Living Twister

Living Twister (War of the Spark)
James Paick

{1}{R}, Discard a land card: This creature deals 2 damage to any target. {G}: Return a tapped land you control to its owner's hand.

"The ancient places of Ravnica awaken, stirred by the hoofbeats of Ilharg!" —Nikya of the Old Ways

Living Twister (War of the Spark Promos)
James Paick

{1}{R}, Discard a land card: This creature deals 2 damage to any target. {G}: Return a tapped land you control to its owner's hand.

"The ancient places of Ravnica awaken, stirred by the hoofbeats of Ilharg!" —Nikya of the Old Ways

Living Twister (Zendikar Rising Commander)
James Paick

{1}{R}, Discard a land card: This creature deals 2 damage to any target. {G}: Return a tapped land you control to its owner's hand.

"The ancient places of Ravnica awaken, stirred by the hoofbeats of Ilharg!" —Nikya of the Old Ways

Living Twister (War of the Spark Promos)
James Paick

{1}{R}, Discard a land card: This creature deals 2 damage to any target. {G}: Return a tapped land you control to its owner's hand.

"The ancient places of Ravnica awaken, stirred by the hoofbeats of Ilharg!" —Nikya of the Old Ways

Plains (Mirrodin Besieged)
James Paick

({T}: Add {W}.)

Mortuary Mire (Commander 2018)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Xander's Lounge (Streets of New Capenna)
James Paick

({T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Maestros agents can lie low in high style at the opulent Shadow Hostel.

Mountain (RNA Ravnica Weekend)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R}.)

Skullwinder (Commander 2020)
James Paick

Deathtouch When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand, then choose an opponent. That player returns a card from their graveyard to their hand.

Ancient Excavation (The List)
James Paick

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand, then discard a card for each card drawn this way. Basic landcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Void Squall (Dragons of Tarkir)
James Paick

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Memorial to Genius (The List)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw two cards.

Moonsilver Spear (Game Night: Free-for-All)
James Paick

Equipped creature has first strike. Whenever equipped creature attacks, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Equip {4}

Mountain (Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R}.)

Wall of Omens (Commander 2011)
James Paick

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

"I search for a vision of Zendikar that does not include the Eldrazi." —Expedition journal entry

Stomping Ground (Ravnica Allegiance)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

"What we begin, the End-Raze will finish. Then we will dance in Ravnica's rubble." —Nikya of the Old Ways

Sprouting Renewal (Ravnica Remastered)
James Paick

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Choose one — • Create a 2/2 green and white Elf Knight creature token with vigilance. • Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Ghave, Guru of Spores (Commander 2011 Oversized)
James Paick

Ghave enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. {1}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Memorial to Genius (Jumpstart 2022)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw two cards.

Swamp (Innistrad)
James Paick

({T}: Add {B}.)

Mountain (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R}.)

Gone Missing (The List)
James Paick

Put target permanent on top of its owner's library. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

"Sometimes it's best for the lost to stay lost." —Herzag, mayor of Havengul

Living Twister (War of the Spark)
James Paick

{1}{R}, Discard a land card: This creature deals 2 damage to any target. {G}: Return a tapped land you control to its owner's hand.

"The ancient places of Ravnica awaken, stirred by the hoofbeats of Ilharg!" —Nikya of the Old Ways

Assault Suit (Commander 2016)
James Paick

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has haste, can't attack you or planeswalkers you control, and can't be sacrificed. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you may have that player gain control of equipped creature until end of turn. If you do, untap it. Equip {3}

Barbed Spike (Modern Horizons 2)
James Paick

When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying, then attach this Equipment to it. Equipped creature gets +1/+0. Equip {2}

Norn's Annex (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander)
James Paick

({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.) Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {W/P} for each of those creatures.

Wall of Omens (Eternal Masters)
James Paick

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

"I search for a vision of Zendikar that does not include the Eldrazi." —Expedition journal entry

Aesthir Glider (Dominaria)
James Paick

Flying This creature can't block.

An ancient device recovered from a thawing glacier high in the Karplusan mountains.

Searing Blaze (Duel Decks: Venser vs. Koth)
James Paick

Searing Blaze deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and 1 damage to target creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, Searing Blaze deals 3 damage to that player or planeswalker and 3 damage to that creature instead.

Torrent Elemental (Fate Reforged)
James Paick

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, tap all creatures defending player controls. {3}{B/G}{B/G}: Put this card from exile onto the battlefield tapped. Activate only as a sorcery.

Spellgorger Weird (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
James Paick

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Freed from their respective labs, the two weirds formed a partnership, feeding on the arcane energies of war.

Mask of the Schemer (New Capenna Commander)
James Paick

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, it connives X, where X is the amount of damage it dealt to that player. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.) Equip {2}

Meandering River (Dominaria)
James Paick

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

"Everywhere you look, this world is healing from its wounds. Aren't you ready to do the same?" —Jhoira, to Teferi

Terminus (Commander 2018)
James Paick

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries. Miracle {W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Forest (Innistrad)
James Paick

({T}: Add {G}.)

Rest for the Weary (Worldwake)
James Paick

Target player gains 4 life. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, that player gains 8 life instead.

Zendikar is a brutal taskmaster, but sometimes it offers unexpected solace.

Sanctum of Ugin (Battle for Zendikar)
James Paick

{T}: Add {C}. Whenever you cast a colorless spell with mana value 7 or greater, you may sacrifice this land. If you do, search your library for a colorless creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Swamp (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
James Paick

({T}: Add {B}.)

