Desertion

Desertion (Classic Sixth Edition)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

First the insult, then the injury.

Desertion (Commander's Arsenal)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

First the insult, then the injury.

Desertion (Special Guests)
Donato Giancola

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

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

Desertion (The List)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

First the insult, then the injury.

Desertion (Visions)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

First the insult, then the injury.

Pyretic Rebirth (Modern Horizons 3)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Return target artifact or creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Pyretic Rebirth deals damage equal to that card's mana value to up to one target creature or planeswalker.

Death has never kept Darigaaz down for long.

Field of Souls (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Watchdog (Tempest)
Richard Kane Ferguson

This creature blocks each combat if able. As long as this creature is untapped, all creatures attacking you get -1/-0.

Its growl is a long, rumbling grind of gears and clockwork, its bark a blast of hissing steam.

Essence Flare (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -0/-1 counter on that creature.

Never underestimate the power of the soul unleashed.

Batwing Brume (Eventide)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn if {W} was spent to cast this spell. Each player loses 1 life for each attacking creature they control if {B} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {W}{B} was spent.)

Earthquake (Classic Sixth Edition)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Price of Progress (Exodus)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Price of Progress deals damage to each player equal to twice the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.

Man versus nature is not a fair fight.

Grim Flayer (Double Masters 2022)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Delirium — This creature gets +2/+2 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Disenchant (The Brothers' War)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"One down, several thousand more to go."

Jasmine Boreal (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Richard Kane Ferguson

"Peace must prevail, even if the wicked must die."

Dissipate (Mirage)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

"If you weren't born with it, you don't need it." —Grahilah, former trader of Amiqat

Dissipate (World Championship Decks 1997)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

"If you weren't born with it, you don't need it." —Grahilah, former trader of Amiqat

Pitiless Carnage (Outlaws of Thunder Junction)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Sacrifice any number of permanents you control, then draw that many cards. Plot {1}{B}{B} (You may pay {1}{B}{B} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Akul saw his Hellspur followers as little more than ammunition to be expended.

Animate Wall (Classic Sixth Edition)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Enchant Wall Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

"When you have been bitten with fangs of granite, you start to long for the ivory sabers of tigers." —Norin the Wary

Field of Souls (Eternal Masters)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Muscle Sliver (The List)
Richard Kane Ferguson

All Sliver creatures get +1/+1.

The air was filled with the cracks and snaps of flesh hardening as the new sliver joined the battle.

Force of Will (Dominaria Remastered)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

"Weren't you ever taught that it's rude to interrupt?"

Pillage (Alliances)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Destroy target artifact or land. It can't be regenerated.

"Were they to reduce us to ash, we would clog their throats and sting their eyes in payment." —Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Gonti, Night Minister (Aetherdrift)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Whenever a player casts a spell they don't own, that player creates a Treasure token. Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller looks at the top card of that opponent's library and exiles it face down. They may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. Mana of any type can be spent to cast a spell this way.

Price of Progress (Premium Deck Series: Fire and Lightning)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Price of Progress deals damage to each player equal to twice the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.

Man versus nature is not a fair fight.

Titans' Vanguard (Modern Horizons 3)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Devoid (This card has no color.) When you cast this spell and whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on each colorless creature you control. Trample

With a shriek, it directed the spawn toward the temple where the refugees sheltered.

Goblin War Drums (Fallen Empires)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Creatures you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

"Defending the outer trenches, we strained our eyes in the darkness. All we could hear was the Drums' terrible pounding. Dobbs, on my right, broke first. Soon we were all heading for the walls." —Corporal Peter Douglas, courtmartial testimony

Flame Elemental (Mirage)
Richard Kane Ferguson

{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals damage equal to its power to target creature.

Storyteller: By my hand in the fire, this story is a tale of power. Listeners: May it give you strength.

Searing Spear Askari (Mirage)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) {1}{R}: This creature gains menace until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

When the other soldiers of Zhalfir fall, the askaris will yet stand.

Field of Souls (Tempest)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Riven Turnbull (Legends)
Richard Kane Ferguson

{T}: Add {B}.

"Political violence is a perfectly legitimate answer to the persecution handed down by dignitaries of the state."

