Divergent Transformations

Divergent Transformations (Commander 2016)
Kev Walker

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.) Exile two target creatures. For each of those creatures, its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card, puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles the rest into their library.

Divergent Transformations (Commander Masters)
Kev Walker

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.) Exile two target creatures. For each of those creatures, its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card, puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles the rest into their library.

Dragonspeaker Shaman (Jumpstart 2022)
Kev Walker

Dragon spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.

"We speak the dragons' language of flame and rage. They speak our language of fury and honor. Together we shall weave a tale of destruction without equal."

Kavu Primarch (Time Spiral Remastered)
Kev Walker

Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.) Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) If this creature was kicked, it enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.

Wild Nacatl (Friday Night Magic 2010)
Kev Walker

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Mountain. This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Plains.

"The Cloud Nacatl sit and think, a bunch of soft paws. We are the Claws of Marisi, stalking, pouncing, drawing blood."

Goblin Grenade (Duel Decks: Merfolk vs. Goblins)
Kev Walker

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a Goblin. Goblin Grenade deals 5 damage to any target.

Don't underestimate the aerodynamic qualities of the common goblin.

Cyclops Gladiator (Magic 2011)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature defending player controls. If you do, that creature deals damage equal to its power to this creature.

Accursed Spirit (The List)
Kev Walker

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Many have heard the slither of dragging armor and the soft squelch of its voice. But only its victims ever meet its icy gaze.

Swarm of Rats (The List)
Kev Walker

Swarm of Rats's power is equal to the number of Rats you control.

Swarm of Rats (Portal Second Age)
Kev Walker

Swarm of Rats's power is equal to the number of Rats you control.

Emrakul, the Aeons Torn (Double Masters 2022)
Kev Walker

This spell can't be countered. When you cast this spell, take an extra turn after this one. Flying, protection from spells that are one or more colors, annihilator 6 When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Sekki, Seasons' Guide (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Kev Walker

Sekki enters with eight +1/+1 counters on it. If damage would be dealt to Sekki, prevent that damage, remove that many +1/+1 counters from Sekki, and create that many 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens. Sacrifice eight Spirits: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Loxodon Hierarch (GRN Guild Kit)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, you gain 4 life. {G}{W}, Sacrifice this creature: Regenerate each creature you control.

"I have lived long, and I remember how this city once was. If my death serves to bring back the Ravnica in my memory, then so be it."

Accursed Spirit (Magic 2014)
Kev Walker

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Many have heard the slither of dragging armor and the soft squelch of its voice. But only its victims ever meet its icy gaze.

Krosan Tusker (Archenemy)
Kev Walker

Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Do this before you draw.)

Island (Commander Masters)
Kev Walker

({T}: Add {U}.)

Generous Gift (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Kev Walker

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

The best presents are impossible to regift.

Darksteel Reactor (Darksteel)
Kev Walker

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.) At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on this artifact. When this artifact has twenty or more charge counters on it, you win the game.

Bladewing's Thrall (Scourge)
Kev Walker

This creature has flying as long as you control a Dragon. When a Dragon enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Debtors' Knell (Commander 2021)
Kev Walker

({W/B} can be paid with either {W} or {B}.) At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

One moment, conscious only of a sense of repose. The next moment, hearing the trudge of his own footsteps. He sighed and squinted into the glare ahead.

Dragonspeaker Shaman (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Kev Walker

Dragon spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.

"We speak the dragons' language of flame and rage. They speak our language of fury and honor. Together we shall weave a tale of destruction without equal."

Erdwal Ripper (Dark Ascension)
Kev Walker

Haste Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Savage vampires lurk in the Erdwal's network of passageways where prey is plentiful and easy to catch.

Scion of the Wild (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

Scion of the Wild's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control.

It has a hundred thousand extinctions to avenge.

Leaden Myr (Planechase)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {B}.

The Moriok saw the myr as fellow scavengers, never knowing just who the myr were scavenging for.

Iron Myr (Planechase)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {R}.

The goblins didn't think of the myr at all, which allowed the myr to observe everywhere unhindered.

Iron Myr (Mirrodin)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {R}.

The goblins didn't think of the myr at all, which allowed the myr to observe everywhere unhindered.

Vivien, Monsters' Advocate (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Kev Walker

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast creature spells from the top of your library. +1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Put your choice of a vigilance counter, a reach counter, or a trample counter on it. −2: When you next cast a creature spell this turn, search your library for a creature card with lesser mana value, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Fleshtaker (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Kev Walker

Whenever you sacrifice another creature, you gain 1 life and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {1}, Sacrifice another creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

A soulless husk of endless hunger.

Generous Gift (Starter Commander Decks)
Kev Walker

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

The best presents are impossible to regift.

Eladamri's Call (Modern Horizons)
Kev Walker

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

Tribal rivalries and petty disputes were laid aside at Eladamri's summons.

Island (Game Night: Free-for-All)
Kev Walker

({T}: Add {U}.)

Typhoid Rats (Magic 2015)
Kev Walker

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Kidnappers caught in Havengul are given two choices: languish in prison or become rat catchers. The smart ones go to prison.

Devouring Sugarmaw (Wilds of Eldraine)
Kev Walker

Final Judgment (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Kev Walker

Exile all creatures.

"The clashing warriors turned to face O-Kagachi, the greatest kami, and their sigh of awe was their last breath." —*Great Battles of Kamigawa*

Field of the Dead (Core Set 2020)
Kev Walker

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Spiritmonger (Iconic Masters)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature deals damage to a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. {B}: Regenerate this creature. {G}: This creature becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

Nettle Sentinel (Masters 25)
Kev Walker

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Whenever you cast a green spell, you may untap this creature.

Though Shadowmoor's monster-haunted wilds beckon, she never leaves her post.

Logic Knot (Time Spiral Remastered)
Kev Walker

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.

"Such sloppy work. Let's unravel it and try again!"

Foot Soldiers (Portal)
Kev Walker

Infantry deployment is the art of putting your troops in the wrong place at the right time.

Restore the Peace (Dragon's Maze)
Kev Walker

Return each creature that dealt damage this turn to its owner's hand.

"You can always count on the Azorius to ruin a party." —Massacre Girl

Pack Rat (Ravnica Remastered)
Kev Walker

Pack Rat's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Rats you control. {2}{B}, Discard a card: Create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Telim'Tor (Mirage)
Kev Walker

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) Whenever Telim'Tor attacks, all attacking creatures with flanking get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"The curious merely amass knowledge. The ambitious use it." —Telim'Tor

Kamahl, Pit Fighter (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Kev Walker

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) {T}: Kamahl deals 3 damage to any target.

In times when freedom seems lost, great souls arise to reclaim it.

Volrath's Stronghold (World Championship Decks 1998)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

The seed of a world's evil.

Telim'Tor's Darts (Mirage)
Kev Walker

{2}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.

"People laughed at my darts—once." —Telim'Tor

Oona's Blackguard (Zendikar Rising Commander)
Kev Walker

Flying Each other Rogue creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Roar of the Wurm (Eternal Masters)
Kev Walker

Create a 6/6 green Wurm creature token. Flashback {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Squee's Revenge (The List)
Kev Walker

Choose a number. Flip a coin that many times or until you lose a flip, whichever comes first. If you win all the flips, draw two cards for each flip.

