Order of the Ebon Hand

Order of the Ebon Hand (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Ron Spencer

Protection from white {B}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {B}{B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Dedicated to the principles of Tourach, members of the Order of the Ebon Hand demonstrated their devotion with grisly rituals.

Order of the Ebon Hand (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Melissa A. Benson

Protection from white {B}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {B}{B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

A true follower of Tourach took pride in achievement to the exclusion of other concerns.

Order of the Ebon Hand (Fallen Empires)
Ron Spencer

Protection from white {B}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {B}{B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Dedicated to the principles of Tourach, members of the Order of the Ebon Hand demonstrated their devotion with grisly rituals.

Order of the Ebon Hand (Fallen Empires)
Melissa A. Benson

Protection from white {B}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {B}{B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

A true follower of Tourach took pride in achievement to the exclusion of other concerns.

Order of the Ebon Hand (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Christopher Rush

Protection from white {B}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {B}{B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"There are intriguing similarities between the Order and Icatia's Leitbur religion, suggesting the two had a common origin." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI*

Order of the Ebon Hand (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Ron Spencer

Protection from white {B}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {B}{B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Dedicated to the principles of Tourach, members of the Order of the Ebon Hand demonstrated their devotion with grisly rituals.

Order of the Ebon Hand (Fallen Empires)
Christopher Rush

Protection from white {B}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {B}{B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"There are intriguing similarities between the Order and Icatia's Leitbur religion, suggesting the two had a common origin." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI*

Order of the Ebon Hand (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Melissa A. Benson

Protection from white {B}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {B}{B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

A true follower of Tourach took pride in achievement to the exclusion of other concerns.

Soldevi Adnate (Alliances)
Christopher Rush

{T}, Sacrifice a black or artifact creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

"People love to follow fools; they don't feel so alone then." —Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Rod of Ruin (Unlimited Edition)
Christopher Rush

{3}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Opal Guardian (Time Spiral)
Christopher Rush

When an opponent casts a creature spell, if this permanent is an enchantment, this enchantment becomes a 3/4 Gargoyle creature with flying and protection from red.

It was a moment in time, cast in stone—a moment whose time had come again.

Mana Flare (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Plains (Arena League 2001)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {W}.)

Safe Haven (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Christopher Rush

{2}, {T}: Exile target creature you control. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice this land. If you do, return each card exiled with this land to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Kormus Bell (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Christopher Rush

All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

Forest (Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Forest (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Lightning Bolt (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Black Lotus (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.

Nether Shadow (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Mana Flare (Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Netherborn Phalanx (GRN Guild Kit)
Christopher Rush

When this creature enters, each opponent loses 1 life for each creature they control. Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Nether Shadow (Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Gauntlet of Might (Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

Red creatures get +1/+1. Whenever a Mountain is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {R}.

Forest (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Utvara Scalper (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Christopher Rush

Flying This creature attacks each combat if able.

He wages war wherever the wind carries him.

Bog Imp (Starter 1999)
Christopher Rush

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Don't be fooled by their looks. Think of them as little knives with wings.

Craw Giant (Legends)
Christopher Rush

Trample Rampage 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

Harthag gave a jolly laugh as he surveyed the army before him. "Ho ho ho! Midgets! You think you can stand in my way?"

Forest (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Infantry Veteran (Classic Sixth Edition)
Christopher Rush

{T}: Target attacking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"The true dishonor for a soldier is surviving the war." —Telim'Tor

Infantry Veteran (Visions)
Christopher Rush

{T}: Target attacking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"The true dishonor for a soldier is surviving the war." —Telim'Tor

Brass Man (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Rush

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {1}. If you do, untap this creature.

Relic Bind (Renaissance)
Christopher Rush

Enchant artifact an opponent controls Whenever enchanted artifact becomes tapped, choose one — • This Aura deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Target player gains 1 life.

Forest (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Forest (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Yotian Soldier (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

Vigilance

Kormus Bell (Revised Edition)
Christopher Rush

All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

Lightning Bolt (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Christopher Rush

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Radjan Spirit (Renaissance)
Christopher Rush

{T}: Target creature loses flying until end of turn.

Field of Reality (Champions of Kamigawa)
Christopher Rush

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked by Spirits. {1}{U}: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.

"The scholars of the Minamo School understood the veil between their world and that of the kami. Moreover, they knew how to exploit it." —*Observations of the Kami War*

Rakalite (Rinascimento)
Christopher Rush

{2}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Return this artifact to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Chronatog Totem (Time Spiral)
Christopher Rush

{T}: Add {U}. {1}{U}: This artifact becomes a 1/2 blue Atog artifact creature until end of turn. {0}: This creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. You skip your next turn. Activate only once each turn and only if this permanent is a creature.

Eron the Relentless (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Christopher Rush

Haste {R}{R}{R}: Regenerate Eron.

"Eron would be much less of a hassle if only he were mortal." —Reyhan, Samite Alchemist

Forest (Unlimited Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Granite Gargoyle (Unlimited Edition)
Christopher Rush

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

"While most overworlders fortunately don't realize this, Gargoyles can be most delicious, providing you have the appropriate tools to carve them." —The Underworld Cookbook, by Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

The Wretched (Chronicles)
Christopher Rush

At end of combat, gain control of all creatures blocking this creature for as long as you control this creature.

Heed the Mists (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Christopher Rush

Mill a card, then draw cards equal to the milled card's mana value.

