Madcap Skills

Madcap Skills (Gatecrash)
Anthony Palumbo

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 and has menace.

The larger the crowd, the harder it is for them to run away.

Madcap Skills (The List)
Anthony Palumbo

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 and has menace.

The larger the crowd, the harder it is for them to run away.

Insidious Will (Kaladesh Promos)
Anthony Palumbo

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • You may choose new targets for target spell. • Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"We meet again, pyromancer." —Baral, Chief of Compliance

Siren of the Silent Song (Born of the Gods)
Anthony Palumbo

Flying Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, each opponent discards a card, then each opponent mills a card.

Burning Anger (Magic 2015)
Anthony Palumbo

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to any target."

"With rage as your forge, your hammer can smite anything."

Cultivate (Jumpstart 2022)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Helm of the Gods (Magic Origins)
Anthony Palumbo

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each enchantment you control. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Its blessings are as numerous as the stars of Nyx.

Cultivate (Planechase Anthology)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Brago's Representative (Conspiracy)
Anthony Palumbo

While voting, you get an additional vote. (The votes can be for different choices or for the same choice.)

On Fiora, no matter is settled until King Brago offers an opinion.

Angel (Masters 25 Tokens)
Anthony Palumbo

Flying

Groundskeeper (Shadows over Innistrad)
Anthony Palumbo

{1}{G}: Return target basic land card from your graveyard to your hand.

"While the church thinks in terms of legacies, others think in terms of eternities."

Hollow One (Mystery Booster 2)
Anthony Palumbo

This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card you've cycled or discarded this turn. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The embodiment of yearning, forever drifting the deserts to find what had once made it whole.

Dread Presence (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Anthony Palumbo

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

It beckons silently, waiting in the darkness.

Enraged Giant (Aether Revolt)
Anthony Palumbo

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Trample, haste

When fighting spilled over into Giant's Walk, the aether weapons and swooping airships angered the normally placid creatures.

Woodcutter's Grit (Eldritch Moon)
Anthony Palumbo

Target creature you control gets +3/+3 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

The magic used by Kessigers is known for its practical applications.

Ghitu Chronicler (Dominaria)
Anthony Palumbo

Kicker {3}{R} (You may pay an additional {3}{R} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

"What fire forged, fire remembers."

Cultivate (New Capenna Commander)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Drownyard Explorers (Jumpstart 2022)
Anthony Palumbo

When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

"Angels and inquisitors terrorize villages, but no one seems to notice the stirring out at sea."

Blood Baron of Vizkopa (Iconic Masters)
Anthony Palumbo

Lifelink, protection from white and from black As long as you have 30 or more life and an opponent has 10 or less life, this creature gets +6/+6 and has flying.

Beastcaller Savant (Battle for Zendikar Promos)
Anthony Palumbo

Haste {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

"They come because I call. They stay because I listen."

Madcap Skills (Gatecrash)
Anthony Palumbo

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 and has menace.

The larger the crowd, the harder it is for them to run away.

Elgaud Shieldmate (Avacyn Restored)
Anthony Palumbo

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 this creature is paired with another creature, both creatures have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Entourage of Trest (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Anthony Palumbo

When this creature enters, you become the monarch. This creature can block an additional creature each combat as long as you're the monarch.

"The dim resort to violence, for which the nimble prepare." —Leovold, emissary of Trest

Serra Ascendant (Magic 2011)
Anthony Palumbo

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) As long as you have 30 or more life, this creature gets +5/+5 and has flying.

Sentinel Totem (Ixalan)
Anthony Palumbo

When this artifact enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}, Exile this artifact: Exile all graveyards.

Contagion Clasp (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Anthony Palumbo

When Contagion Clasp enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Friendly Fire (Fate Reforged)
Anthony Palumbo

Target creature's controller reveals a card at random from their hand. Friendly Fire deals damage to that creature and that player equal to the revealed card's mana value.