Dimir Cutpurse (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Kev Walker

Ogniqualvolta il Tagliaborse Dimir infligge danno da combattimento a un giocatore, quel giocatore scarta una carta e tu peschi una carta.

Le altre gilde pretendono un pedaggio da chi attraversa i loro territori, ma non la Casata Dimir. Essa reclama la propria parte in segreto, un portamonete per volta.

Generous Gift (Commander Masters)
Kev Walker

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

The best presents are impossible to regift.

Dragonstorm (Modern Masters)
Kev Walker

Search your library for a Dragon permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Thud (Core Set 2019)
Kev Walker

Come costo addizionale per lanciare questa magia, sacrifica una creatura. Il Tonfo infligge danno pari alla forza della creatura sacrificata a un qualsiasi bersaglio.

"Dagli una spintarella." —Mogwin, malvivente goblin

Eradicate (Urza's Destiny)
Kev Walker

Exile target nonblack creature. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that creature and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Budoka Gardener (Champions of Kamigawa)
Kev Walker

Blood-Toll Harpy (Theros)
Kev Walker

Flying When this creature enters, each player loses 1 life.

When harpies demand a toll to cross through their territory, consider yourself lucky if they permit payment in coin.

Shattered Angel (Commander Anthology)
Kev Walker

Flying Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, you may gain 3 life.

She preaches the blessings of the Machine Orthodoxy.

Air Elemental (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra)
Kev Walker

Flying

Pray that it doesn't seek the safety of your lungs.

Dread Return (Time Spiral)
Kev Walker

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Those who forget the horrors of the past are doomed to re-meet them.

Surrakar Marauder (Zendikar)
Kev Walker

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Typhoid Rats (Jumpstart 2022)
Kev Walker

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Kidnappers caught in Havengul are given two choices: languish in prison or become rat catchers. The smart ones go to prison.

Demon (Avacyn Restored Tokens)
Kev Walker

Flying

Undying Evil (Dark Ascension)
Kev Walker

Target creature gains undying until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

"Is it true the evil that people do follows them into death? Let's find out." —Liliana Vess

Thornbow Archer (Magic Origins)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent who doesn't control an Elf loses 1 life.

"I will not rest until the stench of eyeblights is eradicated from these woods."

Soltari Trooper (Tempest)
Kev Walker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Dauthi blood is Soltari wine." —Soltari *Tales of Life*

Dread Return (Premium Deck Series: Graveborn)
Kev Walker

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Those who forget the horrors of the past are doomed to re-meet them.

Phyrexian Librarian (Unhinged)
Kev Walker

Flying, trample At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library and balance it on your body. When a balanced card falls or touches another balanced card, sacrifice this creature.

Jhoira's Familiar (Dominaria)
Kev Walker

Flying Historic spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

"You could say it was my pet project." —Jhoira

Rotwidow Pack (Modern Horizons)
Kev Walker

Reach {3}{B}{G}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach, then each opponent loses 1 life for each Spider you control.

For each one you see, ten see you.

Gold Myr (Neon Dynasty Commander)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {W}.

The leonin thought of the myr as omens, never imagining the sinister fate they foretold.

Faith Unbroken (Eldritch Moon)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature you control When this Aura enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until this Aura leaves the battlefield. Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Sivvi's Ruse (Nemesis)
Kev Walker

If an opponent controls a Mountain and you control a Plains, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn to creatures you control.

Savor (Bloomburrow)
Kev Walker

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Edibility is in the eye of the beholder.

Myojin of Night's Reach (Champions of Kamigawa)
Kev Walker

Myojin of Night's Reach enters with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand. Myojin of Night's Reach has indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it. Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Night's Reach: Each opponent discards their hand.

Char-Rumbler (Time Spiral Remastered)
Kev Walker

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

Elementals flourished as Dominaria healed and new forms of life adapted to the land's reinfusion with mana.

Upheaval (World Championship Decks 2002)
Kev Walker

Return all permanents to their owners' hands.

The calm comes after the storm.

Pathway Arrows (Battle for Zendikar)
Kev Walker

Equipped creature has "{2}, {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature. If a colorless creature is dealt damage this way, tap it." Equip {2}

Also called "pathway stones," hedron shards can immobilize Eldrazi on contact.

Fleshbag Marauder (Secret Lair Drop)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

The slaughter of his people by unliving monsters, . . .

Sacellum Archers (Conflux)
Kev Walker

{R}{W}, {T}: This creature deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

"Our arrows are aimed not at the sacred behemoths but at those who dare to dream of such a trophy."

Thornling (Conflux)
Kev Walker

{G}: This creature gains haste until end of turn. {G}: This creature gains trample until end of turn. {G}: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. {1}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. {1}: This creature gets -1/+1 until end of turn.

Grizzled Angler (Innistrad Remastered)
Kev Walker

Council's Judgment (Conspiracy)
Kev Walker

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

When its power is threatened, the council speaks with a unified voice.

Oona's Blackguard (Morningtide)
Kev Walker

Flying Each other Rogue creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Promise of Power (Mirrodin)
Kev Walker

Choose one — • You draw five cards and you lose 5 life. • Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand. Entwine {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Aether Snap (Commander 2014)
Kev Walker

Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.

"May you wake to find you were only ever a dream." —Mephidross curse

Mindleech Mass (Ravnica Remastered)
Kev Walker

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may look at that player's hand. If you do, you may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

Master of the Wild Hunt (Magic 2010)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token. {T}: Tap all untapped Wolf creatures you control. Each Wolf tapped this way deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power divided as its controller chooses among any number of those Wolves.

Jackal Pup (The List)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to you.

The first morning after acquiring her familiar, the wizard awoke with fleabites and mange.

Narset of the Ancient Way (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Kev Walker

+1: You gain 2 life. Add {U}, {R}, or {W}. Spend this mana only to cast a noncreature spell. −2: Draw a card, then you may discard a card. When you discard a nonland card this way, Narset deals damage equal to that card's mana value to target creature or planeswalker. −6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this emblem deals 2 damage to any target."

Bump in the Night (Innistrad)
Kev Walker

Target opponent loses 3 life. Flashback {5}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

It's not just the wind. It's not all in your head. And it's *definitely* something to worry about.

Detention Sphere (RNA Guild Kit)
Kev Walker

When this enchantment enters, you may exile target nonland permanent not named Detention Sphere and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Shattered Angel (March of the Machine Commander)
Kev Walker

Flying Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, you may gain 3 life.

She preaches the blessings of the Machine Orthodoxy.

Kira, Great Glass-Spinner (Jumpstart)
Kev Walker

Flying Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability."

Each spell is an intricate tapestry, and Kira is the great unraveler.

Kazuul Warlord (Zendikar)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature or another Ally you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Ally creature you control.

On expeditions, minotaurs are worth their weight in gold. Fortunately for their paymasters, most minotaurs don't know how much they weigh.

Dragonspeaker Shaman (Archenemy)
Kev Walker

Dragon spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.

"We speak the dragons' language of flame and rage. They speak our language of fury and honor. Together we shall weave a tale of destruction without equal."

Abolish (Prophecy)
Kev Walker

You may discard a Plains card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

As war raged on, the young mages became more direct in their tactics, often at great cost.

