Orcish Conscripts

Orcish Conscripts (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

This creature can't attack unless at least two other creatures attack. This creature can't block unless at least two other creatures block.

Orcish Conscripts (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

This creature can't attack unless at least two other creatures attack. This creature can't block unless at least two other creatures block.

Tranquility (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Mountain (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Prodigal Sorcerer (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Tranquility (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Benalish Hero (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.

Spike Colony (Stronghold)
Douglas Shuler

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

Hypnotic Specter (Magic Player Rewards 2006)
Douglas Shuler

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

"There was no trace Of aught on that illumined face . . . ." —Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Phantom"

Tawnos's Wand (Antiquities)
Douglas Shuler

{2}, {T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Plains (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Old Fogey (Unhinged)
Douglas Shuler

Phasing, cumulative upkeep {1}, echo {G}{G}, fading 3, bands with other Dinosaurs, protection from Homarids, snow-covered plainswalk, flanking, rampage 2

"These kids today with their collector numbers and their newfangled tap symbol. Twenty Black Lotuses and twenty Plague Rats. Now that's *real* Magic."

Talas Warrior (Portal Second Age)
Douglas Shuler

This creature can't be blocked.

The sea is in their blood. Literally.

Frozen Shade (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

"There are some qualities—some incorporate things,/ That have a double life, which thus is made/ A type of twin entity which springs/ From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Frozen Shade (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

"There are some qualities—some incorporate things,/ That have a double life, which thus is made/ A type of twin entity which springs/ From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Frozen Shade (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Power Surge (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Island (Modern Horizons 2)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Swamp (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Forest (Tempest)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Unstable Mutation (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Unstable Mutation (Arabian Nights)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Unstable Mutation (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Unstable Mutation (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Snow-Covered Swamp (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Infinite Authority (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature with toughness 3 or less, destroy the other creature at end of combat. At the beginning of the next end step, if that creature was destroyed this way, put a +1/+1 counter on the first creature.

Righteousness (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Serra Angel (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Gallantry (Tempest)
Douglas Shuler

Target blocking creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. Draw a card.

"Forgive me," Mirri whispered. "I thought you a burden, and you saved my life." Hanna quietly accepted the apology.

Mountain (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Swamp (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Prodigal Sorcerer (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

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

Occasionally members of the Institute of Arcane Study acquire a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Plains (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Uthden Troll (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere, Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near, Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear." —Troll chant

Orcish Veteran (Fallen Empires)
Douglas Shuler

This creature can't block white creatures with power 2 or greater. {R}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Orcs are not exactly known for their valor—although most Orcs have seen countless battles, only a handful have actually fought in them.

Tranquility (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Dwarven Warriors (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Null Chamber (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

As this enchantment enters, you and an opponent each choose a card name other than a basic land card name. Spells with the chosen names can't be cast and lands with the chosen names can't be played.

Discovered by Femeref mages, the Null Chamber is the ultimate testing ground for the uncreative.

Lodestone Bauble (Alliances)
Douglas Shuler

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put up to four target basic land cards from a player's graveyard on top of their library in any order. That player draws a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Dwarven Warriors (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Pentagram of the Ages (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

{4}, {T}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

"Take this item, for instance. How would it destroy us, Relicbane?" —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Uthden Troll (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere, Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near, Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear." —Traditional

Circle of Protection: White (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Hypnotic Specter (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Tranquility (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Blast from the Past (Unhinged)
Douglas Shuler

Madness {R}, cycling {1}{R}, kicker {2}{R}, flashback {3}{R}, buyback {4}{R} Blast from the Past deals 2 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.

Weakness (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Swamp (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Tawnos's Wand (Renaissance)
Douglas Shuler

{2}, {T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Drain Power (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.

Greater Good (Ninth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

"To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death." —Mary Shelley, *Frankenstein*

Unholy Strength (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Drain Life (Friday Night Magic 2002)
Douglas Shuler

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Volcanic Eruption (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Psionic Blast (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

Tranquility (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Circle of Protection: White (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Icy Manipulator (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{1}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Circle of Protection: White (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Dwarven Warriors (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Serra Angel (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Force of Nature (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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}.