Wall of Omens (Double Masters 2022)
James Paick

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

"I search for a vision of Zendikar that does not include the Eldrazi." —Expedition journal entry

Woodland Stream (Rivals of Ixalan)
James Paick

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

Countless streams flow into the nine rivers, and the nine rivers flow into the Great River. The River Heralds guard them all.

Avacyn's Collar (Dark Ascension)
James Paick

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has vigilance. Whenever equipped creature dies, if it was a Human, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. Equip {2}

Armory Automaton (Commander 2016)
James Paick

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may attach any number of target Equipment to it. (Control of the Equipment doesn't change.)

With no flesh to tire or resolve to falter, the machines soon became the Academy's preferred trainers.

Memorial to Genius (Foundations Jumpstart)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw two cards.

Desert of the Indomitable (Hour of Devastation)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Steel Hellkite (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
James Paick

Flying {2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by this creature this turn. Activate only once each turn.

Disaster Radius (Rise of the Eldrazi)
James Paick

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a creature card from your hand. Disaster Radius deals X damage to each creature your opponents control, where X is the revealed card's mana value.

Memorial to Genius (Commander 2021)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw two cards.

Pyretic Ritual (The List)
James Paick

Add {R}{R}{R}.

The Multiverse is filled with limitless power just waiting for someone to reach out and seize it.

Steel Hellkite (Commander Anthology Volume II)
James Paick

Flying {2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by this creature this turn. Activate only once each turn.

Swamp (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
James Paick

({T}: Add {B}.)

Power Depot (Modern Horizons 2)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts. Modular 1

Firewing Phoenix (Magic 2013)
James Paick

Flying {1}{R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

"When a phoenix nests in a volcano, we rejoice, for it means a hundred years of war." —Golmak, Keldon warlord

Island (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
James Paick

({T}: Add {U}.)

Ghave, Guru of Spores (Double Masters 2022)
James Paick

Ghave enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. {1}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle (Zendikar Promos)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. Whenever a Mountain you control enters, if you control at least five other Mountains, you may have this land deal 3 damage to any target. {T}: Add {R}.

Moorland Haunt (Starter Commander Decks)
James Paick

{T}: Add {C}. {W}{U}, {T}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Scytheclaw (Commander Masters)
James Paick

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up. Equip {3}

False Floor (New Capenna Commander)
James Paick

This artifact enters tapped. Creatures enter tapped. {2}, {T}, Exile this artifact: Exile all untapped creatures. Activate only as a sorcery.

"That performance was truly the pits." —Jetmir

Scout the Borders (Khans of Tarkir)
James Paick

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

"I am in my element: the element of surprise." —Mogai, Sultai scout

Mortuary Mire (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Mask of the Schemer (New Capenna Commander)
James Paick

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, it connives X, where X is the amount of damage it dealt to that player. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.) Equip {2}

Glacial Fortress (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
James Paick

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Ships blown north in their voyage across the Stormwreck Sea become trapped in the unmelting ice.

Mountain (Innistrad)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R}.)

Spellgorger Weird (War of the Spark)
James Paick

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Freed from their respective labs, the two weirds formed a partnership, feeding on the arcane energies of war.

False Floor (New Capenna Commander)
James Paick

This artifact enters tapped. Creatures enter tapped. {2}, {T}, Exile this artifact: Exile all untapped creatures. Activate only as a sorcery.

Gone Missing (Shadows over Innistrad)
James Paick

Put target permanent on top of its owner's library. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

"Sometimes it's best for the lost to stay lost." —Herzag, mayor of Havengul

Searing Blaze (Worldwake)
James Paick

Searing Blaze deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and 1 damage to target creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, Searing Blaze deals 3 damage to that player or planeswalker and 3 damage to that creature instead.

Smuggler's Buggy (New Capenna Commander Promos)
James Paick

Hideaway 4 (When this artifact enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) Whenever this Vehicle deals combat damage to a player, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost. If you do, return this Vehicle to its owner's hand. Crew 2

Plains (Scars of Mirrodin)
James Paick

({T}: Add {W}.)

Genesis Wave (Iconic Masters)
James Paick

Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.

Eye of Ugin (Modern Masters 2015)
James Paick

Colorless Eldrazi spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. {7}, {T}: Search your library for a colorless creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

An eye closes. A race awakens.

Spellgorger Weird (Jumpstart 2022)
James Paick

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Freed from their respective labs, the two weirds formed a partnership, feeding on the arcane energies of war.

Eldrazi Temple (Rise of the Eldrazi)
James Paick

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.

Each temple is a door to a horrible future.

Disaster Radius (Commander 2015)
James Paick

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a creature card from your hand. Disaster Radius deals X damage to each creature your opponents control, where X is the revealed card's mana value.

Mountain (Shadows over Innistrad)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R}.)

The Maelstrom (Planechase Anthology Planes)
James Paick

When you planeswalk to The Maelstrom and at the beginning of your upkeep, you may reveal the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you revealed a card but didn't put it onto the battlefield, put it on the bottom of your library. Whenever chaos ensues, return target permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Moonsilver Spear (Commander 2014)
James Paick

Equipped creature has first strike. Whenever equipped creature attacks, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Equip {4}

Eye of Ugin (Worldwake)
James Paick

Colorless Eldrazi spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. {7}, {T}: Search your library for a colorless creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

An eye closes. A race awakens.