Bladewing the Risen (Commander 2011)
Kev Walker

Flying When Bladewing enters, you may return target Dragon permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield. {B}{R}: Dragon creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Slaughter Pact (Modern Masters)
Kev Walker

Destroy target nonblack creature. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {2}{B}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Death is only the beginning of the end.

Demon (Magic Origins Tokens)
Kev Walker

Flying

Field of the Dead (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Kev Walker

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Duskmantle Seer (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Kev Walker

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each player reveals the top card of their library, loses life equal to that card's mana value, then puts it into their hand.

Magus of the Balance (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Kev Walker

{4}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Each player chooses a number of lands they control equal to the number of lands controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Players discard cards and sacrifice creatures the same way.

Fleshtaker (Innistrad Remastered)
Kev Walker

Whenever you sacrifice another creature, you gain 1 life and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {1}, Sacrifice another creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

A soulless husk of endless hunger.

Jwari Shapeshifter (Worldwake)
Kev Walker

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any Ally creature on the battlefield.

"The best expedition would be an entire team of me."

Day of Judgment (Zendikar Promos)
Kev Walker

Destroy all creatures.

"I have seen planes leveled and all life rendered to dust. It brought no pleasure, even to a heart as dark as mine." —Sorin Markov

Dimir Cutpurse (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Kev Walker

Immer wenn der Dimir-Beutelschneider einem Spieler Kampfschaden zufügt, wirft dieser Spieler eine Karte aus seiner Hand ab und du ziehst eine Karte.

Andere Gilden verlangen Maut von Reisenden, die ihr Gebiet durchqueren, nur das Haus Dimir nicht. Sie holen sich ihren Anteil im Geheimen, immer eine Münze pro Beutel.

Wrath of God (Seventh Edition)
Kev Walker

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Debtors' Knell (The List)
Kev Walker

({W/B} can be paid with either {W} or {B}.) At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

One moment, conscious only of a sense of repose. The next moment, hearing the trudge of his own footsteps. He sighed and squinted into the glare ahead.

Typhoid Rats (Conspiracy)
Kev Walker

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Kidnappers caught in Havengul are given two choices: languish in prison or become rat catchers. The smart ones go to prison.

Cloudreach Cavalry (Legions)
Kev Walker

As long as you control a Bird, this creature gets +2/+2 and has flying.

"It's easy to lose sight of hope until you gaze out from my vantage point."

Krumar Bond-Kin (Khans of Tarkir)
Kev Walker

Morph {4}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

"The Abzan replaced my savagery with a noble heritage. I would give my life for my House."

Master of the Wild Hunt (The List)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token. {T}: Tap all untapped Wolf creatures you control. Each Wolf tapped this way deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power divided as its controller chooses among any number of those Wolves.

Bladewing the Risen (Commander Anthology)
Kev Walker

Flying When Bladewing enters, you may return target Dragon permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield. {B}{R}: Dragon creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Galvanoth (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. You may cast it without paying its mana cost if it's an instant or sorcery spell.

It chews open Mirrodin's husk and feeds on the outpouring of energy.

Tariff (Weatherlight)
Kev Walker

Each player sacrifices the creature they control with the highest mana value unless they pay that creature's mana cost. If two or more creatures a player controls are tied for highest, that player chooses one.

Regal Behemoth (Commander Masters)
Kev Walker

Trample When this creature enters, you become the monarch. Whenever you tap a land for mana while you're the monarch, add an additional one mana of any color.

Generous Gift (Commander Legends)
Kev Walker

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

The best presents are impossible to regift.

Feebleness (Time Spiral Remastered)
Kev Walker

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Just a small touch of magic can harness the debilitating power of Urborg's poisonous winds.

Swarm of Rats (Eighth Edition)
Kev Walker

Swarm of Rats's power is equal to the number of Rats you control.

"Rats, rats, rats! Hundreds, thousands, millions of them, and every one a life." —Bram Stoker, *Dracula*

Sanitarium Skeleton (Shadows over Innistrad)
Kev Walker

{2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

His mind was lost long before his flesh.

Damnation (Planar Chaos)
Kev Walker

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Mystic Crusader (Odyssey)
Kev Walker

Protection from black and from red Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, this creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Djinn of Wishes (Core Set 2019)
Kev Walker

Flying This creature enters with three wish counters on it. {2}{U}{U}, Remove a wish counter from this creature: Reveal the top card of your library. You may play that card without paying its mana cost. If you don't, exile it.

Bladewing the Risen (Scourge)
Kev Walker

Flying When Bladewing enters, you may return target Dragon permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield. {B}{R}: Dragon creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Misstep (Mercadian Masques)
Kev Walker

Creatures target player controls don't untap during that player's next untap step.

The feet have no eyes. —Saprazzan saying

Brazen Scourge (Foundations)
Kev Walker

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)

Driven by an insatiable hunger, gremlins never cease feeding. They can destroy a lifetime of work in just a few moments.

Plains (Commander 2017)
Kev Walker

({T}: Add {W}.)

Generous Gift (March of the Machine Commander)
Kev Walker

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

The best presents are impossible to regift.

Rancor (Double Masters 2022)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Hatred outlives the hateful.

Leaden Myr (Mirrodin)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {B}.

The Moriok saw the myr as fellow scavengers, never knowing just who the myr were scavenging for.

Draconic Roar (Iconic Masters)
Kev Walker

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand. Draconic Roar deals 3 damage to target creature. If you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell, Draconic Roar deals 3 damage to that creature's controller.

Dragonstorm (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Kev Walker

Search your library for a Dragon permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Brain Gorgers (Planar Chaos)
Kev Walker

When you cast this spell, any player may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, counter Brain Gorgers. Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

In spite of their hunger, they're slow eaters.

Adult Gold Dragon (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Kev Walker

Flying, lifelink, haste

Leonin Skyhunter (Mirrodin)
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Flying

The skyhunters were born when the first leonin gazed at the heavens and wished to hunt the birds overhead.

Glowering Rogon (Legions)
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Amplify 1 (As this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each Beast card you reveal in your hand.)

A herd of one.

Annihilate (Invasion)
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Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. Draw a card.

"Whatever Yawgmoth marks, dies. There is no escape." —Tsabo Tavoc, Phyrexian general

Takenuma Bleeder (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, you lose 1 life if you don't control a Demon.

"I prefer to weave my magic through oni blood, but yours will do in a pinch."

Typhoid Rats (The List)
Kev Walker

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Kidnappers caught in Havengul are given two choices: languish in prison or become rat catchers. The smart ones go to prison.

Tandem Lookout (Avacyn Restored)
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Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as Tandem Lookout is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card."

Air Elemental (Foundations Jumpstart)
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Flying

Pray that it doesn't seek the safety of your lungs.

Cover of Darkness (Onslaught)
Kev Walker

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures of the chosen type have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Shattergang Brothers (Commander 2013 Oversized)
Kev Walker

{2}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Each other player sacrifices a creature. {2}{R}, Sacrifice an artifact: Each other player sacrifices an artifact. {2}{G}, Sacrifice an enchantment: Each other player sacrifices an enchantment.

Psychotic Fury (Dissension)
Kev Walker

Target multicolored creature gains double strike until end of turn. Draw a card.

"Rage, my servants. Our ancient power is renewed in blood." —Rakdos

Mirri the Cursed (Planar Chaos)
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Flying, first strike, haste Whenever Mirri deals combat damage to a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Mirri.

