Tome (Foundations)
Randy Gallegos

{T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {2}, {T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Draw a card. When there are four or more page counters on this artifact, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.

Giant Spider (Classic Sixth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

It's not far into the trap, as the crow flies.

Instrument of the Bards (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Randy Gallegos

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a harmony counter on Instrument of the Bards. {3}{G}, {T}: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of harmony counters on Instrument of the Bards, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If that card is legendary, create a Treasure token. Then shuffle.

Brazen Freebooter (Rivals of Ixalan)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Finders, keepers.

Mesa Enchantress (Planar Chaos)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may draw a card.

She shepherds mysteries and dust as others would a flock of sheep.

Bant Charm (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Randy Gallegos

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library. • Counter target instant spell.

Bant is a world where death and chaos hold no sway.

Chain of Silence (Onslaught)
Randy Gallegos

Prevent all damage target creature would deal this turn. That creature's controller may sacrifice a land of their choice. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Vizier of Remedies (The List)
Randy Gallegos

If one or more -1/-1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many -1/-1 counters minus one are put on it instead.

"You'll need all your strength for the trials to come."

Tanglepool Bridge (Modern Horizons 2)
Randy Gallegos

This land enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

The path to change is forged in insight.

False Demise (Alliances)
Randy Gallegos

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

"Far too many of our missing 'dead' seem to be turning up in Varchild's ranks!" —King Darien of Kjeldor

Thornscape Apprentice (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition)
Randy Gallegos

{R}, {T}: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn. {W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

Trip Noose (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
Randy Gallegos

{2}, {T}: Tap target creature.

A taut slipknot trigger is the only thing standing between you and standing.

Battle Screech (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Randy Gallegos

Create two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying. Flashback—Tap three untapped white creatures you control. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Restless Prairie (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos)
Randy Gallegos

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. {2}{G}{W}: This land becomes a 3/3 green and white Llama creature until end of turn. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, other creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Battle Screech (Judgment)
Randy Gallegos

Create two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying. Flashback—Tap three untapped white creatures you control. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Rootwater Matriarch (Tempest)
Randy Gallegos

{T}: Gain control of target creature for as long as that creature is enchanted.

Restless Prairie (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos)
Randy Gallegos

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. {2}{G}{W}: This land becomes a 3/3 green and white Llama creature until end of turn. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, other creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Shock (Eighth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Shock deals 2 damage to any target.

"I love lightning! It's my best invention since the rock." —Toggo, goblin weaponsmith

Expendable Lackey (Streets of New Capenna)
Randy Gallegos

{1}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token with "This token can't be blocked." Activate only as a sorcery.

"Altonio? No, I'm sorry. No one by that name works here." —Raffine

Incandescent Aria (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Randy Gallegos

Incandescent Aria deals 3 damage to each nontoken creature.

As the assassins converged on Kitt Kanto, she struck a high note and held it, unbroken, for nearly a minute. When the room fell silent, she was surrounded only by rose petals falling gently to the floor.

Darkblast (The List)
Randy Gallegos

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Counsel of the Soratami (Tenth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Draw two cards.

"Wisdom is not the counting of all the drops in a waterfall. Wisdom is learning why the water seeks the earth."

Plague Spores (Invasion)
Randy Gallegos

Destroy target nonblack creature and target land. They can't be regenerated.

"Breathe deep, Dominaria. Breathe deep and die." —Tsabo Tavoc, Phyrexian general

Springbloom Druid (Modern Horizons)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"New growth applies a healing poultice to wounds long scabbed over."

Aethermage's Touch (Commander Anthology)
Randy Gallegos

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. It gains "At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to its owner's hand." Then put the rest of the cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Stoic Ephemera (Dissension)
Randy Gallegos

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying When this creature blocks, sacrifice it at end of combat.

"Life is fleeting, and so is death. Only the oath is eternal."

Farsight Ritual (Wilds of Eldraine)
Randy Gallegos

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Look at the top four cards of your library. If this spell was bargained, look at the top eight cards of your library instead. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Bant Charm (New Capenna Commander)
Randy Gallegos

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library. • Counter target instant spell.

Bant is a world where death and chaos hold no sway.

Quirion Elves (Mirage)
Randy Gallegos

As this creature enters, choose a color. {T}: Add {G}. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Crumbling Sanctuary (Mercadian Masques)
Randy Gallegos

If damage would be dealt to a player, that player exiles that many cards from the top of their library instead.

Lotus Blossom (Dominaria Remastered)
Randy Gallegos

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a petal counter on this artifact. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of petal counters on this artifact.

Shock (World Championship Decks 1999)
Randy Gallegos

Shock deals 2 damage to any target.

Lightning tethers souls to the world. —Kor saying

Thunder Totem (Time Spiral)
Randy Gallegos

{T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}{W}: This artifact becomes a 2/2 white Spirit artifact creature with flying and first strike until end of turn.

Etched Cornfield (Duskmourn: House of Horror)
Randy Gallegos

This land enters tapped unless a player has 13 or less life. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

They say those who lose their way in the fields gradually wither and grow brittle, until at last they put down roots and anchor into the soil as a whispering stalk.

