Hymn to Tourach

Hymn to Tourach (The List)
Greg Staples

Target player discards two cards at random.

The priests plead for your anguish and pray for your despair.

Hymn to Tourach (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Susan Van Camp

Target player discards two cards at random.

"The eerie, wailing Hymn caused insanity even in hardened warriors." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. II*

Hymn to Tourach (Anthologies)
Liz Danforth

Target player discards two cards at random.

Hymn to Tourach (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Quinton Hoover

Target player discards two cards at random.

Knowing the Hymn's power, the followers of Leitbur carefully guarded their pillaged transcriptions.

Hymn to Tourach (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Susan Van Camp

Target player discards two cards at random.

"The eerie, wailing Hymn caused insanity even in hardened warriors." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. II*

Hymn to Tourach (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Liz Danforth

Target player discards two cards at random.

"Tourach's power was such that his followers deified him after his death." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. II*

Hymn to Tourach (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Scott Kirschner

Target player discards two cards at random.

Members of the Order often played the Hymn on instruments made from their victims' bones.

Hymn to Tourach (Fallen Empires)
Liz Danforth

Target player discards two cards at random.

"Tourach's power was such that his followers deified him after his death." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. II*

Hymn to Tourach (Eternal Masters)
Greg Staples

Target player discards two cards at random.

The priests plead for your anguish and pray for your despair.

Hymn to Tourach (Fallen Empires)
Susan Van Camp

Target player discards two cards at random.

"The eerie, wailing Hymn caused insanity even in hardened warriors." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. II*

Hymn to Tourach (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Quinton Hoover

Target player discards two cards at random.

Knowing the Hymn's power, the followers of Leitbur carefully guarded their pillaged transcriptions.

Hymn to Tourach (Fallen Empires)
Scott Kirschner

Target player discards two cards at random.

Members of the Order often played the Hymn on instruments made from their victims' bones.

Hymn to Tourach (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Liz Danforth

Target player discards two cards at random.

"Tourach's power was such that his followers deified him after his death." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. II*

Hymn to Tourach (Fallen Empires)
Quinton Hoover

Target player discards two cards at random.

Knowing the Hymn's power, the followers of Leitbur carefully guarded their pillaged transcriptions.

Hymn to Tourach (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Scott Kirschner

Target player discards two cards at random.

Members of the Order often played the Hymn on instruments made from their victims' bones.

Goliath Sphinx (Worldwake)
Greg Staples

Flying

He makes his home on the tallest mountain in Sejiri, where the vista is as endless as his patience.

Serra Angel (Iconic Masters)
Greg Staples

Flying Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Follow the light. In its absence, follow her.

The Fugitive Doctor (Doctor Who)
Greg Staples

When The Fugitive Doctor enters, investigate. Whenever The Fugitive Doctor attacks, you may sacrifice a Clue. When you do, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback {2}{R}{G} until end of turn. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Angel's Herald (Shards of Alara)
Greg Staples

{2}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice a green creature, a white creature, and a blue creature: Search your library for a card named Empyrial Archangel, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Rigorous faith and belief are rewarded on occasion, and richly so.

Parallel Lives (Judge Gift Cards 2022)
Greg Staples

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Neither Urza nor Mishra would admit it, but it was their similarities, rather than their differences, that drove their obsessive rivalry.

Mirrodin's Core (Jumpstart)
Greg Staples

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Put a charge counter on this land. {T}, Remove a charge counter from this land: Add one mana of any color.

Erhnam Djinn (Judgment)
Greg Staples

At the beginning of your upkeep, target non-Wall creature an opponent controls gains forestwalk until your next upkeep. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

He provides a safe path to nowhere.

Blade Splicer (New Phyrexia)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token. Golems you control have first strike.

Hymn to Tourach (The List)
Greg Staples

Target player discards two cards at random.

The priests plead for your anguish and pray for your despair.

Kithkin Greatheart (Lorwyn)
Greg Staples

As long as you control a Giant, this creature gets +1/+1 and has first strike.

Sometimes a curious giant singles out a "little one" to follow for a few days, never realizing the effect it will have on the little one's life.

Martial Coup (Commander Legends)
Greg Staples

Create X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens. If X is 5 or more, destroy all other creatures.

Their war forgotten, the nations of Bant stood united in the face of a common threat.

Corpse Explosion (Streets of New Capenna)
Greg Staples

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard. Corpse Explosion deals damage equal to the exiled card's power to each creature and each planeswalker.

Sulfuric Vortex (Dominaria Remastered)
Greg Staples

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player. If a player would gain life, that player gains no life instead.

Noble Hierarch (Double Masters)
Greg Staples

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

In all her years of vigil, her resolve has never faltered.

Thundercloud Shaman (Modern Masters)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, it deals damage equal to the number of Giants you control to each non-Giant creature.

He cares not for the disasters his storm brings as long as his path ahead is clear.

Traumatize (Tenth Edition)
Greg Staples

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

"The educated mind is heavy with lore and knowledge. It's also the most likely to collapse under its own weight." —Ambassador Laquatus

Stormcloud Djinn (Time Spiral Remastered)
Greg Staples

Flying This creature can block only creatures with flying. {R}{R}: This creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn and deals 1 damage to you.

As fickle as lightning, as slippery as an eel.

Evil Twin (Innistrad)
Greg Staples

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has "{U}{B}, {T}: Destroy target creature with the same name as this creature."

You can always tell the evil one by the dagger he's sticking in you.

Shepherd of Rot (The List)
Greg Staples

{T}: Each player loses 1 life for each Zombie on the battlefield.

"My priests swore loyalty to the Cabal not until death, but beyond it." —Cabal Patriarch

Witch-Maw Nephilim (Guildpact)
Greg Staples

Whenever you cast a spell, you may put two +1/+1 counters on this creature. Whenever this creature attacks, it gains trample until end of turn if its power is 10 or greater.

When it awoke, it shattered the hillsides to make way for its passage.

Squee, Goblin Nabob (Commander 2019)
Greg Staples

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Some goblins are expendable. Some are impossible to get rid of. But he's both—at the same time!" —Starke

Plains (Champions of Kamigawa)
Greg Staples

({T}: Add {W}.)

Hunter's Prowess (Born of the Gods)
Greg Staples

Until end of turn, target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw that many cards."

To be counted among the warriors of Setessa's Leina Tower, you must not fear death, only failure.

The Face of Boe (Doctor Who)
Greg Staples

{T}: You may cast a spell with suspend from your hand. If you do, pay its suspend cost rather than its mana cost. Activate only as a sorcery.

"You are not alone."

Gaddock Teeg (Ultimate Masters)
Greg Staples

Noncreature spells with mana value 4 or greater can't be cast. Noncreature spells with {X} in their mana costs can't be cast.

So great are his wisdom and spirit that many who have met him say that they stood before a giant of a man and talked to the wisest of the four winds.

Mana Short (Mystery Booster 2)
Greg Staples

Tap all lands target player controls and that player loses all unspent mana.

"Remove their power, and their will to fight will follow." —Tolarian wizard

Martial Coup (New Capenna Commander)
Greg Staples

Create X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens. If X is 5 or more, destroy all other creatures.

Their war forgotten, the nations of Bant stood united in the face of a common threat.

Steward of Valeron (URL/Convention Promos)
Greg Staples

Vigilance {T}: Add {G}.

www.MagicTheGathering.com

Plaxcaster Frogling (The List)
Greg Staples

Graft 3 (This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) {2}: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Torens, Fist of the Angels (Innistrad: Crimson Vow)
Greg Staples

Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 1/1 green and white Human Soldier creature token with training.

He seems absolutely imperturbable. I can fancy what a wonderful power he must have over his patients.

Plaxcaster Frogling (RNA Guild Kit)
Greg Staples

Graft 3 (This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) {2}: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Diabolic Tutor (Magic 2010)
Greg Staples

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

The wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.

Stalking Bloodsucker (Odyssey)
Greg Staples

Flying {1}{B}, Discard a card: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

The pits feed both its thirst for combat and its thirst for blood.

Plaxcaster Frogling (Commander 2021)
Greg Staples

Graft 3 (This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) {2}: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Myr Superion (DCI Promos)
Greg Staples

Spend only mana produced by creatures to cast this spell.

Spiketail Hatchling (Eighth Edition)
Greg Staples

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

It dodges waves of water to prepare for waves of magic.