A hero fails, a martyr falls. Time twists and destinies interchange.

Wrath of God (Seventh Edition)
Kev Walker

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Divergent Transformations (Commander 2016)
Kev Walker

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.) Exile two target creatures. For each of those creatures, its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card, puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles the rest into their library.

Rancor (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Hatred outlives the hateful.

Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass (Born of the Gods)
Kev Walker

The Champion armed herself to face the cyclops, heedless of her companions' despair. "How will you defeat it with only one spear?" asked young Althemone. The Champion raised her weapon. "It has but one eye." —*The Theriad*

Faith Unbroken (Innistrad Remastered)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature you control When this Aura enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until this Aura leaves the battlefield. Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Wrath of God (Dominaria Remastered)
Kev Walker

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Eladamri's Call (Planeshift)
Kev Walker

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

Tribal rivalries and petty disputes were laid aside at Eladamri's summons.

Weakness (Magic 2010)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

"For strength to have any meaning, there must also be . . . you."

Evolutionary Escalation (The List)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control and three +1/+1 counters on target creature an opponent controls.

Survival is a constant competition from which both sides can benefit.

Certain Death (Eldritch Moon)
Kev Walker

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Some spirits cling to one person, feasting on the growing fear until a final moment of all-consuming terror.

Kitchen Finks (Ultimate Box Topper)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Rishadan Airship (Mercadian Masques)
Kev Walker

Flying This creature can block only creatures with flying.

The view is truly spectacular—as long as you don't look at Rishada itself.

Glorious Anthem (Ninth Edition)
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Creatures you control get +1/+1.

Each victory adds a new verse.

Generous Gift (Commander Legends)
Kev Walker

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Ixidor, Reality Sculptor (Onslaught)
Kev Walker

Face-down creatures get +1/+1. {2}{U}: Turn target face-down creature face up.

"Reality has exiled me. I am no longer bound by its laws."

Kamahl, Pit Fighter (Odyssey)
Kev Walker

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) {T}: Kamahl deals 3 damage to any target.

"I didn't come to play. I came to win."

Grizzled Angler (Innistrad Remastered)
Kev Walker

Inferno Titan (New Capenna Commander)
Kev Walker

{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, it deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

Sages of the Anima (Alara Reborn)
Kev Walker

If you would draw a card, instead reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all creature cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Godtrackers found new pantheons of beast-gods beyond Naya's borders.

Shrouded Lore (Planar Chaos)
Kev Walker

Target opponent chooses a card in your graveyard. You may pay {B}. If you do, repeat this process except that opponent can't choose a card already chosen for Shrouded Lore. Then put the last chosen card into your hand.

Ingot Chewer (Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, destroy target artifact. Evoke {R} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Elementals are ideas given form. This one is the idea of "smashitude."

Ohran Viper (Commander 2015)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature at end of combat. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

The ohran viper is not cold-blooded. Its veins course with the same antigelid venom used to kill its prey.

Evolutionary Escalation (Commander 2016)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control and three +1/+1 counters on target creature an opponent controls.

Survival is a constant competition from which both sides can benefit.

Volunteer Reserves (The List)
Kev Walker

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.) Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

"I'm always a little leery of anyone who offers to kill other people for free." —Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Alaborn Cavalier (Portal Second Age)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap target creature.

"Course he ran! *I* wouldn't want to stare down that barrel, either!" —Alaborn soldier

Shattered Angel (New Phyrexia)
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Flying Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, you may gain 3 life.

She preaches the blessings of the Machine Orthodoxy.

Dominus of Fealty (Commander 2011)
Kev Walker

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, you may gain control of target permanent until end of turn. If you do, untap it and it gains haste until end of turn.

"Nothing is truly your own. It is his, whether you know it or not." —*The Seer's Parables*

Wrath of God (Eighth Edition)
Kev Walker

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Rishadan Airship (Jumpstart)
Kev Walker

Flying This creature can block only creatures with flying.

The view is truly spectacular—as long as you don't look at Rishada itself.

Wastewood Verge (Aetherdrift)
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{T}: Add {G}. {T}: Add {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Forest.

Sosuke's Summons (The List)
Kev Walker

Create two 1/1 green Snake creature tokens. Whenever a nontoken Snake you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Mindslicer (The List)
Kev Walker

When this creature dies, each player discards their hand.

It *is* the thing that goes bump in the night.

Watchwolf (GRN Guild Kit)
Kev Walker

Only in Ravnica do the wolves watch the flock.

Generous Gift (Wilds of Eldraine Commander)
Kev Walker

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

The best presents are impossible to regift.

Cruel Tutor (Portal)
Kev Walker

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

The more you pay for the lesson, the better you'll remember it.

Clone (Magic 2010)
Kev Walker

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

The shapeshifter mimics with a twin's esteem and a mirror's cruelty.

Air Elemental (Magic 2010)
Kev Walker

Flying

"The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab." —Joseph Conrad, *The Mirror of the Sea*

Lightning Helix (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Kev Walker

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

Though less well-known than its army of soldiers, the Boros Legion's mage-priests are as respected by the innocent as they are hated by the ghosts of the guilty.

Mycologist (Planar Chaos)
Kev Walker

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

Soulscour (Darksteel)
Kev Walker

Destroy all nonartifact permanents.

"I have seen the end of times, a future in which all our kind are torn from this world." —Ushanti, leonin shaman

Rancor (The List)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Hatred outlives the hateful.

Graveborn Muse (The List)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

"Her voice is damnation, unyielding and certain." —Phage the Untouchable

Forsaken Wastes (Mirage)
Kev Walker

Players can't gain life. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life. Whenever this enchantment becomes the target of a spell, that spell's controller loses 5 life.

Goblinslide (Khans of Tarkir)
Kev Walker

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token with haste.

Goblins, like snowflakes, are only dangerous in numbers.

Juggernaut (Foundations)
Kev Walker

This creature attacks each combat if able. This creature can't be blocked by Walls.

Many a besieged city has surrendered upon hearing the distinctive rumble of the juggernaut.

Upheaval (Odyssey)
Kev Walker

Return all permanents to their owners' hands.

The calm comes after the storm.

Viseling (Commander 2013)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, this creature deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

"This may hurt a lot."

Captain's Hook (Rivals of Ixalan Promos)
Kev Walker

Equipped creature gets +2/+0, has menace, and is a Pirate in addition to its other creature types. Whenever this Equipment becomes unattached from a permanent, destroy that permanent. Equip {1}

Dread Return (Dominaria Remastered)
Kev Walker

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Those who forget the horrors of the past are doomed to re-meet them.

Mindleech Mass (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Kev Walker

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may look at that player's hand. If you do, you may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

Rancor (Planechase 2012)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Argothian Wurm (Urza's Saga)
Kev Walker

Trample When this creature enters, any player may sacrifice a land of their choice. If a player does, put this creature on top of its owner's library.

Dragon Shadow (Scourge)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When a creature with mana value 6 or greater enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.

Vedalken Archmage (Jumpstart)
Kev Walker

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, draw a card.

"The Knowledge Pool knows. Memnarch understands." —Janus, speaker of the synod

Refocus (The List)
Kev Walker

Untap target creature. Draw a card.

"Before you can open your third eye, you must prove you can open the first two."