Slimy Kavu (Invasion)
Randy Gallegos

{T}: Target land becomes a Swamp until end of turn.

Its slime liquefies the ground as efficiently as its fangs shred prey.

Island (Tempest)
Randy Gallegos

({T}: Add {U}.)

Ghostly Flame (Ice Age)
Randy Gallegos

Black and/or red permanents and spells are colorless sources of damage.

"Walk slowly when in the nether world, and seek that which calls." —Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Murderous Betrayal (Eighth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

{B}{B}, Pay half your life, rounded up: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Which hurts more: a sword in the gut or a dagger in the back?

Hypnotic Cloud (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska)
Randy Gallegos

Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.) Target player discards a card. If this spell was kicked, that player discards three cards instead.

Vindictive Vampire (The List)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever another creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

In theory, the Guildpact keeps guild feuds from spiraling out of control. Personal feuds, however, are not covered.

Magus of the Tabernacle (Planar Chaos)
Randy Gallegos

All creatures have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {1}."

The Tabernacle's disciples channel the emanations from Pendrell Vale, spreading its paradoxical demand to be both worshipped and left alone.

Mosquito Guard (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
Randy Gallegos

First strike Reinforce 1—{1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.)

His aim is as sure as a mosquito's sting, but with none of the warning.

Standing Army (Unhinged)
Randy Gallegos

As long as you're standing, this creature has vigilance.

They're the chair-men of the bored.

Inspiring Cleric (Ixalan)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, you gain 4 life.

"The Immortal Sun will bring us true eternal life to replace the everlasting shadow of undeath."

Gruul Guildgate (Modern Masters 2017)
Randy Gallegos

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

The scarred rubble around the gate is testament to past meetings of the Clans, summits that inevitably devolved into brawls.

Urza's Incubator (Dominaria Remastered)
Randy Gallegos

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells of the chosen type cost {2} less to cast.

"In my dark moments, I think Urza may have been more of a father to his creations than he ever was to his own son." —Tawnos

Gideon's Avenger (Magic 2012)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes tapped, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"The good don't sit and wait for the evil to act. They prepare to defend. They prepare to punish."

Tempting Licid (Stronghold)
Randy Gallegos

{G}, {T}: This creature loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay {G} to end this effect. All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Sage of Epityr (Time Spiral)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Clairvoyants across Dominaria were driven mad by the overload from the widening time rifts, while other random folk gained the gift of future sight.

Giant Spider (Ninth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Watching the spider's web —Llanowar expression meaning "focusing on the wrong thing"

Crumbling Sanctuary (World Championship Decks 2000)
Randy Gallegos

If damage would be dealt to a player, that player exiles that many cards from the top of their library instead.

Simoon (Visions)
Randy Gallegos

Simoon deals 1 damage to each creature target opponent controls.

"The black-and-white sacred monkey holds her children to her, and waits." —"Love Song of Night and Day"

Impromptu Raid (Shadowmoor)
Randy Gallegos

{2}{R/G}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it isn't a creature card, put it into your graveyard. Otherwise, put that card onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

For the Scuzzback gang, it's always "raid o'clock."

Pacifism (Urza's Saga)
Randy Gallegos

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

"Fight? I cannot. I do not care if I live or die, so long as I can rest." —Urza, to Serra

Bant Charm (Commander 2018)
Randy Gallegos

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library. • Counter target instant spell.

Bant is a world where death and chaos hold no sway.

Fugue (Exodus)
Randy Gallegos

Target player discards three cards.

"My ship . . . ," Sisay mumbled. "Intact," Gerrard reassured her, "which is more than I can say for you, my friend." Sisay laughed despite the pain.

Mnemonic Sliver (Tempest)
Randy Gallegos

All Slivers have "{2}, Sacrifice this permanent: Draw a card."

"A jigsaw puzzle that lives, breeds, and thinks." —Hanna, *Weatherlight* navigator

Struggle for Sanity (Champions of Kamigawa)
Randy Gallegos

Target opponent reveals their hand. That player exiles a card from it, then you exile a card from it. Repeat this process until all cards in that hand have been exiled. That player returns the cards they exiled this way to their hand and puts the rest into their graveyard.

Search for Tomorrow (Planechase)
Randy Gallegos

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Melting (Ice Age)
Randy Gallegos

All lands are no longer snow.

"Who needs the sun when you've got me around?" —Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Cloud Spirit (Stronghold)
Randy Gallegos

Flying This creature can block only creatures with flying.

Clouds are the soil, dreams are the crop. —Kor saying

Shock (World Championship Decks 1998)
Randy Gallegos

Shock deals 2 damage to any target.

Lightning tethers souls to the world. —Kor saying

Absorb (Dominaria Remastered)
Randy Gallegos

Counter target spell. You gain 3 life.

"It's a shame to see such potential wasted on petty evil. Let's correct that, shall we?"

Aethermage's Touch (Double Masters 2022)
Randy Gallegos

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. It gains "At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to its owner's hand." Then put the rest of the cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Restless Prairie (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Randy Gallegos

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. {2}{G}{W}: This land becomes a 3/3 green and white Llama creature until end of turn. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, other creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Giant Fan (Unglued)
Randy Gallegos

{2}, {T}: Move a counter from one permanent onto another. If the second permanent refers to any kind of counter, the moved counter becomes one of those counters. Otherwise, it becomes a +1/+1 counter.