"Once, I looked to the mists for wisdom. Now I wish only for understanding."

Forbidden Lore (Ice Age)
Christopher Rush

Enchant land Enchanted land has "{T}: Target creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn."

Ur-Drago (Legends)
Christopher Rush

First strike Creatures with swampwalk can be blocked as though they didn't have swampwalk.

Goblin Rimerunner (Coldsnap)
Christopher Rush

{T}: Target creature can't block this turn. {S}: This creature gains haste until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

Rimerunners set off avalanches to immobilize foes as well as to create more challenging slopes.

Chronatog (Visions)
Christopher Rush

{0}: This creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. You skip your next turn. Activate only once each turn.

For the chronatog, there is no meal like the present.

Lightning Bolt (Secret Lair Drop)
Christopher Rush

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Craw Giant (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Christopher Rush

Trample Rampage 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

Harthag gave a jolly laugh as he surveyed the army before him. "Ho ho ho! Midgets! You think you can stand in my way?"

Demystify (Tenth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Destroy target enchantment.

"Illusion is a crutch for those with no grounding in reality." —Cho-Manno

Forest (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Ihsan's Shade (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Christopher Rush

Protection from white

"Ihsan, the weak. Ihsan, the fallen. Ihsan, the betrayer. He has brought shame to the Serra Paladins where none existed before. May his suffering equal his betrayal." —Baris, Serra Inquisitor

Su-Chi (Antiquities)
Christopher Rush

When this creature dies, add {C}{C}{C}{C}.

Flawed copies of relics from the Thran Empire, the Su-Chi were inherently unstable but provided useful knowledge for Tocasia's students.

The Wretched (Fifth Edition)
Christopher Rush

At end of combat, gain control of all creatures blocking this creature for as long as you control this creature.

Once I had the strength but no wisdom; now I have the wisdom but no strength. —Persian proverb

Kormus Bell (Unlimited Edition)
Christopher Rush

All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

Brass Man (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Christopher Rush

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {1}. If you do, untap this creature.

Yotian Soldier (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Vigilance

After Kroog was destroyed while most of its defenders were at his side, Urza vowed that none of his allies would ever need to fear for their own defense again, even while laying siege to a city far from their homes.

Safe Haven (Chronicles)
Christopher Rush

{2}, {T}: Exile target creature you control. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice this land. If you do, return each card exiled with this land to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Junún Efreet (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {B}{B}.

Forest (Revised Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Nether Shadow (Limited Edition Beta)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Volcanic Hammer (Junior Super Series)
Christopher Rush

Volcanic Hammer deals 3 damage to any target.

Cast the weight as though it were a die, to see a rival's fate.

Zombie (Unglued Tokens)
Christopher Rush

Nether Shadow (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Granite Gargoyle (Revised Edition)
Christopher Rush

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

"While most overworlders fortunately don't realize this, Gargoyles can be most delicious, providing you have the appropriate tools to carve them." —The Underworld Cookbook, by Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

Manabarbs (Revised Edition)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Bog Imp (Classic Sixth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Don't be fooled by their looks. Think of them as little knives with wings.

Green Mana Battery (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

{2}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}, Remove any number of charge counters from this artifact: Add {G}, then add an additional {G} for each charge counter removed this way.

Mana Flare (Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Mana Flare (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Manabarbs (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Rod of Ruin (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Rush

{3}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Circle of Protection: Red (Ninth Edition)
Christopher Rush

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

Nafs Asp (Arabian Nights)
Christopher Rush

Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player loses 1 life at the beginning of their next draw step unless they pay {1} before that draw step.

Bog Imp (Portal)
Christopher Rush

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Don't be fooled by their looks. Think of them as little knives with wings.

Forest (Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Mana Flare (Limited Edition Alpha)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Forest (Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Manabarbs (Limited Edition Beta)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Granite Gargoyle (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

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

"While most overworlders fortunately don't realize this, Gargoyles can be most delicious, providing you have the appropriate tools to carve them." —The Underworld Cookbook, by Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

Kormus Bell (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Rush

All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

Booster Tutor (Unhinged)
Christopher Rush

Open a sealed Magic booster pack, reveal the cards, and put one of them into your hand. (Remove that card from your deck before beginning a new game.)

Real men use *Arabian Nights* boosters.

Forest (Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Junún Efreet (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {B}{B}.

Word of Undoing (Ice Age)
Christopher Rush

Return target creature and all white Auras you own attached to it to their owners' hands.

"It was in Urza's journals that I finally found the secret at the core of the summonings." —Journal, author unknown

Manabarbs (Unlimited Edition)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Rod of Ruin (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

{3}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Manabarbs (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Gauntlet of Might (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

Red creatures get +1/+1. Whenever a Mountain is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {R}.

Malachite Talisman (Ice Age)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may pay {3}. If you do, untap target permanent.

Kormus Bell (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

Rod of Ruin (Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

{3}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Ishi-Ishi, Akki Crackshot (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Christopher Rush

Whenever an opponent casts a Spirit or Arcane spell, Ishi-Ishi deals 2 damage to that player.

"Here fell Ishi-Ishi, King of the Flaming Pebbles, Scourge of the Mountain Kami, Lover of Goats. May his shell never burn." —Cave inscription

Forest (Limited Edition Beta)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Rukh Egg (Arabian Nights)
Christopher Rush

When this creature dies, create a 4/4 red Bird creature token with flying at the beginning of the next end step.

