Elvish Archers

Elvish Archers (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Elvish Archers (Seventh Edition)
Doug Chaffee

First strike

The archers have a reputation for attacking without warning. They claim that the first arrow *is* the warning.

Elvish Archers (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Elvish Archers (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

Elvish Archers (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Elvish Archers (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Elvish Archers (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Elvish Archers (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Elvish Archers (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Elvish Archers (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Elvish Archers (Classic Sixth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

"I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, 'Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!'"

Elvish Archers (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Elvish Archers (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Elvish Archers (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Elvish Archers (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Elvish Archers (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

Siren's Call (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared. Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Deathgrip (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Llanowar Elves (Classic Sixth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

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

Wall of Brambles (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

Invisibility (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by Walls.

Dragon Engine (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

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

Those who believed the city of Kroog would never fall to Mishra's forces severely underestimated the might of his war machines.

Hurloon Minotaur (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.

Llanowar Elves (World Championship Decks 1999)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

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

Living Wall (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {1}: Regenerate Living Wall.

Some fiendish mage had created a horrifying wall of living flesh, patched together from a jumble of still-recognizable body parts. As we sought to hew our way through it, some unknown power healed the gaping wounds we cut, denying us passage.

Lure (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Skyshroud Falcon (Seventh Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Flying, vigilance

The earliest mystics believed that the falcon slit the sky to let the light break through.

Sengir Vampire (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

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

Pyrotechnics (Classic Sixth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

"Hi!ni!ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me! / Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return." —Navajo war chant

Volrath (Vanguard Series)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a creature you control is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may put it on top of your library.

The son of Gerrard's surrogate father, Sidar Kondo, Volrath stole Gerrard's Legacy and rose to power selling it off piece by piece. Now, he is an evincar, or agent, of the Lord of the Wastes. Armed with exceptional magical powers, he plots to conquer the entire multiverse.

Cyclopean Tomb (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

{2}, {T}: Put a mire counter on target non-Swamp land. That land is a Swamp for as long as it has a mire counter on it. Activate only during your upkeep. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, remove all mire counters from a land that a mire counter was put onto with this artifact but that a mire counter has not been removed from with this artifact.

Island (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

({T}: Add {U}.)

Hurloon Minotaur (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.

Disintegrate (World Championship Decks 1997)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Plague Rats (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

Hurloon Minotaur (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.

Wall of Brambles (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf." —Conrad Aiken

Wall of Brambles (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf." —Conrad Aiken

Samite Healer (Tenth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Orcish Artillery (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

Throne of Bone (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Onulet (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.

An early inspiration for Urza, Tocasia's Onulets contained magical essences that could be cannibalized after they stopped functioning.

Ironclaw Orcs (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan.

Wall of Brambles (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

Two-Headed Giant of Foriys (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Trample This creature can block an additional creature each combat.

None know if this Giant is the result of aberrant magics, Siamese twins, or a mentalist's schizophrenia.

Lure (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Two-Headed Giant of Foriys (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Trample This creature can block an additional creature each combat.

None know if this Giant is the result of aberrant magics, Siamese twins, or a mentalist's schizophrenia.

Vampiric Spirit (Portal Second Age)
Anson Maddocks

Flying When this creature enters, you lose 4 life.

Lifetap (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Paralyze (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Wall of Bone (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

"Good neighbors make good walls." —Jakkarak the Maimer

Lure (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

"When setting a snare, success depends not on the quality of the trap, but the quality of the bait." —Geyadrone Dihada

Paralyze (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Deathgrip (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Holy Strength (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Guardian Angel (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay {1} any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that permanent or player this turn.

Fallen Angel (Beatdown Box Set)
Anson Maddocks

Flying Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

"Angels are simply extensions of truth upon the fabric of life—and there is far more dark than light." —Baron Sengir

Inquisition (The Dark)
Anson Maddocks

Target player reveals their hand. Inquisition deals damage to that player equal to the number of white cards in their hand.

Many of those entrusted to Primata Delphine's care tended to express themselves with screams.

Elvish Archers (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Onulet (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.

Denizen of the Deep (Portal Second Age)
Anson Maddocks

When this creature enters, return each other creature you control to its owner's hand.

Sengir Vampire (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

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

Guardian Angel (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay {1} any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that permanent or player this turn.

Wall of Bone (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.