Only a villain would unleash a giant fan on anyone!

Allay (Exodus)
Randy Gallegos

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 enchantment.

Rashida Scalebane (Mirage)
Randy Gallegos

{T}: Destroy target attacking or blocking Dragon. It can't be regenerated. You gain life equal to its power.

It is not by the blood of dragons that Rashida measures victories, but by the sum of children who no longer wake from nightmares of scales and fire.

Runed Crown (Kaldheim)
Randy Gallegos

When this Equipment enters, you may search your library, hand, and/or graveyard for a Rune card and put it onto the battlefield attached to this Equipment. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Equip {2}

Call the Skybreaker (Commander 2021)
Randy Gallegos

Create a 5/5 blue and red Elemental creature token with flying. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

It hears and answers every orison across Shadowmoor.

Merfolk (Ixalan Tokens)
Randy Gallegos

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Call to Heel (The List)
Randy Gallegos

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller draws a card.

On Bant, a sigil is both a prize of honor and a bond of duty. The one who bears it may be called to fulfill that charge at any moment.

Cloud Spirit (The List)
Randy Gallegos

Flying This creature can block only creatures with flying.

Clouds are the soil, dreams are the crop. —Kor saying

Reality Anchor (Tempest)
Randy Gallegos

Target creature loses shadow until end of turn. Draw a card.

"See how *you* like it." —Ertai, wizard adept

Spur Grappler (Prophecy)
Randy Gallegos

This creature gets +2/+1 as long as you control no untapped lands.

Grapplers hunt in packs, driving their victims over steep mountain cliffs.

Instrument of the Bards (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Promos)
Randy Gallegos

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a harmony counter on Instrument of the Bards. {3}{G}, {T}: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of harmony counters on Instrument of the Bards, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If that card is legendary, create a Treasure token. Then shuffle.

Barbed Batterfist (The List)
Randy Gallegos

For Mirrodin! (When this Equipment enters, create a 2/2 red Rebel creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"Finally, a safe way to punch the rotters in the face."

Primordial Ooze (Fifth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

This creature attacks each combat if able. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Then you may pay {X}, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on it. If you don't, tap this creature and it deals X damage to you.

Lowland Basilisk (Stronghold)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever this creature deals damage to a creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Unlike their cousins, Rathi basilisks turn their victims into puddles of flowstone.

Mesa Enchantress (Commander Masters)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may draw a card.

"Scholars seek to understand the way the world is. I wish to shape the world into what it should be."

Congregation at Dawn (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Randy Gallegos

Search your library for up to three creature cards, reveal them, then shuffle and put those cards on top in any order.

"It is fitting that we meet in the first hour of light, for we are called by the Conclave to pierce a threat of darkness."

Flashfires (Portal)
Randy Gallegos

Destroy all Plains.

Dry grass is tinder before the spark.

The Bears of Littjara (Kaldheim Promos)
Randy Gallegos

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. II — Any number of target Shapeshifter creatures you control have base power and toughness 4/4. III — Choose up to one target creature or planeswalker. Each creature with power 4 or greater you control deals damage equal to its power to that permanent.

Razorverge Thicket (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos)
Randy Gallegos

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

Where evolution meets austerity, primal might bucks against the yoke of hierarchy.

Call the Skybreaker (Eventide)
Randy Gallegos

Create a 5/5 blue and red Elemental creature token with flying. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

It hears and answers every orison across Shadowmoor.

Soul Warden (Modern Masters 2017)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

"One does not question the size or shape of the grains of sand in an hourglass. Nor do I question the temperament of the souls under my guidance."

Sleeper Agent (Tenth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, target opponent gains control of it. At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 2 damage to you.

Earthcraft (Tempest)
Randy Gallegos

Tap an untapped creature you control: Untap target basic land.

"The land gives up little, but we are masters of persuasion." —Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Thornscape Apprentice (Invasion)
Randy Gallegos

{R}, {T}: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn. {W}, {T}: Tap target creature.

Disruptive Student (Battle Royale Box Set)
Randy Gallegos

{T}: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

"Teferi is a problem student. Always late for class. No appreciation for constructive use of time." —Barrin, progress report

Farsight Ritual (Wilds of Eldraine)
Randy Gallegos

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Look at the top four cards of your library. If this spell was bargained, look at the top eight cards of your library instead. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Accumulated Knowledge (Masters 25)
Randy Gallegos

Draw a card, then draw cards equal to the number of cards named Accumulated Knowledge in all graveyards.

"I have seen and heard much here. There are secrets within secrets. Let me show you." —Takara, to Eladamri

Aura of Dominion (Champions of Kamigawa)
Randy Gallegos

Enchant creature {1}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Untap enchanted creature.

"Lies and deceit do yield results, but legitimate authority is the ultimate form of control." —Meloku the Clouded Mirror

Lotus Blossom (Dominaria Remastered)
Randy Gallegos

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a petal counter on this artifact. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of petal counters on this artifact.