Fissure (Renaissance)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy target creature or land. It can't be regenerated.

Glasses of Urza (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Island (World Championship Decks 2000)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Prodigal Sorcerer (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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

Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Plains (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Forest (Premium Deck Series: Slivers)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Quirion Elves (Invasion)
Douglas Shuler

As this creature enters, choose a color. {T}: Add {G}. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Frozen Shade (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

"There are some qualities—some incorporate things,/ That have a double life, which thus is made/ A type of twin entity which springs/ From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Unholy Strength (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Fasting (The Dark)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a hunger counter on this enchantment. Then destroy this enchantment if it has five or more hunger counters on it. If you would begin your draw step, you may skip that step instead. If you do, you gain 2 life. When you draw a card, destroy this enchantment.

Veteran Bodyguard (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

As long as this creature is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to this creature instead.

Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.

Glasses of Urza (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Forest (World Championship Decks 1998)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Psionic Blast (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

Unholy Strength (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Righteousness (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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

Uthden Troll (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere, Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near, Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear." —Troll chant

Weakness (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Arachnogenesis (Commander Masters)
Douglas Shuler

Create X 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach, where X is the number of creatures attacking you. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by non-Spider creatures.

"Captain, is now a good time to mention I'm allergic to spiders?"

Serra Angel (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Prodigal Sorcerer (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Occasionally members of the Institute of Arcane Study acquire a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Mending Hands (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Douglas Shuler

Prevent the next 4 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

"I can staunch their blood, mend their flesh, and knit their bones. But I cannot restore their hope." —Tender-Hand, kitsune healer

Triskelion (Renaissance)
Douglas Shuler

This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Unsummon (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Greater Good (Mystery Booster 2)
Douglas Shuler

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

"To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death." —Mary Shelley, *Frankenstein*

Icy Manipulator (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{1}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Plains (Starter 1999)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Seeker of the Way (Double Masters 2022)
Douglas Shuler

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

Ojutai sought to rewrite history. Those who disagreed sought the truth elsewhere.

Plains (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Mountain (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Clockwork Gnomes (Homelands)
Douglas Shuler

{3}, {T}: Regenerate target artifact creature.

"Until I came to the Floating Isle, I never had to oil the servants." —Baki, Wizard Attendant

Orcish Conscripts (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

This creature can't attack unless at least two other creatures attack. This creature can't block unless at least two other creatures block.

Glasses of Urza (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Oath of Lim-Dûl (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, sacrifice a permanent other than this enchantment unless you discard a card. (Damage dealt to you causes you to lose life.) {B}{B}: Draw a card.

Island (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster) (Unglued)
Douglas Shuler

B.F.M. onto the battlefield. If one B.F.M. card more creatures.

than that. Even bigger. Keep going. More. dreadnoughts for jewelry. It was *big*!" —Arna Kennerüd, skyknight

Island (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Glasses of Urza (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Contract from Below (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Remove Contract from Below from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. Discard your hand, ante the top card of your library, then draw seven cards.

Unsummon (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Shelkin Brownie (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature loses all "bands with other" abilities until end of turn.

Leave a bowl of milk on your doorstep each night for the brownies, or they'll cause you no end of mischief.

Righteousness (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Weakness (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Uthden Troll (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere, Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near, Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear." —Traditional

Mountain (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Unsummon (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Zuran Enchanter (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

{2}{B}, {T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn.

"We are Kjeldorans no more." —Zur the Enchanter

Righteousness (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Snowblind (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -X/-Y. If that creature is attacking, X is the number of snow lands defending player controls. Otherwise, X is the number of snow lands its controller controls. Y is equal to X or to enchanted creature's toughness minus 1, whichever is smaller.

Hypnotic Specter (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

"...There was no trace/ Of aught on that illumined face..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Righteousness (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Righteousness (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

Dwarven Warriors (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Mountain (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Prodigal Sorcerer (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Marsh Gas (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

All creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn.