Memorial to Glory (Foundations Jumpstart)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {3}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Spellgorger Weird (Core Set 2021)
James Paick

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Freed from their respective labs, the two weirds formed a partnership, feeding on the arcane energies of war.

Mask of the Schemer (New Capenna Commander Promos)
James Paick

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, it connives X, where X is the amount of damage it dealt to that player. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.) Equip {2}

Scytheclaw (Commander 2015)
James Paick

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up. Equip {3}

Island (Dominaria United)
James Paick

({T}: Add {U}.)

Wall of Omens (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
James Paick

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

"I search for a vision of Zendikar that does not include the Eldrazi." —Expedition journal entry

Mountain (Rise of the Eldrazi)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R}.)

Plains (New Phyrexia)
James Paick

({T}: Add {W}.)

Ghave, Guru of Spores (Commander 2016)
James Paick

Ghave enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. {1}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Island (Innistrad)
James Paick

({T}: Add {U}.)

Kabira Crossroads (Foundations Jumpstart)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 2 life. {T}: Add {W}.

Wall of Omens (The List)
James Paick

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

"I search for a vision of Zendikar that does not include the Eldrazi." —Expedition journal entry

Stomping Ground (Ravnica Allegiance Promos)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

"What we begin, the End-Raze will finish. Then we will dance in Ravnica's rubble." —Nikya of the Old Ways

Regenesis (Ravnica Allegiance)
James Paick

Return up to two target permanent cards from your graveyard to your hand.

"When you get right down to it, the difference between death and life is just a membrane-enclosed environment maintained by a metabolic process." —Gulistan, Simic biomancer

Tectonic Reformation (Modern Horizons)
James Paick

Each land card in your hand has cycling {R}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Alone in the charred desolation of her kingdom, she regretted many things—most of all not acting sooner.

Sanctum of Ugin (Battle for Zendikar Promos)
James Paick

{T}: Add {C}. Whenever you cast a colorless spell with mana value 7 or greater, you may sacrifice this land. If you do, search your library for a colorless creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Mountain (Rise of the Eldrazi)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R}.)

Manticore of the Gauntlet (Amonkhet)
James Paick

When this creature enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature you control. This creature deals 3 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

In the training ground known as the Gauntlet, initiates are pushed to practice more destructive techniques.

Boxing Ring (New Capenna Commander)
James Paick

Whenever a creature you control enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control with the same mana value. {T}: Create a Treasure token. Activate only if you control a creature that fought this turn.

Sprouting Renewal (Guilds of Ravnica)
James Paick

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Choose one — • Create a 2/2 green and white Elf Knight creature token with vigilance. • Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Searing Blaze (The List)
James Paick

Searing Blaze deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and 1 damage to target creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, Searing Blaze deals 3 damage to that player or planeswalker and 3 damage to that creature instead.

Forest (RNA Guild Kit)
James Paick

({T}: Add {G}.)

Portcullis Vine (Core Set 2021)
James Paick

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card.

Nature's way of saying "take the long way home."

Mortuary Mire (Commander 2019)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Thorned Moloch (Hour of Devastation)
James Paick

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) This creature has first strike as long as it's attacking.

Those who fled the destruction of the city stumbled into the territory of their prickly neighbors.

Plains (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
James Paick

({T}: Add {W}.)

Debtor's Pulpit (Gatecrash)
James Paick

Enchant land Enchanted land has "{T}: Tap target creature."

"You may not be able to pay. But you can still kneel." —Milana, Orzhov prelate

Giant Opportunity (Throne of Eldraine)
James Paick

You may sacrifice two Foods. If you do, create a 7/7 green Giant creature token. Otherwise, create three Food tokens. (They're artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

They look tasty, but best to plant them.

Embermaw Hellion (Magic Origins Promos)
James Paick

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) If another red source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals that much damage plus 1 to that permanent or player instead.

Spellkeeper Weird (War of the Spark)
James Paick

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

They worked well as a team, but they knew it couldn't last forever.

Ghave, Guru of Spores (The List)
James Paick

Ghave enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. {1}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Mountain (Secret Lair Drop)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R}.)

Swamp (Premium Deck Series: Graveborn)
James Paick

({T}: Add {B}.)

Aetherworks Marvel (Kaladesh)
James Paick

Whenever a permanent you control is put into a graveyard, you get {E} (an energy counter). {T}, Pay six {E}: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Xander's Lounge (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
James Paick

({T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Maestros agents can lie low in high style at the opulent Shadow Hostel.

Arboretum Elemental (Guilds of Ravnica)
James Paick

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Naturalize (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Inventors)
James Paick

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

The remains of ancient civilizations litter the run-down land.

Seismic Shift (The List)
James Paick

Destroy target land. Up to two target creatures can't block this turn.

"Shiv is a restless land. It heaves ash, bleeds lava, and scabs over in black obsidian." —*The First Eruption*

Steel Hellkite (Commander Masters)
James Paick

Flying {2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by this creature this turn. Activate only once each turn.

Unmarked Grave (Modern Horizons 2 Promos)
James Paick

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

"I'm sure they were once someone important, but I couldn't tell you who they were." —Doros, expedition guide

Wishcoin Crab (Guilds of Ravnica)
James Paick

"What wishes do they grant? Mostly pinching-related ones." —Omik, superintendent of waterworks

Worldsoul Colossus (Guilds of Ravnica)
James Paick

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Scytheclaw (March of the Machine Commander)
James Paick

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up. Equip {3}

Carnage Altar (Commander 2013)
James Paick

{3}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

"In these bloodstains I will find the fingerprints of our oppressors." —Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Salvager of Ruin (Core Set 2020)
James Paick

Sacrifice this creature: Choose target permanent card in your graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Return it to your hand.