False Demise (Alliances)
Randy Gallegos

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

"Fool! Never believe they're dead until you see the body!" —General Varchild

Keldon Firebombers (Prophecy)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices all lands they control except for three.

"If there isn't enough of Jamuraa left to stand on, I will still claim it for Keld." —Latulla, Keldon overseer

Farsight Ritual (Wilds of Eldraine Promos)
Randy Gallegos

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Look at the top four cards of your library. If this spell was bargained, look at the top eight cards of your library instead. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Dingus Egg (Classic Sixth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Karplusan Forest (World Championship Decks 2000)
Randy Gallegos

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

Electrostatic Bolt (Mirrodin)
Randy Gallegos

Electrostatic Bolt deals 2 damage to target creature. If it's an artifact creature, Electrostatic Bolt deals 4 damage to it instead.

It's hard to avoid electric shock when the entire plane is metallic.

Giant Mantis (Mirage)
Randy Gallegos

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"I hate insects of every sort. The only mercy is that they are generally small." —Mwani, Mtenda goatherd

Sword of Hearth and Home (Modern Horizons 2)
Randy Gallegos

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from white. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target creature you own, then search your library for a basic land card. Put both cards onto the battlefield under your control, then shuffle. Equip {2}

Guildpact Informant (War of the Spark)
Randy Gallegos

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

"Of course you're being followed!"

Counsel of the Soratami (Champions of Kamigawa)
Randy Gallegos

Draw two cards.

"Wisdom is not the counting of all the drops in a waterfall. Wisdom is learning why the water seeks the earth."

Giant Spider (Tenth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"When I trained under Multani, he bade me sit for hours watching Yavimaya's spiders. From them I learned stealth, patience, and the best way to snare a wind drake." —Mirri of the *Weatherlight*

Leonin Bladetrap (Mirrodin)
Randy Gallegos

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) {2}, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 2 damage to each attacking creature without flying.

Brilliant Halo (Urza's Saga)
Randy Gallegos

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Ghoulcaller's Chant (Innistrad)
Randy Gallegos

Choose one — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Return two target Zombie cards from your graveyard to your hand.

"The living are born small and weak. The dead rise ready to serve. The choice is obvious." —Gisa, ghoulcaller of Gavony

Floodfarm Verge (Duskmourn: House of Horror)
Randy Gallegos

{T}: Add {W}. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.

Here, the Mistmoors slump like a grieving parent, the once-thriving fields drowned by the relentless deluge.

Crime (Dissension)
Randy Gallegos

Lórien Revealed (The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth)
Randy Gallegos

Draw three cards. Islandcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

"Look on us now with friendly eyes! Behold the trees of the Naith of Lórien and be glad!" —Haldir

Alabaster Wall (Mercadian Masques)
Randy Gallegos

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Its mortar is mixed with waters straight from the Fountain of Cho.

Burgeoning (The List)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever an opponent plays a land, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"The plants said, 'We will fight the stone with root and stem and seed. We are patient. We will win.'" —Skyshroud myth of the forest

Flashfires (Ninth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Destroy all Plains.

Dry grass is tinder before the spark.

Book of Mazarbul (The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth)
Randy Gallegos

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.) II — Amass Orcs 2. III — Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain menace until end of turn.

Shock (Ninth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Shock deals 2 damage to any target.

"Once I saw a goblin shouting at a thunderstorm. He lost the argument pretty quickly." —Wandering mage

Incandescent Aria (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Randy Gallegos

Incandescent Aria deals 3 damage to each nontoken creature.

As the assassins converged on Kitt Kanto, she struck a high note and held it, unbroken, for nearly a minute. When the room fell silent, she was surrounded only by rose petals falling gently to the floor.

Wall of Shields (Ice Age)
Randy Gallegos

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Banding (If any creatures with banding you control are blocking a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by.)

"It's the pokey bits that hurt the most." —Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician

Breaking of the Fellowship (The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth)
Randy Gallegos

Target creature an opponent controls deals damage equal to its power to another target creature that player controls. The Ring tempts you.

"It might have been mine. It should be mine. Give it to me!"

Nightwind Glider (The List)
Randy Gallegos

Flying, protection from black

Once you learn to float on the shadows, you'll never fear them again.

Springbloom Druid (Zendikar Rising Commander)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"New growth applies a healing poultice to wounds long scabbed over."

Mazemind Tome (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Randy Gallegos

{T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {2}, {T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Draw a card. When there are four or more page counters on this artifact, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.

Step Through (Modern Horizons 2)
Randy Gallegos

Return two target creatures to their owners' hands. Wizardcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Doors open both ways.

Mishra's Groundbreaker (Alliances)
Randy Gallegos

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target land becomes a 3/3 artifact creature that's still a land. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

The very ground yielded to Mishra's wishes.

Ancient Ziggurat (Friday Night Magic 2010)
Randy Gallegos

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

Leylines branch out from its foundation like roots from a tree. These draw mana from every region and welcome all living things into its verdant chambers.

Llanowar Sentinel (Tenth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, search your library for a card named Llanowar Sentinel, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"The forest has as many eyes as leaves." —Mirri of the *Weatherlight*

Reverse the Polarity (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

Choose one — • Counter all other spells. • Switch each creature's power and toughness until end of turn. • Creatures can't be blocked this turn.