Icatian Scout (Fallen Empires)
Richard Kane Ferguson

{1}, {T}: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"Because the Orc hordes attacked along the entire border, Scouts were essential to Icatia's defense." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI*

Dakkon, Shadow Slayer (Modern Horizons 2)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Dakkon enters with a number of loyalty counters on him equal to the number of lands you control. +1: Surveil 2. −3: Exile target creature. −6: You may put an artifact card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.

Dingus Staff (The List)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Whenever a creature dies, this artifact deals 2 damage to that creature's controller.

"A sharp conscience is the weapon of the soul." —Hanna, *Weatherlight* navigator

Vampiric Tutor (Dominaria Remastered)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Wisdom is a throne, a seat of power that only the strong are worthy to occupy.

Korlash, Heir to Blackblade (Future Sight Promos)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Korlash's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control. {1}{B}: Regenerate Korlash. Grandeur — Discard another card named Korlash, Heir to Blackblade: Search your library for up to two Swamp cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Arcane Denial (Alliances)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Elvish Farmer (Fallen Empires)
Richard Kane Ferguson

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature. Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. Sacrifice a Saproling: You gain 2 life.

Fact or Fiction (Commander Masters)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

"Does this choice really seem so simple, syr knight?"

Basal Thrull (Fallen Empires)
Richard Kane Ferguson

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Add {B}{B}.

"To create the first Thrulls, I only introduced alchemic elements into the Order's necromancy; Tourach's principles remained unchanged." —Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Dingus Staff (Weatherlight)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Whenever a creature dies, this artifact deals 2 damage to that creature's controller.

"A sharp conscience is the weapon of the soul." —Hanna, *Weatherlight* navigator

Tourach's Chant (Fallen Empires)
Richard Kane Ferguson

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay {B}. Whenever a player puts a Forest onto the battlefield, this enchantment deals 3 damage to that player unless they put a -1/-1 counter on a creature they control.

Mystical Tutor (Dominaria Remastered)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

Wisdom is a well that never runs dry. It offers the most to those with the deepest thirst for knowledge.

Elder Druid (Classic Sixth Edition)
Richard Kane Ferguson

{3}{G}, {T}: You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

"Did clouds dance in his eyes, did thorns play at his fingertips?" —Shesul Fass, faerie bard

Arcane Denial (Alliances)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Kjeldoran Phalanx (Ice Age)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

"There's nothing I like better than watching a street full of soldiers kicking down the doors of the guilty and the impure." —Avram Garrisson, Leader of the Knights of Stromgald

Orcish Squatters (Ice Age)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may gain control of target land defending player controls for as long as you control this creature. If you do, this creature assigns no combat damage this turn.

Terror of the Peaks (Spotlight Series)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Flying Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost an additional 3 life to cast. Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target.

Pillage (Arena League 2000)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Destroy target artifact or land. It can't be regenerated.

Grand Abolisher (Commander Masters)
Richard Kane Ferguson

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

"I've heard enough from you, heretic."

Pitiless Carnage (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Promos)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Sacrifice any number of permanents you control, then draw that many cards. Plot {1}{B}{B} (You may pay {1}{B}{B} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Akul saw his Hellspur followers as little more than ammunition to be expended.

Kasimir the Lone Wolf (Legends)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Popular indeed is the tale of how Kasimir was once a Holy man who renounced his order to take up the sword. But this tale is no more likely than any other.

Earthlink (Ice Age)
Richard Kane Ferguson

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay {2}. Whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller sacrifices a land of their choice.

Kaervek's Purge (Mirage)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Destroy target creature with mana value X. If that creature dies this way, Kaervek's Purge deals damage equal to the creature's power to the creature's controller.

Elder Druid (Fifth Edition)
Richard Kane Ferguson

{3}{G}, {T}: You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

"Did clouds dance in his eyes, did thorns play at his fingertips?" —Shesul Fass, faerie bard

Nebuchadnezzar (Chronicles)
Richard Kane Ferguson

{X}, {T}: Choose a card name. Target opponent reveals X cards at random from their hand. Then that player discards all cards with that name revealed this way. Activate only during your turn.

Desertion (Classic Sixth Edition)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

First the insult, then the injury.

