Giant Octopus

Giant Octopus (Starter 1999)
John Matson

At the sight of the thing the calamari vendor's eyes went wide, but from fear or avarice none could tell.

Giant Octopus (Seventh Edition)
Heather Hudson

The only thing that flows faster than water is fear.

Giant Octopus (Ninth Edition)
Heather Hudson

"Before my eyes was a horrible monster, worthy to figure in the legends of the marvellous. . . . Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head . . . were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair." —Jules Verne, *Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea*, trans. Lewis

Giant Octopus (Starter 2000)
John Matson

At the sight of the thing the calamari vendor's eyes went wide, but from fear or avarice none could tell.

Giant Octopus (Portal)
John Matson

At the sight of the thing the calamari vendor's eyes went wide, but from fear or avarice none could tell.

Giant Trap Door Spider (Deckmasters)
Heather Hudson

{1}{R}{G}, {T}: Exile this creature and target creature without flying that's attacking you.

"So large and so quiet—a combination best avoided." —Disa the Restless, journal entry

Craw Wurm (Eighth Edition)
Heather Hudson

The most terrifying thing about the craw wurm is probably the horrible crashing sound it makes as it speeds through the forest. This noise is so loud it echoes through the trees and seems to come from all directions at once.

Lonely Sandbar (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Lonely Sandbar (Onslaught)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Lonely Sandbar (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Tranquility (Mercadian Masques)
Heather Hudson

Destroy all enchantments.

Sisay had been restored to her place on the ship, the Legacy had been recovered, and the *Weatherlight* was sailing home to Dominaria. Gerrard focused on the debts he'd settled . . . and on those he'd soon collect.

Beast Walkers (Homelands)
Heather Hudson

{G}: This creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"The Beast Walkers do a great service to Aysen. As humans or as beasts, their heart is yet to Serra true." —Baris, Serra Inquisitor

Kodama's Reach (Commander 2011)
Heather Hudson

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Scroll Rack (Commander's Arsenal)
Heather Hudson

{1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Avian Changeling (Modern Masters)
Heather Hudson

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Flying

Today it flies with the flock. Tomorrow it may wake to find them gone, its body in an unfamiliar form.

Hope and Glory (The List)
Heather Hudson

Untap two target creatures. Each of them gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Serra ruled by faith. I cannot afford that luxury." —Radiant, archangel

Seahunter (Nemesis)
Heather Hudson

{3}, {T}: Search your library for a Merfolk permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"They can't feel pain. They just wiggle 'cause they're scared."

Squallmonger (Commander 2011)
Heather Hudson

{2}: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature with flying and each player. Any player may activate this ability.

"Squall, gale, hurricane—it's all a matter of size . . . and price."

My First Tome (Unhinged)
Heather Hudson

{1}, {T}: Say the flavor text on a card in your hand. Target opponent guesses that card's name. You may reveal that card. If you do and they guessed wrong, you draw a card.

This card is named My First Tome.

Walking Archive (Dissension)
Heather Hudson

Defender (This creature can't attack.) This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player draws a card for each +1/+1 counter on this creature. {2}{W}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Barren Moor (Commander 2015)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Secluded Steppe (Archenemy)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Kodama's Reach (Commander 2015)
Heather Hudson

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Kodama's Reach (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Heather Hudson

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Righteous Avengers (Legends)
Heather Hudson

Plainswalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Plains.)

Few can withstand the wrath of the righteous.

Mountain (Modern Horizons 2)
Heather Hudson

({T}: Add {R}.)

Burr Grafter (Champions of Kamigawa)
Heather Hudson

Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Soulshift 3 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Rock Lobster (Unsanctioned)
Heather Hudson

Creatures named Scissors Lizard can't attack or block.

Many take the lobster for granite.

Wall of Blossoms (Stronghold)
Heather Hudson

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact.

Wall of Blossoms (Jumpstart)
Heather Hudson

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact.

Kodama's Reach (Modern Masters)
Heather Hudson

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Kodama's Reach (Champions of Kamigawa)
Heather Hudson

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Llanowar Knight (Invasion)
Heather Hudson

Protection from black

Her armor and steed were borrowed, but her courage was hers alone.

Ogre Leadfoot (Mirrodin)
Heather Hudson

Whenever this creature becomes blocked by an artifact creature, destroy that creature.

When the goblins need more scrap for the Great Furnace, they simply let the ogres loose and follow in their wake.

Weatherseed Treefolk (World Championship Decks 1999)
Heather Hudson

Trample When this creature dies, return it to its owner's hand.

Zephyr Falcon (Legends)
Heather Hudson

Flying, vigilance

Although greatly prized among falconers, the Zephyr Falcon is capricious and not easily tamed.

Wormfang Behemoth (Judgment)
Heather Hudson

When this creature enters, exile all cards from your hand. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owner's hand.

Hawkeater Moth (Urza's Saga)
Heather Hudson

Flying Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Each day at dusk the birds above the canopy grow silent.

Bearscape (Odyssey)
Heather Hudson

{1}{G}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 green Bear creature token.

"Nature is the endless dance between life and death." —Seton, centaur druid

Feroz's Ban (Homelands)
Heather Hudson

Creature spells cost {2} more to cast.

"Without the protection of Feroz's Ban, I fear the Homelands are lost." —Daria

Giant Cockroach (Urza's Legacy)
Heather Hudson

If the sun ever hit the swamp, where would these scurry to?

Stormscape Familiar (Planeshift)
Heather Hudson

Flying White spells and black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Each Stormscape apprentice must hand-raise and train an owl before attaining the rank of master.

Viscerid Drone (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Heather Hudson

{T}, Sacrifice a creature and a Swamp: Destroy target nonartifact creature. It can't be regenerated. {T}, Sacrifice a creature and a snow Swamp: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Not all of Terisiare's flooding was natural . . . .

Barren Moor (Onslaught)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Hope and Glory (Urza's Legacy)
Heather Hudson

Untap two target creatures. Each of them gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Serra ruled by faith. I cannot afford that luxury." —Radiant, archangel

Gorilla Titan (Odyssey)
Heather Hudson

Trample This creature gets +4/+4 as long as there are no cards in your graveyard.

"I want a banana *this* big!"

Goblin War Drums (Fallen Empires)
Heather Hudson

Creatures you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

The War Drums enabled Goblin and Orcish armies to crush the sparsely defended Dwarven cities.

Secluded Steppe (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Wall of Blossoms (World Championship Decks 1998)
Heather Hudson

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact.

Lonely Sandbar (Foundations Jumpstart)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Scroll Rack (The List)
Heather Hudson

{1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Krovikan Fetish (Fifth Edition)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

Some Krovikans find strength in the ears and eyes of their victims and wear such fetishes into battle.

Joiner Adept (Tenth Edition)
Heather Hudson

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

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

Icatian Skirmishers (Fallen Empires)
Heather Hudson

First strike; banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.) Whenever this creature attacks, all creatures banded with it gain first strike until end of turn.

