Drain Life

Drain Life (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Drain Life (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Drain Life (Beatdown Box Set)
Andrew Robinson

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.

Drain Life (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Drain Life (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.

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.

Drain Life (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Drain Life (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Drain Life (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Drain Life (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Drain Life (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Drain Life (Friday Night Magic 2002)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Drain Life (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Drain Life (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Drain Life (Fifth Edition)
Andrew Robinson

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.

Drain Life (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Drain Life (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Plains (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Northern Paladin (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —The Book of Tal

Unholy Strength (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Mountain (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Hypnotic Specter (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

"...There was no trace Of aught on that illumined face...." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Swamp (Arena League 2001)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Glasses of Urza (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Circle of Protection: White (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Demonic Tutor (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Unstable Mutation (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Northern Paladin (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —The Book of Tal

Island (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Power Surge (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Serra Angel (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Prodigal Sorcerer (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Uthden Troll (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

Frozen Shade (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"There are some qualities—some incorporate things, That have a double life, which thus is made A type of that twin entity which springs From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Prodigal Sorcerer (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Force of Nature (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 8 damage to you unless you pay {G}{G}{G}{G}.

Hypnotic Specter (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

"...There was no trace/ Of aught on that illumined face..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Frozen Shade (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"There are some qualities—some incorporate things,/ That have a double life, which thus is made/ A type of twin entity which springs/ From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Dwarven Warriors (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Force of Nature (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 8 damage to you unless you pay {G}{G}{G}{G}.

Unholy Strength (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Swamp (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Mountain (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Icy Manipulator (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

{1}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Serra Angel (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Quirion Elves (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Serra Angel (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Northern Paladin (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —The Book of Tal

Ghitu War Cry (Urza's Legacy)
Douglas Shuler

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

The war cry is not simply a shout but a sacrament.

Icy Manipulator (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{1}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Serra Angel (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Glasses of Urza (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Frozen Shade (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"There are some qualities—some incorporate things,/ That have a double life, which thus is made/ A type of twin entity which springs/ From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Shambling Strider (Beatdown Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

{R}{G}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Freyalise forbid that any stranger should wander into the striders' territory.

Circle of Protection: White (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Mending Hands (Ninth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Prevent the next 4 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

"I can staunch their blood, mend their flesh, and knit their bones. But I cannot restore their hope." —Tender-Hand, kitsune healer

Hypnotic Specter (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

"...There was no trace/ Of aught on that illumined face..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Mountain (Beatdown Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Spike Colony (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Drain Power (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.

Glasses of Urza (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Psionic Blast (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

Demonic Tutor (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Tranquility (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Compost (Urza's Destiny)
Douglas Shuler

Whenever a black card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may draw a card.

A fruit must rot before its seed can sprout. —Yavimaya saying

Drain Life (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Swamp (Starter 1999)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Unholy Strength (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Fire Elemental (Seventh Edition)
Douglas Shuler

It treads on feet of coals and strikes with the force of a volcano.

Drain Power (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.

Northern Paladin (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —The Book of Tal

Weakness (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Uthden Troll (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere, Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near, Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear." —Troll chant

Shield Wall (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

Creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

Whippoorwill (The Dark)
Douglas Shuler

{G}{G}, {T}: Target creature can't be regenerated this turn. Damage that would be dealt to that creature this turn can't be prevented or dealt instead to another permanent or player. When the creature dies this turn, exile the creature.

If the Whippoorwill remains silent, the soul has not reached its reward.

Veteran Bodyguard (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

As long as this creature is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to this creature instead.

Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.

Power Surge (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Righteousness (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Target blocking creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.

Demonic Tutor (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Forest (World Championship Decks 1998)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Plains (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Mountain (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Power Surge (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Drain Life (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Dwarven Warriors (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

River Merfolk (Fallen Empires)
Douglas Shuler

{U}: This creature gains mountainwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)

"Dwelling in icy mountain streams near Goblin and Orcish foes, the River Merfolk were known for their stoicism." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. V*

Animate Artifact (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Serra Angel (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Weakness (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Viashino Heretic (The List)
Douglas Shuler

{1}{R}, {T}: Destroy target artifact. This creature deals damage to that artifact's controller equal to the artifact's mana value.

"The past is buried for good reason."

Veteran Bodyguard (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

As long as this creature is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to this creature instead.

Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.

Tranquility (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Frozen Shade (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"There are some qualities, some incorporate things, / That have a double life, which thus is made / A type of twin entity which springs / From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Marsh Gas (Renaissance)
Douglas Shuler

All creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn.