Wildfire Emissary (World Championship Decks 1997)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

"The efreet is a striding storm with a voice that crackles like fire." —Qhattib, Vizier of Amiqat

Disenchant (Foundations)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Even millennia later, some war machines from the devastating Brothers' War continue to function. Thankfully, the weapons meant to destroy them still work too.

Field of Souls (The List)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Worldly Tutor (Dominaria Remastered)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

Wisdom is a seed. Nurtured with patience and care, it will bear new fruit each season.

Dakkon Blackblade (Legends)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Dakkon Blackblade's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.

"My power is as vast as the plains, my strength is that of mountains. Each wave that crashes upon the shore thunders like blood in my veins." —*Memoirs*

Mindstab Thrull (Fallen Empires)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, defending player discards three cards.

Essence Flare (Ice Age)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -0/-1 counter on that creature.

Never underestimate the power of the soul unleashed.

Misinformation (Alliances)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Put up to three target cards from an opponent's graveyard on top of their library in any order.

"When you cannot rely on your sources, trust your own senses. When you cannot trust those, you must follow your instincts." —Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Profane Tutor (Modern Horizons 2)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} 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.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Icequake (Ice Age)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Destroy target land. If that land was a snow land, Icequake deals 1 damage to that land's controller.

"When the earth shakes, and their animals are swallowed up by the ground, perhaps they will think twice before attacking again." —Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Earthquake (World Championship Decks 1997)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Sedge Sliver (Time Spiral Remastered)
Richard Kane Ferguson

All Sliver creatures have "This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp." All Slivers have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent." (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Thalakos Mistfolk (Tempest)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) {U}: Put this creature on top of its owner's library.

"They are 'between' in every way." —Lyna, Soltari emissary

Muscle Sliver (Premium Deck Series: Slivers)
Richard Kane Ferguson

All Sliver creatures get +1/+1.

The air was filled with the cracks and snaps of flesh hardening as the new sliver joined the battle.

Dissipate (World Championship Decks 1998)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

"If you weren't born with it, you don't need it." —Grahilah, former trader of Amiqat

Hazezon Tamar (Legends)
Richard Kane Ferguson

When Hazezon enters, create X 1/1 Sand Warrior creature tokens that are red, green, and white at the beginning of your next upkeep, where X is the number of lands you control at that time. When Hazezon leaves the battlefield, exile all Sand Warriors.

Profane Tutor (Modern Horizons 2)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} 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.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Muscle Sliver (Tempest)
Richard Kane Ferguson

All Sliver creatures get +1/+1.

The air was filled with the cracks and snaps of flesh hardening as the new sliver joined the battle.

Dakkon, Shadow Slayer (Modern Horizons 2)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Dakkon enters with a number of loyalty counters on him equal to the number of lands you control. +1: Surveil 2. −3: Exile target creature. −6: You may put an artifact card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.

Rootbreaker Wurm (Tempest)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

As Gerrard made his escape, the wurm covered his flight by helping itself to three great mouthfuls of merfolk.

Field of Souls (Crimson Vow Commander)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Vodalian Soldiers (Fallen Empires)
Richard Kane Ferguson

"Stalwart Soldiers, you stand against the Homarids for Vodalia and for honor. Your homeland cries out for protection, and the moment has come. Now let your valor shine, and sound the cry to battle. Victory to Vodalia!" —Marshall Volnikov

Pitiless Carnage (Outlaws of Thunder Junction)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Sacrifice any number of permanents you control, then draw that many cards. Plot {1}{B}{B} (You may pay {1}{B}{B} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Akul saw his Hellspur followers as little more than ammunition to be expended.

Tropical Storm (Mirage)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Tropical Storm deals X damage to each creature with flying and 1 additional damage to each blue creature.

"After the storm, I found a sea turtle dying on the sands, a blade of grass driven through its shell." —*Travelogue of Najat*

Jade Monolith (Fifth Edition)
Richard Kane Ferguson

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Sedge Sliver (Secret Lair Drop)
Richard Kane Ferguson

All Sliver creatures have "This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp." All Slivers have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent." (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

"There's just one. I'll finish it in a single blow. —Mercenary *en*-Vec, last words

Price of Progress (The List)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Price of Progress deals damage to each player equal to twice the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.

Man versus nature is not a fair fight.

