Standing Troops

Standing Troops (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Kiora)
Zoltan Boros

Vigilance

"Bant sentries were called the Angel Line. They never faltered, and they were ready to die defending their position." —Elspeth

Standing Troops (Seventh Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Vigilance

They fight so closely together a mouse couldn't slip past their guard.

Standing Troops (Welcome Deck 2017)
Zoltan Boros

Vigilance

"Bant sentries were called the Angel Line. They never faltered, and they were ready to die defending their position." —Elspeth Tirel

Standing Troops (Exodus)
Daren Bader

Vigilance

The less you have, the harder you fight for it.

Standing Troops (Classic Sixth Edition)
Daren Bader

Vigilance

The less you have, the harder you fight for it.

Standing Troops (Eighth Edition)
Daren Bader

Vigilance

The less you have, the harder you fight for it.

Pride of Lions (Seventh Edition)
Gary Ruddell

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

There's only one thing worse than a hungry lion—many hungry lions.

Mystic Enforcer (Dominaria Remastered)
Gary Ruddell

Protection from black Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, this creature gets +3/+3 and has flying.

Wild Research (Apocalypse)
Gary Ruddell

{1}{W}: Search your library for an enchantment card and reveal that card. Put it into your hand, then discard a card at random. Then shuffle. {1}{U}: Search your library for an instant card and reveal that card. Put it into your hand, then discard a card at random. Then shuffle.

Execute (Ninth Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Destroy target white creature. It can't be regenerated. Draw a card.

"Any fool who would die for honor is better off dead." —Cabal Patriarch

Ghastly Demise (Odyssey)
Gary Ruddell

Destroy target nonblack creature if its toughness is less than or equal to the number of cards in your graveyard.

"Anyone can snap her fingers and yank a soul. I prefer to kill creatively." —Braids, dementia summoner

Cetavolver (Apocalypse)
Gary Ruddell

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

Femeref Archers (Seventh Edition)
Gary Ruddell

{T}: This creature deals 4 damage to target attacking creature with flying.

"Bet you can't put it through the eye." "Left or right?"

Circle of Protection: Red (Seventh Edition)
Gary Ruddell

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

Standing Troops (Seventh Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Vigilance

They fight so closely together a mouse couldn't slip past their guard.

Utopia Tree (Ninth Edition)
Gary Ruddell

{T}: Add one mana of any color.

The fruit of this fabled tree takes on the flavor of whatever food you love most.

Aurification (Onslaught)
Gary Ruddell

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, put a gold counter on it. Each creature with a gold counter on it is a Wall in addition to its other creature types and has defender. (Those creatures can't attack.) When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, remove all gold counters from all creatures.

Muscle Burst (The List)
Gary Ruddell

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is 3 plus the number of cards named Muscle Burst in all graveyards.

As strong as a centaur's will.

Creeping Mold (Seventh Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Mold crept over the walls and into every crevice until the gleaming white stone strained and burst.

Erratic Explosion (The List)
Gary Ruddell

Choose any target. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. Erratic Explosion deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that permanent or player. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

Demolish (World Championship Decks 2003)
Gary Ruddell

Destroy target artifact or land.

"Pound the steel until it fits. Doesn't work? Bash to bits." —Dwarven forging song

Vampiric Dragon (Crimson Vow Commander)
Gary Ruddell

Flying Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. {1}{R}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature.

Mana Breach (Seventh Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player returns a land they control to its owner's hand.

The mana that binds the world together can also tear it apart.

Circle of Protection: Red (World Championship Decks 2004)
Gary Ruddell

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

Krosan Reclamation (World Championship Decks 2003)
Gary Ruddell

Target player shuffles up to two target cards from their graveyard into their library. Flashback {1}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Chain of Plasma (Onslaught)
Gary Ruddell

Chain of Plasma deals 3 damage to any target. Then that player or that permanent's controller may discard a card. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Mystic Enforcer (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Gary Ruddell

Protection from black Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, this creature gets +3/+3 and has flying.