Tranquility (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Tranquility (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Mountain (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Veteran Bodyguard (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

As long as this creature is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to this creature instead.

Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.

Tranquility (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Forest (Tempest)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Unstable Mutation (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Pentagram of the Ages (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{4}, {T}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

A mirror, a shield, a promise, a great distance, and a kind word—five ways to avoid harm.

Benalish Hero (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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.)

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.

Lone Wolf (Seventh Edition)
Douglas Shuler

You may have this creature assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.

A wolf without a pack is either a survivor or a brute.

Hypnotic Specter (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

"...There was no trace/ Of aught on that illumined face..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Contract from Below (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Remove Contract from Below from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. Discard your hand, ante the top card of your library, then draw seven cards.

Volcanic Eruption (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Ghitu War Cry (The List)
Douglas Shuler

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

The war cry is not simply a shout but a sacrament.

Volcanic Eruption (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Triskelion (Rinascimento)
Douglas Shuler

This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Mountain (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Swamp (Beatdown Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Spellseeker (Commander Masters)
Douglas Shuler

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Island (Starter 1999)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Gloom (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

White spells cost {3} more to cast. Activated abilities of white enchantments cost {3} more to activate.

Unsummon (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Hallowed Ground (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}: Return target nonsnow land you control to its owner's hand.

"On this site where Kjeld's blood was spilled, let none raise a fist or deny a beggar." —Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest

Frozen Shade (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"There are some qualities—some incorporate things,/ That have a double life, which thus is made/ A type of twin entity which springs/ From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Unholy Strength (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Unsummon (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Dwarven Warriors (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Mountain (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mountain (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Unsummon (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Triskelion (Antiquities)
Douglas Shuler

This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

A brainchild of Tawnos, the Triskelion proved its versatility and usefulness in many of the later battles between the brothers.

Hypnotic Specter (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

"...There was no trace/ Of aught on that illumined face..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Demonic Tutor (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Homarid Spawning Bed (Fallen Empires)
Douglas Shuler

{1}{U}{U}, Sacrifice a blue creature: Create X 1/1 blue Camarid creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Anti-Magic Aura (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be the target of spells and can't be enchanted by other Auras.

Marsh Gas (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

All creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn.

Reparations (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

Whenever an opponent casts a spell that targets you or a creature you control, you may draw a card.

"Sorry I burned down your village. Here's some gold."

Hypnotic Specter (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

Animate Artifact (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Dwarven Warriors (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Benalish Hero (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.)

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the Hero.

Animate Artifact (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Tranquility (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Prodigal Sorcerer (Friday Night Magic 2000)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Tawnos's Wand (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{2}, {T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Joven (Homelands)
Douglas Shuler

{R}{R}{R}, {T}: Destroy target noncreature artifact.

"Joven, you're almost as good a thief as I. But Eron hates you even more." —Chandler

Psionic Blast (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

Mountain (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Power Surge (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Mountain (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Northern Paladin (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —The Book of Tal

Mana Vortex (The Dark)
Douglas Shuler

When you cast this spell, counter it unless you sacrifice a land. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a land of their choice. When there are no lands on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.

Drain Power (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.

Unholy Strength (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Crawlspace (Urza's Legacy)
Douglas Shuler

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

The goblins did not understand their attraction to the mana rig. They simply knew it was where they belonged.

Swamp (Deckmasters)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Flicker (Urza's Destiny)
Douglas Shuler

Exile target nontoken permanent, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Who is truer: you who are, or you who are to be?

Volcanic Eruption (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Unsummon (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Island of Wak-Wak (Arabian Nights)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with flying has base power 0 until end of turn.

The Isle of Wak-Wak, home to a tribe of winged folk, is named for a peculiar fruit that grows there. The fruit looks like a woman's head, and when ripe speaks the word "Wak."

Icatian Infantry (Fallen Empires)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {1}: This creature gains banding until end of turn. (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.)

"Valiant Icatia was the last of the Sarpadian empires to fall. Its faithful soldiers defended their cities to the very end." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI*

Unholy Strength (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Drain Life (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Quicksilver Amulet (Urza's Legacy)
Douglas Shuler

{4}, {T}: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Wonderful! You got a lion on your first try. Now put it back."

Force of Nature (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 8 damage to you unless you pay {G}{G}{G}{G}.