Abundant Maw (Innistrad Remastered)
Greg Staples

Emerge {6}{B} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.) When you cast this spell, target opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

Mountain (Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra)
Greg Staples

({T}: Add {R}.)

Captain of the Watch (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Kiora)
Greg Staples

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) Other Soldier creatures you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance. When this creature enters, create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Spincrusher (Darksteel)
Greg Staples

Whenever this creature blocks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: This creature can't be blocked this turn.

It rolls with the punches.

Urborg Syphon-Mage (Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana)
Greg Staples

{2}{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Each other player loses 2 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

"I have become a gourmet of sorts. Each soul has its own distinctive flavor. The art is in inviting the right company to the feast."

Dragon Breath (The List)
Greg Staples

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has haste. {R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. When a creature with mana value 6 or greater enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.

Nantuko Tracer (Judgment)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, you may put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

Your past is a map to where you will go. —Nantuko teaching

Turn to Mist (Ultimate Masters)
Greg Staples

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

"Did you expect me to dodge? How quaint." —Olka, mistmeadow witch

The Face of Boe (Doctor Who)
Greg Staples

{T}: You may cast a spell with suspend from your hand. If you do, pay its suspend cost rather than its mana cost. Activate only as a sorcery.

"You are not alone."

Fractured Loyalty (Mirrodin)
Greg Staples

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, that spell or ability's controller gains control of that creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Artifact Mutation (Commander 2020)
Greg Staples

Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. Create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is that artifact's mana value.

"From shards and splinters I call forth my living horde." —Molimo, maro-sorcerer

Venerated Teacher (Rise of the Eldrazi)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, put two level counters on each creature you control with level up.

"The unfathomable is upon us, students. I have no doubt you will rise to the occasion."

Parallax Inhibitor (Nemesis)
Greg Staples

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put a fade counter on each permanent with fading you control.

"The best I can offer is a temporary reprieve." —Belbe

Spirit Away (Avacyn Restored)
Greg Staples

Enchant creature You control enchanted creature. Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying.

The fear of slipping from the geist's tenuous grip overwhelmed Tolo's joy at his first flight.

Martial Coup (Commander 2014)
Greg Staples

Create X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens. If X is 5 or more, destroy all other creatures.

Their war forgotten, the nations of Bant stood united in the face of a common threat.

Thundercloud Shaman (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, it deals damage equal to the number of Giants you control to each non-Giant creature.

He cares not for the disasters his storm brings as long as his path ahead is clear.

Orzhov Guildmage (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
Greg Staples

{2}{W}: Target player gains 1 life. {2}{B}: Each player loses 1 life.

Honden of Cleansing Fire (Champions of Kamigawa)
Greg Staples

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life for each Shrine you control.

To the sorrow of all, its fire was turned toward those who worshipped it.

Plaxcaster Frogling (Dissension)
Greg Staples

Graft 3 (This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) {2}: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Fledgling Dragon (Modern Horizons 3)
Greg Staples

Flying Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, this creature gets +3/+3 and has "{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Woodlot Crawler (Dragon's Maze)
Greg Staples

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

"We learned something from the Simic. Unfortunately for them." —Nefara, Dimir agent

Ashnod's Altar (Eternal Masters)
Greg Staples

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

"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back." —Ashnod, to Tawnos

Dragon Breath (Scourge)
Greg Staples

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has haste. {R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. When a creature with mana value 6 or greater enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.

Centrifuge (Unfinity)
Greg Staples

Visit — Each player draws a card from the library of the player to their right. You create three Treasure tokens.

The back of each ticket features a map to the lost and found.

Battering Sliver (Planar Chaos)
Greg Staples

All Sliver creatures have trample.

Covered with hard shell-like plates, these slivers burrow through solid rock to carve out new nests for their hives.

Witch-Maw Nephilim (The List)
Greg Staples

Whenever you cast a spell, you may put two +1/+1 counters on this creature. Whenever this creature attacks, it gains trample until end of turn if its power is 10 or greater.

When it awoke, it shattered the hillsides to make way for its passage.

Seize the Day (Ultimate Masters)
Greg Staples

Untap target creature. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Gut Shot (New Phyrexia)
Greg Staples

({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.) Gut Shot deals 1 damage to any target.

"Down here, we have a more pointed version of the scriptures." —Urabrask's enforcer

Might of Oaks (Seventh Edition)
Greg Staples

Target creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.

"Guess where I'm gonna plant this!"

Attempted Murder (The List)
Greg Staples

Choose target creature. Roll X six-sided dice. For each even result, put two -1/-1 counters on that creature. For each odd result, create a 1/2 blue Bird creature token with flying named Storm Crow.

Squawks was quick to establish the social pecking order.

Bloodfire Colossus (Ninth Edition)
Greg Staples

{R}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 6 damage to each creature and each player.

It took all its strength to contain the fire within.

Wall of One Thousand Cuts (Modern Horizons)
Greg Staples

Defender, flying {W}: This creature can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.

Families of the fallen donate the swords of their loved ones to bolster the city's defenses.

Mahamoti Djinn (The List)
Greg Staples

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

Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection.

The Face of Boe (Doctor Who)
Greg Staples

{T}: You may cast a spell with suspend from your hand. If you do, pay its suspend cost rather than its mana cost. Activate only as a sorcery.

"You are not alone."

Wizened Snitches (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Greg Staples

Flying Players play with the top card of their libraries revealed.

"Be careful what information you ask them to find, for it will likely be the subject of tale time at the alehouse." —Sirislav, Dimir spy

Fight the _____ Fight (Unfinity)
Greg Staples

Enchant creature you control When this Aura enters, you may put a name sticker on it. When you do, enchanted creature fights up to one target creature you don't control. Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 for each name sticker on this Aura with eight or more letters.

Wee Dragonauts (Eternal Masters)
Greg Staples

Flying Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

"The blazekite is a simple concept, really—just a vehicular application of dragscoop ionics and electropropulsion magnetronics." —Juzba, Izzet tinker

Pemmin's Aura (The List)
Greg Staples

Enchant creature {U}: Untap enchanted creature. {U}: Enchanted creature gains flying until end of turn. {U}: Enchanted creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {1}: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.

Arden Angel (Secret Lair Drop)
Greg Staples

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, if Arden Angel is in your graveyard, roll a four-sided die. If the result is 1, return Arden Angel from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Cast from dreams and forged in hope.

Treasure Mage (DCI Promos)
Greg Staples

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

Archangel of Strife (Commander 2011)
Greg Staples

Flying As this creature enters, each player chooses war or peace. Creatures controlled by players who chose war get +3/+0. Creatures controlled by players who chose peace get +0/+3.

Malevolent Whispers (Commander 2019)
Greg Staples

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gets +2/+0 and gains haste until end of turn. Madness {3}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Puncturing Light (Shadows over Innistrad)
Greg Staples

Destroy target attacking or blocking creature with power 3 or less.

"If you refuse to see the light, then you will feel it."

Auramancer's Guise (The List)
Greg Staples

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 for each Aura attached to it and has vigilance.

"Consider not what the mask hides, but what it can reveal."

Lodestone Myr (Modern Masters 2015)
Greg Staples

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

When necessary, myr can override and control any artificial object, as can their creator.

Merrow Reejerey (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander)
Greg Staples

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever you cast a Merfolk spell, you may tap or untap target permanent.

Steady and silent as the deep current, the reejerey guides the course of the school.

Lorescale Coatl (Alara Reborn)
Greg Staples

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"The enlightenment I never found in etherium I have found traced in the coatl's scales." —Ranalus, vedalken heretic

Wet Willie of the Damned (Unhinged)
Greg Staples

Wet Willie of the Damned deals 2½ damage to any target and you gain 2½ life.

Ever the warrior, Glissa responded with a "wedgie from beyond Uranus."

Saber Ants (The List)
Greg Staples

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you may create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens.

They stay on the battlefield only long enough to consume the losers.

Hypnotic Specter (Tenth Edition)
Greg Staples

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

Its victims are known by their eyes: shattered vessels leaking broken dreams.

Dalek Squadron (Doctor Who)
Greg Staples

Menace Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)

Echoing Truth (Dominaria United Commander)
Greg Staples

Return target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent to their owners' hands.

A single lie unleashes a tide of disbelief.

Scarblade Elite (Morningtide)
Greg Staples

{T}, Exile an Assassin card from your graveyard: Destroy target creature.

"Rejoice, eyeblight. In your last hours above the earth, those who bury you will finally make you beautiful."

Ashnod's Altar (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Greg Staples

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

"Blood fluting needs to be deeper. Additional hooks needed for nerve rigging. Surface stippling could be coarser. —Ashnod, design notes

Captain of the Watch (Magic 2013)
Greg Staples

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) Other Soldier creatures you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance. When this creature enters, create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Blade Splicer (Modern Masters 2017)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token. Golems you control have first strike.

"Flesh is a betrayal of the self."

Serra Angel (Welcome Deck 2016)
Greg Staples

Flying Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Follow the light. In its absence, follow her.

Dragon Breath (Archenemy)
Greg Staples

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has haste. {R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. When a creature with mana value 6 or greater enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.

Myr Galvanizer (Scars of Mirrodin)
Greg Staples

Other Myr creatures you control get +1/+1. {1}, {T}: Untap each other Myr you control.

"We can't quite determine what they're doing, but they seem to be doing it quite well." —Vedalken research notes

Spelltithe Enforcer (The List)
Greg Staples

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice unless they pay {1}.

His assistants calculate the amount of the tribute. He measures out the punishment for delinquency.

Goblin Raider (Ninth Edition)
Greg Staples

This creature can't block.

He's smart for a goblin. He can do two things: hit *and* run.

Snake (Journey into Nyx Tokens)
Greg Staples

Deathtouch

Solar Blast (Dominaria Remastered)
Greg Staples

Solar Blast deals 3 damage to any target. Cycling {1}{R}{R} ({1}{R}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may have it deal 1 damage to any target.

Lodestone Myr (Planechase)
Greg Staples

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

When necessary, myr can override and control any artificial object, as can their creator.

Parallax Wave (World Championship Decks 2000)
Greg Staples

Fading 5 (This enchantment enters with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Remove a fade counter from this enchantment: Exile target creature. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, each player returns to the battlefield all cards they own exiled with it.

Genju of the Fields (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Greg Staples

Enchant Plains {2}: Until end of turn, enchanted Plains becomes a 2/5 white Spirit creature with "Whenever this creature deals damage, its controller gains that much life." It's still a land. When enchanted Plains is put into a graveyard, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Serra Angel (Magic 2011)
Greg Staples

Flying Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Perfect justice in service of a perfect will.

Rakdos, the Muscle (Outlaws of Thunder Junction)
Greg Staples

Flying, trample Whenever you sacrifice another creature, exile cards equal to its mana value from the top of target player's library. Until your next end step, you may play those cards, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells. Sacrifice another creature: Rakdos gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it. Activate only once each turn.

Glimmerdust Nap (Lorwyn)
Greg Staples

Enchant tapped creature Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

The dreams of giants are as long as time and as deep as the earth. Thus they are prized by the dream-harvesting fae.

Second Sunrise (Mirrodin)
Greg Staples

Each player returns to the battlefield all artifact, creature, enchantment, and land cards in their graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

The bright tunnel sometimes leads back to life.

Night of Souls' Betrayal (Iconic Masters)
Greg Staples

All creatures get -1/-1.

"How can we wage war against ourselves? What happens when the kami of our very souls rise against us? I answer simply: We cannot. We die. There can be no victory in this war." —Sensei Hisoka, letter to Lord Konda

Artifact Mutation (Invasion)
Greg Staples

Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. Create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is that artifact's mana value.

"From shards and splinters I call forth my living horde." —Molimo, maro-sorcerer

Ghost Council of Orzhova (Modern Masters 2015)
Greg Staples

When Ghost Council of Orzhova enters, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {1}, Sacrifice a creature: Exile Ghost Council of Orzhova. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Skyhunter Skirmisher (Commander 2014)
Greg Staples

Flying, double strike

"Like dawn's first light, blind the unprepared and banish the shadows." —Skyhunter creed

Setessan Skirmisher (Theros Beyond Death)
Greg Staples

Constellation — Whenever an enchantment you control enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Bassara, the tower of the fox, houses the elite skirmishers who guard the Nessian Wood against trespassers.

Metathran Aerostat (Invasion)
Greg Staples

Flying {X}{U}: You may put a creature card with mana value X from your hand onto the battlefield. If you do, return this creature to its owner's hand.

Pentavus (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Greg Staples

This creature enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Create a 1/1 colorless Pentavite artifact creature token with flying. {1}, Sacrifice a Pentavite: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Slitherhead (Return to Ravnica)
Greg Staples

Scavenge {0} ({0}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

"It makes better use of Uncle Dragi's head than he ever did." —Pesha, retired blacksmith

Shattered Dreams (Fifth Dawn)
Greg Staples

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an artifact card from it. That player discards that card.

Victims are lucky if they remember ever having had what was lost.

Radiant's Judgment (Dominaria Remastered)
Greg Staples

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Festival of Embers (Bloomburrow Promos)
Greg Staples

During your turn, you may cast instant and sorcery spells from your graveyard by paying 1 life in addition to their other costs. If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead. {1}{R}: Sacrifice this enchantment.

Gatstaf Arsonists (Shadows over Innistrad)
Greg Staples

Vivify (Odyssey)
Greg Staples

Target land becomes a 3/3 creature until end of turn. It's still a land. Draw a card.

Near the Krosan border, farmers keep watch over their fields lest the sod get up and wander away.

Alloy Golem (Invasion)
Greg Staples

As this creature enters, choose a color. This creature is the chosen color. (It's still an artifact.)

"We turned old weapons into new warriors." —Jhoira, master artificer

Diabolic Tutor (Tenth Edition)
Greg Staples

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

The best ideas often come from the worst minds.

Sulfuric Vortex (Scourge)
Greg Staples

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player. If a player would gain life, that player gains no life instead.

Emblazoned Golem (Apocalypse)
Greg Staples

Kicker {X} (You may pay an additional {X} as you cast this spell.) Spend only colored mana on X. No more than one mana of each color may be spent this way. If this creature was kicked, it enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Diabolic Tutor (Magic 2011)
Greg Staples

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

The wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.

Colossus of Sardia (Tenth Edition)
Greg Staples

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. {9}: Untap this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.

Buried under a thin layer of dirt, it was known for centuries as Mount Sardia.

Needle Drop (The List)
Greg Staples

Needle Drop deals 1 damage to any target that was dealt damage this turn. Draw a card.

"First it was plovers and mulldrifters. Now it's knitting needles the size of javelins." —Calydd, kithkin farmer

Lodestone Myr (Mirrodin)
Greg Staples

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

When necessary, myr can override and control any artificial object, as can their creator.

Hypnotic Specter (Ninth Edition)
Greg Staples

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

Mirrodin's Core (The List)
Greg Staples

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Put a charge counter on this land. {T}, Remove a charge counter from this land: Add one mana of any color.

Steely Resolve (Onslaught)
Greg Staples

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures of the chosen type have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

No one in Wirewood understands what is happening. They just know it's unnatural—and coming from Krosa.

Martial Coup (Commander 2018)
Greg Staples

Create X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens. If X is 5 or more, destroy all other creatures.

Their war forgotten, the nations of Bant stood united in the face of a common threat.

Goblin Glory Chaser (Duel Decks: Merfolk vs. Goblins)
Greg Staples

Renown 1 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes renowned.) As long as this creature is renowned, it has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Urborg Syphon-Mage (Time Spiral)
Greg Staples

{2}{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Each other player loses 2 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

"I have become a gourmet of sorts. Each soul has its own distinctive flavor. The art is in inviting the right company to the feast."

Avarax (Eternal Masters)
Greg Staples

Haste When this creature enters, you may search your library for a card named Avarax, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. {1}{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Might of Oaks (Ninth Edition)
Greg Staples

Target creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn.

"Guess where I'm gonna plant this!"

Hunted Troll (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, target opponent creates four 1/1 blue Faerie creature tokens with flying. {G}: Regenerate this creature.

Parallax Nexus (Nemesis)
Greg Staples

Fading 5 (This enchantment enters with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Remove a fade counter from this enchantment: Target opponent exiles a card from their hand. Activate only as a sorcery. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, each player returns to their hand all cards they own exiled with it.

Jace's Mindseeker (Magic 2014)
Greg Staples

Flying When this creature enters, target opponent mills five cards. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from among them without paying its mana cost.