Urza's Mine (Rinascimento)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Shanodin Dryads (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Hurloon Minotaur (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.

Dragon Engine (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

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

Wall of Bone (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Fallen Ideal (Time Spiral)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying and "Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn." When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Creature Bond (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Wall of Brambles (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf." —Conrad Aiken

Blood Lust (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

If target creature has toughness 5 or greater, it gets +4/-4 until end of turn. Otherwise, it gets +4/-X until end of turn, where X is its toughness minus 1.

Jade Monolith (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Typhoon (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

Typhoon deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of Islands that player controls.

Fierce winds ripped across the tropical landscape. What they did not destroy with their fiery breath was washed away by torrential rain.

Creature Bond (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Flight (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Disintegrate (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Plague Rats (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

Animate Dead (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Ironclaw Orcs (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan. To say that Orcs in general are vicious, depraved, and ignoble does not do justice to the Ironclaw.

Creature Bond (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Llanowar Elves (World Championship Decks 2000)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

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

Orcish Artillery (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

Vampire Bats (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) {B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.

"For something is amiss or out of place When mice with wings can wear a human face." —Theodore Roethke, "The Bat"

Eternal Warrior (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has vigilance.

Warriors of the Tsunami-nito School spend years in training to master the way of effortless effort.

Hurloon Minotaur (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

Throne of Bone (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Creature Bond (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Living Artifact (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Llanowar Elves (Friday Night Magic 2000)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Ivory Cup (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Disintegrate (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Siren's Call (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared. Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Jade Monolith (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Serendib Djinn (Arabian Nights)
Anson Maddocks

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a land. If you sacrifice an Island this way, this creature deals 3 damage to you. When you control no lands, sacrifice this creature.

Ironclaw Orcs (World Championship Decks 1998)
Anson Maddocks

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

Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan.

Eternal Warrior (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has vigilance.

Warriors of the Tsunami-nito School spend years in training to master the way of effortless effort.

False Orders (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step. Remove target creature defending player controls from combat. Creatures it was blocking that had become blocked by only that creature this combat become unblocked. You may have it block an attacking creature of your choice.

Wall of Brambles (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

Animate Dead (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Dancing Scimitar (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

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

Deathgrip (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Ashnod's Altar (Classic Sixth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

The Brothers' War scarred the land, but Ashnod left her mark in the bloodlines of those she tortured.

Anaba Bodyguard (Homelands)
Anson Maddocks

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

"Not all Minotaurs are tribal. Some are freelance." —Eron the Relentless

Siren's Call (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared. Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Jade Monolith (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Ivory Cup (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Siren's Call (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared. Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Animate Dead (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Ironclaw Orcs (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan. To say that Orcs in general are vicious, depraved, and ignoble does not do justice to the Ironclaw.

Pyrotechnics (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

Ironclaw Orcs (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

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

Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan. To say that Orcs in general are vicious, depraved, and ignoble does not do justice to the Ironclaw.

Orcish Artillery (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

Stromgald Cabal (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}, Pay 1 life: Counter target white spell.

When the alliance between Balduvia and Kjeldor deprived Stromgald of easy victories, its agents were forced to fuel their rituals with their own flesh.

Pyrotechnics (Anthologies)
Anson Maddocks

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

"Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me! / Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return." —Navajo war chant

Disintegrate (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Dragon Engine (Classic Sixth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

"How is it the legged engines seem so much more alive than their wheeled counterparts? Simply, they were born, not made." —Mishra

Flight (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Fishliver Oil (Rinascimento)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature has islandwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Hurloon Minotaur (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.

Wall of Brambles (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf." —Conrad Aiken

Ironclaw Orcs (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

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

Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan. To say that Orcs in general are vicious, depraved, and ignoble does not do justice to the Ironclaw.

Lure (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Dragon Engine (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

"How is it the legged engines seem so much more alive than their wheeled counterparts? Simply, they were born, not made." —Mishra

Lim-Dûl's High Guard (Alliances)
Anson Maddocks

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

"Death does not prevent us from service to our absent master. As long as Tresserhorn stands, so shall we." —Chaeska, Keeper of Tresserhorn

Armor of Faith (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. {W}: Enchanted creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"Keep your chainmail, warrior. I have my own form of protection." —Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest

Ivory Cup (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

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

Onulet (Antiquities)
Anson Maddocks

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.