B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster) (Unglued)
Douglas Shuler

You must cast both B.F.M. cards to put leaves the battlefield, sacrifice the other. B.F.M. can't be blocked except by three or

"It was big. Really, really big. No, bigger No, more. Look, we're talking krakens and

Weakness (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Veteran Bodyguard (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

As long as this creature is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to this creature instead.

Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.

Mountain (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Veteran Bodyguard (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

As long as this creature is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to this creature instead.

Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.

Plains (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Glasses of Urza (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Animate Artifact (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Mountain (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Vital Surge (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Douglas Shuler

You gain 3 life. Splice onto Arcane {1}{G} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Mountain (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Hypnotic Specter (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

"...There was no trace/ Of aught on that illumined face..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Mountain (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Faithless Looting (Commander Masters)
Douglas Shuler

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"If they didn't want me to steal this, they should've used more than seven layers of shatterproof antimagus glass."

Escaped Shapeshifter (Tempest)
Douglas Shuler

As long as an opponent controls a creature with flying not named Escaped Shapeshifter, this creature has flying. The same is true for first strike, trample, and protection from any color.

Hypnotic Specter (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

"There was no trace Of aught on that illumined face...." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Glasses of Urza (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Force of Nature (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 8 damage to you unless you pay {G}{G}{G}{G}.

Swamp (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Hallowed Ground (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}: Return target nonsnow land you control to its owner's hand.

"On this site where Kjeld's blood was spilled, let none raise a fist or deny a beggar." —Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest

Mountain (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Drain Life (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Baton of Morale (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

{2}: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (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 a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"The Goblins would kill to get ahold of this one." —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Khabál Ghoul (Arabian Nights)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each end step, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each creature that died this turn.

Old Fogey (The List (Unfinity Foil Edition))
Douglas Shuler

Phasing, cumulative upkeep {1}, echo {G}{G}, fading 3, bands with other Dinosaurs, protection from Homarids, snow-covered plainswalk, flanking, rampage 2

"These kids today with their collector numbers and their newfangled tap symbol. Twenty Black Lotuses and twenty Plague Rats. Now that's *real* Magic."

Volcanic Eruption (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Royal Herbalist (Alliances)
Douglas Shuler

{2}, Exile the top card of your library: You gain 1 life.

"It's not so easy anymore. Nothing grows in Kjeldor but seaweed." —Halvor Arensson, Kjeldoran Priest

Ring of Renewal (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

{5}, {T}: Discard a card at random, then draw two cards.

To the uninitiated, the Ring of Renewal is merely an oddity. For those fluent in the wielding of magic, however, it is a source of great knowledge.

Glasses of Urza (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Force of Nature (Beatdown Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 8 damage to you unless you pay {G}{G}{G}{G}.

Force of Nature (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 8 damage to you unless you pay {G}{G}{G}{G}.

Uthden Troll (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere, Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near, Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear." —Traditional

Nadier's Nightblade (Commander Masters)
Douglas Shuler

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Keep looking up and you'll miss what's right in front of your face.

Scent of Jasmine (Urza's Destiny)
Douglas Shuler

Reveal any number of white cards in your hand. You gain 2 life for each card revealed this way.

Tranquility (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Northern Paladin (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

Righteousness (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Target blocking creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.

Northern Paladin (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —*The Book of Tal*

Fissure (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Forest (Tempest)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Glasses of Urza (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Weakness (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Oubliette (Arabian Nights)
Douglas Shuler

When this enchantment enters, target creature phases out until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. Tap that creature as it phases in this way. (Auras and Equipment phase out with it. While permanents are phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist.)

Dwarven Berserker (Weatherlight)
Douglas Shuler

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +3/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

"I may be small, but I can kick *your* butt."

Glasses of Urza (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Weakness (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Spike Colony (The List)
Douglas Shuler

This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Benalish Hero (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.)

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the Hero.

Contract from Below (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Remove Contract from Below from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. Discard your hand, ante the top card of your library, then draw seven cards.

Unsummon (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Circle of Protection: White (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Benalish Hero (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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.)

Icy Manipulator (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

{1}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Unstable Mutation (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Tawnos's Wand (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{2}, {T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Unsummon (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Forest (World Championship Decks 1998)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Force of Nature (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 8 damage to you unless you pay {G}{G}{G}{G}.

Plains (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Mountain (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Power Surge (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Tidal Surge (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

Tap up to three target creatures without flying.

"'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind . . . ." —John Gay, "The What D'Ye Call It"

Teleport (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

Cast this spell only during the declare attackers step. Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Shambling Strider (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

{R}{G}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Freyalise forbid that any stranger should wander into the Striders' territory.

