Urza's Saga Card List
Wizards of the Coast, Inc.
(Released October 5th, 1998)
350 Cards Total
Color: 57 Black, 57 Blue, 57 Green, 57 Red, 57 White, 33 Artifacts, 32 Land
Rarity: 110 Commons, 110 Uncommons, 110 Rare, 20 Basic Land
Card Title: Absolute Grace
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: All creatures gain protection from black.
Flavor Text: In pursuit of Urza, the Phyrexians sent countless legions
into Serra's realm. Though beaten back, they left it
tainted with uncleansable evil.
Artist: Jeff Miracola
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Absolute Law
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: All creatures gain protection from red.
Flavor Text: The strength of law is unwavering. It is an iron bar in
a world of water.
Artist: Mark Zug
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Abundance
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2GG
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Instead of drawing a card, you may choose land or nonland
and reveal cards from your library until you reveal a card
of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and put
all other revealed cards on the bottom of your library in
any order.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Rebecca Guay
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Abyssal Horror
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Horror
Cost: 4BB
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Flying
When Abyssal Horror comes into play, target player chooses
and discards two cards.
Flavor Text: It has no face of its own-it wears that of its
latest victim.
Artist: rk post
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Academy Researchers
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Wizards
Cost: 1UU
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: When Academy Researchers comes into play, you may choose
an enchant creature card in your hand and put that
enchantment into play on Academy Researchers.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Stephen Daniele
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Acidic Soil
Color: Red
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 2R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Acidic Soil deals 1 damage to each player for each land
he or she controls.
Flavor Text: Phyrexia had tried to take Urza's soul. He was relieved
that Shiv tried to claim only his soles.
Artist: Scott M. Fischer
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Acridian
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Insect
Cost: 1G
Pow/Tgh: 2/4
Card Text: Echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent comes
under your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.)
Flavor Text: The elves of Argoth were trained to ride these creatures,
even when their mounts traveled upside-down.
Artist: rk post
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Albino Troll
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Troll
Cost: 1G
Pow/Tgh: 3/3
Card Text: Echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent comes
under your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.)
1G: Regenerate Albino Troll.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Paolo Parente
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Anaconda
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Snake
Cost: 3G
Pow/Tgh: 3/3
Card Text: Swampwalk (If defending player controls a swamp, this
creature is unblockable.)
Flavor Text: If you're smaller than the anaconda, it considers you food.
If you're larger than the anaconda, it considers you a lot
of food.
Artist: Stephen Daniele
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Angelic Chorus
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 3WW
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever a creature comes into play under your control,
gain life equal to that creature's toughness.
Flavor Text: The very young and the very old know best the song the
angels sing.
Artist: Ron Spencer
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Angelic Page
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Spirit
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: Flying
TAP: Target attacking or blocking creature gets +1/+1
until end of turn.
Flavor Text: If only every message were as perfect as its bearers.
Artist: Rebecca Guay
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Annul
Color: Blue
Card Type: Interrupt
Cost: U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.
Flavor Text: The most effective way to destroy a spell is to ensure
it was never cast in the first place.
Artist: Greg Simanson
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Antagonism
Color: Red
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 3R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During each player's discard phase, Antagonism deals 2
damage to that player unless one of his or her opponents
was successfully dealt damage that turn.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Donato Giancola
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Arc Lightning
Color: Red
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 2R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Arc Lightning deals 3 damage divided as you choose among
any number of target creatures and/or players.
Flavor Text: Rainclouds don't last long in Shiv, but that doesn't
stop the lightning.
Artist: Andrew Goldhawk
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Arcane Laboratory
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Each player cannot play more than one spell each turn.
Flavor Text: It soon became obvious that some experiments were best
overseen by fireproof teachers.
Artist: Stephen Daniele
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Argothian Elder
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Elf
Cost: 3G
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: TAP: Untap two target lands.
Flavor Text: Sharpen your ears-Elvish expression meaning "grow wiser"
Artist: DiTerlizzi
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Argothian Enchantress
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Enchantress
Cost: 1G
Pow/Tgh: 0/1
Card Text: Argothian Enchantress cannot be the target of spells or
abilities. Whenever you successfully cast an enchantment
spell, draw a card.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Daren Bader
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Argothian Swine
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Boars
Cost: 3G
Pow/Tgh: 3/3
Card Text: Trample
Flavor Text: In Argoth, the shortest path between two points is the one
the swine make.
Artist: Randy Elliott
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Argothian Wurm
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Wurm
Cost: 3G
Pow/Tgh: 6/6
Card Text: Trample
When Argothian Wurm comes into play, any player may
sacrifice a land to put Argothian Wurm on top of owner's
library.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Kev Walker
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Attunement
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Return Attunement to owner's hand: Draw three cards, then
choose and discard four cards.
Flavor Text: "The solution can hide for only so long."-Urza
Artist: Randy Gallegos
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Back to Basics
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Nonbasic lands do not untap during their controllers'
untap phases.
Flavor Text: "A ruler wears a crown while the rest of us wear hats,
but which would you rather have when it's raining?"
-Barrin, Principia
Artist: Andrew Robinson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Barrin, Master Wizard
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Legend
Cost: 1UU
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: Barrin, Master Wizard counts as a Wizard.
2, Sacrifice a permanent: Return target creature to
owner's hand.
Flavor Text: "Knowledge is no more expensive than ignorance, and at
least as satisfying."
-Barrin, master wizard
Artist: Michael Sutfin
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Barrin's Codex
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 4
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, you may put a page counter on
Barrin's Codex.
4, TAP, Sacrifice Barrin's Codex: Draw X cards, where X
is the number of page counters on Barrin's Codex.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: DiTerlizzi
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Bedlam
Color: Red
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2RR
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Creatures cannot block.
Flavor Text: Sometimes quantity, in the absence of quality, is
good enough.
Artist: Mike Raabe
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Befoul
Color: Black
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 2BB
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Destroy target land or nonblack creature. A creature
destroyed this way cannot be regenerated this turn.
Flavor Text: "The land putrefied at its touch, turned into an oily
bile in seconds."
-Radiant, archangel
Artist: Pete Venters
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Bereavement
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever a green creature is put into a graveyard from
play, its controller chooses and discards a card.
Flavor Text: "Grief is as useless as love."
-Gix, Yawgmoth praetor
Artist: Andrew Goldhawk
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Blanchwood Armor
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 2G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of
forests you control.
Flavor Text: "Braid her branches, life fulfilling
Goddess loving, Goddess killing."
-Citanul chant
Artist: Paolo Parente
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Blanchwood Treefolk
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Treefolk
Cost: 4G
Pow/Tgh: 4/5
Card Text: n/a
Flavor Text: The massive Argivian attack on their rooted kindred was a
declaration of war to the treefolk.
Artist: DiTerlizzi
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Blasted Landscape
Color: Land
Card Type: Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: TAP: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your
hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Ciruelo
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Blood Vassal
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Thrull
Cost: 2B
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Sacrifice Blood Vassal: Add BB to your mana pool. Play
this ability as a mana source.
Flavor Text: "They are bred to suffer and born to die. Much
like humans."
-Gix, Yawgmoth praetor
Artist: Chippy
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Bog Raiders
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Zombies
Cost: 2B
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Swampwalk (If defending player controls a swamp, this
creature is unblockable.)
Flavor Text: "Let weak feed on weak, that we may divine the nature
of strength."
-Phyrexian Scriptures
Artist: Carl Critchlow
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Brand
Color: Red
Card Type: Instant
Cost: R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Gain control of all permanents you own.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from
your hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: "By this glyph I affirm your role." -Urza, to Karn
Artist: Donato Giancola
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Bravado
Color: Red
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 1R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature
you control.
Flavor Text: "We drive the dragons from our home. Why should we
fear you?"
-Fire Eye, viashino bey
Artist: Jerry Tiritilli
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Breach
Color: Black
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 2B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. That creature
cannot be blocked except by artifact creatures and black
creatures this turn.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Greg Staples
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Brilliant Halo
Color: White
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.
When Brilliant Halo is put into a graveyard from play,
return Brilliant Halo to owner's hand.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Randy Gallegos
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Bull Hippo
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Hippo
Cost: 3G
Pow/Tgh: 3/3
Card Text: Islandwalk (If defending player controls an island, this
creature is unblockable.)
Flavor Text: "How could you not hear it approach? It's a hippo!"
-Argivian commander
Artist: Daren Bader
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Bulwark
Color: Red
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 3RR
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, Bulwark deals 1 damage to target
opponent for each card in your hand greater than the
number of cards in that player's hand.
Flavor Text: "It will be the goblin's first bath, and its last."
-Fire Eye, viashino bey
Artist: Brian Snoddy
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Cackling Fiend
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Zombie
Cost: 2BB
Pow/Tgh: 2/1
Card Text: When Cackling Fiend comes into play, each of your opponents
chooses and discards a card.
Flavor Text: Its windpipe is only the first to amplify its
maddening laughter.
Artist: Brian Despain
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Carpet of Flowers
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your main phase, you may add up to X mana of one
color to your mana pool, where X is the number of islands
target opponent controls.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Rebecca Guay
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Carrion Beetles
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Insects
Cost: B
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: B, TAP: Remove from the game up to three target cards
in one graveyard.
Flavor Text: It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
Artist: Ron Spencer
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Catalog
Color: Blue
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 2U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Draw two cards, then choose and discard a card.
Flavor Text: "Without order comes errors, and errors kill on Tolaria."
-Barrin, master wizard
Artist: Berry
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Catastrophe
Color: White
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 4WW
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Destroy all lands or all creatures. Creatures destroyed
this way cannot regenerate this turn.
Flavor Text: Radiant's eyes flashed. "Go, then," the angel spat at Serra,
"and leave this world to those who truly care."
Artist: Andrew Robinson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Cathodion
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact Creature
Cost: 3
Pow/Tgh: 3/3
Card Text: When Cathodion is put into a graveyard from play, add three
colorless mana to your mana pool.