Stormcloud Djinn (Time Spiral)
Greg Staples

Flying This creature can block only creatures with flying. {R}{R}: This creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn and deals 1 damage to you.

As fickle as lightning, as slippery as an eel.

Animate Object (Unfinity)
Greg Staples

You get seven {TK}. Choose an inanimate object you own from outside the game. Put a power and toughness sticker on it. You may also put a name sticker, an art sticker, and/or an ability sticker on it. Put it onto the battlefield as a creature token.

Tap beverages with extreme caution.

Soldier (Magic 2015 Tokens)
Greg Staples

Leonin Relic-Warder (The List)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, you may exile target artifact or enchantment. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Reckless Wurm (Ultimate Masters)
Greg Staples

Trample Madness {2}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Bred for battle in the Grand Coliseum, these wurms annihilated whole ecosystems when released into the wild.

Kazuul's Toll Collector (Oath of the Gatewatch)
Greg Staples

{0}: Attach target Equipment you control to this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Travelers are advised to bring extra swords, preferably shiny ones.

Avarax (Onslaught)
Greg Staples

Haste When this creature enters, you may search your library for a card named Avarax, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. {1}{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Aether Vial (Double Masters 2022)
Greg Staples

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}: You may put a creature card with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact from your hand onto the battlefield.

Primal Whisperer (Legions)
Greg Staples

This creature gets +2/+2 for each face-down creature on the battlefield. Morph {3}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Seize the Day (The List)
Greg Staples

Untap target creature. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Cinder Elemental (Planechase)
Greg Staples

{X}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals X damage to any target.

Their rage can grow to such proportions that they explode in a cloud of fire.

Dead Ringers (Mystery Booster 2)
Greg Staples

Destroy two target nonblack creatures unless either one is a color the other isn't. They can't be regenerated.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" crowed Crovax. "They fought together. Now they will die together."

Skyhunter Skirmisher (Fifth Dawn)
Greg Staples

Flying, double strike

"Like dawn's first light, blind the unprepared and banish the shadows." —Skyhunter creed

Mahamoti Djinn (Tenth Edition)
Greg Staples

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

Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection.

Solar Blast (The List)
Greg Staples

Solar Blast deals 3 damage to any target. Cycling {1}{R}{R} ({1}{R}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may have it deal 1 damage to any target.

Elmar, Ulvenwald Informant (Secret Lair Drop)
Greg Staples

Haste Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, untap target creature, then investigate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") Friends forever (You can have two commanders if both have friends forever.)

Parallax Wave (Nemesis)
Greg Staples

Fading 5 (This enchantment enters with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Remove a fade counter from this enchantment: Exile target creature. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, each player returns to the battlefield all cards they own exiled with it.

Plaxcaster Frogling (Modern Masters 2015)
Greg Staples

Graft 3 (This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) {2}: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Salvaging Station (Fifth Dawn)
Greg Staples

{T}: Return target noncreature artifact card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Whenever a creature dies, you may untap this artifact.

Phantom Warrior (Magic 2010)
Greg Staples

This creature can't be blocked.

"The construction of a defense is not accomplished by adding bricks." —Jace Beleren

Artificial Evolution (Onslaught)
Greg Staples

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one creature type with another. The new creature type can't be Wall. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Steward of Valeron (Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons)
Greg Staples

Vigilance {T}: Add {G}.

Knight-stewards guard the Sun-Dappled Court, a grove of immense, sculptured olive trees that represent Valeron's twelve noble families.

Gaea's Anthem (The List)
Greg Staples

Creatures you control get +1/+1.

"To those who can hear it, Gaea's battle song brings power as swift as sunlight and as enduring as the deep roots of the forest." —Gamelen, Citanul elder

Tourach, Dread Cantor (Modern Horizons 2 Promos)
Greg Staples

Kicker {B}{B} (You may pay an additional {B}{B} as you cast this spell.) Protection from white Whenever an opponent discards a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Tourach. When Tourach enters, if it was kicked, target opponent discards two cards at random.

Gaea's Anthem (The List)
Greg Staples

Creatures you control get +1/+1.

"To those who can hear it, Gaea's battle song brings power as swift as sunlight and as enduring as the deep roots of the forest." —Gamelen, Citanul elder

Myr Enforcer (Mirrodin)
Greg Staples

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

Most myr monitor other species. Some myr monitor other myr.

Martyr of Dusk (Rivals of Ixalan)
Greg Staples

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.

"Should I fall, take up our standard and carry on. The Legion must always prevail."

Pentavite (Commander Anthology Volume II Tokens)
Greg Staples

Flying

Radiant's Judgment (Jumpstart 2022)
Greg Staples

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Divinity of Pride (Modern Masters)
Greg Staples

Flying, lifelink This creature gets +4/+4 as long as you have 25 or more life.

"She spoke of mystery and portent, of such unfathomable things that my mind screamed for pity." —*The Seer's Parables*

Cruel Revival (Onslaught)
Greg Staples

Destroy target non-Zombie creature. It can't be regenerated. Return up to one target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.

Few Cabal fighters fear death. They fear what follows it.

Far (Dragon's Maze)
Greg Staples

Plains (Champions of Kamigawa)
Greg Staples

({T}: Add {W}.)

Divine Reckoning (Innistrad)
Greg Staples

Each player chooses a creature they control. Destroy the rest. Flashback {5}{W}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Survival of the purest.

Solemn Simulacrum (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Plated Sliver (Legions)
Greg Staples

All Sliver creatures get +0/+1.

Overcoming extinction has only made the slivers more determined to live.

The Fugitive Doctor (Doctor Who)
Greg Staples

When The Fugitive Doctor enters, investigate. Whenever The Fugitive Doctor attacks, you may sacrifice a Clue. When you do, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback {2}{R}{G} until end of turn. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Scent of Brine (Urza's Destiny)
Greg Staples

Reveal any number of blue cards in your hand. Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card revealed this way.

Exclude (Commander 2014)
Greg Staples

Counter target creature spell. Draw a card.

"I don't have time for you right now." —Teferi

Hypnotic Specter (Magic 2010)
Greg Staples

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

Its victims are known by their eyes: shattered vessels leaking broken dreams.

Blood Seeker (Zendikar)
Greg Staples

Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

A drop now is all he needs to find you later.

Mistmeadow Witch (Shadowmoor)
Greg Staples

{2}{W}{U}: Exile target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Olka collected the evening mist for years, studying its secrets. Once she learned its essence, she could vanish with a thought.

Demonfire (Ravnica Remastered)
Greg Staples

Demonfire deals X damage to any target. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead. Hellbent — If you have no cards in hand, this spell can't be countered and the damage can't be prevented.

Echoing Truth (The List)
Greg Staples

Return target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent to their owners' hands.

A single lie unleashes a tide of disbelief.

Honor of the Pure (Modern Event Deck 2014)
Greg Staples

White creatures you control get +1/+1.

Together the soldiers were like a golden blade, cutting down their enemies and scarring the darkness.

Venerated Teacher (The List)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, put two level counters on each creature you control with level up.

"The unfathomable is upon us, students. I have no doubt you will rise to the occasion."

Skyhunter Skirmisher (The List)
Greg Staples

Flying, double strike

"Like dawn's first light, blind the unprepared and banish the shadows." —Skyhunter creed

Serra Angel (Foundations)
Greg Staples

Flying Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Follow the light. In its absence, follow her.

Hypnotic Specter (The List)
Greg Staples

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

Its victims are known by their eyes: shattered vessels leaking broken dreams.

Dralnu, Lich Lord (Time Spiral)
Greg Staples

If damage would be dealt to Dralnu, sacrifice that many permanents instead. {T}: Target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Daru Stinger (Legions)
Greg Staples

Amplify 1 (As this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each Soldier card you reveal in your hand.) {T}: This creature deals damage equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on it to target attacking or blocking creature.

Piru, the Volatile (Modern Horizons 2)
Greg Staples

Flying, lifelink At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Piru unless you pay {R}{W}{B}. When Piru dies, it deals 7 damage to each nonlegendary creature.

Chasms of dueling energies course within her.

Goblin Sharpshooter (Onslaught)
Greg Staples

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Whenever a creature dies, untap this creature. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Quest for the Holy Relic (The List)
Greg Staples

Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. Remove five quest counters from this enchantment and sacrifice it: Search your library for an Equipment card, put it onto the battlefield, attach it to a creature you control, then shuffle.