Wheel of Fate (Time Spiral Remastered)
Kev Walker

Suspend 4—{1}{R} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{R} and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Mesmerizing Benthid (Ravnica Allegiance)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, create two 0/2 blue Illusion creature tokens with "Whenever this token blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step." This creature has hexproof as long as you control an Illusion.

Tandem Lookout (The List)
Kev Walker

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as Tandem Lookout is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card."

Kamahl, Pit Fighter (Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might)
Kev Walker

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) {T}: Kamahl deals 3 damage to any target.

In times when freedom seems lost, great souls arise to reclaim it.

Spell Rupture (Gatecrash)
Kev Walker

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

"Like water, mana will drain from an inferior vessel." —Jalan Tosk, Simic forcemage

Field of the Dead (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Kev Walker

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Valor (Judgment)
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First strike As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Plains, creatures you control have first strike.

"The cracks widened, the shell crumbled, and Valor spread throughout the land." —*Scroll of Beginnings*

Goblin Lore (Jumpstart)
Kev Walker

Draw four cards, then discard three cards at random.

"The coronation of King Numsgil, no . . . adventures of Tuktuk, no . . . the saga of Morpo the Bard, no! Where's *my* story?"

Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer (The List)
Kev Walker

Sacrifice an artifact: Target artifact gains indestructible until end of turn.

"I used to joke that he had been exiled for being too smart. Now I know why he never laughed." —Glissa Sunseeker

Roar of the Wurm (The List)
Kev Walker

Create a 6/6 green Wurm creature token. Flashback {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Clever Combo (Unstable)
Kev Walker

Search your library for a host card or a card with augment, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

At Crossbreed Labs, "heads or tails" has nothing to do with coins.

Kavu Primarch (Future Sight)
Kev Walker

Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.) Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) If this creature was kicked, it enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.

Uncontrollable Anger (Conspiracy)
Kev Walker

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and attacks each combat if able.

Fleshtaker (Innistrad Remastered)
Kev Walker

Whenever you sacrifice another creature, you gain 1 life and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {1}, Sacrifice another creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

A soulless husk of endless hunger.

Unforge (Darksteel)
Kev Walker

Destroy target Equipment. If that Equipment was attached to a creature, Unforge deals 2 damage to that creature.

Compared to the fire of the forge, the strength of steel is nothing.

Mistblade Shinobi (Planechase Anthology)
Kev Walker

Ninjutsu {U} ({U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may return target creature that player controls to its owner's hand.

Divergent Transformations (Commander Masters)
Kev Walker

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.) Exile two target creatures. For each of those creatures, its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card, puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles the rest into their library.

Breath of Fury (Commander 2016)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature you control When enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice it and attach this Aura to a creature you control. If you do, untap all creatures you control and after this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

Kamahl, Pit Fighter (Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters)
Kev Walker

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) {T}: Kamahl deals 3 damage to any target.

In times when freedom seems lost, great souls arise to reclaim it.

Promise of Power (Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic)
Kev Walker

Choose one — • You draw five cards and you lose 5 life. • Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand. Entwine {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Gigantoplasm (Jumpstart 2022)
Kev Walker

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has "{X}: This creature has base power and toughness X/X."

"I appreciate things that exceed expectations." —Mizzix

Wall of Granite (Portal)
Kev Walker

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

The wisest man builds his house *behind* the rock.

Centaur Battlemaster (Double Masters 2022)
Kev Walker

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, put three +1/+1 counters on this creature.

"A herd is only as strong as its weakest. Our weakest just killed his third minotaur raider—today." —Braulios of Pheres Band

Erg Raiders (The List)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your end step, if this creature didn't attack this turn, it deals 2 damage to you unless it came under your control this turn.

Their skills are extensive, and their appetite for battle just as vast.

Knight of the Hokey Pokey (Unsanctioned)
Kev Walker

First strike {1}{W}, Do the Hokey Pokey: Prevent all damage a source of your choice would deal to this creature this turn. (To do the Hokey Pokey, choose an arm, a leg, or your whole self and put it in. Put it out. Put it in. Shake it all about. You do the Hokey Pokey! Turn yourself around.)

That's what it's all about.

Ingot Chewer (The List)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, destroy target artifact. Evoke {R} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Elementals are ideas given form. This one is the idea of "smashitude."

Glen Elendra Liege (Planechase Anthology)
Kev Walker

Flying Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1. Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.

Those who displease Oona soon learn the extent of the armies she commands.

Energy Chamber (Fifth Dawn)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact creature. • Put a charge counter on target noncreature artifact.

Doorkeeper (Iconic Masters)
Kev Walker

Defender {2}{U}, {T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

One piercing stare usually convinces thieves to go elsewhere.

Foot Soldiers (Starter 1999)
Kev Walker

Infantry deployment is the art of putting your troops in the wrong place at the right time.

Generous Gift (The List)
Kev Walker

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

The best presents are impossible to regift.

Mindslicer (Dominaria Remastered)
Kev Walker

When this creature dies, each player discards their hand.

It *is* the thing that goes bump in the night.

Sanitarium Skeleton (Core Set 2020)
Kev Walker

{2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

His mind was lost long before his flesh.

Wrath of God (Commander 2013)
Kev Walker

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sand Squid (Mercadian Masques)
Kev Walker

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step. {T}: Tap target creature. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as this creature remains tapped.

Synod Centurion (Archenemy)
Kev Walker

When you control no other artifacts, sacrifice this creature.

"We order them to stand, they stand. We order them to wait, they wait. We order them to die, they die." —Pontifex, elder researcher

Generous Gift (Dominaria United Commander)
Kev Walker

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

The best presents are impossible to regift.

Balance (Eternal Masters)
Kev Walker

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

Whirlpool Warrior (Planechase 2012)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards. {R}, Sacrifice this creature: Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.

Spiritmonger (Grand Prix Promos)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature deals damage to a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. {B}: Regenerate this creature. {G}: This creature becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

Nettle Sentinel (Eventide)
Kev Walker

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Whenever you cast a green spell, you may untap this creature.

Though Shadowmoor's monster-haunted wilds beckon, she never leaves her post.

Inferno Titan (Magic 2011)
Kev Walker

{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, it deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

Nettle Sentinel (The List)
Kev Walker

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Whenever you cast a green spell, you may untap this creature.

Though Shadowmoor's monster-haunted wilds beckon, she never leaves her post.

Swarm of Rats (Salvat 2005)
Kev Walker

Swarm of Rats's power is equal to the number of Rats you control.

Null Profusion (Planar Chaos)
Kev Walker

Skip your draw step. Whenever you play a card, draw a card. Your maximum hand size is two.

"Some say that time is cyclical and that history inevitably repeats. My will is my own. I won't bow to fate." —Volrath

Accursed Spirit (Magic 2015)
Kev Walker

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Many have heard the slither of dragging armor and the soft squelch of its voice. But only its victims ever meet its icy gaze.

Dreamborn Muse (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards in their hand.

"Her voice is insight, piercing and true." —Ixidor, reality sculptor

Bear (Khans of Tarkir Tokens)
Kev Walker

Plains (Commander Masters)
Kev Walker

({T}: Add {W}.)

Drooling Groodion (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska)
Kev Walker

{2}{B}{G}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Another target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

"The Golgari expand, yes, but I refuse to call their tainted creations 'growth.'" —Niszka, Selesnya evangel

Annihilate (Eternal Masters)
Kev Walker

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

"Whatever Yawgmoth marks, dies. There is no escape." —Tsabo Tavoc, Phyrexian general

Butcher Orgg (Onslaught)
Kev Walker

You may assign this creature's combat damage divided as you choose among defending player and/or any number of creatures they control.