Unsummon (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Circle of Protection: White (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Mountain (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Volcanic Eruption (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Prodigal Sorcerer (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Soldier of Fortune (Alliances)
Douglas Shuler

{R}, {T}: Target player shuffles their library.

"Loyalty to coin alone is loyalty nonetheless." —General Varchild

Hypnotic Specter (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

Glasses of Urza (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Icy Manipulator (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{1}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Drain Life (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Mountain (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Candelabra of Tawnos (Antiquities)
Douglas Shuler

{X}, {T}: Untap X target lands.

Tawnos learned quickly from Urza that utter simplicity often led to wondrous, yet subtle utility.

Glasses of Urza (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Mind Rot (Portal Second Age)
Douglas Shuler

Target player discards two cards.

Power Surge (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Righteousness (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Target blocking creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.

Animate Artifact (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Drain Life (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Contract from Below (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Remove Contract from Below from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. Discard your hand, ante the top card of your library, then draw seven cards.

Demonic Tutor (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

Extinguish (Portal Second Age)
Douglas Shuler

Counter target sorcery spell.

Animate Artifact (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Frozen Shade (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"There are some qualities—some incorporate things,/ That have a double life, which thus is made/ A type of twin entity which springs/ From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Mountain (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mountain (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Tranquility (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Forest (Tempest)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Mountain (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Elixir of Vitality (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

This artifact enters tapped. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 4 life. {8}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 8 life.

"Eternal life or your money back." —Unnamed Suq'Ata merchant, deceased

Drain Life (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Valorous Charge (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

White creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn.

Stand in the way of truth at your peril.

Uthden Troll (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere, Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near, Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear." —Traditional

D'Avenant Archer (Chronicles)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Power Surge (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Unsummon (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Soldier (30th Anniversary Tokens)
Douglas Shuler

Mountain (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Tranquility (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Demonic Tutor (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Extinguish (Starter 1999)
Douglas Shuler

Counter target sorcery spell.

Fit of Rage (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains first strike until end of turn.

"Anger is fleeting; remorse is eternal." —Karn, silver golem

Unsummon (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Benalish Hero (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.)

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.

Teleport (Chronicles)
Douglas Shuler

Cast this spell only during the declare attackers step. Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Plains (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Uthden Troll (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere, Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near, Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear." —Traditional

Llanowar Sentinel (Weatherlight)
Douglas Shuler

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*

Triskelion (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Uthden Troll (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere, Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near, Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear." —Traditional

Drain Life (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Chandler (Homelands)
Douglas Shuler

{R}{R}{R}, {T}: Destroy target artifact creature.

"Never brag about the latest wonder you've created, students. Chandler might be listening." —Reveka, Wizard Savant

Hypnotic Specter (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

"…There was no trace Of aught on that illumined face…." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Weakness (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Demonic Tutor (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Dwarven Soldier (Fallen Empires)
Douglas Shuler

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by one or more Orcs, this creature gets +0/+2 until end of turn.

"Although the Dwarves staunchly defended their walled city-states against the Orcs, their civilization was the first to fall, and its name was sadly lost." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. I*

Benalish Hero (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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.)

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.

Prodigal Sorcerer (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Mountain (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Cardboard Carapace (Unglued)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature For each other card named Cardboard Carapace you have with you outside the game, enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

. . . that exciting . . . about . . .

Unholy Strength (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Demonic Tutor (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Northern Paladin (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —The Book of Tal

Volcanic Eruption (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Force of Nature (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 8 damage to you unless you pay {G}{G}{G}{G}.

Weakness (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Psionic Blast (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

Weakness (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Marsh Gas (The Dark)
Douglas Shuler

All creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn.

"Comes right outta th' ground. If ya can smell it, it's too late." —Keevy Bogsbury

Mountain (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Glasses of Urza (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Tranquility (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Tranquility (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Gerrard (Vanguard Series)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card.

Soldier. Adventurer. Heir to the Legacy. Gerrard has, over the years, traveled much of Dominaria in search of fortune and glory. Now, after serving nobly in the Benalish army, he has returned to the *Weatherlight* to serve as captain in Sisay's absence and to take up the battle against the Lord of the Wastes.

Righteousness (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Target blocking creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.

Ring of Renewal (Fallen Empires)
Douglas Shuler

{5}, {T}: Discard a card at random, then draw two cards.