Sophina, Spearsage Deserter (Secret Lair Drop)
Greg Staples

Menace Whenever Sophina, Spearsage Deserter attacks, investigate once for each nontoken attacking creature. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") Friends forever (You can have two commanders if both have friends forever.)

"Track the rot. See how far it goes."

Mahamoti Djinn (Ninth Edition)
Greg Staples

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

Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection.

Colossus of Sardia (The List)
Greg Staples

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. {9}: Untap this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.

Nourishing Shoal (Ultimate Masters)
Greg Staples

You may exile a green card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. You gain X life.

Traumatize (Magic 2010)
Greg Staples

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

"The educated mind is heavy with lore and knowledge. It's also the most likely to collapse under its own weight." —Ambassador Laquatus

Honden of Cleansing Fire (Eternal Masters)
Greg Staples

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life for each Shrine you control.

To the sorrow of all, its fire was turned toward those who worshipped it.

Gnawing Zombie (Foundations Jumpstart)
Greg Staples

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

On still nights you can hear its rotted teeth grinding tirelessly on scavenged bones.

Orzhov Guildmage (Guildpact)
Greg Staples

{2}{W}: Target player gains 1 life. {2}{B}: Each player loses 1 life.

Into the Pit (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Greg Staples

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast spells from the top of your library by sacrificing a nonland permanent in addition to paying their other costs.

Duskmourn never yields its secrets without exacting a brutal price.

Phantom Warrior (Tenth Edition)
Greg Staples

This creature can't be blocked.

"There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream." —Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Illusions"

Soldier (Masters 25 Tokens)
Greg Staples

Serra Angel (Commander Anthology)
Greg Staples

Flying Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Perfect justice in service of a perfect will.

Shepherd of Rot (Planechase)
Greg Staples

{T}: Each player loses 1 life for each Zombie on the battlefield.

"My priests swore loyalty to the Cabal not until death, but beyond it." —Cabal Patriarch

Woodwraith Corrupter (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Greg Staples

{1}{B}{G}, {T}: Target Forest becomes a 4/4 black and green Elemental Horror creature. It's still a land.

"Its darkened sap penetrates natural fibers and spreads its own genes. Emulation experiments are underway." —Simic research notes

Gaea's Anthem (Modern Masters 2017)
Greg Staples

Creatures you control get +1/+1.

"To those who can hear it, Gaea's battle song brings power as swift as sunlight and as enduring as the deep roots of the forest." —Gamelen, Citanul elder

Serra Angel (Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic)
Greg Staples

Flying Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Her sword sings more beautifully than any choir.

Serra Angel (Magic Origins)
Greg Staples

Flying Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Follow the light. In its absence, follow her.

Avarax (Dominaria Remastered)
Greg Staples

Haste When this creature enters, you may search your library for a card named Avarax, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. {1}{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

King Macar, the Gold-Cursed (Journey into Nyx)
Greg Staples

Inspired — Whenever King Macar becomes untapped, you may exile target creature. If you do, create a Gold token. (It's an artifact with "Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Borderland Minotaur (Jumpstart)
Greg Staples

"You have led us to triumph over the forces of Mogis!" said Brygus the Brave, clapping the Champion on the back. The Champion wiped the sweat and blood from her brow. "I count eight graves," she said. "Too many to call this a victory." —*The Theriad*

Hideous Laughter (Champions of Kamigawa)
Greg Staples

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Splice onto Arcane {3}{B}{B} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Goblin Raider (Urza's Saga)
Greg Staples

This creature can't block.

He was proud to wear the lizard skin around his waist, just for the fun of annoying the enemy.

Vulturous Zombie (Commander 2016)
Greg Staples

Flying Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"When something dies, all things benefit. Well okay, just our things." —Ezoc, Golgari rot farmer

Staunch-Hearted Warrior (Ultimate Masters)
Greg Staples

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

As soon as she faces a monster, she begins composing its epitaph.

Howling Gale (Odyssey)
Greg Staples

Howling Gale deals 1 damage to each creature with flying and each player. Flashback {1}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Plains (Champions of Kamigawa)
Greg Staples

({T}: Add {W}.)

Spiketail Hatchling (Prophecy)
Greg Staples

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

It dodges waves of water to prepare for waves of magic.

Stormblood Berserker (DCI Promos)
Greg Staples

Bloodthirst 2 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.) Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Gnawing Zombie (Magic 2014)
Greg Staples

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

On still nights you can hear its rotted teeth grinding tirelessly on scavenged bones.

Laquatus's Champion (Torment)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, target player loses 6 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, that player gains 6 life. {B}: Regenerate this creature.

Chainer's dark gift to a darker soul.

Skull Rend (Return to Ravnica)
Greg Staples

Skull Rend deals 2 damage to each opponent. Those players each discard two cards at random.

"We could never accept anyone with a face that pretty or a mind that sane." —Nyoser, Gore-House ringleader

Seize the Day (Odyssey)
Greg Staples

Untap target creature. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Bloodfire Colossus (Apocalypse)
Greg Staples

{R}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 6 damage to each creature and each player.

It took all its strength to contain the fire within.

Echoing Truth (Commander 2015)
Greg Staples

Return target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent to their owners' hands.

A single lie unleashes a tide of disbelief.

Echoing Courage (The List)
Greg Staples

Target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature get +2/+2 until end of turn.

A single seed unleashes a flurry of growth.

Smite the Monstrous (Ugin's Fate)
Greg Staples

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.

The changing of a single moment in Tarkir's past altered its future, rewriting its history.

Baneslayer Angel (Magic 2011)
Greg Staples

Flying, first strike, lifelink, protection from Demons and from Dragons

Some angels protect the meek and innocent. Others seek out and smite evil wherever it lurks.

Second Sunrise (The List)
Greg Staples

Each player returns to the battlefield all artifact, creature, enchantment, and land cards in their graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

The bright tunnel sometimes leads back to life.

Bloodlord of Vaasgoth (Commander 2017)
Greg Staples

Bloodthirst 3 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.) Flying Whenever you cast a Vampire creature spell, it gains bloodthirst 3.

Voice of Many (Kaldheim Commander)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, draw a card for each opponent who controls fewer creatures than you.

His words echo every roar, screech, and howl of the wilds.

Solar Blast (Onslaught)
Greg Staples

Solar Blast deals 3 damage to any target. Cycling {1}{R}{R} ({1}{R}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may have it deal 1 damage to any target.

Despoiler of Souls (Magic Origins)
Greg Staples

This creature can't block. {B}{B}, Exile two other creature cards from your graveyard: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Rats and vultures devour. It desecrates.

Saltcrusted Steppe (Time Spiral)
Greg Staples

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {1}, Remove X storage counters from this land: Add X mana in any combination of {G} and/or {W}.

Ratonhnhaké꞉ton (Assassin's Creed)
Greg Staples

As long as Ratonhnhaké꞉ton hasn't dealt damage yet, it has hexproof and can't be blocked. Whenever Ratonhnhaké꞉ton deals combat damage to a player, create a 1/1 black Assassin creature token with menace. When you do, return target Equipment card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then attach it to that token.

Soldier (Eternal Masters Tokens)
Greg Staples

Mogg Sentry (Eighth Edition)
Greg Staples

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Tortured with magic by their masters, the moggs are enflamed by the smell of sorcery.

Stormchaser Chimera (The List)
Greg Staples

Flying {2}{U}{R}: Scry 1, then reveal the top card of your library. This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that card's mana value. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.)

Ashnod's Altar (The List)
Greg Staples

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

"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back." —Ashnod, to Tawnos

Persistent Marshstalker (Bloomburrow)
Greg Staples

This creature gets +1/+0 for each other Rat you control. Threshold — Whenever you attack with one or more Rats, if seven or more cards are in your graveyard, you may pay {2}{B}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

Reckless Wurm (DCI Promos)
Greg Staples

Trample Madness {2}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Bred for battle in the Grand Coliseum, these wurms annihilated whole ecosystems when released into the wild.

Furious Assault (Mercadian Masques)
Greg Staples

Whenever you cast a creature spell, this enchantment deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.

"Does it burn, Saprazzan? Do you wish you had never raised arms against us?" —Kyren overseer

Old Rutstein (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Greg Staples

When Old Rutstein enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If a land card is milled this way, create a Treasure token. If a creature card is milled this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If a noncreature, nonland card is milled this way, create a Blood token.