It can kill you with three arms tied behind its back.

Glen Elendra Liege (Wilds of Eldraine Commander)
Kev Walker

Flying Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1. Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.

Those who displease Oona soon learn the extent of the armies she commands.

Mask of Law and Grace (Urza's Destiny)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has protection from black and from red.

The archangels zealously drove Serra's light into every corner of their new home as if their creator still commanded them.

Joraga Warcaller (Worldwake Promos)
Kev Walker

Multikicker {1}{G} (You may pay an additional {1}{G} any number of times as you cast this spell.) This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each time it was kicked. Other Elf creatures you control get +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Krosan Tusker (Friday Night Magic 2003)
Kev Walker

Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Do this before you draw.)

Ojutai's Breath (Iconic Masters)
Kev Walker

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Late to Dinner (Modern Horizons 2)
Kev Walker

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Mood: A friendship that can outlast death.

Master of the Wild Hunt (Masters 25)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token. {T}: Tap all untapped Wolf creatures you control. Each Wolf tapped this way deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power divided as its controller chooses among any number of those Wolves.

Vampiric Link (The List)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

The familiar's fangs deliver the master's bite.

Spirit Link (Eighth Edition)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

"I am bound to all my children. I share in their joys, I rage at their injuries."

Faeburrow Elder (Secret Lair Drop)
Kev Walker

Vigilance This creature gets +1/+1 for each color among permanents you control. {T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color.

He sought wise counsel from the maiden of the trees . . .

Sengir Vampire (Magic 2012)
Kev Walker

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.

Qasali Ambusher (Shards of Alara)
Kev Walker

Reach If a creature is attacking you and you control a Forest and a Plains, you may cast this creature without paying its mana cost and as though it had flash.

The surprise of a battle cry can be as deadly as a blade.

Wheel of Fate (Time Spiral)
Kev Walker

Suspend 4—{1}{R} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{R} and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sengir Vampire (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.

Unnatural Selection (Mystery Booster 2)
Kev Walker

{1}: Choose a creature type other than Wall. Target creature becomes that type until end of turn.

What nature makes, magic can modify.

Earthbrawn (Morningtide)
Kev Walker

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Reinforce 1—{1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.)

Gremil finally felt in touch with nature—and felt a need to share the experience with others.

Upheaval (From the Vault: Annihilation)
Kev Walker

Return all permanents to their owners' hands.

The calm comes after the storm.

Jhoira's Familiar (Double Masters)
Kev Walker

Flying Historic spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

"You could say it was my pet project." —Jhoira

Wrath of God (Ninth Edition)
Kev Walker

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Krosan Tusker (Commander 2011)
Kev Walker

Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Do this before you draw.)

Mycosynth Fiend (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Kev Walker

This creature gets +1/+1 for each poison counter your opponents have.

"I wish I could take credit for it, but nature progresses on its own, just the way it should." —Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Opal Gargoyle (Urza's Saga)
Kev Walker

When an opponent casts a creature spell, if this permanent is an enchantment, it becomes a 2/2 Gargoyle creature with flying.

Faith Unbroken (Commander Legends)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature you control When this Aura enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until this Aura leaves the battlefield. Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Felhide Minotaur (Theros)
Kev Walker

With spear held high, the Champion came to meet Thyrogog of the Ashlands, who wore the old king's skin as a cloak and fed on the flesh of innocents. The foul minotaur raised the great axe called Goremaster and charged. —*The Theriad*

Jhoira of the Ghitu (The List)
Kev Walker

{2}, Exile a nonland card from your hand: Put four time counters on the exiled card. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Divebomber Griffin (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Kev Walker

Flying {T}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Justice flies swiftly on angry wings.

Juggernaut (Jumpstart 2022)
Kev Walker

This creature attacks each combat if able. This creature can't be blocked by Walls.

Many a besieged city has surrendered upon hearing the distinctive rumble of the juggernaut.

Serra Angel (30th Anniversary Play Promos)
Kev Walker

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

She soars on wings of Serra's light, her sword of faith meting out justice to the wicked.

Lightning Helix (GRN Guild Kit)
Kev Walker

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

Though less well-known than its army of soldiers, the Boros Legion's mage-priests are as respected by the innocent as they are hated by the ghosts of the guilty.

Unnatural Selection (Apocalypse)
Kev Walker

{1}: Choose a creature type other than Wall. Target creature becomes that type until end of turn.

What nature makes, magic can modify.

Juggernaut (Eternal Masters)
Kev Walker

This creature attacks each combat if able. This creature can't be blocked by Walls.

Many a besieged city has surrendered upon hearing the distinctive rumble of the juggernaut.

Covert Operative (Legions)
Kev Walker

This creature can't be blocked.

Some spies seek clarity. Others seek transparency.

Divine Verdict (Magic 2013)
Kev Walker

Destroy target attacking or blocking creature.

"Guilty."

Rancor (Planechase Anthology)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Loyal Subordinate (Commander Masters)
Kev Walker

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, each opponent loses 3 life.

Zombies work best when they're fed appropriately, so it's prudent to let them eat on the job.

Zombie (Oath of the Gatewatch Tokens)
Kev Walker

Ertai's Trickery (Planeshift)
Kev Walker

Counter target spell if it was kicked.

"Don't worry, Gerrard," said Ertai. "I'm sure the crew will come to your rescue as quickly as they came to mine."

Jhoira of the Ghitu (Time Spiral Remastered)
Kev Walker

{2}, Exile a nonland card from your hand: Put four time counters on the exiled card. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Sengir Vampire (Welcome Deck 2017)
Kev Walker

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.

Mountain (Hour of Devastation)
Kev Walker

({T}: Add {R}.)

Soul of Migration (Modern Horizons 2)
Kev Walker

Flying When this creature enters, create two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying. Evoke {3}{W} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Wall of Granite (The List)
Kev Walker

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

The wisest man builds his house *behind* the rock.

Street Savvy (Dissension)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and can block creatures with landwalk abilities as though they didn't have those abilities.

"It takes more than swift feet and dark shadows to slip by me unnoticed."

Skarrgan Firebird (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Kev Walker

Bloodthirst 3 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.) Flying {R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if an opponent was dealt damage this turn.

Scathe Zombies (Ninth Edition)
Kev Walker

"They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise." —Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Giant Strength (Classic Sixth Edition)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

"O! it is excellent / To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant." —William Shakespeare, *Measure for Measure*

Chandra Nalaar (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra)
Kev Walker

+1: Chandra Nalaar deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. −X: Chandra Nalaar deals X damage to target creature. −8: Chandra Nalaar deals 10 damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.

Cruel Tutor (The List)
Kev Walker

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

The more you pay for the lesson, the better you'll remember it.

Ravenous Demon (Dark Ascension Promos)
Kev Walker

Takenuma Bleeder (Jumpstart 2022)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, you lose 1 life if you don't control a Demon.

"I prefer to weave my magic through oni blood, but yours will do in a pinch."

Council's Judgment (Double Masters)
Kev Walker

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

When its power is threatened, the council speaks with a unified voice.