To the uninitiated, the Ring of Renewal is merely an oddity. For those fluent in the wielding of magic, however, it is a source of great knowledge.

Serra Angel (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Animate Artifact (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Animate Artifact (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Pentagram of the Ages (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{4}, {T}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

A mirror, a shield, a promise, a great distance, and a kind word—five ways to avoid harm.

Mountain (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Demonic Tutor (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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

Blast from the Past (Unsanctioned)
Douglas Shuler

Madness {R}, cycling {1}{R}, kicker {2}{R}, flashback {3}{R}, buyback {4}{R} Blast from the Past deals 2 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.

Hypnotic Specter (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

"...There was no trace/ Of aught on that illumined face..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Volcanic Eruption (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Unholy Strength (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Island (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Northern Paladin (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —The Book of Tal

Benalish Hero (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.)

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.

Mountain (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Orcish Conscripts (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

This creature can't attack unless at least two other creatures attack. This creature can't block unless at least two other creatures block.

Animate Artifact (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Island (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Uthden Troll (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere, Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near, Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear." —Traditional

Triskelion (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

A brainchild of Tawnos, the Triskelion later proved both versatile and useful.

Psionic Blast (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

D'Avenant Archer (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Avenant's archers are also trained as poets, so that each arrow is guided by a fragment of verse.

Circle of Protection: White (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Swamp (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Mountain (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Fit of Rage (Weatherlight)
Douglas Shuler

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains first strike until end of turn.

"Anger is fleeting; remorse is eternal." —Karn, silver golem

Northern Paladin (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —*The Book of Tal*

Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero (Mystery Booster 2)
Douglas Shuler

First strike When Gerrard dies, exile it and return to the battlefield all artifact and creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

The heir to the Legacy has finally returned to the *Weatherlight*.

Righteousness (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Target blocking creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.

Artifact Ward (Antiquities)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked by artifact creatures. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature by artifact sources. Enchanted creature can't be the target of abilities from artifact sources.

Hypnotic Specter (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

"…There was no trace Of aught on that illumined face…." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Prodigal Sorcerer (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Royal Herbalist (Alliances)
Douglas Shuler

{2}, Exile the top card of your library: You gain 1 life.

"Just as an Herbalist heals a wound, so must we heal the rift between Balduvia and Kjeldor." —King Darien of Kjeldor

Wall of Swords (The List)
Douglas Shuler

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

Sharper than wind, lighter than air.

Veteran Bodyguard (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

As long as this creature is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to this creature instead.

Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.

Frozen Shade (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Forest (World Championship Decks 1999)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Unsummon (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

D'Avenant Archer (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Avenant's archers are also trained as poets, so that each arrow is guided by a fragment of verse.

Power Surge (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Demonic Tutor (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

Veteran Bodyguard (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

As long as this creature is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to this creature instead.

Mountain (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Force of Nature (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 8 damage to you unless you pay {G}{G}{G}{G}.

Heaven's Gate (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

One or more target creatures become white until end of turn.

Fissure (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?" —Plato

Righteousness (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Target blocking creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.

Northern Paladin (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

Homarid Warrior (Fallen Empires)
Douglas Shuler

{U}: This creature gains shroud until end of turn and doesn't untap during your next untap step. Tap it. (A creature with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Swamp (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Power Surge (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Southern Paladin (Weatherlight)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target red permanent.

"Look to the south; there you will find peace and serenity." —*The Book of Tal*

Frozen Shade (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"There are some qualities—some incorporate things,/ That have a double life, which thus is made/ A type of twin entity which springs/ From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Compost (The List)
Douglas Shuler

Whenever a black card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may draw a card.

A fruit must rot before its seed can sprout. —Yavimaya saying

Swamp (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Mountain (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Shadowbane (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you and/or creatures you control this turn, prevent that damage. If damage from a black source is prevented this way, you gain that much life.

Light creates shadow; light destroys shadow. Such is the transience of darkness.

Island (World Championship Decks 2000)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Dwarven Warriors (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Swamp (Deckmasters)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Veteran Bodyguard (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

As long as this creature is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to this creature instead.

Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.

Falling Star (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

Flip Falling Star onto the playing area from a height of at least one foot. Falling Star deals 3 damage to each creature it lands on. Tap all creatures dealt damage by Falling Star. If Falling Star doesn't turn completely over at least once during the flip, it has no effect.