Toxic Deluge (Double Masters)
Richard Kane Ferguson

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Armor dissolved into flesh. Flesh melted to bone. Bone fell away to nothing.

Flame Elemental (The List)
Richard Kane Ferguson

{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals damage equal to its power to target creature.

Storyteller: By my hand in the fire, this story is a tale of power. Listeners: May it give you strength.

Jasmine Boreal (Legends)
Richard Kane Ferguson

"Peace must prevail, even if the wicked must die."

Farrel's Zealot (Fallen Empires)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may have it deal 3 damage to target creature. If you do, this creature assigns no combat damage this turn.

Farrel and his followers became a formidable band of vigilantes, battling Icatians and followers of Tourach.

Sol'kanar the Swamp King (Legends)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Whenever a player casts a black spell, you gain 1 life.

The Lady of the Mountain (Legends)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Her given name has been lost in the mists of time. Legend says that her silent vigil will one day be ended by the one who, pure of heart and spirit, calls out that name again.

Sol'kanar the Swamp King (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Whenever a player casts a black spell, you gain 1 life.

Wildfire Emissary (The List)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

"The efreet is a striding storm with a voice that crackles like fire." —Qhattib, vizier of Amiqat

Wildfire Emissary (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

"The efreet is a striding storm with a voice that crackles like fire." —Qhattib, vizier of Amiqat

Earthquake (Fifth Edition)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Marchesa, the Black Rose (Double Masters 2022)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Other creatures you control have dethrone. Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

Darksteel Mutation (Commander Masters)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Enchant creature Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

"Dissent will become perfection." —Elesh Norn

Desertion (Commander's Arsenal)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

First the insult, then the injury.

Profane Tutor (Modern Horizons 2 Promos)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} 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.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Blackblade Reforged (Signature Spellbook: Gideon)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control. Equip legendary creature {3} Equip {7}

A weapon of evil, redeemed in Gideon's hand.

Earthquake (World Championship Decks 1999)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Pillage (Deckmasters)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Destroy target artifact or land. It can't be regenerated.

"Were they to reduce us to ash, we would clog their throats and sting their eyes in payment." —Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Dakkon Blackblade (Chronicles)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Dakkon Blackblade's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.

"My power is as vast as the plains; my strength is that of mountains. Each wave that crashes upon the shore thunders like blood in my veins." —Dakkon Blackblade, *Memoirs*

Wall of Air (Fifth Edition)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Defender, flying (This creature can't attack, and it can block creatures with flying.)

When no falcons fly, beware the sky. —Femeref aphorism

White Orchid Phantom (Modern Horizons 3)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Flying, first strike When this creature enters, destroy up to one target nonbasic land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Burning Cinder Fury of Crimson Chaos Fire (Unglued)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Whenever any player taps a permanent, that player chooses one of their opponents. The chosen player gains control of that permanent at the beginning of the next end step. At the beginning of each player's end step, if that player didn't tap any nonland permanents that turn, this enchantment deals 3 damage to that player.

Jade Monolith (Classic Sixth Edition)
Richard Kane Ferguson

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Sedge Sliver (Time Spiral)
Richard Kane Ferguson

All Sliver creatures have "This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp." All Slivers have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent." (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Their flesh is as sodden as the fens in which they live, oozing to fill any wound and squishing to absorb any blow.

Enlightened Tutor (Dominaria Remastered)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Wisdom is a precious heirloom to be passed down faithfully from each generation to the next.

Pyrrhic Revival (Eventide)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Each player returns each creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield with an additional -1/-1 counter on it.

They found themselves alive again, still bearing their mortal wounds.

Dakkon Blackblade (Secret Lair Drop)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Dakkon Blackblade's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.

The Blackblade determines not who is right, but who is left.

Blackblade Reforged (The List)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control. Equip legendary creature {3} Equip {7}

A weapon of evil, redeemed in Gideon's hand.

Boomerang (The List)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

A lie always returns; be careful how you catch it.

Muscle Sliver (Secret Lair Drop)
Richard Kane Ferguson

All Sliver creatures get +1/+1.

The air was filled with the cracks and snaps of flesh hardening as the new sliver joined the battle.