Flavor Text: Instead of creating a tool that would be damaged by heat,
the Thran built one that was charged by it.
Artist: Henry G. Higgenbotham
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Cave Tiger
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Cat
Cost: 2G
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Whenever a creature blocks it, Cave Tiger gets +1/+1 until
end of turn.
Flavor Text: The druids found a haven in the cool limestone tunnels
beneath Argoth. The invaders found only tigers.
Artist: Hannibal King
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Child of Gaea
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Elemental
Cost: 3GGG
Pow/Tgh: 7/7
Card Text: Trample
During your upkeep, pay GG or sacrifice Child of Gaea.
1G: Regenerate Child of Gaea.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Paolo Parente
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Chimeric Staff
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 4
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: X: Chimeric Staff is an artifact creature with power and
toughness each equal to X until end of turn.
Flavor Text: A snake in the grasp.
Artist: Michael Sutfin
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Citanul Centaurs
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Centaurs
Cost: 3G
Pow/Tgh: 6/3
Card Text: Echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent comes
under your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.)
Citanul Centaurs cannot be the target of spells or abilities.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Val Mayerik
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Citanul Flute
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 5
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: X, TAP: Search your library for a creature card with total
casting cost no greater than X. Reveal that card and put it
into your hand. Shuffle your library afterward.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Berry
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Citanul Hierophants
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Druids
Cost: 3G
Pow/Tgh: 3/2
Card Text: Each creature you control gains "TAP: Add G to your mana
pool. Play this ability as a mana source."
Flavor Text: From deep in the caves beneath the forest, the hierophants
planned the druids' raids against the enemy.
Artist: Vincent Evans
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Claws of Gix
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 0
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 1, Sacrifice a permanent: Gain 1 life.
Flavor Text: When the Brotherhood of Gix dug out the cave of Koilos they
found their master's severed hand. They enshrined it, hoping
that one day it would point the way to Phyrexia.
Artist: Henry G. Higgenbotham
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Clear
Color: White
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Destroy target enchantment.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Andrew Robinson
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Cloak of Mists
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted creature is unblockable.
Flavor Text: "All we could lose, we did. All we could keep, we do. And
both are shrouded by mists."
-Barrin, master wizard
Artist: John Matson
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Confiscate
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchant Permanent
Cost: 4UU
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: You control enchanted permanent.
Flavor Text: "I don't understand why he works so hard on a device to
duplicate a sound so easily made with hand and armpit."
-Barrin, progress report
Artist: Adam Rex
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Congregate
Color: White
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 3W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Target player gains 2 life for each creature in play.
Flavor Text: "In the gathering there is strength for all who founder,
renewal for all who languish, love for all who sing."
-Song of All, canto 642
Artist: Mark Zug
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Contamination
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, sacrifice a creature or sacrifice
Contamination.
Whenever a land is tapped for mana, it produces B instead of
its normal type and amount.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Stephen Daniele
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Copper Gnomes
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact Creature
Cost: 2
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: 4, Sacrifice Copper Gnomes: Choose an artifact card in your
hand and put that artifact into play.
Flavor Text: Start with eleven gnomes and a room of parts, and come
morning you'll have ten and a monster the likes of which
you've never seen.
Artist: Jeff Laubenstein
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Coral Merfolk
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Merfolk
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: 2/1
Card Text: n/a
Flavor Text: It is not unusual for a single family of coral merfolk to
spend centuries carefully guiding the growth of the reefs
where they make their home.
Artist: rk post
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Corrupt
Color: Black
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 5B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Corrupt deals 1 damage to target creature or player for each
swamp you control. When Corrupt successfully deals damage to
a creature or player, gain life equal to that damage.
Flavor Text: Yawgmoth brushed Urza's mind, and Urza's world convulsed.
Artist: Vincent Evans
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Cradle Guard
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Treefolk
Cost: 1GG
Pow/Tgh: 4/4
Card Text: Trample; echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent
comes under your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.)
Flavor Text: Mother, sleep / Dream our lives
Our roots your soul / Our leaves your bed.
Artist: Mark Zug
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Crater Hellion
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Beast
Cost: 4RR
Pow/Tgh: 6/6
Card Text: Echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent comes
under your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.)
When Crater Hellion comes into play, it deals 4 damage to
each other creature.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Daren Bader
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Crazed Skirge
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Imp
Cost: 3B
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Flying
Crazed Skirge is unaffected by summoning sickness.
Flavor Text: They are Phyrexia's couriers; the messages they carry are
inscribed on their slick hides.
Artist: Ron Spencer
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Crosswinds
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: All creatures with flying get -2/-0.
Flavor Text: Harbin's ornithopter had been trapped for two days within
the currents of the storm. When the skies cleared, all he
could see was a horizon of trees.
Artist: Randy Elliott
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Crystal Chimes
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 3
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 3, TAP, Sacrifice Crystal Chimes: Return all enchantment
cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Flavor Text: As Serra was to learn, the peace and sanctity of her realm
were as fragile as glass.
Artist: Donato Giancola
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Curfew
Color: Blue
Card Type: Instant
Cost: U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Each player chooses a creature he or she controls and returns
it to owner's hand.
Flavor Text: ". . . But I'm not tired!"
Artist: Randy Gallegos
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Dark Hatchling
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Horror
Cost: 4BB
Pow/Tgh: 3/3
Card Text: Flying
When Dark Hatchling comes into play, destroy target nonblack
creature. That creature cannot be regenerated this turn.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Mark Nelson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Dark Ritual
Color: Black
Card Type: Mana Source
Cost: B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Add BBB to your mana pool.
Flavor Text: "From void evolved Phyrexia. Great Yawgmoth, Father of
Machines, saw its perfection. Thus the Grand Evolution
began."
-Phyrexian Scriptures
Artist: Tom Fleming
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Darkest Hour
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: All creatures are black.
Flavor Text: "Yawgmoth spent eons wrapping Phyrexians in human skin.
They are the sleeper agents, and they are everywhere."
-Xantcha, to Urza
Artist: Heather Hudson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Defensive Formation
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Instead of the attacking player, you choose how creatures
attacking you deal combat damage.
Flavor Text: "Your enemies will pound upon the door of your defenses,
but only you shall have the key, and it is the key of life."
-Song of All, canto 873
Artist: Greg Staples
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Despondency
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 1B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted creature gets -2/-0.
Flavor Text: When Despondency is put into a graveyard from play, return
Despondency to owner's hand.
Artist: D. Alexander Gregory
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Destructive Urge
Color: Red
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 1RR
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever enchanted creature successfully deals combat damage
to a player, that player sacrifices a land.
Flavor Text: Red sky at night, dragon's delight.
Artist: Andrew Robinson
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Diabolic Servitude
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 3B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When Diabolic Servitude comes into play, choose target creature
card in your graveyard and put that creature into play.
When the chosen creature is put into a graveyard, remove
the creature from the game and return Diabolic Servitude to
owner's hand.
When Diabolic Servitude leaves play, remove the chosen
creature from the game.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Scott M. Fischer
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Disciple of Grace
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Cleric
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: 1/2
Card Text: Protection from black
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your
hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: Beauty is beyond law.
Artist: Robh Ruppel
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Disciple of Law
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Cleric
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: 1/2
Card Text: Protection from red
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your
hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: A religious order for religious order.
Artist: Matthew Wilson
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Discordant Dirge
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 3BB
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on
Discordant Dirge.
B, Sacrifice Discordant Dirge: Look at target opponent's
hand and choose up to X of those cards, where X is the number
of verse counters on Discordant Dirge. That player discards
those cards.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Carl Critchlow
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Disenchant
Color: White
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Flavor Text: "Let Phyrexia breed evil in the darkness; my holy light
will reveal its taint."
-Serra
Artist: Donato Giancola
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Disorder
Color: Red
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 1R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Disorder deals 2 damage to each white creature and each
player who controls a white creature.
Flavor Text: "Then, just when the other guys were winnin', the sky
threw up."
-Jula, goblin raider
Artist: Terese Nielsen
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Disruptive Student
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Wizard
Cost: 2U
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: TAP: Counter target spell unless its caster pays an
additional 1. Play this ability as an interrupt.
Flavor Text: "Teferi is a problem student. Always late for class. No
appreciation for constructive use of time."
- Barrin, progress report
Artist: Randy Gallegos
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Douse
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 1U: Counter target red spell. Play this ability as an interrupt.
Flavor Text: The academy's libraries were protected by fire-prevention
spells. Even after the disaster, the books were intact-though
forever sealed in time.
Artist: Val Mayerik
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Dragon Blood
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 3
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 3, TAP: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Flavor Text: Fire in the blood, fire in the belly.
Artist: Greg Simanson
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Drifting Djinn
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Djinn
Cost: 4UU
Pow/Tgh: 5/5
Card Text: Flying
During your upkeep, pay 1U or sacrifice Drifting Djinn.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Carl Critchlow
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Drifting Meadow
Color: Land
Card Type: Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Drifting Meadow comes into play tapped.
TAP: Add W to your mana pool.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your
hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Bob Eggleton
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Dromosaur
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Lizard
Cost: 2R
Pow/Tgh: 2/3
Card Text: Whenever Dromosaur blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +2/-2
until end of turn.
Flavor Text: They say dromosaurs are frightened of dogs, even little
ones. There are no dogs in Shiv. Not even little ones.
Artist: Ciruelo
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Duress
Color: Black
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Look at target opponent's hand and choose a noncreature,
nonland card there. That player discards that card.
Flavor Text: "We decide who is worthy of our works."
-Gix, Yawgmoth praetor
Artist: Lawrence Snelly
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Eastern Paladin
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Knight
Cost: 2BB
Pow/Tgh: 3/3
Card Text: BB, TAP: Destroy target green creature.
Flavor Text: "Their fragile world. Their futile lives. They obstruct the
Grand Evolution. In Yawgmoth's name, we shall excise them."