Skirmishers engaged raiders before they could reach the towns. Although these units typically suffered huge losses, they never lacked volunteers.

Hungry Mist (Fifth Edition)
Heather Hudson

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

"All things must eat, after all. Even the air can hunger." —Gemma, Willow priestess

Early Harvest (Ninth Edition)
Heather Hudson

Target player untaps all basic lands they control.

"Earth's increase, foison plenty, Barns and garners never empty: Vines with clust'ring bunches growing; Plants with goodly burden bowing." —William Shakespeare, *The Tempest*

Viscerid Armor (Alliances)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. {1}{U}: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.

One Viscerid's death is often another's gain.

Viscerid Deepwalker (The List)
Heather Hudson

{U}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {U} 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. It has haste.)

Screaming Seahawk (Conspiracy)
Heather Hudson

Flying When this creature enters, you may search your library for a card named Screaming Seahawk, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sculpting Steel (Double Masters)
Heather Hudson

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

An artificer once dropped one in a vault full of coins. She has yet to find it.

Fertile Ground (The List)
Heather Hudson

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

The true strength of nature is not the raging storm or the charging rhino, but the inexorable vitality of life.

Serpentine Kavu (Invasion)
Heather Hudson

{R}: This creature gains haste until end of turn.

Under Yavimaya's peaceful facade beat the hearts of many savage beasts.

Loxodon Mender (Mirrodin)
Heather Hudson

{W}, {T}: Regenerate target artifact.

The Auriok believe that in the hands of a loxodon, no weapon can be broken.

Fertile Ground (Battlebond)
Heather Hudson

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

The true strength of nature is not the raging storm or the charging rhino, but the inexorable vitality of life.

Horned Troll (Mercadian Masques)
Heather Hudson

{G}: Regenerate this creature.

"If I says it's a troll, it's a troll. Goblins is always right in Mercadia." —Squee

Ornate Kanzashi (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Heather Hudson

{2}, {T}: Target opponent exiles the top card of their library. You may play that card this turn.

Masako was privy to a great many of Konda's deepest secrets, and her hair was always perfect.

Hermit Druid (Judge Gift Cards 2004)
Heather Hudson

{G}, {T}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a basic land card. Put that card into your hand and all other cards revealed this way into your graveyard.

Seeking the company of plants ensures that your wits will go to seed.

Screaming Seahawk (Onslaught)
Heather Hudson

Flying When this creature enters, you may search your library for a card named Screaming Seahawk, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Advance Scout (Battle Royale Box Set)
Heather Hudson

First strike {W}: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"The soldier's path is worn smooth by the tread of many feet—all in one direction, none returning." —Oracle *en*-Vec

Darkest Hour (Urza's Saga)
Heather Hudson

All creatures are black.

"Yawgmoth spent eons wrapping Phyrexians in human skin. They are the sleeper agents, and they are everywhere." —Xantcha, to Urza

Wall of Blossoms (Planechase 2012)
Heather Hudson

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact.

Suntail Hawk (Judgment)
Heather Hudson

Flying

"Our forebears once flew like this—carefree, needing nothing but a warm nest and a full belly. Our intellect may be more burden than blessing." —Commander Eesha

Barren Moor (Commander 2011)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Fertile Ground (Battle Royale Box Set)
Heather Hudson

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

The forest was too lush for the brothers to despoil—almost.

Crippling Fatigue (The List)
Heather Hudson

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Flashback—{1}{B}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Secluded Steppe (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Kiora)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Merieke Ri Berit (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Heather Hudson

Merieke Ri Berit doesn't untap during your untap step. {T}: Gain control of target creature for as long as you control Merieke Ri Berit. When Merieke Ri Berit leaves the battlefield or becomes untapped, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.

Rock Lobster (Unglued)
Heather Hudson

Creatures named Scissors Lizard can't attack or block.

Many take the lobster for granite.

Weatherseed Treefolk (Urza's Legacy)
Heather Hudson

Trample When this creature dies, return it to its owner's hand.

Spike Feeder (The List)
Heather Hudson

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: You gain 2 life.

Wall of Blossoms (Commander Anthology)
Heather Hudson

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact.

Earnest Fellowship (Odyssey)
Heather Hudson

Each creature has protection from its colors.

"The world has enough strife as it is. Where would we be if we turned against each other?" —Pianna, nomad captain

Giant Trap Door Spider (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Heather Hudson

{1}{R}{G}, {T}: Exile this creature and target creature without flying that's attacking you.

"So large and so quiet—a combination best avoided." —Disa the Restless, journal entry

Darba (Prophecy)
Heather Hudson

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

Legend has it the darba gave up its wings in return for an extra stomach.

Sculpting Steel (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Heather Hudson

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

An artificer once dropped one in a vault full of coins. She has yet to find it.

Barren Moor (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Stench of Decay (Alliances)
Heather Hudson

Nonartifact creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Disa is dead, and I am left. I shall allow no others to succumb to this pestilence." —Kolbjörn, High Honored Druid

Barren Moor (Bloomburrow Commander)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Dirge of Dread (Commander 2013)
Heather Hudson

All creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may have target creature gain fear until end of turn.

Harsh Deceiver (Champions of Kamigawa)
Heather Hudson

{1}: Look at the top card of your library. {2}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, untap this creature and it gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

Fa'adiyah Seer (Jumpstart)
Heather Hudson

{T}: Draw a card and reveal it. If it isn't a land card, discard it.

"My visions don't show me home. They show me where home is yet to be found."

Basking Rootwalla (Torment)
Heather Hudson

{1}{G}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn. Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Mask of the Mimic (Stronghold)
Heather Hudson

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a card with the same name as target nontoken creature, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Giant Cockroach (Eighth Edition)
Heather Hudson

Toren had stepped on a lot of bugs during his life, so he couldn't help feeling embarrassed when a bug stepped on him.

Turnabout (Dominaria Remastered)
Heather Hudson

Choose artifact, creature, or land. Tap all untapped permanents of the chosen type target player controls, or untap all tapped permanents of that type that player controls.

The best cure for a big ego is a little failure.

Pedantic Learning (Odyssey)
Heather Hudson

Whenever a land card is put into your graveyard from your library, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Even the trivial can inspire.

Warmonger (Media and Collaboration Promos)
Heather Hudson

{2}: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature without flying and each player. Any player may activate this ability.

Funny how money and war travel so well together.

Sylvan Messenger (Duel Decks Anthology: Elves vs. Goblins)
Heather Hudson

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all Elf cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Spectral Lynx (Apocalypse)
Heather Hudson

Protection from green {B}: Regenerate this creature.

A shadowy version of its corporeal cousin, this lynx hunts souls, not meals.

Okina Nightwatch (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Heather Hudson

As long as you have more cards in hand than each opponent, this creature gets +3/+3.