Ghastly Demise (World Championship Decks 2002)
Gary Ruddell

Destroy target nonblack creature if its toughness is less than or equal to the number of cards in your graveyard.

"Anyone can snap her fingers and yank a soul. I prefer to kill creatively." —Braids, dementia summoner

Erratic Explosion (Onslaught)
Gary Ruddell

Choose any target. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. Erratic Explosion deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that permanent or player. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

Breakthrough (The List)
Gary Ruddell

Draw four cards, then choose X cards in your hand and discard the rest.

The ideas came flooding in so fast that they couldn't all be contained.

Krosan Reclamation (World Championship Decks 2003)
Gary Ruddell

Target player shuffles up to two target cards from their graveyard into their library. Flashback {1}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Demolish (Ninth Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Destroy target artifact or land.

"Pound the steel until it fits. Doesn't work? Bash to bits." —Dwarven forging song

Demolish (Eighth Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Destroy target artifact or land.

"Pound the steel until it fits. Doesn't work? Bash to bits." —Dwarven forging song

Mystic Enforcer (Dominaria Remastered)
Gary Ruddell

Protection from black Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, this creature gets +3/+3 and has flying.

Breakthrough (World Championship Decks 2002)
Gary Ruddell

Draw four cards, then choose X cards in your hand and discard the rest.

The ideas came flooding in so fast that they couldn't all be contained.

Circle of Protection: Red (Eighth Edition)
Gary Ruddell

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

Mercadian Lift (Mercadian Masques)
Gary Ruddell

{1}, {T}: Put a winch counter on this artifact. {T}, Remove X winch counters from this artifact: You may put a creature card with mana value X from your hand onto the battlefield.

Dwarven Blastminer (The List)
Gary Ruddell

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

"Life is too short for something like a hunk of rock to get in my way."

Ghastly Demise (Commander Legends)
Gary Ruddell

Destroy target nonblack creature if its toughness is less than or equal to the number of cards in your graveyard.

"Anyone can snap her fingers and yank a soul. I prefer to kill creatively." —Braids, dementia summoner

Overload (Invasion)
Gary Ruddell

Kicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell.) Destroy target artifact if its mana value is 2 or less. If this spell was kicked, destroy that artifact if its mana value is 5 or less instead.

Vampiric Dragon (Archenemy)
Gary Ruddell

Flying Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. {1}{R}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature.

Diligent Farmhand (Odyssey)
Gary Ruddell

{1}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If this card is in a graveyard, effects from spells named Muscle Burst count it as a card named Muscle Burst.

Execute (Ninth Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Destroy target white creature. It can't be regenerated. Draw a card.

"Any fool who would die for honor is better off dead." —Cabal Patriarch

Sacred Ground (Seventh Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes a land to be put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return that card to the battlefield.

The land will never betray those who gave their lives for it.

Pride of Lions (Seventh Edition)
Gary Ruddell

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

There's only one thing worse than a hungry lion—many hungry lions.

Utopia Tree (Ninth Edition)
Gary Ruddell

{T}: Add one mana of any color.

The fruit of this fabled tree takes on the flavor of whatever food you love most.

Task Force (Mercadian Masques)
Gary Ruddell

Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, it gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

They are the reflection of Rushwood's glow on the edge of a wooden sword.

Spirit Cairn (Judgment)
Gary Ruddell

Whenever a player discards a card, you may pay {W}. If you do, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

It marks the border between here and hereafter.

Mystic Enforcer (Odyssey)
Gary Ruddell

Protection from black Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, this creature gets +3/+3 and has flying.

Manacles of Decay (Apocalypse)
Gary Ruddell

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack. {B}: Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. {R}: Enchanted creature can't block this turn.

Worldly Counsel (Invasion)
Gary Ruddell

Domain — Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Execute (Eighth Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Destroy target white creature. It can't be regenerated. Draw a card.