-Oath of the East
Artist: Carl Critchlow
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Electryte
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Beast
Cost: 3RR
Pow/Tgh: 3/3
Card Text: Whenever Electryte successfully deals combat damage to
defending player, Electryte deals damage equal to its power
to each blocking creature.
Flavor Text: Shivan inhabitants are hardened to fire, so their predators
have developed alternative weaponry.
Artist: Thomas M. Baxa
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Elite Archers
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Soldiers
Cost: 5W
Pow/Tgh: 3/3
Card Text: TAP: Elite Archers deals 3 damage to target attacking or
blocking creature.
Flavor Text: Arrows fletched with the feathers of angels seldom miss
their mark.
Artist: Greg Staples
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Elvish Herder
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Elf
Cost: G
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: G: Target creature gains trample until end of turn.
Flavor Text: Before Urza and Mishra came to Argoth, the herders prevented
their creatures from stampeding. During the war, they encouraged
it.
Artist: Tom Fleming
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Elvish Lyrist
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Elf
Cost: G
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: G, TAP, Sacrifice Elvish Lyrist: Destroy target enchantment.
Flavor Text: Bring the spear of ancient briar;
Bring the torch to light the pyre.
Bring the one who trod our ground;
Bring the spade to dig his mound.
Artist: Rebecca Guay
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Enchantment Alteration
Color: Blue
Card Type: Instant
Cost: U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Move target enchantment from one creature to another or
from one land to another. (The enchantment's new target must
be legal.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: D. Alexander Gregory
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Endless Wurm
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Wurm
Cost: 3GG
Pow/Tgh: 9/9
Card Text: Trample
During your upkeep, sacrifice an enchantment or sacrifice
Endless Wurm.
Flavor Text: Ages ago, a party of elves took cover to let one pass.
They're still waiting.
Artist: DiTerlizzi
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Endoskeleton
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 2
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: You may choose not to untap Endoskeleton during your untap phase.
2, TAP: Target creature gets +0/+3 as long as Endoskeleton
remains tapped.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Mark Tedin
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Energy Field
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Prevent all damage dealt to you from sources you do not control.
When a card is put into your graveyard, sacrifice Energy Field.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: John Matson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Exhaustion
Color: Blue
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 2U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Creatures and lands target opponent controls do not untap
during his or her next untap phase.
Flavor Text: The mage felt as though he'd been in the stasis suit for
days. Upon his return, he found it was months.
Artist: Paolo Parente
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Exhume
Color: Black
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 1B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Each player chooses a creature card in his or her graveyard
and puts that creature into play.
Flavor Text: "Death-an outmoded concept. We sleep, and we change."
-Sitrik, birth priest
Artist: Carl Critchlow
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Exploration
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: You may play an additional land each turn.
Flavor Text: The first explorers found Argoth a storehouse of natural
wealth-towering forests grown over rich veins of ore.
Artist: Brian Snoddy
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Expunge
Color: Black
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 2B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature
cannot be regenerated this turn.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your
hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Christopher Moeller
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Faith Healer
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Cleric
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: Sacrifice an enchantment: Gain life equal to the sacrificed
enchantment's total casting cost.
Flavor Text: The power of faith is quiet. It is the leaf unmoved by the
hurricane.
Artist: Randy Gallegos
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Falter
Color: Red
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 1R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Creatures without flying cannot block this turn.
Flavor Text: Like a sleeping dragon, Shiv stirs and groans at times.
Artist: Mike Raabe
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Fault Line
Color: Red
Card Type: Instant
Cost: XRR
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Fault Line deals X damage to each creature without flying
and each player.
Flavor Text: We live on the serpent's back.-Viashino saying
Artist: Ron Spencer
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Fecundity
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever a creature is put into a graveyard from play, that
creature's controller may draw a card.
Flavor Text: Life is eternal. A lifetime is ephemeral.
Artist: Rebecca Guay
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Fertile Ground
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchant Land
Cost: 1G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, it produces an
additional one mana of any color.
Flavor Text: The forest was too lush for the brothers to despoil - almost.
Artist: Heather Hudson
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Fiery Mantle
Color: Red
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 1R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When Fiery Mantle is put into a graveyard from play, return
Fiery Mantle to owner's hand.
R: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Bob Eggleton
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Fire Ants
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Insects
Cost: 2R
Pow/Tgh: 2/1
Card Text: TAP: Fire Ants deals 1 damage to each other creature without
flying.
Flavor Text: Visitors to Shiv fear the dragons, the goblins, or the
viashino. Natives fear the ants.
Artist: Tom Fleming
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Flesh Reaver
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Horror
Cost: 1B
Pow/Tgh: 4/4
Card Text: Whenever Flesh Reaver successfully deals damage to a
creature or opponent, Flesh Reaver deals an equal amount
of damage to you.
Flavor Text: Though the reaver is horrifyingly effective, its dorsal vents
spit a highly corrosive cloud of filth.
Artist: Pete Venters
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Fluctuator
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 2
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Cycling costs you up to 2 less to play.
Flavor Text: Fiko summoned only atogs for three straight sessions. The
tutor couldn't decide whether to punish his failure or praise
his consistency.
Artist: John Matson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Fog Bank
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Wall
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: 0/2
Card Text: (Walls cannot attack.)
Flying
Fog Bank does not deal or receive combat damage.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Scott Kirschner
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Forest (4 Versions)
Color: Land
Card Type: Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: TAP: Add G to your mana pool.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Anthony S. Waters
Rarity: Land
Card Title: Fortitude
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 1G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When Fortitude is put into a graveyard from play, return
Fortitude to owner's hand.
Sacrifice a forest: Regenerate enchanted creature.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Daren Bader
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Gaea's Bounty
Color: Green
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 2G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Search your library for up to two forest cards, reveal them,
and put them into your hand. Shuffle your library afterward.
Flavor Text: The forest grew back so quickly that lumbering machines were
suspended in the treetops.
Artist: Stephen Daniele
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Gaea's Cradle
Color: Land
Card Type: Legendary Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: TAP: Add G to your mana pool for each creature you control.
Flavor Text: "Here sprouted the first seedling of Argoth. Here the last
tree will fall."
-Gamelen, Citanul elder
Artist: Mark Zug
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Gaea's Embrace
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 2GG
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample.
G: Regenerate enchanted creature.
Flavor Text: The forest rose to the battle, not to save the people but
to save itself.
Artist: Paolo Parente
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Gamble
Color: Red
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand,
then discard a card at random. Shuffle your library afterward.
Flavor Text: When you've got nothing, you might as well trade it for
something else.
Artist: Andrew Goldhawk
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Gilded Drake
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Drake
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: 3/3
Card Text: Flying
When Gilded Drake comes into play, exchange control of Gilded
Drake for target creature one of your opponents controls or
sacrifice Gilded Drake.
Flavor Text: Buyer beware.
Artist: Bob Eggleton
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Glorious Anthem
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1WW
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: All creatures you control get +1/+1.
Flavor Text: Once heard, the battle song of an angel becomes part of the
listener forever.
Artist: Kev Walker
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Goblin Cadets
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Goblins
Cost: R
Pow/Tgh: 2/1
Card Text: Whenever Goblin Cadets blocks or becomes blocked, target
opponent gains control of it. (This removes Goblin Cadets
from combat.)
Flavor Text: "If you kids don't stop that racket, I'm turning this
expedition around right now!"
Artist: Jerry Tiritilli
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Goblin Lackey
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Goblin
Cost: R
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: Whenever Goblin Lackey successfully deals damage to a player,
you may choose a Goblin card in your hand and put that Goblin
into play.
Flavor Text: All bark, someone else's bite.
Artist: Jerry Tiritilli
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Goblin Matron
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Goblin
Cost: 2R
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: When Goblin Matron comes into play, you may search your
library for a Goblin card. If you do, reveal that card, put
it into your hand, and shuffle your library afterward.
Flavor Text: There's always room for one more.
Artist: DiTerlizzi
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Goblin Offensive
Color: Red
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: X1RR
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Put X Goblin tokens into play. Treat these tokens as 1/1
red creatures.
Flavor Text: They certainly are.
Artist: Carl Critchlow
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Goblin Patrol
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Goblins
Cost: R
Pow/Tgh: 2/1
Card Text: Echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent comes
under your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.)
Flavor Text: "Take the sharp metal stick and make a lotta holes."
-Jula, goblin raider
Artist: Greg Staples
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Goblin Raider
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Goblin
Cost: 1R
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Goblin Raider cannot block.
Flavor Text: He was proud to wear the lizard skin around his waist, just
for the fun of annoying the enemy.
Artist: Greg Staples
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Goblin Spelunkers
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Goblins
Cost: 2R
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Mountainwalk (If defending player controls a mountain, this
creature is unblockable.)
Flavor Text: "It only short jump. You go first."
"AIIIEEEE!"
"Hmm . . . we go different way now."
Artist: DiTerlizzi
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Goblin War Buggy
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Goblin
Cost: 1R
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent comes
under your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.)
Goblin War Buggy is unaffected by summoning sickness.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: DiTerlizzi
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Gorilla Warrior
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Ape
Cost: 2G
Pow/Tgh: 3/2
Card Text: n/a
Flavor Text: The gorilla beat its chest and threw great handfuls of
leaves into the air. It howled challenge and showed its
teeth. The mechanical soldier, not understanding, simply
killed it.
Artist: Steve White
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Grafted Skullcap
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 4
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your draw phase, draw an additional card.
At the end of each of your turns, discard your hand.
Flavor Text: "Let go your mind. Mine is fitter."
-Gix, Yawgmoth praetor
Artist: Brian Despain
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Great Whale
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Whale
Cost: 5UU
Pow/Tgh: 5/5
Card Text: When Great Whale comes into play, untap up to seven lands.
Flavor Text: "As a great whale dies, it flips onto its back. And so an
island is born."
-Mariners' legend
Artist: Bob Eggleton
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Greater Good
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2GG
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed
creature's power, then choose and discard three cards.
