Pentagram of the Ages

Pentagram of the Ages (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Pentagram of the Ages (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Glasses of Urza (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Weakness (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Spike Colony (The List)
Douglas Shuler

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

Benalish Hero (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

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

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

Unsummon (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

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

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

Benalish Hero (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Icy Manipulator (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

Unstable Mutation (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

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

Unsummon (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Forest (World Championship Decks 1998)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Force of Nature (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

Plains (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Mountain (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Power Surge (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Tidal Surge (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

Tap up to three target creatures without flying.

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

Teleport (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

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

Shambling Strider (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Unsummon (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

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

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

Mountain (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Volcanic Eruption (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Prodigal Sorcerer (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Soldier of Fortune (Alliances)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Hypnotic Specter (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

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

Icy Manipulator (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Drain Life (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Mountain (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Weakness (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Candelabra of Tawnos (Antiquities)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Glasses of Urza (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Mind Rot (Portal Second Age)
Douglas Shuler

Target player discards two cards.

Power Surge (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Righteousness (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Animate Artifact (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Drain Life (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Contract from Below (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

Demonic Tutor (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

Extinguish (Portal Second Age)
Douglas Shuler

Counter target sorcery spell.

Animate Artifact (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Frozen Shade (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Mountain (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mountain (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Tranquility (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Forest (Tempest)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Mountain (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Elixir of Vitality (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Drain Life (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

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

Valorous Charge (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

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

Stand in the way of truth at your peril.

Uthden Troll (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

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

D'Avenant Archer (Chronicles)
Douglas Shuler

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

Power Surge (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Unsummon (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Soldier (30th Anniversary Tokens)
Douglas Shuler

Mountain (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Tranquility (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Demonic Tutor (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Extinguish (Starter 1999)
Douglas Shuler

Counter target sorcery spell.

Fit of Rage (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Unsummon (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Benalish Hero (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Teleport (Chronicles)
Douglas Shuler

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

Plains (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Uthden Troll (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

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

Llanowar Sentinel (Weatherlight)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Triskelion (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Unholy Strength (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Uthden Troll (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

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

Drain Life (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

Chandler (Homelands)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Hypnotic Specter (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Weakness (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Demonic Tutor (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Dwarven Soldier (Fallen Empires)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Benalish Hero (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Prodigal Sorcerer (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Mountain (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Cardboard Carapace (Unglued)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Unholy Strength (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Demonic Tutor (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Northern Paladin (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Volcanic Eruption (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

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

Weakness (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Waterlogged Teachings (Modern Horizons 3)
Douglas Shuler

Uthden Troll (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

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

Northern Paladin (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Benalish Hero (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Psionic Blast (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Weakness (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Marsh Gas (The Dark)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Mountain (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

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

B.F.M. onto the battlefield. If one B.F.M. card more creatures.

than that. Even bigger. Keep going. More. dreadnoughts for jewelry. It was *big*!" —Arna Kennerüd, skyknight

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

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

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

Juniper Order Advocate (Alliances)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Island (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Glasses of Urza (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Tranquility (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Tranquility (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Clockwork Gnomes (Homelands)
Douglas Shuler

{3}, {T}: Regenerate target artifact creature.

"Until I came to the Floating Isle, I never had to oil the servants." —Baki, Wizard Attendant

Gerrard (Vanguard Series)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Righteousness (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

Ring of Renewal (Fallen Empires)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Wall of Swords (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

Sharper than wind, lighter than air.

Drain Power (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Krovikan Elementalist (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Serra Angel (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Animate Artifact (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Animate Artifact (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Pentagram of the Ages (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Mountain (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Demonic Tutor (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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

Blast from the Past (Unsanctioned)
Douglas Shuler

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

Hypnotic Specter (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Unholy Strength (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

D'Avenant Archer (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

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

Contract from Below (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Hypnotic Specter (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Volcanic Eruption (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Unholy Strength (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Island (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Northern Paladin (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Prodigal Sorcerer (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Benalish Hero (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Mountain (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Orcish Conscripts (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

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

Animate Artifact (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

Island (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Uthden Troll (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

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

Forest (Beatdown Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Swamp (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Triskelion (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Psionic Blast (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

D'Avenant Archer (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

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

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

Fit of Rage (Weatherlight)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Northern Paladin (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero (Mystery Booster 2)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Righteousness (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Artifact Ward (Antiquities)
Douglas Shuler

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

Hypnotic Specter (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Prodigal Sorcerer (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Royal Herbalist (Alliances)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Mountain (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Psionic Blast (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Douglas Shuler

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

Wall of Swords (The List)
Douglas Shuler

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying

Sharper than wind, lighter than air.

