Unnatural Selection

Unnatural Selection (Apocalypse)
Kev Walker

{1}: Choose a creature type other than Wall. Target creature becomes that type until end of turn.

What nature makes, magic can modify.

Grim Poppet (Shadowmoor)
Kev Walker

This creature enters with three -1/-1 counters on it. Remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on another target creature.

Beware a scarecrow bearing gifts—especially sloshing vessels of acid.

Uncontrollable Anger (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and attacks each combat if able.

Lightning Elemental (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)

"A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave." —William Knox, "Mortality"

Endangered Armodon (Stronghold)
Kev Walker

When you control a creature with toughness 2 or less, sacrifice this creature.

These are its last days. Its doom to be remembered only until the hunters hunger again.

Spirit Link (Dominaria Remastered)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

"We are all inextricably linked, souls woven in tapestry."

Ovinomancer (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Kev Walker

When Ovinomancer enters, sacrifice it unless you return three basic lands you control to their owner's hand. {T}, Return Ovinomancer to its owner's hand: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 0/1 green Sheep creature token.

Charging Paladin (Portal)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

A true warrior's thoughts are of victory, not death.

Magus of the Abyss (Future Sight)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, destroy target nonartifact creature that player controls of their choice. It can't be regenerated.

He climbs a staircase of falling souls, fighting the continuous pull of the void.

Glorious Anthem (Eighth Edition)
Kev Walker

Creatures you control get +1/+1.

Each victory adds a new verse.

Upheaval (Modern Horizons 2)
Kev Walker

Return all permanents to their owners' hands.

The calm comes after the storm.

Abolish (The List)
Kev Walker

You may discard a Plains card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

As war raged on, the young mages became more direct in their tactics, often at great cost.

Wizened Cenn (The List)
Kev Walker

Other Kithkin creatures you control get +1/+1.

"Thoughtweft binds us together as one, part of an intricate pattern that would unravel if even one thread came loose."

Switcheroo (Battlebond)
Kev Walker

Exchange control of two target creatures.

Say hello to your new friend.

Scathe Zombies (Seventh Edition)
Kev Walker

"They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise." —Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Kirtar's Wrath (Odyssey)
Kev Walker

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Threshold — If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, instead destroy all creatures, then create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying. Creatures destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Plains (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Kev Walker

({T}: Add {W}.)

Island (Commander 2017)
Kev Walker

({T}: Add {U}.)

Lightning Helix (Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning)
Kev Walker

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

Though less well-known than its army of soldiers, the Boros Legion's mage-priests are as respected by the innocent as they are hated by the ghosts of the guilty.

Llanowar Elves (Ninth Edition)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {G}.

One bone broken for every twig snapped underfoot. —Llanowar penalty for trespassing

Wrath of God (Dominaria Remastered)
Kev Walker

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Djinn of Wishes (Commander 2018)
Kev Walker

Flying This creature enters with three wish counters on it. {2}{U}{U}, Remove a wish counter from this creature: Reveal the top card of your library. You may play that card without paying its mana cost. If you don't, exile it.

Hunter Sliver (Legions)
Kev Walker

All Sliver creatures have provoke. (Whenever a Sliver attacks, its controller may have target creature defending player controls untap and block it if able.)

Once they get the scent, there is no escape.

Confront the Unknown (Shadows over Innistrad)
Kev Walker

Investigate, then target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each Clue you control. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

"Never flinch from the truth." —Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Deathgaze Cockatrice (Magic 2014)
Kev Walker

Flying Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

"Sometimes I come across a stone finger or foot and I know I'm in cockatrice territory." —Rulak, bog guide

Fledgling Mawcor (Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra)
Kev Walker

Flying {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. Morph {U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Villagers of Estwald (Innistrad Remastered)
Kev Walker

Glorious Anthem (Urza's Saga)
Kev Walker

Creatures you control get +1/+1.

Once heard, the battle song of an angel becomes part of the listener forever.

Spirit (Innistrad Tokens)
Kev Walker

Flying

Glorious Anthem (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

Creatures you control get +1/+1.

Once heard, the battle song of an angel becomes part of the listener forever.

Lightning Helix (Ravnica Remastered)
Kev Walker

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

Though less well-known than its army of soldiers, the Boros Legion's mage-priests are as respected by the innocent as they are hated by the ghosts of the guilty.

Ingot Chewer (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, destroy target artifact. Evoke {R} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Elementals are ideas given form. This one is the idea of "smashitude."

Brazen Scourge (Ultimate Masters)
Kev Walker

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)

Driven by an insatiable hunger, gremlins never cease feeding. They can destroy a lifetime of work in just a few moments.

Rancor (Archenemy)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Hatred outlives the hateful.

Ingot Chewer (Ultimate Masters)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, destroy target artifact. Evoke {R} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Elementals are ideas given form. This one is the idea of "smashitude."

Snapping Gnarlid (Battle for Zendikar)
Kev Walker

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

All of Zendikar's beings sense the upheaval that accompanies the Eldrazi.

Sengir Vampire (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
Kev Walker

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.

Demon (Commander 2014 Tokens)
Kev Walker

Flying

Ovinomancer (The List)
Kev Walker

When Ovinomancer enters, sacrifice it unless you return three basic lands you control to their owner's hand. {T}, Return Ovinomancer to its owner's hand: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 0/1 green Sheep creature token.

Bonebreaker Giant (Magic 2012)
Kev Walker

One thing's for sure—his fists are harder than your skull.

Pestilence (Fifth Edition)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment. {B}: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Dimir Cutpurse (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you draw a card.

Other guilds demand tolls from those who travel their territories, but not House Dimir. It takes its share secretly, one coin purse at a time.

Budoka Gardener (The List)
Kev Walker

Corpse Traders (Jumpstart)
Kev Walker

{2}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Those without breath can't complain.

Aether Snap (Darksteel)
Kev Walker

Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.

"May you wake to find you were only ever a dream." —Mephidross curse

Divine Verdict (Jumpstart 2022)
Kev Walker

Destroy target attacking or blocking creature.

Giants and pit spawn attempted to topple the cathedral's pillars. The fine grit of their remains still swirls in the breeze outside.

Assault Strobe (Scars of Mirrodin)
Kev Walker

Target creature gains double strike until end of turn. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

When breaking someone's face once just isn't enough.

Phyrexian Plaguelord (The List)
Kev Walker

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"The final stage of the illness: delirium, convulsions, and death." —Phyrexian progress notes

Index (Apocalypse)
Kev Walker

Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

"Let's see . . . Mercadia, mercenary, merfolk . . . you know, I really need a better filing system."

Foul Imp (Seventh Edition)
Kev Walker

Flying When this creature enters, you lose 2 life.

The villagers call it "winged stench."

Knighthood (Urza's Legacy)
Kev Walker

Creatures you control have first strike.

"He has returned. He who brought the dark ones. He who poisoned our paradise. How shall we greet him? With swift and certain death!" —Radiant, archangel

Glorious Anthem (Ninth Edition)
Kev Walker

Creatures you control get +1/+1.

Each victory adds a new verse.

Swarm of Rats (Salvat 2005)
Kev Walker

Swarm of Rats's power is equal to the number of Rats you control.

Generous Gift (New Capenna Commander)
Kev Walker

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

The best presents are impossible to regift.

Sword of Light and Shadow (Double Masters)
Kev Walker

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from black. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain 3 life and you may return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Equip {2}

Rip to Pieces (Defeat a God)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of combat this turn, each Reveler deals 1 damage to each player and each creature those players control.

Obliterate (The List)
Kev Walker

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and lands. They can't be regenerated.

For his family, Barrin made a funeral pyre of Tolaria.

Orc Sureshot (Fate Reforged)
Kev Walker

Whenever another creature you control enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Words have yet to halt an arrow."