Flavor Text: "We have more sprouts than they have hands."
-Gamelen, Citanul elder
Artist: Pete Venters
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Greener Pastures
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During each player's upkeep, if that player controls more
lands than any other, the player puts a Saproling token into
play under his or her control. Treat this token as a 1/1
green creature.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Heather Hudson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Guma
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Cat
Cost: 2R
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Protection from blue
Flavor Text: When the giant returned for the night, he found a dead merfolk
on his pillow. Although he praised the little guma, he
inwardly wondered where she had hid the head.
Artist: Daren Bader
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Hawkeater Moth
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Insect
Cost: 3G
Pow/Tgh: 1/2
Card Text: Flying
Hawkeater Moth cannot be the target of spells or abilities.
Flavor Text: Each day at dusk the birds above the canopy grow silent.
Artist: Heather Hudson
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Headlong Rush
Color: Red
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 1R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: All attacking creatures gain first strike until end of turn.
Flavor Text: A landslide of goblins poured toward the defenders-tumbling,
rolling, and bouncing their way down the steep hillside.
Artist: Dermot Power
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Healing Salve
Color: White
Card Type: Instant
Cost: W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Choose one - Target player gains 3 life; or prevent up to
3 damage to a creature or player.
Flavor Text: "Xantcha is recovering. The medicine is slow, but my magic
would have killed her."
-Serra, to Urza
Artist: Heather Hudson
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Heat Ray
Color: Red
Card Type: Instant
Cost: XR
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Heat Ray deals X damage to target creature.
Flavor Text: It's not known whether the Thran built the device to forge
their wonders or to defend them.
Artist: Brian Snoddy
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Herald of Serra
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Angel
Cost: 2WW
Pow/Tgh: 3/4
Card Text: Flying; echo (During your next upkeep after this
permanent comes under your control, pay its casting cost
or sacrifice it.)
Flavor Text: Attacking does not cause Herald of Serra to tap.
Artist: Matthew Wilson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Hermetic Study
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted creature gains "TAP: This creature deals 1 damage
to target creature or player."
Flavor Text: "Books can be replaced; a prize student cannot. Be patient."
-Urza, to Barrin
Artist: Ron Spencer
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Hibernation
Color: Blue
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 2U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Return all green permanents to owners' hands.
Flavor Text: On its way to the cave, the armadillo brushed by a sapling.
It awoke to find a full-grown tree blocking its path.
Artist: Scott Kirschner
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Hidden Ancients
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When one of your opponents successfully casts an enchantment
spell, if Hidden Ancients is an enchantment, Hidden Ancients
becomes a 5/5 creature that counts as a Treefolk.
Flavor Text: The only alert the invaders had was the rustling of leaves on
a day without wind.
Artist: Daren Bader
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Hidden Guerrillas
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When one of your opponents successfully casts an artifact
spell, if Hidden Guerrillas is an enchantment, Hidden
Guerrillas becomes a 5/3 creature with trample and that counts
as a Soldier.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Christopher Moeller
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Hidden Herd
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When one of your opponents plays a nonbasic land, if Hidden
Herd is an enchantment, Hidden Herd becomes a 3/3 creature
that counts as a Beast.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Andrew Robinson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Hidden Predators
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When one of your opponents controls a creature with power 4
or greater, if Hidden Predators is an enchantment, Hidden
Predators becomes a 4/4 creature that counts as a Beast.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: John Matson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Hidden Spider
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When one of your opponents successfully casts a creature
with flying, if Hidden Spider is an enchantment, Hidden
Spider becomes a 3/5 creature that can block creatures with
flying and that counts as a Spider.
Flavor Text: It wants only to dress you in silk.
Artist: Thomas M. Baxa
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Hidden Stag
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever one of your opponents plays a land, if Hidden Stag
is an enchantment, Hidden Stag becomes a 3/2 creature that
counts as a Beast.
Whenever you play a land, if Hidden Stag is a creature, Hidden
Stag becomes an enchantment.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Berry
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Hollow Dogs
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Hounds
Cost: 4B
Pow/Tgh: 3/3
Card Text: Whenever Hollow Dogs attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
Flavor Text: A hollow dog is never empty. It is filled with thirst for
the hunt.
Artist: Jeff Miracola
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Hopping Automaton
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact Creature
Cost: 3
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: 0: Hopping Automaton gets -1/-1 and gains flying until end
of turn.
Flavor Text: Designed to carry equipment across rivers, the hopping
automaton was soon pressed into service in the infantry.
Artist: Val Mayerik
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Horseshoe Crab
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Crab
Cost: 2U
Pow/Tgh: 1/3
Card Text: U: Untap Horseshoe Crab.
Flavor Text: In the final days before the disaster, all the crabs on
Tolaria migrated from inlets, streams, and ponds back to the
sea. No one took note.
Artist: Scott Kirschner
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Humble
Color: White
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Target creature loses all abilities and is a 0/1 creature
until end of turn.
Flavor Text: "It is not your place to rule, Radiant. It may not even
be mine."
-Serra
Artist: Val Mayerik
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Hush
Color: Green
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 3G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Destroy all enchantments.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your
hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Rebecca Guay
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Ill-Gotten Gains
Color: Black
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 2BB
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Remove Ill-Gotten Gains from the game. All players discard
their hands, then each player puts up to three cards from his
or her graveyard into his or her hand.
Flavor Text: Urza thought it a crusade. Xantcha knew it was a robbery.
Artist: Greg Staples
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Imaginary Pet
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Illusion
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: 4/4
Card Text: During your upkeep, if you have a card in hand, return
Imaginary Pet to owner's hand.
Flavor Text: "It followed me home. Can I keep it?"
Artist: Heather Hudson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Intrepid Hero
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Soldier
Cost: 2W
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: TAP: Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.
Flavor Text: "We each have our own strengths, Radiant," Serra said with
a sly smile. "If all of my people were like this one, who
would carry your scrolls?"
Artist: Brian Snoddy
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Island (4 Versions)
Color: Land
Card Type: Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: TAP: Add U to your mana pool.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Donato Giancola
Rarity: Land
Card Title: Jagged Lightning
Color: Red
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 3RR
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Jagged Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature and 3
damage to another target creature.
Flavor Text: The pungent smell of roasting flesh made both mages realize
they'd rather break for dinner than fight.
Artist: Mike Raabe
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Karn, Silver Golem
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Legendary Artifact Creature
Cost: 5
Pow/Tgh: 4/4
Card Text: Whenever Karn, Silver Golem blocks or becomes blocked, it
gets -4/+4 until end of turn.
1: Target noncreature artifact is an artifact creature with
power and toughness each equal to its casting cost until
end of turn. (That artifact retains its abilities.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Mark Zug
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Launch
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted creature gains flying.
Flavor Text: When Launch is put into a graveyard from play, return Launch
to owner's hand.
Artist: Val Mayerik
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Lay Waste
Color: Red
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 3R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Destroy target land.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Terese Nielsen
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Lifeline
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 5
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever a creature is put into a graveyard and a creature
is in play, return that creature from your graveyard to play
at end of turn.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: D. Alexander Gregory
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Lightning Dragon
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Dragon
Cost: 2RR
Pow/Tgh: 4/4
Card Text: Flying; echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent
comes under your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.)
R: Lightning Dragon gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Ron Spencer
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Lilting Refrain
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on
Lilting Refrain.
Sacrifice Lilting Refrain: Counter target spell unless its
caster pays an additional X, where X is the number of verse
counters on Lilting Refrain. Play this ability as an interrupt.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Berry
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Lingering Mirage
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchant Land
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted land is an island.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: Birds frozen in flight. Sea turned to glass. Tolaria hidden
in a mirror.
Artist: Jerry Tiritilli
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Looming Shade
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Shade
Cost: 2B
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: B: Looming Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Flavor Text: The shade tracks victims by reverberations of the pipes, as
a spider senses prey tangled in its trembling web.
Artist: Vincent Evans
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Lotus Blossom
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 2
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, you may put a petal counter on Lotus Blossom.
TAP, Sacrifice Lotus Blossom: Add X mana of one color to your
mana pool, where X is the number of petal counters on Lotus
Blossom. Play this ability as a mana source.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Randy Gallegos
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Lull
Color: Green
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 1G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Creatures deal no combat damage this turn.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Terese Nielsen
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Lurking Evil
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: BBB
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Pay half your life, rounded up: Lurking Evil becomes a 4/4
creature with flying that counts as a Horror.
Flavor Text: "Ash is our air, darkness our flesh."
-Phyrexian Scriptures
Artist: Scott Kirschner
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Mana Leech
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Worm
Cost: 2B
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: You may choose not to untap Mana Leech during your untap phase.
TAP: Tap target land. As long as Mana Leech remains tapped,
that land does not untap during its controller's untap phase.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Mark Nelson
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Meltdown
Color: Red
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: XR
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Destroy each artifact with total casting cost X or less.
Flavor Text: Catastrophes happened so often at the mana rig that the viashino
language had a special word to describe them.
Artist: Donato Giancola
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Metrognome
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 4
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When a spell or ability one of your opponents controls
causes you to discard Metrognome, put four Gnome tokens
into play. Treat these tokens as 1/1 artifact creatures.
4, TAP: Put a Gnome token into play. Treat this token as
a 1/1 artifact creature.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Jeff Laubenstein
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Midsummer Revel
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 3GG
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on
Midsummer Revel.
G, Sacrifice Midsummer Revel: Put X Beast tokens into play,
where X is the number of verse counters on Midsummer
Revel. Treat these tokens as 3/3 green creatures.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Steve Firchow
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Mishra's Helix
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 5
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: X, TAP: Tap X lands.
Flavor Text: The helix was the finest example of Mishra's campaign
strategy: if he couldn't have Argoth, no one could.
Artist: Berry
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Mobile Fort
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact Creature
Cost: 4
Pow/Tgh: 0/6
Card Text: Mobile Fort counts as a Wall. (Walls cannot attack.)
