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A Magic The Gathering card: Animar, Soul of Elements (2022), Art by Filip Burburan, Card text: Protection from white and from black Whenever you cast a creature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Animar. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each +1/+1 counter on Animar.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Briarberry Cohort (2008), Art by Carl Critchlow, Card text: Flying This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control another blue creature., "A clique can cause far more mischief than one faerie on its own."
A Magic The Gathering card: Goblin Grenade (1994), Art by Dan Frazier, Card text: As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a Goblin. Goblin Grenade deals 5 damage to any target., "I don't suppose we could teach them to *throw* the cursed things?" —Ivra Jursdotter
A Magic The Gathering card: Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge (2022), Art by Ryan Pancoast, Card text: Menace Other legendary creatures you control have menace. Whenever you play a legendary land or cast a legendary spell, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Instill Energy (1995), Art by Dameon Willich, Card text: Enchant creature Enchanted creature can attack as though it had haste. {0}: Untap enchanted creature. Activate only during your turn and only once each turn.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Frostbridge Guard (2023), Art by Paul Scott Canavan, Card text: {2}{W}, {T}: Tap target creature., "The sentry watched impassively, its spear unmoving. One by one, the would-be adventurers stumbled and fell, frostbitten, to the ground."
A Magic The Gathering card: Volcanic Spray (2001), Art by Matt Cavotta, Card text: Volcanic Spray deals 1 damage to each creature without flying and each player. Flashback {1}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.),
A Magic The Gathering card: Fertilid (2017), Art by Wayne Reynolds, Card text: This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {1}{G}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Target player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Bounce Chamber (2022), Art by Dmitry Burmak, Card text: Visit — Return a creature you don't control with the lowest toughness among creatures you don't control to its owner's hand. (If multiple creatures are tied, choose any one of them.), "It recreates the peaceful feeling of floating freely in space, just without all that boring peacefulness."
A Magic The Gathering card: Wicker Picker (2022), Art by Igor Grechanyi, Card text: Creature spells you cast have sticker kicker {1}. (You may pay an additional {1} as you cast a creature spell. If you do, you get {TK}, then you may put a sticker on it.), "Unless you're quicker, I wouldn't snicker."
A Magic The Gathering card: Ezekiel Sims, Spider-Totem (2025), Art by Wei Guan, Card text: Reach At the beginning of combat on your turn, target Spider you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn., "For all his wealth and power, there is a fear deep inside Ezekiel that spurs him to train others."
A Magic The Gathering card: Tsunami (1994), Art by Richard Thomas, Card text: Destroy all Islands.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Thran Golem (2016), Art by Ron Spears, Card text: As long as this creature is enchanted, it gets +2/+2 and has flying, first strike, and trample., "The golems of the ancient Thran still draw power in ways that baffle the artificers of today."
A Magic The Gathering card: Strip Mine (1994), Art by Daniel Gelon, Card text: {T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land., "Unlike previous conflicts, the war between Urza and Mishra made Dominia itself a casualty of war."
A Magic The Gathering card: Tainted Strike (2010), Art by James Ryman, Card text: Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.), "Welcome to perfection." —Sheoldred, Whispering One
A Magic The Gathering card: Final-Word Phantom (2024), Art by Anthony Devine, Card text: Flash Flying During each opponent's end step, you may cast spells as though they had flash., "Just one more thing . . ."
A Magic The Gathering card: Spirit Cairn (2002), Art by Gary Ruddell, Card text: Whenever a player discards a card, you may pay {W}. If you do, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying., "It marks the border between here and hereafter."
A Magic The Gathering card: Defense Grid (2016), Art by Jonas De Ro, Card text: Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn., "Woven together, strands of aether can form a mesh of surprising stability, though such a network tends to pull power from nearby devices." —Consulate engineer's log
A Magic The Gathering card: Quantum Riddler (2025), Art by Cacho Rubione, Card text: Flying When this creature enters, draw a card. As long as you have one or fewer cards in hand, if you would draw one or more cards, you draw that many cards plus one instead. Warp {1}{U},
A Magic The Gathering card: Crush Dissent (2019), Art by Mike Bierek, Card text: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}. Amass Zombies 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.), "All I ask is complete obedience." —Nicol Bolas
A Magic The Gathering card: Daysquad Marshal (2020), Art by Micah Epstein, Card text: When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token., "The night emboldens many monsters, but the mightiest will attack in broad daylight."
A Magic The Gathering card: Avian Changeling (2024), Art by Heather Hudson, Card text: Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Flying, "Today it flies with the flock. Tomorrow it may wake to find them gone, its body in an unfamiliar form."