Fyndhorn Elder (Ice Age)
Christopher Rush

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

"Do we know what we're doing? Yes—the will of Freyalise." —Laina of the Elvish Council

Lightning Bolt (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Infantry Veteran (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
Christopher Rush

{T}: Target attacking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Any fool can pick up a sword and charge into battle. To emerge alive at the end, that is a gift that comes from leadership and experience."

Forest (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Mana Flare (Limited Edition Beta)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Nafs Asp (Arabian Nights)
Christopher Rush

Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player loses 1 life at the beginning of their next draw step unless they pay {1} before that draw step.

Niall Silvain (The Dark)
Christopher Rush

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

This is his domain, and while you remain here you must value all life as you value your own.

Lightning Bolt (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Christopher Rush

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Wellwisher (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins)
Christopher Rush

{T}: You gain 1 life for each Elf on the battlefield.

"Close your ears to the voice of greed, and you can turn a gift for one into a gift for many."

Seraph (Ice Age)
Christopher Rush

Flying Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put that card onto the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step. Sacrifice the creature when you lose control of this creature.

Forest (Revised Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Black Lotus (Limited Edition Beta)
Christopher Rush

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.

Powerleech (Antiquities)
Christopher Rush

Whenever an artifact an opponent controls becomes tapped or an opponent activates an artifact's ability without {T} in its activation cost, you gain 1 life.

The Forest of Argoth has developed a resistance to mechanical intrusion.

Eron the Relentless (Homelands)
Christopher Rush

Haste {R}{R}{R}: Regenerate Eron.

"Eron would be much less of a hassle if only he were mortal." —Reyhan, Samite Alchemist

Dread Reaper (Starter 1999)
Christopher Rush

Flying When this creature enters, you lose 5 life.

Kormus Bell (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

Brainstorm (Beatdown Box Set)
Christopher Rush

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

"I reeled from the blow, and then suddenly, I knew exactly what to do. Within moments victory was mine." —Gustha Ebbasdotter Kjeldoran royal mage

Gauntlet of Might (Unlimited Edition)
Christopher Rush

Red creatures get +1/+1. Whenever a Mountain is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {R}.

Desert Nomads (Arabian Nights)
Christopher Rush

Desertwalk Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by Deserts.

Dark Heart of the Wood (The Dark)
Christopher Rush

Sacrifice a Forest: You gain 3 life.

Even the Goblins shun this haunted place, where the tree limbs twist in agony and the ground seems to scuttle under your feet.

Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Christopher Rush

If you would draw a card, look at the top three cards of your library instead. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Mana Leak (Battle Royale Box Set)
Christopher Rush

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

"The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy." —Volrath

Mana Leak (Stronghold)
Christopher Rush

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

"The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy." —Volrath

Tablet of Epityr (Antiquities)
Christopher Rush

Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Originally considered the work of Urza, this tablet was created by forgers seeking to imitate Urza's masterpieces.

Lightning Bolt (Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Ihsan's Shade (Homelands)
Christopher Rush

Protection from white

"Ihsan, the weak. Ihsan, the fallen. Ihsan, the betrayer. He has brought shame to the Serra Paladins where none existed before. May his suffering equal his betrayal." —Baris, Serra Inquisitor

Forest (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Prophecy (Homelands)
Christopher Rush

Reveal the top card of target opponent's library. If it's a land, you gain 1 life. Then that player shuffles. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Imaginary Pet (Ninth Edition)
Christopher Rush

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have a card in hand, return this creature to its owner's hand.

"It followed me home. Can I keep it?"

Mana Flare (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Rod of Ruin (Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

{3}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Brass Man (Revised Edition)
Christopher Rush

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {1}. If you do, untap this creature.

Fire Drake (Fifth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Flying {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

Brimstone marks this drake's territory. Unfortunately for travelers, all of the Burning Isles smell likewise.

Lim-Dûl's Paladin (Alliances)
Christopher Rush

Trample At the beginning of your upkeep, you may discard a card. If you don't, sacrifice this creature and draw a card. Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +6/+3 until end of turn. Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, it assigns no combat damage this turn and defending player loses 4 life.

Archangel (Visions)
Christopher Rush

Flying, vigilance

"My mother once told me angels sing their swords' names with each strike." —Sisay, Captain of the *Weatherlight*

Reroute (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Christopher Rush

Change the target of target activated ability with a single target. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.) Draw a card.

Three hundred years of practice thwarted by an instant of mischief.

Lightning Bolt (Limited Edition Beta)
Christopher Rush

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Safe Haven (The Dark)
Christopher Rush

{2}, {T}: Exile target creature you control. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice this land. If you do, return each card exiled with this land to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Green Mana Battery (Legends)
Christopher Rush

{2}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}, Remove any number of charge counters from this artifact: Add {G}, then add an additional {G} for each charge counter removed this way.

Mana Leak (World Championship Decks 2003)
Christopher Rush

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy.

Forest (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Dread Reaper (Portal)
Christopher Rush

Flying When this creature enters, you lose 5 life.

Utvara Scalper (Dissension)
Christopher Rush

Flying This creature attacks each combat if able.

He wages war wherever the wind carries him.

Infantry Veteran (Ninth Edition)
Christopher Rush

{T}: Target attacking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"This scar? From a zombie's teeth. This scar? From a barbarian's axe. That scar? I don't talk about that one."