Stormchaser Chimera (Journey into Nyx)
Greg Staples

Flying {2}{U}{R}: Scry 1, then reveal the top card of your library. This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that card's mana value. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.)

Animate Object (Unfinity)
Greg Staples

You get seven {TK}. Choose an inanimate object you own from outside the game. Put a power and toughness sticker on it. You may also put a name sticker, an art sticker, and/or an ability sticker on it. Put it onto the battlefield as a creature token.

Tap beverages with extreme caution.

Saltcrusted Steppe (Commander Anthology)
Greg Staples

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {1}, Remove X storage counters from this land: Add X mana in any combination of {G} and/or {W}.

Back in Town (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
Greg Staples

Return X target outlaw creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws.)

"Well, there's a good day's work ruined." —Erin Nath, Omenport gravedigger

Hunter's Prowess (Explorers of Ixalan)
Greg Staples

Until end of turn, target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw that many cards."

To be counted among the warriors of Setessa's Leina Tower, you must not fear death, only failure.

Buried Alive (Odyssey)
Greg Staples

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

The scrape of shovels and the tumble of cold dirt soon muffled their pleas.

Sunhome Enforcer (Ravnica: City of Guilds)
Greg Staples

Whenever this creature deals combat damage, you gain that much life. {1}{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Law soothed his savage heart. Where fury once burned, the enduring flame of order now shines." —Razia

Worldslayer (Magic 2012)
Greg Staples

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy all permanents other than this Equipment. Equip {5} ({5}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"If that is what you seek, try looking in craters." —Fodrus, mastersmith

Kithkin Greatheart (Modern Masters)
Greg Staples

As long as you control a Giant, this creature gets +1/+1 and has first strike.

Sometimes a curious giant singles out a "little one" to follow for a few days, never realizing the effect it will have on the little one's life.

Squall (Seventh Edition)
Greg Staples

Squall deals 2 damage to each creature with flying.

"May the winds blow till they have wakened death. . . ." —William Shakespeare, *Othello*

Slaughterhouse Bouncer (Dissension)
Greg Staples

Hellbent — When this creature dies, if you have no cards in hand, target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

A Rakdos party is a flop if anyone lives to talk about it.

Phantom Warrior (Ninth Edition)
Greg Staples

This creature can't be blocked.

"There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream." —Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Illusions"

Captain of the Watch (Magic 2010)
Greg Staples

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) Other Soldier creatures you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance. When this creature enters, create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Orzhov Guildmage (Commander 2011)
Greg Staples

{2}{W}: Target player gains 1 life. {2}{B}: Each player loses 1 life.

Ogre Battledriver (Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning)
Greg Staples

Whenever another creature you control enters, that creature gets +2/+0 and gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} this turn.)

Ogres are driven by passion, rage, and another ogre standing behind them with a whip.

Malevolent Whispers (Ultimate Masters)
Greg Staples

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gets +2/+0 and gains haste until end of turn. Madness {3}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Divinity of Pride (Commander 2013)
Greg Staples

Flying, lifelink This creature gets +4/+4 as long as you have 25 or more life.

"She spoke of mystery and portent, of such unfathomable things that my mind screamed for pity." —*The Seer's Parables*

Grinding Station (Fifth Dawn)
Greg Staples

{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Target player mills three cards. Whenever an artifact enters, you may untap this artifact.

Pentavite (Magic 2012 Tokens)
Greg Staples

Flying

Ben-Ben, Akki Hermit (Champions of Kamigawa)
Greg Staples

{T}: Ben-Ben deals damage to target attacking creature equal to the number of untapped Mountains you control.

Some akki thought of Ben-Ben as a kami of trickery in disguise. They hunted for him in the maze of warrens, often falling prey to his traps.

Solemn Simulacrum (Commander 2011)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Living End (Time Spiral Remastered)
Greg Staples

Suspend 3—{2}{B}{B} Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Pentavus (The List)
Greg Staples

This creature enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Create a 1/1 colorless Pentavite artifact creature token with flying. {1}, Sacrifice a Pentavite: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Mistmeadow Witch (Double Masters 2022)
Greg Staples

{2}{W}{U}: Exile target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Olka collected the evening mist for years, studying its secrets. Once she learned its essence, she could vanish with a thought.

Squee, Goblin Nabob (Tenth Edition)
Greg Staples

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Some goblins are expendable. Some are impossible to get rid of. But he's both—at the same time!" —Starke

Defensive Formation (Urza's Saga)
Greg Staples

Rather than the attacking player, you assign the combat damage of each creature attacking you. You can divide that creature's combat damage as you choose among any of the creatures blocking it.

"Your enemies will pound upon the door of your defenses, but only you shall have the key, and it is the key of life." —*Song of All*, canto 873

Baneslayer Angel (Core Set 2021)
Greg Staples

Flying, first strike, lifelink, protection from Demons and from Dragons

Pemmin's Aura (Scourge)
Greg Staples

Enchant creature {U}: Untap enchanted creature. {U}: Enchanted creature gains flying until end of turn. {U}: Enchanted creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {1}: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.

Serra Angel (Foundations Jumpstart)
Greg Staples

Flying Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Follow the light. In its absence, follow her.

Memory Lapse (Eternal Masters)
Greg Staples

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

What a lonely agony, the memory of memories lost.

Phantom Warrior (Battlebond)
Greg Staples

This creature can't be blocked.

"The construction of a defense is not accomplished by adding bricks." —Jace Beleren

Aggravated Assault (Explorers of Ixalan)
Greg Staples

{3}{R}{R}: Untap all creatures you control. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Activate only as a sorcery.

Wee Dragonauts (The List)
Greg Staples

Flying Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

"Something's causing electrospheric disruption in the blazekite's spire-vanes. Find the cause, and tell them to keep it up!" —Juzba, Izzet tinker

Baneslayer Angel (Core Set 2021 Promos)
Greg Staples

Flying, first strike, lifelink, protection from Demons and from Dragons

Some angels protect the meek and innocent. Others seek out and smite evil wherever it lurks.

Echoing Courage (Darksteel)
Greg Staples

Target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature get +2/+2 until end of turn.

A single seed unleashes a flurry of growth.

Keldon Vandals (Urza's Destiny)
Greg Staples

Echo {2}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, destroy target artifact.

Keldons divide all their spoils into two groups: trophies and catapult ammunition.

Oxidda Golem (Darksteel)
Greg Staples

Affinity for Mountains (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Mountain you control.) Haste

The longer it patrols the smoldering crags of the Oxidda Chain, the more it adopts their fiery temper.

Fledgling Dragon (Judgment)
Greg Staples

Flying Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, this creature gets +3/+3 and has "{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Myr Landshaper (Darksteel)
Greg Staples

{T}: Target land becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

One thing the myr can't do is enjoy the scenery.

Vedalken Anatomist (Mirrodin Besieged)
Greg Staples

{2}{U}, {T}: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. You may tap or untap that creature.

"Specimen 211 examination report. Observation: graft sublimation incomplete. Result: death. Prepare specimen 212."

Corpse Explosion (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Greg Staples

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard. Corpse Explosion deals damage equal to the exiled card's power to each creature and each planeswalker.

"Well, that's one way to scatter her ashes." —Calvey, funeral director

Traumatize (Odyssey)
Greg Staples

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Dreads had half a mind to leave.

Rescue (Urza's Destiny)
Greg Staples

Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand.

"Urza, I've discovered more promising students than you and my husband have, combined. And I haven't lost a single one." —Rayne, Academy Chancellor

Blade Splicer (Bloomburrow Commander)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token. Golems you control have first strike.

"Flesh is a betrayal of the self."

Force of Nature (Ninth Edition Promos)
Greg Staples

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 8 damage to you unless you pay {G}{G}{G}{G}.

Centrifuge (Unfinity)
Greg Staples

Visit — Each player draws a card from the library of the player to their right. You create three Treasure tokens.

Originally, the rotors were used exclusively as particle accelerators for engine fuel, and they probably still should be.

Lorescale Coatl (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Kiora)
Greg Staples

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"The enlightenment I never found in etherium I have found traced in the coatl's scales." —Ranalus, vedalken heretic

Mental Agony (Avacyn Restored)
Greg Staples

Target player discards two cards and loses 2 life.

"His mind is feeble. Feed him to the bats."

Reckless Wurm (The List)
Greg Staples

Trample Madness {2}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Bred for battle in the Grand Coliseum, these wurms annihilated whole ecosystems when released into the wild.