Prodigal Sorcerer (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Power Artifact (Antiquities)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact Enchanted artifact's activated abilities cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Mob Mentality (Visions)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has trample. Whenever all non-Wall creatures you control attack, enchanted creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of attacking creatures.

"Why is loud stupidity so infectious?" —Rana, Suq'Ata market fool

Circle of Protection: White (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Waterlogged Teachings (Modern Horizons 3)
Douglas Shuler

Uthden Troll (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

<< Tapez du poing, Tapez du pied Sur ma face de sagouin Tant que vous voulez, Demain matin, je serais sur pied. >> - Moqueries trolls.

Northern Paladin (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —The Book of Tal

Benalish Hero (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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.)

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.

Lim-Dûl's Cohort (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, that creature can't be regenerated this turn.

"Join me in the place of power, you risen dead. Join me where the waters weep and the trees have no hearts." —Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer

Juniper Order Advocate (Alliances)
Douglas Shuler

As long as this creature is untapped, green creatures you control get +1/+1.

"In these troubled times, we alone carry the hope of reconciliation between Elf and Human." —Jaeuhl Carthalion, Juniper Order Advocate

Wall of Swords (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

Sharper than wind, lighter than air.

Drain Power (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.

Krovikan Elementalist (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

{2}{R}: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {U}{U}: Target creature you control gains flying until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

"The Elementalists' talents could be useful if turned to other purposes." —Zur the Enchanter

Unholy Strength (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

D'Avenant Archer (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Contract from Below (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Remove Contract from Below from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. Discard your hand, ante the top card of your library, then draw seven cards.

Prodigal Sorcerer (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Forest (Beatdown Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Prodigal Sorcerer (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Mountain (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Psionic Blast (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Douglas Shuler

Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

Benalish Hero (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.)

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.

Unholy Strength (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Prodigal Sorcerer (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Occasionally members of the Institute of Arcane Study acquire a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Drain Power (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.

Volcanic Eruption (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Swamp (Deckmasters)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Drain Life (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.

Mountain (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Drain Power (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.

Tawnos's Wand (Rinascimento)
Douglas Shuler

{2}, {T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Unsummon (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Mountain (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Enchanted Being (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature by enchanted creatures.

Fissure (The Dark)
Douglas Shuler

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

"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?" —Plato

Contract from Below (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Remove Contract from Below from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. Discard your hand, ante the top card of your library, then draw seven cards.

Mountain (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Yavimaya Hollow (Urza's Destiny)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Add {C}. {G}, {T}: Regenerate target creature.

For all its traps and defenses, Yavimaya has its havens, too.

Dwarven Warriors (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Benalish Hero (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.)

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.

Circle of Protection: White (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Contract from Below (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Remove Contract from Below from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. Discard your hand, ante the top card of your library, then draw seven cards.

Contract from Below (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Remove Contract from Below from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. Discard your hand, ante the top card of your library, then draw seven cards.

Drain Power (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.

Dwarven Warriors (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Talas Explorer (Portal Second Age)
Douglas Shuler

Flying When this creature enters, look at target opponent's hand.

Dwarven Warriors (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Psionic Blast (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

Unsummon (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Serra Angel (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Circle of Protection: White (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Tranquility (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Serra Angel (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Benalish Hero (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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.)

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.

Power Surge (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Dockside Extortionist (Double Masters 2022)
Douglas Shuler

When this creature enters, create X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of artifacts and enchantments your opponents control. (Treasure tokens are artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

The fine print is illegible scribbles, but it *is* legally binding.

Drain Power (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.

Circle of Protection: White (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Temmet, Naktamun's Will (Aetherdrift Commander)
Douglas Shuler

Vigilance, menace Whenever you attack, draw a card, then discard a card. Whenever you draw a card, Zombies you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Each time he glimpsed oblivion, he learned another lesson.

Death Speakers (Homelands)
Douglas Shuler

Protection from black

"Such innocent little birds. They sing a sweet song, sitting on their fragile branch." —Grandmother Sengir

Tranquility (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Plains (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Old Fogey (Unhinged)
Douglas Shuler

Phasing, cumulative upkeep {1}, echo {G}{G}, fading 3, bands with other Dinosaurs, protection from Homarids, snow-covered plainswalk, flanking, rampage 2

"These kids today with their collector numbers and their newfangled tap symbol. Twenty Black Lotuses and twenty Plague Rats. Now that's *real* Magic."

Talas Warrior (Portal Second Age)
Douglas Shuler

This creature can't be blocked.

The sea is in their blood. Literally.

Frozen Shade (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler