Duels of the Planeswalkers (dpa)
Set Information
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name: | Duels of the Planeswalkers |
Cards in This Set (113)
Jagged-Scar Archers
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Paolo Parente
Jagged-Scar Archers's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Elves you control. {T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature with flying.
Swamp
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli
({T}: Add {B}.)
Boomerang
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Arnie Swekel
Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
Early Jamuraan hunters devised a weapon that would return to its source. Tolarian Æthermancers developed a spell that skipped the weapon entirely.
Consume Spirit
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Justin Sweet
Spend only black mana on X. Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.
Sengir Vampire
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Kev Walker
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.
Drove of Elves
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Larry MacDougall
Hexproof Drove of Elves's power and toughness are each equal to the number of green permanents you control.
"The light of beauty protects our journeys through darkness."
Mountain
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Rob Alexander
({T}: Add {R}.)
Essence Drain
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Jim Nelson
Essence Drain deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
"The elves are right: Death inevitably leads to life. But the truly powerful don't just experience this cycle. They control it." —Crovax, ascendant evincar
Swamp
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Alan Pollack
({T}: Add {B}.)
Rage Reflection
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Terese Nielsen & Ron Spencer
Creatures you control have double strike.
Vengeance is a dish best served twice.
Island
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Fred Fields
({T}: Add {U}.)
Snapping Drake
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Todd Lockwood
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Foul-tempered, poorly trained, and mule-stubborn, the drake is the perfect test of the master's will.
Duskdale Wurm
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Dan Dos Santos
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Act of Treason
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Eric Deschamps
Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} this turn.)
"Rage courses in every heart, yearning to betray its rational prison." —Sarkhan Vol
Dusk Imp
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Pete Venters
Flying
Imps are just intelligent enough to have an understanding of cruelty.
Shivan Dragon
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Donato Giancola
Flying {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
The undisputed master of the mountains of Shiv.
Roughshod Mentor
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Steven Belledin
Green creatures you control have trample.
Natural Spring
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Jeffrey R. Busch
Target player gains 8 life.
"Jewels cannot be eaten nor gold drunk. What civilization trades, nature simply provides." —Molimo, maro-sorcerer
Wall of Wood
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Rebecca Guay
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Orcish lumberjacks spent the night sharpening their blades and resting for a day of labor. They awoke to find that the forest had been making its own preparations.
Counterbore
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Wayne England
Counter target spell. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that spell and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
Elvish Promenade
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Steve Ellis
Create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token for each Elf you control.
The faultless and immaculate castes form the lower tiers of elvish society, with the exquisite caste above them. At the pinnacle is the perfect, a consummate blend of aristocrat and predator.
Nature's Spiral
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Terese Nielsen
Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
Like nature, the fern spirals back on itself, eternally seeking its own center.
Cinder Pyromancer
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Greg Staples
{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. Whenever you cast a red spell, you may untap this creature.
"If the whole world burns, I'll never grow cold."
Kraken's Eye
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Alan Pollack
Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may gain 1 life.
Bright as a mirror, dark as the sea.
Kamahl, Pit Fighter
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Kev Walker
Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) {T}: Kamahl deals 3 damage to any target.
In times when freedom seems lost, great souls arise to reclaim it.
Unholy Strength
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Terese Nielsen
Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.
"Born under the moon, the second child will stumble on temptation and seek power in the dark places of the heart." —Codex of the Constellari
Wall of Spears
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Christopher Moeller
Defender (This creature can't attack.) First strike
"A stick is your friend. A pointed stick is your good friend. An army of pointed sticks is your best friend." —Onean sergeant
Bloodmark Mentor
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Dave Allsop
Red creatures you control have first strike.
Boggarts divide the world into two categories: things you can eat, and things you have to chase down and pummel before you can eat.
Giant Spider
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Randy Gallegos
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
The giant spider's silk naturally resists gravity, almost weaving itself as it blankets the forest canopy.
Immaculate Magistrate
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Jim Nelson
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature for each Elf you control.
Elves of the immaculate class weave flora into living creatures—sometimes to endorse an elite warrior, sometimes to create a breathing work of art.
Howl of the Night Pack
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Lars Grant-West
Create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token for each Forest you control.
The murderous horrors of Raven's Run are legendary, but even that haunted place goes quiet when the night wolves howl.
Elvish Eulogist
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Ben Thompson
Sacrifice this creature: You gain 1 life for each Elf card in your graveyard.
"No matter how adept our artistic skill, our effigies can never hope to capture the vibrant beauty of a living elf. Perhaps that is truly why we mourn."
Verdant Force
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
DiTerlizzi
At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Left to itself, nature overflows any container, overthrows any restriction, and overreaches any boundary.
Island
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Rob Alexander
({T}: Add {U}.)
Severed Legion
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Dany Orizio
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
No one in Aphetto answers a knock at the door after sundown.
Island
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Scott Bailey
({T}: Add {U}.)
Mind Shatter
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Michael Sutfin
Target player discards X cards at random.
Dark thoughts hatch and twist within the mind, straining to take wing.
River Boa
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Paul Bonner
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.
Incinerate
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai
Incinerate deals 3 damage to any target. A creature dealt damage this way can't be regenerated this turn.
"Yes, I think 'toast' is an appropriate description." —Jaya Ballard, task mage
Cancel
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
David Palumbo
Counter target spell.
Ravenous Rats
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Carl Critchlow
When this creature enters, target opponent discards a card.
Nothing is sacred to rats. Everything is simply another meal.
Mind Rot
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Steve Luke
Target player discards two cards.
"The beauty of mental attacks is that your victims never remember them." —Volrath
Drudge Skeletons
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Daarken
{B}: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
"The dead make good soldiers. They can't disobey orders, never surrender, and don't stop fighting when a random body part falls off." —Nevinyrral, *Necromancer's Handbook*
Thieving Magpie
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Una Fricker
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card.
Other birds collect twigs for their nests. Magpies collect jewels for theirs.
Lys Alana Huntmaster
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Pete Venters
Whenever you cast an Elf spell, you may create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.
From the highest tiers of Dawn's Light Palace to the deepest shade of Wren's Run, the silver notes of the horn shimmer through the air, and all who hear it feel its pull.
Prodigal Pyromancer
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Jeremy Jarvis
{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.
"What am I looking at? Ashes, dead man."
Blaze
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Alex Horley-Orlandelli
Blaze deals X damage to any target.
Fire never dies alone.
Coat of Arms
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Scott M. Fischer
Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)
A banner for bonds of blood or belief.
Forest
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Steven Belledin
({T}: Add {G}.)
Deluge
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Wayne England
Tap all creatures without flying.
"From the sea came all life, and to the sea it will return. The sooner the better." —Emperor Aboshan
Elvish Champion
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
D. Alexander Gregory
Other Elf creatures get +1/+1 and have forestwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
"For what are leaves but countless blades To fight a countless foe on high." —Elvish hymn
Loxodon Warhammer
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Jeremy Jarvis
Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink. Equip {3}
Naturalize
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Tim Hildebrandt
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
If you want to destroy something lifeless, make it live.
Denizen of the Deep
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Jim Pavelec
When this creature enters, return each other creature you control to its owner's hand.
According to merfolk legend, a denizen of the deep swallows the horizon at the end of each day, bringing on the cold blanket of night.
Blanchwood Armor
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Paolo Parente
Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each Forest you control.
"Before armor, there was bark. Before blades, there were thorns." —Molimo, maro-sorcerer
Goblin Piker
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
DiTerlizzi
Once he'd worked out which end of the thing was sharp, he was promoted to guard duty.
Evacuation
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Franz Vohwinkel
Return all creatures to their owners' hands.
"Once I supply the breeze, you'll see your warriors for the smoke they truly are." —Alexi, zephyr mage
Civic Wayfinder
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Cyril Van Der Haegen
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
"These alleys are not safe. Come, I can guide you back to the market square."
Gaea's Herald
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Jim Murray
Creature spells can't be countered.
"Gaea sings with the voice of nature rampant: a thousand howls, chitters, and cries, and none of them can be ignored."
Lightning Elemental
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Kev Walker
Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
"A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave." —William Knox, "Mortality"
Wurm's Tooth
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Alan Pollack
Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may gain 1 life.
A wurm knows nothing of deception. If it opens its mouth, it plans to eat you.
Essence Scatter
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Jon Foster
Counter target creature spell.
Some wizards compete not to summon the most interesting creatures, but to create the most interesting aftereffects when a summons goes awry.
Overrun
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Carl Critchlow
Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Vigor
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Jim Murray
Trample If damage would be dealt to another creature you control, prevent that damage. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each 1 damage prevented this way. When Vigor is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.
Eyeblight's Ending
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Ron Spears
Destroy target non-Elf creature.
"Those without beauty are Lorwyn's greatest tumor. The winnowers have an unpleasant duty, but a necessary one." —Eidren, perfect of Lys Alana
Hill Giant
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Kev Walker
Fortunately, hill giants have large blind spots in which a human can easily hide. Unfortunately, these blind spots are beneath the bottoms of their feet.
Rampant Growth
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Steven Belledin
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Nature grows solutions to its problems.
Abyssal Specter
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Michael Sutfin
Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.
To gaze under its hood is to invite death.
Mind Control
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Ryan Pancoast
Enchant creature You control enchanted creature.