"The next model should be able to achieve a rescue without self-destruction." —Sargis Haz, artificer

Treasure Keeper (Masters 25)
James Paick

When this creature dies, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card with mana value 3 or less. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put all revealed cards not cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Clue (Shadows over Innistrad Tokens)
James Paick

{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

"The symbols—when did they change?" —Tamiyo's journal

Treasure Keeper (Double Masters)
James Paick

When this creature dies, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card with mana value 3 or less. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put all revealed cards not cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Eldrazi Temple (The List)
James Paick

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.

Each temple is a door to a horrible future.

Kabira Crossroads (Commander 2017)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 2 life. {T}: Add {W}.

Living Twister (War of the Spark Promos)
James Paick

{1}{R}, Discard a land card: This creature deals 2 damage to any target. {G}: Return a tapped land you control to its owner's hand.

"The ancient places of Ravnica awaken, stirred by the hoofbeats of Ilharg!" —Nikya of the Old Ways

Circle of Flame (DCI Promos)
James Paick

Whenever a creature without flying attacks you or a planeswalker you control, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that creature.

"Which do you think is a better deterrent: a moat of water or one of fire?" —Chandra Nalaar

Mountain (Rise of the Eldrazi)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R}.)

Temple of Malady (Journey into Nyx)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Naturalize (Khans of Tarkir)
James Paick

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

The remains of ancient sky tyrants now feed the war-torn land.

Aetherworks Marvel (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
James Paick

Whenever a permanent you control is put into a graveyard, you get {E} (an energy counter). {T}, Pay six {E}: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Aetherworks Marvel (Kaladesh Promos)
James Paick

Whenever a permanent you control is put into a graveyard, you get {E} (an energy counter). {T}, Pay six {E}: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Bronze Walrus (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
James Paick

When this creature enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.) {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Kabira Crossroads (Zendikar)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 2 life. {T}: Add {W}.

Filigree Crawler (Aether Revolt)
James Paick

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

"The most harmonious designs are based on relationships found in nature." —Venand Kapur, the Gearherder

Forest (Avacyn Restored)
James Paick

({T}: Add {G}.)

Memorial to Genius (Commander Legends)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw two cards.

Ajani's Mantra (Magic 2011)
James Paick

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may gain 1 life.

"He hasn't returned to the Cloud Forest. But I can still sense his calming presence." —Zaliki of Naya

Firewing Phoenix (Ultimate Masters)
James Paick

Flying {1}{R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

"When a phoenix nests in a volcano, we rejoice, for it means a hundred years of war." —Golmak, Keldon warlord

Plains (New Phyrexia)
James Paick

({T}: Add {W}.)

Glacial Fortress (Aetherdrift Commander)
James Paick

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Ships blown north in their voyage across the Stormwreck Sea become trapped in the unmelting ice.

Mask of Avacyn (Commander Legends)
James Paick

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {3}

It hides the face and protects the soul.

Spellgorger Weird (Foundations Jumpstart)
James Paick

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Freed from their respective labs, the two weirds formed a partnership, feeding on the arcane energies of war.

Ancient Excavation (Commander Anthology Volume II)
James Paick

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand, then discard a card for each card drawn this way. Basic landcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Wishcoin Crab (The List)
James Paick

"What wishes do they grant? Mostly pinching-related ones." —Omik, superintendent of waterworks

Smuggler's Buggy (New Capenna Commander)
James Paick

Hideaway 4 (When this artifact enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) Whenever this Vehicle deals combat damage to a player, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost. If you do, return this Vehicle to its owner's hand. Crew 2

Razortip Whip (Gatecrash)
James Paick

{1}, {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

"It no longer surprises me what shows up in our raid of a Rakdos revue." —Janik Bara, Wojek captain

Disaster Radius (Commander Anthology Volume II)
James Paick

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a creature card from your hand. Disaster Radius deals X damage to each creature your opponents control, where X is the revealed card's mana value.

Mortuary Mire (Jumpstart 2022)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Swamp (Avacyn Restored)
James Paick

({T}: Add {B}.)

Wall of Omens (Forgotten Realms Commander)
James Paick

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

"I search for a vision of Zendikar that does not include the Eldrazi." —Expedition journal entry

Death Denied (The List)
James Paick

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Takenuma was filled with a chorus of moans, shrieks, and wails. Some came from the living, some from the dying, and some, most horribly, from the dead.

Woodland Stream (Ixalan)
James Paick

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

Countless streams flow into the nine rivers, and the nine rivers flow into the Great River. The River Heralds guard them all.

Mountain (Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R}.)

Forest (Ravnica: Clue Edition)
James Paick

({T}: Add {G}.)

Crumble to Dust (Battle for Zendikar)
James Paick

Devoid (This card has no color.) Exile target nonbasic land. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that land and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Academy at Tolaria West (Planechase Planes)
James Paick

At the beginning of your end step, if you have no cards in hand, draw seven cards. Whenever chaos ensues, discard your hand.

False Floor (New Capenna Commander Promos)
James Paick

This artifact enters tapped. Creatures enter tapped. {2}, {T}, Exile this artifact: Exile all untapped creatures. Activate only as a sorcery.