An early inspiration for Urza, Tocasia's Onulets contained magical essences that could be cannibalized after they stopped functioning.

Lim-Dûl's High Guard (Deckmasters)
Anson Maddocks

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

"The Guard will forever stand ready. For them, death is merely an inconvenience, not an ending." —Chaeska, keeper of Tresserhorn

Thrull Wizard (Fallen Empires)
Anson Maddocks

{1}{B}: Counter target black spell unless that spell's controller pays {B} or {3}.

"In crafting intelligent Thrulls to assist in sacrifices, Sahr inadvertantly set the stage for the Thrull Rebellion." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. II*

Plague Rats (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you...." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

Lifetap (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Siren's Call (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared. Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Guardian Angel (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay {1} any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that permanent or player this turn.

Carapace (Homelands)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+2. Sacrifice this Aura: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"The tougher to crack, the sweeter the snack." —Kakra, Sea Troll

Breeding Pit (Fallen Empires)
Anson Maddocks

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay {B}{B}. At the beginning of your end step, create a 0/1 black Thrull creature token.

The Thrulls bred at a terrifying pace. In the end, they overwhelmed the Order of the Ebon Hand.

Dragon Engine (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

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

Pyrotechnics (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

"Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me! Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return." —Navajo war chant

False Orders (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step. Remove target creature defending player controls from combat. Creatures it was blocking that had become blocked by only that creature this combat become unblocked. You may have it block an attacking creature of your choice.

Ivory Cup (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Vampire Bats (Renaissance)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) {B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.

Dragon Engine (Antiquities)
Anson Maddocks

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

Those who believed the city of Kroog would never fall to Mishra's forces severely underestimated the might of his war machines.

Sengir Vampire (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Siren's Call (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared. Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Llanowar Elves (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Onulet (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.

Derelor (Classic Sixth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Black spells you cast cost {B} more to cast.

"Strength it has, but at the cost of a continuous supply of energy. Such failure can bear only one result." —Execution order of Endrek Sahr, master breeder

Island (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Anson Maddocks

({T}: Add {U}.)

Two-Headed Giant of Foriys (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Trample This creature can block an additional creature each combat.

None know if this Giant is the result of aberrant magics, Siamese twins, or a mentalist's schizophrenia.

Vampire Bats (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) {B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.

"For something is amiss or out of place/ When mice with wings can wear a human face." —Theodore Roethke, "The Bat"

Casting of Bones (Alliances)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, draw three cards, then discard one of them.

"Whether whole or not, still we serve Lim-Dûl's wishes." —Chaeska, Keeper of Tresserhorn

Worms of the Earth (The Dark)
Anson Maddocks

Players can't play lands. Lands can't enter the battlefield. At the beginning of each upkeep, any player may sacrifice two lands of their choice or have this enchantment deal 5 damage to that player. If a player does either, destroy this enchantment.

The ground collapsed, leaving nothing but the great Worms' mucous residues.

Disintegrate (World Championship Decks 1997)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Animate Dead (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Holy Strength (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Island (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

({T}: Add {U}.)

Jade Monolith (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Invisibility (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by Walls.

Combat Medic (Fallen Empires)
Anson Maddocks

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

"Without Combat Medics, Icatia would probably not have withstood the forces of chaos as long as it did." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI*

Electric Eel (The Dark)
Anson Maddocks

When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to you. {R}{R}: This creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn and deals 1 damage to you.

Blood Lust (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

If target creature has toughness 5 or greater, it gets +4/-4 until end of turn. Otherwise, it gets +4/-X until end of turn, where X is its toughness minus 1.

Disintegrate (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Lure (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Dragon Engine (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Those who believed the city of Kroog would never fall to Mishra's forces severely underestimated the might of his war machines.

Stromgald Cabal (World Championship Decks 1999)
Anson Maddocks

{T}, Pay 1 life: Counter target white spell.

When the alliance between Balduvia and Kjeldor deprived Stromgald of easy victories, its agents were forced to fuel their rituals with their own flesh.

Ironclaw Orcs (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

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

Living Artifact (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Lure (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Invisibility (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by Walls.

Labyrinth Minotaur (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"I doubt any labyrinth minotaurs still live—but then we minotaurs are stubborn beings." —Onatah, Anaba shaman

Island (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Anson Maddocks

({T}: Add {U}.)