"Comes right outta th' ground. If ya can smell it, it's too late." —Keevy Bogsbury

Animate Artifact (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Serra Angel (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Uthden Troll (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere, Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near, Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear." —Troll chant

Shield Wall (Chronicles)
Douglas Shuler

Creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

Drain Life (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Mountain (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Serra Angel (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Forest (World Championship Decks 1998)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Dwarven Warriors (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Mountain (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mountain (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Kavu Runner (Invasion)
Douglas Shuler

This creature has haste as long as no opponent controls a white or blue creature.

Icatian Scout (Fallen Empires)
Douglas Shuler

{1}, {T}: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"Let it be known that Ailis Connaut acted with honor and bravery in the defense of the town of Montford, risking her life to scout the enemy's position . . . ." —Proclamation granting knighthood

Mountain (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Blast from the Past (The List (Unfinity Foil Edition))
Douglas Shuler

Madness {R}, cycling {1}{R}, kicker {2}{R}, flashback {3}{R}, buyback {4}{R} Blast from the Past deals 2 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.

Uthden Troll (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere, Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near, Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear." —Traditional

Force of Nature (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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}.

Drain Power (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.

Volcanic Eruption (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Animate Artifact (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Tor Giant (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

"What do you do then? Run. Run very fast. Don't stop until you see the camp—or a bigger Giant." —Toothlicker Harj, Orcish Captain

Glasses of Urza (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Drain Life (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Drain Life (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Oubliette (Arabian Nights)
Douglas Shuler

When this enchantment enters, target creature phases out until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. Tap that creature as it phases in this way. (Auras and Equipment phase out with it. While permanents are phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist.)

Old Fogey (Unsanctioned)
Douglas Shuler

Phasing, cumulative upkeep {1}, echo {G}{G}, fading 3, bands with other Dinosaurs, protection from Homarids, snow-covered plainswalk, flanking, rampage 2

"These kids today with their collector numbers and their newfangled tap symbol. Twenty Black Lotuses and twenty Plague Rats. Now that's *real* Magic."

Psionic Blast (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

Plains (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Mountain (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Hypnotic Specter (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

"...There was no trace Of aught on that illumined face...." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Circle of Protection: White (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Demonic Tutor (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Power Surge (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Serra Angel (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Uthden Troll (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

Frozen Shade (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

"There are some qualities—some incorporate things, That have a double life, which thus is made A type of that twin entity which springs From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Hypnotic Specter (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

"...There was no trace/ Of aught on that illumined face..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Frozen Shade (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

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

"There are some qualities—some incorporate things,/ That have a double life, which thus is made/ A type of twin entity which springs/ From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Swamp (Coldsnap Theme Decks)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Mountain (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Icy Manipulator (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

{1}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Quirion Elves (Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition)
Douglas Shuler

As this creature enters, choose a color. {T}: Add {G}. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Serra Angel (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Northern Paladin (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —The Book of Tal

Ghitu War Cry (Urza's Legacy)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

The war cry is not simply a shout but a sacrament.

Frozen Shade (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

"There are some qualities—some incorporate things,/ That have a double life, which thus is made/ A type of twin entity which springs/ From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Mending Hands (Ninth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Prevent the next 4 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

"I can staunch their blood, mend their flesh, and knit their bones. But I cannot restore their hope." —Tender-Hand, kitsune healer

Hypnotic Specter (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

"...There was no trace/ Of aught on that illumined face..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Mountain (Beatdown Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Spike Colony (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

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

Psionic Blast (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

Demonic Tutor (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Compost (Urza's Destiny)
Douglas Shuler

Whenever a black card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may draw a card.

A fruit must rot before its seed can sprout. —Yavimaya saying

Drain Life (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Swamp (Starter 1999)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Unholy Strength (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Northern Paladin (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —The Book of Tal

Uthden Troll (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere, Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near, Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear." —Troll chant

Veteran Bodyguard (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

As long as this creature is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to this creature instead.

Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.

Forest (World Championship Decks 1998)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Mountain (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Serra Angel (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Drain Life (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Veteran Bodyguard (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

As long as this creature is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to this creature instead.

Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.