"That performance was truly the pits." —Jetmir

Ghave, Guru of Spores (Commander Anthology Volume II)
James Paick

Ghave enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. {1}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Pyromancer's Goggles (Magic Origins)
James Paick

{T}: Add {R}. When that mana is spent to cast a red instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.

"I hope to meet Jaya Ballard someday. I think we'd get along." —Chandra Nalaar

Island (Avacyn Restored)
James Paick

({T}: Add {U}.)

Portcullis Vine (Guilds of Ravnica)
James Paick

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card.

Nature's way of saying "take the long way home."

World Queller (Zendikar)
James Paick

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may choose a card type. If you do, each player sacrifices a permanent of their choice of that type.

"Why fight the world when you know who will win?" —Nissa Revane

Scrabbling Claws (Ravnica Allegiance)
James Paick

{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard. {1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

Feed it steel. Feed it gold. Feed it bone. In the belly of the furnace, the flames know no difference.

Firewing Phoenix (The List)
James Paick

Flying {1}{R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

"When a phoenix nests in a volcano, we rejoice, for it means a hundred years of war." —Golmak, Keldon warlord

Plains (GRN Ravnica Weekend)
James Paick

({T}: Add {W}.)

Naturalize (Dragons of Tarkir)
James Paick

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

The remains of ancient civilizations litter the run-down land.

Unmarked Grave (Modern Horizons 2 Promos)
James Paick

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

"I'm sure they were once someone important, but I couldn't tell you who they were." —Doros, expedition guide

Razorverge Thicket (Scars of Mirrodin)
James Paick

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Where the Razor Fields beat back the Tangle, the crowded thicket yields to bright scimitars of grass.

Tectonic Reformation (Commander 2020)
James Paick

Each land card in your hand has cycling {R}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Alone in the charred desolation of her kingdom, she regretted many things—most of all not acting sooner.

Splitting Slime (Conspiracy: Take the Crown)
James Paick

{4}{G}{G}: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) When this creature becomes monstrous, create a token that's a copy of this creature. (The token has no counters and isn't monstrous.)

Steel Hellkite (Commander 2018)
James Paick

Flying {2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by this creature this turn. Activate only once each turn.

Steel Hellkite (Commander 2017)
James Paick

Flying {2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by this creature this turn. Activate only once each turn.

Steel Hellkite (Commander 2014)
James Paick

Flying {2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by this creature this turn. Activate only once each turn.

Wall of Omens (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
James Paick

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

"I search for a vision of Zendikar that does not include the Eldrazi." —Expedition journal entry

Death Denied (Ultimate Masters)
James Paick

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Takenuma was filled with a chorus of moans, shrieks, and wails. Some came from the living, some from the dying, and some, most horribly, from the dead.

Swamp (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
James Paick

({T}: Add {B}.)

Forest (RNA Ravnica Weekend)
James Paick

({T}: Add {G}.)

Iron Mastiff (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
James Paick

Whenever this creature attacks, roll a d20 for each player being attacked and ignore all but the highest roll. 1—9 | This creature deals damage equal to its power to you. 10—19 | This creature deals damage equal to its power to defending player. 20 | This creature deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.

Living Twister (Zendikar Rising Commander)
James Paick

{1}{R}, Discard a land card: This creature deals 2 damage to any target. {G}: Return a tapped land you control to its owner's hand.

"The ancient places of Ravnica awaken, stirred by the hoofbeats of Ilharg!" —Nikya of the Old Ways

Scytheclaw (Zendikar Rising Commander)
James Paick

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up. Equip {3}

Woodland Stream (Shadows over Innistrad)
James Paick

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

Two creaking waterwheels herald the approach to Briarbridge through the Ulvenwald.

Plains (Mirrodin Besieged)
James Paick

({T}: Add {W}.)

Ainok Artillerist (Dragons of Tarkir)
James Paick

This creature has reach as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it. (It can block creatures with flying.)

"In the Tarkir I once knew, the Abzan revered their ancestor trees. Now, as Dromoka, they cut their finest groves to make weapons." —Sarkhan Vol

Wall of Omens (The List)
James Paick

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

"I search for a vision of Zendikar that does not include the Eldrazi." —Expedition journal entry

Ondu Inversion (Zendikar Rising)
James Paick

Ipnu Rivulet (Foundations Jumpstart)
James Paick

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {U}. {1}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target player mills four cards. (They put the top four cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Eddytrail Hawk (Kaladesh)
James Paick

Flying When this creature enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay {E}. If you do, another target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn.

Giant's Skewer (Throne of Eldraine)
James Paick

Equipped creature gets +2/+1. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a creature, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Ondu Inversion (The List)
James Paick

Giant Opportunity (Foundations Jumpstart)
James Paick

You may sacrifice two Foods. If you do, create a 7/7 green Giant creature token. Otherwise, create three Food tokens. (They're artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

They look tasty, but best to plant them.

Ondu Inversion (Zendikar Rising Promos)
James Paick

Harrowing Journey (Dark Ascension)
James Paick

Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

"There are always fools who attempt to traverse Kruin Pass before sundown and every time they wind up in a race for their lives." —Old Rutstein

Mortuary Mire (Forgotten Realms Commander)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Kabira Crossroads (Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 2 life. {T}: Add {W}.

Ondu Inversion (Zendikar Rising)
James Paick

Brokers Hideout (Streets of New Capenna)
James Paick

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Once the witness was inside, the safe house vanished first from sight, then from memory.