Soldevi Adnate (Alliances)
Christopher Rush

{T}, Sacrifice a black or artifact creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

"An idiot cannot hear sense, even when a thousand people speak it." —Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Radjan Spirit (Fifth Edition)
Christopher Rush

{T}: Target creature loses flying until end of turn.

"Crawing, crawing, For my crowse crawing, I lost the best feather i' my wing For my crowse crawing." —Anonymous Scottish ballad

Tormod's Crypt (Chronicles)
Christopher Rush

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

The dark opening seemed to breathe the cold, damp air of the dead earth in a steady rhythm.

Plains (The List)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {W}.)

Snapping Drake (Beatdown Box Set)
Christopher Rush

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Drakes claim to be dragons—until the dragons show up.

Crookshank Kobolds (Legends)
Christopher Rush

The Crookshank military boasts a standing army of nearly twenty-four million, give or take twenty-two million.

Bone Flute (The Dark)
Christopher Rush

{2}, {T}: All creatures get -1/-0 until end of turn.

After the Battle of Pitdown, Lady Ursnell fashioned the first such instrument out of Lord Ursnell's left leg.

Canopy Spider (Tenth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

It keeps the upper reaches of the forest free of every menace . . . except for the spider itself.

Manabarbs (Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Mana Flare (Fifth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Runesword (The Dark)
Christopher Rush

{3}, {T}: Target attacking creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. When that creature leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice this artifact. If the creature deals damage to a creature this turn, the creature dealt damage can't be regenerated this turn. If a creature dealt damage by the targeted creature would die this turn, exile that creature instead.

Tormod's Crypt (The Dark)
Christopher Rush

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

The dark opening seemed to breathe the cold, damp air of the dead earth in a steady rhythm.

Rakalite (Antiquities)
Christopher Rush

{2}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Return this artifact to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Urza was the first to understand that the war would not be lost for lack of power, but for lack of troops.

Nether Shadow (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Kormus Bell (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

Nafs Asp (Rinascimento)
Christopher Rush

Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player loses 1 life at the beginning of their next draw step unless they pay {1} before that draw step.

Knights of Thorn (The Dark)
Christopher Rush

Protection from red; 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.)

"With a great cry, the Goblin host broke and ran as the first wave of Knights penetrated its ranks." —Tivadar of Thorn, *History of the Goblin Wars*

Forest (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Mana Flare (Unlimited Edition)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Muse Vessel (Dissension)
Christopher Rush

{3}, {T}: Target player exiles a card from their hand. Activate only as a sorcery. {1}: Choose a card exiled with this artifact. You may play that card this turn.

Black Lotus (Limited Edition Alpha)
Christopher Rush

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.

Granite Gargoyle (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

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

"While most overworlders fortunately don't realize this, Gargoyles can be most delicious, providing you have the appropriate tools to carve them." —Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar, *The Underworld Cookbook*

Demystify (Eighth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Destroy target enchantment.

Lightning Bolt (Unlimited Edition)
Christopher Rush

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Rakdos Ickspitter (Dissension)
Christopher Rush

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature and that creature's controller loses 1 life.

"Our thrulls dissolve from the inside out in a matter of days. Shoddy work, but they're a scream while they last." —Uzric, Rakdos guildmage

Gauntlet of Might (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

Red creatures get +1/+1. Whenever a Mountain is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {R}.

Canopy Spider (Battlebond)
Christopher Rush

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

It keeps the upper reaches of the forest free of every menace . . . except for the spider itself.

Gauntlet of Might (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

Red creatures get +1/+1. Whenever a Mountain is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {R}.

Brass Man (Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {1}. If you do, untap this creature.

Twinstrike (Dissension)
Christopher Rush

Twinstrike deals 2 damage to each of two target creatures. Hellbent — Destroy those creatures instead if you have no cards in hand.

They're dying left and right.

Plains (Ice Age)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {W}.)

Treasure (30th Anniversary Tokens)
Christopher Rush

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Kormus Bell (Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

Forest (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Lotus Bloom (Time Spiral Remastered)
Christopher Rush

Suspend 3—{0} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {0} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.

Barrin (Vanguard Series)
Christopher Rush

Sacrifice a permanent: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

An old and powerful wizard living on the mysterious isle of Tolaria, Barrin is the teacher who trained the young Ertai. He is also Hanna's father, but for reasons known only to the two of them neither acknowledges the other—or their strained relationship.

Artifact Possession (Antiquities)
Christopher Rush

Enchant artifact Whenever enchanted artifact becomes tapped or a player activates an ability of enchanted artifact without {T} in its activation cost, this Aura deals 2 damage to that artifact's controller.

Any black mage could coax a Thraxodemon to inhabit a magical device.

Lightning Bolt (Judge Gift Cards 1998)
Christopher Rush

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Manabarbs (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

All Hallow's Eve (Legends)
Christopher Rush

Exile All Hallow's Eve with two scream counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is exiled with a scream counter on it, remove a scream counter from it. If there are no more scream counters on it, put it into your graveyard and each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Forest (Unlimited Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

The Wretched (Legends)
Christopher Rush

At end of combat, gain control of all creatures blocking this creature for as long as you control this creature.

Mana Flare (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Rod of Ruin (Revised Edition)
Christopher Rush

{3}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Blacker Lotus (Unglued)
Christopher Rush

{T}: Tear this artifact into pieces. Add four mana of any one color. Remove the pieces from the game.