"Never tell goblins to 'fire at will.'" —Urut Barzeel, Mardu hordechief

Cultivate (Commander 2020)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Pithing Needle (Ravnica Remastered)
Anthony Palumbo

As this artifact enters, choose a card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

The fearful want the procedure before a blood festival. The guilty seek it afterward.

Blessed Light (Dominaria)
Anthony Palumbo

Exile target creature or enchantment.

Enchanted by mage-smiths and blessed by priests, Benalish windows let in light and cast out darkness.

Blood Baron of Vizkopa (Commander 2017)
Anthony Palumbo

Lifelink, protection from white and from black As long as you have 30 or more life and an opponent has 10 or less life, this creature gets +6/+6 and has flying.

Cultivate (Commander 2016)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Fan Bearer (Game Night)
Anthony Palumbo

{2}, {T}: Tap target creature.

Rest sometimes requires the right prompting.

Angel (Commander 2014 Tokens)
Anthony Palumbo

Flying

Cultivate (Commander 2018)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Seekers' Squire (Ixalan)
Anthony Palumbo

When this creature enters, it explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Dusk follows the light.

Culling Dais (Modern Masters 2015)
Anthony Palumbo

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card for each charge counter on this artifact.

"Forswear the flesh and you will truly see." —Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Cultivate (Dominaria United Commander)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Geist Trappers (Avacyn Restored)
Anthony Palumbo

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 this creature is paired with another creature, both creatures have reach.

Glaring Aegis (Dragons of Tarkir)
Anthony Palumbo

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.

Gyre Engineer (Ravnica Allegiance)
Anthony Palumbo

{T}: Add {G}{U}.

"As I contemplate what is, I dive ever deeper into the depths of possibility. Then I set an experiment in motion and watch the truth rise to the surface."

Settle Beyond Reality (The List)
Anthony Palumbo

Choose one or both — • Exile target creature you don't control. • Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Two taken, two judged, one returned.

Dragon Mantle (Commander Legends)
Anthony Palumbo

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature has "{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Show of Valor (Magic 2013)
Anthony Palumbo

Target creature gets +2/+4 until end of turn.

"Duty, honor, and valor are either in your heart or they are not. You will never know for certain until you are tested." —Ajani Goldmane

Call of the Conclave (Ravnica Remastered)
Anthony Palumbo

Create a 3/3 green Centaur creature token.

Centaurs are sent to evangelize in Gruul territories where words of war speak louder than prayers of peace.

Culling Dais (Scars of Mirrodin)
Anthony Palumbo

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card for each charge counter on this artifact.

"Forswear the flesh and you will truly see." —Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Dread Presence (Jumpstart 2022)
Anthony Palumbo

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

It beckons silently, waiting in the darkness.

Ember-Eye Wolf (Shadows over Innistrad)
Anthony Palumbo

Haste {1}{R}: This creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

No howl. No snarl. Just the roar of flames.

Cultivate (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Sylvan Messenger (Magic Origins)
Anthony Palumbo

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all Elf cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Dread Presence (Core Set 2020)
Anthony Palumbo

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

It beckons silently, waiting in the darkness.

Cultivate (Commander Masters)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Angel (Modern Masters 2017 Tokens)
Anthony Palumbo

Flying

Executioner's Hood (Dark Ascension)
Anthony Palumbo

Equipped creature has intimidate. (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Mortify (Dominaria United Commander)
Anthony Palumbo

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

"Your debt is erased." —Hilgur, Orzhov euthanist

Entourage of Trest (Commander Legends)
Anthony Palumbo

When this creature enters, you become the monarch. This creature can block an additional creature each combat as long as you're the monarch.

"The dim resort to violence, for which the nimble prepare." —Leovold, emissary of Trest

Repeal (Commander 2015)
Anthony Palumbo

Return target nonland permanent with mana value X to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

"Your deed cannot be undone. You, however, can be." —Agosto, Azorius imperator

Cultivate (Masters 25)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Bloodlust Inciter (The List)
Anthony Palumbo

{T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} this turn.)

"To victory! To glory! To eternity!"

Cultivate (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Settle Beyond Reality (Double Masters 2022)
Anthony Palumbo

Choose one or both — • Exile target creature you don't control. • Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Two taken, two judged, one returned.

Sultai Scavenger (Khans of Tarkir)
Anthony Palumbo

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Flying

Since they guard armies of walking carrion, Sultai aven are never far from a meal.

Heartless Summoning (Innistrad Remastered)
Anthony Palumbo

Creature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Creatures you control get -1/-1.

"They won't be winning any beauty pageants, but they'll do the trick." —Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Cultivate (Commander 2019)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Wayward Servant (Aetherdrift Commander)
Anthony Palumbo

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

If one of the anointed fails to serve with perfect obedience, the desert is always ready to receive it.

Entourage of Trest (Commander Masters)
Anthony Palumbo

When this creature enters, you become the monarch. This creature can block an additional creature each combat as long as you're the monarch.

"The dim resort to violence, for which the nimble prepare." —Leovold, emissary of Trest

Cultivate (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Cultivate (Starter Commander Decks)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Mortify (Ravnica Allegiance)
Anthony Palumbo

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

"Your debt is erased." —Hilgur, Orzhov euthanist

Cultivate (Magic 2011)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Firedrinker Satyr (Theros)
Anthony Palumbo

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to you. {1}{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and deals 1 damage to you.

Attending a satyr revel requires a high tolerance for pain.

Know Evil (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas Schemes)
Anthony Palumbo

When you set this scheme in motion, until your next turn, up to one target opponent can't attack with creatures, up to one target opponent can't cast creature spells, and up to one target opponent can't cast noncreature spells. You can't choose any player as a target more than once.

Cultivate (Commander 2017)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Skyknight Legionnaire (Gatecrash)
Anthony Palumbo

Flying, haste

Millennium Platform, once a monument to peace, was quickly seized by the skyknights for its strategic aerial location.

Bloodlust Inciter (Amonkhet)
Anthony Palumbo

{T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} this turn.)

"To victory! To glory! To eternity!"

Blood Baron of Vizkopa (Dragon's Maze)
Anthony Palumbo

Lifelink, protection from white and from black As long as you have 30 or more life and an opponent has 10 or less life, this creature gets +6/+6 and has flying.

Field Creeper (Core Set 2019)
Anthony Palumbo

As it walks across the fallow field, its awkward, loping gait matches the rattling in its head to create a haunting rhythm that chills the bones.

Public Execution (The List)
Anthony Palumbo

Destroy target creature an opponent controls. Each other creature that player controls gets -2/-0 until end of turn.

Though the executioner did not speak, the villagers got the message.

Silent Artisan (Theros)
Anthony Palumbo

On the fourth day they passed through a forest of immense stacked stones. Althemone, youngest of the companions, called these pillars the work of a god, but the Champion knew better. She quickened her pace. —*The Theriad*

Brago's Representative (The List)
Anthony Palumbo

While voting, you get an additional vote. (The votes can be for different choices or for the same choice.)

On Fiora, no matter is settled until King Brago offers an opinion.

Seekers' Squire (Double Masters 2022)
Anthony Palumbo

When this creature enters, it explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Dusk follows the light.

Oketra's Avenger (Hour of Devastation)
Anthony Palumbo

You may exert this creature as it attacks. When you do, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to it this turn. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)

"Oketra's arrow is my spear, and her love my shield."

Custodi Peacekeeper (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Anthony Palumbo

Reveal this card as you draft it and note how many cards you've drafted this draft round, including this card. {W}, {T}: Tap target creature with power less than or equal to the highest number you noted for cards named Custodi Peacekeeper.

Mortify (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Anthony Palumbo

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

"Your debt is erased." —Hilgur, Orzhov euthanist

Mondronen Shaman (Dark Ascension Promos)
Anthony Palumbo

Cultivate (The List)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Public Execution (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Anthony Palumbo

Destroy target creature an opponent controls. Each other creature that player controls gets -2/-0 until end of turn.

Though the executioner did not speak, the villagers got the message.

Culling Dais (Battlebond)
Anthony Palumbo

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card for each charge counter on this artifact.

"Forswear the flesh and you will truly see." —Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Cultivate (Commander 2021)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Disinformation Campaign (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Anthony Palumbo

When this enchantment enters, you draw a card and each opponent discards a card. Whenever you surveil, return this enchantment to its owner's hand.

"People would sooner savor sweet lies than chew plain truths." —Lazav

Cultivate (Planechase 2012)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Cultivate (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Captain's Claws (Oath of the Gatewatch)
Anthony Palumbo

Equipped creature gets +1/+0. Whenever equipped creature attacks, create a 1/1 white Kor Ally creature token that's tapped and attacking. Equip {1}

Forged for victory in a time of despair.

Hollow One (Time Spiral Remastered)
Anthony Palumbo

This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card you've cycled or discarded this turn. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The embodiment of yearning, forever drifting the deserts to find what had once made it whole.

Disciple of the Old Ways (Gatecrash)
Anthony Palumbo

{R}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"Selesnya thinks nature is a pretty plaything. True nature would rip their faces off and wear their skins as trophies."

Angel (Avacyn Restored Tokens)
Anthony Palumbo

Flying

Cultivate (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Groundskeeper (Ultimate Masters)
Anthony Palumbo

{1}{G}: Return target basic land card from your graveyard to your hand.

"While the church thinks in terms of legacies, others think in terms of eternities."

Contagion Clasp (Time Spiral Remastered)
Anthony Palumbo

When Contagion Clasp enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Infernal Offering (Commander 2021)
Anthony Palumbo

Choose an opponent. You and that player each sacrifice a creature. Each player who sacrificed a creature this way draws two cards. Choose an opponent. Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then that player returns a creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Mass Manipulation (Ravnica Allegiance)
Anthony Palumbo

Gain control of X target creatures and/or planeswalkers.

Those who cross the Dimir find enemies everywhere they turn.

Call of the Conclave (Ravnica Remastered)
Anthony Palumbo

Create a 3/3 green Centaur creature token.

Centaurs are sent to evangelize in Gruul territories where words of war speak louder than prayers of peace.

Field Creeper (Eldritch Moon)
Anthony Palumbo

As it walks across the fallow field, its awkward, loping gait matches the rattling in its head to create a haunting rhythm that chills the bones.

Cultivate (The List)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Creeping Dread (Shadows over Innistrad)
Anthony Palumbo

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card. Each opponent who discarded a card that shares a card type with the card you discarded loses 3 life. (Players reveal the discarded cards simultaneously.)

Cultivate (Commander 2013)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Vicious Offering (Dominaria)
Anthony Palumbo

Kicker—Sacrifice a creature. (You may sacrifice a creature in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.) Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, that creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn instead.

Drownyard Explorers (Shadows over Innistrad)
Anthony Palumbo

When this creature enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

"Angels and inquisitors terrorize villages, but no one seems to notice the stirring out at sea."

Back from the Brink (Innistrad)
Anthony Palumbo

Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Create a token that's a copy of that card. Activate only as a sorcery.

On Innistrad, death is just a career change.

Contagion Clasp (The List)
Anthony Palumbo

When Contagion Clasp enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Burning Anger (Commander Legends)
Anthony Palumbo

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to any target."

"With rage as your forge, your hammer can smite anything."

Bloodlust Inciter (Foundations Jumpstart)
Anthony Palumbo

{T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} this turn.)

"To victory! To glory! To eternity!"

Captivating Gyre (Core Set 2020)
Anthony Palumbo

Return up to three target creatures to their owners' hands.

"That's enough of that." —Atemsis, All-Seeing

Aegis of the Heavens (Jumpstart)
Anthony Palumbo

Target creature gets +1/+7 until end of turn.

Inner strength is never seen until it makes all the difference.

Settle Beyond Reality (Modern Horizons)
Anthony Palumbo

Choose one or both — • Exile target creature you don't control. • Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Two taken, two judged, one returned.