Only the most skilled budoka could protect the Okina Shrine. Only the best of these protectors took the night watch.

Sawtooth Loon (Planeshift)
Heather Hudson

Flying When this creature enters, return a white or blue creature you control to its owner's hand. When this creature enters, draw two cards, then put two cards from your hand on the bottom of your library.

Spike Rogue (Exodus)
Heather Hudson

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Pongify (Time Spiral Remastered)
Heather Hudson

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Some spellcrafting mistakes go on to become spells of their own.

Tranquil Thicket (Commander Anthology)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Barren Moor (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Scroll Rack (World Championship Decks 1998)
Heather Hudson

{1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Disenchant (The List)
Heather Hudson

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Ghost Quarter (Mystery Booster 2)
Heather Hudson

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Where wasted life cries out to be reborn.

Hatching Plans (Guildpact)
Heather Hudson

When this enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw three cards.

So wondrous to behold, so delicate and finely crafted—and yet, such a pleasure to smash.

Hand of Death (Portal Second Age)
Heather Hudson

Destroy target nonblack creature.

The touch of death is never gentle.

Geth's Grimoire (The List)
Heather Hudson

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

The book shrieks horribly until its cover is opened, granting the spirit inside a moment's rest from the painful stirrings of the book's contents.

Squallmonger (Mercadian Masques)
Heather Hudson

{2}: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature with flying and each player. Any player may activate this ability.

"Squall, gale, hurricane—it's all a matter of size . . . and price."

Hand of Death (Starter 1999)
Heather Hudson

Destroy target nonblack creature.

The touch of death is never gentle.

Sculpting Steel (March of the Machine Commander)
Heather Hudson

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

An artificer once dropped one in a vault full of coins. She has yet to find it.

Dreams of the Dead (Ice Age)
Heather Hudson

{1}{U}: Return target white or black creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains "Cumulative upkeep {2}." If the creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. (At the beginning of its controller's upkeep, that player puts an age counter on it, then sacrifices it unless they pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Saproling Infestation (Invasion)
Heather Hudson

Whenever a player kicks a spell, you create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

"My army took centuries to gather," remarked Urza. "Yavimaya seems to conjure hers out of thin air."

Secluded Steppe (World Championship Decks 2004)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sculpting Steel (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Heather Hudson

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

"Based on his early work with primal clay, Tawnos refined the rare metals in the earth into self-assembling strands." —*After the War*

Aeolipile (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Heather Hudson

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 2 damage to any target.

"Although fragile, the Aeolipile could be quite destructive." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. I*

Screeching Buzzard (Onslaught)
Heather Hudson

Flying When this creature dies, each opponent discards a card.

Paper Tiger (Unglued)
Heather Hudson

Creatures named Rock Lobster can't attack or block.

The tiger is always quick to fold.

Secluded Steppe (Commander Anthology)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Barren Moor (World Championship Decks 2003)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Ghost Quarter (The List)
Heather Hudson

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Where wasted life cries out to be reborn.

Graceful Antelope (The List)
Heather Hudson

Plainswalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Plains.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may have target land become a Plains until this creature leaves the battlefield.

Lonely Sandbar (Commander 2013)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Turnabout (Urza's Saga)
Heather Hudson

Choose artifact, creature, or land. Tap all untapped permanents of the chosen type target player controls, or untap all tapped permanents of that type that player controls.

The best cure for a big ego is a little failure.

Gerrard's Wisdom (Weatherlight)
Heather Hudson

You gain 2 life for each card in your hand.

"Fighting without an army is called a duel, and you'll lose a duel if your enemy comes expecting a war." —Gerrard of the *Weatherlight*

Prowling Pangolin (Onslaught)
Heather Hudson

When this creature enters, any player may sacrifice two creatures of their choice. If a player does, sacrifice this creature.

It's always hungry, yet easily sated.

Spectral Lynx (Dominaria Remastered)
Heather Hudson

Protection from green {B}: Regenerate this creature.

A shadowy version of its corporeal cousin, this lynx hunts souls, not meals.

Blood Pet (Seventh Edition)
Heather Hudson

Sacrifice this creature: Add {B}.

No thrull has ever been burdened with a long life.

Pale Wayfarer (Shadowmoor)
Heather Hudson

{2}{W}{W}, {Q}: Target creature gains protection from the color of its controller's choice until end of turn. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

As it wandered Shadowmoor, it did not remember its crime—only its shame.

Cloudstone Curio (Ravnica Remastered)
Heather Hudson

Whenever a nonartifact permanent you control enters, you may return another permanent you control that shares a permanent type with it to its owner's hand.

It *wants* to remain a mystery, banishing the curious in favor of less inquisitive company.

Kodama's Reach (Commander 2017)
Heather Hudson

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Chord of Calling (Ravnica Remastered)
Heather Hudson

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.) Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Fertile Ground (Eighth Edition)
Heather Hudson

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

"The love of nature . . . is a furious, burning, physical greed. . . ." —Mary Webb, *The House in Dormer Forest*

Suntail Hawk (Ninth Edition)
Heather Hudson

Flying

Its eye the glaring sun, its cry the keening wind.

Brassclaw Orcs (Fallen Empires)
Heather Hudson

This creature can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.

"The large brass claws worn by some Sarpadian Orc tribes were among the least feared weapons ever known." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV*

Tranquil Thicket (Commander 2017)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Chord of Calling (Ravnica Remastered)
Heather Hudson

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.) Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Rock Badger (Mercadian Masques)
Heather Hudson

Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)

The Kyren goblins created most of the inverted mountain's tunnels simply by driving the beast before them.

Sawtooth Loon (Dominaria Remastered)
Heather Hudson

Flying When this creature enters, return a white or blue creature you control to its owner's hand. When this creature enters, draw two cards, then put two cards from your hand on the bottom of your library.

Basking Rootwalla (Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Heather Hudson

{1}{G}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn. Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Viscerid Drone (Alliances)
Heather Hudson

{T}, Sacrifice a creature and a Swamp: Destroy target nonartifact creature. It can't be regenerated. {T}, Sacrifice a creature and a snow Swamp: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Not all of Terisiare's flooding was natural . . . .

Barren Moor (Commander 2021)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Standstill (Mystery Booster 2)
Heather Hudson

When a player casts a spell, sacrifice this enchantment. If you do, each of that player's opponents draws three cards.

"Take your time."

Secluded Steppe (Foundations Jumpstart)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Giant Cockroach (Ninth Edition)
Heather Hudson

Toren had stepped on a lot of bugs during his life, so he couldn't help feeling embarrassed when a bug stepped on him.

Suntail Hawk (Tenth Edition)
Heather Hudson

Flying

Its eye the glaring sun, its cry the keening wind.