"You see, before you reactivated it, I reversed the polarity of the neutron flow."

Dan Lewis (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

Noncreature, non-Equipment artifacts you control are Equipment in addition to their other types and have "Equipped creature gets +1/+0" and equip {1}. Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

"What's your plan? Some clever sciencey-spacey thing I won't understand?"

Baleful Stare (Ninth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Target opponent reveals their hand. You draw a card for each Mountain and red card in it.

"Though there is little to be learned from your dust and stones, I shall wring them dry nevertheless."

Sun Clasp (Dominaria Remastered)
Randy Gallegos

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+3. {W}: Return enchanted creature to its owner's hand.

"Open when darkness threatens." —Amulet inscription

Primeval Force (Eighth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice three Forests.

It has germinated in the earth for thousands of years. Finally it wakes to the battle's call.

Stoic Ephemera (RNA Guild Kit)
Randy Gallegos

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying When this creature blocks, sacrifice it at end of combat.

"Life is fleeting, and so is death. Only the oath is eternal."

Sleep with the Fishes (Streets of New Capenna)
Randy Gallegos

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature and you create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token with "This token can't be blocked." Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Mazemind Tome (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Randy Gallegos

{T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {2}, {T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Draw a card. When there are four or more page counters on this artifact, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.

Valleymaker (Shadowmoor)
Randy Gallegos

{T}, Sacrifice a Mountain: This creature deals 3 damage to target creature. {T}, Sacrifice a Forest: Choose a player. That player adds {G}{G}{G}.

Their home uprooted by a giant, the gang of boggarts mourned their old stomping ground.

Search for Tomorrow (Commander Legends)
Randy Gallegos

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Hour of Reckoning (GRN Guild Kit)
Randy Gallegos

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Destroy all nontoken creatures.

"Ravnica, like a hedge, must be pruned, leaving only leaves of verdant uniformity." —Niszka, Selesnya evangel

Karplusan Forest (Fifth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

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

Giant Spider (Magic 2010)
Randy Gallegos

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

The giant spider's silk naturally resists gravity, almost weaving itself as it blankets the forest canopy.

Call the Skybreaker (Eternal Masters)
Randy Gallegos

Create a 5/5 blue and red Elemental creature token with flying. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

It hears and answers every orison across Shadowmoor.

Call the Skybreaker (Commander 2015)
Randy Gallegos

Create a 5/5 blue and red Elemental creature token with flying. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

It hears and answers every orison across Shadowmoor.

Bilbo's Ring (The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth)
Randy Gallegos

During your turn, equipped creature has hexproof and can't be blocked. Whenever equipped creature attacks alone, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Equip Halfling {1} ({1}: Attach to target Halfling you control. Equip only as a sorcery.) Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Book of Mazarbul (The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth)
Randy Gallegos

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.) II — Amass Orcs 2. III — Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain menace until end of turn.

Island (World Championship Decks 1998)
Randy Gallegos

({T}: Add {U}.)

Park Heights Pegasus (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Randy Gallegos

Flying, trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card if you had two or more creatures enter the battlefield under your control this turn.

The burglar turned, bowed, and dropped from the ledge onto her waiting mount.

Kithkin Soldier (Shadowmoor Tokens)
Randy Gallegos

Sage Aven (Ninth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Mazemind Tome (The List)
Randy Gallegos

{T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {2}, {T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Draw a card. When there are four or more page counters on this artifact, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.

Song of Totentanz (Wilds of Eldraine)
Randy Gallegos

Create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens with "This token can't block." Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Townsfolk tapped their feet and hummed along, unwittingly amplifying the tune that would summon their doom.

Kithkin Soldier (Commander Anthology Tokens)
Randy Gallegos

Aethermage's Touch (Modern Masters 2017)
Randy Gallegos

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. It gains "At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to its owner's hand." Then put the rest of the cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Consuming Bonfire (Lorwyn)
Randy Gallegos

Choose one — • Consuming Bonfire deals 4 damage to target non-Elemental creature. • Consuming Bonfire deals 7 damage to target Treefolk creature.

"The elves use treefolk to drive us away. It is time to remove their tools." —Vessifrus, flamekin demagogue

Dakmor Scorpion (Starter 1999)
Randy Gallegos

A scorpion this big you won't find curled up in your boot. Maybe *around* your boot, but not *in* it.

Soul Warden (Exodus)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Count carefully the souls and see that none are lost. —Vec teaching

The Bears of Littjara (Kaldheim)
Randy Gallegos

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. II — Any number of target Shapeshifter creatures you control have base power and toughness 4/4. III — Choose up to one target creature or planeswalker. Each creature with power 4 or greater you control deals damage equal to its power to that permanent.

Leonin Bladetrap (Commander 2013)
Randy Gallegos

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) {2}, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 2 damage to each attacking creature without flying.

Dryad's Caress (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Randy Gallegos

You gain 1 life for each creature on the battlefield. If {W} was spent to cast this spell, untap all creatures you control.

