Know Naught but Fire

Reconnaissance (Exodus)
Val Mayerik

{0}: Remove target attacking creature you control from combat and untap it. (If you activate during end of combat, the creature will untap after it deals combat damage.)

War favors the informed.

Victimize (Urza's Saga)
Val Mayerik

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

The priest cast Xantcha to the ground. "It is defective. We must scrap it."

Pegasus Charger (Urza's Saga)
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Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

"The clouds came alive and dove to the earth! Hooves flashed among the dark army, who fled before the spectacle of fury." —*Song of All*, canto 211

Drench the Soil in Their Blood (DCI Promos)
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When you set this scheme in motion, after this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Creatures you control gain vigilance until end of turn.

"Are they dead yet? No? Then my previous order stands."

Peat Bog (The List)
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This land enters tapped with two depletion counters on it. {T}, Remove a depletion counter from this land: Add {B}{B}. If there are no depletion counters on this land, sacrifice it.

Food Chain (Mercadian Masques)
Val Mayerik

Exile a creature you control: Add X mana of any one color, where X is 1 plus the exiled creature's mana value. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.

Security Detail (Mercadian Masques)
Val Mayerik

{W}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token. Activate only if you control no creatures and only once each turn.

Seething Anger (The List)
Val Mayerik

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.) Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

Seething Anger (Stronghold)
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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.) Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

Soltari Guerrillas (Tempest)
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Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) {0}: The next time this creature would deal combat damage to an opponent this turn, it deals that damage to target creature instead.

Nomads en-Kor (World Championship Decks 1998)
Val Mayerik

{0}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn is dealt to target creature you control instead.

The Kor forsake roots for the winding of the path; forsake voices for the silence of the mind; forsake all else for the poverty of isolation.

Douse (Urza's Saga)
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{1}{U}: Counter target red spell.

The academy's libraries were protected by fire-prevention spells. Even after the disaster, the books were intact—though forever sealed in time.

Needle Storm (Tempest)
Val Mayerik

Needle Storm deals 4 damage to each creature with flying.

The rain is driven like nails.

Food Chain (The List)
Val Mayerik

Exile a creature you control: Add X mana of any one color, where X is 1 plus the exiled creature's mana value. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.

Tooth and Claw (Commander 2013)
Val Mayerik

Sacrifice two creatures: Create a 3/1 red Beast creature token named Carnivore.

"You deify nature as female—kind and gentle—yet you cringe at what is natural." —Mirri of the *Weatherlight*

Hopping Automaton (Urza's Saga)
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{0}: This creature gets -1/-1 and gains flying until end of turn.

Designed to carry equipment across rivers, the hopping automaton was soon pressed into service in the infantry.

Task Mage Assembly (Prophecy)
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When there are no creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment. {2}: This enchantment deals 1 damage to target creature. Any player may activate this ability but only as a sorcery.

Tanglebloom (Ninth Edition)
Val Mayerik

{1}, {T}: You gain 1 life.

The bloom contains no seeds. It's meant only to nourish the forest's inhabitants.

Sick and Tired (Urza's Legacy)
Val Mayerik

Two target creatures each get -1/-1 until end of turn.

The Phyrexians' only interest in organic life is discerning its weakness.

Gerrard's Battle Cry (Tempest)
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{2}{W}: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Gerrard grinned and drew his sword. "This won't be a fair fight," he called to his crew. "They should have brought a second ship!"

Assembly Hall (Mercadian Masques)
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{4}, {T}: Reveal a creature card in your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Remembrance (Urza's Saga)
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Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you may search your library for a card with the same name as that creature, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Launch (Urza's Saga)
Val Mayerik

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Iron Will (Urza's Legacy)
Val Mayerik

Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Indentured Djinn (Mercadian Masques)
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Flying When this creature enters, each other player may draw up to three cards.

It's not always clear who's the master and who's the servant.

Citanul Centaurs (Urza's Saga)
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Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Echo {3}{G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

Brutal Suppression (Prophecy)
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Activated abilities of nontoken Rebels cost an additional "Sacrifice a land" to activate.

"They no longer care about their own suffering. Show them something worse." —Latulla, Keldon overseer

Fires of Yavimaya (Planechase)
Val Mayerik

Creatures you control have haste. Sacrifice this enchantment: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Faerie Conclave (Urza's Legacy)
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This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {1}{U}: This land becomes a 2/1 blue Faerie creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.

Curiosity (Exodus)
Val Mayerik

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

All Mirri wanted to do was rest, but she couldn't ignore a nagging suspicion as she followed Crovax's skulking form.

Nomads en-Kor (Mystery Booster 2)
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{0}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn is dealt to target creature you control instead.