Invisibility (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by Walls.

Giant Slug (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

{5}: At the beginning of your next upkeep, choose a basic land type. This creature gains landwalk of the chosen type until the end of that turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a land of that type.)

Sengir Vampire (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Scarwood Hag (The Dark)
Anson Maddocks

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

False Orders (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step. Remove target creature defending player controls from combat. Creatures it was blocking that had become blocked by only that creature this combat become unblocked. You may have it block an attacking creature of your choice.

Urza's Mine (Rinascimento)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Living Wall (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {1}: Regenerate Living Wall.

Some fiendish mage had created a horrifying wall of living flesh, patched together from a jumble of still-recognizable body parts. As we sought to hew our way through it, some unknown power healed the gaping wounds we cut, denying us passage.

Living Wall (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {1}: Regenerate Living Wall.

Some fiendish mage had created a horrifying wall of living flesh, patched together from a jumble of still-recognizable body parts. As we sought to hew our way through it, some unknown power healed the gaping wounds we cut, denying us passage.

Casting of Bones (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, draw three cards, then discard one of them.

"Only a necromancer would create such a foul form of divination." —Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen

Paralyze (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Vampire Bats (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) {B}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.

"For something is amiss or out of place / When mice with wings can wear a human face." —Theodore Roethke, "The Bat"

Sengir Vampire (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Legions of Lim-Dûl (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Anson Maddocks

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

"I have seen the faces of my dead friends among that grim band, and I can bear no more." —Lucilde Fiksdotter, leader of the Order of the White Shield

Urza's Mine (Chronicles)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Mines became common as cities during the days of the artificers.

Wall of Brambles (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

Onulet (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.

An early inspiration for Urza, Tocasia's Onulets contained magical essences that could be cannibalized after they stopped functioning.

Shanodin Dryads (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Ironclaw Orcs (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan. To say that Orcs in general are vicious, depraved, and ignoble does not do justice to the Ironclaw.

Animate Dead (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Island (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Anson Maddocks

({T}: Add {U}.)

Anaba Spirit Crafter (Homelands)
Anson Maddocks

Minotaur creatures get +1/+0.

"The Spirit Crafters sing of all our people. They sing of those lost, of those found, and of those who are yet to be." —Onatah, Anaba Shaman

Llanowar Elves (World Championship Decks 2000)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

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

Lure (Classic Sixth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

When setting a snare, success depends not on the quality of the trap, but the quality of the bait.

Holy Strength (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Living Artifact (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Creature Bond (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Guardian Angel (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay {1} any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that permanent or player this turn.

Fallen Angel (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

Flying Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

Ironclaw Orcs (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan. To say that Orcs in general are vicious, depraved, and ignoble does not do justice to the Ironclaw.

Plague Rats (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you. . ." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

Fallen Angel (Chronicles)
Anson Maddocks

Flying Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

Dancing Scimitar (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Bobbing merrily from opponent to opponent, the scimitar began adding playful little flourishes to its strokes; it even turned a couple of somersaults.

Elvish Archers (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Blizzard (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only if you control a snow land. Cumulative upkeep {2} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Creatures with flying don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Lifetap (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Scarecrow (The Dark)
Anson Maddocks

{6}, {T}: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn by creatures with flying.

There was more malice in its button eyes than should have been possible in something that had never known life.

Six-y Beast (Unhinged)
Anson Maddocks

As this creature enters, you secretly put six or fewer +1/+1 counters on it, then an opponent guesses the number of counters. If that player guesses right, sacrifice this creature after it enters.

Is it six?

Animate Dead (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Fallen Angel (Classic Sixth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Flying Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

"Angels are simply extensions of truth upon the fabric of life—and there is far more dark than light." —Baron Sengir

Living Wall (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {1}: Regenerate Living Wall.

Some fiendish mage had created a horrifying wall of living flesh, patched together from a jumble of still-recognizable body parts. As we sought to hew our way through it, some unknown power healed the gaping wounds we cut, denying us passage.

Gaze of Pain (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

Until end of turn, whenever a creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, you may choose to have it deal damage equal to its power to a target creature. If you do, it assigns no combat damage this turn.

Remove the guardians to ensure your victory.