Carnage Altar (Zendikar)
James Paick

{3}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

"In these bloodstains I will find the fingerprints of our oppressors." —Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Unmarked Grave (Modern Horizons 2)
James Paick

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

"I'm sure they were once someone important, but I couldn't tell you who they were." —Doros, expedition guide

Mountain (RNA Guild Kit)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R}.)

Terminus (From the Vault: Annihilation)
James Paick

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries. Miracle {W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Wishcoin Crab (Core Set 2021)
James Paick

"What wishes do they grant? Mostly pinching-related ones." —Omik, superintendent of waterworks

Embermaw Hellion (Magic Origins)
James Paick

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) If another red source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals that much damage plus 1 to that permanent or player instead.

Glacial Fortress (Ixalan Promos)
James Paick

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Ships blown north in their voyage across the Stormwreck Sea become trapped in the unmelting ice.

Mortuary Mire (Commander 2020)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Black Sun's Zenith (DCI Promos)
James Paick

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Smuggler's Buggy (New Capenna Commander)
James Paick

Hideaway 4 (When this artifact enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) Whenever this Vehicle deals combat damage to a player, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost. If you do, return this Vehicle to its owner's hand. Crew 2

Moonsilver Spear (Avacyn Restored)
James Paick

Equipped creature has first strike. Whenever equipped creature attacks, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Equip {4}

Death Denied (Modern Masters 2015)
James Paick

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Takenuma was filled with a chorus of moans, shrieks, and wails. Some came from the living, some from the dying, and some, most horribly, from the dead.

Javelin of Lightning (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
James Paick

Flash When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. During your turn, equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike. Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Glacial Fortress (Ixalan)
James Paick

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Ships blown north in their voyage across the Stormwreck Sea become trapped in the unmelting ice.

Eldrazi Temple (Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi)
James Paick

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.

Each temple is a door to a horrible future.

Assault Suit (Commander Anthology)
James Paick

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has haste, can't attack you or planeswalkers you control, and can't be sacrificed. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you may have that player gain control of equipped creature until end of turn. If you do, untap it. Equip {3}

Plains (Scars of Mirrodin)
James Paick

({T}: Add {W}.)

Mask of the Schemer (New Capenna Commander)
James Paick

Siempre que la criatura equipada haga daño de combate a un jugador, confabula X, donde X es la cantidad de daño que hizo a ese jugador. (Roba X cartas, luego descarta X cartas. Pon un contador +1/+1 sobre esa criatura por cada carta que no sea tierra descartada de esta manera.) Equipar {2}.

Smuggler's Buggy (New Capenna Commander)
James Paick

掩蔽4（當此神器進戰場時，檢視你牌庫頂的四張牌，將其中一張牌面朝下地放逐，然後將其餘的牌以隨機順序置於牌庫底。） 每當走私客金龜車對任一玩家造成戰鬥傷害時，你可以施放所放逐的牌，且不需支付其魔法力費用。若你如此作，則將走私客金龜車移回其擁有者手上。 搭載2

Treasure Keeper (Aether Revolt)
James Paick

When this creature dies, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card with mana value 3 or less. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put all revealed cards not cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Island (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
James Paick

({T}: Add {U}.)

You're about to disembark to find the harbormaster when you spot a merfolk darting underneath your ship.

Broodhatch Nantuko (Masters 25)
James Paick

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you may create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens. Morph {2}{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.)

Mountain (Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R}.)

Aether Searcher (Conspiracy)
James Paick

Reveal this card as you draft it. Reveal the next card you draft and note its name. When this creature enters, you may search your hand and/or library for a card with a name noted as you drafted cards named Aether Searcher. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you searched your library this way, shuffle.

Memorial to Genius (Dominaria)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw two cards.

Terminus (Avacyn Restored)
James Paick

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries. Miracle {W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Plains (Scars of Mirrodin)
James Paick

({T}: Add {W}.)

Boxing Ring (New Capenna Commander)
James Paick

Whenever a creature you control enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control with the same mana value. {T}: Create a Treasure token. Activate only if you control a creature that fought this turn.

Seismic Shift (Dominaria)
James Paick

Destroy target land. Up to two target creatures can't block this turn.

"Shiv is a restless land. It heaves ash, bleeds lava, and scabs over in black obsidian." —*The First Eruption*

Swamp (Magic Origins)
James Paick

({T}: Add {B}.)

Steel Hellkite (Scars of Mirrodin)
James Paick

Flying {2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by this creature this turn. Activate only once each turn.

Mortuary Mire (Battle for Zendikar)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Assault Suit (Commander Masters)
James Paick

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has haste, can't attack you or planeswalkers you control, and can't be sacrificed. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you may have that player gain control of equipped creature until end of turn. If you do, untap it. Equip {3}

Eye of Ugin (Zendikar Expeditions)
James Paick

Colorless Eldrazi spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. {7}, {T}: Search your library for a colorless creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Norn's Annex (New Phyrexia)
James Paick

({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.) Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {W/P} for each of those creatures.

Skullwinder (Commander 2015)
James Paick

Deathtouch When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand, then choose an opponent. That player returns a card from their graveyard to their hand.

Skullwinder (The List)
James Paick

Deathtouch When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand, then choose an opponent. That player returns a card from their graveyard to their hand.