Scroll Rack (Commander Legends)
Heather Hudson

{1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Secluded Steppe (Commander 2017)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Avian Changeling (The List)
Heather Hudson

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Flying

Today it flies with the flock. Tomorrow it may wake to find them gone, its body in an unfamiliar form.

Secluded Steppe (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Ur-Golem's Eye (Ninth Edition)
Heather Hudson

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

It still stares accusingly at Memnarch, though millennia have passed since he separated the eye from its body.

Imaginary Pet (Urza's Saga)
Heather Hudson

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

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

Spike Feeder (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Heather Hudson

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: You gain 2 life.

Weatherseed Elf (Urza's Legacy)
Heather Hudson

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

"My grandmother once told me the future of our world was inside the Weatherseed. When I touched it, I knew she was right."

Goblin Brawler (Fifth Dawn)
Heather Hudson

First strike This creature can't be equipped.

Perhaps he shuns technology. Perhaps he appreciates nature. Perhaps he doesn't know the difference.

Gerrard's Wisdom (Starter 1999)
Heather Hudson

You gain 2 life for each card in your hand.

"You'll lose a duel if your enemy comes expecting a war."

Tranquil Thicket (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Pongify (Planar Chaos)
Heather Hudson

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Some spellcrafting mistakes go on to become spells of their own.

Mine, Mine, Mine! (Unglued)
Heather Hudson

When this enchantment enters, each player puts their library into their hand. Players have no maximum hand size and don't lose the game for drawing from an empty library. Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library.

Pongify (The List)
Heather Hudson

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Some spellcrafting mistakes go on to become spells of their own.

Tranquil Thicket (Archenemy)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Early Harvest (Seventh Edition)
Heather Hudson

Target player untaps all basic lands they control.

"Give it a week and it will feed an army."

Homarid (Fallen Empires)
Heather Hudson

This creature enters with a tide counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a tide counter on this creature. As long as there is exactly one tide counter on this creature, it gets -1/-1. As long as there are exactly three tide counters on this creature, it gets +1/+1. Whenever there are four or more tide counters on this creature, remove all tide counters from it.

Sprouting Phytohydra (Dissension)
Heather Hudson

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you may create a token that's a copy of this creature.

A hydra tender's problem isn't having enough defenses but enough pots.

Matsu-Tribe Birdstalker (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Heather Hudson

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, tap that creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. {G}: This creature gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Barren Moor (Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Barren Moor (Archenemy)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sicken (Urza's Saga)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -1/-1. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Urza dared to attack Phyrexia. Slowly, it retaliated.

Sculpting Steel (Tenth Edition)
Heather Hudson

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

An artificer once dropped one in a vault full of coins. She has yet to find it.

Wormfang Manta (Judgment)
Heather Hudson

Flying When this creature enters, you skip your next turn. When this creature leaves the battlefield, you take an extra turn after this one.

Karmic Guide (Urza's Legacy)
Heather Hudson

Flying, protection from black Echo {3}{W}{W} (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, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Zephyr Falcon (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Heather Hudson

Flying, vigilance

Hand of Death (The List)
Heather Hudson

Destroy target nonblack creature.

The touch of death is never gentle.

Intervene (Urza's Legacy)
Heather Hudson

Counter target spell that targets a creature.

"At first I simply observed. But I found that without investment in others, life serves no purpose." —Karn, silver golem

Pongify (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
Heather Hudson

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Some spellcrafting mistakes go on to become spells of their own.

Xantcha, Sleeper Agent (Mystery Booster 2)
Heather Hudson

Xantcha enters under the control of an opponent of your choice. Xantcha attacks each combat if able and can't attack its owner or planeswalkers its owner controls. {3}: Xantcha's controller loses 2 life and you draw a card. Any player may activate this ability.

Bear (Magic Player Rewards 2001)
Heather Hudson

The last thing a poacher in the Krosan Forest hears is the brutal sound of claws tearing flesh.

Mountain (Asia Pacific Land Program)
Heather Hudson

({T}: Add {R}.)

Disturbed Burial (The List)
Heather Hudson

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Quirion Sentinel (Invasion)
Heather Hudson

When this creature enters, add one mana of any color.

All elvenkind stood against Phyrexia. The Quirion nation deployed its most spiritual adepts, who wielded the power of their native soil.

Tranquil Thicket (Commander 2011)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Tranquil Thicket (Commander 2014)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Vile Consumption (Invasion)
Heather Hudson

All creatures have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay 1 life."

The plague moved faster than an army and was far more deadly.

Wall of Blossoms (Commander 2016)
Heather Hudson

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact.

Bird (Eventide Tokens)
Heather Hudson

Flying

Wandering Ones (Champions of Kamigawa)
Heather Hudson

"I saw them once, when I was a child. They led me to my parents' arms when I was lost. Why have they abandoned me now? Why won't they take me home again?" —Unnamed beggar

Penumbra Bobcat (Apocalypse)
Heather Hudson

When this creature dies, create a 2/1 black Cat creature token.

This cat has two lives and it's hunting for more.

Rysorian Badger (Homelands)
Heather Hudson

Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may exile up to two target creature cards from defending player's graveyard. If you do, you gain 1 life for each card exiled this way and this creature assigns no combat damage this turn.

Academy Rector (World Championship Decks 2000)
Heather Hudson

When this creature dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Lonely Sandbar (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Disenchant (Masters 25)
Heather Hudson

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"The tools of evil are mere things. And like all things, they cannot last forever." —*Song of All*, canto 881

Spike Feeder (Friday Night Magic 2002)
Heather Hudson

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: You gain 2 life.

Tranquil Thicket (Bloomburrow Commander)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Turnabout (Dominaria Remastered)
Heather Hudson

Choose artifact, creature, or land. Tap all untapped permanents of the chosen type target player controls, or untap all tapped permanents of that type that player controls.

The best cure for a big ego is a little failure.

Sawtooth Loon (Dominaria Remastered)
Heather Hudson

Flying When this creature enters, return a white or blue creature you control to its owner's hand. When this creature enters, draw two cards, then put two cards from your hand on the bottom of your library.

Tranquil Thicket (Commander 2021)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Utopia Vow (The List)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block. Enchanted creature has "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

"I'll guard this fruit and its seedling until the land is healed. My life now belongs to Dominaria."

Kavu Glider (Apocalypse)
Heather Hudson

{W}: This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn. {U}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Stench of Decay (Alliances)
Heather Hudson

Nonartifact creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

"My lord, there is only so much I can do. This plague infests Krov worse than any other city." —Halvor Arensson, Kjeldoran Priest

Dirge of Dread (Onslaught)
Heather Hudson

All creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may have target creature gain fear until end of turn.

Spike Feeder (World Championship Decks 1998)
Heather Hudson

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: You gain 2 life.

Viscerid Deepwalker (Time Spiral)
Heather Hudson

{U}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {U} 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. It has haste.)

Treetop Bracers (Nemesis)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and can't be blocked except by creatures with flying.