Icy Manipulator (Friday Night Magic 2005)
Douglas Shuler

{1}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

In fire there is the spark of chaos and destruction, the seed of life. In ice there is perfect tranquility, perfect order, and the silence of death.

Volcanic Eruption (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Mountain (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Allosaurus Shepherd (Double Masters 2022)
Douglas Shuler

This spell can't be countered. Green spells you control can't be countered. {4}{G}{G}: Until end of turn, each Elf creature you control has base power and toughness 5/5 and becomes a Dinosaur in addition to its other creature types.

Prodigal Sorcerer (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Animate Artifact (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Benalish Hero (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Volcanic Eruption (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Serra Angel (Wizards of the Coast Online Store)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Mountain (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

The Brute (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+0. {R}{R}{R}: Regenerate enchanted creature.

After years of being bullied, Fergo reaped the benefits of his newfound strength: he never met a man he didn't want to fight.

Mountain (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mountain (Arabian Nights)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Northern Paladin (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —The Book of Tal

Unholy Strength (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Swamp (Arena League 2001)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Glasses of Urza (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Unstable Mutation (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Northern Paladin (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —The Book of Tal

Island (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Prodigal Sorcerer (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Prodigal Sorcerer (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Force of Nature (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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}.

Dwarven Warriors (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Force of Nature (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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}.

Unholy Strength (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Serra Angel (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Icy Manipulator (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{1}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Serra Angel (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Glasses of Urza (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Shambling Strider (Beatdown Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

{R}{G}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Freyalise forbid that any stranger should wander into the striders' territory.

Circle of Protection: White (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Drain Power (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.

Glasses of Urza (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Tranquility (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Fire Elemental (Seventh Edition)
Douglas Shuler

It treads on feet of coals and strikes with the force of a volcano.

Drain Power (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.

Weakness (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Shield Wall (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

Creatures you control get +0/+2 until end of turn.

Whippoorwill (The Dark)
Douglas Shuler

{G}{G}, {T}: Target creature can't be regenerated this turn. Damage that would be dealt to that creature this turn can't be prevented or dealt instead to another permanent or player. When the creature dies this turn, exile the creature.

If the Whippoorwill remains silent, the soul has not reached its reward.

Power Surge (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Plains (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Mountain (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Drain Life (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Dwarven Warriors (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

River Merfolk (Fallen Empires)
Douglas Shuler

{U}: This creature gains mountainwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)

"Dwelling in icy mountain streams near Goblin and Orcish foes, the River Merfolk were known for their stoicism." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. V*

Animate Artifact (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Serra Angel (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity.

Viashino Heretic (The List)
Douglas Shuler

{1}{R}, {T}: Destroy target artifact. This creature deals damage to that artifact's controller equal to the artifact's mana value.

"The past is buried for good reason."

Veteran Bodyguard (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

As long as this creature is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to this creature instead.

Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.

Tranquility (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Marsh Gas (Renaissance)
Douglas Shuler

All creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn.

Tranquility (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Forest (Tempest)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Unstable Mutation (Time Spiral Timeshifted)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Benalish Hero (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

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

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.

Lone Wolf (Seventh Edition)
Douglas Shuler

You may have this creature assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.

A wolf without a pack is either a survivor or a brute.

Hypnotic Specter (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

"...There was no trace/ Of aught on that illumined face..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Volcanic Eruption (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Volcanic Eruption (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Spellseeker (Commander Masters)
Douglas Shuler

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Island (Starter 1999)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {U}.)

Hallowed Ground (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}: Return target nonsnow land you control to its owner's hand.

"On this site where Kjeld's blood was spilled, let none raise a fist or deny a beggar." —Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest

Unsummon (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Dwarven Warriors (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Mountain (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Triskelion (Antiquities)
Douglas Shuler

This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

A brainchild of Tawnos, the Triskelion proved its versatility and usefulness in many of the later battles between the brothers.

Homarid Spawning Bed (Fallen Empires)
Douglas Shuler

{1}{U}{U}, Sacrifice a blue creature: Create X 1/1 blue Camarid creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Hypnotic Specter (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Animate Artifact (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Tranquility (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Joven (Homelands)
Douglas Shuler

{R}{R}{R}, {T}: Destroy target noncreature artifact.

"Joven, you're almost as good a thief as I. But Eron hates you even more." —Chandler

Psionic Blast (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

Mountain (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mountain (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Northern Paladin (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —The Book of Tal

Mana Vortex (The Dark)
Douglas Shuler

When you cast this spell, counter it unless you sacrifice a land. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a land of their choice. When there are no lands on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.

Drain Power (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.

Flicker (Urza's Destiny)
Douglas Shuler

Exile target nontoken permanent, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Who is truer: you who are, or you who are to be?

Volcanic Eruption (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Island of Wak-Wak (Arabian Nights)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with flying has base power 0 until end of turn.

The Isle of Wak-Wak, home to a tribe of winged folk, is named for a peculiar fruit that grows there. The fruit looks like a woman's head, and when ripe speaks the word "Wak."

Veteran Bodyguard (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

As long as this creature is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to this creature instead.

Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.

Mountain (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Veteran Bodyguard (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

As long as this creature is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to this creature instead.

Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.

Plains (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Glasses of Urza (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Animate Artifact (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Mountain (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Prodigal Sorcerer (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Power Artifact (Antiquities)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact Enchanted artifact's activated abilities cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Mob Mentality (Visions)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has trample. Whenever all non-Wall creatures you control attack, enchanted creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of attacking creatures.

"Why is loud stupidity so infectious?" —Rana, Suq'Ata market fool

Circle of Protection: White (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Hypnotic Specter (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

"...There was no trace/ Of aught on that illumined face..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Mountain (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Glasses of Urza (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Force of Nature (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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}.

Swamp (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Righteousness (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Demonic Tutor (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Power Surge (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Weakness (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Frozen Shade (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

"There are some qualities, some incorporate things, / That have a double life, which thus is made / A type of twin entity which springs / From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Mountain (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Veteran Bodyguard (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

As long as this creature is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to this creature instead.

Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.

Tranquility (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Pentagram of the Ages (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{4}, {T}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

A mirror, a shield, a promise, a great distance, and a kind word—five ways to avoid harm.

Ghitu War Cry (The List)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

The war cry is not simply a shout but a sacrament.

Triskelion (Rinascimento)
Douglas Shuler

This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Mountain (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Swamp (Beatdown Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Gloom (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

White spells cost {3} more to cast. Activated abilities of white enchantments cost {3} more to activate.

Unsummon (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Frozen Shade (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

"There are some qualities—some incorporate things,/ That have a double life, which thus is made/ A type of twin entity which springs/ From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Unholy Strength (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Mountain (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Unsummon (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Hypnotic Specter (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

"...There was no trace/ Of aught on that illumined face..." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Demonic Tutor (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Anti-Magic Aura (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be the target of spells and can't be enchanted by other Auras.

Marsh Gas (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

All creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn.

Reparations (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

Whenever an opponent casts a spell that targets you or a creature you control, you may draw a card.

"Sorry I burned down your village. Here's some gold."

Animate Artifact (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Dwarven Warriors (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Benalish Hero (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the Hero.

Prodigal Sorcerer (Friday Night Magic 2000)
Douglas Shuler

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

Tawnos's Wand (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{2}, {T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Power Surge (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Unholy Strength (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Crawlspace (Urza's Legacy)
Douglas Shuler

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

The goblins did not understand their attraction to the mana rig. They simply knew it was where they belonged.

Swamp (Deckmasters)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {B}.)

Unsummon (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Icatian Infantry (Fallen Empires)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn. {1}: This creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"Valiant Icatia was the last of the Sarpadian empires to fall. Its faithful soldiers defended their cities to the very end." —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI*

Unholy Strength (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Drain Life (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Quicksilver Amulet (Urza's Legacy)
Douglas Shuler

{4}, {T}: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Wonderful! You got a lion on your first try. Now put it back."

Force of Nature (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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}.