Gaddock Teeg (Lorwyn)
Greg Staples

Noncreature spells with mana value 4 or greater can't be cast. Noncreature spells with {X} in their mana costs can't be cast.

So great is his wisdom and spirit that many who have met him say that they stood before a giant of a man and talked to the wisest of the four winds.

Pentavite (Magic Player Rewards 2004)
Greg Staples

Flying

Avacynian Priest (Innistrad Remastered)
Greg Staples

{1}, {T}: Tap target non-Human creature.

Moorlanders speak in awe of the priests' talent for arriving just in time to drive off the wicked things that prowl the ravished parish.

Retraced Image (Torment)
Greg Staples

Reveal a card in your hand, then put that card onto the battlefield if it has the same name as a permanent.

An army from a soldier, a flock from a bird, a school from a fish . . . a profit from an atrocity.

Angelic Curator (Modern Horizons 2)
Greg Staples

Flying, protection from artifacts

"Do not treat your people as you treat your artifacts. Let them go, and they will live; seal them here, and they will die." —Urza, to Radiant

Corpse Explosion (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
Greg Staples

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard. Corpse Explosion deals damage equal to the exiled card's power to each creature and each planeswalker.

"Well, that's one way to scatter her ashes." —Calvey, funeral director

Chain of Smog (Onslaught)
Greg Staples

Target player discards two cards. That player may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

_____ Bird Gets the Worm (Unfinity)
Greg Staples

Flying When this creature enters, you may put a name sticker on it. You gain X life, where X is the number of unique vowels on that sticker. (The vowels are A, E, I, O, U, and Y.)

It's not like anyone else really wanted it.

Grinding Station (Mystery Booster 2)
Greg Staples

{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Target player mills three cards. Whenever an artifact enters, you may untap this artifact.

Merrow Reejerey (Lorwyn)
Greg Staples

Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever you cast a Merfolk spell, you may tap or untap target permanent.

Steady and silent as the deep current, the reejerey guides the course of the school.

Blade Splicer (Double Masters)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token. Golems you control have first strike.

"Flesh is a betrayal of the self."

Preeminent Captain (Magic 2015)
Greg Staples

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Whenever this creature attacks, you may put a Soldier creature card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking.

Staunch-Hearted Warrior (Theros)
Greg Staples

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

As soon as she faces a monster, she begins composing its epitaph.

Seismic Assault (Eighth Edition)
Greg Staples

Discard a land card: This enchantment deals 2 damage to any target.

Earth arms itself with fire.

Angelic Curator (Urza's Legacy)
Greg Staples

Flying, protection from artifacts

"Do not treat your people as you treat your artifacts. Let them go, and they will live; seal them here, and they will die." —Urza, to Radiant

Wee Dragonauts (Duel Decks: Izzet vs. Golgari)
Greg Staples

Flying Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

"The blazekite is a simple concept, really—just a vehicular application of dragscoop ionics and electropropulsion magnetronics." —Juzba, Izzet tinker

Lorescale Coatl (Masters 25)
Greg Staples

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"The enlightenment I never found in etherium I have found traced in the coatl's scales." —Ranalus, vedalken heretic

Magus of the Scroll (Time Spiral)
Greg Staples

{3}, {T}: Choose a card name, then reveal a card at random from your hand. If that card has the chosen name, this creature deals 2 damage to any target.

Traumatize (Magic 2011)
Greg Staples

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

He was left with just enough memory to understand what he had lost.

Demonfire (Dissension)
Greg Staples

Demonfire deals X damage to any target. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead. Hellbent — If you have no cards in hand, this spell can't be countered and the damage can't be prevented.

Arrest (Return to Ravnica)
Greg Staples

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

"We will prove your guilt. We don't arrest the innocent, you know." —Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Sigiled Paladin (Shards of Alara)
Greg Staples

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

Each sigil marks the recognition of a great deed and signifies a duty owed to the one who granted it.

Dead Drop (Khans of Tarkir)
Greg Staples

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Target player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.

Got a diving lesson —Sultai expression meaning "was fed to the crocodiles"

Serra Angel (Eternal Masters)
Greg Staples

Flying Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Follow the light. In its absence, follow her.

Shackles (Invasion)
Greg Staples

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

"It could be worse," said Gerrard, looking around. "Well, maybe not."

Dig Up the Body (Streets of New Capenna)
Greg Staples

Casualty 1 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 1 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.) Mill two cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Spelltithe Enforcer (Guildpact)
Greg Staples

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice unless they pay {1}.

His assistants calculate the amount of the tribute. He measures out the punishment for delinquency.

Soldier (Magic 2013 Tokens)
Greg Staples

Setessan Griffin (Theros)
Greg Staples

Flying {2}{G}{G}: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

Most griffins must be caught and broken into the service of the polis. Not so in Setessa, where they volunteer.

Diabolic Tutor (Magic 2012)
Greg Staples

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

The wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.

Mahamoti Djinn (Iconic Masters)
Greg Staples

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

Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection.

Vengeful Archon (Magic 2011)
Greg Staples

Flying {X}: Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to you this turn. If damage is prevented this way, this creature deals that much damage to target player or planeswalker.

Martial Coup (From the Vault: Annihilation)
Greg Staples

Create X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens. If X is 5 or more, destroy all other creatures.

Their war forgotten, the nations of Bant stood united in the face of a common threat.

Archangel of Strife (Commander Anthology)
Greg Staples

Flying As this creature enters, each player chooses war or peace. Creatures controlled by players who chose war get +3/+0. Creatures controlled by players who chose peace get +0/+3.

Hypnox (Torment)
Greg Staples

Flying When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, exile all cards from target opponent's hand. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owner's hand.

Torrent of Stone (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Greg Staples

Torrent of Stone deals 4 damage to target creature. Splice onto Arcane—Sacrifice two Mountains. (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Search for Tomorrow (Dominaria United Commander)
Greg Staples

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Bloodlord of Vaasgoth (The List)
Greg Staples

Bloodthirst 3 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.) Flying Whenever you cast a Vampire creature spell, it gains bloodthirst 3.

Quest for the Holy Relic (Zendikar)
Greg Staples

Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. Remove five quest counters from this enchantment and sacrifice it: Search your library for an Equipment card, put it onto the battlefield, attach it to a creature you control, then shuffle.

Soldier (Conspiracy: Take the Crown Tokens)
Greg Staples

Unliving Psychopath (Dissension)
Greg Staples

{B}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. {B}, {T}: Destroy target creature with power less than this creature's power.

"The victim bears the marks of the 'Ktozok Impaler'. . . but he was executed years ago!" —Gorev Hadszak, Wojek investigator

Seismic Assault (Seventh Edition)
Greg Staples

Discard a land card: This enchantment deals 2 damage to any target.

Earth arms itself with fire.

Mungha Wurm (Prophecy)
Greg Staples

You can't untap more than one land during your untap step.

Cities have crumbled under its weight.

Amy Pond (Doctor Who)
Greg Staples

Partner with Rory Williams (When this creature enters, target player may put Rory into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever Amy Pond deals combat damage to a player, choose a suspended card you own and remove that many time counters from it. Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

Firefright Mage (Planar Chaos)
Greg Staples

{1}{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Target creature can't be blocked this turn except by artifact creatures and/or red creatures.

After millennia of advancement in goblin military theory, Toggo VI realized that almost everyone is afraid of fire.

Wee Dragonauts (Guilds of Ravnica)
Greg Staples

Flying Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

"Something's causing electrospheric disruption in the blazekite's spire-vanes. Find the cause, and tell them to keep it up!" —Juzba, Izzet tinker

Elite Archers (Urza's Saga)
Greg Staples

{T}: This creature deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Arrows fletched with the feathers of angels seldom miss their mark.

Deflecting Swat (Commander Masters)
Greg Staples

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

"Come to slay the dragon for the good of the kingdom? How terribly predictable."

Hunter's Prowess (Commander 2017)
Greg Staples

Until end of turn, target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw that many cards."

To be counted among the warriors of Setessa's Leina Tower, you must not fear death, only failure.

Laquatus's Champion (Torment Promos)
Greg Staples

Когда Воин Лакватуса входит в игру, целевой игрок теряет 6 жизней. Когда Воин Лакватуса покидает игру, целевой игрок получает 6 жизней. {B}: Восстановить Воина Лакватуса.