Gravity is truly what you make of it.

Basking Rootwalla (Ultimate Masters)
Heather Hudson

{1}{G}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn. Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Kitsune Bonesetter (Saviors of Kamigawa)
Heather Hudson

{T}: Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn. Activate only if you have more cards in hand than each opponent.

"He kept generations whole before the Kami War, and now he turns his century of wisdom to healing the latest casualties." —Eight-and-a-Half-Tails

Wall of Blossoms (From the Vault: Twenty)
Heather Hudson

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact.

Reaping the Rewards (Exodus)
Heather Hudson

Buyback—Sacrifice a land. (You may sacrifice a land in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) You gain 2 life.

Rally (Ice Age)
Heather Hudson

Blocking creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Stand your ground, troops! This shall be our finest hour!" —General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox, last words

Initiates of the Ebon Hand (Fifth Edition)
Heather Hudson

{1}: Add {B}. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice this creature at the beginning of the next end step.

"We are no longer Nature's children, but her masters . . . ." —Oath of the Ebon Hand

Secluded Steppe (Duel Decks Anthology: Divine vs. Demonic)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Ordered Migration (Invasion)
Heather Hudson

Domain — Create a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying for each basic land type among lands you control.

"Birds reach all parts of the world," said Barrin. "They will make excellent scouts."

Secluded Steppe (Commander 2011)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Clergy en-Vec (Tempest)
Heather Hudson

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

"Faith's shield is hammered out by the blows of unbelievers." —Oracle *en*-Vec

Seahunter (The List)
Heather Hudson

{3}, {T}: Search your library for a Merfolk permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"They can't feel pain. They just wiggle 'cause they're scared."

Squee's Toy (Tempest)
Heather Hudson

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

As the horrors closed in on Gerrard, Squee trembled and clutched his toy for comfort. He didn't know where it came from or why it was so warm, but he was glad he'd kept it near.

Chains of Mephistopheles (Legends)
Heather Hudson

If a player would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, that player discards a card instead. If the player discards a card this way, they draw a card. If the player doesn't discard a card this way, they mill a card.

Earnest Fellowship (The List)
Heather Hudson

Each creature has protection from its colors.

"The world has enough strife as it is. Where would we be if we turned against each other?" —Pianna, nomad captain

Basking Rootwalla (Mystery Booster 2)
Heather Hudson

{1}{G}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn. Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Tranquil Thicket (Commander 2018)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Stormscape Familiar (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Heather Hudson

Flying White spells and black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Each Stormscape apprentice must hand-raise and train an owl before attaining the rank of master.

Baton of Courage (Fifth Dawn)
Heather Hudson

Flash Sunburst (This enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) Remove a charge counter from this artifact: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Tranquil Thicket (Commander 2013)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Lonely Sandbar (Commander 2011)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Fertile Ground (Forgotten Realms Commander)
Heather Hudson

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

The true strength of nature is not the raging storm or the charging rhino, but the inexorable vitality of life.

Scroll Rack (Tempest)
Heather Hudson

{1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Blurred Mongoose (Invasion)
Heather Hudson

This spell can't be countered. Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"The mongoose blew out its candle and was asleep in bed before the room went dark." —Llanowar fable

Warmonger (Mercadian Masques)
Heather Hudson

{2}: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature without flying and each player. Any player may activate this ability.

Funny how money and war travel so well together.

Wall of Blossoms (Commander 2015)
Heather Hudson

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact.

Krovikan Fetish (Ice Age)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

Some Krovikans find strength in the ears and eyes of their victims and wear such fetishes into battle.

Night Soil (Fallen Empires)
Heather Hudson

{1}, Exile two creature cards from a single graveyard: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

The Elves gathered huge piles of rot to grow fungus. Out of imitation or forethought, the Thallids did the same.

Mountain (Onslaught)
Heather Hudson

({T}: Add {R}.)

Rime Dryad (Ice Age)
Heather Hudson

Snow forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a snow Forest.)

"The Dryads told us to stay, as no new horrors would come when it was so cold. Three of us left anyway. The rest believed their lies, and their skeletons weren't found until the thaw." —Disa the Restless, journal entry

Weatherseed Totem (Time Spiral)
Heather Hudson

{T}: Add {G}. {2}{G}{G}{G}: This artifact becomes a 5/3 green Treefolk artifact creature with trample until end of turn. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it was a creature, return this card to its owner's hand.

My First Tome (Unhinged)
Heather Hudson

{1}, {T}: Say the flavor text on a card in your hand. Target opponent guesses that card's name. You may reveal that card. If you do and they guessed wrong, you draw a card.

This card is named My First Tome.

Molder Slug (Mirrodin)
Heather Hudson

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices an artifact of their choice.

Fortunately for it, Mirrodin is a plane without salt.

Aeolipile (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Heather Hudson

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 2 damage to any target.

"Although fragile, the Aeolipile could be quite destructive." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. I*

Ghost Quarter (Dissension)
Heather Hudson

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Where wasted life cries out to be reborn.

Alaborn Musketeer (Portal Second Age)
Heather Hudson

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Muskets gave the Alaborn army an advantage it had long lacked—air defense.

Utopia Vow (Planar Chaos)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block. Enchanted creature has "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

"I'll guard this fruit and its seedling until the land is healed. My life now belongs to Dominaria."

Walking Archive (The List)
Heather Hudson

Defender (This creature can't attack.) This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player draws a card for each +1/+1 counter on this creature. {2}{W}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Mark of the Oni (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature You control enchanted creature. At the beginning of the end step, if you control no Demons, sacrifice this Aura.

"As more oni walked Kamigawa, more darkness infested its inhabitants' souls." —*The History of Kamigawa*

Suntail Hawk (Eighth Edition)
Heather Hudson

Flying

Its eye the glaring sun, its cry the keening wind.

Sylvan Messenger (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins)
Heather Hudson

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all Elf cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Fertile Ground (Commander 2018)
Heather Hudson

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

The true strength of nature is not the raging storm or the charging rhino, but the inexorable vitality of life.

Spike Feeder (Stronghold)
Heather Hudson

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: You gain 2 life.

Hand of Death (Starter 2000)
Heather Hudson

Destroy target nonblack creature.

The touch of death is never gentle.

Tranquil Thicket (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Pongify (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Heather Hudson

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Some spellcrafting mistakes go on to become spells of their own.

Tranquil Thicket (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Hungry Mist (Homelands)
Heather Hudson

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

"If the air must feed, let it take the self-righteous." —Murat, Death Speaker

Veil of Birds (Urza's Saga)
Heather Hudson

When an opponent casts a spell, if this permanent is an enchantment, it becomes a 1/1 Bird creature with flying.

When wind marries sky, even the bride's veil sings her praises.

Weight of Conscience (Morningtide)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack. Tap two untapped creatures you control that share a creature type: Exile enchanted creature.