Blood Lust (Renaissance)
Anson Maddocks

If target creature has toughness 5 or greater, it gets +4/-4 until end of turn. Otherwise, it gets +4/-X until end of turn, where X is its toughness minus 1.

Serra Bestiary (Homelands)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this Aura unless you pay {W}{W}. Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities with {T} in their costs can't be activated.

Disintegrate (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Wall of Bone (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.

Lure (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature All creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Animate Dead (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Llanowar Elves (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Hardened by their life in the haunted Llanowar Forest, these fierce beings are outcasts among elvenkind.

Ivory Cup (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Spitting Slug (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, this creature gains first strike until end of turn. Otherwise, each creature blocking or blocked by this creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Soldevi Golem (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may untap target tapped creature an opponent controls. If you do, untap this creature.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Wall of Bone (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

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

Blood Lust (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

If target creature has toughness 5 or greater, it gets +4/-4 until end of turn. Otherwise, it gets +4/-X until end of turn, where X is its toughness minus 1.

Orcish Artillery (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

Creature Bond (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Six-y Beast (Unsanctioned)
Anson Maddocks

As this creature enters, you secretly put six or fewer +1/+1 counters on it, then an opponent guesses the number of counters. If that player guesses right, sacrifice this creature after it enters.

Is it six?

Crimson Kobolds (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

"Kobolds are harmless." —Bearand the Bold, epitaph

Creature Bond (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Holy Strength (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Samite Healer (Seventh Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Why does a Samite heal? You might as well ask why a bird flies.

False Orders (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step. Remove target creature defending player controls from combat. Creatures it was blocking that had become blocked by only that creature this combat become unblocked. You may have it block an attacking creature of your choice.

Paralyze (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Jade Monolith (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Anaba Shaman (Homelands)
Anson Maddocks

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

"Few master the powers of the earth as well as do the Shamans of the Minotaurs." —Baki, Wizard Attendant

Animate Dead (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Cyclopean Tomb (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

{2}, {T}: Put a mire counter on target non-Swamp land. That land is a Swamp for as long as it has a mire counter on it. Activate only during your upkeep. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, remove all mire counters from a land that a mire counter was put onto with this artifact but that a mire counter has not been removed from with this artifact.

Shanodin Dryads (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Ivory Cup (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Lord of Tresserhorn (Alliances)
Anson Maddocks

When Lord of Tresserhorn enters, you lose 2 life, you sacrifice two creatures, and target opponent draws two cards. {B}: Regenerate Lord of Tresserhorn.

Hurloon Minotaur (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.

Wall of Bone (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

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

The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.

Deathgrip (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Reconstruction (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Tedious research made the Sages of the College of Lat-Nam adept in repairing broken artifacts.

Disintegrate (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Llanowar Elves (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

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

Snow-Covered Island (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

({T}: Add {U}.)

Eternal Warrior (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has vigilance.

Warriors of the Tsunami-nito School spend years in training to master the way of effortless effort.

Elvish Archers (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

Fishliver Oil (Arabian Nights)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature has islandwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Then the maiden bade him cast off his robes and cover his body with fishliver oil, that he might safely follow her into the sea.

Raise Dead (Portal Second Age)
Anson Maddocks

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Life from death is part of the natural cycle. This is merely a shortcut." —Tojira, swamp queen

Foriysian Totem (Time Spiral)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {R}. {4}{R}: This artifact becomes a 4/4 red Giant artifact creature with trample until end of turn. As long as this artifact is a creature, it can block an additional creature each combat.

Disintegrate (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Raise Dead (The List)
Anson Maddocks

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Life from death is part of the natural cycle. This is merely a shortcut." —Tojira, swamp queen

Black Mana Battery (Renaissance)
Anson Maddocks

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

Spinal Villain (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Destroy target blue creature.

"Striking silent as a dream,/ Cutting short the strangled scream . . ." —Tobrian, "Watchdragon"

Null Rod (Weatherlight)
Anson Maddocks

Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.

Gerrard: "But it doesn't *do* anything!" Hanna: "No—it *does* nothing."

Elvish Archers (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Black Mana Battery (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

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

Guardian Angel (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay {1} any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that permanent or player this turn.

Urza's Mine (Rinascimento)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Fishliver Oil (Chronicles)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature has islandwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Then the maiden bade him cast off his robes and cover his body with fishliver oil, that he might safely follow her into the sea.