"Why fight the body when you can dominate the mind that rules it?" —Jace Beleren
Furnace of Rath
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
John Matson
If a source would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.
The furnace awaits the next master who would stoke the fires of apocalypse.
Crowd of Cinders
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Carl Frank
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Crowd of Cinders's power and toughness are each equal to the number of black permanents you control.
They envy the life-giving heat so much that they tear it from those who still possess it.
Elvish Visionary
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
D. Alexander Gregory
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Before any major undertaking, a Cylian elf seeks the guidance of a visionary to learn the will of the gargantuan ancients.
Dragon's Claw
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Alan Pollack
Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.
Though no longer attached to the hand, it still holds its adversary in its grasp.
Mortivore
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Anthony S. Waters
Mortivore's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards. {B}: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
Negate
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Jeremy Jarvis
Counter target noncreature spell.
Masters of the arcane savor a delicious irony. Their study of deep and complex arcana leads to such a simple end: the ability to say merely yes or no.
Goblin Sky Raider
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Daren Bader
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
The goblin word for "flying" is more accurately translated as "falling slowly."
Talara's Battalion
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Todd Lockwood
Cast this spell only if you've cast another green spell this turn. Trample
Greenweaver Druid
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Justin Sweet
{T}: Add {G}{G}.
The other tribes call them fanatics, but none deny that the Mul Daya elves have an iron-strong bond to some force greater than themselves.
Moonglove Winnower
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
William O'Connor
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Winnowers live to eliminate eyeblights, creatures the elves deem too ugly to exist.
Phantom Warrior
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Greg Staples
This creature can't be blocked.
"The construction of a defense is not accomplished by adding bricks." —Jace Beleren
Ascendant Evincar
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Mark Zug
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Other black creatures get +1/+1. Nonblack creatures get -1/-1.
His soul snared by an angel's curse, Crovax twisted heroism into its purest shadow.
Enrage
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Justin Sweet
Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.
The barbarians call it "touching the soul of the dragon."
Mahamoti Djinn
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Greg Staples
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Of royal blood among the spirits of the air, the Mahamoti djinn rides on the wings of the winds. As dangerous in the gambling hall as he is in battle, he is a master of trickery and misdirection.
Trained Armodon
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Gary Leach
Armodons are trained to step on things. Enemy things.
Shock
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Jon Foster
Shock deals 2 damage to any target.
"Once I saw a goblin shouting at a thunderstorm. He lost the argument pretty quickly." —Wandering mage
Air Elemental
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Kev Walker
Flying
"The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab." —Joseph Conrad, *The Mirror of the Sea*
Elven Riders
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Darrell Riche
This creature can't be blocked except by Walls and/or creatures with flying.
"Wirewood cannot hide great size. Only with speed and skill can we survive here."
Runeclaw Bear
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Jesper Ejsing
Bears aren't always as strong and as mean as you imagine. Some are even stronger and meaner.
Earth Elemental
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Anthony S. Waters
Earth elementals have the eternal strength of stone and the endurance of mountains. Primordially connected to the land they inhabit, they take a long-term view of things, scorning the impetuous haste of short-lived mortal creatures.
Spined Wurm
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Carl Critchlow
Its spines act like the teeth of a saw, scoring distinctive marks in the vegetation of its territory.
Demon's Horn
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Alan Pollack
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.
Its curve mimics the twists of life and death.
Giant Growth
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Matt Cavotta
Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
Elvish Warrior
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Kev Walker
As graceful as a deer leaping a stream and as deadly as the wolf waiting in ambush on the other side, elvish warriors are the eyes of the forest as well as its unsheathed claws.
Megrim
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Nick Percival
Whenever an opponent discards a card, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.
"It's a vicious circle. Stress breeds pain. Pain breeds stress. It's simply beautiful, wouldn't you agree?" —Vradeen, vampire nocturnus
Underworld Dreams
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Carl Critchlow
Whenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.
"In the drowsy dark cave of the mind, dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan." —Rabindranath Tagore
Banefire
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Raymond Swanland
Banefire deals X damage to any target. If X is 5 or more, this spell can't be countered and the damage can't be prevented.
For Sarkhan Vol, the dragon is the purest expression of life's savage splendor.
Imperious Perfect
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Scott M. Fischer
Other Elves you control get +1/+1. {G}, {T}: Create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.
In a culture of beauty, the most beautiful are worshipped as gods.
Cloud Sprite
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Mark Zug
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) This creature can block only creatures with flying.
The delicate sprites carry messages for Saprazzans, but they refuse to land in Mercadia City's filthy markets.
Mountain
(Duels of the Planeswalkers)
Karl Kopinski
({T}: Add {R}.)