"I awoke to the face of beauty, my body fully healed. In that moment I knew my destiny was the Conclave's to shape." —Rogad, Selesnya initiate

Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Randy Gallegos

Dan Lewis (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

Noncreature, non-Equipment artifacts you control are Equipment in addition to their other types and have "Equipped creature gets +1/+0" and equip {1}. Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

"What's your plan? Some clever sciencey-spacey thing I won't understand?"

Instrument of the Bards (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Randy Gallegos

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a harmony counter on Instrument of the Bards. {3}{G}, {T}: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of harmony counters on Instrument of the Bards, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If that card is legendary, create a Treasure token. Then shuffle.

Fire-Belly Changeling (Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons)
Randy Gallegos

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.

"My ears say it hisses. My fingers say it burns." —Auntie Wort

Search for Tomorrow (Iconic Masters)
Randy Gallegos

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Faith Healer (Urza's Saga)
Randy Gallegos

Sacrifice an enchantment: You gain life equal to the sacrificed enchantment's mana value.

The power of faith is quiet. It is the leaf unmoved by the hurricane.

Gruul Guildgate (Foundations)
Randy Gallegos

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Enter and leave the shackles of society behind.

Fellwar Stone (Commander Masters)
Randy Gallegos

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Nothing shatters a peaceful life like newfound riches.

Hour of Reckoning (The List)
Randy Gallegos

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Destroy all nontoken creatures.

"Ravnica, like a hedge, must be pruned, leaving only leaves of verdant uniformity." —Niszka, Selesnya evangel

Elemental (Eventide Tokens)
Randy Gallegos

Flying

Soul Warden (Planechase)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

"One does not question the size or shape of the grains of sand in an hourglass. Nor do I question the temperament of the souls under my guidance."

Gruul Guildgate (Ravnica Remastered)
Randy Gallegos

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Enter and leave the shackles of society behind.

Tarrian's Journal (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Randy Gallegos

Call to Heel (Battlebond)
Randy Gallegos

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller draws a card.

On Bant, a sigil is both a prize of honor and a bond of duty. The one who bears it may be called to fulfill that charge at any moment.

Shock (Stronghold)
Randy Gallegos

Shock deals 2 damage to any target.

Lightning tethers souls to the world. —Kor saying

Reverse the Polarity (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

Choose one — • Counter all other spells. • Switch each creature's power and toughness until end of turn. • Creatures can't be blocked this turn.

"You see, before you reactivated it, I reversed the polarity of the neutron flow."

Vizier of Remedies (Amonkhet)
Randy Gallegos

If one or more -1/-1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many -1/-1 counters minus one are put on it instead.

"You'll need all your strength for the trials to come."

Reverse the Polarity (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

Choose one — • Counter all other spells. • Switch each creature's power and toughness until end of turn. • Creatures can't be blocked this turn.

"You see, before you reactivated it, I reversed the polarity of the neutron flow."

Bant Charm (Double Masters 2022)
Randy Gallegos

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library. • Counter target instant spell.

Bant is a world where death and chaos hold no sway.

Ertai (Vanguard Series)
Randy Gallegos

Creatures you control have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

After serving his apprenticeship under Barrin of Tolaria, Ertai graced the *Weatherlight* crew with his presence as the ship's "resident" wizard. He realizes that few recognize his greatness—but then how could they, when they lack his insight and wisdom?

Shock (Media and Collaboration Promos)
Randy Gallegos

Shock deals 2 damage to any target.

Lightning tethers souls to the world. —Kor saying

Quirion Elves (Beatdown Box Set)
Randy Gallegos

As this creature enters, choose a color. {T}: Add {G}. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Sol Ring (Tales of Middle-earth Commander)
Randy Gallegos

       ⸱      ⸱    ⸱       

Withering Gaze (Ninth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Target opponent reveals their hand. You draw a card for each Forest and green card in it.

"Nature cares not for the knowledge to be gained from its study. Better to bleed it dry, lest its potential be wasted on lizards and leaves."

Gruul Guildgate (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Randy Gallegos

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Enter and leave the shackles of society behind.

Cold Snap (Ice Age)
Randy Gallegos

Cumulative upkeep {2} (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.) At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals damage to that player equal to the number of snow lands they control.

Who knows from whence the winter comes?

Grimoire Thief (Morningtide)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever this creature becomes tapped, exile the top three cards of target opponent's library face down. You may look at cards exiled with this creature. {U}, Sacrifice this creature: Turn all cards exiled with this creature face up. Counter all spells with those names.

Dead Weight (Innistrad)
Randy Gallegos

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.

The crueler vampires' idea of free-range farming.

Hungry Hungry Heifer (Unglued)
Randy Gallegos

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a counter from a permanent you control. If you don't, sacrifice this creature.

Mooo.

Flashfires (Eighth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Destroy all Plains.

Dry grass is tinder before the spark.

Grasp of Fate (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

When this enchantment enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

"And I suppose, if it's one last chance to say it, Rose Tyler..."

Martyr of Sands (Coldsnap)
Randy Gallegos

{1}, Reveal X white cards from your hand, Sacrifice this creature: You gain three times X life.

"Only in our vulnerability is there true power, and that power is life itself."

Adarkar Windform (Coldsnap)
Randy Gallegos

Flying {1}{S}: Target creature loses flying until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

Terisiare has only two kinds of weather: cold and weird.