Llanowar Elves (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Whenever the Llanowar Elves gather the fruits of their forest, they leave one plant of each type untouched, considering that nature's portion.

Urza's Mine (Rinascimento)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Demonic Torment (Legends)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.

Anaba Shaman (Homelands)
Anson Maddocks

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

"The Shamans? Ha! They are mere craven cows not capable of true magic." —Irini Sengir

Diabolic Machine (The Dark)
Anson Maddocks

{3}: Regenerate this creature.

"The bolts of our ballistae smashed into the monstrous thing, but our hopes died in our chests as its gears continued turning." —Sevti Mukul, *The Fall of Alsoor*

Holy Strength (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Dragon Engine (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Those who believed the city of Kroog would never fall to Mishra's forces severely underestimated the might of his war machines.

Dancing Scimitar (Classic Sixth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Bobbing merrily from opponent to opponent, the scimitar began adding playful little flourishes to its strokes; it even turned a couple of somersaults.

Lifetap (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Carapace (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+2. Sacrifice this Aura: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"Now *that's* a fashion statement." —Devin, faerie noble

Ritual of the Machine (Alliances)
Anson Maddocks

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Gain control of target nonartifact, nonblack creature.

"Rumors persist of dark deeds performed in the depths of Soldev. When will Dagsson heed the danger therein?" —Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Paralyze (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Serendib Efreet (Arabian Nights)
Anson Maddocks

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to you.

Flight (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Disintegrate (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Plague Rats (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

Creature Bond (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Dancing Scimitar (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

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

Armor of Faith (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. {W}: Enchanted creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"Keep your chain mail, warrior. I have my own form of protection." —Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest

Screeching Drake (Portal Second Age)
Anson Maddocks

Flying When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.

Living Armor (The Dark)
Anson Maddocks

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put X +0/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's mana value.

Though it affords excellent protection, few don this armor. The process is uncomfortable and not easily reversed.

Plague Rats (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you . . . ." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

Stromgald Cabal (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

{T}, Pay 1 life: Counter target white spell.

"Kjeldor must be supreme at any cost." —Avram Garrisson, Leader of the Knights of Stromgald

Living Armor (Chronicles)
Anson Maddocks

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put X +0/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's mana value.

Though it affords excellent protection, few don this armor. The process is uncomfortable and not easily reversed.

False Orders (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step. Remove target creature defending player controls from combat. Creatures it was blocking that had become blocked by only that creature this combat become unblocked. You may have it block an attacking creature of your choice.

Stop That (Unhinged)
Anson Maddocks

Target player discards a card. Gotcha — If an opponent audibly flicks the cards in their hand, you may say "Gotcha!" When you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Now for a squirt of lemon juice.

Elvish Archers (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Llanowar Elves (DCI Promos)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Whenever the Llanowar elves gather the fruits of their forest, they leave one plant of each type untouched, considering that nature's portion.

Samite Healer (Ninth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Holy Strength (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Urza's Mine (Chronicles)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Mines became common as cities during the days of the artificers.

Guardian Angel (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. Until end of turn, you may pay {1} any time you could cast an instant. If you do, prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to that permanent or player this turn.

Maze of Ith (The Dark)
Anson Maddocks

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

Pit Trap (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy target attacking creature without flying. It can't be regenerated.

"These traps are truly a symbol of great cruelty and sinister cunning." —Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Elvish Hunter (Fallen Empires)
Anson Maddocks

{1}{G}, {T}: Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"As the climate cooled, many Elves turned to Thallid farming for food, while the Hunters honed their skills on what little game remained." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. III*

Llanowar Elves (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Legions of Lim-Dûl (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

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

"I have seen the faces of my dead friends among that grim band, and I can bear no more." —Lucilde Fiksdotter, Leader of the Order of the White Shield

Fallen Angel (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Flying Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

"Angels are simply extensions of truth upon the fabric of life—and there is far more dark than light." —Baron Sengir

Wall of Brambles (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf." —Conrad Aiken

Living Artifact (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Cyclopean Tomb (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{2}, {T}: Put a mire counter on target non-Swamp land. That land is a Swamp for as long as it has a mire counter on it. Activate only during your upkeep. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, remove all mire counters from a land that a mire counter was put onto with this artifact but that a mire counter has not been removed from with this artifact.