Темный дар Чейнера еще более темной душе.

Phantom Warrior (Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Greg Staples

This creature can't be blocked.

"The construction of a defense is not accomplished by adding bricks." —Jace Beleren

Echoing Ruin (Darksteel)
Greg Staples

Destroy target artifact and all other artifacts with the same name as that artifact.

A single misstep unleashes an avalanche of ruin.

Echoing Truth (Commander 2019)
Greg Staples

Return target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent to their owners' hands.

A single lie unleashes a tide of disbelief.

Mogg Sentry (Ninth Edition)
Greg Staples

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Nothing makes a mogg madder than having to wake up.

Gnawing Zombie (Modern Masters 2017)
Greg Staples

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

On still nights you can hear its rotted teeth grinding tirelessly on scavenged bones.

Goblin Goon (Legions)
Greg Staples

This creature can't attack unless you control more creatures than defending player. This creature can't block unless you control more creatures than attacking player.

Giant-sized body. Goblin-sized brain.

Phantom Warrior (Magic 2014)
Greg Staples

This creature can't be blocked.

"The construction of a defense is not accomplished by adding bricks." —Jace Beleren

Baneslayer Angel (Magic 2010)
Greg Staples

Flying, first strike, lifelink, protection from Demons and from Dragons

Some angels protect the meek and innocent. Others seek out and smite evil wherever it lurks.

Kazuul's Toll Collector (Double Masters)
Greg Staples

{0}: Attach target Equipment you control to this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Travelers are advised to bring extra swords, preferably shiny ones.

Saltcrusted Steppe (Time Spiral Remastered)
Greg Staples

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {1}, Remove X storage counters from this land: Add X mana in any combination of {G} and/or {W}.

Buried Alive (Commander Anthology Volume II)
Greg Staples

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

The scrape of shovels and the tumble of cold dirt soon muffled their pleas.

Diabolic Tutor (Commander Anthology)
Greg Staples

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

The wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.

Pygmy Kavu (Planeshift)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, draw a card for each black creature your opponents control.

"We could learn a lot by watching the little ones," said Agnate. "Define 'little,'" replied Grizzlegom.

Echoing Decay (Darksteel)
Greg Staples

Target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature get -2/-2 until end of turn.

A single fear unleashes a torrent of nightmares.

Dralnu, Lich Lord (Time Spiral Remastered)
Greg Staples

If damage would be dealt to Dralnu, sacrifice that many permanents instead. {T}: Target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Genju of the Fields (The List)
Greg Staples

Enchant Plains {2}: Until end of turn, enchanted Plains becomes a 2/5 white Spirit creature with "Whenever this creature deals damage, its controller gains that much life." It's still a land. When enchanted Plains is put into a graveyard, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Satyr Nyx-Smith (Born of the Gods)
Greg Staples

Haste Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may pay {2}{R}. If you do, create a 3/1 red Elemental enchantment creature token with haste.

Tourach, Dread Cantor (Modern Horizons 2)
Greg Staples

Kicker {B}{B} (You may pay an additional {B}{B} as you cast this spell.) Protection from white Whenever an opponent discards a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Tourach. When Tourach enters, if it was kicked, target opponent discards two cards at random.

Urborg Syphon-Mage (Archenemy)
Greg Staples

{2}{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Each other player loses 2 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

"I have become a gourmet of sorts. Each soul has its own distinctive flavor. The art is in inviting the right company to the feast."

Ghor-Clan Savage (Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters)
Greg Staples

Bloodthirst 3 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.)

The snap of sinew. The crunch of bone. A cry for mercy. These are the music of the Gruul.

Reckless Wurm (Planar Chaos)
Greg Staples

Trample Madness {2}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Bred for battle in the Grand Coliseum, these wurms annihilated whole ecosystems when released into the wild.

Mistmeadow Witch (Commander Anthology)
Greg Staples

{2}{W}{U}: Exile target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Olka collected the evening mist for years, studying its secrets. Once she learned its essence, she could vanish with a thought.

Battering Sliver (Time Spiral Remastered)
Greg Staples

All Sliver creatures have trample.

Covered with hard shell-like plates, these slivers burrow through solid rock to carve out new nests for their hives.

Duskworker (Mirrodin)
Greg Staples

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, regenerate it. {3}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

At the setting of each sun, it emerges to clean Mirrodin's floor of the day's carrion.

Crackling Triton (Theros)
Greg Staples

{2}{R}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 2 damage to any target.

He calls upon both the currents in the sea and the current in the clouds.

Ashnod's Altar (The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts)
Greg Staples

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

"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back." —Ashnod, to Tawnos

Teferi's Protection (Double Masters 2022)
Greg Staples

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.) Exile Teferi's Protection.

Voice of Many (Commander 2019)
Greg Staples

When this creature enters, draw a card for each opponent who controls fewer creatures than you.

His words echo every roar, screech, and howl of the wilds.

Traumatize (Magic 2014)
Greg Staples

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

He was left with just enough memory to understand what he had lost.

Serra Angel (Magic 2012)
Greg Staples

Flying Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Follow the light. In its absence, follow her.

Pentavus (Mirrodin)
Greg Staples

This creature enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Create a 1/1 colorless Pentavite artifact creature token with flying. {1}, Sacrifice a Pentavite: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Hero of the Winds (Theros Beyond Death)
Greg Staples

Flying Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

To tame a griffin is to ride into legend.

Global Ruin (Invasion)
Greg Staples

Each player chooses from the lands they control a land of each basic land type, then sacrifices the rest.

"The earth shook, the sky rained fire, and it seemed the world was ending." —Benalish refugee

Kaho, Minamo Historian (Commander Masters)
Greg Staples

When Kaho enters, search your library for up to three instant cards, exile them, then shuffle. {X}, {T}: You may cast a spell with mana value X from among cards exiled with Kaho without paying its mana cost.

Elite Archers (Eighth Edition)
Greg Staples

{T}: This creature deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

They fletch their arrows with the feathers of angels.

Devastate (Prophecy)
Greg Staples

Destroy target land. Devastate deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

"You're willing to die for your homeland. I'm willing to kill for it." —Latulla, Keldon overseer

Corpse Explosion (Streets of New Capenna)
Greg Staples

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard. Corpse Explosion deals damage equal to the exiled card's power to each creature and each planeswalker.

"Well, that's one way to scatter her ashes." —Calvey, funeral director

Squee, Goblin Nabob (Ultimate Masters)
Greg Staples

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

"If Yawgmoth meant Squee's immortality as a curse, no one ever told Squee." —Karn

Gut Shot (The List)
Greg Staples

({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.) Gut Shot deals 1 damage to any target.

"Down here, we have a more pointed version of the scriptures." —Urabrask's enforcer

Instigator Gang (Innistrad)
Greg Staples

Soldier (Modern Masters 2015 Tokens)
Greg Staples

Vigilant Drake (Beatdown Box Set)
Greg Staples

Flying {2}{U}: Untap this creature.

Awake and awing in the blink of an eye.

Echoing Courage (Modern Masters)
Greg Staples

Target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature get +2/+2 until end of turn.

A single seed unleashes a flurry of growth.

Phantom Warrior (Seventh Edition)
Greg Staples

This creature can't be blocked.

It can pass through solid matter—but that doesn't mean it's harmless.

Pentavus (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
Greg Staples

This creature enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Create a 1/1 colorless Pentavite artifact creature token with flying. {1}, Sacrifice a Pentavite: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Ghost Council of Orzhova (RNA Guild Kit)
Greg Staples

When Ghost Council of Orzhova enters, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {1}, Sacrifice a creature: Exile Ghost Council of Orzhova. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Judge Unworthy (Time Spiral Remastered)
Greg Staples

Choose target attacking or blocking creature. Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Judge Unworthy deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that creature.

Into the Pit (Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander)
Greg Staples

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast spells from the top of your library by sacrificing a nonland permanent in addition to paying their other costs.

Duskmourn never yields its secrets without exacting a brutal price.

Wojek Investigator (Murders at Karlov Manor)
Greg Staples

Flying, vigilance At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate once for each opponent who has more cards in hand than you. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

"Well, this clearly didn't come from anyone I know..."

Research (Dissension)
Greg Staples

Gisa, the Hellraiser (Outlaws of Thunder Junction)
Greg Staples

Ward—{2}, Pay 2 life. Skeletons and Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have menace. Whenever you commit a crime, create two tapped 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)