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.) Attacking does not cause Herald of Serra to tap. Flavor Text: n/a 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 Copyright 1998 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Wizards of the Coast, Magic, Magic: the Gathering, and Urza's Saga are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, Inc.