Sphinx of the Steel Wind (Mystery Booster 2)
Kev Walker

Flying, first strike, vigilance, lifelink, protection from red and from green

No one has properly answered her favorite riddle: "Why should I spare your life?"

Leyline of Lifeforce (Guildpact)
Kev Walker

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. Creature spells can't be countered.

Where sovereignty and flesh converge.

Geralf's Messenger (Dark Ascension)
Kev Walker

This creature enters tapped. When this creature enters, target opponent loses 2 life. Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Lovestruck Beast (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Kev Walker

His mind chose solitude, but his heart disagreed.

Juggernaut (Magic 2015)
Kev Walker

This creature attacks each combat if able. This creature can't be blocked by Walls.

Many a besieged city has surrendered upon hearing the distinctive rumble of the juggernaut.

Dragonspeaker Shaman (Game Night: Free-for-All)
Kev Walker

Dragon spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.

"We speak the dragons' language of flame and rage. They speak our language of fury and honor. Together we shall weave a tale of destruction without equal."

Snapping Gnarlid (Foundations Jumpstart)
Kev Walker

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

All of Zendikar's beings sense the upheaval that accompanies the Eldrazi.

Mycosynth Fiend (New Phyrexia)
Kev Walker

This creature gets +1/+1 for each poison counter your opponents have.

"I wish I could take credit for it, but nature progresses on its own, just the way it should." —Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Visara the Dreadful (Onslaught)
Kev Walker

Flying {T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

"My eyes are my strongest feature."

Seizan, Perverter of Truth (Jumpstart 2022)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 2 life and draws two cards.

"If you would taste the wisdom of the oni, be prepared to salt it with your blood." —Kiku, Night's Flower

Centaur Battlemaster (Theros)
Kev Walker

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, put three +1/+1 counters on this creature.

"A herd is only as strong as its weakest. Our weakest just killed his third minotaur raider—today." —Braulios of Pheres Band

Emperor Crocodile (Ninth Edition)
Kev Walker

When you control no other creatures, sacrifice this creature.

The king of Yavimaya's waters pays constant attention to his subjects . . . and thrives on their adulation.

Noble Purpose (Eighth Edition)
Kev Walker

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage, you gain that much life.

Fighting for the right reason is itself a source of strength.

Damnation (Double Masters 2022)
Kev Walker

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Wheel of Fate (The List)
Kev Walker

Suspend 4—{1}{R} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{R} and exile it with four 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.) Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Dread Return (Commander 2014)
Kev Walker

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Those who forget the horrors of the past are doomed to re-meet them.

Capashen Knight (Urza's Destiny)
Kev Walker

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) {1}{W}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Few warriors dare to challenge a knight of Capashen. Should one do so, there is one fewer.

Council's Judgment (The List)
Kev Walker

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

When its power is threatened, the council speaks with a unified voice.

Generous Gift (Neon Dynasty Commander)
Kev Walker

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

The best presents are impossible to regift.

Rakdos Pit Dragon (Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra)
Kev Walker

{R}{R}: This creature gains flying until end of turn. {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Hellbent — This creature has double strike as long as you have no cards in hand.

Gush (The List)
Kev Walker

You may return two Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Draw two cards.

Don't trust your secrets to the sea.

Gigantoplasm (Ravnica Remastered)
Kev Walker

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has "{X}: This creature has base power and toughness X/X."

"I appreciate things that exceed expectations." —Mizzix

Island (Commander 2016)
Kev Walker

({T}: Add {U}.)

Splatter Thug (Return to Ravnica)
Kev Walker

First strike Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

The mask isn't meant to hide his identity. It's meant to keep the viscera out of his eyes.

Arashi, the Sky Asunder (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Kev Walker

{X}{G}, {T}: Arashi deals X damage to target creature with flying. Channel — {X}{G}{G}, Discard this card: It deals X damage to each creature with flying.

Alaborn Cavalier (Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap target creature.

"Course he ran! *I* wouldn't want to stare down that barrel, either!" —Alaborn soldier

Juggernaut (The List)
Kev Walker

This creature attacks each combat if able. This creature can't be blocked by Walls.

Many a besieged city has surrendered upon hearing the distinctive rumble of the juggernaut.

Pacifism (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

"If only they'd all act this docile. I could do something relaxing for a living. I've always wanted to bake biscuits." —Ethuk, Coppercoat mage

Final Flare (Theros Beyond Death)
Kev Walker

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or enchantment. Final Flare deals 5 damage to target creature.

Those who fought without honor in life are taken to Agonas and doomed to fight forever in its arenas.

Glen Elendra Liege (Double Masters 2022)
Kev Walker

Flying Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1. Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.

Those who displease Oona soon learn the extent of the armies she commands.

Marsh Crocodile (Planeshift)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, return a blue or black creature you control to its owner's hand. When this creature enters, each player discards a card.

Sengir Vampire (Magic Origins)
Kev Walker

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.

Skarrgan Firebird (Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters)
Kev Walker

Bloodthirst 3 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.) Flying {R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if an opponent was dealt damage this turn.

Hoverguard Observer (Darksteel)
Kev Walker

Flying This creature can block only creatures with flying.

It could be made to run silently, but its low hum reminds the Neurok that they are always watched.

Noble Purpose (Mercadian Masques)
Kev Walker

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage, you gain that much life.

Fighting for the right reason is itself a source of strength.

Faith's Fetters (Jumpstart 2022)
Kev Walker

Enchant permanent When this Aura enters, you gain 4 life. Enchanted permanent can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Mountain (European Land Program)
Kev Walker

({T}: Add {R}.)

Scion of the Wild (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Kev Walker

Scion of the Wild's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control.

It has a hundred thousand extinctions to avenge.

Field of the Dead (Core Set 2020 Promos)
Kev Walker

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Rotting Giant (Odyssey)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice it unless you exile a card from your graveyard.

Wracked with rot, it wrecks and ruins.

Loyal Subordinate (Starter Commander Decks)
Kev Walker

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, each opponent loses 3 life.

Zombies work best when they're fed appropriately, so it's prudent to let them eat on the job.

Scrapskin Drake (Magic Origins)
Kev Walker

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

"The cathars killed my skaabs down below. Let's see how high their swords can reach." —Ludevic, necro-alchemist

Cavalry Pegasus (Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters)
Kev Walker

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, each attacking Human gains flying until end of turn.

"It is hope, hooved and winged." —Cymede, queen of Akros

Foul Imp (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
Kev Walker

Flying When this creature enters, you lose 2 life.

The imp, unaware of its own odor, paused to catch its breath . . . and promptly died.

Mesa Chicken (Unglued)
Kev Walker

Stand up, Flap your arms, Cluck like a chicken: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

"Lo! lord of layers proudly comb-crested Hero to hens father to feathers Crowing sun-caller weaver of wattle Elder to eggs." —*Rooster Saga*

Valor (Judgment)
Kev Walker

First strike As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Plains, creatures you control have first strike.

"The cracks widened, the shell crumbled, and Valor spread throughout the land." —*Scroll of Beginnings*

Ancestor's Prophet (Onslaught)
Kev Walker

Tap five untapped Clerics you control: You gain 10 life.

"We have faced horrors of war and terrors beyond imagining. We will overcome the uncertainties of this new life."

Sandsower (Modern Masters)
Kev Walker

Tap three untapped creatures you control: Tap target creature.

It drifts through the streets as a breeze of collective sighs, wilting the bustle with dreams and heavy eyelids.

Foot Soldiers (Ninth Edition)
Kev Walker

Infantry deployment is the art of putting your troops in the wrong place at the right time.

Witch Engine (The List)
Kev Walker

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) {T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}. Target opponent gains control of this creature. (Activate only as an instant.)