Bird Illusion (Guilds of Ravnica Tokens)
James Paick

Flying

Unmarked Grave (Modern Horizons 2)
James Paick

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

Temple of Malady (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Meteor Golem (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
James Paick

When this creature enters, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

The strongest golems are forged from meteoric iron that has been tempered in the heat of an elemental plane.

Xander's Lounge (Streets of New Capenna Promos)
James Paick

({T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Maestros agents can lie low in high style at the opulent Shadow Hostel.

Desert of the Indomitable (Modern Horizons 3 Commander)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Ancient Crab (Amonkhet)
James Paick

The banks of the Luxa River attract all manner of predator but only the most resilient of prey.

Terminus (Modern Masters 2017)
James Paick

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries. Miracle {W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Swamp (Kaladesh)
James Paick

({T}: Add {B}.)

Dimir Spybug (Murders at Karlov Manor Commander)
James Paick

Flying Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Just assume every conversation is on record.

Norn's Annex (The List)
James Paick

({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.) Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {W/P} for each of those creatures.

Engineered Explosives (Kaladesh Inventions)
James Paick

Sunburst (This enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact.

Island (Duel Decks: Blessed vs. Cursed)
James Paick

({T}: Add {U}.)

Moonsilver Spear (Forgotten Realms Commander)
James Paick

Equipped creature has first strike. Whenever equipped creature attacks, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Equip {4}

Disaster Radius (Explorers of Ixalan)
James Paick

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a creature card from your hand. Disaster Radius deals X damage to each creature your opponents control, where X is the revealed card's mana value.

Bonfire of the Damned (Modern Masters 2017)
James Paick

Bonfire of the Damned deals X damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. Miracle {X}{R} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Eldrazi Temple (Commander Masters)
James Paick

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.

Each temple is a door to a horrible future.

Vexing Scuttler (Eldritch Moon)
James Paick

Emerge {6}{U} (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, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Memorial to Glory (Dominaria)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {3}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Aetherworks Marvel (Aetherdrift Commander)
James Paick

Whenever a permanent you control is put into a graveyard, you get {E} (an energy counter). {T}, Pay six {E}: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Norn's Annex (Commander Masters)
James Paick

({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.) Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {W/P} for each of those creatures.

Wall of Omens (Kaldheim Commander)
James Paick

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

"I search for a vision of Zendikar that does not include the Eldrazi." —Expedition journal entry

Assault Suit (Commander 2014)
James Paick

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has haste, can't attack you or planeswalkers you control, and can't be sacrificed. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you may have that player gain control of equipped creature until end of turn. If you do, untap it. Equip {3}

Pyretic Ritual (Magic 2011)
James Paick

Add {R}{R}{R}.

The Multiverse is filled with limitless power just waiting for someone to reach out and seize it.

Naturalize (Duel Decks: Elves vs. Inventors)
James Paick

アーティファクト１つかエンチャント１つを対象とし、それを破壊する。

太古の文明の残骸が、荒廃した地に点在している。

Magmatic Chasm (Shadows over Innistrad)
James Paick

Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

The Needle's Eye, a seldom-used passage that winds through Stensia's mountains, carries travelers close to Ashmouth—too close, some would argue.

Ipnu Rivulet (Hour of Devastation)
James Paick

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {U}. {1}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target player mills four cards. (They put the top four cards of their library into their graveyard.)

False Floor (New Capenna Commander)
James Paick

Chão Falso entra no campo de batalha virado. As criaturas entram no campo de batalha viradas. {2}, {T}, exile Chão Falso: Exile todas as criaturas desviradas. Ative somente como um feitiço.

"Essa performance foi profunda." — Jetmir

Mask of the Schemer (New Capenna Commander)
James Paick

À chaque fois que la créature équipée inflige des blessures de combat à un joueur, elle connive X, X étant la quantité de blessures qu'elle a infligée à ce joueur. (Piochez X cartes, puis défaussez-vous de X cartes. Mettez un marqueur +1/+1 sur cette créature pour chaque carte non-terrain défaussée de cette manière.) Équipement {2}

Smuggler's Buggy (New Capenna Commander)
James Paick

Esconder 4. (Cuando este artefacto entre al campo de batalla, mira las cuatro primeras cartas de tu biblioteca, exilia una boca abajo y luego pon el resto en el fondo en un orden aleatorio.) Siempre que el Automóvil de contrabandista haga daño de combate a un jugador, puedes lanzar la carta exiliada sin pagar su coste de maná. Si lo haces, regresa el Automóvil de contrabandista a la mano de su propietario. Tripular 2.

Mountain (Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R}.)

Select for Inspection (Kaladesh)
James Paick

Return target tapped creature to its owner's hand. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Barbed Spike (The List)
James Paick

When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying, then attach this Equipment to it. Equipped creature gets +1/+0. Equip {2}

Mountain (Jumpstart)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R}.)

Norn's Annex (Wizards Play Network 2023)
James Paick

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Plains (Scars of Mirrodin)
James Paick

({T}: Add {W}.)

Siren Song Lyre (Born of the Gods)
James Paick

Equipped creature has "{2}, {T}: Tap target creature." Equip {2}

A siren once tried to steal it out of jealousy but was caught by the song of its strings.

Genesis Wave (Scars of Mirrodin)
James Paick

Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.

Eldrazi Temple (Modern Masters 2015)
James Paick

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.

Each temple is a door to a horrible future.

Visionary Augmenter (Kaladesh)
James Paick

Fabricate 2 (When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on it or create two 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.)