Veteran Bodyguard (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Frozen Shade (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Benalish Hero (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Unholy Strength (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Forest (World Championship Decks 1999)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Unsummon (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

D'Avenant Archer (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Power Surge (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Blast from the Past (Unhinged)
Douglas Shuler

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

Demonic Tutor (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

Prodigal Sorcerer (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Veteran Bodyguard (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Drain Power (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Mountain (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Volcanic Eruption (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Swamp (Deckmasters)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Drain Life (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Force of Nature (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Mountain (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Drain Power (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Tawnos's Wand (Rinascimento)
Douglas Shuler

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

Heaven's Gate (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

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

Fissure (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Righteousness (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Unsummon (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Northern Paladin (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Homarid Warrior (Fallen Empires)
Douglas Shuler

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

Swamp (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Power Surge (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

Southern Paladin (Weatherlight)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Mountain (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Enchanted Being (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

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

Frozen Shade (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Compost (The List)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Fissure (The Dark)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Contract from Below (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Swamp (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Mountain (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mountain (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Yavimaya Hollow (Urza's Destiny)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Shadowbane (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Island (World Championship Decks 2000)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Dwarven Warriors (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Dwarven Warriors (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Benalish Hero (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

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

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

Contract from Below (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Swamp (Deckmasters)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Veteran Bodyguard (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Contract from Below (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

Falling Star (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

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

Icy Manipulator (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Drain Power (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Battle Cry (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

Untap all white creatures you control. Whenever a creature blocks this turn, it gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"In the thick of battle, you must keep your wits about you. Yelling a lot helps, too." —General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Dwarven Warriors (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Talas Explorer (Portal Second Age)
Douglas Shuler

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

Dwarven Warriors (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Uthden Troll (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

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

Psionic Blast (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Unsummon (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Serra Angel (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

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

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

Tawnos's Wand (Renaissance)
Douglas Shuler

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

Tranquility (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Greater Good (Ninth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

"To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death." —Mary Shelley, *Frankenstein*

Serra Angel (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Benalish Hero (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Power Surge (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Dockside Extortionist (Double Masters 2022)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Drain Power (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Prodigal Sorcerer (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Circle of Protection: White (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

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

Each time he glimpsed oblivion, he learned another lesson.

Drain Power (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Force of Nature (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Viashino Heretic (Urza's Legacy)
Douglas Shuler

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

"The past is buried for good reason."

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

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

Death Speakers (Homelands)
Douglas Shuler

Protection from black

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

Tranquility (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Tranquility (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Tawnos's Wand (Antiquities)
Douglas Shuler

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

Plains (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Old Fogey (Unhinged)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Talas Warrior (Portal Second Age)
Douglas Shuler

This creature can't be blocked.

The sea is in their blood. Literally.

Frozen Shade (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Frozen Shade (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Island (Modern Horizons 2)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Forest (Tempest)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Unstable Mutation (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Unstable Mutation (Arabian Nights)
Douglas Shuler

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

Unstable Mutation (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Unstable Mutation (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Drain Power (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

Snow-Covered Swamp (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Infinite Authority (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature with toughness 3 or less, destroy the other creature at end of combat. At the beginning of the next end step, if that creature was destroyed this way, put a +1/+1 counter on the first creature.

Righteousness (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Uthden Troll (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

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

Serra Angel (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Gallantry (Tempest)
Douglas Shuler

Target blocking creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. Draw a card.

"Forgive me," Mirri whispered. "I thought you a burden, and you saved my life." Hanna quietly accepted the apology.

Mountain (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Swamp (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Prodigal Sorcerer (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Serra Angel (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Prodigal Sorcerer (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Plains (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Mending Hands (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Triskelion (Renaissance)
Douglas Shuler

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

Uthden Troll (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

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

Unsummon (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Orcish Veteran (Fallen Empires)
Douglas Shuler

This creature can't block white creatures with power 2 or greater. {R}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Orcs are not exactly known for their valor—although most Orcs have seen countless battles, only a handful have actually fought in them.

Icy Manipulator (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Plains (Starter 1999)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Seeker of the Way (Double Masters 2022)
Douglas Shuler

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

Ojutai sought to rewrite history. Those who disagreed sought the truth elsewhere.

Dwarven Warriors (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Null Chamber (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

As this enchantment enters, you and an opponent each choose a card name other than a basic land card name. Spells with the chosen names can't be cast and lands with the chosen names can't be played.

Discovered by Femeref mages, the Null Chamber is the ultimate testing ground for the uncreative.

Lodestone Bauble (Alliances)
Douglas Shuler

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put up to four target basic land cards from a player's graveyard on top of their library in any order. That player draws a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Circle of Protection: White (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Icy Manipulator (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

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

Dwarven Warriors (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

Righteousness (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Weakness (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Uthden Troll (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

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

Mountain (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Unsummon (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Island (World Championship Decks 2000)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Prodigal Sorcerer (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Plains (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Forest (Premium Deck Series: Slivers)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Quirion Elves (Invasion)
Douglas Shuler

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

Frozen Shade (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Unholy Strength (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Animate Artifact (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Glasses of Urza (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Forest (World Championship Decks 1998)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Psionic Blast (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

Unholy Strength (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Serra Angel (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Drain Life (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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

Righteousness (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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

Forest (World Championship Decks 1998)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Swamp (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Mountain (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Prodigal Sorcerer (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Mountain (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Prodigal Sorcerer (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Tranquility (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Benalish Hero (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Spike Colony (Stronghold)
Douglas Shuler

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

Hypnotic Specter (Magic Player Rewards 2006)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Frozen Shade (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Power Surge (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Swamp (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Weakness (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Arachnogenesis (Commander Masters)
Douglas Shuler

Create X 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach, where X is the number of creatures attacking you. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by non-Spider creatures.

"Captain, is now a good time to mention I'm allergic to spiders?"

Greater Good (Mystery Booster 2)
Douglas Shuler

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

"To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death." —Mary Shelley, *Frankenstein*

Plains (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Mountain (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Tranquility (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Dwarven Warriors (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Unsummon (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Shelkin Brownie (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature loses all "bands with other" abilities until end of turn.

Leave a bowl of milk on your doorstep each night for the brownies, or they'll cause you no end of mischief.

Serra Angel (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Force of Nature (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

Fissure (Renaissance)
Douglas Shuler

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

Orcish Conscripts (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Zuran Enchanter (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

{2}{B}, {T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn.

"We are Kjeldorans no more." —Zur the Enchanter

Righteousness (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Glasses of Urza (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

Snowblind (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -X/-Y. If that creature is attacking, X is the number of snow lands defending player controls. Otherwise, X is the number of snow lands its controller controls. Y is equal to X or to enchanted creature's toughness minus 1, whichever is smaller.

Hypnotic Specter (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Righteousness (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Righteousness (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

Dwarven Warriors (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Mountain (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Prodigal Sorcerer (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Marsh Gas (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Fasting (The Dark)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a hunger counter on this enchantment. Then destroy this enchantment if it has five or more hunger counters on it. If you would begin your draw step, you may skip that step instead. If you do, you gain 2 life. When you draw a card, destroy this enchantment.

Veteran Bodyguard (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Serra Angel (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Uthden Troll (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

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

Shield Wall (Chronicles)
Douglas Shuler

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

Glasses of Urza (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Drain Life (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Mountain (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Serra Angel (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Mountain (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Icy Manipulator (Friday Night Magic 2005)
Douglas Shuler

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

In fire there is the spark of chaos and destruction, the seed of life. In ice there is perfect tranquility, perfect order, and the silence of death.

Dwarven Warriors (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Veteran Bodyguard (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Volcanic Eruption (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Mountain (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Allosaurus Shepherd (Double Masters 2022)
Douglas Shuler

This spell can't be countered. Green spells you control can't be countered. {4}{G}{G}: Until end of turn, each Elf creature you control has base power and toughness 5/5 and becomes a Dinosaur in addition to its other creature types.

Prodigal Sorcerer (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Mountain (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Kavu Runner (Invasion)
Douglas Shuler

This creature has haste as long as no opponent controls a white or blue creature.

Icatian Scout (Fallen Empires)
Douglas Shuler

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

"Let it be known that Ailis Connaut acted with honor and bravery in the defense of the town of Montford, risking her life to scout the enemy's position . . . ." —Proclamation granting knighthood

Blast from the Past (The List (Unfinity Foil Edition))
Douglas Shuler

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

Uthden Troll (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

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

Animate Artifact (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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

Benalish Hero (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Volcanic Eruption (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

Serra Angel (Wizards of the Coast Online Store)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Mountain (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

The Brute (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+0. {R}{R}{R}: Regenerate enchanted creature.

After years of being bullied, Fergo reaped the benefits of his newfound strength: he never met a man he didn't want to fight.

Plains (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Northern Paladin (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Hypnotic Specter (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Circle of Protection: White (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Demonic Tutor (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Unstable Mutation (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Northern Paladin (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Island (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Prodigal Sorcerer (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Prodigal Sorcerer (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Force of Nature (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Swamp (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Mountain (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Icy Manipulator (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

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

Icy Manipulator (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Serra Angel (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Glasses of Urza (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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

Mending Hands (Ninth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Hypnotic Specter (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Mountain (Beatdown Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Spike Colony (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

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

Psionic Blast (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Demonic Tutor (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Compost (Urza's Destiny)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Drain Life (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

Swamp (Starter 1999)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Unholy Strength (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Northern Paladin (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Uthden Troll (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

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

Veteran Bodyguard (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Forest (World Championship Decks 1998)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Mountain (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mountain (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Force of Nature (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Drain Power (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Volcanic Eruption (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Animate Artifact (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Tor Giant (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

"What do you do then? Run. Run very fast. Don't stop until you see the camp—or a bigger Giant." —Toothlicker Harj, Orcish Captain

Glasses of Urza (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Drain Life (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Drain Life (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Oubliette (Arabian Nights)
Douglas Shuler

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

Old Fogey (Unsanctioned)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Psionic Blast (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Mountain (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mountain (Arabian Nights)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Unholy Strength (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Mountain (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Swamp (Arena League 2001)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Glasses of Urza (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Power Surge (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Serra Angel (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Uthden Troll (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

Frozen Shade (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Hypnotic Specter (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Frozen Shade (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Dwarven Warriors (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Force of Nature (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Unholy Strength (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Serra Angel (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Serra Angel (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Northern Paladin (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Ghitu War Cry (Urza's Legacy)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Frozen Shade (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

Shambling Strider (Beatdown Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

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

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

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

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