Ojutai's Breath (Dragons of Tarkir)
Kev Walker

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Corpse Traders (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska)
Kev Walker

{2}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Those without breath can't complain.

Droning Bureaucrats (Guildpact)
Kev Walker

{X}, {T}: Each creature with mana value X can't attack or block this turn.

" . . . and you must also apply for an application license, file documents 136(iv) and 22-C and -D in triplicate, pay all requisite fees, request a . . ."

Feral Krushok (The List)
Kev Walker

In a stunning act of diplomacy, Yasova Dragonclaw ceded a portion of Temur lands to the Sultai. Her clan protested until they saw she had given the Sultai the breeding grounds of the krushoks. They hadn't realized she had a sense of humor.

Llanowar (Planechase Anthology Planes)
Kev Walker

All creatures have "{T}: Add {G}{G}." Whenever chaos ensues, untap all creatures you control.

Zombified (Unstable)
Kev Walker

{4}{B}: Combine this card from your graveyard with target host. {2}{B}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Augment {4}{B} ({4}{B}, Reveal this card from your hand: Combine it with target host. Augment only as a sorcery.)

Siege Rhino (Magic Origins Clash Pack)
Kev Walker

Trample When this creature enters, each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

The mere approach of an Abzan war beast is enough to send enemies fleeing in panic.

Wild Beastmaster (Return to Ravnica)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks, each other creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power.

"When they covered the world in city, all they did was give themselves nowhere to run."

Soulbright Flamekin (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra)
Kev Walker

{2}: Target creature gains trample until end of turn. If this is the third time this ability has resolved this turn, you may add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}{R}{R}{R}.

When provoked, a flamekin's inner fire burns far hotter than any giant's forge.

Patagia Golem (Seventh Edition)
Kev Walker

{3}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Its wings were only designed to be ornamental, but it learned to use them on its own.

Lightning Elemental (Eighth Edition)
Kev Walker

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)

"A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave." —William Knox, "Mortality"

Leonin Snarecaster (Jumpstart 2022)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, you may tap target creature.

Formerly oppressed by the polis of Meletis, leonin occasionally "mistake" their old enemies for game.

Barkweave Crusher (Dominaria United)
Kev Walker

Enlist (As this creature attacks, you may tap a nonattacking creature you control without summoning sickness. When you do, add its power to this creature's until end of turn.)

"Phyrexia may be ancient, but Gaea is eternal." —Queen Allenal of Ruadach

Blood-Toll Harpy (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
Kev Walker

Flying When this creature enters, each player loses 1 life.

When harpies demand a toll to cross through their territory, consider yourself lucky if they permit payment in coin.

Krosan Tusker (Modern Horizons)
Kev Walker

Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Do this before you draw.)

Index (Ninth Edition)
Kev Walker

Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

"Let's see . . . Mercadia, mercenary, merfolk . . . you know, I really need a better filing system."

Sengir Vampire (The List)
Kev Walker

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.

Void (Invasion)
Kev Walker

Choose a number. Destroy all artifacts and creatures with mana value equal to that number. Then target player reveals their hand and discards all nonland cards with mana value equal to the number.

Zombie Musher (Coldsnap)
Kev Walker

Snow landwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a snow land.) {S}: Regenerate this creature. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

The World Spell thawed their icy graves, promising rest in soft, quiet earth at last. But Heidar called them to duty for a twisted cause.

Shrouded Lore (The List)
Kev Walker

Target opponent chooses a card in your graveyard. You may pay {B}. If you do, repeat this process except that opponent can't choose a card already chosen for Shrouded Lore. Then put the last chosen card into your hand.

Stasis Cocoon (Fifth Dawn)
Kev Walker

Enchant artifact Enchanted artifact can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Though the grip of a golem is strong, the grip of Auriok magic is far stronger.

Krosan Tusker (Commander 2013)
Kev Walker

Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Do this before you draw.)

Gush (Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra)
Kev Walker

You may return two Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Draw two cards.

Don't trust your secrets to the sea.

Roar of the Wurm (The List)
Kev Walker

Create a 6/6 green Wurm creature token. Flashback {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Archipelagore (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Kev Walker

Mutate {5}{U} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.) Whenever this creature mutates, tap up to X target creatures, where X is the number of times this creature has mutated. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step.

Book Devourer (Guilds of Ravnica)
Kev Walker

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may discard all the cards in your hand. If you do, draw that many cards.

"Not my first edition of *The Advokist and the Urchin*!"

Land Mine (Magic 2015 Tokens)
Kev Walker

{R}, Sacrifice this artifact: This artifact deals 2 damage to target attacking creature without flying.

Gift of Tusks (Oath of the Gatewatch)
Kev Walker

Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and becomes a green Elephant with base power and toughness 3/3.

It's an experience you'll never forget.

Devour Flesh (Gatecrash)
Kev Walker

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice, then gains life equal to that creature's toughness.

His twisted mind concluded that if he was what he ate, and he wanted to stay human, . . .

Synod Centurion (Fifth Dawn)
Kev Walker

When you control no other artifacts, sacrifice this creature.

"We order them to stand, they stand. We order them to wait, they wait. We order them to die, they die." —Pontifex, elder researcher

Dreamborn Muse (Legions)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards in their hand.

"Her voice is insight, piercing and true." —Ixidor, reality sculptor

Cavalry Pegasus (Commander 2020)
Kev Walker

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, each attacking Human gains flying until end of turn.

"It is hope, hooved and winged." —Cymede, queen of Akros

Inferno Titan (Magic 2012)
Kev Walker

{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, it deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

Nessian Wilds Ravager (Born of the Gods Promos)
Kev Walker

Tribute 6 (As this creature enters, an opponent of your choice may put six +1/+1 counters on it.) When this creature enters, if tribute wasn't paid, you may have this creature fight another target creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Balance (Judge Gift Cards 2004)
Kev Walker

Each player chooses a number of lands they control equal to the number of lands controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Players discard cards and sacrifice creatures the same way.

Ovinomancer (Dominaria Remastered)
Kev Walker

When Ovinomancer enters, sacrifice it unless you return three basic lands you control to their owner's hand. {T}, Return Ovinomancer to its owner's hand: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 0/1 green Sheep creature token.

Arashi, the Sky Asunder (Commander 2021)
Kev Walker

{X}{G}, {T}: Arashi deals X damage to target creature with flying. Channel — {X}{G}{G}, Discard this card: It deals X damage to each creature with flying.

Ixidor, Reality Sculptor (The List)
Kev Walker

Face-down creatures get +1/+1. {2}{U}: Turn target face-down creature face up.

"Reality has exiled me. I am no longer bound by its laws."

Tahngarth, Talruum Hero (Planeshift)
Kev Walker

Vigilance {1}{R}, {T}: Tahngarth deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to Tahngarth.

Bringer of the White Dawn (Fifth Dawn)
Kev Walker

You may pay {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Trample At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Forest (European Land Program)
Kev Walker

({T}: Add {G}.)

Tandem Lookout (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
Kev Walker

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as Tandem Lookout is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card."

Rancor (Urza's Legacy)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Hatred outlives the hateful.

Wild Beastmaster (Commander 2016)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks, each other creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power.

"When they covered the world in city, all they did was give themselves nowhere to run."

Upheaval (From the Vault: Annihilation)
Kev Walker

Return all permanents to their owners' hands.

The calm comes after the storm.

Air Elemental (Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra)
Kev Walker

Flying

Pray that it doesn't seek the safety of your lungs.

Fledgling Mawcor (The List)
Kev Walker

Flying {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. Morph {U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Wheel of Fate (Commander 2016)
Kev Walker

Suspend 4—{1}{R} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{R} and exile it with four 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.) Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Slaughter Pact (Time Spiral Remastered)
Kev Walker

Destroy target nonblack creature. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {2}{B}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Death is only the beginning of the end.

