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Zhalfirin Crusader (Visions)
Alan Rabinowitz

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) {1}{W}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn is dealt to any target instead.

"War is the crucible of leadership." —Rashida Scalebane

Natural Order (Portal)
Alan Rabinowitz

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a green creature. Search your library for a green creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Uktabi Efreet (Weatherlight)
Alan Rabinowitz

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

"The Uktabi efreet and I have something in common: both of our mothers wanted to give us back." —Mirri of the *Weatherlight*

Nature's Lore (Fifth Edition)
Alan Rabinowitz

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"It is in our nature to recognize beauty, but to repeat it—ah, that is another feat altogether." —Hannah of Verdura

Reality Ripple (Mirage)
Alan Rabinowitz

Target artifact, creature, or land phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

"Can you prepare for the unexpected? No, you cannot. You can prepare only to be surprised." —Teferi

Hakim, Loreweaver (Mirage)
Alan Rabinowitz

Flying {U}{U}: Return target Aura card from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to Hakim. Activate only during your upkeep and only if Hakim isn't enchanted. {U}{U}, {T}: Destroy all Auras attached to Hakim.

Time Ebb (Starter 2000)
Alan Rabinowitz

Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

Like the tide, time both ebbs and flows.

Spiny Starfish (Alliances)
Alan Rabinowitz

{U}: Regenerate this creature. At the beginning of each end step, if this creature regenerated this turn, create a 0/1 blue Starfish creature token for each time it regenerated this turn.

Alexi's Cloak (Prophecy)
Alan Rabinowitz

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"Doesn't look like much, does it?" —Alexi, zephyr mage

Elfhame Sanctuary (Invasion)
Alan Rabinowitz

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. If you do, you skip your draw step this turn.

Aysen Bureaucrats (Homelands)
Alan Rabinowitz

{T}: Tap target creature with power 2 or less.

"I would say that our Bureaucrats are no better than vipers—but I shouldn't insult the vipers." —Murat, Death Speaker

Agent of Stromgald (Alliances)
Alan Rabinowitz

{R}: Add {B}.

"The 'fabled' Order of Stromgald is cast to the four winds, lost for all time. I, for one, give them no thought." —General Varchild

Shield Sphere (Alliances)
Alan Rabinowitz

Defender Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

"My Soldiers know that they need never fear for their protection." —King Darien of Kjeldor

Armor of Thorns (Mirage)
Alan Rabinowitz

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. Enchant nonblack creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Groundskeeper (Mercadian Masques)
Alan Rabinowitz

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

Whereas the rebels fight to defend the land, they work to renew it.

Library of Lat-Nam (Classic Sixth Edition)
Alan Rabinowitz

An opponent chooses one — • You draw three cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. • You search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Aysen Bureaucrats (Homelands)
Alan Rabinowitz

{T}: Tap target creature with power 2 or less.

"All the tortures of my vault of horrors pale in comparison to dealing with those petty Bureaucrats." —Baron Sengir

Agent of Stromgald (Alliances)
Alan Rabinowitz

{R}: Add {B}.

"The Order of Stromgald spreads its poisonous lies from within Varchild's troops, and still she sees only visions of conquest." —Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Sunscape Master (Invasion)
Alan Rabinowitz

{G}{G}, {T}: Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn. {U}{U}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Library of Lat-Nam (Alliances)
Alan Rabinowitz

An opponent chooses one — • You draw three cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. • You search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Canopy Dragon (Mirage)
Alan Rabinowitz

Trample {1}{G}: This creature gains flying and loses trample until end of turn.

"In the Mwonvuli you must divide your attention between what hangs overhead and what lies underfoot." —Sidar Jabari

Magnetic Flux (Darksteel)
Alan Rabinowitz

Artifact creatures you control gain flying until end of turn.

After the researcher's astonishing success, his assistants spent six hours finding a way to return the specimens safely to the ground.

Collective Restraint (Invasion)
Alan Rabinowitz

Domain — Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {X} for each creature they control that's attacking you, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.

Collective Restraint (The List)
Alan Rabinowitz

Domain — Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {X} for each creature they control that's attacking you, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.

World-Bottling Kit (Unhinged)
Alan Rabinowitz

{5}, Sacrifice this artifact: Choose a Magic set. Exile all permanents with that set's expansion symbol except for basic lands.

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Time Ebb (Magic 2014)
Alan Rabinowitz

Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

"Yesterday you were just a figment of your master's imagination. I liked you better then." —Shai Fusan, archmage

Boomerang (Fifth Edition)
Alan Rabinowitz

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

"O! call back yesterday, bid time return." —William Shakespeare, *King Richard the Second*

Zuberi, Golden Feather (Mirage)
Alan Rabinowitz

Flying Other Griffin creatures get +1/+1.

"If the griffins tell of their gods, perhaps they speak of feathers bright as the Sun." —Afari, *Tales*

Soldevi Sentry (Alliances)
Alan Rabinowitz

{1}: Choose target opponent. Regenerate this creature. When it regenerates this way, that player may draw a card.

"A dreadful invention. What ease is there under the watchful eye of cold steel?" —Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Trickster Mage (Nemesis)
Alan Rabinowitz

{U}, {T}, Discard a card: You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

"If it ain't broke, I'll break it. If it *is* broke, I'll fix it."