Myojin of Night's Reach (Foundations)
Kev Walker

Myojin of Night's Reach enters with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand. Myojin of Night's Reach has indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it. Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Night's Reach: Each opponent discards their hand.

Air Elemental (Game Night)
Kev Walker

Flying

Pray that it doesn't seek the safety of your lungs.

Thelon of Havenwood (Time Spiral)
Kev Walker

Each Fungus creature gets +1/+1 for each spore counter on it. {B}{G}, Exile a Fungus card from a graveyard: Put a spore counter on each Fungus on the battlefield.

"The sight of my thallids still thriving is a bittersweet welcome to this cold waste."

Foul Imp (Ninth Edition)
Kev Walker

Flying When this creature enters, you lose 2 life.

The imp, unaware of its own odor, paused to catch its breath . . . and promptly died.

Lovestruck Beast (Throne of Eldraine Promos)
Kev Walker

His mind chose solitude, but his heart disagreed.

Mindleech Mass (Ravnica Remastered)
Kev Walker

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may look at that player's hand. If you do, you may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

Kavu Primarch (Modern Masters 2015)
Kev Walker

Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.) Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) If this creature was kicked, it enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.

Rancor (Magic 2013)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Watchwolf (Archenemy)
Kev Walker

Only in Ravnica do the wolves watch the flock.

Plasma Elemental (Fifth Dawn)
Kev Walker

This creature can't be blocked.

"I watched a ship sail right through it. I thought it was harmless . . . until I saw what it had done to the crew." —Bruenna, Neurok leader

Brazen Scourge (Kaladesh)
Kev Walker

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)

Driven by an insatiable hunger, gremlins never cease feeding. They can destroy a lifetime of work in just a few moments.

Lightning Elemental (Seventh Edition)
Kev Walker

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)

"A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave." —William Knox, "Mortality"

Krosan Tusker (Foundations Jumpstart)
Kev Walker

Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Do this before you draw.)

He Who Hungers (Champions of Kamigawa)
Kev Walker

Flying {1}, Sacrifice a Spirit: Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card. Activate only as a sorcery. Soulshift 4 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Myojin of Cleansing Fire (Champions of Kamigawa)
Kev Walker

Myojin of Cleansing Fire enters with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand. Myojin of Cleansing Fire has indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it. Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Cleansing Fire: Destroy all other creatures.

Fleshbag Marauder (Secret Lair Drop)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

The slaughter of his people by unliving monsters, . . .

Corpse Traders (Avacyn Restored)
Kev Walker

{2}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Those without breath can't complain.

Lightning Helix (Ravnica Remastered)
Kev Walker

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

Though less well-known than its army of soldiers, the Boros Legion's mage-priests are as respected by the innocent as they are hated by the ghosts of the guilty.

Wrath of God (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Infernal Tutor (Ravnica Remastered)
Kev Walker

Reveal a card from your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Hellbent — If you have no cards in hand, instead search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Obliterate (World Championship Decks 2001)
Kev Walker

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and lands. They can't be regenerated.

For his family, Barrin made a funeral pyre of Tolaria.

Silver Myr (Planechase)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {U}.

The vedalken saw the myr as toys, unaware of the intelligence lurking behind their empty eyes.

Assassinate (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

Destroy target tapped creature.

"This is how wars are won—not with armies of soldiers but with a single knife blade, artfully placed." —Yurin, royal assassin

Soulbright Flamekin (Lorwyn)
Kev Walker

{2}: Target creature gains trample until end of turn. If this is the third time this ability has resolved this turn, you may add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}{R}{R}{R}.

When provoked, a flamekin's inner fire burns far hotter than any giant's forge.

Late to Dinner (The List)
Kev Walker

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Mood: A friendship that can outlast death.

Sanitarium Skeleton (Commander Legends)
Kev Walker

{2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

His mind was lost long before his flesh.

Sengir Vampire (Jumpstart)
Kev Walker

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.

Sky Hussar (Ravnica Remastered)
Kev Walker

Flying When this creature enters, untap all creatures you control. Forecast — Tap two untapped white and/or blue creatures you control, Reveal this card from your hand: Draw a card. (Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Skarrgan Firebird (Guildpact)
Kev Walker

Bloodthirst 3 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.) Flying {R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if an opponent was dealt damage this turn.

Mountain (Commander 2016)
Kev Walker

({T}: Add {R}.)

Migratory Greathorn (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Kev Walker

Mutate {2}{G} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.) Whenever this creature mutates, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Pugnacious Hammerskull (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks while you don't control another Dinosaur, put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

"I don't know whether it hates the mycoids or just loves breaking things. I say we leave it be." —Samin, Oltec scout

Subterranean Shambler (Time Spiral)
Kev Walker

Echo {3}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters or leaves the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to each creature without flying.

Orim's Chant (The List)
Kev Walker

Kicker {W} (You may pay an additional {W} as you cast this spell.) Target player can't cast spells this turn. If this spell was kicked, creatures can't attack this turn.

Gruul Locket (Ravnica Allegiance)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {R} or {G}. {R/G}{R/G}{R/G}{R/G}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

"In life, it was a cunning survivor, fearless and quick. May its power pass to you as you wear its skull." —Gna, Gruul shaman

Dead Weight (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.

"You're not my quarry, little one. I'm after whatever comes to investigate your cries." —Kelsien, the Plague

Foul Imp (Duel Decks: Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis)
Kev Walker

Flying When this creature enters, you lose 2 life.

The imp, unaware of its own odor, paused to catch its breath . . . and promptly died.

Llanowar Elves (Commander Anthology)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {G}.

One bone broken for every twig snapped underfoot. —Llanowar penalty for trespassing

Jhoira of the Ghitu (Future Sight)
Kev Walker

{2}, Exile a nonland card from your hand: Put four time counters on the exiled card. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Looming Shade (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

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

Its form never rests, propelled by some undetectable gale from beyond the gloom.

Phyrexian Plaguelord (Eighth Edition)
Kev Walker

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"The final stage of the illness: delirium, convulsions, and death." —Phyrexian progress notes

Provoke (Conspiracy)
Kev Walker

Untap target creature you don't control. That creature blocks this turn if able. Draw a card.

"Never start a fight you can't finish." —Padril, council guardian

Emperor Crocodile (Eternal Masters)
Kev Walker

When you control no other creatures, sacrifice this creature.

The king of Yavimaya's waters pays constant attention to his subjects . . . and thrives on their adulation.

Jhoira of the Ghitu (Modern Masters)
Kev Walker

{2}, Exile a nonland card from your hand: Put four time counters on the exiled card. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Gravel Slinger (Onslaught)
Kev Walker

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. Morph {1}{W} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Hellhole Rats (Dissension)
Kev Walker

Haste When this creature enters, target player discards a card. This creature deals damage to that player equal to that card's mana value.

"I must speak with Momir Vig about creating a water-spouting watchdog." —Mathvan, Prahv scrollwarden

Roar of the Wurm (Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might)
Kev Walker

Create a 6/6 green Wurm creature token. Flashback {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sengir Vampire (Ninth Edition)
Kev Walker

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.

Highway Robber (Mercadian Masques)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

"Tonight, madam, it's your money *and* your life."

Border Guard (Starter 1999)
Kev Walker

"Join the army, see foreign countries!" they'd said.