Annihilate (Commander 2013)
Kev Walker

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. Draw a card.

"Whatever Yawgmoth marks, dies. There is no escape." —Tsabo Tavoc, Phyrexian general

Lightning Elemental (Magic 2010)
Kev Walker

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)

"A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave." —William Knox, "Mortality"

Wing Splicer (New Phyrexia)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token. Golem creatures you control have flying.

Balance (The List)
Kev Walker

Each player chooses a number of lands they control equal to the number of lands controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Players discard cards and sacrifice creatures the same way.

Inferno Titan (Commander Masters)
Kev Walker

{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, it deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

Lyev Decree (Dragon's Maze)
Kev Walker

Detain up to two target creatures your opponents control. (Until your next turn, those creatures can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)

The Azorius have so many codes and statutes that you're always in violation of one of them.

Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer (The List)
Kev Walker

Sacrifice an artifact: Target artifact gains indestructible until end of turn.

"I used to joke that he had been exiled for being too smart. Now I know why he never laughed." —Glissa Sunseeker

Kitchen Finks (Ultimate Masters)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Accept one favor from an ouphe, and you're doomed to accept another.

Shivan Hellkite (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) {1}{R}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

A dragon's scale can be carved into a mighty shield, provided you can procure a dragontooth to cut it.

Illusory Gains (Dragons of Tarkir)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature You control enchanted creature. Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, attach this Aura to that creature.

Goblin Champion (Modern Horizons)
Kev Walker

Haste Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

The stories of his heroics are inspiring, though none of them are remotely true.

Kavu Primarch (The List)
Kev Walker

Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.) Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) If this creature was kicked, it enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.

Soulbright Flamekin (Modern Masters 2015)
Kev Walker

{2}: Target creature gains trample until end of turn. If this is the third time this ability has resolved this turn, you may add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}{R}{R}{R}.

When provoked, a flamekin's inner fire burns far hotter than any giant's forge.

Krosan Tusker (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Inventors)
Kev Walker

Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Do this before you draw.)

Visara the Dreadful (Eternal Masters)
Kev Walker

Flying {T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

"My eyes are my strongest feature."

Kraul Harpooner (Jumpstart 2022)
Kev Walker

Reach Undergrowth — When this creature enters, choose up to one target creature you don't control with flying. This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard, then you may have this creature fight that creature.

Dread Return (Time Spiral Remastered)
Kev Walker

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Those who forget the horrors of the past are doomed to re-meet them.

Halimar Excavator (Worldwake)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature or another Ally you control enters, target player mills X cards, where X is the number of Allies you control.

Faith's Fetters (The List)
Kev Walker

Enchant permanent When this Aura enters, you gain 4 life. Enchanted permanent can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Dreamborn Muse (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards in their hand.

"Her voice is insight, piercing and true." —Ixidor, reality sculptor

Clickslither (Duel Decks Anthology: Elves vs. Goblins)
Kev Walker

Haste Sacrifice a Goblin: This creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.

The least popular goblins get the outer caves.

Visara the Dreadful (World Championship Decks 2003)
Kev Walker

Flying {T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

"My eyes are my strongest feature."

Vedalken Archmage (Mirrodin)
Kev Walker

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, draw a card.

"The Knowledge Pool knows. Memnarch understands." —Janus, speaker of the synod

Ingot Chewer (Commander 2014)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, destroy target artifact. Evoke {R} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Elementals are ideas given form. This one is the idea of "smashitude."

Sidar Kondo (Vanguard Series)
Kev Walker

{3}: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Kondo served as guardian to the infant Gerrard and raised him alongside his own son, Vuel. He taught both boys to be strong and to lead, but whereas Gerrard became a champion of honor, Vuel's bitterness led him to become an equally devastating force of malice.

Roar of the Wurm (World Championship Decks 2002)
Kev Walker

Create a 6/6 green Wurm creature token. Flashback {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Mounted Archers (Tempest)
Kev Walker

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) {W}: This creature can block an additional creature this turn.

Altered Ego (Innistrad Remastered)
Kev Walker

This spell can't be countered. You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Orim's Chant (Planeshift)
Kev Walker

Kicker {W} (You may pay an additional {W} as you cast this spell.) Target player can't cast spells this turn. If this spell was kicked, creatures can't attack this turn.

Krosan Tusker (The List)
Kev Walker

Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Do this before you draw.)

Char-Rumbler (Future Sight)
Kev Walker

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

Elementals flourished as Dominaria healed and new forms of life adapted to the land's reinfusion with mana.

Bottomless Pit (Stronghold)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card at random.

"I'm sure it came with the place. I don't think you build one on purpose." —Gerrard

Vulturous Aven (Dragons of Tarkir)
Kev Walker

Flying Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, you draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Volrath's Stronghold (World Championship Decks 1999)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

The seed of a world's evil.

Dragon Tyrant (Scourge)
Kev Walker

Flying, trample Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.) At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {R}{R}{R}{R}. {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Golgari Thug (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Kev Walker

When this creature dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, you may mill four cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Pacifism (Foundations)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

"If only they'd all act this docile. I could do something relaxing for a living. I've always wanted to bake biscuits." —Ethuk, Coppercoat mage

Inferno Titan (Archenemy: Nicol Bolas)
Kev Walker

{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, it deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

Inferno Titan (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Kev Walker

{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, it deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

Mindslicer (Ninth Edition)
Kev Walker

When this creature dies, each player discards their hand.

It *is* the thing that goes bump in the night.

Swamp (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Kev Walker

({T}: Add {B}.)

Fledgling Mawcor (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra)
Kev Walker

Flying {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. Morph {U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Phyrexian Revoker (Mirrodin Besieged)
Kev Walker

As this creature enters, choose a nonland card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.

Basic senses like sight and taste are reserved for those in power.

Goblin Grenade (The List)
Kev Walker

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

Don't underestimate the aerodynamic qualities of the common goblin.

Phyrexian Juggernaut (Mirrodin Besieged)
Kev Walker

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) Phyrexian Juggernaut attacks each combat if able.

Where nature impedes, Phyrexians overcome.

Rancor (Masters 25)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Hatred outlives the hateful.

Myojin of Seeing Winds (Champions of Kamigawa)
Kev Walker

Myojin of Seeing Winds enters with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand. Myojin of Seeing Winds has indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it. Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Seeing Winds: Draw a card for each permanent you control.

Mardu Roughrider (Khans of Tarkir)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks, target creature can't block this turn.

The most ferocious saddlebrutes lead the assault, ramming through massed pikes and stout barricades as if they were paper and silk.

Skyship Weatherlight (Planeshift)
Kev Walker

When Skyship Weatherlight enters, search your library for any number of artifact and/or creature cards, exile them, then shuffle. {4}, {T}: Choose a card at random that was exiled with Skyship Weatherlight. Put that card into its owner's hand.

Phyrexian Revoker (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Kev Walker

As this creature enters, choose a nonland card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.

"To be in the presence of a revoker is to be truly alone." —Kara Vrist, Neurok agent

Earthbrawn (Morningtide)
Kev Walker

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Reinforce 1—{1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.)

Gremil finally felt in touch with nature—and felt a need to share the experience with others.

Cystbearer (Scars of Mirrodin)
Kev Walker

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Phyrexia strives to simulate natural life, but it can't resist improving on the design.

Ironshell Beetle (Jumpstart 2022)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

"Please don't feed the beetles." —Promenade warning sign

Lightning Helix (Planechase)
Kev Walker

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

Though less well-known than its army of soldiers, the Boros Legion's mage-priests are as respected by the innocent as they are hated by the ghosts of the guilty.

Mindslicer (Odyssey)
Kev Walker

When this creature dies, each player discards their hand.

It *is* the thing that goes bump in the night.