Wellwisher (Duel Decks Anthology: Elves vs. Goblins)
Christopher Rush

{T}: You gain 1 life for each Elf on the battlefield.

"Close your ears to the voice of greed, and you can turn a gift for one into a gift for many."

Lotus Bloom (Time Spiral Promos)
Christopher Rush

Suspend 3—{0} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {0} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.

Wellwisher (Secret Lair Drop)
Christopher Rush

{T}: You gain 1 life for each Elf on the battlefield.

"Close your ears to the voice of greed, and you can turn a gift for one into a gift for many."

Rukh Egg (Arabian Nights)
Christopher Rush

When this creature dies, create a 4/4 red Bird creature token with flying at the beginning of the next end step.

Kormus Bell (Limited Edition Beta)
Christopher Rush

All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

Runesword (Chronicles)
Christopher Rush

{3}, {T}: Target attacking creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. When that creature leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice this artifact. If the creature deals damage to a creature this turn, the creature dealt damage can't be regenerated this turn. If a creature dealt damage by the targeted creature would die this turn, exile that creature instead.

Lightning Bolt (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Circle of Protection: Black (Ninth Edition)
Christopher Rush

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

Green Mana Battery (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Rush

{2}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}, Remove any number of charge counters from this artifact: Add {G}, then add an additional {G} for each charge counter removed this way.

Fire Drake (The Dark)
Christopher Rush

Flying {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

Mystic Restraints (Champions of Kamigawa)
Christopher Rush

Flash Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Mana Flare (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Canopy Spider (Tempest)
Christopher Rush

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"We know our place in the cycle of life—and it is not as flies." —Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Forest (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Lightning Bolt (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Flying Men (Arabian Nights)
Christopher Rush

Flying

Saffiyah clapped her hands and twenty flying men appeared at her side, each well trained in the art of combat.

Rashka the Slayer (Homelands)
Christopher Rush

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Whenever Rashka blocks one or more black creatures, Rashka gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

"Rarely be the prey so haughty as to hunt the hunter." —Baron Sengir

Elvish Scout (Fallen Empires)
Christopher Rush

{G}, {T}: Untap target attacking creature you control. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by it this turn.

Although the Elves of Havenwood lived in isolated villages, their swift communications allowed them to act as a single community.

Elvish Pioneer (Onslaught)
Christopher Rush

When this creature enters, you may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

"Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime." —Kamahl, druid acolyte

Granite Gargoyle (Limited Edition Beta)
Christopher Rush

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

"While most overworlders fortunately don't realize this, Gargoyles can be most delicious, providing you have the appropriate tools to carve them." —The Underworld Cookbook, by Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

Hell Swarm (Legends)
Christopher Rush

All creatures get -1/-0 until end of turn.

The brightness of day turned in an instant to dusk as the swarm descended upon the battlefield.

Tormod's Crypt (Mystery Booster 2)
Christopher Rush

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

The dark opening seemed to breathe the cold, damp air of the dead earth in a steady rhythm.

Relic Bind (Legends)
Christopher Rush

Enchant artifact an opponent controls Whenever enchanted artifact becomes tapped, choose one — • This Aura deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Target player gains 1 life.

Forest (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Eron the Relentless (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Christopher Rush

Haste {R}{R}{R}: Regenerate Eron.

"Eron would be much less of a hassle if only he were mortal." —Reyhan, Samite alchemist

Krovikan Horror (Alliances)
Christopher Rush

At the beginning of the end step, if this card is in your graveyard with a creature card directly above it, you may return this card to your hand. {1}, Sacrifice a creature: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Apprentice Sorcerer (Portal Second Age)
Christopher Rush

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Mana Leak (Magic Player Rewards 2005)
Christopher Rush

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Forest (Asia Pacific Land Program)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Indomitable Will (Champions of Kamigawa)
Christopher Rush

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

"None of you are yet samurai. Defend your homes with honor, die for your cause, and perhaps then you will be worthy of the word." —General Takeno

Urza's Bauble (Fifth Edition)
Christopher Rush

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Look at a card at random in target player's hand. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Urza's Bauble (Ice Age)
Christopher Rush

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Look at a card at random in target player's hand. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Radjan Spirit (Renaissance)
Christopher Rush

{T}: Target creature loses flying until end of turn.

Radjan Spirit (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

{T}: Target creature loses flying until end of turn.

Forest (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Rakalite (Chronicles)
Christopher Rush

{2}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Return this artifact to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Urza was the first to understand that the war would not be lost for lack of power, but for lack of troops.

Goblin Berserker (Urza's Destiny)
Christopher Rush

First strike, haste

Goblins don't know the meaning of the word "tactics" —or the word "meaning," for that matter.

Forest (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Radjan Spirit (Legends)
Christopher Rush

{T}: Target creature loses flying until end of turn.

Black Lotus (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.

Canopy Spider (Eighth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

It keeps the upper reaches of the forest free of every menace . . . except for the spider itself.

Forest (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Metamorphosis (Rinascimento)
Christopher Rush

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add X mana of any one color, where X is 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.

Apprentice Sorcerer (The List)
Christopher Rush

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Overgrowth (The List)
Christopher Rush

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}{G}.

Plains (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {W}.)