Flight (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Living Artifact (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Llanowar Elves (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Whenever the Llanowar Elves gather the fruits of their forest, they leave one plant of each type untouched, considering that nature's portion.

Ivory Cup (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Living Artifact (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Living Artifact (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Urza's Mine (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Mines became common as cities during the days of the artificers.

Jade Monolith (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Throne of Bone (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

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

Living Wall (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {1}: Regenerate Living Wall.

Some fiendish mage had created a horrifying wall of living flesh, patched together from a jumble of still-recognizable body parts. As we sought to hew our way through it, some unknown power healed the gaping wounds we cut, denying us passage.

Giant Slug (Chronicles)
Anson Maddocks

{5}: At the beginning of your next upkeep, choose a basic land type. This creature gains landwalk of the chosen type until the end of that turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a land of that type.)

Urza's Mine (Chronicles)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Mines became common as cities during the days of the artificers.

Diabolic Machine (Renaissance)
Anson Maddocks

{3}: Regenerate this creature.

Black Mana Battery (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Hurloon Minotaur (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

False Orders (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step. Remove target creature defending player controls from combat. Creatures it was blocking that had become blocked by only that creature this combat become unblocked. You may have it block an attacking creature of your choice.

Fishliver Oil (Arabian Nights)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature has islandwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Then the maiden bade him cast off his robes and cover his body with fishliver oil, that he might safely follow her into the sea.

Windseeker Centaur (HarperPrism Book Promos)
Anson Maddocks

Vigilance

Loyal and passionate in battle, the Windseeker tribe roams the Green Lands near the Honeyed Sea.

Disintegrate (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Shanodin Dryads (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Dancing Scimitar (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Bobbing merrily from opponent to opponent, the scimitar began adding playful little flourishes to its strokes; it even turned a couple of somersaults.

Animate Dead (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Flight (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Flight (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Shanodin Dryads (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Frankenstein's Monster (The Dark)
Anson Maddocks

As this creature enters, exile X creature cards from your graveyard. If you can't, put this creature into its owner's graveyard instead of onto the battlefield. For each creature card exiled this way, this creature enters with a +2/+0, +1/+1, or +0/+2 counter on it.

Reconstruction (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Goblin War Cry (Portal Second Age)
Anson Maddocks

Target opponent chooses a creature they control. Other creatures they control can't block this turn.

"Goblins cry, soldiers fly. Stones fly, soldiers die!"

Bone Shaman (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

{B}: Until end of turn, this creature gains "Creatures dealt damage by this creature this turn can't be regenerated this turn."

Rattle me bones as I cross the floor And the bones in your grave will rattle no more.

Llanowar Elves (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Ironclaw Orcs (Renaissance)
Anson Maddocks

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

Dancing Scimitar (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

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

Disintegrate (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Throne of Bone (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Sengir Vampire (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

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

Sengir Vampire (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

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

Paralyze (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Dancing Scimitar (Arabian Nights)
Anson Maddocks

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

Bobbing merrily from opponent to opponent, the scimitar began adding playful little flourishes to its strokes; it even turned a couple of somersaults.

Eternal Warrior (Renaissance)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has vigilance.

Living Artifact (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Llanowar Elves (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Whenever the Llanowar Elves gather the fruits of their forest, they leave one plant of each type untouched, considering that nature's portion.

Elvish Archers (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Jade Monolith (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Lifetap (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Animate Dead (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Paralyze (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Plague Rats (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

High Tide (Fallen Empires)
Anson Maddocks

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

"May Svyelun and her tides favor you." —Traditional Merfolk blessing

Living Artifact (Revised Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Animate Dead (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Llanowar Elves (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Whenever the Llanowar Elves gather the fruits of their forest, they leave one plant of each type untouched, considering that nature's portion.

Sengir Vampire (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Anson Maddocks

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

Orcish Artillery (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

Siren's Call (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared. Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Holy Strength (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

Labyrinth Minotaur (Homelands)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"Legend says they got a treasure cave, but it don't say where to find it." —Zeki, Reef Pirate

Flight (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Diabolic Machine (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

{3}: Regenerate this creature.

Deathgrip (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Sengir Vampire (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Plague Rats (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you. . ." —Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

Goblin Kites (Fallen Empires)
Anson Maddocks

{R}: Target creature you control with toughness 2 or less gains flying until end of turn. Flip a coin at the beginning of the next end step. If you lose the flip, sacrifice that creature.