Forest (Commander Legends)
Kev Walker

({T}: Add {G}.)

Weakness (Battle Royale Box Set)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Apothecary Initiate (Shadowmoor)
Kev Walker

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Kithkin jealously hoard their knowledge of poultices and remedies so that no outside threat can benefit from their wisdom.

Lightning Elemental (Ninth Edition)
Kev Walker

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)

"A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave." —William Knox, "Mortality"

Graveborn Muse (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

"Her voice is damnation, unyielding and certain." —Phage the Untouchable

Elvish Warrior (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Kev Walker

As graceful as a deer leaping a stream and as deadly as the wolf waiting in ambush on the other side, elvish warriors are the eyes of the forest as well as its unsheathed claws.

Fatal Fumes (Dragon's Maze)
Kev Walker

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

Travelers in the undercity dread the horrors and assassins of the Dimir, but nearly as many die from more mundane hazards.

Condemn (Magic Player Rewards 2007)
Kev Walker

Put target attacking creature on the bottom of its owner's library. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness.

Petrified Wood-Kin (Guildpact)
Kev Walker

This spell can't be countered. Bloodthirst X (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the damage dealt to your opponents this turn.) Protection from instants

Sanitarium Skeleton (Ultimate Masters)
Kev Walker

{2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

His mind was lost long before his flesh.

Doorkeeper (The List)
Kev Walker

Defender {2}{U}, {T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

One piercing stare usually convinces thieves to go elsewhere.

Drooling Groodion (Modern Masters 2015)
Kev Walker

{2}{B}{G}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Another target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

"The Golgari expand, yes, but I refuse to call their tainted creations 'growth.'" —Veszka, Selesnya evangel

Ingot Chewer (Lorwyn)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, destroy target artifact. Evoke {R} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Elementals are ideas given form. This one is the idea of "smashitude."

Leonin Snarecaster (Theros)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, you may tap target creature.

Formerly oppressed by the polis of Meletis, leonin occasionally "mistake" their old enemies for game.

Treacherous Vampire (Judgment)
Kev Walker

Flying Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice it unless you exile a card from your graveyard. Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "When this creature dies, you lose 6 life."

Generous Gift (Modern Horizons)
Kev Walker

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

The best presents are impossible to regift.

Obliterate (Invasion)
Kev Walker

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and lands. They can't be regenerated.

For his family, Barrin made a funeral pyre of Tolaria.

Giant Strength (Fifth Edition)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

"O! it is excellent / To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant." —William Shakespeare, *Measure for Measure*

Thornbow Archer (The List)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent who doesn't control an Elf loses 1 life.

"I will not rest until the stench of eyeblights is eradicated from these woods."

Air Elemental (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Kev Walker

Flying

"The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab." —Joseph Conrad, *The Mirror of the Sea*

Krosan Beast (Odyssey)
Kev Walker

Threshold — This creature gets +7/+7 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Those who see the squirrels go underground in the winter aren't ready for what emerges in the spring.

Nimble Mongoose (Modern Horizons)
Kev Walker

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Threshold — This creature gets +2/+2 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

One thread connected all the travelers' stories: the ferocity of the mongoose.

Phyrexian Plaguelord (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition)
Kev Walker

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"The final stage of the illness: delirium, convulsions, and death." —Phyrexian progress notes

Jackal Pup (Masters 25)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to you.

The first morning after acquiring her familiar, the wizard awoke with fleabites and mange.

Debtors' Knell (Guildpact)
Kev Walker

({W/B} can be paid with either {W} or {B}.) At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

One moment, conscious only of a sense of repose. The next moment, hearing the trudge of his own footsteps. He sighed and squinted into the glare ahead.

Magus of the Abyss (Double Masters)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, destroy target nonartifact creature that player controls of their choice. It can't be regenerated.

He climbs a staircase of falling souls, fighting the continuous pull of the void.

Dreamborn Muse (The List)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards in their hand.

"Her voice is insight, piercing and true." —Ixidor, reality sculptor

Duskmantle Seer (Commander 2018)
Kev Walker

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each player reveals the top card of their library, loses life equal to that card's mana value, then puts it into their hand.

Djinn of Wishes (Magic 2010)
Kev Walker

Flying This creature enters with three wish counters on it. {2}{U}{U}, Remove a wish counter from this creature: Reveal the top card of your library. You may play that card without paying its mana cost. If you don't, exile it.

Tandem Lookout (Modern Masters 2017)
Kev Walker

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as Tandem Lookout is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card."

Border Guard (Portal)
Kev Walker

"Join the army, see foreign countries!" they'd said.

Sengir Vampire (Magic 2015)
Kev Walker

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.

Lightning Helix (The List)
Kev Walker

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

Though less well-known than its army of soldiers, the Boros Legion's mage-priests are as respected by the innocent as they are hated by the ghosts of the guilty.

Giant Warthog (Judgment)
Kev Walker

Trample

"When the Ancestor saw the cruelty her human children were capable of, Her fury shook the world. From this outburst sprang the warthogs." —Nomad myth

Kirtar's Wrath (Commander Anthology)
Kev Walker

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Threshold — If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, instead destroy all creatures, then create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying. Creatures destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Infernal Tutor (Ravnica Remastered)
Kev Walker

Reveal a card from your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Hellbent — If you have no cards in hand, instead search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Goblin Kaboomist (Magic 2015)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a colorless artifact token named Land Mine with "{R}, Sacrifice this token: This token deals 2 damage to target attacking creature without flying." Then flip a coin. If you lose the flip, this creature deals 2 damage to itself.

Designed by Stone Librande

Altered Ego (Shadows over Innistrad)
Kev Walker

This spell can't be countered. You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Geralf's Messenger (The List)
Kev Walker

This creature enters tapped. When this creature enters, target opponent loses 2 life. Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Silver Myr (Neon Dynasty Commander)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {U}.

The vedalken saw the myr as toys, unaware of the intelligence lurking behind their empty eyes.

Scion of the Wild (Modern Masters 2015)
Kev Walker

Scion of the Wild's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control.

It has a hundred thousand extinctions to avenge.

Demon (Duel Decks: Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis)
Kev Walker

Flying

Mortal's Ardor (Born of the Gods)
Kev Walker

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

"Such deeds should be common fare for such as us." —Anax, king of Akros

Clickslither (Legions)
Kev Walker

Haste Sacrifice a Goblin: This creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.

The least popular goblins get the outer caves.

Elvish Warrior (Morningtide)
Kev Walker

As graceful as a deer leaping a stream and as deadly as the wolf waiting in ambush on the other side, elvish warriors are the eyes of the forest as well as its unsheathed claws.

Kraul Harpooner (The List)
Kev Walker

Reach Undergrowth — When this creature enters, choose up to one target creature you don't control with flying. This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard, then you may have this creature fight that creature.

Krosan Colossus (Masters 25)
Kev Walker

Morph {6}{G}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

When it walked, it altered geography. When it bellowed, it changed the weather.

Phyrexian Plaguelord (Commander 2015)
Kev Walker

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"The final stage of the illness: delirium, convulsions, and death." —Phyrexian progress notes

Pegasus Refuge (Tempest)
Kev Walker

{2}, Discard a card: Create a 1/1 white Pegasus creature token with flying.

The first Rath-born pegasus was so offended by the sky that it hid its eyes in the earth. —Vec lore

Blessed Reincarnation (Dragons of Tarkir Promos)
Kev Walker

Exile target creature an opponent controls. That player reveals cards from the top of their library until a creature card is revealed. The player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles the rest into their library. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Promise of Power (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
Kev Walker

Choose one — • You draw five cards and you lose 5 life. • Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand. Entwine {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Devil (War of the Spark Tokens)
Kev Walker

When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target.

Air Elemental (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

Flying

"The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab." —Joseph Conrad, *The Mirror of the Sea*

Wit's End (Dissension)
Kev Walker

Target player discards their hand.

"Some images are so powerful that one glance burns them into your mind forever. Come, let us gaze on nothingness." —Szadek

Council's Judgment (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Kev Walker

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

When its power is threatened, the council speaks with a unified voice.

Deranged Hermit (Urza's Legacy)
Kev Walker

Echo {3}{G}{G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, create four 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens. Squirrel creatures get +1/+1.

Certain Death (Welcome Deck 2017)
Kev Walker

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Some spirits cling to one person, feasting on the growing fear until a final moment of all-consuming terror.

Preferred Selection (Mirage)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top two cards of your library. You may sacrifice this enchantment and pay {2}{G}{G}. If you do, put one of those cards into your hand. If you don't, put one of those cards on the bottom of your library.

Zephyr Sprite (Magic 2010)
Kev Walker

Flying

"I've never understood why so many beings lumber around on the ground. There are three dimensions, yet they use only two."

Blessed Reincarnation (Dragons of Tarkir)
Kev Walker

Exile target creature an opponent controls. That player reveals cards from the top of their library until a creature card is revealed. The player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles the rest into their library. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Emperor Crocodile (Urza's Destiny)
Kev Walker

When you control no other creatures, sacrifice this creature.

The king of Yavimaya's waters pays constant attention to his subjects . . . and thrives on their adulation.

Kitchen Finks (Mystery Booster 2)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Accept one favor from an ouphe, and you're doomed to accept another.

Ghosts of the Innocent (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Kev Walker

If a source would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals half that damage, rounded down, to that permanent or player instead.

"Ma said we should offer up blini-cakes and salt to the good ones, but I get that chill up my spine and just shut the door." —Otak, Tin Street shopkeep

Steadfastness (Portal)
Kev Walker

Creatures you control get +0/+3 until end of turn.

Brute force wins the battles. Conviction wins the wars.

Vulshok Battlemaster (Mirrodin)
Kev Walker

Haste When this creature enters, attach all Equipment on the battlefield to it. (Control of the Equipment doesn't change.)

"I could demonstrate how the leonin sunsplicer works, but then you'd be too dead to buy one."

Leap (Stronghold)
Kev Walker

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. Draw a card.

Mirri leapt quickly and silently. The guard died likewise.

Highway Robber (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

"Tonight, madam, it's your money *and* your life."

Conqueror's Pledge (Zendikar)
Kev Walker

Kicker {6} (You may pay an additional {6} as you cast this spell.) Create six 1/1 white Kor Soldier creature tokens. If this spell was kicked, create twelve of those tokens instead.

Lurking Nightstalker (Portal Second Age)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

The shadows know.

Telim'Tor's Edict (Mirage)
Kev Walker

Exile target permanent you own or control. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Execution awaits the dissenter." —Kasib ibn Naji, *Letters*

Bone Saw (The List)
Kev Walker

Equipped creature gets +1/+0. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Once a simple tool, it—like everything else on Zendikar—has been turned into a weapon against the Eldrazi.

Season's Beatings (Happy Holidays)
Kev Walker

Family gathering — Each creature target player controls deals damage equal to its power to another random creature that player controls.

Arriving home, he suddenly longed for the bloodsoaked battlefields behind him.

Volrath the Fallen (Nemesis)
Kev Walker

{1}{B}, Discard a creature card: Volrath gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the discarded card's mana value.

"I stepped out. I did not step down."

Sanguine Guard (Urza's Saga)
Kev Walker

First strike {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

"Father of Machines! Your filigree gaze carves us, and the scars dance upon our grateful flesh." —*Phyrexian Scriptures*

Hand of Cruelty (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Kev Walker

Protection from white Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

"The sword is just a tool. It is the samurai's hand that delivers death."

Loxodon Hierarch (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, you gain 4 life. {G}{W}, Sacrifice this creature: Regenerate each creature you control.

"I have lived long, and I remember how this city once was. If my death serves to bring back the Ravnica in my memory, then so be it."

Aether Snap (New Capenna Commander)
Kev Walker

Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.

"May you wake to find you were only ever a dream." —Mephidross curse

Late to Dinner (Modern Horizons 2)
Kev Walker

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

"I knew you were set in your ways, friend, but even I didn't expect you to keep our engagement, under the circumstances."

Loxodon Hierarch (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, you gain 4 life. {G}{W}, Sacrifice this creature: Regenerate each creature you control.

"I have lived long, and I remember how this city once was. If my death serves to bring back the Ravnica in my memory, then so be it."

Commander Greven il-Vec (Tempest)
Kev Walker

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When Commander Greven il-Vec enters, sacrifice a creature.

"Rage is the only freedom left me." —Greven *il*-Vec

Hand of Honor (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Kev Walker

Protection from black Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

"The sword is just a tool. It is the samurai's hand that brings it to life."

Skinthinner (Commander 2019)
Kev Walker

Morph {3}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Dwarven Demolition Team (Eighth Edition)
Kev Walker

{T}: Destroy target Wall.

Foolishly, Najib retreated to his castle at El-Abar; the next morning he was dead. In just one night, the dwarven forces had reduced the mighty walls to mere rubble.

Battleflight Eagle (Magic 2013)
Kev Walker

Flying When this creature enters, target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.

Eagles make fine mounts, but they're too proud to carry anyone for long.

Pugnacious Hammerskull (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks while you don't control another Dinosaur, put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

"I don't know whether it hates the mycoids or just loves breaking things. I say we leave it be." —Samin, Oltec scout

Roar of the Wurm (World Championship Decks 2002)
Kev Walker

Create a 6/6 green Wurm creature token. Flashback {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Clone (Magic 2014)
Kev Walker

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

He knows your strengths, your weaknesses, and the shape of that unfortunate birthmark on your backside.

Demon (Innistrad Tokens)
Kev Walker

Flying

Spirit Link (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

"We are all inextricably linked, souls woven in tapestry."

Villagers of Estwald (Innistrad)
Kev Walker

Dirge Bat (Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths)
Kev Walker

Mutate {4}{B}{B} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.) Flash Flying Whenever this creature mutates, destroy target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.

Carrion Imp (Ravnica Allegiance)
Kev Walker

Flying When this creature enters, you may exile target creature card from a graveyard. If you do, you gain 2 life.

No scrap of nutrition goes to waste in the undercity.

Slaughter Pact (Future Sight)
Kev Walker

Destroy target nonblack creature. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {2}{B}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Death is only the beginning of the end.

Vicious Kavu (Invasion)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

As battle raged in Shiv, a strange new ally appeared from below the ravaged ground.

Eladamri's Call (Masters 25)
Kev Walker

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

Tribal rivalries and petty disputes were laid aside at Eladamri's summons.

Dread Return (Dominaria Remastered)
Kev Walker

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Those who forget the horrors of the past are doomed to re-meet them.

Assassinate (Conspiracy)
Kev Walker

Destroy target tapped creature.

"This is how wars are won—not with armies of soldiers but with a single knife blade, artfully placed." —Yurin, royal assassin

Bludgeon Brawl (New Phyrexia)
Kev Walker

Each noncreature, non-Equipment artifact is an Equipment with equip {X} and "Equipped creature gets +X/+0," where X is that artifact's mana value.

Sanitarium Skeleton (Commander 2019)
Kev Walker

{2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

His mind was lost long before his flesh.

Veteran Armorer (Modern Masters)
Kev Walker

Other creatures you control get +0/+1.

"Give me a sword and I'll kill a few enemies. But give me a hammer and a fiery forge, and I'll turn the tide of battle."

Sandsower (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Kev Walker

Tap three untapped creatures you control: Tap target creature.