Sometimes the weight of the world on your shoulders is a literal one.

Barren Moor (Commander 2014)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Advance Scout (Tempest)
Heather Hudson

First strike {W}: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"The soldier's path is worn smooth by the tread of many feet—all in one direction, none returning." —Oracle *en*-Vec

Vug Lizard (Urza's Saga)
Heather Hudson

Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.) Echo {1}{R}{R} (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.)

Uproot (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Heather Hudson

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

"We arrived at the battlefield too late. *Again*. Another error on your part, and you will have to answer to me personally." —General Takeno, letter to the imperial mapmaker

Molder Slug (The List)
Heather Hudson

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices an artifact of their choice.

Fortunately for it, Mirrodin is a plane without salt.

Viscerid Armor (Alliances)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. {1}{U}: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.

A fallen Viscerid's only tribute is to be worn by a comrade.

Mindstab Thrull (Fallen Empires)
Heather Hudson

Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, defending player discards three cards.

Sculpting Steel (Mirrodin)
Heather Hudson

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

An artificer once dropped one in a vault full of coins. She has yet to find it.

Field Surgeon (Urza's Destiny)
Heather Hudson

Tap an untapped creature you control: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Commanders order soldiers to attack. Field surgeons order them to heal. Both are obeyed without question.

Tranquil Thicket (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Scissors Lizard (Unsanctioned)
Heather Hudson

Creatures named Paper Tiger can't attack or block.

Nothing beats the lizard's shear power.

Merieke Ri Berit (Ice Age)
Heather Hudson

Merieke Ri Berit doesn't untap during your untap step. {T}: Gain control of target creature for as long as you control Merieke Ri Berit. When Merieke Ri Berit leaves the battlefield or becomes untapped, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.

Fertile Ground (Secret Lair Drop)
Heather Hudson

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

The true strength of nature is not the raging storm or the charging rhino, but the inexorable vitality of life.

Wall of Blossoms (Modern Horizons)
Heather Hudson

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact.

Tranquil Thicket (World Championship Decks 2004)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Wing Storm (Prophecy)
Heather Hudson

Wing Storm deals damage to each player equal to twice the number of creatures that player controls with flying.

A thousand wings beating as one can choke the sky itself.

Scrapbasket (Shadowmoor)
Heather Hudson

{1}: This creature becomes all colors until end of turn.

Once a tool of kithkin farmers, scarecrows of all shapes now skitter and lurch across Shadowmoor, animated by residual rustic magics.

Okina Nightwatch (Arena League 2005)
Heather Hudson

As long as you have more cards in hand than each opponent, this creature gets +3/+3.

Only the most skilled budoka could protect the Okina Shrine. Only the best of these protectors took the night watch.

Barren Moor (Commander 2018)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Merseine (Fallen Empires)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature This Aura enters with three net counters on it. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step if this Aura has a net counter on it. Pay enchanted creature's mana cost: Remove a net counter from this Aura. Only the controller of the enchanted creature may activate this ability.

Initiates of the Ebon Hand (Fallen Empires)
Heather Hudson

{1}: Add {B}. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice this creature at the beginning of the next end step.

"We are no longer Nature's children, but her masters . . . ." —Oath of the Ebon Hand

Dominating Licid (Exodus)
Heather Hudson

{1}{U}{U}, {T}: This creature loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay {U} to end this effect. You control enchanted creature.

Wall of Blossoms (Planechase Anthology)
Heather Hudson

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact.

Thornscape Familiar (Planeshift)
Heather Hudson

Red spells and white spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Blessed with many options, Thornscape masters favor scarabs as familiars.

Penumbra Bobcat (Jumpstart)
Heather Hudson

When this creature dies, create a 2/1 black Cat creature token.

This cat has two lives and it's hunting for more.

Rock Badger (Tenth Edition)
Heather Hudson

Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)

"As it charged our keep, I mistook it for a bear. After it tore through our ramparts and half the guard, I wished it had been a bear after all." —Ballista guard

Fa'adiyah Seer (Planar Chaos)
Heather Hudson

{T}: Draw a card and reveal it. If it isn't a land card, discard it.

"My visions don't show me home. They show me where home is yet to be found."

Benthic Behemoth (Seventh Edition)
Heather Hudson

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

The sea has many secrets, but some are too big to be kept.

Healing Salve (Urza's Saga)
Heather Hudson

Choose one — • Target player gains 3 life. • Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

"Xantcha is recovering. The medicine is slow, but my magic would have killed her." —Serra, to Urza

Paper Tiger (Unsanctioned)
Heather Hudson

Creatures named Rock Lobster can't attack or block.

The tiger is always quick to fold.

Tranquil Thicket (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Booster Tutor (Unsanctioned)
Heather Hudson

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

"You saved that *Urza's Saga* pack all these years for *this*?"

Scissors Lizard (Unglued)
Heather Hudson

Creatures named Paper Tiger can't attack or block.

Nothing beats the lizard's shear power.

Puffer Extract (Mercadian Masques)
Heather Hudson

{X}, {T}: Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step.

The puffer's flesh is the deadliest in the sea—and therefore the most useful.

Aeolipile (Fallen Empires)
Heather Hudson

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 2 damage to any target.

"Although fragile, the Aeolipile could be quite destructive." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. I*

Greener Pastures (Urza's Saga)
Heather Hudson

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player controls more lands than each other player, the player creates a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Secluded Steppe (Commander 2013)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Wall of Blossoms (Friday Night Magic 2002)
Heather Hudson

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature." —Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Compensation"

Lonely Sandbar (Commander 2021)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Earsplitting Rats (Judgment)
Heather Hudson

When this creature enters, each player discards a card. Discard a card: Regenerate this creature.

Rats come in one amount: too many.

Pongify (Commander 2014)
Heather Hudson

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Some spellcrafting mistakes go on to become spells of their own.

Gatherer of Graces (Guildpact)
Heather Hudson

This creature gets +1/+1 for each Aura attached to it. Sacrifice an Aura: Regenerate this creature.

"Garb is for common folk. I prefer to wear insight and zeal, ambition and flame."

Barren Moor (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Scroll Rack (Commander Legends)
Heather Hudson

{1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Chord of Calling (Ravnica Remastered)
Heather Hudson

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.) Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Barren Moor (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Shackles (Exodus)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. {W}: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.

Shackles of gold are still shackles.

Utopia Vow (Time Spiral Remastered)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block. Enchanted creature has "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

"I'll guard this fruit and its seedling until the land is healed. My life now belongs to Dominaria."

Kodama's Reach (Commander 2016)
Heather Hudson

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Zephyr Falcon (Fourth Edition)
Heather Hudson

Flying, vigilance

Although greatly prized among falconers, the Zephyr Falcon is capricious and not easily tamed.

Spike Feeder (Battle Royale Box Set)
Heather Hudson

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: You gain 2 life.