Mana Flare (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Forest (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Canopy Spider (Core Set 2020)
Christopher Rush

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

It keeps the upper reaches of the forest free of every menace . . . except for the spider itself.

Granite Gargoyle (Limited Edition Alpha)
Christopher Rush

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

"While most overworlders fortunately don't realize this, Gargoyles can be most delicious, providing you have the appropriate tools to carve them." —The Underworld Cookbook, by Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

Coal Golem (The Dark)
Christopher Rush

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Add {R}{R}{R}.

"Three such creatures stood burning at the crest of the hill. Only seconds later, the Fireball struck our front line." —Lydia, Countess Brellis

Forest (Unlimited Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Order of the Ebon Hand (Fallen Empires)
Christopher Rush

Protection from white {B}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {B}{B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"There are intriguing similarities between the Order and Icatia's Leitbur religion, suggesting the two had a common origin." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI*

Radjan Spirit (Classic Sixth Edition)
Christopher Rush

{T}: Target creature loses flying until end of turn.

Green Mana Battery (Renaissance)
Christopher Rush

{2}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}, Remove any number of charge counters from this artifact: Add {G}, then add an additional {G} for each charge counter removed this way.

Rod of Ruin (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Christopher Rush

{3}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Forest (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Snow-Covered Plains (Ice Age)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {W}.)

Forest (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Black Lotus (Unlimited Edition)
Christopher Rush

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.

Brass Man (Arabian Nights)
Christopher Rush

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {1}. If you do, untap this creature.

Nether Shadow (Unlimited Edition)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Chicken Egg (Unglued)
Christopher Rush

At the beginning of your upkeep, roll a six-sided die. If you roll a 6, sacrifice this creature and create a 4/4 red Giant Bird creature token.

"That's a lotta nuggets." —Jaya Ballard, task mage

Lightning Bolt (Beatdown Box Set)
Christopher Rush

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Plains (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {W}.)

Wellwisher (Onslaught)
Christopher Rush

{T}: You gain 1 life for each Elf on the battlefield.

"Close your ears to the voice of greed, and you can turn a gift for one into a gift for many."

Lightning Bolt (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Christopher Rush

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Forest (Revised Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Forest (Limited Edition Alpha)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Granite Gargoyle (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Christopher Rush

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

"While most overworlders fortunately don't realize this, Gargoyles can be most delicious, providing you have the appropriate tools to carve them." —The Underworld Cookbook, by Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

Manabarbs (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Junún Efreet (Arabian Nights)
Christopher Rush

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {B}{B}.

Rod of Ruin (Limited Edition Beta)
Christopher Rush

{3}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Blood of the Martyr (The Dark)
Christopher Rush

Until end of turn, if damage would be dealt to any creature, you may have that damage dealt to you instead.

The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

Rathi Dragon (Tempest)
Christopher Rush

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice two Mountains.

Wrap the flame as twine Kingdoms will be thine.

Jovial Evil (Legends)
Christopher Rush

Jovial Evil deals X damage to target opponent, where X is twice the number of white creatures that player controls.

"Today, for a lark, let's visit the plains. I'm sure we'll find something to entertain us."

Flying Men (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Christopher Rush

Flying

Saffiyah clapped her hands and twenty flying men appeared at her side, each well trained in the art of combat.

Forest (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Granite Gargoyle (Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

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

Sol Grail (Alliances)
Christopher Rush

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

"Look deep into the Grail, and see there what you desire most." —Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen

Craw Giant (Chronicles)
Christopher Rush

Trample Rampage 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

Harthag gave a jolly laugh as he surveyed the army before him. "Ho ho ho! Midgets! You think you can stand in my way?"

Storm World (Legends)
Christopher Rush

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

Radjan Spirit (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Rush

{T}: Target creature loses flying until end of turn.

Sunastian Falconer (Legends)
Christopher Rush

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Sunastian has roots in both sorcery and swordplay; he has learned never to depend too heavily on the latter.

Descendant of Kiyomaro (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Christopher Rush

As long as you have more cards in hand than each opponent, this creature gets +1/+2 and has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage, you gain 3 life."

"The blood of Kiyomaro flows in my veins. He did not let Eiganjo fall and neither shall I."

Rod of Ruin (Fifth Edition)
Christopher Rush

{3}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Junún Efreet (Rinascimento)
Christopher Rush

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {B}{B}.

Netherborn Phalanx (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Christopher Rush

When this creature enters, each opponent loses 1 life for each creature they control. Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Snapping Drake (Portal)
Christopher Rush

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Drakes claim to be dragons—until the dragons show up.

Forest (Arena League 2001)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Order of the Ebon Hand (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Christopher Rush

Protection from white {B}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {B}{B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"There are intriguing similarities between the Order and Icatia's Leitbur religion, suggesting the two had a common origin." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI*

Snapping Drake (Portal)
Christopher Rush

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Drakes claim to be dragons—until the dragons show up.

Tawnos's Coffin (Antiquities)
Christopher Rush

You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step. {3}, {T}: Exile target creature and all Auras attached to it. Note the number and kind of counters that were on that creature. When this artifact leaves the battlefield or becomes untapped, return that exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control tapped with the noted number and kind of counters on it. If you do, return the other exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control attached to that permanent.

Relic Bind (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

Enchant artifact an opponent controls Whenever enchanted artifact becomes tapped, choose one — • This Aura deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Target player gains 1 life.