"It's a multifunctional radial extension system with superlateral, force-amplifying rigging. Of course it will win."

Desert of the Indomitable (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Mortuary Mire (Midnight Hunt Commander)
James Paick

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Demolition Stomper (Kaladesh)
James Paick

This Vehicle can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less. Crew 5 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 5 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Wall of Omens (Rise of the Eldrazi)
James Paick

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

"I search for a vision of Zendikar that does not include the Eldrazi." —Expedition journal entry

Disaster Radius (Commander 2011)
James Paick

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a creature card from your hand. Disaster Radius deals X damage to each creature your opponents control, where X is the revealed card's mana value.

Bonfire of the Damned (Avacyn Restored)
James Paick

Bonfire of the Damned deals X damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. Miracle {X}{R} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Moorland Haunt (Crimson Vow Commander)
James Paick

{T}: Add {C}. {W}{U}, {T}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Moorland Haunt (Innistrad)
James Paick

{T}: Add {C}. {W}{U}, {T}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Mountain (Avacyn Restored)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R}.)

Skullwinder (Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander)
James Paick

Deathtouch When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand, then choose an opponent. That player returns a card from their graveyard to their hand.

Plains (Starter Commander Decks)
James Paick

({T}: Add {W}.)

Mountain (Rise of the Eldrazi)
James Paick

({T}: Add {R}.)

Treasure Keeper (Foundations Jumpstart)
James Paick

When this creature dies, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card with mana value 3 or less. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put all revealed cards not cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Mask of Avacyn (Innistrad)
James Paick

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {3}

It hides the face and protects the soul.

Glacial Fortress (Ixalan Promos)
James Paick

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Ships blown north in their voyage across the Stormwreck Sea become trapped in the unmelting ice.

Ainok Artillerist (Foundations Jumpstart)
James Paick

This creature has reach as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it. (It can block creatures with flying.)

"In the Tarkir I once knew, the Abzan revered their ancestor trees. Now, as Dromoka, they cut their finest groves to make weapons." —Sarkhan Vol

Pyromancer's Goggles (Commander 2021)
James Paick

{T}: Add {R}. When that mana is spent to cast a red instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.

"I hope to meet Jaya Ballard someday. I think we'd get along." —Chandra Nalaar

Smuggler's Buggy (New Capenna Commander)
James Paick

Cachette 4 (Quand cet artefact arrive sur le champ de bataille, regardez les quatre cartes du dessus de votre bibliothèque, exilez-en une face cachée, puis mettez le reste au-dessous de votre bibliothèque dans un ordre aléatoire.) À chaque fois que le Boguet de contrebandier inflige des blessures de combat à un joueur, vous pouvez lancer la carte exilée sans payer son coût de mana. Si vous faites ainsi, renvoyez le Boguet de contrebandier dans la main de son propriétaire. Pilotage 2

Skullwinder (Commander Anthology)
James Paick

Deathtouch When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand, then choose an opponent. That player returns a card from their graveyard to their hand.

False Floor (New Capenna Commander)
James Paick

活動地板須橫置進戰場。 生物須橫置進戰場。 {2}，{T}，放逐活動地板：放逐所有未橫置的生物。只能於巫術時機起動。

「那演出根本就是個坑。」 ～傑米爾

Plains (Duel Decks: Venser vs. Koth)
James Paick

({T}: Add {W}.)

Death Denied (Modern Masters)
James Paick

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Takenuma was filled with a chorus of moans, shrieks, and wails. Some came from the living, some from the dying, and some, most horribly, from the dead.

Plains (GRN Guild Kit)
James Paick

({T}: Add {W}.)

Torrent Elemental (Fate Reforged Promos)
James Paick

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, tap all creatures defending player controls. {3}{B/G}{B/G}: Put this card from exile onto the battlefield tapped. Activate only as a sorcery.

Living Twister (War of the Spark Promos)
James Paick

{1}{R}, Discard a land card: This creature deals 2 damage to any target. {G}: Return a tapped land you control to its owner's hand.

"The ancient places of Ravnica awaken, stirred by the hoofbeats of Ilharg!" —Nikya of the Old Ways

Ancient Excavation (Commander 2016)
James Paick

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand, then discard a card for each card drawn this way. Basic landcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

The Maelstrom (Planechase Planes)
James Paick

When you planeswalk to The Maelstrom and at the beginning of your upkeep, you may reveal the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you revealed a card but didn't put it onto the battlefield, put it on the bottom of your library. Whenever chaos ensues, return target permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Eddytrail Hawk (The List)
James Paick

Flying When this creature enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay {E}. If you do, another target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn.

Ajani's Mantra (Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas)
James Paick

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may gain 1 life.

"He hasn't returned to the Cloud Forest. But I can still sense his calming presence." —Zaliki of Naya

Academy at Tolaria West (Planechase Anthology Planes)
James Paick

At the beginning of your end step, if you have no cards in hand, draw seven cards. Whenever chaos ensues, discard your hand.

Rally for the Throne (Throne of Eldraine)
James Paick

Create two 1/1 white Human creature tokens. Adamant — If at least three white mana was spent to cast this spell, you gain 1 life for each creature you control.

"If you're as loyal as you claim, now is the time to show it." —Queen Linden of Ardenvale

Dimir Spybug (Guilds of Ravnica)
James Paick

Flying Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Just assume every conversation is on record.

Ghave, Guru of Spores (Commander 2011)
James Paick

Ghave enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. {1}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.