Bull Hippo (Seventh Edition)
Heather Hudson

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

The merfolk may rule the waters, but hippos have never had much respect for authority.

Deadshot (Tempest)
Heather Hudson

Tap target creature. It deals damage equal to its power to another target creature.

"Carrion! Keep your distance. My blade will come to you!" —Crovax

Tranquil Thicket (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Inventors)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Fungusaur (Eighth Edition)
Heather Hudson

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Rather than sheltering her young, the female fungusaur often injures her own offspring, thereby ensuring their rapid growth.

Basking Rootwalla (World Championship Decks 2003)
Heather Hudson

{1}{G}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn. Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Feroz's Ban (Fifth Edition)
Heather Hudson

Creature spells cost {2} more to cast.

"Without the protection of Feroz's Ban, I fear the Homelands are lost." —Daria

Zephyr Falcon (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Heather Hudson

Flying, vigilance

Although greatly prized among falconers, the Zephyr Falcon is capricious and not easily tamed.

Secluded Steppe (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Xantcha (Vanguard Series)
Heather Hudson

Sacrifice a permanent: Regenerate target creature.

A Phyrexian "sleeper agent," Xantcha has developed an inviolate sense of self. This aberration earned her a death sentence, but she was rescued by Urza and joined his crusade. Her Phyrexian credo of "Waste not, want not" has helped Urza more than even he comprehends.

Disturbed Burial (Tempest)
Heather Hudson

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Wall of Blossoms (The List)
Heather Hudson

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Each flower identical, every leaf and petal disturbingly exact.

Hermit Druid (Stronghold)
Heather Hudson

{G}, {T}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a basic land card. Put that card into your hand and all other cards revealed this way into your graveyard.

Seeking the company of plants ensures that your wits will go to seed.

Secluded Steppe (Commander 2020)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Pedantic Learning (The List)
Heather Hudson

Whenever a land card is put into your graveyard from your library, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Even the trivial can inspire.

Raking Canopy (Shadowmoor)
Heather Hudson

Whenever a creature with flying attacks you, this enchantment deals 4 damage to it.

"Raven's Run has awoken, and ravens will no longer cry in its branches." —Roon Ghastbark

Disenchant (Magic Player Rewards 2007)
Heather Hudson

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Fable of Wolf and Owl (Eventide)
Heather Hudson

Whenever you cast a green spell, you may create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token. Whenever you cast a blue spell, you may create a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying.

The forest grew fangs. The sky spread its wings.

Zephyr Net (Lorwyn)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has defender and flying.

Faeries hang beings that interest them as ornaments in the sky, each clique competing to outshine the prize of the last.

Chord of Calling (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Heather Hudson

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.) Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Razorclaw Bear (Portal Second Age)
Heather Hudson

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

One razorclaw is three bears too many. —Elvish saying

Pongify (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Heather Hudson

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Some spellcrafting mistakes go on to become spells of their own.

Order of the Stars (Guildpact)
Heather Hudson

Defender (This creature can't attack.) As this creature enters, choose a color. This creature has protection from the chosen color.

As stoic as the marble halls, as unblinking as the stars upon their shields.

Fungusaur (The List)
Heather Hudson

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Rather than sheltering her young, the female fungusaur often injures her own offspring, thereby ensuring their rapid growth.

Treespring Lorian (Onslaught)
Heather Hudson

Morph {5}{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.)

No matter your strength, the Krosan Forest is stronger. No matter your speed, the Wirewood Forest is faster.

Scrivener (Exodus)
Heather Hudson

When this creature enters, you may return target instant card from your graveyard to your hand.

"History is a potent weapon." —Karn, silver golem

Giant Trap Door Spider (Ice Age)
Heather Hudson

{1}{R}{G}, {T}: Exile this creature and target creature without flying that's attacking you.

"So large and so quiet—a combination best avoided." —Disa the Restless, journal entry

Marsh Boa (Prophecy)
Heather Hudson

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

Though a powerful constrictor, it prefers simply to drown its prey.

Crippling Fatigue (Torment)
Heather Hudson

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Flashback—{1}{B}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Diamond Faerie (Coldsnap)
Heather Hudson

Flying {1}{S}: Snow creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

"That such delicate creatures could become so powerful in the embrace of winter is yet more proof that I am right." —Heidar, Rimewind master

Spitting Gourna (Onslaught)
Heather Hudson

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Morph {4}{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.)

Glacial Wall (Seventh Edition)
Heather Hudson

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Like arguing with ice —Vodalian expression meaning "wasting your time"

Zephyr Falcon (Renaissance)
Heather Hudson

Flying, vigilance

Gliding Licid (Stronghold)
Heather Hudson

{U}, {T}: This creature loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay {U} to end this effect. Enchanted creature has flying.

Booster Tutor (Arena League 2004)
Heather Hudson

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

Make your judgment wisely: The right pack will let you defeat your nemesis, but a poor choice can only end in torment. And *Homelands*.

Avian Changeling (Lorwyn)
Heather Hudson

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Flying

Today it flies with the flock. Tomorrow it may wake to find them gone, its body in an unfamiliar form.

Weight of Conscience (Jumpstart 2022)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack. Tap two untapped creatures you control that share a creature type: Exile enchanted creature.

Sometimes the weight of the world on your shoulders is a literal one.

Barren Moor (Commander 2013)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Bear (Commander 2015 Tokens)
Heather Hudson

Ur-Golem's Eye (Darksteel)
Heather Hudson

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

It still stares accusingly at Memnarch, though millennia have passed since he separated the eye from its body.

Secluded Steppe (Commander 2015)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Ironshell Beetle (Judgment)
Heather Hudson

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

"Why waste time creating weapons? Nature provides us with all we need." —Centaur warrior

Tranquil Thicket (Duel Decks Anthology: Elves vs. Goblins)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Basking Rootwalla (The List)
Heather Hudson

{1}{G}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn. Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Levitation (Urza's Legacy)
Heather Hudson

Creatures you control have flying.

Barrin's pride in his apprentice was diminished somewhat when he had to get the others back down.

Tranquil Thicket (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Giant Octopus (Seventh Edition)
Heather Hudson

The only thing that flows faster than water is fear.

Amugaba (Odyssey)
Heather Hudson

Flying {2}{U}, Discard a card: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

The aven claim it feeds on thunder and rainbows.

Secluded Steppe (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Standstill (Odyssey)
Heather Hudson

When a player casts a spell, sacrifice this enchantment. If you do, each of that player's opponents draws three cards.

"Take your time."