Gauntlet of Might (Limited Edition Alpha)
Christopher Rush

Red creatures get +1/+1. Whenever a Mountain is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {R}.

Nafs Asp (Renaissance)
Christopher Rush

Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player loses 1 life at the beginning of their next draw step unless they pay {1} before that draw step.

Demystify (Onslaught)
Christopher Rush

Destroy target enchantment.

"The truth will outshine all lies."

Lightning Bolt (Anthologies)
Christopher Rush

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

No-Dachi (Champions of Kamigawa)
Christopher Rush

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike. Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Not keen-edged enough for cutting armor, the no-dachi slew by folding its victim rapidly and violently under the weight of its impact.

Lightning Bolt (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Christopher Rush

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Manabarbs (Classic Sixth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Nether Shadow (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Goblin Grenade (Fallen Empires)
Christopher Rush

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

"Without their massive numbers, the Goblins could never have launched such a successful offensive." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI*

Ihsan's Shade (Anthologies)
Christopher Rush

Protection from white

"Ihsan, the weak. Ihsan, the fallen. Ihsan, the betrayer. He has brought shame to the Serra Paladins where none existed before. May his suffering equal his betrayal." —Baris, Serra Inquisitor

Lightning Bolt (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Brainstorm (Fifth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

"I reeled from the blow, and then suddenly, I knew exactly what to do. Within moments, victory was mine." —Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran royal mage

Steam Spitter (Coldsnap)
Christopher Rush

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Its belly produces a boiling-hot fluid it can spit as a weapon or spin slowly enough to freeze into a defensive web.

Relic Bind (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Enchant artifact an opponent controls Whenever enchanted artifact becomes tapped, choose one — • This Aura deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Target player gains 1 life.

Manabarbs (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Mana Flare (Revised Edition)
Christopher Rush

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Joiner Adept (Fifth Dawn)
Christopher Rush

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

A talented apprentice makes all things. The master makes all things possible.

Plains (Ice Age)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {W}.)

Metamorphosis (Chronicles)
Christopher Rush

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add X mana of any one color, where X is 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.

Mana Leak (World Championship Decks 2004)
Christopher Rush

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy.

Rod of Ruin (Limited Edition Alpha)
Christopher Rush

{3}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Canopy Spider (Anthologies)
Christopher Rush

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"We know our place in the cycle of life—and it is not as flies." —Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Collector Protector (Unhinged)
Christopher Rush

{W}, Give an opponent a nonland card you own from outside the game: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you or this creature this turn.

"Here—have a Mudhole."

Granite Gargoyle (Collectors' Edition)
Christopher Rush

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

"While most overworlders fortunately don't realize this, Gargoyles can be most delicious, providing you have the appropriate tools to carve them." —The Underworld Cookbook, by Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

Safe Haven (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Christopher Rush

{2}, {T}: Exile target creature you control. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice this land. If you do, return each card exiled with this land to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Snapping Drake (Starter 1999)
Christopher Rush

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Drakes claim to be dragons—until the dragons show up.

Volcanic Hammer (Portal)
Christopher Rush

Volcanic Hammer deals 3 damage to any target.

Cast the weight as though it were a die, to see a rival's fate.

Mana Leak (Arena League 2002)
Christopher Rush

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts." —Sir Francis Bacon, *The Advancement of Learning*

Forest (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Yotian Soldier (Rinascimento)
Christopher Rush

Vigilance

Stone Rain (Tempest)
Christopher Rush

Destroy target land.

"The land shall beg for drink and curse the rain that follows." —Oracle *en*-Vec

Forest (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Christopher Rush

({T}: Add {G}.)

Nether Shadow (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Black Lotus (30th Anniversary Edition)
Christopher Rush

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.

Mana Leak (Ninth Edition)
Christopher Rush

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy.

Abbey Gargoyles (Homelands)
Christopher Rush

Flying, protection from red

"Though Serra has not been seen for twenty years, her Gargoyles still watch over our city and punish the guilty." —Gulsen, Abbey Matron

Fire Drake (Chronicles)
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Flying {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

Mana Leak (World Championship Decks 2004)
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Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy.

Brainstorm (Ice Age)
Christopher Rush

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

"I reeled from the blow, and then suddenly, I knew exactly what to do. Within moments, victory was mine." —Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran Royal Mage

Demystify (Ninth Edition)
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Destroy target enchantment.

Yotian Soldier (Antiquities)
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Vigilance

After Kroog was destroyed while most of its defenders were at his side, Urza vowed that none of his allies would ever need to fear for their own defense again, even while laying siege to a city far from their homes.

Nether Shadow (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
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Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Rod of Ruin (Classic Sixth Edition)
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{3}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Ihsan's Shade (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Christopher Rush

Protection from white

"Ihsan, the weak. Ihsan, the fallen. Ihsan, the betrayer. He has brought shame to the Serra Paladins where none existed before. May his suffering equal his betrayal." —Baris, Serra Inquisitor

Manabarbs (30th Anniversary Edition)
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Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Infantry Veteran (Magic 2011)
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{T}: Target attacking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Any fool can pick up a sword and charge into battle. To emerge alive at the end, that is a gift that comes from leadership and experience."

Forest (Limited Edition Alpha)
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({T}: Add {G}.)

Mana Leak (Eighth Edition)
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Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy.

Lightning Bolt (Foreign Black Border)
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Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Plains (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
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({T}: Add {W}.)

