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Lithophage

Artist: Mike Ploog

Set: Duel Decks: Venser vs. Koth

Mana Cost: {3}{R}{R}

Delta Price *: $0.12

Type: Creature — Insect

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you sacrifice a Mountain.

It's viciously territorial, destroying every creature on the mountain it has chosen to consume.

Legalities

Format Legality
Duel Legal
Brawl Not_legal
Penny Legal
Predh Legal
Future Not_legal
Legacy Legal
Modern Not_legal
Pauper Not_legal
Alchemy Not_legal
Pioneer Not_legal
Vintage Legal
Explorer Not_legal
Historic Not_legal
Standard Not_legal
Timeless Not_legal
Commander Legal
Gladiator Not_legal
Oldschool Not_legal
Premodern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Standardbrawl Not_legal
Paupercommander Not_legal

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Lithophage - Duel Decks: Venser vs. Koth Magic: The Gathering Card - Creature — Insect by Mike Ploog

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At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you sacrifice a Mountain.

It's viciously territorial, destroying every creature on the mountain it has chosen to consume.

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Statecraft (Mercadian Masques)
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Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by creatures you control.

"Inside these walls, peace; outside, sharks. You choose." —Saprazzan vizier

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Mist of Stagnation - Judgment
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Permanents don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses a permanent for each card in their graveyard, then untaps those permanents.

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Thunderscape Battlemage - World Championship Decks 2001
Thunderscape Battlemage (World Championship Decks 2001)
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Kicker {1}{B} and/or {G} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} and/or {G} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked with its {1}{B} kicker, target player discards two cards. When this creature enters, if it was kicked with its {G} kicker, destroy target enchantment.

Delta Price: $0.29
Acceptable Losses - Odyssey
Acceptable Losses (Odyssey)
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As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card at random. Acceptable Losses deals 5 damage to target creature.

Delta Price: $0.07
Forest - European Land Program
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({T}: Add {G}.)

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Panic Attack - Ninth Edition
Panic Attack (Ninth Edition)
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Up to three target creatures can't block this turn.

Sometimes everyone decides to go for help at the same time.

Delta Price: $0.09
Panic Attack - Prophecy
Panic Attack (Prophecy)
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Up to three target creatures can't block this turn.

Sometimes everyone decides to go for help at the same time.

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Thunderscape Battlemage - World Championship Decks 2002
Thunderscape Battlemage (World Championship Decks 2002)
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Kicker {1}{B} and/or {G} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} and/or {G} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked with its {1}{B} kicker, target player discards two cards. When this creature enters, if it was kicked with its {G} kicker, destroy target enchantment.

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Lithophage - Mercadian Masques
Lithophage (Mercadian Masques)
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At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you sacrifice a Mountain.

It's viciously territorial, destroying every creature on the mountain it has chosen to consume.

Delta Price: $0.3
Dwarven Grunt - Odyssey
Dwarven Grunt (Odyssey)
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Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)

Hard as stone and twice as stubborn. —Dwarven compliment

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Shield Dancer - Prophecy
Shield Dancer (Prophecy)
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{2}{W}: The next time target attacking creature would deal combat damage to this creature this turn, that creature deals that damage to itself instead.

The harder your strike, the stronger her defense.

Delta Price: $0.17
Crackling Club - Torment
Crackling Club (Torment)
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Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+0. Sacrifice this Aura: It deals 1 damage to target creature.

It adds injury to injury.

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Honorable Scout - Planeshift
Honorable Scout (Planeshift)
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When this creature enters, you gain 2 life for each black and/or red creature target opponent controls.

"I've faced your kind before. This time I'm ready for you."

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Panic Attack - Eighth Edition
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Up to three target creatures can't block this turn.

Sometimes everyone decides to go for help at the same time.

Delta Price: $0.08
Wallop - Invasion
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Destroy target blue or black creature with flying.

In Yavimaya, flying low to join a battle can be a costly mistake.

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Intrepid Hero - World Championship Decks 2002
Intrepid Hero (World Championship Decks 2002)
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{T}: Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.

A fool knows no fear. A hero shows no fear.

Delta Price: $3.74
Cateran Enforcer - Mercadian Masques
Cateran Enforcer (Mercadian Masques)
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Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) {4}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 4 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Delta Price: $0.16
Hell-Bent Raider - Torment
Hell-Bent Raider (Torment)
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First strike, haste Discard a card at random: This creature gains protection from white until end of turn.