Wildfire Emissary (World Championship Decks 1997)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

"The efreet is a striding storm with a voice that crackles like fire." —Qhattib, Vizier of Amiqat

Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist (Mystery Booster 2)
Richard Kane Ferguson

First strike Whenever Mirri attacks, each opponent can't block with more than one creature this combat. As long as Mirri is tapped, no more than one creature can attack you each combat.

Boomerang (Mirage)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

A lie always returns; be careful how you catch it.

Wildfire Emissary (Battle Royale Box Set)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

"The efreet is a striding storm with a voice that crackles like fire." —Qhattib, vizier of Amiqat

Elder Druid (Ice Age)
Richard Kane Ferguson

{3}{G}, {T}: You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

"I am older than any Elder Druid before me, and still no child has been born with the Mark to take my place. When will the wheel turn?" —Kolbjörn, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order

Dissipate (The List)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

"If you weren't born with it, you don't need it." —Grahilah, former trader of Amiqat

Rootbreaker Wurm (Ninth Edition)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Orcish Squatters (Fifth Edition)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may gain control of target land defending player controls for as long as you control this creature. If you do, this creature assigns no combat damage this turn.

Hymn of Rebirth (Ice Age)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

"There will come soft rains, and spring shall be amongst us, a welcome friend." —Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest

Dragonlord Dromoka (Double Masters 2022)
Richard Kane Ferguson

This spell can't be countered. Flying, lifelink Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn.

Dromoka's followers forsake blood ties so that they may join a greater family.

Titans' Vanguard (Modern Horizons 3)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Devoid (This card has no color.) When you cast this spell and whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on each colorless creature you control. Trample

With a shriek, it directed the spawn toward the temple where the refugees sheltered.

Sedge Sliver (The List)
Richard Kane Ferguson

All Sliver creatures have "This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp." All Slivers have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent." (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Their flesh is as sodden as the fens in which they live, oozing to fill any wound and squishing to absorb any blow.

Everlasting Torment (Commander 2016)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Players can't gain life. Damage can't be prevented. All damage is dealt as though its source had wither. (A source with wither deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

When night fell, the plane itself was scarred.

Pillage (World Championship Decks 1997)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Destroy target artifact or land. It can't be regenerated.

"Were they to reduce us to ash, we would clog their throats and sting their eyes in payment." —Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Muscle Sliver (Friday Night Magic 2003)
Richard Kane Ferguson

All Sliver creatures get +1/+1.

The air was filled with the cracks and snaps of flesh hardening as the new sliver joined the battle.

Livonya Silone (Legends)
Richard Kane Ferguson

First strike; legendary landwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a legendary land.)

Livonya's own nature is a matter of mystery. Nothing is known for sure, merely rumors of unearthly stealth, and unholy alliances.

Recall (Fifth Edition)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Discard X cards, then return a card from your graveyard to your hand for each card discarded this way. Exile Recall.

Wildfire Emissary (Eternal Masters)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

"The efreet is a striding storm with a voice that crackles like fire." —Qhattib, vizier of Amiqat

Pillage (Classic Sixth Edition)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Destroy target artifact or land. It can't be regenerated.

Wild Swing (Shadowmoor)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Choose three target nonenchantment permanents. Destroy one of them at random.

Though the shaman rarely got what she wanted, she was never disappointed in the result.

Desertion (Visions)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

First the insult, then the injury.

Pillage (World Championship Decks 1997)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Destroy target artifact or land. It can't be regenerated.

"Were they to reduce us to ash, we would clog their throats and sting their eyes in payment." —Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Flux (Weatherlight)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Each player discards any number of cards, then draws that many cards. Draw a card.

"Every spell has the potential to be worthless." —Ertai, wizard adept

Wildfire Emissary (Mirage)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

"The efreet is a striding storm with a voice that crackles like fire." —Qhattib, Vizier of Amiqat

Puresteel Paladin (Commander Masters)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Whenever an Equipment you control enters, you may draw a card. Metalcraft — Equipment you control have equip {0} as long as you control three or more artifacts.

His heart is pure. His world is not.

Theft of Dreams (Exodus)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls.

"Volrath stole everything there was of me." —Takara

Apprentice Wizard (Double Masters)
Richard Kane Ferguson

{U}, {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Aspiring wizards must demonstrate basic levels of willpower and mental discipline to even be considered for an apprenticeship.