Forest (Limited Edition Beta)
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({T}: Add {G}.)

Manabarbs (Collectors' Edition)
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Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Necrite (Fallen Empires)
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Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, destroy target creature defending player controls. It can't be regenerated.

"Ever see a wall drop dead of fright, kid? It ain't pretty." —Cpl. Dobbs

Plains (Unglued)
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({T}: Add {W}.)

Overgrowth (Ninth Edition)
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Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}{G}.

Abbey Gargoyles (Fifth Edition)
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Flying, protection from red

"They don't move, do they?" "Only for the wrong sort of people." "Are *we* the wrong sort of people?"

Forest (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
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({T}: Add {G}.)

Forest (Pro Tour Collector Set)
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({T}: Add {G}.)

Forbidden Ritual (Visions)
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Sacrifice a nontoken permanent. If you do, target opponent loses 2 life unless that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice or discards a card. You may repeat this process any number of times.

Yotian Soldier (Renaissance)
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Vigilance

Nether Shadow (Limited Edition Alpha)
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Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Rod of Ruin (Introductory Two-Player Set)
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{3}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Nether Shadow (Foreign Black Border)
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Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Kormus Bell (Collectors' Edition)
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All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

Mana Leak (World Championship Decks 2003)
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Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy.

Forest (Introductory Two-Player Set)
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({T}: Add {G}.)

Forest (Pro Tour Collector Set)
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({T}: Add {G}.)

Forest (30th Anniversary Edition)
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({T}: Add {G}.)

Metamorphosis (Arabian Nights)
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As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add X mana of any one color, where X is 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.

Abbey Gargoyles (Pro Tour Collector Set)
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Flying, protection from red

"Though Serra has not been seen for twenty years, her Gargoyles still watch over our city and punish the guilty." —Gulsen, Abbey Matron

Tormod's Crypt (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
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{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

The dark opening seemed to breathe the cold, damp air of the dead earth in a steady rhythm.

Black Lotus (Collectors' Edition)
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{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.

Gauntlet of Might (Limited Edition Beta)
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Red creatures get +1/+1. Whenever a Mountain is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {R}.

Ihsan's Shade (Hobby Japan Promos)
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Protection from white

Infantry Veteran (Battle Royale Box Set)
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{T}: Target attacking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"The true dishonor for a soldier is surviving the war." —Telim'Tor

Rod of Ruin (30th Anniversary Edition)
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{3}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Rod of Ruin (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
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{3}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Manabarbs (Limited Edition Alpha)
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Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Kormus Bell (30th Anniversary Edition)
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All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

Blood of the Martyr (Chronicles)
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Until end of turn, if damage would be dealt to any creature, you may have that damage dealt to you instead.

The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

Nafs Asp (Fourth Edition)
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Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player loses 1 life at the beginning of their next draw step unless they pay {1} before that draw step.

Rod of Ruin (30th Anniversary Edition)
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{3}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Icatian Infantry (Fallen Empires)
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{1}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {1}: This creature gains banding until end of turn. (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.)

Although they had long been concerned about the Order of the Ebon Hand, the Icatians faced an even greater threat from Goblin and Orcish raiders.

Brainstorm (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
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Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

"I reeled from the blow, and then suddenly, I knew exactly what to do. Within moments, victory was mine." —Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran royal mage

Forest (Collectors' Edition)
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({T}: Add {G}.)

Nether Shadow (Revised Edition)
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Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put this card onto the battlefield.

Forest (Foreign Black Border)
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({T}: Add {G}.)

Moonring Mirror (Champions of Kamigawa)
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Whenever you draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile all cards from your hand face down. If you do, put all other cards you own exiled with this artifact into your hand.

Plains (Ice Age)
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({T}: Add {W}.)

Junún Efreet (Renaissance)
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Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {B}{B}.

Forest (Limited Edition Beta)
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({T}: Add {G}.)

Abbey Gargoyles (Pro Tour Collector Set)
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Flying, protection from red

"Though Serra has not been seen for twenty years, her Gargoyles still watch over our city and punish the guilty." —Gulsen, Abbey Matron

Lightning Bolt (Revised Edition)
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Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Canopy Spider (The List)
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Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

It keeps the upper reaches of the forest free of every menace . . . except for the spider itself.

Rathi Dragon (Ninth Edition)
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Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice two Mountains.

Granite Gargoyle (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
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Flying {R}: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"While most overworlders fortunately don't realize this, Gargoyles can be most delicious, providing you have the appropriate tools to carve them." —The Underworld Cookbook, by Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

Infantry Veteran (Anthologies)
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{T}: Target attacking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"The true dishonor for a soldier is surviving the war." —Telim'Tor

Lightning Bolt (Limited Edition Alpha)
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Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Kormus Bell (Limited Edition Alpha)
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All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

Myr Quadropod (Fifth Dawn)
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{3}: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Each myr was designed to fill a specific role. This one, for example, was designed to stomp on other myr.

Nafs Asp (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
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Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player loses 1 life at the beginning of their next draw step unless they pay {1} before that draw step.

Mana Leak (World Championship Decks 1998)
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Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

"The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy." —Volrath

Brass Man (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
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This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {1}. If you do, untap this creature.

Basal Thrull (Fallen Empires)
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{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Add {B}{B}.

"Above all, a well crafted Thrull should be hideous—blasted of countenance and twisted of limb—to inspire fear and revulsion." —Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder