Accorder's Shield

Accorder's Shield (Scars of Mirrodin)
Alan Pollack

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.) Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

An Auriok shield is polished to a mirror finish even on the inside, enabling its bearer to watch foes ahead and behind.

Accorder's Shield (Magic 2014)
Alan Pollack

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.) Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

An Auriok shield is polished to a mirror finish even on the inside, enabling its bearer to watch foes ahead and behind.

Spikeshot Goblin (Mirrodin)
Alan Pollack

{R}, {T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to any target.

The path of a goblin shaman is a journey through a thousand ways of hurting people.

Wurm's Tooth (Magic 2012)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may gain 1 life.

Jevna Nor lugged it around, bragging of his triumph over the wurm. Luckily, the tavern regulars didn't notice it was only a baby tooth.

Forest (World Championship Decks 2001)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {G}.)

Spineless Thug (Seventh Edition)
Alan Pollack

This creature can't block.

What it lacks in backbone, it makes up for in cruelty.

Blade of Selves (Commander 2015)
Alan Pollack

Equipped creature has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Equip {4}

Swamp (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {B}.)

Mirror of Fate (Magic 2010)
Alan Pollack

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Choose up to seven face-up exiled cards you own. Exile all the cards from your library, then put the chosen cards on top of your library.

As the glass shattered, forgotten realities and dead memories came flooding back.

Angel's Feather (Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may gain 1 life.

If taken, it cuts the hand that clutches it. If given, it heals the hand that holds it.

Demon's Horn (Magic 2012)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Its curve mimics the twists of life and death.

Mask of Memory (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Alan Pollack

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Golden Wish (Judgment)
Alan Pollack

You may reveal an artifact or enchantment card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand. Exile Golden Wish.

She wished for nobility, but not for a nation to honor it.

Ambush Viper (Commander Legends)
Alan Pollack

Flash Deathtouch

"Living creatures seldom impress me. But I like this one." —Uta Falkenrath

Rampant Elephant (Invasion)
Alan Pollack

{G}: Target creature blocks this creature this turn if able.

No matter how righteous the cause, it helps to bring along some muscle.

Shimmering Grotto (Lorwyn)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Once each year, the sun's rays reach the hidden chamber of Velis Vel, and the changelings congregate from afar to bathe in the ever-shifting light.

Palladium Myr (Iconic Masters)
Alan Pollack

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

The myr are like the Glimmervoid: blank canvases on which to build grand creations.

Fierce Empath (Scourge)
Alan Pollack

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with mana value 6 or greater, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Waning Wurm (Planar Chaos)
Alan Pollack

Vanishing 2 (This creature enters with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)

Prismatic Lens (Explorers of Ixalan)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

It bends not light but mana, aligning its chaotic currents into the sharp angles necessary for the mystic's purposes.

Tainted Isle (Planechase Anthology)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Mask of Memory (Commander 2014)
Alan Pollack

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Kraken's Eye (Magic 2012)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may gain 1 life.

It's seen the wonders of entire worlds trapped in the depths of a bottomless ocean.

Wurm's Tooth (Darksteel)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may gain 1 life.

A wurm knows nothing of deception. If it opens its mouth, it plans to eat you.

Palladium Myr (Commander 2014)
Alan Pollack

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

The myr are like the Glimmervoid: blank canvases on which to build grand creations.

Votary of the Conclave (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Alan Pollack

{2}{G}: Regenerate this creature.

An ageless order, the votaries receive the gift of rejuvenation from the temple gardens they guard.

Tainted Isle (Torment)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Karona's Zealot (Masters 25)
Alan Pollack

Morph {3}{W}{W} (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, all damage that would be dealt to it this turn is dealt to target creature instead.

Palladium Myr (Commander Masters)
Alan Pollack

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

The myr are like the Glimmervoid: blank canvases on which to build grand creations.

Cateran Summons (Mercadian Masques)
Alan Pollack

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

Even when recruitment is slow, the guild can always cook something up.

Circle of Protection: Green (Seventh Edition)
Alan Pollack

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

Dragon's Claw (Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.

Though no longer attached to the hand, it still holds its adversary in its grasp.

Lumbering Satyr (Mercadian Masques)
Alan Pollack

All creatures have forestwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

The satyr carves the path that all of Rushwood follows. —Cho-Arrim saying

Recoil (Dominaria Remastered)
Alan Pollack

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Then that player discards a card.

Anything sent into a plagued world is bound to come back infected.

Scale of Chiss-Goria (Mirrodin)
Alan Pollack

Flash Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) {T}: Target creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Wurm's Tooth (Ninth Edition)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may gain 1 life.

A wurm knows nothing of deception. If it opens its mouth, it plans to eat you.

Island (World Championship Decks 2002)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {U}.)

Fierce Empath (Secret Lair Drop)
Alan Pollack

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with mana value 6 or greater, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"Here, kitty, kitty, kitty . . ."

Power Matrix (Mystery Booster 2)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains flying, first strike, and trample until end of turn.

As he repaired the ship's planeswalking engine, Karn saw for the first time how he could catalyze the *Weatherlight*'s evolution.

Ivory Cup (Seventh Edition)
Alan Pollack

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

Blessed by a thousand prayers.

Matsu-Tribe Decoy (Champions of Kamigawa)
Alan Pollack

{2}{G}: Target creature blocks this creature this turn if able. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, tap that creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Flowstone Channeler (Time Spiral)
Alan Pollack

{1}{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Target creature gets +1/-1 and gains haste until end of turn.

With the evincars gone, flowstone became erratic and wild, a source of power for mages more desperate than wise.

Elder Druid (Seventh Edition)
Alan Pollack

{3}{G}, {T}: You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

"I may seem wise to you, but I'm merely a sapling among mighty oaks."

Firescreamer (Invasion)
Alan Pollack

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

In the dark, it's nearly invisible—until it exhales.

Accorder's Shield (Scars of Mirrodin)
Alan Pollack

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.) Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

An Auriok shield is polished to a mirror finish even on the inside, enabling its bearer to watch foes ahead and behind.

Demon's Horn (Ninth Edition)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Its curve mimics the twists of life and death.

Palladium Myr (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Alan Pollack

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

The myr are like the Glimmervoid: blank canvases on which to build grand creations.

Dunerider Outlaw (Planar Chaos)
Alan Pollack

Protection from green At the beginning of each end step, if this creature dealt damage to an opponent this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Tales of the outlaw's cruelty and might grew more embellished with each crime.

Sigil of Distinction (Shards of Alara)
Alan Pollack

This Equipment enters with X charge counters on it. Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on this Equipment. Equip—Remove a charge counter from this Equipment.

Abandon Hope (Tempest)
Alan Pollack

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Look at target opponent's hand and choose X cards from it. That player discards those cards.

As Gerrard's form vanished into the maw of trees, Hanna mouthed a silent plea, mourning a crushed dream.

Ambush Viper (Innistrad)
Alan Pollack

Flash Deathtouch

"Living creatures seldom impress me. But I like this one." —Uta Falkenrath

Fugue (Seventh Edition)
Alan Pollack

Target player discards three cards.

"It's hard to keep our own troops from fleeing when he's like this. How can our foes possibly stand against him?" —Field marshal for the Eastern Paladin

Beacon of Unrest (Tenth Edition)
Alan Pollack

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

A vertical scream pierces the night air and echoes doom through the clouds.

Read the Runes (Commander 2016)
Alan Pollack

Draw X cards. For each card drawn this way, discard a card unless you sacrifice a permanent.

"The world is a puzzle, and the mind is its key."

Dragon's Claw (Magic 2010)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.

Though no longer attached to the hand, it still holds its adversary in its grasp.

Long-Forgotten Gohei (Modern Masters 2015)
Alan Pollack

Arcane spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Spirit creatures you control get +1/+1.

Long ago, the priests would wave the gohei to call down the gods. Now it lies forgotten, but the spirits still feel its pull.

Phantom Wurm (Time Spiral Remastered)
Alan Pollack

This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature.

It died with the forest, yet both linger on in twisted form.

Elder Pine of Jukai (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Alan Pollack

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Soulshift 2 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Champion's Helm (Commander Masters)
Alan Pollack

Equipped creature gets +2/+2. As long as equipped creature is legendary, it has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Tainted Isle (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Iron Myr (The List)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {R}.

The myr are like rusted metal: gleaming purpose hidden by a thin disguise of debris.

Snapback (Time Spiral)
Alan Pollack

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Return target creature to its owner's hand.

"If it returns years hence, our knowledge of how to combat it will be that much greater." —Andorel, Tolarian sentinel

Wurm's Tooth (Magic 2011)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may gain 1 life.

"The great wurm bit down on me. Instead of being crunched bloody, I slid into the space where its tooth was missing. One tooth—a boon most potent, indeed." —*The Tall Tales of Oleander*

Crystal Quarry (Dominaria United Commander)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {5}, {T}: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}.

"How tragic that greed eclipses beauty." —Seton, centaur druid

Palladium Myr (The List)
Alan Pollack

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

The myr are like the Glimmervoid: blank canvases on which to build grand creations.

Bonethorn Valesk (Scourge)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a permanent is turned face up, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Barbarians weave its spurs into ceremonial charms to proclaim their hardiness in battle.

Beacon of Unrest (Archenemy)
Alan Pollack

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

A vertical scream pierces the night air and echoes doom through the clouds.

Swamp (Magic 2012)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {B}.)

Angel's Feather (Ninth Edition)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may gain 1 life.

If taken, it cuts the hand that clutches it. If given, it heals the hand that holds it.

Plains (Odyssey)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {W}.)

Wirewood Channeler (Kaldheim Commander)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of Elves on the battlefield.

"Your words are meaningless. The rustling of leaves is the only language that makes any sense."

Bamboozle (Odyssey)
Alan Pollack

Target player reveals the top four cards of their library. You choose two of those cards and put them into that player's graveyard. Put the rest on top of their library in any order.

Soldier (Shards of Alara Tokens)
Alan Pollack

Traveler's Amulet (Innistrad Remastered)
Alan Pollack

{1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

The rider set off into the eerie mist, swaddled in armor and laden with amulets.

Story Circle (Ninth Edition)
Alan Pollack

As this enchantment enters, choose a color. {W}: The next time a source of your choice of the chosen color would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Sudden Spoiling (Commander 2014)
Alan Pollack

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Plague Wind (Eighth Edition)
Alan Pollack

Destroy all creatures you don't control. They can't be regenerated.

"The second wind of ascension is Reaver, slaying the unworthy." —*Keld Triumphant*

Timberland Ruins (Odyssey)
Alan Pollack

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Add one mana of any color.

Plaxmanta (The List)
Alan Pollack

Flash When this creature enters, creatures you control gain shroud until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.) When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless {G} was spent to cast it.

Tainted Isle (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Dragon's Claw (Tenth Edition)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.

Though no longer attached to the hand, it still holds its adversary in its grasp.

Akki Drillmaster (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

"What part of 'hayaku ikee!' did you not understand?"

Skeletal Changeling (The List)
Alan Pollack

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Though they lack true flesh and bone of their own, changelings imitate either with equal ease.

Ghoul's Feast (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Alan Pollack

Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Mercadians not wealthy enough to buy a tomb are thrown into a bog called "the Ghoul's Larder."

Arcbound Hybrid (Darksteel)
Alan Pollack

Haste Modular 2 (This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Angel's Feather (Magic 2012)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may gain 1 life.

The angel represents divine perfection; even the smallest feather is imbued with beauty and benevolence.

Read the Runes (The List)
Alan Pollack

Draw X cards. For each card drawn this way, discard a card unless you sacrifice a permanent.

"The world is a puzzle, and the mind is its key."

Prismatic Lens (Time Spiral Remastered)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

It bends not light but mana, aligning its chaotic currents into the sharp angles necessary for the mystic's purposes.

Noggin Whack (Morningtide)
Alan Pollack

Prowl {1}{B} (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Rogue.) Target player reveals three cards from their hand. You choose two of them. That player discards those cards.

Forest (World Championship Decks 2001)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {G}.)

Desolation Giant (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Alan Pollack

Kicker {W}{W} (You may pay an additional {W}{W} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, destroy all other creatures you control. If it was kicked, destroy all other creatures instead.

Scavenged Weaponry (Invasion)
Alan Pollack

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

"The Phyrexians have progressed," admired Urza. "Their parts are interchangeable."

Mask of Memory (Planechase)
Alan Pollack

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Deftblade Elite (The List)
Alan Pollack

Provoke (Whenever this creature attacks, you may have target creature defending player controls untap and block it if able.) {1}{W}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by this creature this turn.

Fierce Empath (Archenemy)
Alan Pollack

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with mana value 6 or greater, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sudden Spoiling (Time Spiral)
Alan Pollack

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Deepwood Ghoul (Eighth Edition)
Alan Pollack

Pay 2 life: Regenerate this creature.

They feed on the living to stay undead.

Vigean Graftmage (Dissension)
Alan Pollack

Graft 2 (This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) {1}{U}: Untap target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Terrain Generator (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Waste Away (Torment)
Alan Pollack

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Chainer's insanity touched nearly every living thing—including viruses.

Palladium Myr (Scars of Mirrodin)
Alan Pollack

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

The myr are like the Glimmervoid: blank canvases on which to build grand creations.

Grifter's Blade (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Alan Pollack

Flash As this Equipment enters, choose a creature you control it could be attached to. If you do, it enters attached to that creature. Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Equip {1}

Read the Runes (Onslaught)
Alan Pollack

Draw X cards. For each card drawn this way, discard a card unless you sacrifice a permanent.

"The world is a puzzle, and the mind is its key."

Kraken's Eye (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may gain 1 life.

Bright as a mirror, dark as the sea.

Nether Spirit (Mercadian Masques)
Alan Pollack

At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is the only creature card in your graveyard, you may return this card to the battlefield.

It roams in both the worlds of the living and the dead but belongs to neither.

Overrule (Dissension)
Alan Pollack

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. You gain X life.

With one commanding word, the spell was put down and a fine collected for its casting.

Shapesharer (Lorwyn)
Alan Pollack

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {2}{U}: Target Shapeshifter becomes a copy of target creature until your next turn.

One good mimic deserves another.

Neurok Hoversail (Mirrodin)
Alan Pollack

Equipped creature has flying. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Rhystic Circle (Prophecy)
Alan Pollack

{1}: Any player may pay {1}. If no one does, the next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

The circle buys time—an important commodity in battle.

Cephalid Scout (Odyssey)
Alan Pollack

Flying {2}{U}, Sacrifice a land: Draw a card.

The more they survey the dreadful dry expanses, the more the cephalids thirst to tame them.

Dunerider Outlaw (Time Spiral Remastered)
Alan Pollack

Protection from green At the beginning of each end step, if this creature dealt damage to an opponent this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Tales of the outlaw's cruelty and might grew more embellished with each crime.

Circle of Protection: Green (Seventh Edition)
Alan Pollack

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

Dragon's Claw (Ninth Edition)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.

Though no longer attached to the hand, it still holds its adversary in its grasp.

Plains (World Championship Decks 2002)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {W}.)

Story Circle (Eighth Edition)
Alan Pollack

As this enchantment enters, choose a color. {W}: The next time a source of your choice of the chosen color would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Ghoul's Feast (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Alan Pollack

クリーチャー１体を対象とする。それはターン終了時まで＋X/＋０の修整を受ける。Ｘはあなたの墓地にあるクリーチャー・カードの総数に等しい。

メルカディア人の中で貧乏で墓が買えない者は、｢食屍鬼の食料品室｣と呼ばれている沼地へ放り込まれる。

Kraken's Eye (Magic 2011)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may gain 1 life.

It's seen the wonders of entire worlds trapped in the depths of a bottomless ocean.

Golem's Heart (DCI Promos)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts an artifact spell, you may gain 1 life.

The heart of a golem gives life to more than just the iron husk around it.

Porphyry Nodes (Time Spiral Remastered)
Alan Pollack

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy the creature with the least power. It can't be regenerated. If two or more creatures are tied for least power, you choose one of them. When there are no creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.

Demon's Horn (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Its curve mimics the twists of life and death.

Gold Myr (Scars of Mirrodin)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {W}.

The myr are like razorgrass: numberless metal figures, reflecting each other's light.

Kraken's Eye (Darksteel)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may gain 1 life.

Bright as a mirror, dark as the sea.

Island (World Championship Decks 2002)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {U}.)

Outrider of Jhess (Shards of Alara)
Alan Pollack

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

The island nation of Jhess is under constant siege from Valeron on the mainland. Riders traverse the coastline, always on the lookout for sails or aven.

Wall of Bone (Seventh Edition)
Alan Pollack

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {B}: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

A skeletal wall, strengthened by the souls of traitors, rings the city of the Eastern Paladin.

Spontaneous Generation (Mercadian Masques)
Alan Pollack

Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each card in your hand.

Saprolings always thrive on the ruins of others, and Mercadia ruins more than most.

Prismatic Lens (Eternal Masters)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

It bends not light but mana, aligning its chaotic currents into the sharp angles necessary for the mystic's purposes.

Swamp (Premium Deck Series: Graveborn)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {B}.)

Cephalid Constable (Tenth Edition)
Alan Pollack

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, return up to that many target permanents that player controls to their owner's hand.

Cephalids don't police people. They police loyalties.

Plague Wind (Ninth Edition)
Alan Pollack

Destroy all creatures you don't control. They can't be regenerated.

"The second wind of ascension is Reaver, slaying the unworthy." —*Keld Triumphant*

Rejuvenation Chamber (Nemesis)
Alan Pollack

Fading 2 (This artifact enters with two fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) {T}: You gain 2 life.

Silver Drake (Planeshift)
Alan Pollack

Flying When this creature enters, return a white or blue creature you control to its owner's hand.

Run Wild (Onslaught)
Alan Pollack

Until end of turn, target creature gains trample and "{G}: Regenerate this creature."

Wirewood's beasts didn't seem to mind when the elves moved in. In fact, they hardly noticed them underfoot.

Skittish Valesk (Onslaught)
Alan Pollack

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, turn this creature face down. Morph {5}{R} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Wurm's Tooth (Salvat 2011)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may gain 1 life.

Demon's Horn (Tenth Edition)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Its curve mimics the twists of life and death.

Wirewood Channeler (Legions)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of Elves on the battlefield.

"Your words are meaningless. The rustling of leaves is the only language that makes any sense."

Sudden Impact (Tempest)
Alan Pollack

Sudden Impact deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

The *Predator* roared like an unruly beast, and the *Weatherlight* suddenly listed. "No!" screamed Hanna.

Wheel and Deal (Onslaught)
Alan Pollack

Any number of target opponents each discard their hands, then draw seven cards. Draw a card.

Treetop Scout (Scourge)
Alan Pollack

This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying.

At home among the swaying, supple branches of the treetops, some scouts live their entire lives never touching ground.

Angel's Feather (Magic 2011)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may gain 1 life.

If taken, it cuts the hand that clutches it. If given, it heals the hand that holds it.

Traveler's Amulet (Innistrad)
Alan Pollack

{1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

The rider set off into the eerie mist, swaddled in armor and laden with amulets.

Sokenzan Renegade (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Alan Pollack

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if a player has more cards in hand than each other player, the player who has the most cards in hand gains control of this creature.

Eye of Nowhere (Champions of Kamigawa)
Alan Pollack

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

"Once we prayed to the kaijin for safe voyage. Now we only pray that we can escape their gaze." —Hayato, master sailor

Plaxmanta (Commander 2015)
Alan Pollack

Flash When this creature enters, creatures you control gain shroud until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.) When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless {G} was spent to cast it.

Hobble (Planeshift)
Alan Pollack

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature can't attack. Enchanted creature can't block if it's black.

Goliath Spider (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Alan Pollack

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

The glittering strands of its complex web catch everything from a buzzing gnat to a passing bloatdrake.

Silver Myr (Scars of Mirrodin)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {U}.

The myr are like quicksilver: malleable in function and adaptable in form.

Prismatic Lens (Time Spiral)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

It bends not light but mana, aligning its chaotic currents into the sharp angles necessary for the mystic's purposes.

Spikeshot Goblin (Commander Masters)
Alan Pollack

{R}, {T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to any target.

The path of a goblin shaman is a journey through a thousand ways of hurting people.

Angel's Feather (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may gain 1 life.

If taken, it cuts the hand that clutches it. If given, it heals the hand that holds it.

Dega Disciple (Apocalypse)
Alan Pollack

{B}, {T}: Target creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn. {R}, {T}: Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

"There is no true equity of power. There is only more and less."

Plains (Modern Horizons 2)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {W}.)

Nova Cleric (The List)
Alan Pollack

{2}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy all enchantments.

"Our noblest thoughts are our very first and our very last."

Beacon of Unrest (Fifth Dawn)
Alan Pollack

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

A vertical scream pierces the night air and echoes doom through the clouds.

Forest (Invasion)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {G}.)

Nightshade Assassin (Time Spiral Remastered)
Alan Pollack

First strike When this creature enters, you may reveal X black cards in your hand. If you do, target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Whirlpool Drake (Apocalypse)
Alan Pollack

Flying When this creature enters, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards. When this creature dies, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

Demon's Horn (Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Its curve mimics the twists of life and death.

Woodripper (Nemesis)
Alan Pollack

Fading 3 (This creature enters with three fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) {1}, Remove a fade counter from this creature: Destroy target artifact.

Kraken's Eye (Magic 2010)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may gain 1 life.

Bright as a mirror, dark as the sea.

Plague Wind (Masters 25)
Alan Pollack

Destroy all creatures you don't control. They can't be regenerated.

"The second wind of ascension is Reaver, slaying the unworthy." —*Keld Triumphant*

Decree of Justice (Judge Gift Cards 2007)
Alan Pollack

Create X 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying. Cycling {2}{W} ({2}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may pay {X}. If you do, create X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Orcish Bloodpainter (Coldsnap)
Alan Pollack

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Blood calls to blood.

Island (Odyssey)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {U}.)

Angel's Feather (Tenth Edition)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may gain 1 life.

If taken, it cuts the hand that clutches it. If given, it heals the hand that holds it.

Urborg Skeleton (Invasion)
Alan Pollack

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.) {B}: Regenerate this creature. If this creature was kicked, it enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Forest (Invasion)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {G}.)

Terrain Generator (Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Deepwood Ghoul (Mercadian Masques)
Alan Pollack

Pay 2 life: Regenerate this creature.

They feed on the living to stay undead.

Prismatic Lens (Commander 2018)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

It bends not light but mana, aligning its chaotic currents into the sharp angles necessary for the mystic's purposes.

Cytoshape (Dissension)
Alan Pollack

Choose a nonlegendary creature on the battlefield. Target creature becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn.

"Though highly effective at reshaping flesh, these specially bred cytoplasts leave the subject reeking of omnibian mucus." —Simic research notes

Wirewood Channeler (The List)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of Elves on the battlefield.

"Your words are meaningless. The rustling of leaves is the only language that makes any sense."

Read the Runes (Jumpstart)
Alan Pollack

Draw X cards. For each card drawn this way, discard a card unless you sacrifice a permanent.

"The world is a puzzle, and the mind is its key."

Sea's Claim (Onslaught)
Alan Pollack

Enchant land (Target a land as you cast this. This card enters attached to that land.) Enchanted land is an Island.

"My vengeance will drown my enemies as my storms drown the desert." —Ixidor, reality sculptor

Improvised Armor (Onslaught)
Alan Pollack

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+5. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"I trust what I make for myself. Do you trust more what is made for you by another?"

Nightshade Assassin (Time Spiral)
Alan Pollack

First strike When this creature enters, you may reveal X black cards in your hand. If you do, target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Tainted Isle (Midnight Hunt Commander)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Overrule (Duel Decks: Venser vs. Koth)
Alan Pollack

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. You gain X life.

With one commanding word, the spell was put down and a fine collected for its casting.

Nova Cleric (Onslaught)
Alan Pollack

{2}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy all enchantments.

"Our noblest thoughts are our very first and our very last."

Dragon's Claw (Darksteel)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.

Though no longer attached to the hand, it still holds its adversary in its grasp.

Crystal Quarry (Odyssey)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {5}, {T}: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}.

"How tragic that greed eclipses beauty." —Seton, centaur druid

Dragon's Claw (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.

Though no longer attached to the hand, it still holds its adversary in its grasp.

Profane Prayers (Onslaught)
Alan Pollack

Profane Prayers deals X damage to any target and you gain X life, where X is the number of Clerics on the battlefield.

"We have ways to make you talk, but you have nothing interesting to say."

Swamp (Odyssey)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {B}.)

Mouth to Mouth (Unhinged)
Alan Pollack

Choose target opponent and target creature they control. You and that player have a breath-holding contest. If you win, you gain control of that creature.

Interesting tidbit: Surveys show that the card Ow has one of the most popular pieces of flavor text in the *Unglued* expansion.

Zombify (Magic Player Rewards 2006)
Alan Pollack

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Copper Myr (Scars of Mirrodin)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {G}.

The myr are like verdigris: an ever-present patina on the surface of a metal world.

Plague Wind (Tenth Edition)
Alan Pollack

Destroy all creatures you don't control. They can't be regenerated.

Island (World Championship Decks 2002)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {U}.)

Nether Spirit (World Championship Decks 2001)
Alan Pollack

At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is the only creature card in your graveyard, you may return this card to the battlefield.

It roams in both the worlds of the living and the dead but belongs to neither.

Recoil (Invasion)
Alan Pollack

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Then that player discards a card.

Anything sent into a plagued world is bound to come back infected.

Story Circle (Eighth Edition)
Alan Pollack

As this enchantment enters, choose a color. {W}: The next time a source of your choice of the chosen color would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Sleeper's Robe (Invasion)
Alan Pollack

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Blinkmoth Infusion (Fifth Dawn)
Alan Pollack

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Untap all artifacts.

Power begets power.

Whirlpool Drake (The List)
Alan Pollack

Flying When this creature enters, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards. When this creature dies, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

Circle of Protection: Green (Eighth Edition)
Alan Pollack

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

Tainted Isle (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Ember Shot (Judgment)
Alan Pollack

Ember Shot deals 3 damage to any target. Draw a card.

Dwarves bring poor coal to market, use good coal in their homes, and throw their best coal away.

Silver Drake (Media and Collaboration Promos)
Alan Pollack

Flying When this creature enters, return a white or blue creature you control to its owner's hand.

Demon's Horn (Darksteel)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Its curve mimics the twists of life and death.

Demon's Horn (Magic 2010)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Its curve mimics the twists of life and death.

Palladium Myr (Core Set 2021)
Alan Pollack

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

The myr are like the Glimmervoid: blank canvases on which to build grand creations.

Vigean Graftmage (Modern Masters 2015)
Alan Pollack

Graft 2 (This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) {1}{U}: Untap target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Guardians of Akrasa (Magic 2013)
Alan Pollack

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

"Only by the bravery of those who put loyalty above glory is our home kept safe." —Elspeth Tirel

Desolation Giant (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Alan Pollack

Kicker {W}{W} (You may pay an additional {W}{W} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, destroy all other creatures you control. If it was kicked, destroy all other creatures instead.

Tainted Isle (Planechase 2012)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Leaden Myr (Scars of Mirrodin)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {B}.

The myr are like necrogen: a transformative force unconcerned with the changes they wreak.

Prismatic Lens (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

It bends not light but mana, aligning its chaotic currents into the sharp angles necessary for the mystic's purposes.

Sudden Spoiling (Commander 2013)
Alan Pollack

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Karona's Zealot (Scourge)
Alan Pollack

Morph {3}{W}{W} (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, all damage that would be dealt to it this turn is dealt to target creature instead.

Power Matrix (Mercadian Masques)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains flying, first strike, and trample until end of turn.

As he repaired the ship's planeswalking engine, Karn saw for the first time how he could catalyze the *Weatherlight*'s evolution.

Mask of Memory (Mirrodin)
Alan Pollack

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Forest (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {G}.)

Champion's Helm (Commander 2011)
Alan Pollack

Equipped creature gets +2/+2. As long as equipped creature is legendary, it has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Swamp (Magic 2010)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {B}.)

Sign in Blood (The List)
Alan Pollack

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Cephalid Constable (Judgment)
Alan Pollack

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, return up to that many target permanents that player controls to their owner's hand.

Cephalids don't police people. They police loyalties.

Tooth of Chiss-Goria (Mirrodin)
Alan Pollack

Flash Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) {T}: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Ghoul's Feast (Mercadian Masques)
Alan Pollack

Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Mercadians not wealthy enough to buy a tomb are thrown into a bog called "the Ghoul's Larder."

Wurm's Tooth (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may gain 1 life.

A wurm knows nothing of deception. If it opens its mouth, it plans to eat you.

Terrain Generator (The List)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Swamp (Salvat 2011)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {B}.)

Angel's Feather (Darksteel)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may gain 1 life.

If taken, it cuts the hand that clutches it. If given, it heals the hand that holds it.

Mask of Memory (Commander Legends)
Alan Pollack

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Lore Broker (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Lies are sold as often as truths—and used just as effectively.

Recoil (World Championship Decks 2002)
Alan Pollack

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Then that player discards a card.

Anything sent into a plagued world is bound to come back infected.

Recoil (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
Alan Pollack

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Then that player discards a card.

Anything sent into a plagued world is bound to come back infected.

Sage of Lat-Nam (Eighth Edition)
Alan Pollack

{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Within each device is a spark of its creator's soul. Within each sage is a lamp that awaits that spark.

Swamp (World Championship Decks 2002)
Alan Pollack

({T}: Add {B}.)

Golem-Skin Gauntlets (Double Masters)
Alan Pollack

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each Equipment attached to it. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Razing Snidd (Planeshift)
Alan Pollack

When this creature enters, return a black or red creature you control to its owner's hand. When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a land of their choice.

Angel's Feather (Magic 2010)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may gain 1 life.

If taken, it cuts the hand that clutches it. If given, it heals the hand that holds it.

Accorder's Shield (Magic 2014)
Alan Pollack

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.) Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

An Auriok shield is polished to a mirror finish even on the inside, enabling its bearer to watch foes ahead and behind.

Karn's Touch (Mercadian Masques)
Alan Pollack

Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value until end of turn. (It retains its abilities.)

Kraken's Eye (Ninth Edition)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may gain 1 life.

Bright as a mirror, dark as the sea.

Dragon's Claw (Magic 2011)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.

"If there is a fire that never ceases to burn, it surely lies in the maw of a dragon." —Sarkhan Vol

Desolation Giant (Commander 2015)
Alan Pollack

Kicker {W}{W} (You may pay an additional {W}{W} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, destroy all other creatures you control. If it was kicked, destroy all other creatures instead.

Guardians of Akrasa (Shards of Alara)
Alan Pollack

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

"Only by the bravery of those who put loyalty above glory is our home kept safe." —Elspeth

Locust Miser (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Alan Pollack

Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by two.

"They're numerous, attack in swarms, and are always hungry. No wonder we rats hold such a kinship with them."

Mask of Memory (The List)
Alan Pollack

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Snapback (Time Spiral Remastered)
Alan Pollack

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Return target creature to its owner's hand.

"If it returns years hence, our knowledge of how to combat it will be that much greater." —Andorel, Tolarian sentinel

Blade of Selves (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Alan Pollack

Equipped creature has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Equip {4}

Chrome Mox (Grand Prix Promos)
Alan Pollack

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Beacon of Unrest (Planechase)
Alan Pollack

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

A vertical scream pierces the night air and echoes doom through the clouds.

Ambush Viper (Innistrad Remastered)
Alan Pollack

Flash Deathtouch

"Living creatures seldom impress me. But I like this one." —Uta Falkenrath

Force Bubble (Scourge)
Alan Pollack

If damage would be dealt to you, put that many depletion counters on this enchantment instead. When there are four or more depletion counters on this enchantment, sacrifice it. At the beginning of each end step, remove all depletion counters from this enchantment.