B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster) (Unglued)
Douglas Shuler

You must cast both B.F.M. cards to put leaves the battlefield, sacrifice the other. B.F.M. can't be blocked except by three or

"It was big. Really, really big. No, bigger No, more. Look, we're talking krakens and

Weakness (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Vital Surge (Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Douglas Shuler

You gain 3 life. Splice onto Arcane {1}{G} (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.)

Mountain (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Faithless Looting (Commander Masters)
Douglas Shuler

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"If they didn't want me to steal this, they should've used more than seven layers of shatterproof antimagus glass."

Escaped Shapeshifter (Tempest)
Douglas Shuler

As long as an opponent controls a creature with flying not named Escaped Shapeshifter, this creature has flying. The same is true for first strike, trample, and protection from any color.

Hypnotic Specter (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

"There was no trace Of aught on that illumined face...." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Drain Life (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Volcanic Eruption (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Force of Nature (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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}.

Uthden Troll (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere, Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near, Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear." —Traditional

Scent of Jasmine (Urza's Destiny)
Douglas Shuler

Reveal any number of white cards in your hand. You gain 2 life for each card revealed this way.

Tranquility (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Dwarven Berserker (Weatherlight)
Douglas Shuler

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +3/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

"I may be small, but I can kick *your* butt."

Spike Colony (The List)
Douglas Shuler

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

Benalish Hero (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the Hero.

Contract from Below (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Remove Contract from Below from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. Discard your hand, ante the top card of your library, then draw seven cards.

Circle of Protection: White (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Benalish Hero (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Icy Manipulator (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

{1}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Tawnos's Wand (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{2}, {T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Unsummon (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Forest (World Championship Decks 1998)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Plains (Battle Royale Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {W}.)

Shambling Strider (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

{R}{G}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Freyalise forbid that any stranger should wander into the Striders' territory.

Unsummon (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Volcanic Eruption (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Prodigal Sorcerer (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Soldier of Fortune (Alliances)
Douglas Shuler

{R}, {T}: Target player shuffles their library.

"Loyalty to coin alone is loyalty nonetheless." —General Varchild

Hypnotic Specter (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

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

Mountain (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mind Rot (Portal Second Age)
Douglas Shuler

Target player discards two cards.

Power Surge (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Drain Life (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Extinguish (Portal Second Age)
Douglas Shuler

Counter target sorcery spell.

Animate Artifact (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Mountain (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Mountain (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Drain Life (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Valorous Charge (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

White creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn.

Stand in the way of truth at your peril.

Uthden Troll (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere, Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near, Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear." —Traditional

Mountain (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Tranquility (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Demonic Tutor (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Extinguish (Starter 1999)
Douglas Shuler

Counter target sorcery spell.

Llanowar Sentinel (Weatherlight)
Douglas Shuler

When this creature enters, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, search your library for a card named Llanowar Sentinel, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"The forest has as many eyes as leaves." —Mirri of the *Weatherlight*

Hallowed Ground (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}: Return target nonsnow land you control to its owner's hand.

"On this site where Kjeld's blood was spilled, let none raise a fist or deny a beggar." —Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest

Mountain (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Baton of Morale (Ice Age)
Douglas Shuler

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

"The Goblins would kill to get ahold of this one." —Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Khabál Ghoul (Arabian Nights)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each end step, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each creature that died this turn.

Old Fogey (The List (Unfinity Foil Edition))
Douglas Shuler

Phasing, cumulative upkeep {1}, echo {G}{G}, fading 3, bands with other Dinosaurs, protection from Homarids, snow-covered plainswalk, flanking, rampage 2

"These kids today with their collector numbers and their newfangled tap symbol. Twenty Black Lotuses and twenty Plague Rats. Now that's *real* Magic."

Royal Herbalist (Alliances)
Douglas Shuler

{2}, Exile the top card of your library: You gain 1 life.

"It's not so easy anymore. Nothing grows in Kjeldor but seaweed." —Halvor Arensson, Kjeldoran Priest

Ring of Renewal (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

{5}, {T}: Discard a card at random, then draw two cards.

To the uninitiated, the Ring of Renewal is merely an oddity. For those fluent in the wielding of magic, however, it is a source of great knowledge.

Glasses of Urza (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Force of Nature (Beatdown Box Set)
Douglas Shuler

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}.