Profane Tutor (Modern Horizons 2)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} 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.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

As Dakkon forged the Blackblade for Geyadrone Dihada, he unwittingly forged himself into her schemes.

Boomerang (Classic Sixth Edition)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

A lie always returns; be careful how you catch it.

Earthquake (World Championship Decks 1997)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Pillage (World Championship Decks 1999)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Destroy target artifact or land. It can't be regenerated.

Coiling Oracle (Double Masters 2022)
Richard Kane Ferguson

When this creature enters, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Members of the Simic Combine adapt themselves to suit whatever role they feel drawn to.

Dream Prowler (Stronghold)
Richard Kane Ferguson

This creature can't be blocked as long as it's attacking alone.

"To think that some find sleep a restful state." —Volrath

Ramses Overdark (Legends)
Richard Kane Ferguson

{T}: Destroy target enchanted creature.

Animate Wall (Fifth Edition)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Enchant Wall Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.

"When you have been bitten with fangs of granite, you start to long for the ivory sabers of tigers." —Norin the Wary

Glass Asp (Time Spiral)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses 2 life at the beginning of their next draw step unless they pay {2} before that step.

Its venom induces a fever that causes its victims to relive the attack in recurring, haunting visions.

Mirri (Vanguard Series)
Richard Kane Ferguson

If a basic land you control is tapped for mana, it produces mana of a color of your choice instead of any other type.

Mirri and Gerrard have been the best of friends since they trained together under the maro-sorcerer Multani. A fierce and agile warrior, she rejoined Gerrard aboard the *Weatherlight* as his unofficial first mate shortly after he assumed command of the flying ship.

Nebuchadnezzar (Legends)
Richard Kane Ferguson

{X}, {T}: Choose a card name. Target opponent reveals X cards at random from their hand. Then that player discards all cards with that name revealed this way. Activate only during your turn.

Krakilin (Tempest)
Richard Kane Ferguson

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {1}{G}: Regenerate this creature.

"A perfect reflection of its world: brutal, fetal, and lacking truth." —Oracle *en*-Vec

Batwing Brume (Archenemy)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn if {W} was spent to cast this spell. Each player loses 1 life for each attacking creature they control if {B} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {W}{B} was spent.)

Walking Dream (Stronghold)
Richard Kane Ferguson

This creature can't be blocked. This creature doesn't untap during your untap step if an opponent controls two or more creatures.

Dreams, by definition, live shorter lives than those who dream them.

Dissipate (Friday Night Magic 2002)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Elenda, the Dusk Rose (Double Masters 2022)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Lifelink Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda. When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.

Dakkon, Shadow Slayer (Modern Horizons 2 Promos)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Dakkon enters with a number of loyalty counters on him equal to the number of lands you control. +1: Surveil 2. −3: Exile target creature. −6: You may put an artifact card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.

Consign to Dream (Shadowmoor)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. If that permanent is red or green, put it on top of its owner's library instead.

"Dreams are fleeting. Reality even more so." —Oona, queen of the fae

My Laughter Echoes (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Richard Kane Ferguson

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.) Whenever you set a non-ongoing scheme in motion, you may abandon this scheme. If you do, set that scheme in motion again.

"I await you around every corner, smiling and holding a razor."

Everlasting Torment (Shadowmoor)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Players can't gain life. Damage can't be prevented. All damage is dealt as though its source had wither. (A source with wither deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

When night fell, the plane itself was scarred.

Drain Life (Mirage)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Batwing Brume (The List)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn if {W} was spent to cast this spell. Each player loses 1 life for each attacking creature they control if {B} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {W}{B} was spent.)

Desertion (The List)
Richard Kane Ferguson

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

First the insult, then the injury.

Wither and Bloom (Modern Horizons 3)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. {1}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

"Death itself is nothing to cry about. The real tragedy is letting a death go to waste." —Dina, Witherbloom mage-student

Sol'kanar the Swamp King (Chronicles)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Whenever a player casts a black spell, you gain 1 life.

Pitiless Carnage (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Promos)
Richard Kane Ferguson

Sacrifice any number of permanents you control, then draw that many cards. Plot {1}{B}{B} (You may pay {1}{B}{B} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Akul saw his Hellspur followers as little more than ammunition to be expended.