It drifts through the streets as a breeze of collective sighs, wilting the bustle with dreams and heavy eyelids.

Gold Myr (Mirrodin)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {W}.

The leonin thought of the myr as omens, never imagining the sinister fate they foretold.

Keldon Battlewagon (Prophecy)
Kev Walker

Trample This creature can't block. When this creature attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat. Tap an untapped creature you control: This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the power of the creature tapped this way.

Thelon of Havenwood (Time Spiral Remastered)
Kev Walker

Each Fungus creature gets +1/+1 for each spore counter on it. {B}{G}, Exile a Fungus card from a graveyard: Put a spore counter on each Fungus on the battlefield.

"The sight of my thallids still thriving is a bittersweet welcome to this cold waste."

Detention Sphere (Return to Ravnica)
Kev Walker

When this enchantment enters, you may exile target nonland permanent not named Detention Sphere and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Viridian Zealot (Darksteel)
Kev Walker

{1}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I will fight only the way nature intended—and nature intended us to win."

Kamahl, Pit Fighter (15th Anniversary Cards)
Kev Walker

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) {T}: Kamahl deals 3 damage to any target.

In times when freedom seems lost, great souls arise to reclaim it.

Kraul Harpooner (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Kev Walker

Reach Undergrowth — When this creature enters, choose up to one target creature you don't control with flying. This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard, then you may have this creature fight that creature.

Sengir Vampire (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Kev Walker

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.

Llanowar Elves (Magic 2011)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {G}.

One bone broken for every twig snapped underfoot. —Llanowar penalty for trespassing

Bronze Sword (Theros Beyond Death)
Kev Walker

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

Every strike of the smith's hammer infuses a sword with the determination of its creator.

Pillaging Horde (The List)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you discard a card at random.

Djinn of Wishes (Core Set 2019 Promos)
Kev Walker

Flying This creature enters with three wish counters on it. {2}{U}{U}, Remove a wish counter from this creature: Reveal the top card of your library. You may play that card without paying its mana cost. If you don't, exile it.

Phyrexian Revoker (Double Masters)
Kev Walker

As this creature enters, choose a nonland card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.

"To be in the presence of a revoker is to be truly alone." —Kara Vrist, Neurok agent

Foriysian Brigade (Weatherlight)
Kev Walker

This creature can block an additional creature each combat.

"A double-edged sword lets you cut down your enemies with the backswing as well." —Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Nimble Mongoose (Eternal Masters)
Kev Walker

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Threshold — This creature gets +2/+2 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

One thread connected all the travelers' stories: the ferocity of the mongoose.

Dragonspeaker Shaman (Commander 2017)
Kev Walker

Dragon spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.

"We speak the dragons' language of flame and rage. They speak our language of fury and honor. Together we shall weave a tale of destruction without equal."

Bump in the Night (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
Kev Walker

Target opponent loses 3 life. Flashback {5}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

It's not just the wind. It's not all in your head. And it's *definitely* something to worry about.

Obliterate (Eighth Edition)
Kev Walker

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and lands. They can't be regenerated.

"The enemy has been destroyed, sir. So have the forest, the city, your palace, your dog . . ." —Keldon soldier

Wizened Cenn (Lorwyn)
Kev Walker

Other Kithkin creatures you control get +1/+1.

"Thoughtweft binds us together as one, part of an intricate pattern that would unravel if even one thread came loose."

Chandra Nalaar (Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra)
Kev Walker

+1: Chandra Nalaar deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. −X: Chandra Nalaar deals X damage to target creature. −8: Chandra Nalaar deals 10 damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.

Krosan Tusker (Onslaught)
Kev Walker

Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Do this before you draw.)

Kavu Primarch (Dominaria Remastered)
Kev Walker

Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.) Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) If this creature was kicked, it enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.

Ire of Kaminari (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Kev Walker

Ire of Kaminari deals damage to any target equal to the number of Arcane cards in your graveyard.

"Thunder broke the brittle silence over the Araba. A surge of raw energy lifted the soldier's body into the air and briefly, in the heart of the flash, he saw the face of a god." —*Great Battles of Kamigawa*

Kira, Great Glass-Spinner (Modern Masters)
Kev Walker

Flying Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability."

Each spell is an intricate tapestry, and Kira is the great unraveler.

Inferno Titan (Commander 2013)
Kev Walker

{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, it deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

Spawning Kraken (Commander 2021)
Kev Walker

Whenever a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent you control deals combat damage to a player, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token.

"I never imagined I'd lay eyes on a creature that makes Gyruda look small and harmless!" —Lukka

Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer (Commander 2016)
Kev Walker

Sacrifice an artifact: Target artifact gains indestructible until end of turn.

"I used to joke that he had been exiled for being too smart. Now I know why he never laughed." —Glissa Sunseeker

Jwari Shapeshifter (The List)
Kev Walker

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any Ally creature on the battlefield.

"The best expedition would be an entire team of me."

Patron of the Nezumi (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Kev Walker

Rat offering (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant by sacrificing a Rat and paying the difference in mana costs between this and the sacrificed Rat. Mana cost includes color.) Whenever a permanent is put into an opponent's graveyard, that player loses 1 life.

Feral Krushok (Fate Reforged)
Kev Walker

In a stunning act of diplomacy, Yasova Dragonclaw ceded a portion of Temur lands to the Sultai. Her clan protested until they saw she had given the Sultai the breeding grounds of the krushoks. They hadn't realized she had a sense of humor.

Silver Myr (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {U}.

The vedalken saw the myr as toys, unaware of the intelligence lurking behind their empty eyes.

Sky Hussar (RNA Guild Kit)
Kev Walker

Flying When this creature enters, untap all creatures you control. Forecast — Tap two untapped white and/or blue creatures you control, Reveal this card from your hand: Draw a card. (Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Inferno Titan (Commander 2015)
Kev Walker

{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, it deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

Angel's Trumpet (Urza's Legacy)
Kev Walker

All creatures have vigilance. At the beginning of each player's end step, tap all untapped creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. This artifact deals damage to the player equal to the number of creatures tapped this way.

Llanowar Elves (Duel Decks Anthology: Elves vs. Goblins)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {G}.

One bone broken for every twig snapped underfoot. —Llanowar penalty for trespassing

Master of the Wild Hunt (Jumpstart 2022)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token. {T}: Tap all untapped Wolf creatures you control. Each Wolf tapped this way deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power divided as its controller chooses among any number of those Wolves.

Phyrexian Plaguelord (Urza's Legacy)
Kev Walker

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"The final stage of the illness: delirium, convulsions, and death." —Phyrexian progress notes

Pugnacious Hammerskull (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Kev Walker

Whenever this creature attacks while you don't control another Dinosaur, put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

"I don't know whether it hates the mycoids or just loves breaking things. I say we leave it be." —Samin, Oltec scout

Oblivion Crown (Future Sight)
Kev Walker

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "Discard a card: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn."

Orc Sureshot (The List)
Kev Walker

Whenever another creature you control enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Words have yet to halt an arrow."

Assassinate (Planechase Anthology)
Kev Walker

Destroy target tapped creature.

"This is how wars are won—not with armies of soldiers but with a single knife blade, artfully placed." —Yurin, royal assassin

Dragonspeaker Shaman (Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons)
Kev Walker

Dragon spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.

"We speak the dragons' language of flame and rage. They speak our language of fury and honor. Together we shall weave a tale of destruction without equal."

Copper Myr (Planechase)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {G}.

The elves thought of the myr as minor threats, just as the myr thought of the elves.

Llanowar Behemoth (Ninth Edition)
Kev Walker

Tap an untapped creature you control: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Most people can't build decent weapons out of stone or steel. Trust the elves to do it with only mud and vines." —Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Refocus (Fate Reforged)
Kev Walker

Untap target creature. Draw a card.