Mortify (March of the Machine Commander)
Anthony Palumbo

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

"Your debt is erased." —Hilgur, Orzhov euthanist

Mist-Cloaked Herald (Core Set 2019)
Anthony Palumbo

This creature can't be blocked.

With matchless stealth, the River Heralds fought a running battle against the three enemy forces.

Slayer of the Wicked (Innistrad Remastered)
Anthony Palumbo

When this creature enters, you may destroy target Vampire, Werewolf, or Zombie.

You don't want to see his trophy room.

Ghitu Chronicler (The List)
Anthony Palumbo

Kicker {3}{R} (You may pay an additional {3}{R} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

"What fire forged, fire remembers."

Wayward Servant (Amonkhet)
Anthony Palumbo

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

If one of the anointed fails to serve with perfect obedience, the desert is always ready to receive it.

Cultivate (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Banshee of the Dread Choir (Commander 2015)
Anthony Palumbo

Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Pterodon Knight (Ixalan)
Anthony Palumbo

This creature has flying as long as you control a Dinosaur.

"To rise like the sun—there is no greater feeling."

Kalastria Healer (Battle for Zendikar)
Anthony Palumbo

Rally — Whenever this creature or another Ally you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"Time and again, I have demonstrated my skills as a healer. Why, then, are you so ill at ease?"

Tajic, Legion's Edge (Guilds of Ravnica Promos)
Anthony Palumbo

Haste Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control. {R}{W}: Tajic gains first strike until end of turn.

Fresh-Faced Recruit (Ravnica Remastered)
Anthony Palumbo

During your turn, this creature has first strike.

"Hold on to your ideals. They'll be tested more than your armor or the edge of your blade." —Tajic

Cultivate (Commander Legends)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Soul of the Rapids (Rivals of Ixalan)
Anthony Palumbo

Flying Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

With Kumena in control of the Immortal Sun, the rapids rose from their riverbeds and the waterfalls took flight.

Hollow One (Hour of Devastation)
Anthony Palumbo

This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card you've cycled or discarded this turn. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The embodiment of yearning, forever drifting the deserts to find what had once made it whole.

Disinformation Campaign (Guilds of Ravnica)
Anthony Palumbo

When this enchantment enters, you draw a card and each opponent discards a card. Whenever you surveil, return this enchantment to its owner's hand.

"People would sooner savor sweet lies than chew plain truths." —Lazav

Glaring Aegis (Core Set 2020)
Anthony Palumbo

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.

Slayer of the Wicked (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
Anthony Palumbo

When this creature enters, you may destroy target Vampire, Werewolf, or Zombie.

You don't want to see his trophy room.

Cultivate (March of the Machine Commander)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Glaring Aegis (The List)
Anthony Palumbo

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.

Tajic, Legion's Edge (Guilds of Ravnica)
Anthony Palumbo

Haste Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control. {R}{W}: Tajic gains first strike until end of turn.

Fresh-Faced Recruit (Guilds of Ravnica)
Anthony Palumbo

During your turn, this creature has first strike.

"Hold on to your ideals. They'll be tested more than your armor or the edge of your blade." —Tajic

Contagion Clasp (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
Anthony Palumbo

When Contagion Clasp enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder (Commander 2016)
Anthony Palumbo

Whenever Bruse Tarl enters or attacks, target creature you control gains double strike and lifelink until end of turn. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Slayer of the Wicked (Innistrad Remastered)
Anthony Palumbo

When this creature enters, you may destroy target Vampire, Werewolf, or Zombie.

You don't want to see his trophy room.

Dragon Mantle (Theros)
Anthony Palumbo

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature has "{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Cultivate (Core Set 2021)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Hollow One (Hour of Devastation Promos)
Anthony Palumbo

This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card you've cycled or discarded this turn. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The embodiment of yearning, forever drifting the deserts to find what had once made it whole.

Heartless Summoning (Innistrad)
Anthony Palumbo

Creature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Creatures you control get -1/-1.

"They won't be winning any beauty pageants, but they'll do the trick." —Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Tajic, Legion's Edge (Ravnica Remastered)
Anthony Palumbo

Haste Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control. {R}{W}: Tajic gains first strike until end of turn.