"Any fool who would die for honor is better off dead." —Cabal Patriarch

Sabertooth Nishoba (Invasion)
Gary Ruddell

Trample, protection from blue and from red

They sneer at the terrestrial dangers found on peaks and shores, eager to prove themselves against new and even mightier foes.

Muscle Burst (Odyssey)
Gary Ruddell

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is 3 plus the number of cards named Muscle Burst in all graveyards.

As strong as a centaur's will.

Krosan Reclamation (World Championship Decks 2003)
Gary Ruddell

Target player shuffles up to two target cards from their graveyard into their library. Flashback {1}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creeping Mold (Tenth Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Mold crept over the walls and into every crevice until the gleaming white stone strained and burst.

Accelerate (Torment)
Gary Ruddell

Target creature gains haste until end of turn. Draw a card.

"I've seen lightning move slower." —Nomad sentry

Breakthrough (Torment)
Gary Ruddell

Draw four cards, then choose X cards in your hand and discard the rest.

The ideas came flooding in so fast that they couldn't all be contained.

Wild Research (The List)
Gary Ruddell

{1}{W}: Search your library for an enchantment card and reveal that card. Put it into your hand, then discard a card at random. Then shuffle. {1}{U}: Search your library for an instant card and reveal that card. Put it into your hand, then discard a card at random. Then shuffle.

Execute (Odyssey)
Gary Ruddell

Destroy target white creature. It can't be regenerated. Draw a card.

"Any fool who would die for honor is better off dead." —Cabal Patriarch

Sacred Ground (Seventh Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes a land to be put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return that card to the battlefield.

The land will never betray those who gave their lives for it.

Dwarven Blastminer (Onslaught)
Gary Ruddell

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

"Life is too short for something like a hunk of rock to get in my way."

Unholy Strength (Seventh Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

"I don't *feel* any different."

Demolish (Odyssey)
Gary Ruddell

Destroy target artifact or land.

"Pound the steel until it fits. Doesn't work? Bash to bits." —Dwarven forging song

Mudhole (Odyssey)
Gary Ruddell

Target player exiles all land cards from their graveyard.

"Doing okay back there, Tarv? Tarv?"

Utopia Tree (Invasion)
Gary Ruddell

{T}: Add one mana of any color.

The fruit of this fabled tree takes on the flavor of whatever food you love most.

Sacred Ground (Eighth Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes a land to be put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return that card to the battlefield.

The land will never betray those who gave their lives for it.

Krosan Reclamation (Judgment)
Gary Ruddell

Target player shuffles up to two target cards from their graveyard into their library. Flashback {1}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creeping Mold (Eighth Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Mold crept over the walls and into every crevice until the gleaming white stone strained and burst.

Erratic Explosion (Planechase 2012)
Gary Ruddell

Choose any target. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. Erratic Explosion deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that permanent or player. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

Erratic Explosion (Planechase Anthology)
Gary Ruddell

Choose any target. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. Erratic Explosion deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that permanent or player. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

Vampiric Dragon (Odyssey)
Gary Ruddell

Flying Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. {1}{R}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature.

Sacred Ground (Ninth Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes a land to be put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return that card to the battlefield.

The knight knelt and prayed, first for the sanctity of his land and second for the strength to repel its invaders.

Diligent Farmhand (The List)
Gary Ruddell

{1}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If this card is in a graveyard, effects from spells named Muscle Burst count it as a card named Muscle Burst.

Reborn Hero (Torment)
Gary Ruddell

Vigilance Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, this creature has "When this creature dies, you may pay {W}{W}. If you do, return this card to the battlefield under your control."

Nature's Resurgence (Seventh Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Each player draws a card for each creature card in their graveyard.

"The dead whisper to the living. If you listen, you will learn." —Maro

Demolish (Tenth Edition)
Gary Ruddell

Destroy target artifact or land.

"Pound the steel until it fits. Doesn't work? Bash to bits." —Dwarven forging song