"Before you can open your third eye, you must prove you can open the first two."

Watchwolf (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Kev Walker

Only in Ravnica do the wolves watch the flock.

Kitchen Finks (Shadowmoor)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Accept one favor from an ouphe, and you're doomed to accept another.

Personal Incarnation (Fifth Edition)
Kev Walker

{0}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn is dealt to its owner instead. Only this creature's owner may activate this ability. When this creature dies, its owner loses half their life, rounded up.

Phyrexian Tyranny (Double Masters 2022)
Kev Walker

Whenever a player draws a card, that player loses 2 life unless they pay {2}.

"He is Yawgmoth's reward to me. I shall kill him a hundred times a day." —Crovax, to Ertai

Fleshtaker (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt)
Kev Walker

Whenever you sacrifice another creature, you gain 1 life and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {1}, Sacrifice another creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

A soulless husk of endless hunger.

Rancor (Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Hatred outlives the hateful.

Swamp (European Land Program)
Kev Walker

({T}: Add {B}.)

Looming Shade (Seventh Edition)
Kev Walker

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

On darkness feeding, in nightmares breeding.

Kirtar's Wrath (Commander 2013)
Kev Walker

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Threshold — If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, instead destroy all creatures, then create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying. Creatures destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Approach of the Second Sun (Pioneer Challenger Decks 2021)
Kev Walker

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Council's Judgment (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Kev Walker

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

When its power is threatened, the council speaks with a unified voice.

Llanowar Elves (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

{T}: Add {G}.

One bone broken for every twig snapped underfoot. —Llanowar penalty for trespassing

Spirit Link (Dominaria Remastered)
Kev Walker

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

"We are all inextricably linked, souls woven in tapestry."

Spawning Kraken (Commander 2021)
Kev Walker

Whenever a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent you control deals combat damage to a player, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token.

Chainer, Dementia Master (Dominaria Remastered)
Kev Walker

All Nightmares get +1/+1. {B}{B}{B}, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types. When Chainer leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Eastern Paladin (Seventh Edition)
Kev Walker

{B}{B}, {T}: Destroy target green creature.

"There is no worse enemy. His passion for death doesn't just border on insanity, it wallows in it." —The Southern Paladin

Half-Orc, Half- (Unstable)
Kev Walker

Trample At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent was dealt damage this turn, Augment {1}{R}{R} ({1}{R}{R}, Reveal this card from your hand: Combine it with target host. Augment only as a sorcery.)

Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer (The Brothers' War Commander)
Kev Walker

Sacrifice an artifact: Target artifact gains indestructible until end of turn.

"I used to joke that he had been exiled for being too smart. Now I know why he never laughed." —Glissa Sunseeker

Mortal's Ardor (The List)
Kev Walker

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

"Such deeds should be common fare for such as us." —Anax, king of Akros

Spirit (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
Kev Walker

Flying

Strider Harness (Oath of the Gatewatch)
Kev Walker

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has haste. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"Sometimes being fast is as important as being smart." —Ryza, Oran-Rief scout

Scrapskin Drake (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
Kev Walker

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

"The cathars killed my skaabs down below. Let's see how high their swords can reach." —Ludevic, necro-alchemist

Phyrexian Revoker (Magic 2015)
Kev Walker

As this creature enters, choose a nonland card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.

"To be in the presence of a revoker is to be truly alone." —Kara Vrist, Neurok agent

Energy Chamber (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact creature. • Put a charge counter on target noncreature artifact.

Scathe Zombies (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

"They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise." —Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Feebleness (Time Spiral)
Kev Walker

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Just a small touch of magic can harness the debilitating power of Urborg's poisonous winds.

Roar of the Wurm (Odyssey)
Kev Walker

Create a 6/6 green Wurm creature token. Flashback {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Whirlpool Warrior (Apocalypse)
Kev Walker

When this creature enters, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards. {R}, Sacrifice this creature: Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.

Vampire Hounds (Exodus)
Kev Walker

Discard a creature card: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

The hounds' barks are a horrifying chorus of screams, moans, and whispers.

Witch Engine (Urza's Saga)
Kev Walker

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) {T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}. Target opponent gains control of this creature. (Activate only as an instant.)

Keeper of Progenitus (Shards of Alara)
Kev Walker

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

He watches over the valley where Progenitus sleeps, culling signs from its steaming breaths.

Grave Pact (Commander Masters)
Kev Walker

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

As the ritual neared its climax, the exultant cultists waited with bated breath, unaware of the looming consequences of the scroll's translation error.

Dominus of Fealty (The List)
Kev Walker

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, you may gain control of target permanent until end of turn. If you do, untap it and it gains haste until end of turn.

"Nothing is truly your own. It is his, whether you know it or not." —*The Seer's Parables*

Doomwake Giant (Commander 2015)
Kev Walker

Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Crippling fear precedes it. A foul stench accompanies it. Death follows in its wake.

Crossbow Ambush (Stronghold)
Kev Walker

Creatures you control gain reach until end of turn. (They can block creatures with flying.)

There is no drake that flies faster than a crossbow bolt. —Vec saying

Goblin Kaboomist (The List)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a colorless artifact token named Land Mine with "{R}, Sacrifice this token: This token deals 2 damage to target attacking creature without flying." Then flip a coin. If you lose the flip, this creature deals 2 damage to itself.

Designed by Stone Librande

Pyromancer Ascension (The List)
Kev Walker

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that has the same name as a card in your graveyard, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell while this enchantment has two or more quest counters on it, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Rakdos Pit Dragon (Ravnica Remastered)
Kev Walker

{R}{R}: This creature gains flying until end of turn. {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Hellbent — This creature has double strike as long as you have no cards in hand.

Mycologist (Time Spiral Remastered)
Kev Walker

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature. Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. Sacrifice a Saproling: You gain 2 life.

Rite of Passage (Fifth Dawn)
Kev Walker

Whenever a creature you control is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it. (It must survive the damage to get the counter.)

Every scar is a lesson, every battle a test of what you have learned.

Rakdos Pit Dragon (RNA Guild Kit)
Kev Walker

{R}{R}: This creature gains flying until end of turn. {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Hellbent — This creature has double strike as long as you have no cards in hand.

Ambuscade (Hour of Devastation)
Kev Walker

Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature an opponent controls.

"Spent a lifetime learning from predators. Picked up a few tricks."

Foul Imp (Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic)
Kev Walker

Flying When this creature enters, you lose 2 life.

The imp, unaware of its own odor, paused to catch its breath . . . and promptly died.

Destructive Revelry (Theros)
Kev Walker

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Destructive Revelry deals 2 damage to that permanent's controller.

"Stoke a fire hot enough and you'll never run out of things to burn." —Xenagos, the Reveler

Splatter Thug (Iconic Masters)
Kev Walker

First strike Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

The mask isn't meant to hide his identity. It's meant to keep the viscera out of his eyes.

Puppeteer (Tenth Edition)
Kev Walker

{U}, {T}: You may tap or untap target creature.

"That's the funny thing about free will. You don't feel any different without it." —Ambassador Laquatus

Void (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Kev Walker

Choose a number. Destroy all artifacts and creatures with mana value equal to that number. Then target player reveals their hand and discards all nonland cards with mana value equal to the number.

Asphyxiate (Born of the Gods)
Kev Walker

Destroy target untapped creature.

"Some poisons enter through the blood. Some are ingested. Some are inhaled. All ways through which mortals draw strength are paths for poison." —Agathe, priest of Pharika

Llanowar (Planechase Planes)
Kev Walker

All creatures have "{T}: Add {G}{G}." Whenever chaos ensues, untap all creatures you control.

Abolish (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
Kev Walker

You may discard a Plains card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

As war raged on, the young mages became more direct in their tactics, often at great cost.