3: Mobile Fort gets +3/-1 until end of turn and can attack
this turn as though it were not a Wall. Play this ability
only once each turn.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Mark Tedin
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Monk Idealist
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Cleric
Cost: 2W
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: When Monk Idealist comes into play, return target enchantment
card from your graveyard to your hand.
Flavor Text: "Belief is the strongest mortar."
Artist: Daren Bader
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Monk Realist
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Cleric
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: When Monk Realist comes into play, destroy target enchantment.
Flavor Text: "We plant the seeds of doubt to harvest the crop of wisdom."
Artist: Daren Bader
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Morphling
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Shapeshifter
Cost: 3UU
Pow/Tgh: 3/3
Card Text: U: Untap Morphling.
U: Morphling gains flying until end of turn.
U: Morphling cannot be the target of spells or abilities
until end of turn. 1: Morphling gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
1: Morphling gets -1/+1 until end of turn.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: rk post
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Mountain (4 Versions)
Color: Land
Card Type: Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: TAP: Add R to your mana pool.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: John Avon
Rarity: Land
Card Title: No Rest for the Wicked
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Sacrifice No Rest for the Wicked: Return to your hand all
creature cards put into your graveyard from play this turn.
Flavor Text: "The soul? Here, we have no use for such frivolities."
-Sitrik, birth priest
Artist: Carl Critchlow
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Noetic Scales
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 4
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During each player's upkeep, return to owner's hand each
creature that player controls with power greater than the
number of cards in his or her hand.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Andrew Robinson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Okk
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Goblin
Cost: 1R
Pow/Tgh: 4/4
Card Text: Okk cannot attack unless a creature with greater power
also attacks.
Okk cannot block unless a creature with greater power
also blocks.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Mike Raabe
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Opal Acrolith
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever one of your opponents successfully casts a creature
spell, if Opal Acrolith is an enchantment, Opal Acrolith
becomes a 2/4 creature that counts as a Guardian.
0: Opal Acrolith becomes an enchantment.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Robh Ruppel
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Opal Archangel
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 4W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When one of your opponents successfully casts a creature
spell, if Opal Archangel is an enchantment, Opal Archangel
becomes a 5/5 creature with flying that counts as an Angel.
Attacking does not cause Opal Archangel to tap.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Jeff Miracola
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Opal Caryatid
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When one of your opponents successfully casts a creature
spell, if Opal Caryatid is an enchantment, Opal Caryatid
becomes a 2/2 creature that counts as a Soldier.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Berry
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Opal Gargoyle
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When one of your opponents successfully casts a creature
spell, if Opal Gargoyle is an enchantment, Opal Gargoyle
becomes a 2/2 creature with flying that counts as a Gargoyle.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Kev Walker
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Opal Titan
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2WW
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When one of your opponents successfully casts a creature spell,
if Opal Titan is an enchantment, Opal Titan becomes a 4/4
creature with protection from each of that spell's colors and
that counts as a Giant.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Paolo Parente
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Oppression
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1BB
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever a player successfully casts a spell, that player
chooses and discards a card.
Flavor Text: "Do not presume to speak for yourself."
-Gix, to Xantcha
Artist: Pete Venters
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Order of Yawgmoth
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Knight
Cost: 2BB
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Order of Yawgmoth cannot be blocked except by artifact
creatures and black creatures.
Whenever Order of Yawgmoth successfully deals damage to a
player, that player chooses and discards a card.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Chippy
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Outmaneuver
Color: Red
Card Type: Instant
Cost: XR
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: X target blocked creatures deal combat damage to defending
player instead of to blocking creatures this turn.
Flavor Text: "Push one goblin into sight, an' run a lot. That's tactics."
-Jula, goblin raider
Artist: Greg Staples
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Pacifism
Color: White
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted creature cannot attack or block.
Flavor Text: "Fight? I cannot. I do not care if I live or die, so long
as I can rest."
-Urza, to Serra
Artist: Randy Gallegos
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Parasitic Bond
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 3B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller,
Parasitic Bond deals 2 damage to that player.
Flavor Text: "All bonds are parasitic. Only rulership is pure."
-Gix, Yawgmoth praetor
Artist: Scott Kirschner
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Pariah
Color: White
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 2W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Redirect to enchanted creature all damage dealt to you.
Flavor Text: "It is not sad," Radiant chided the lesser angel. "It is
right. Every society must have its outcasts."
Artist: Jon J Muth
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Path of Peace
Color: White
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 3W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Destroy target creature. That creature's owner gains 4 life.
Flavor Text: "When the sword becomes a burden, let the warrior lay it
aside that another with a truer heart might take it up."
-Radiant, archangel
Artist: Val Mayerik
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Pegasus Charger
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Pegasus
Cost: 2W
Pow/Tgh: 2/1
Card Text: Flying, first strike
Flavor Text: "The clouds came alive and dove to the earth! Hooves flashed
among the dark army, who fled before the spectacle of fury."
-Song of All, canto 211
Artist: Val Mayerik
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Pendrell Drake
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Drake
Cost: 3U
Pow/Tgh: 2/3
Card Text: Flying
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your
hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: The mages of Tolaria found strange ways to spend their free
time. Occasionally they had contests to see whose kite was
eaten last.
Artist: Jeff Miracola
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Pendrell Flux
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted creature gains "During your upkeep, pay this
creature's casting cost or sacrifice it."
Flavor Text: Devoured by the mists, Tolaria was stuck in time, trapped
between two eternal heartbeats.
Artist: Andrew Robinson
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Peregrine Drake
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Drake
Cost: 4U
Pow/Tgh: 2/3
Card Text: Flying
When Peregrine Drake comes into play, untap up to five lands.
Flavor Text: That the Tolarian mists parted for the drakes was warning
enough to stay away.
Artist: Bob Eggleton
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Persecute
Color: Black
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 2BB
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Choose a color. Look at target player's hand. That player
discards all cards of the chosen color.
Flavor Text: "My finest warrior was lost to the Phyrexians. I pray that
Lady Selenia died honorably."
-Radiant, archangel
Artist: D. Alexander Gregory
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Pestilence
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2BB
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: At the end of each turn, if no creatures are in play,
sacrifice Pestilence.
B: Pestilence deals 1 damage to each creature and player.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Pete Venters
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Phyrexian Colossus
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact Creature
Cost: 7
Pow/Tgh: 8/8
Card Text: Phyrexian Colossus does not untap during your untap phase.
Pay 8 life: Untap Phyrexian Colossus. Phyrexian Colossus
cannot be blocked by fewer than three creatures.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Mark Tedin
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Phyrexian Ghoul
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Zombie
Cost: 2B
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Sacrifice a creature: Phyrexian Ghoul gets +2/+2 until end
of turn.
Flavor Text: Phyrexia wastes nothing. Its food chain is a spiraling cycle.
Artist: Pete Venters
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Phyrexian Processor
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 4
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When Phyrexian Processor comes into play, pay any amount
of life.
4, TAP: Put a Minion token into play. Treat this token as
a black creature with power and toughness each equal to
the amount of life paid at the time Phyrexian Processor
came into play.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Ron Spencer
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Phyrexian Tower
Color: Land
Card Type: Legendary Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: TAP: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.
TAP, Sacrifice a creature: Add BB to your mana pool.
Flavor Text: Living metal encasing dying flesh.
Artist: Chippy
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Pit Trap
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 2
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 2, TAP, Sacrifice Pit Trap: Destroy target attacking creature
without flying. That creature cannot be regenerated this turn.
Flavor Text: Yotian soldiers were designed to fight, not watch their feet.
Artist: Brian Snoddy
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Plains (4 Versions)
Color: Land
Card Type: Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: TAP: Add W to your mana pool.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Rob Alexander
Rarity: Land
Card Title: Planar Birth
Color: White
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Put all basic lands from all graveyards into play under their
owners' control, tapped.
Flavor Text: "From womb of nothingness sprang this place of beauty,
purity, and hope realized."
-Song of All, canto 3
Artist: Adam Rex
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Planar Void
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever a card is put into a graveyard, remove that card
from the game.
Flavor Text: "Planeswalking isn't about walking. It's about falling
and screaming."
-Xantcha, Phyrexian outcast
Artist: Andrew Goldhawk
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Polluted Mire
Color: Land
Card Type: Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Polluted Mire comes into play tapped.
TAP: Add B to your mana pool.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your
hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Stephen Daniele
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Pouncing Jaguar
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Cat
Cost: G
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent comes
under your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.)
Flavor Text: One pounce, she's hungry - you die quickly. Two, she's
teaching her cubs - you're in for a long day.
Artist: Daren Bader
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Power Sink
Color: Blue
Card Type: Interrupt
Cost: XU
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Counter target spell unless its caster pays an additional
X. If he or she does not, tap all mana-producing lands
that player controls and remove all mana from his or her
mana pool.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Andrew Robinson
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Power Taint
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchant Enchantment
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During the upkeep of enchanted enchantment's controller, that
player pays 2 or loses 2 life.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Brian Snoddy
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Presence of the Master
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 3W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever a player plays an enchantment spell, counter it.
Flavor Text: Peace to all. Peace be all.-Great Hall floor inscription
Artist: Ciruelo
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Priest of Gix
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Minion
Cost: 2B
Pow/Tgh: 2/1
Card Text: When Priest of Gix comes into play, add BBB to your mana pool.
Flavor Text: "Gix doesn't want a people to rule but puppets to entertain
his madness."
-Xantcha, Phyrexian outcast
Artist: Brian Despain
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Priest of Titania
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Elf
Cost: 1G
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: TAP: Add G to your mana pool for each Elf in play. Play
this ability as a mana source.
Flavor Text: Titania rewards all those who honor the forest by making
them a living part of it.