The Kor forsake roots for the winding of the path; forsake voices for the silence of the mind; forsake all else for the poverty of isolation.

Energizer (Tempest)
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{2}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Like a kettle set to boil, it must eventually go off—on someone.

Fires of Yavimaya (The List)
Val Mayerik

Creatures you control have haste. Sacrifice this enchantment: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Tainted Well (Invasion)
Val Mayerik

Enchant land When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted land is a Swamp.

"No, *you* get the water. I ain't thirsty." —Squee

Humble (Urza's Saga)
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Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 0/1.

"It is not your place to rule, Radiant. It may not even be mine." —Serra

Reconnaissance (The List)
Val Mayerik

{0}: Remove target attacking creature you control from combat and untap it. (If you activate during end of combat, the creature will untap after it deals combat damage.)

War favors the informed.

Tooth and Claw (Tempest)
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Sacrifice two creatures: Create a 3/1 red Beast creature token named Carnivore.

"You deify nature as female—kind and gentle—yet you cringe at what is natural." —Mirri of the *Weatherlight*

Fires of Yavimaya (Planechase Anthology)
Val Mayerik

Creatures you control have haste. Sacrifice this enchantment: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Righteous Indignation (Mercadian Masques)
Val Mayerik

Whenever a creature blocks a black or red creature, the blocking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"You are the disease that plagues Mercadia. I am the healer's knife that will cut you out."

The Very Soil Shall Shake (Archenemy Schemes)
Val Mayerik

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.) Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have trample. When a creature you control dies, abandon this scheme.

Curiosity (The List)
Val Mayerik

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

All Mirri wanted to do was rest, but she couldn't ignore a nagging suspicion as she followed Crovax's skulking form.

Contempt (Stronghold)
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Enchant creature When enchanted creature attacks, return it and this Aura to their owners' hands at end of combat.

"Predictable little man. In all these years you taught me so much yet learned so little." —Volrath, to Starke

Pegasus Charger (Anthologies)
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Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

"The clouds came alive and dove to the earth! Hooves flashed among the dark army, who fled before the spectacle of fury." —*Song of All*, canto 211

Squall (Mercadian Masques)
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Squall deals 2 damage to each creature with flying.

The air that holds them aloft can just as easily put them down.

Tanglebloom (Mirrodin)
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{1}, {T}: You gain 1 life.

Druids converted swaths of the Tangle into tanglebloom orchards. Though heavy tools are needed to cut a leaf in the Tangle, tanglebloom fruit is easily plucked by hand.

Fires of Yavimaya (Planechase 2012)
Val Mayerik

Creatures you control have haste. Sacrifice this enchantment: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Victimize (Commander 2014)
Val Mayerik

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

The priest cast Xantcha to the ground. "It is defective. We must scrap it."

Peat Bog (Mercadian Masques)
Val Mayerik

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

Fires of Yavimaya (World Championship Decks 2001)
Val Mayerik

Creatures you control have haste. Sacrifice this enchantment: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Needle Storm (Ninth Edition)
Val Mayerik

Needle Storm deals 4 damage to each creature with flying.

The rain is driven like nails.

Dehydration (Mercadian Masques)
Val Mayerik

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

"You say Saprazzo is a city built on water? I hope they have enough to wash the dust from my throat." —Sisay

Path of Peace (Starter 1999)
Val Mayerik

Destroy target creature. Its owner gains 4 life.

"You could die famous or you could die old. I chose old." —Former soldier

Fires of Yavimaya (Invasion)
Val Mayerik

Creatures you control have haste. Sacrifice this enchantment: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Curiosity (Masters 25)
Val Mayerik

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

All Mirri wanted to do was rest, but she couldn't ignore a nagging suspicion as she followed Crovax's skulking form.

Nomads en-Kor (Stronghold)
Val Mayerik

{0}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn is dealt to target creature you control instead.

The Kor forsake roots for the winding of the path; forsake voices for the silence of the mind; forsake all else for the poverty of isolation.

Titania's Boon (Urza's Saga)
Val Mayerik

Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

When the winds rock the trees, listen for voices in the creaking of the trunks. If you hear your name, you are one of the Goddess's chosen.

Pegasus Charger (Ninth Edition)
Val Mayerik

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Fires of Yavimaya (Archenemy)
Val Mayerik

Creatures you control have haste. Sacrifice this enchantment: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Path of Peace (Urza's Saga)
Val Mayerik

Destroy target creature. Its owner gains 4 life.

"When the sword becomes a burden, let the warrior lay it aside that another with a truer heart might take it up." —Radiant, archangel