Basking Rootwalla (Friday Night Magic 2007)
Heather Hudson

{1}{G}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn. Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Tranquil Thicket (Onslaught)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Boreal Shelf (Coldsnap)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

"Who will stay the Tyrant's hand, As ice and woe both grip our land? The helpless feel his frozen brand." —*The Dynasty of Winter Kings*

Temporal Adept (Urza's Destiny)
Heather Hudson

{U}{U}{U}, {T}: Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

"Of course she's at the head of her class. All her classmates have disappeared." —Gatha, Tolarian renegade

Hermit Druid (The List)
Heather Hudson

{G}, {T}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a basic land card. Put that card into your hand and all other cards revealed this way into your graveyard.

Seeking the company of plants ensures that your wits will go to seed.

Levitation (Ninth Edition)
Heather Hudson

Creatures you control have flying.

Barrin's pride in his apprentice was diminished somewhat when he had to get the others back down.

Hungry Mist (Homelands)
Heather Hudson

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

"All things must eat, after all. Even the air can hunger." —Gemma, Willow Priestess

Lonely Sandbar (Commander 2014)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Wishmonger (Mercadian Masques)
Heather Hudson

{2}: Target creature gains protection from the color of its controller's choice until end of turn. Any player may activate this ability.

"It's not what you ask for, but how you ask for it."

Basking Rootwalla (Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Heather Hudson

{1}{G}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn. Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Fertile Ground (Urza's Saga)
Heather Hudson

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

The forest was too lush for the brothers to despoil—almost.

Zephyr Falcon (Fifth Edition)
Heather Hudson

Flying, vigilance

Although greatly prized among falconers, the zephyr falcon is capricious and not easily tamed.

Geth's Grimoire (Darksteel)
Heather Hudson

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

The book shrieks horribly until its cover is opened, granting the spirit inside a moment's rest from the painful stirrings of the book's contents.

Fledgling Osprey (Urza's Destiny)
Heather Hudson

This creature has flying as long as it's enchanted.

It isn't truly born until its first flight.

Sculpting Steel (Commander 2021)
Heather Hudson

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

An artificer once dropped one in a vault full of coins. She has yet to find it.

Flailing Drake (Tempest)
Heather Hudson

Flying Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Too many choices will always distract a greedy beast.

Secluded Steppe (Onslaught)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Norin the Wary (The List)
Heather Hudson

When a player casts a spell or a creature attacks, exile Norin. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"I have a bad feeling about this."

Azorius Aethermage (Dissension)
Heather Hudson

Whenever a permanent is returned to your hand, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

In her single metasphere are bound the records of every Ætheric transaction since the time of Azor.

Branchsnap Lorian (Legions)
Heather Hudson

Trample Morph {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.)

Lorians treat trees and prey the same way: by ripping them limb from limb.

Thorn Thallid (Fallen Empires)
Heather Hudson

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature. Remove three spore counters from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

"The cooling climate forced the Elves to experiment with new food sources." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. I*

Natural Emergence (Planeshift)
Heather Hudson

When this enchantment enters, return a red or green enchantment you control to its owner's hand. Lands you control are 2/2 creatures with first strike. They're still lands.

Spike Feeder (Commander 2011)
Heather Hudson

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: You gain 2 life.

Cloudstone Curio (Ravnica Remastered)
Heather Hudson

Whenever a nonartifact permanent you control enters, you may return another permanent you control that shares a permanent type with it to its owner's hand.

It *wants* to remain a mystery, banishing the curious in favor of less inquisitive company.

Barren Moor (Commander Anthology)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Graceful Antelope (Odyssey)
Heather Hudson

Plainswalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Plains.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may have target land become a Plains until this creature leaves the battlefield.

Screeching Buzzard (Battlebond)
Heather Hudson

Flying When this creature dies, each opponent discards a card.

"A shrill creature that delights in the misery of others—what's not to love?" —Braids, dementia summoner

Cloudstone Curio (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Heather Hudson

Whenever a nonartifact permanent you control enters, you may return another permanent you control that shares a permanent type with it to its owner's hand.

It *wants* to remain a mystery, banishing the curious in favor of less inquisitive company.

Suntail Hawk (Magic 2014)
Heather Hudson

Flying

"They are the finest companions in the realm. Swift, clever, and easily trained to hunt intruders." —Almira, falconer

Secluded Steppe (Commander 2018)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sculpting Steel (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Heather Hudson

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

"Based on his early work with primal clay, Tawnos refined the rare metals in the earth into self-assembling strands." —*After the War*

Ur-Golem's Eye (Commander 2014)
Heather Hudson

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

Ur-golems once dominated the plane. Even now, they maintain a deep connection to it.

Talas Scout (Portal Second Age)
Heather Hudson

Flying

"Scouting a battle before you fight it is just good business." —Jefan, Talas ship captain

Kodama's Reach (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Heather Hudson

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it." —Dosan the Falling Leaf

Sylvan Messenger (Apocalypse)
Heather Hudson

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all Elf cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Treetop Bracers (Ninth Edition)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and can't be blocked except by creatures with flying.

Gravity is truly what you make of it.

Howling Wolf (Mercadian Masques)
Heather Hudson

When this creature enters, you may search your library for up to three cards named Howling Wolf, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Treetop Bracers (Tenth Edition)
Heather Hudson

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and can't be blocked except by creatures with flying.

Gravity is truly what you make of it.

Cloudstone Curio (Ravnica Remastered)
Heather Hudson

Whenever a nonartifact permanent you control enters, you may return another permanent you control that shares a permanent type with it to its owner's hand.

It *wants* to remain a mystery, banishing the curious in favor of less inquisitive company.

Aether Rift (Invasion)
Heather Hudson

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card at random. If you discard a creature card this way, return it from your graveyard to the battlefield unless any player pays 5 life.

Defiant Falcon (Nemesis)
Heather Hudson

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

Norin the Wary (Time Spiral)
Heather Hudson

When a player casts a spell or a creature attacks, exile Norin. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

"I have a bad feeling about this."

Rooting Kavu (Invasion)
Heather Hudson

When this creature dies, you may exile it. If you do, shuffle all creature cards from your graveyard into your library.

Secluded Steppe (Commander 2014)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Secluded Steppe (Commander 2021)
Heather Hudson

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Notorious Assassin (Mercadian Masques)
Heather Hudson

{2}{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

He wears his infamy like a fine silk shirt.

Pongify (Double Masters)
Heather Hudson

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Some spellcrafting mistakes go on to become spells of their own.

Ringskipper (Lorwyn)
Heather Hudson

Flying When this creature dies, clash with an opponent. If you win, return this card to its owner's hand. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.)

Sawtooth Loon (Duel Decks: Venser vs. Koth)
Heather Hudson

Flying When this creature enters, return a white or blue creature you control to its owner's hand. When this creature enters, draw two cards, then put two cards from your hand on the bottom of your library.

Giant Octopus (Ninth Edition)
Heather Hudson

"Before my eyes was a horrible monster, worthy to figure in the legends of the marvellous. . . . Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head . . . were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair." —Jules Verne, *Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea*, trans. Lewis

Academy Rector (Urza's Destiny)
Heather Hudson

When this creature dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.