Cadaverous Bloom (Mirage)
Alan Rabinowitz

Exile a card from your hand: Add {B}{B} or {G}{G}.

"It's filthy work, planting them." —Kifimbo, Shadow Guildmage

Keen-Eyed Archers (Portal)
Alan Rabinowitz

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"If it has wings, shoot it. If it doesn't, shoot it anyway."

Discordant Spirit (Mirage)
Alan Rabinowitz

At the beginning of each end step, if it's an opponent's turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each 1 damage dealt to you this turn. At the beginning of your end step, remove all +1/+1 counters from this creature.

Groundskeeper (Ninth Edition)
Alan Rabinowitz

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

"Soldiers speak of defending the soil, but they care only for their nations. I care nothing for their nations and everything for the soil."

Heat Wave (Visions)
Alan Rabinowitz

Cumulative upkeep {R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Blue creatures can't block creatures you control. Nonblue creatures can't block creatures you control unless their controller pays 1 life for each blocking creature they control.

Gauntlets of Chaos (Fifth Edition)
Alan Rabinowitz

{5}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exchange control of target artifact, creature, or land you control and target permanent an opponent controls that shares one of those types with it. If those permanents are exchanged this way, destroy all Auras attached to them.

Well of Discovery (Prophecy)
Alan Rabinowitz

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no untapped lands, draw a card.

When you have given everything, then you are capable of anything. —Well inscription

Soldevi Sentry (Alliances)
Alan Rabinowitz

{1}: Choose target opponent. Regenerate this creature. When it regenerates this way, that player may draw a card.

"Our newfound security enables us to turn more of our attentions to the wonders that lie deep within the soil." —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Unseen Walker (Classic Sixth Edition)
Alan Rabinowitz

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.) {1}{G}{G}: Target creature gains forestwalk until end of turn.

"To pass through the jungle: silence, courtesy, ferocity, as the occasion demands." —Kamau, "Proper Passage"

Time Ebb (Portal)
Alan Rabinowitz

Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

Like the tide, time both ebbs and flows.

Leeches (Homelands)
Alan Rabinowitz

Target player loses all poison counters. Leeches deals that much damage to that player.

"Where our potions and powders fail, perhaps nature will succeed." —Reyhan, Samite Alchemist

Evaporate (Homelands)
Alan Rabinowitz

Evaporate deals 1 damage to each white and/or blue creature.

"The body is a temple with a foundation of sand." —Autumn Willow

Boomerang (Eighth Edition)
Alan Rabinowitz

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

"Returne from whence ye came. . . ." —Edmund Spenser, *The Faerie Queene*

Time Ebb (Starter 1999)
Alan Rabinowitz

Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

Like the tide, time both ebbs and flows.

Ambush (Homelands)
Alan Rabinowitz

Blocking creatures gain first strike until end of turn.

"Don't these goons have anything better to do?" —Joskun, An-Havva Constable

Natural Order (Mystery Booster 2)
Alan Rabinowitz

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a green creature. Search your library for a green creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Chaos Harlequin (Alliances)
Alan Rabinowitz

{R}: Exile the top card of your library. If that card is a land card, this creature gets -4/-0 until end of turn. Otherwise, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Soul Shred (Portal)
Alan Rabinowitz

Soul Shred deals 3 damage to target nonblack creature. You gain 3 life.

It would be a shame to let life slip away to nothing.

Dense Foliage (Weatherlight)
Alan Rabinowitz

Creatures can't be the targets of spells.

"Big plants not only good for hidin', but full o' tasty bugs, too." —Squee, goblin cabin hand

Time Ebb (The List)
Alan Rabinowitz

Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

Like the tide, time both ebbs and flows.

Sandstone Needle (Mercadian Masques)
Alan Rabinowitz

This land enters tapped with two depletion counters on it. {T}, Remove a depletion counter from this land: Add {R}{R}. If there are no depletion counters on this land, sacrifice it.

Nature's Lore (Starter 1999)
Alan Rabinowitz

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Every seed planted is another lesson the forest can teach us.

Python (Portal)
Alan Rabinowitz

What could it have swallowed to grow so large?

Mangara's Equity (Mirage)
Alan Rabinowitz

As this enchantment enters, choose black or red. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay {1}{W}. Whenever a creature of the chosen color deals damage to you or a white creature you control, this enchantment deals that much damage to that creature.

Dense Foliage (Classic Sixth Edition)
Alan Rabinowitz

Creatures can't be the targets of spells.

"Big plants not only good for hidin', but full o' tasty bugs, too." —Squee, goblin cabin hand

Wall of Kelp (Homelands)
Alan Rabinowitz

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {U}{U}, {T}: Create a 0/1 blue Plant Wall creature token with defender named Kelp.

"Ya can eat it or ya can weave it, but ya can't fight in it." —Zeki, Reef Pirate

Unseen Walker (Mirage)
Alan Rabinowitz

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.) {1}{G}{G}: Target creature gains forestwalk until end of turn.

"To pass through the jungle: silence, courtesy, ferocity, as the occasion demands." —Kamau, "Proper Passage"

Teferi's Realm (Visions)
Alan Rabinowitz

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses artifact, creature, land, or non-Aura enchantment. All nontoken permanents of that type phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

"Fire is dead. Water has killed him." —From *The Stories of Nature*