Artist: Rebecca Guay
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Purging Scythe
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 5
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, Purging Scythe deals 2 damage to the
creature with the lowest toughness. If two or more creatures
are tied for the lowest toughness, you decide to which
creature Purging Scythe deals damage.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Matthew Wilson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Rain of Filth
Color: Black
Card Type: Instant
Cost: B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Each land you control gains "Sacrifice this land: Add B to
your mana pool" until end of turn.
Flavor Text: "When I say it rained, it was not small drops, but a thick,
greasy drool pouring from the heavens."
-Urza, journal
Artist: Stephen Daniele
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Rain of Salt
Color: Red
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 4RR
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Destroy two target lands.
Flavor Text: Here, rain does not wash the land; it desiccates it.
Artist: Adam Rex
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Ravenous Skirge
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Imp
Cost: 2B
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: Flying
Whenever Ravenous Skirge attacks, it gets +2/+0 until
end of turn.
Flavor Text: Hunger is a kind of madness-and here, all madness flourishes.
Artist: Ron Spencer
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Raze
Color: Red
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: At the time you play Raze, sacrifice a land.
Destroy target land.
Flavor Text: The viashino believe that the oldest mountains hate
everyone equally.
Artist: Mike Raabe
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Recantation
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 3UU
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Recantation.
U, Sacrifice Recantation: Return up to X target permanents
to owner's hand, where X is the number of verse counters
on Recantation.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Greg Simanson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Reclusive Wight
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Minion
Cost: 3B
Pow/Tgh: 4/4
Card Text: During your upkeep, if you control any other nonland permanents,
sacrifice Reclusive Wight.
Flavor Text: There are places so horrible that even the dead hide their faces.
Artist: Vincent Evans
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Redeem
Color: White
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Prevent all damage to one or two creatures. (Treat further
damage normally.)
Flavor Text: "That they are saved from death is immaterial. What is
important is that they know the source of their benefaction."
-Radiant, archangel
Artist: D. Alexander Gregory
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Reflexes
Color: Red
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted creature gains first strike.
Flavor Text: "Here's how ya win. Don't let the other guy hit back first."
-Jula, goblin raider
Artist: Steve White
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Rejuvenate
Color: Green
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 3G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Gain 6 life.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Greg Simanson
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Remembrance
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 3W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever a nontoken creature you control is put into a
graveyard, you may search your library for a copy of that
creature card. If you do, reveal the card, put it into your
hand, and shuffle your library afterward.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Val Mayerik
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Remote Isle
Color: Land
Card Type: Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Remote Isle comes into play tapped.
TAP: Add U to your mana pool.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Ciruelo
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Reprocess
Color: Black
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 2BB
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Sacrifice any number of artifacts, creatures, and/or lands
and draw a card for each one sacrificed this way.
Flavor Text: Everything will find its use in Phyrexia. Eventually.
Artist: Mark Tedin
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Rescind
Color: Blue
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 1UU
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Return target permanent to owner's hand.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Adam Rex
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Retaliation
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Each creature you control gains "Whenever a creature blocks
it, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn."
Flavor Text: A foul, metallic stench clogged Urza's senses. It was then
he knew his brother was no more.
Artist: Tom Fleming
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Retromancer
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Viashino
Cost: 2RR
Pow/Tgh: 3/3
Card Text: Whenever Retromancer is the target of a spell or ability,
Retromancer deals 3 damage to that spell or ability's controller.
Flavor Text: "If one harm us, strike them in return. So sayeth the bey."
Artist: Robh Ruppel
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Rewind
Color: Blue
Card Type: Interrupt
Cost: 2UU
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.
Flavor Text: "Time flows like a river. In Tolaria we practice the art
of building dams."
- Barrin, master wizard
Artist: Dermot Power
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Rumbling Crescendo
Color: Red
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 3RR
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on
Rumbling Crescendo.
R, Sacrifice Rumbling Crescendo: Destroy up to X target lands,
where X is the number of verse counters on Rumbling Crescendo.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Lawrence Snelly
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Rune of Protection: Artifacts
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: W: Prevent all damage to you from an artifact source. (Treat
further damage from that source normally.)
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Scott M. Fischer
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Rune of Protection: Black
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: W: Prevent all damage to you from a black source. (Treat
further damage from that source normally.)
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Scott M. Fischer
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Rune of Protection: Blue
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: W: Prevent all damage to you from a blue source. (Treat
further damage from that source normally.)
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Scott M. Fischer
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Rune of Protection: Green
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: W: Prevent all damage to you from a green source. (Treat
further damage from that source normally.)
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Scott M. Fischer
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Rune of Protection: Lands
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: W: Prevent all damage to you from a land source. (Treat
further damage from that source normally.)
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Scott M. Fischer
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Rune of Protection: Red
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: W: Prevent all damage to you from a red source. (Treat
further damage from that source normally.)
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Scott M. Fischer
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Rune of Protection: White
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: W: Prevent all damage to you from a white source. (Treat
further damage from that source normally.)
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Scott M. Fischer
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Sanctum Custodian
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Cleric
Cost: 2W
Pow/Tgh: 1/2
Card Text: TAP: Prevent up to 2 damage to a creature or player.
Flavor Text: Serra told them to guard Urza as he healed. Five years they stood.
Artist: Paolo Parente
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Sanctum Guardian
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Soldier
Cost: 1WW
Pow/Tgh: 1/4
Card Text: Sacrifice Sanctum Guardian: Prevent all damage to a creature
or player from one source. (Treat further damage from that
source normally.)
Flavor Text: "Protect our mother in her womb."
Artist: Donato Giancola
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Sandbar Merfolk
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Merfolk
Cost: U
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your
hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: You are not prey until a predator knows of your existence.
Artist: rk post
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Sandbar Serpent
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Serpent
Cost: 4U
Pow/Tgh: 3/4
Card Text: Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your
hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: eacherous and unpredictable currents around Tolaria earned
the nickname "serpent wakes."
Jim Nelson
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Sanguine Guard
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Knight
Cost: 1BB
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: First strike
1B: Regenerate Sanguine Guard.
Flavor Text: "Father of Machines! Your filigree gaze carves us, and the
scars dance upon our grateful flesh."-Phyrexian Scriptures
Artist: Kev Walker
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Scald
Color: Red
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever a player taps an island for mana, Scald deals 1
damage to that player.
Flavor Text: "Shiv may be surrounded by water, but the mountains go
far deeper."
-Fire Eye, viashino bey
Artist: Adam Rex
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Scoria Wurm
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Wurm
Cost: 4R
Pow/Tgh: 7/7
Card Text: During your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, return
Scoria Wurm to owner's hand.
Flavor Text: Late at night, ululations echo from deep under Shiv, as the
wurms sing of times older than humanity.
Artist: Steve Firchow
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Scrap
Color: Red
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 2R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Destroy target artifact.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Donato Giancola
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Seasoned Marshal
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Soldier
Cost: 2WW
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Whenever Seasoned Marshal attacks, you may tap target creature.
Flavor Text: There are only two rules of tactics: never be without a plan,
and never rely on it.
Artist: Matthew Wilson
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Serra Avatar
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Avatar
Cost: 4WWW
Pow/Tgh: */*
Card Text: Serra Avatar has power and toughness each equal to your
life total.
When Serra Avatar is put into a graveyard, shuffle Serra
Avatar into owner's library.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Dermot Power
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Serra Zealot
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Soldier
Cost: W
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: First strike
Flavor Text: "The humans are useful in their way, but they must be
commanded as the builder commands the stone. Be soft with
them, and they will become soft."
-Radiant, archangel
Artist: DiTerlizzi
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Serra's Embrace
Color: White
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 2WW
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying.
Attacking does not cause enchanted creature to tap.
Flavor Text: Lifted beyond herself, for that battle Brindri was an
angel of light and fury."
-Song of All, canto 524
Artist: Terese Nielsen
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Serra's Hymn
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on
Serra's Hymn.
Sacrifice Serra's Hymn: Prevent up to X damage total to any
number of creatures and/or players, where X is the number of
verse counters on Serra's Hymn.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Rebecca Guay
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Serra's Liturgy
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2WW
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on
Serra's Liturgy.
W, Sacrifice Serra's Liturgy: Destroy up to X target
artifacts and/or enchantments, where X is the number of
verse counters on Serra's Liturgy.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: rk post
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Serra's Sanctum
Color: Land
Card Type: Legendary Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: TAP: Add W to your mana pool for each enchantment you control.
Flavor Text: A fragile cocoon of dreaming will.
Artist: Ciruelo
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Shimmering Barrier
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Wall
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: 1/3
Card Text: (Walls cannot attack.)
First strike
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: D. Alexander Gregory
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Shiv's Embrace
Color: Red
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 2RR
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying.
R: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Flavor Text: "Wear the foe's form to best it in battle. So sayeth the bey."
Artist: Bob Eggleton
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Shivan Gorge
Color: Land
Card Type: Legendary Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: TAP: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool.
2R, TAP: Shivan Gorge deals 1 damage to each of your opponents.
Flavor Text: Both forge and pyre.
Artist: John Matson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Shivan Hellkite
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Dragon
Cost: 5RR
Pow/Tgh: 5/5
Card Text: Flying
1R: Shivan Hellkite deals 1 damage to target creature
or player.
Flavor Text: A dragon's scale can be carved into a mighty shield, provided
you can procure a dragontooth to cut it.
Artist: Bob Eggleton
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Shivan Raptor
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Lizard
Cost: 2R
Pow/Tgh: 3/1
Card Text: First strike; echo (During your next upkeep after this
permanent comes under your control, pay its casting cost
or sacrifice it.)
Shivan Raptor is unaffected by summoning sickness.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Bob Eggleton
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Show and Tell
Color: Blue
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 2U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Each player may choose an artifact, creature, enchantment,
or land card in his or her hand and put that permanent into play.
Flavor Text: At the academy, "show and tell" too often becomes "run and hide."
Artist: Jeff Laubenstein
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Shower of Sparks
Color: Red
Card Type: Instant
Cost: R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Shower of Sparks deals 1 damage to target creature and 1
damage to target player.