Hill Giant (Portal)
Randy Gallegos

Hill giants are mostly just big. Of course, that does count for a lot!

Island (World Championship Decks 1998)
Randy Gallegos

({T}: Add {U}.)

Forbidden Alchemy (Friday Night Magic 2012)
Randy Gallegos

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Flashback {6}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Tidal Control (Alliances)
Randy Gallegos

Cumulative upkeep {2} (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.) Pay 2 life or {2}: Counter target red or green spell. Any player may activate this ability.

Furor of the Bitten (Core Set 2021)
Randy Gallegos

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and attacks each combat if able.

Those who only believe themselves infected with lycanthropy can be as dangerous as those who really are.

Call the Skybreaker (Commander 2011)
Randy Gallegos

Create a 5/5 blue and red Elemental creature token with flying. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

It hears and answers every orison across Shadowmoor.

Horizon Canopy (Tales of Middle-earth Commander)
Randy Gallegos

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {W}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

It was popularly believed, as local legend, that the Hill at Bag End was full of tunnels stuffed with treasure.

Murderous Betrayal (Nemesis)
Randy Gallegos

{B}{B}, Pay half your life, rounded up: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

In darkness, the assassin sneaked into the village and destroyed what Eladamri loved most: his daughter.

Call the Skybreaker (New Capenna Commander)
Randy Gallegos

Create a 5/5 blue and red Elemental creature token with flying. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

It hears and answers every orison across Shadowmoor.

Nightwind Glider (Mercadian Masques)
Randy Gallegos

Flying, protection from black

Once you learn to float on the shadows, you'll never fear them again.

Search for Tomorrow (Time Spiral)
Randy Gallegos

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Island (Tempest)
Randy Gallegos

({T}: Add {U}.)

Springbloom Druid (Foundations)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"New growth applies a healing poultice to wounds long scabbed over."

Stern Proctor (Urza's Saga)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, return target artifact or enchantment to its owner's hand.

"I preferred the harsh tutors—they made mischief all the more fun." —Teferi, third-level student

Pillar of the Paruns (Tales of Middle-earth Commander)
Randy Gallegos

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a multicolored spell.

"The Road goes ever on and on, Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can." —Frodo's song

Cloudhoof Kirin (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Randy Gallegos

Flying Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may have target player mill X cards, where X is that spell's mana value.

Auriok Salvagers (Fifth Dawn)
Randy Gallegos

{1}{W}: Return target artifact card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

"Memnarch or the vedalken salvage most of the large machines, leaving us only scraps. Scraps are enough."

Bartolomé del Presidio (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Randy Gallegos

Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Bartolomé del Presidio.

Uba Mask (Champions of Kamigawa)
Randy Gallegos

If a player would draw a card, that player exiles that card face up instead. Each player may play lands and cast spells from among cards they exiled with this artifact this turn.

Anurid Barkripper (Judgment)
Randy Gallegos

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

When it croaks, so do you.

Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Randy Gallegos

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

When it's finished, all that's left of you is a ripple on a still pond.

Cheap Ass (Unhinged)
Randy Gallegos

Spells you cast cost {½} less to cast.

And you thought Yawgmoth drove a hard bargain.

Soul Warden (Battle Royale Box Set)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Count carefully the souls and see that none are lost. —Vec teaching

Soul Warden (Tenth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Count carefully the souls and see that none are lost. —Vec teaching

Mesa Enchantress (Dominaria Remastered)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may draw a card.

She shepherds mysteries and dust as others would a flock of sheep.

Besieged Viking Village (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

All creatures have "Boast — {1}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." (Activate only if that creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.) Whenever chaos ensues, put an indestructible counter on target creature you control that attacked this turn.

Brazen Freebooter (Commander Legends)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Finders, keepers.

Vindictive Vampire (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever another creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

In theory, the Guildpact keeps guild feuds from spiraling out of control. Personal feuds, however, are not covered.

Martyr of Sands (Ultimate Masters)
Randy Gallegos

{1}, Reveal X white cards from your hand, Sacrifice this creature: You gain three times X life.

"Only in our vulnerability is there true power, and that power is life itself."

Mistform Stalker (Onslaught)
Randy Gallegos

{1}: This creature becomes the creature type of your choice until end of turn. {2}{U}{U}: This creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.

Accumulated Knowledge (World Championship Decks 2001)
Randy Gallegos

Draw a card, then draw cards equal to the number of cards named Accumulated Knowledge in all graveyards.

"I have seen and heard much here. There are secrets within secrets. Let me show you." —Takara, to Eladamri

Hypnotic Cloud (Invasion)
Randy Gallegos

Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.) Target player discards a card. If this spell was kicked, that player discards three cards instead.

Specter's Wail (Mercadian Masques)
Randy Gallegos

Target player discards a card at random.

As he gritted his teeth to focus through the pain, Tahngarth glanced at Takara. She seemed completely unaffected.

Darkblast (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Randy Gallegos

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Fight or Flight (Invasion)
Randy Gallegos

At the beginning of combat on each opponent's turn, separate all creatures that player controls into two piles. Only creatures in the pile of their choice can attack this turn.