He doesn't slow until his spear is weighted with corpses.

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Flowstone Thopter - Nemesis
Flowstone Thopter (Nemesis)
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{1}: This creature gets +1/-1 and gains flying until end of turn.

Airborne flowstone isn't less dangerous, only less common.

Delta Price: $0.17
Flowstone Strike - Nemesis
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Target creature gets +1/-1 and gains haste until end of turn.

Aggression exacts its toll.

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Barbarian Bully - Judgment
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Discard a card at random: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn unless a player has this creature deal 4 damage to them. Activate only once each turn.

"Out of my way!"

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Territorial Dispute - Mercadian Masques
Territorial Dispute (Mercadian Masques)
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At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you sacrifice a land. Players can't play lands.

Bit by bit, Mercadia City had forced the Cho-Arrim from their ancestral lands. They would be pushed no further.

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Enslaved Horror - Mercadian Masques
Enslaved Horror (Mercadian Masques)
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When this creature enters, each other player may return a creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield.

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Blood Oath - World Championship Decks 2001
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Choose a card type. Target opponent reveals their hand. Blood Oath deals 3 damage to that player for each card of the chosen type revealed this way. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, land, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.)

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Thrive - Prophecy
Thrive (Prophecy)
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Put a +1/+1 counter on each of X target creatures.

"We wait and watch, and as we prepare for war, we grow strong."

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Plains - European Land Program
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({T}: Add {W}.)

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Dwarven Strike Force - Odyssey
Dwarven Strike Force (Odyssey)
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Discard a card at random: This creature gains first strike and haste until end of turn.

Any given foothill may hide dozens of dwarves waiting to spill from their tunnels like fire ants.

Delta Price: $0.15
Test of Endurance - Judgment
Test of Endurance (Judgment)
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At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 50 or more life, you win the game.

"If we have learned nothing else, we have learned to survive." —Mystic elder

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Swamp - European Land Program
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({T}: Add {B}.)

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Blood Oath - Mercadian Masques
Blood Oath (Mercadian Masques)
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Mortal Combat - Tenth Edition
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The crowd roared, the fighters bled, and the dead piled high in the pits. Only the Cabal could win.

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Bog Smugglers - Mercadian Masques
Bog Smugglers (Mercadian Masques)
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They slide over the bog like oil across glass.

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Intrepid Hero - Seventh Edition
Intrepid Hero (Seventh Edition)
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A fool knows no fear. A hero shows no fear.

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Dematerialize - Odyssey
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Dwarven Grunt - The List
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Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)

Hard as stone and twice as stubborn. —Dwarven compliment

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Snuff Out - Mercadian Masques
Snuff Out (Mercadian Masques)
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Squee watched his Kyren cousins fall with a mixture of sympathy and relief.

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Mogg Toady - Nemesis
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This creature can't attack unless you control more creatures than defending player. This creature can't block unless you control more creatures than attacking player.

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Stun - Invasion
Stun (Invasion)
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Target creature can't block this turn. Draw a card.

"They certainly are well protected. Too bad for them they're not well balanced." —Sisay

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Thunderscape Battlemage - Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition
Thunderscape Battlemage (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition)
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Kicker {1}{B} and/or {G} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} and/or {G} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked with its {1}{B} kicker, target player discards two cards. When this creature enters, if it was kicked with its {G} kicker, destroy target enchantment.

Delta Price: $0.16
Forest - Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons
Forest (Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons)
Mike Ploog

({T}: Add {G}.)

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Mortal Combat - Torment
Mortal Combat (Torment)
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At the beginning of your upkeep, if twenty or more creature cards are in your graveyard, you win the game.

The crowd roared, the fighters bled, and the dead piled high in the pits. Only the Cabal could win.

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Rathi Intimidator - Nemesis
Rathi Intimidator (Nemesis)
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Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) {2}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 2 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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  • pauper: not_legal
  • alchemy: not_legal
  • pioneer: not_legal
  • vintage: legal
  • explorer: not_legal
  • historic: not_legal
  • standard: not_legal
  • timeless: not_legal
  • commander: legal
  • gladiator: not_legal
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  • premodern: legal
  • oathbreaker: legal
  • standardbrawl: not_legal
  • paupercommander: not_legal