Flavor Text: The viashino had learned how to operate the rig through
trial and error - mostly error.
Artist: Christopher Moeller
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Sicken
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted creature gets -1/-1.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your
hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: Urza dared to attack Phyrexia. Slowly, it retaliated.
Artist: Heather Hudson
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Silent Attendant
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Cleric
Cost: 2W
Pow/Tgh: 0/2
Card Text: TAP: Gain 1 life.
Flavor Text: "The answer to life should never be death; it should always
be more life, wrapped tight around us like precious silks."
Artist: Rebecca Guay
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Skirge Familiar
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Imp
Cost: 4B
Pow/Tgh: 3/2
Card Text: Flying
Choose and discard a card: Add B to your mana pool. Play this
ability as a mana source.
Flavor Text: The first Yawgmoth priest to harness their power was rewarded
with several unique mutilations.
Artist: Ron Spencer
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Skittering Skirge
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Imp
Cost: BB
Pow/Tgh: 3/2
Card Text: Flying
When you successfully cast a creature spell, sacrifice
Skittering Skirge.
Flavor Text: The imps' warbling cries echo through Phyrexia's towers
like those of mourning doves in a cathedral.
Artist: Ron Spencer
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Sleeper Agent
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Minion
Cost: B
Pow/Tgh: 3/3
Card Text: When Sleeper Agent comes into play, target opponent gains
control of it. During your upkeep, Sleeper Agent deals 2
damage to you.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Randy Gallegos
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Slippery Karst
Color: Land
Card Type: Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Slippery Karst comes into play tapped.
TAP: Add G to your mana pool.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Stephen Daniele
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Smokestack
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 4
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on Smokestack.
During each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent
for each soot counter on Smokestack.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Scott Kirschner
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Smoldering Crater
Color: Land
Card Type: Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Smoldering Crater comes into play tapped.
TAP: Add R to your mana pool.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Mark Tedin
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Sneak Attack
Color: Red
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 3R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: R: Choose a creature card from your hand and put that
creature into play. The creature is unaffected by summoning
sickness. At end of turn, sacrifice the creature.
Flavor Text: "Nothin' beat surprise-'cept rock."
Artist: Jerry Tiritilli
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Somnophore
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Illusion
Cost: 2UU
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Flying
Whenever Somnophore successfully deals damage to a player,
tap target creature that player controls. That creature does
not untap during its controller's untap phase as long as
Somnophore remains in play.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Andrew Robinson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Songstitcher
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Cleric
Cost: W
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: 1W: Target attacking creature with flying deals no combat
damage this turn.
Flavor Text: The true names of birds are songs woven into their souls.
Artist: Berry
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Soul Sculptor
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Townsfolk
Cost: 2W
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: 1W, TAP: Target creature becomes an enchantment and loses all
abilities until a player successfully casts a creature spell.
Flavor Text: Does the stone mimic life, or did it once live?
Artist: Ciruelo
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Spined Fluke
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Horror
Cost: 2B
Pow/Tgh: 5/1
Card Text: When Spined Fluke comes into play, sacrifice a creature.
B: Regenerate Spined Fluke.
Flavor Text: Its spines are prized as writing quills by the priests of Gix.
Artist: Mark Nelson
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Spire Owl
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Bird
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: Flying
When Spire Owl comes into play, look at the top four cards
of your library and put them back in any order.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Steve Firchow
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Sporogenesis
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 3G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, you may put a fungus counter on target
nontoken creature.
Whenever a creature with a fungus counter on it is put into
a graveyard, put a Saproling token into play for each of
those fungus counters. Treat these tokens as 1/1 green creatures.
When Sporogenesis leaves play, remove all fungus counters from
all creatures.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Ron Spencer
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Spreading Algae
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchant Land
Cost: G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Play Spreading Algae only on a swamp.
When enchanted land becomes tapped, destroy that land.
When Spreading Algae is put into a graveyard from play, return
Spreading Algae to owner's hand.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Stephen Daniele
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Steam Blast
Color: Red
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 2R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Steam Blast deals 2 damage to each creature and player.
Flavor Text: The viashino knew of the cracked pipes but deliberately
left them unmended to bolster the rig's defenses.
Artist: Mike Raabe
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Stern Proctor
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Wizard
Cost: UU
Pow/Tgh: 1/2
Card Text: When Stern Proctor comes into play, return target artifact or
enchantment to owner's hand.
Flavor Text: "I preferred the harsh tutors-they made mischief all
the more fun."
-Teferi, third-level student
Artist: Randy Gallegos
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Stroke of Genius
Color: Blue
Card Type: Instant
Cost: X2U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Target player draws X cards.
Flavor Text: After a hundred failed experiments, Urza was stunned to find
that common silver passed through the portal undamaged. He
immediately designed a golem made of the metal.
Artist: Stephen Daniele
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Sulfuric Vapors
Color: Red
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 3R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever a red spell deals damage, it instead deals that
amount of damage plus 1.
Flavor Text: It was the dragons who first learned to chase their prey
into the vapors before igniting them.
Artist: Lawrence Snelly
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Sunder
Color: Blue
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 3UU
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Return all lands to owners' hands.
Flavor Text: The flow of time was disrupted; like a flooding river it
rose from its banks. Tolaria was drowned in an instant
that stretched toward infinity.
Artist: Stephen Daniele
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Swamp (4 Versions)
Color: Land
Card Type: Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: TAP: Add B to your mana pool.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: John Avon
Rarity: Land
Card Title: Symbiosis
Color: Green
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 1G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Two target creatures each get +2/+2 until end of turn.
Flavor Text: Although the elves of Argoth always considered them a nuisance,
the pixies made fine allies during the war against the machines.
Artist: Jeff Miracola
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Tainted Ęther
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2BB
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever a creature comes into play, its controller sacrifices
a creature or land.
Flavor Text: Gix despised the sylvan morass. The gouge that the portal had
torn in the forest was the only pleasing sight.
Artist: Thomas M. Baxa
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Telepathy
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Each of your opponents plays with his or her hand revealed.
Flavor Text: "The most disappointing thing about learning telepathy is
finding out how boring people really are."
-Teferi, fourth-level student
Artist: Matthew Wilson
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Temporal Aperture
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 2
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 5, TAP: Shuffle your library and reveal the top card. Until end
of turn, as long as that card remains on top of your library,
you may play the card as though it were in your hand without
paying its casting cost. (If the spell has X in its casting
cost, X is 0.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Michael Sutfin
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Thran Quarry
Color: Land
Card Type: Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: At the end of each turn, if you control no creatures,
sacrifice Thran Quarry.
TAP: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Michael Sutfin
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Thran Turbine
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 1
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, you may add up to two colorless mana to
your mana pool. This mana cannot be spent to play spells.
Flavor Text: When Urza asked the viashino what it did, they
answered: "It hums."
Artist: Brian Snoddy
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Thundering Giant
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Giant
Cost: 3RR
Pow/Tgh: 4/3
Card Text: Thundering Giant is unaffected by summoning sickness.
Flavor Text: The giant was felt a few seconds before he was seen.
Artist: Mark Zug
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Time Spiral
Color: Blue
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 4UU
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Remove Time Spiral from the game. Each player shuffles his
or her graveyard and hand into his or her library, then
draws seven cards. You untap up to six lands.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Michael Sutfin
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Titania's Boon
Color: Green
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 3G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Flavor Text: When the winds rock the trees, listen for voices in the
creaking of the trunks. If you hear your name, you are one
of the Goddess's chosen.
Artist: Val Mayerik
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Titania's Chosen
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Elf
Cost: 2G
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: Whenever a player successfully casts a green spell, put a
+1/+1 counter on Titania's Chosen.
Flavor Text: "What do a hero and an arrow have in common? In times of
war are many more made."
-Elvish riddle
Artist: Mark Zug
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Tolarian Academy
Color: Land
Card Type: Legendary Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: TAP: Add U to your mana pool for each artifact you control.
Flavor Text: The academy worked with time-until time ran out.
Artist: Stephen Daniele
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Tolarian Winds
Color: Blue
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Discard your hand, then draw that many cards.
Flavor Text: Afterward, Tolaria's winds were like the whispers of lost
wizards, calling for life.
Artist: Lawrence Snelly
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Torch Song
Color: Red
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on
Torch Song.
2R, Sacrifice Torch Song: Torch Song deals X damage to
target creature or player, where X is the number of verse
counters on Torch Song.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Thomas M. Baxa
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Treefolk Seedlings
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Treefolk
Cost: 2G
Pow/Tgh: 2/*
Card Text: Treefolk Seedlings has toughness equal to the number of
forests you control.
Flavor Text: The year that the brothers landed on Argoth, the trees
produced five times as many seeds as normal.
Artist: John Matson
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Treetop Rangers
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Elves
Cost: 2G
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Treetop Rangers cannot be blocked except by creatures
with flying.
Flavor Text: "If you can't catch them, cut the trees down from beneath
them. Force them to fight on our terms."
-Mishra
Artist: Daren Bader
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Turnabout
Color: Blue
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 2UU
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Tap or untap all artifacts, creatures, or lands target
player controls.
Flavor Text: The best cure for a big ego is a little failure.
Artist: Heather Hudson
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Umbilicus
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 4
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During each player's upkeep, that player pays 2 life or returns
a permanent he or she controls to owner's hand.
Flavor Text: It was the explorers' only tether to reality.
Artist: Dermot Power
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Unnerve
Color: Black
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 3B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Each of your opponents chooses and discards two cards.
Flavor Text: "If fear is the only tool you have left, then you'll
never control me."
-Xantcha, to Gix
Artist: Terese Nielsen
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Unworthy Dead
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Skeletons
Cost: 1B
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: B: Regenerate Unworthy Dead.
Flavor Text: "Great Yawgmoth moves across the seas of shard and bone and
rust. We exalt him in life, in death, and in between."