Thornglint Bridge (Modern Horizons 2)
Randy Gallegos

This land enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

The path to growth is forged in balance.

Quirion Elves (The List)
Randy Gallegos

As this creature enters, choose a color. {T}: Add {G}. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Dance of the Dead (Ice Age)
Randy Gallegos

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

Mazemind Tome (Core Set 2021 Promos)
Randy Gallegos

{T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {2}, {T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Draw a card. When there are four or more page counters on this artifact, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.

Auriok Salvagers (Double Masters)
Randy Gallegos

{1}{W}: Return target artifact card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

"Memnarch or the vedalken salvage most of the large machines, leaving us only scraps. Scraps are enough."

Aethermage's Touch (Commander 2013)
Randy Gallegos

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. It gains "At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to its owner's hand." Then put the rest of the cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Flashfires (Classic Sixth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Destroy all Plains.

Dan Lewis (Doctor Who)
Randy Gallegos

Noncreature, non-Equipment artifacts you control are Equipment in addition to their other types and have "Equipped creature gets +1/+0" and equip {1}. Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

"What's your plan? Some clever sciencey-spacey thing I won't understand?"

Poultice Sliver (Time Spiral Remastered)
Randy Gallegos

All Slivers have "{2}, {T}: Regenerate target Sliver." (The next time that Sliver would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

"Its broad claw suggests a chitinous shield, but in fact it conceals glands that secrete a remarkably swift healing agent." —Rukarumel, field journal

Mazemind Tome (Core Set 2021 Promos)
Randy Gallegos

{T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {2}, {T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Draw a card. When there are four or more page counters on this artifact, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.

Floodwater Dam (Alliances)
Randy Gallegos

{X}{X}{1}, {T}: Tap X target lands.

Viscerid dams may be of living creatures as well as bones and mud.

Face to Face (Unhinged)
Randy Gallegos

You and target opponent play a best two-out-of-three Rock, Paper, Scissors match. If you win, Face to Face deals 5 damage to that player.

Befuddled by this new game, Argg longed for the days of Rock, Rock, Rock.

Hour of Reckoning (Commander 2011)
Randy Gallegos

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Destroy all nontoken creatures.

"Ravnica, like a hedge, must be pruned, leaving only leaves of verdant uniformity." —Niszka, Selesnya evangel

Mazemind Tome (Core Set 2021)
Randy Gallegos

{T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {2}, {T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Draw a card. When there are four or more page counters on this artifact, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.

Soul Warden (Ninth Edition)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Count carefully the souls and see that none are lost. —Vec teaching

Mire Shade (Mirage)
Randy Gallegos

{B}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

"We realized the bog had not given up a soul but had come to claim a new one." —Scout Ekemet, final journal

Regress (Mirrodin)
Randy Gallegos

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

"Once cast, a spell can be undone. But once revealed, a secret can never again be kept." —Pontifex, elder researcher

Aethermage's Touch (Dissension)
Randy Gallegos

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. It gains "At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to its owner's hand." Then put the rest of the cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Accumulated Knowledge (Nemesis)
Randy Gallegos

Draw a card, then draw cards equal to the number of cards named Accumulated Knowledge in all graveyards.

"I have seen and heard much here. There are secrets within secrets. Let me show you." —Takara, to Eladamri

Soul Warden (Modern Event Deck 2014)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

"One does not question the size or shape of the grains of sand in an hourglass. Nor do I question the temperament of the souls under my guidance."

Vindictive Vampire (Ravnica Remastered)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever another creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

In theory, the Guildpact keeps guild feuds from spiraling out of control. Personal feuds, however, are not covered.

Mazemind Tome (Core Set 2021)
Randy Gallegos

{T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {2}, {T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Draw a card. When there are four or more page counters on this artifact, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.

Pure Intentions (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard cards this turn, return those cards from your graveyard to your hand. When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, return this card from your graveyard to your hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Inspiring Cleric (Jumpstart 2022)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, you gain 4 life.

"The Immortal Sun will bring us true eternal life to replace the everlasting shadow of undeath."

Deadly Insect (Beatdown Box Set)
Randy Gallegos

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

With his newfound sense of self-importance, Squee set his sights on ever-bigger bugs.

Tome of the Guildpact (Ravnica Allegiance)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, draw a card. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

"Reading it has given me a glimpse of what makes this deeply flawed city so very magnificent." —Dovin Baan

Sleeper Agent (Urza's Saga)
Randy Gallegos

When this creature enters, target opponent gains control of it. At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 2 damage to you.

Gruul Guildgate (Gatecrash)
Randy Gallegos

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Enter and leave the shackles of society behind.

Poultice Sliver (Planar Chaos)
Randy Gallegos

All Slivers have "{2}, {T}: Regenerate target Sliver." (The next time that Sliver would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

"Its broad claw suggests a chitinous shield, but in fact it conceals glands that secrete a remarkably swift healing agent." —Rukarumel, field journal

Song of Totentanz (Wilds of Eldraine Promos)
Randy Gallegos

Create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens with "This token can't block." Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Townsfolk tapped their feet and hummed along, unwittingly amplifying the tune that would summon their doom.

Mesa Enchantress (Magic 2010)
Randy Gallegos

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may draw a card.