Nadier's Nightblade (Commander Masters)
Douglas Shuler

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Keep looking up and you'll miss what's right in front of your face.

Northern Paladin (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

Righteousness (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Northern Paladin (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —*The Book of Tal*

Fissure (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy target creature or land. It can't be regenerated.

Forest (Tempest)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Glasses of Urza (Fifth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Weakness (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Oubliette (Arabian Nights)
Douglas Shuler

When this enchantment enters, target creature phases out until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. Tap that creature as it phases in this way. (Auras and Equipment phase out with it. While permanents are phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist.)

Glasses of Urza (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Weakness (Revised Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Unsummon (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Unstable Mutation (Summer Magic / Edgar)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Force of Nature (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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}.

Mountain (Anthologies)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Power Surge (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Tidal Surge (Portal)
Douglas Shuler

Tap up to three target creatures without flying.

"'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind . . . ." —John Gay, "The What D'Ye Call It"

Teleport (Legends)
Douglas Shuler

Cast this spell only during the declare attackers step. Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Circle of Protection: White (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{1}: The next time a white source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Mountain (Introductory Two-Player Set)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Icy Manipulator (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{1}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Drain Life (Fourth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Candelabra of Tawnos (Antiquities)
Douglas Shuler

{X}, {T}: Untap X target lands.

Tawnos learned quickly from Urza that utter simplicity often led to wondrous, yet subtle utility.

Glasses of Urza (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Righteousness (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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

Animate Artifact (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant artifact As long as enchanted artifact isn't a creature, it's an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Contract from Below (Limited Edition Beta)
Douglas Shuler

Remove Contract from Below from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante. Discard your hand, ante the top card of your library, then draw seven cards.

Demonic Tutor (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

Frozen Shade (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

"There are some qualities—some incorporate things,/ That have a double life, which thus is made/ A type of twin entity which springs/ From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Silence"

Tranquility (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy all enchantments.

Forest (Tempest)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {G}.)

Mountain (Unlimited Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Elixir of Vitality (Mirage)
Douglas Shuler

This artifact enters tapped. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 4 life. {8}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 8 life.

"Eternal life or your money back." —Unnamed Suq'Ata merchant, deceased

D'Avenant Archer (Chronicles)
Douglas Shuler

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Power Surge (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they controlled at the beginning of this turn.

Unsummon (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Soldier (30th Anniversary Tokens)
Douglas Shuler

Fit of Rage (Classic Sixth Edition)
Douglas Shuler

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains first strike until end of turn.

"Anger is fleeting; remorse is eternal." —Karn, silver golem

Unsummon (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Uthden Troll (Intl. Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere, Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near, Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear." —Traditional

Chandler (Homelands)
Douglas Shuler

{R}{R}{R}, {T}: Destroy target artifact creature.

"Never brag about the latest wonder you've created, students. Chandler might be listening." —Reveka, Wizard Savant

Hypnotic Specter (Pro Tour Collector Set)
Douglas Shuler

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

"…There was no trace Of aught on that illumined face…." —Samuel Coleridge, "Phantom"

Weakness (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Prodigal Sorcerer (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

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

Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Mountain (Collectors' Edition)
Douglas Shuler

({T}: Add {R}.)

Volcanic Eruption (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Force of Nature (Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

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}.

Uthden Troll (Foreign Black Border)
Douglas Shuler

{R}: Regenerate this creature.

<< Tapez du poing, Tapez du pied Sur ma face de sagouin Tant que vous voulez, Demain matin, je serais sur pied. >> - Moqueries trolls.

Northern Paladin (30th Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Shuler

{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target black permanent.

"Look to the north; there you will find aid and comfort." —The Book of Tal

Benalish Hero (Limited Edition Alpha)
Douglas Shuler

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

Benalia has a complex caste system that changes with the lunar year. No matter what the season, the only caste that cannot be attained by either heredity or money is that of the hero.

Marsh Gas (The Dark)
Douglas Shuler

All creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn.

"Comes right outta th' ground. If ya can smell it, it's too late." —Keevy Bogsbury