Shanodin Dryads (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

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

Island (Ice Age)
Anson Maddocks

({T}: Add {U}.)

Living Wall (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {1}: Regenerate Living Wall.

Invisibility (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by Walls.

Lifetap (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever a Forest an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Ivory Cup (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

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

Shanodin Dryads (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

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

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Throne of Bone (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Shanodin Dryads (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

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

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Throne of Bone (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Ivory Cup (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

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

Living Artifact (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Hurloon Minotaur (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.

Samite Healer (Eighth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Hurloon Minotaur (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

The minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds.

Creature Bond (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, this Aura deals damage equal to that creature's toughness to the creature's controller.

Jade Monolith (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Deathgrip (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

{B}{B}: Counter target green spell.

Llanowar Elves (Unlimited Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {G}.

Whenever the Llanowar Elves gather the fruits of their forest, they leave one plant of each type untouched, considering that nature's portion.

Labyrinth Minotaur (Homelands)
Anson Maddocks

Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"I doubt any Labyrinth Minotaurs still live—but then again, we Minotaurs are stubborn beings." —Onatah, Anaba Shaman

Pyrotechnics (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Pyrotechnics deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.

"Hi! ni! ya! Behold the man of flint, that's me! / Four lightnings zigzag from me, strike and return." —Navajo war chant

Throne of Bone (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

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

Throne of Bone (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

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

Denizen of the Deep (Starter 1999)
Anson Maddocks

When this creature enters, return each other creature you control to its owner's hand.

Disintegrate (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Siren's Call (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared. Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Ironclaw Orcs (Rinascimento)
Anson Maddocks

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

Ashnod's Altar (Rinascimento)
Anson Maddocks

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Disintegrate (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Flight (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying.

Living Wall (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {1}: Regenerate Living Wall.

Some fiendish mage had created a horrifying wall of living flesh, patched together from a jumble of still-recognizable body parts. As we sought to hew our way through it, some unknown power healed the gaping wounds we cut, denying us passage.

Orcish Artillery (Limited Edition Beta)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

Ashnod's Altar (Fifth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

The Brothers' War scarred the land, but Ashnod left her mark in the bloodlines of those she tortured.

Urza's Mine (Antiquities)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Mines became common as cities during the days of the artificers.

Island (Arena League 2001)
Anson Maddocks

({T}: Add {U}.)

Sengir Vampire (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Elvish Archers (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Anson Maddocks

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Living Artifact (Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Invisibility (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by Walls.

Animate Dead (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Two-Headed Giant of Foriys (30th Anniversary Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Trample This creature can block an additional creature each combat.

None know if this Giant is the result of aberrant magics, Siamese twins, or a mentalist's schizophrenia.

Anaba Ancestor (Homelands)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: Another target Minotaur creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"The Ancestors are the wisdom of the tribe and the soul of the Homelands. I am eternally in their debt." —Taysir

Denizen of the Deep (Dominaria Remastered)
Anson Maddocks

When this creature enters, return each other creature you control to its owner's hand.

According to merfolk legend, a denizen of the deep swallows the horizon at the end of each day, bringing on the cold blanket of night.

Siren's Call (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn, before attackers are declared. Creatures the active player controls attack this turn if able. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy all non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Ignore this effect for each creature the player didn't control continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Samite Healer (Ninth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

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

Healers ultimately acquire the divine gifts of spiritual and physical wholeness. The most devout are also granted the ability to pass physical wholeness on to others.

Wall of Brambles (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf." —Conrad Aiken

Derelor (Fallen Empires)
Anson Maddocks

Black spells you cast cost {B} more to cast.

"Strength it has, but at the cost of a continuous supply of energy. Such failure can bear only one result." —From the execution order for Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Orcish Artillery (Fourth Edition)
Anson Maddocks

{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.

In a rare display of ingenuity, the Orcs invented an incredibly destructive weapon. Most Orcish artillerists are those who dared criticize its effectiveness.

Living Artifact (Limited Edition Alpha)
Anson Maddocks

Enchant artifact Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on this Aura. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from this Aura. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Black Mana Battery (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

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

Disintegrate (Foreign Black Border)
Anson Maddocks

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.