Sky Hussar (Dissension)
Kev Walker

Flying When this creature enters, untap all creatures you control. Forecast — Tap two untapped white and/or blue creatures you control, Reveal this card from your hand: Draw a card. (Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Wrath of God (World Championship Decks 2004)
Kev Walker

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Seizan, Perverter of Truth (Champions of Kamigawa)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 2 life and draws two cards.

"If you would taste the wisdom of the oni, be prepared to salt it with your blood." —Kiku, Night's Flower

Spirit Link (Ninth Edition)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

Soltari Trooper (The List)
Kev Walker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Dauthi blood is Soltari wine." —Soltari *Tales of Life*

Index (Magic 2013)
Kev Walker

Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

"What good is having all the right answers if you have them at all the wrong times?"

Douse in Gloom (Guildpact)
Kev Walker

Douse in Gloom deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Orzhov prisoners are steeped in a blackened brew that robs their souls of strength. Patriarchs drink that brew to extend their own lives.

Generous Gift (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Kev Walker

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

The best presents are impossible to regift.

Promise of Power (Commander 2014)
Kev Walker

Choose one — • You draw five cards and you lose 5 life. • Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand. Entwine {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Krosan Tusker (Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Kev Walker

Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Do this before you draw.)

Faith's Fetters (Core Set 2021)
Kev Walker

Enchant permanent When this Aura enters, you gain 4 life. Enchanted permanent can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Krosan Tusker (Commander Masters)
Kev Walker

Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Do this before you draw.)

Highway Robber (Ninth Edition)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

"Tonight, madam, it's your money *and* your life."

Viridian Zealot (Commander 2015)
Kev Walker

{1}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I will fight only the way nature intended—and nature intended us to win."

Profit (Dragon's Maze)
Kev Walker

Budoka Gardener (Commander 2018)
Kev Walker

Mindslicer (Dominaria Remastered)
Kev Walker

When this creature dies, each player discards their hand.

It *is* the thing that goes bump in the night.

Graveborn Muse (Legions)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

"Her voice is damnation, unyielding and certain." —Phage the Untouchable

Ironshell Beetle (Guilds of Ravnica)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

"Please don't feed the beetles." —Promenade warning sign

Cloudreader Sphinx (The List)
Kev Walker

Flying When this creature enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Infernal Tutor (Ravnica Remastered)
Kev Walker

Reveal a card from your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Hellbent — If you have no cards in hand, instead search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Assassinate (Time Spiral Remastered)
Kev Walker

Destroy target tapped creature.

The rulers of old Dominaria kept assassins on retainer. However, the true loyalty of these master killers was always to their peers. This elite community survived the fall of the old royal order.

Nath of the Gilt-Leaf (Lorwyn)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have target opponent discard a card at random. Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.

A savage hunter with a prince's bearing.

Swamp (Commander 2016)
Kev Walker

({T}: Add {B}.)

Split-Tail Miko (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Kev Walker

{W}, {T}: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

"I wish there were no use for those with my talents. I wish that I could walk Kamigawa forgotten and unneeded, with no war wounds to heal and no broken bones to mend."

Oxidize (World Championship Decks 2004)
Kev Walker

Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated.

"Ashes to ashes, rust to rust." —Viridian shaman

Forest (Commander Masters)
Kev Walker

({T}: Add {G}.)

Mistblade Shinobi (The List)
Kev Walker

Ninjutsu {U} ({U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may return target creature that player controls to its owner's hand.

Sengir Vampire (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.

Doorkeeper (Return to Ravnica)
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Defender {2}{U}, {T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

One piercing stare usually convinces thieves to go elsewhere.

Lightning Elemental (Jumpstart)
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Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)

"Oh, it's easy enough to kill, but I'm not going anywhere near it." —Norin the Wary

Qasali Ambusher (The List)
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Reach If a creature is attacking you and you control a Forest and a Plains, you may cast this creature without paying its mana cost and as though it had flash.

The surprise of a battle cry can be as deadly as a blade.

Scrivener (Odyssey)
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When this creature enters, you may return target instant card from your graveyard to your hand.

A good memory is no match for a good scribe.

Weakness (Fifth Edition)
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Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Patagia Golem (Eighth Edition)
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{3}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Its wings were only designed to be ornamental, but it learned to use them on its own.

Kitchen Finks (Modern Masters)
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When this creature enters, you gain 2 life. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Accept one favor from an ouphe, and you're doomed to accept another.

Annihilate (Commander 2014)
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Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. Draw a card.

"Whatever Yawgmoth marks, dies. There is no escape." —Tsabo Tavoc, Phyrexian general

Sky Hussar (The List)
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Flying When this creature enters, untap all creatures you control. Forecast — Tap two untapped white and/or blue creatures you control, Reveal this card from your hand: Draw a card. (Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Valakut Predator (Battle for Zendikar)
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Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"Whatever volcanoes dream of, it seems like they always wake up grumpy." —Raff Slugeater, goblin shortcutter

Silver Myr (Mirrodin)
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{T}: Add {U}.

The vedalken saw the myr as toys, unaware of the intelligence lurking behind their empty eyes.

Djinn of Wishes (The List)
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Flying This creature enters with three wish counters on it. {2}{U}{U}, Remove a wish counter from this creature: Reveal the top card of your library. You may play that card without paying its mana cost. If you don't, exile it.

Wrath of God (Double Masters)
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Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Phyrexian Plaguelord (World Championship Decks 1999)
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{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"The final stage of the illness: delirium, convulsions, and death." —Phyrexian progress notes

Grizzled Angler (Eldritch Moon)
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Molten Sentry (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
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As this creature enters, flip a coin. If the coin comes up heads, this creature enters as a 5/2 creature with haste. If it comes up tails, this creature enters as a 2/5 creature with defender.

Some take after their father, Stone, some after their mother, Fire.

Glen Elendra Liege (Shadowmoor)
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Flying Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1. Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.

Those who displease Oona soon learn the extent of the armies she commands.

Aven Smokeweaver (Odyssey)
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Flying, protection from red

In a world still pained from burns, some are born already scarred.

Gush (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra)
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You may return two Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Draw two cards.

Don't trust your secrets to the sea.

Pillaging Horde (Portal)
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When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you discard a card at random.

Switcheroo (Magic 2013)
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Exchange control of two target creatures.

Say hello to your new friend.

Cunning (Exodus)
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Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. When enchanted creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice this Aura at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

". . . Dry-walkers die We feed on sweet flesh . . . ." —*Rootwater Saga*

Llanowar Elite (Invasion)
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Kicker {8} (You may pay an additional {8} as you cast this spell.) Trample If this creature was kicked, it enters with five +1/+1 counters on it.

Forest (Game Night: Free-for-All)
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({T}: Add {G}.)

Island (Commander Anthology Volume II)
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({T}: Add {U}.)

Llanowar Elves (Eternal Masters)
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{T}: Add {G}.

One bone broken for every twig snapped underfoot. —Llanowar penalty for trespassing

Deranged Hermit (Judge Gift Cards 2004)
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Echo {3}{G}{G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, create four 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens. Squirrel creatures get +1/+1.

Sosuke's Summons (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
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Create two 1/1 green Snake creature tokens. Whenever a nontoken Snake you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Whirlpool Warrior (The List)
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When this creature enters, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards. {R}, Sacrifice this creature: Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.

Viseling (Nemesis)
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At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, this creature deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

"This may hurt a lot."

Shattergang Brothers (Double Masters 2022)
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