Wurm (Modern Masters 2017 Tokens)
Anthony Palumbo

Trample

Tajic, Legion's Edge (Guilds of Ravnica Promos)
Anthony Palumbo

Haste Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control. {R}{W}: Tajic gains first strike until end of turn.

Rise to the Challenge (Born of the Gods)
Anthony Palumbo

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

Plidius wagered that Arissa couldn't kill a chimera with her javelins alone. She proved him wrong in a way everyone could see for days to come.

Kolaghan Skirmisher (Dragons of Tarkir)
Anthony Palumbo

Dash {2}{B} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Kolaghan's army rushes from kill to kill, desperate to avoid the dragon's wrath.

Cleansing Ray (Rivals of Ixalan)
Anthony Palumbo

Choose one — • Destroy target Vampire. • Destroy target enchantment.

"The sun creates, sustains, and consumes so it can create again." —Caparocti Sunborn

Wurm (Return to Ravnica Tokens)
Anthony Palumbo

Trample

Pithing Needle (Return to Ravnica)
Anthony Palumbo

As this artifact enters, choose a card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

The fearful want the procedure before a blood festival. The guilty seek it afterward.

Dread Presence (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Anthony Palumbo

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

It beckons silently, waiting in the darkness.

Resolute Archangel (Magic 2015)
Anthony Palumbo

Flying When this creature enters, if your life total is less than your starting life total, it becomes equal to your starting life total.

Cut it down, bury it in snow, put it to the torch. The rose will still bloom again.

Public Execution (Magic 2013)
Anthony Palumbo

Destroy target creature an opponent controls. Each other creature that player controls gets -2/-0 until end of turn.

Though the executioner did not speak, the villagers got the message.

Salt Road Quartermasters (Dragons of Tarkir)
Anthony Palumbo

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

Repeal (Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning)
Anthony Palumbo

Return target nonland permanent with mana value X to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

"Your deed cannot be undone. You, however, can be." —Agosto, Azorius imperator

Fresh-Faced Recruit (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Anthony Palumbo

During your turn, this creature has first strike.

"Hold on to your ideals. They'll be tested more than your armor or the edge of your blade." —Tajic

Mortify (Ravnica Allegiance Promos)
Anthony Palumbo

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

"Your debt is erased." —Hilgur, Orzhov euthanist

Groundskeeper (Innistrad Remastered)
Anthony Palumbo

{1}{G}: Return target basic land card from your graveyard to your hand.

"While the church thinks in terms of legacies, others think in terms of eternities."

Frightful Delusion (Innistrad)
Anthony Palumbo

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. That player discards a card.

Whether he actually exists is in question, but the terror she feels is excruciatingly real.

Pithing Needle (Double Masters 2022)
Anthony Palumbo

As this artifact enters, choose a card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

The fearful want the procedure before a blood festival. The guilty seek it afterward.

Night Incarnate (Commander 2018)
Anthony Palumbo

Deathtouch When this creature leaves the battlefield, all creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn. Evoke {3}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Insidious Will (Kaladesh)
Anthony Palumbo

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • You may choose new targets for target spell. • Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"We meet again, pyromancer." —Baral, Chief of Compliance

Ambuscade Shaman (Dragons of Tarkir)
Anthony Palumbo

Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, that creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Dash {3}{B} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Tormentor's Trident (Avacyn Restored)
Anthony Palumbo

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and attacks each combat if able. Equip {3}

To a demon there is no such thing as restraint.

Beastcaller Savant (Battle for Zendikar)
Anthony Palumbo

Haste {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

"They come because I call. They stay because I listen."

Tajic, Legion's Edge (Ravnica Remastered)
Anthony Palumbo

Haste Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control. {R}{W}: Tajic gains first strike until end of turn.

Slayer of the Wicked (Innistrad)
Anthony Palumbo

When this creature enters, you may destroy target Vampire, Werewolf, or Zombie.

You don't want to see his trophy room.