-Phyrexian Scriptures
Artist: Carl Critchlow
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Urza's Armor
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 6
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever a source deals damage to you, that damage is
reduced by 1.
Flavor Text: "Tawnos's blueprints were critical to the creation of my
armor. As he once sealed himself in steel, I sealed myself
in a walking crypt."
-Urza
Artist: rk post
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Vampiric Embrace
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 2BB
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying.
Whenever a creature successfully dealt damage by enchanted
creature this turn is put into a graveyard, put a +1/+1
counter on enchanted creature.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Thomas M. Baxa
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Vebulid
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Horror
Cost: B
Pow/Tgh: 0/0
Card Text: Vebulid comes into play with one +1/+1 counter on it.
During your upkeep, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Vebulid.
When Vebulid attacks or blocks, destroy it at end of combat.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Ron Spencer
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Veil of Birds
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When one of your opponents successfully casts a spell, if
Veil of Birds is an enchantment, Veil of Birds becomes a 1/1
creature with flying that counts as a Bird.
Flavor Text: When wind marries sky, even the bride's veil sings her praises.
Artist: Heather Hudson
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Veiled Apparition
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When one of your opponents successfully casts a spell, if
Veiled Apparition is an enchantment, Veiled Apparition
becomes a 3/3 creature with flying and "During your upkeep,
pay 1U or sacrifice Veiled Apparition" and that counts as
an Illusion.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Andrew Robinson
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Veiled Crocodile
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When a player has no cards in hand, if Veiled Crocodile is
an enchantment, Veiled Crocodile becomes a 4/4 creature that
counts as a Crocodile.
Flavor Text: Some roads are paved with bad intentions.
Artist: Paolo Parente
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Veiled Sentry
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When one of your opponents successfully casts a spell, if
Veiled Sentry is an enchantment, Veiled Sentry becomes a
creature with power and toughness each equal to the total
casting cost of that spell and that counts as an Illusion.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Ron Spears
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Veiled Serpent
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: When one of your opponents successfully casts a spell, if
Veiled Serpent is an enchantment, Veiled Serpent becomes a
4/4 creature that cannot attack unless defending player
controls an island and that counts as a Serpent.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your
hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Bob Eggleton
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Venomous Fangs
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 2G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever enchanted creature successfully deals damage to a
creature, destroy that creature.
Flavor Text: All the pain of the shattered forest contained in a
single drop.
Artist: Lawrence Snelly
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Vernal Bloom
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 3G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever a forest is tapped for mana, it produces an
additional G.
Flavor Text: Many cultures have legends of a lush, hidden paradise.
The elves of Argoth had no need of such stories.
Artist: Bob Eggleton
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Viashino Outrider
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Viashino
Cost: 2R
Pow/Tgh: 4/3
Card Text: Echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent comes under
your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.)
Flavor Text: "Give thy ration to thy mount, if the road be long. So sayeth the
bey."
Artist: Ciruelo
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Viashino Runner
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Viashino
Cost: 3R
Pow/Tgh: 3/2
Card Text: Viashino Runner cannot be blocked by only one creature.
Flavor Text: "It moved this way, an' that way, an' then before I could
stick it, it jumped over my head an' was gone."
-Jula, goblin raider
Artist: Steve White
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Viashino Sandswimmer
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Viashino
Cost: 2RR
Pow/Tgh: 3/2
Card Text: R: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, return Viashino
Sandswimmer to owner's hand. Otherwise, sacrifice
Viashino Sandswimmer.
Flavor Text: Few swim in a place of such thirst.
Artist: Pete Venters
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Viashino Weaponsmith
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Viashino
Cost: 3R
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Whenever a creature blocks it, Viashino Weaponsmith gets
+2/+2 until end of turn.
Flavor Text: Within the rig settlement, those who have mastered the making
of weapons earn highest honor.
Artist: Dermot Power
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Victimize
Color: Black
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 2B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice
a creature. If you do, put the two chosen creatures into
play tapped.
Flavor Text: The priest cast Xantcha to the ground. "It is defective.
We must scrap it."
Artist: Val Mayerik
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Vile Requiem
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2BB
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on
Vile Requiem.
1B, Sacrifice Vile Requiem: Destroy up to X target nonblack
creatures, where X is the number of verse counters on Vile
Requiem. Those creatures cannot be regenerated this turn.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Carl Critchlow
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Voice of Grace
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Angel
Cost: 3W
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Flying, protection from black
Flavor Text: "Opposite Law is Grace, and Grace must be preserved. If the
strands of Grace are unraveled, its design will be lost,
and the people with it."
-Song of All, canto 167
Artist: Jeff Miracola
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Voice of Law
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Angel
Cost: 3W
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Flying, protection from red
Flavor Text: "Life's balance is as a star: on one point is Law, and Law
must be upheld. If the knots of order are loosened, chaos
will spill through."
-Song of All, canto 167
Artist: Mark Zug
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Voltaic Key
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 1
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 1, TAP: Untap target artifact.
Flavor Text: The key did not work on a single lock, yet it opened many doors.
Artist: Henry G. Higgenbotham
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Vug Lizard
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Lizard
Cost: 1RR
Pow/Tgh: 3/4
Card Text: Echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent comes under
your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.)
Mountainwalk (If defending player controls a mountain, this
creature is unblockable.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Heather Hudson
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Wall of Junk
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact Creature
Cost: 2
Pow/Tgh: 0/7
Card Text: Whenever Wall of Junk blocks, return it to owner's hand at
end of combat.
Flavor Text: Urza saw the wall and realized that even if he tore every
Phyrexian to pieces, they would still resist him.
Artist: Adam Rex
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: War Dance
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: During your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on War Dance.
Sacrifice War Dance: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of
turn, where X is the number of verse counters on War Dance.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Terese Nielsen
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Waylay
Color: White
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 2W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Put three Knight tokens into play. Treat these tokens as 2/2
white creatures. Remove them from the game at end of turn.
Flavor Text: "You reek of corruption," spat the knight. "Why are you
even here?"
Artist: Greg Staples
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Western Paladin
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Knight
Cost: 2BB
Pow/Tgh: 3/3
Card Text: BB, TAP: Destroy target white creature.
Flavor Text: "Their weak laws. Their flawed systems. They inhibit the Grand
Evolution. In Yawgmoth's name, we shall erase them."
-Oath of the West
Artist: Carl Critchlow
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Whetstone
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 3
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 3: Each player puts the top two cards of his or her library
into his or her graveyard.
Flavor Text: To hone swords and dull minds.-Whetstone inscription
Artist: Greg Simanson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Whirlwind
Color: Green
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 2GG
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Destroy all creatures with flying.
Flavor Text: Urza tried to rule the air, but Gaea taught him that she
controlled all the elements.
Artist: John Matson
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Wild Dogs
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Hounds
Cost: G
Pow/Tgh: 2/1
Card Text: During your upkeep, if a player has more life than any other,
that player gains control of Wild Dogs.
Cycling 2 (You may pay 2 and discard this card from your hand
to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Terese Nielsen
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Wildfire
Color: Red
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 4RR
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Each player sacrifices four lands, then Wildfire deals 4
damage to each creature.
Flavor Text: "Shiv hatched from a shell of stone around a yolk of flame."
-Viashino myth
Artist: Carl Critchlow
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Windfall
Color: Blue
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 2U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Each player discards his or her hand and draws cards equal
to the greatest number a player discarded this way.
Flavor Text: "To fill your mind with knowledge, we must start by
emptying it."
-Barrin, master wizard
Artist: Pete Venters
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Winding Wurm
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Wurm
Cost: 4G
Pow/Tgh: 6/6
Card Text: Echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent comes
under your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.)
Flavor Text: Entire trees were stripped of their bark and branches by
the wurm's writhing path.
Artist: DiTerlizzi
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Wirecat
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact Creature
Cost: 4
Pow/Tgh: 4/3
Card Text: Wirecat cannot attack or block if an enchantment is in play.
Flavor Text: Its purr is the sound of iron filings sliding down satin.
Artist: Michael Sutfin
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Witch Engine
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Horror
Cost: 5B
Pow/Tgh: 4/4
Card Text: Swampwalk (If defending player controls a swamp, this creature
is unblockable.)
TAP: Add BBBB to your mana pool. Target opponent gains control
of Witch Engine. (Play this ability as an instant.)
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Kev Walker
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Wizard Mentor
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Wizard
Cost: 2U
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: TAP: Return Wizard Mentor and target creature you control to
owner's hand.
Flavor Text: Although some of the students quickly grasped the concept,
the others could summon only blackboards.
Artist: Jeff Miracola
Rarity: Common
Card Title: Worn Powerstone
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 3
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Worn Powerstone comes into play tapped.
TAP: Add two colorless mana to your mana pool. Play this
ability as a mana source.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Henry G. Higgenbotham
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Worship
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 3W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1
instead reduces it to 1 if you control a creature.
Flavor Text: "Believe in the ideal, not the idol."
-Serra
Artist: Mark Zug
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Yawgmoth's Edict
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever one of your opponents successfully casts a white
spell, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Flavor Text: "Phyrexia's purity permits no other."
-Xantcha, Phyrexian outcast
Artist: Scott Kirschner
Rarity: Uncommon
Card Title: Yawgmoth's Will
Color: Black
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 2B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Until end of turn, you may play cards in your graveyard as
though they were in your hand. Cards put into your graveyard
this turn are removed from the game instead.
Flavor Text: n/a
Artist: Ron Spencer
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Zephid
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Illusion
Cost: 4UU
Pow/Tgh: 3/4
Card Text: Flying
Zephid cannot be the target of spells or abilities.
Flavor Text: Once you've seen one, you'll understand why spells won't
go near them.
Artist: Daren Bader
Rarity: Rare
Card Title: Zephid's Embrace
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 2UU
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, gains flying, and cannot
be the target of spells or abilities.
Flavor Text: Spells will shun you, as will everyone else.
Artist: Daren Bader
Rarity: Uncommon
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