Sudden Strength (Judgment)
Alan Pollack

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Draw a card.

The Mirari's magic transformed the Krosan Forest—and its inhabitants.

Demon's Horn (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Its curve mimics the twists of life and death.

Wurm's Tooth (Tenth Edition)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may gain 1 life.

A wurm knows nothing of deception. If it opens its mouth, it plans to eat you.

Demon's Horn (Magic 2011)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Its curve mimics the twists of life and death.

Plaxmanta (Dissension)
Alan Pollack

Flash When this creature enters, creatures you control gain shroud until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.) When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless {G} was spent to cast it.

Sawtooth Thresher (Fifth Dawn)
Alan Pollack

Sunburst (This enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) Remove two +1/+1 counters from this creature: It gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Fierce Empath (Commander 2011)
Alan Pollack

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with mana value 6 or greater, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Deftblade Elite (Legions)
Alan Pollack

Provoke (Whenever this creature attacks, you may have target creature defending player controls untap and block it if able.) {1}{W}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by this creature this turn.

Liberate (Invasion)
Alan Pollack

Exile target creature you control. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"Not everyone gets a second chance." —Hanna

Iron Myr (Scars of Mirrodin)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {R}.

The myr are like rusted metal: gleaming purpose hidden by a thin disguise of debris.

Golem-Skin Gauntlets (Mirrodin)
Alan Pollack

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each Equipment attached to it. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Phantom Wurm (Time Spiral)
Alan Pollack

This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature.

It died with the forest, yet both linger on in twisted form.

Terrain Generator (Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Tainted Isle (Wilds of Eldraine Commander)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Terrain Generator (Nemesis)
Alan Pollack

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Rootgrapple (Lorwyn)
Alan Pollack

Destroy target noncreature permanent. If you control a Treefolk, draw a card.

"All the sylvan secrets of this world are etched between my rings. The skinfolk's metal aberrations can rot between my roots." —Colfenor, the Last Yew

Dragon's Claw (Magic 2012)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.

"If there is a fire that never ceases to burn, it surely lies in the maw of a dragon." —Sarkhan Vol

Candles' Glow (Champions of Kamigawa)
Alan Pollack

Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way. Splice onto Arcane {1}{W} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Ramosian Lieutenant (Mercadian Masques)
Alan Pollack

{4}, {T}: Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"Give me your hand and I will give you victory."

Sudden Spoiling (Time Spiral Remastered)
Alan Pollack

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Sign in Blood (Magic Player Rewards 2010)
Alan Pollack

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Plague Wind (Prophecy)
Alan Pollack

Destroy all creatures you don't control. They can't be regenerated.

"The second wind of ascension is Reaver, slaying the unworthy." —*Keld Triumphant*

Kraken's Eye (Tenth Edition)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may gain 1 life.

Bright as a mirror, dark as the sea.

Veteran's Armaments (Morningtide)
Alan Pollack

Equipped creature has "Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each attacking creature." Whenever a Soldier creature enters, you may attach this Equipment to it. Equip {2}

Desolation Giant (Apocalypse)
Alan Pollack

Kicker {W}{W} (You may pay an additional {W}{W} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, destroy all other creatures you control. If it was kicked, destroy all other creatures instead.

Wurm (Magic Player Rewards 2002)
Alan Pollack

When wurms aren't hungry —Nantuko expression meaning "never"

Wurm's Tooth (Magic 2010)
Alan Pollack

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may gain 1 life.

A wurm knows nothing of deception. If it opens its mouth, it plans to eat you.

Survivor of the Unseen (Coldsnap)
Alan Pollack

Cumulative upkeep {2} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) {T}: Draw two cards, then put a card from your hand on top of your library.

Porphyry Nodes (Planar Chaos)
Alan Pollack

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy the creature with the least power. It can't be regenerated. If two or more creatures are tied for least power, you choose one of them. When there are no creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.

Long-Forgotten Gohei (Champions of Kamigawa)
Alan Pollack

Arcane spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Spirit creatures you control get +1/+1.

Long ago, the priests would wave the gohei to call down the gods. Now it lies forgotten, but the spirits still feel its pull.

Recoil (Dominaria Remastered)
Alan Pollack

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Then that player discards a card.

Anything sent into a plagued world is bound to come back infected.

Vigean Graftmage (The List)
Alan Pollack

Graft 2 (This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) {1}{U}: Untap target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Skeletal Changeling (Lorwyn)
Alan Pollack

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Though they lack true flesh and bone of their own, changelings imitate either with equal ease.