Heartless Summoning (Innistrad Remastered)
Anthony Palumbo

Creature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Creatures you control get -1/-1.

"They won't be winning any beauty pageants, but they'll do the trick." —Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Captain's Claws (Oath of the Gatewatch Promos)
Anthony Palumbo

Equipped creature gets +1/+0. Whenever equipped creature attacks, create a 1/1 white Kor Ally creature token that's tapped and attacking. Equip {1}

Forged for victory in a time of despair.

Ornamental Courage (Kaladesh)
Anthony Palumbo

Untap target creature. It gets +1/+3 until end of turn.

Inspired by the thorns and brambles of the untamed wilds, elvish armor is both beautiful and formidable.

Cultivate (Commander 2011)
Anthony Palumbo

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Serra Ascendant (The List)
Anthony Palumbo

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) As long as you have 30 or more life, this creature gets +5/+5 and has flying.

Show of Valor (Magic 2014)
Anthony Palumbo

Target creature gets +2/+4 until end of turn.

Cowards watch. Heroes act.

Culling Dais (Double Masters)
Anthony Palumbo

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card for each charge counter on this artifact.

"Forswear the flesh and you will truly see." —Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Call of the Conclave (Friday Night Magic 2013)
Anthony Palumbo

Create a 3/3 green Centaur creature token.

Centaurs are sent to evangelize in Gruul territories where words of war speak louder than prayers of peace.

Mass Manipulation (Ravnica Allegiance Promos)
Anthony Palumbo

Gain control of X target creatures and/or planeswalkers.

Those who cross the Dimir find enemies everywhere they turn.

Scorchwalker (Gatecrash)
Anthony Palumbo

Bloodrush — {1}{R}{R}, Discard this card: Target attacking creature gets +5/+1 until end of turn.

"Borborygmos's elemental launched an assault, but the Izzet wards held and experiments continue." —Skyknight report on the Rubblebelt

Tajic, Legion's Edge (Ravnica Remastered)
Anthony Palumbo

Haste Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control. {R}{W}: Tajic gains first strike until end of turn.

Disappearing Act (Kaladesh)
Anthony Palumbo

As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a permanent you control to its owner's hand. Counter target spell.

"Baral took my family from me back then. I'd do anything to face him now." —Chandra Nalaar

Repeal (Modern Masters 2015)
Anthony Palumbo

Return target nonland permanent with mana value X to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

"Your deed cannot be undone. You, however, can be." —Agosto, Azorius imperator

Fan Bearer (Amonkhet)
Anthony Palumbo

{2}, {T}: Tap target creature.

Rest sometimes requires the right prompting.

Banshee of the Dread Choir (Commander Anthology)
Anthony Palumbo

Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Sinister Possession (Dragon's Maze)
Anthony Palumbo

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 2 life.

"You caught something on a cold night's stroll? No, I'd say something caught you." —Mezim Magrah, civic healer

Mist-Cloaked Herald (Rivals of Ixalan)
Anthony Palumbo

This creature can't be blocked.

With matchless stealth, the River Heralds fought a running battle against the three enemy forces.

Tragic Poet (Dominaria)
Anthony Palumbo

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

"In a healing world I write—I, who will never be healed. Let my last gift be one of memory: from a thousand lost thoughts, choose one, and remember my name."

Aegis of the Heavens (Core Set 2019)
Anthony Palumbo

Target creature gets +1/+7 until end of turn.

Inner strength is never seen until it makes all the difference.

Infernal Offering (Commander 2014)
Anthony Palumbo

Choose an opponent. You and that player each sacrifice a creature. Each player who sacrificed a creature this way draws two cards. Choose an opponent. Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then that player returns a creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Contagion Clasp (Scars of Mirrodin)
Anthony Palumbo

When Contagion Clasp enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Settle Beyond Reality (Jumpstart 2022)
Anthony Palumbo

Choose one or both — • Exile target creature you don't control. • Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Two taken, two judged, one returned.

Madcap Skills (The List)
Anthony Palumbo

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 and has menace.

The larger the crowd, the harder it is for them to run away.