A Magic The Gathering card: Basal Thrull (1994), Art by Kaja Foglio, Card text: {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Add {B}{B}., "Initially bred for sacrifice, the Thrulls eventually turned on their masters, the Order of the Ebon Hand, with gruesome results. —*Sarpadian Empires, vol. II*"
A Magic The Gathering card: Aura Mutation (2022), Art by Olivier Bernard, Card text: Destroy target enchantment. Create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is that enchantment's mana value., "Nature has a way of adapting to and overcoming any force that seeks its end." —Vivien Reid
A Magic The Gathering card: Troll of Khazad-dûm (2023), Art by Simon Dominic, Card text: This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures. Swampcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.), "A great cave-troll, I think. There is no hope of escape that way." —Gandalf
A Magic The Gathering card: Izoni, Center of the Web (2024), Art by Marko Manev, Card text: Menace Whenever Izoni enters or attacks, you may collect evidence 4. If you do, create two 2/1 black and green Spider creature tokens with menace and reach. Sacrifice four tokens: Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You gain 2 life.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Inspiring Statuary (2025), Art by Andreia Ugrai, Card text: Nonartifact spells you cast have improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast those spells. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.), "Man thinks very highly of himself." —Barret Wallace
A Magic The Gathering card: Disrupting Scepter (1994), Art by Dan Frazier, Card text: {3}, {T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Patron of the Valiant (2015), Art by Steve Argyle, Card text: Flying When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it., "Bant's most gallant knights wear my sigil, and for that I am humbled."
A Magic The Gathering card: Hand of Death (2024), Art by Heather Hudson, Card text: Destroy target nonblack creature., "The touch of death is never gentle."
A Magic The Gathering card: Alchemist's Retrieval (2024), Art by David Auden Nash, Card text: Cleave {1}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Return target nonland permanent [you control] to its owner's hand., "To most, a terrifying apparition. To a necro-alchemist, a potent fuel source."
A Magic The Gathering card: Skyfisher Spider (2024), Art by Henry Peters, Card text: Reach When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target nonland permanent. When this creature dies, you may gain 1 life for each creature card in your graveyard. If you do, exile this card from your graveyard.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Nightveil Specter (2013), Art by Steven Belledin, Card text: Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with this creature.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Thermo-Alchemist (2022), Art by Raymond Swanland, Card text: Defender {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, untap this creature., "Madness can't touch a mind ignited by genius."
A Magic The Gathering card: Tremor (1998), Art by Pete Venters, Card text: Tremor deals 1 damage to each creature without flying., "One little goblin shook up the ground. When the dust cleared, no one was found."
A Magic The Gathering card: Breath of Darigaaz (2011), Art by Greg Hildebrandt & Tim Hildebrandt, Card text: Kicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell.) Breath of Darigaaz deals 1 damage to each creature without flying and each player. If this spell was kicked, it deals 4 damage to each creature without flying and each player instead.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Glarb, Calamity's Augur (2024), Art by Bram Sels, Card text: Deathtouch You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells with mana value 4 or greater from the top of your library. {T}: Surveil 2.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Fetid Imp (2022), Art by Nils Hamm, Card text: Flying {B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.), "Many deaths are distasteful, but only a few are truly repugnant."
A Magic The Gathering card: Golgari Germination (2005), Art by Thomas M. Baxa, Card text: Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token., "The Golgari don't bury their dead. They plant them."
A Magic The Gathering card: Savageborn Hydra (2019), Art by Raymond Swanland, Card text: Double strike This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {1}{R/G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Panic Spellbomb (2014), Art by Franz Vohwinkel, Card text: {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature can't block this turn. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {R}. If you do, draw a card.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Terror (2023), Art by Adam Rex, Card text: Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Mystic Barrier (2013), Art by Matt Stewart, Card text: When this enchantment enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, choose left or right. Each player may attack only the nearest opponent in the last chosen direction and planeswalkers controlled by that opponent.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Foundry Inspector (2016), Art by Jason A. Engle, Card text: Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast., "Automaton inspectors ensure that the Consulate's stringent standards for mass production are upheld."
A Magic The Gathering card: Pillar of the Paruns (2006), Art by Dany Orizio, Card text: {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a multicolored spell., "Built on the very ground where the Ten signed the Guildpact, the tower is a monument to the past and a reminder of who holds power in the present."
A Magic The Gathering card: Fiendish Duo (2021), Art by Lucas Graciano, Card text: First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) If a source would deal damage to an opponent, it deals double that damage to that player instead., "大きさは半分、悪事は二倍。"
A Magic The Gathering card: Thancred Waters (2025), Art by Wisnu Tan, Card text: Flash Royal Guard — When Thancred Waters enters, another target legendary permanent you control gains indestructible for as long as you control Thancred Waters. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Thancred Waters gains indestructible until end of turn.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Shiko, Paragon of the Way (2025), Art by Dibujante Nocturno, Card text: Flying, vigilance When Shiko enters, exile target nonland card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. Copy it, then you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.),
A Magic The Gathering card: Golgari Rot Farm (2024), Art by John Avon, Card text: This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{G}.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Cosmos Charger (2021), Art by Nils Hamm, Card text: Flash Flying Foretelling cards from your hand costs {1} less and can be done on any player's turn. Foretell {2}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.),
A Magic The Gathering card: Tomb of Annihilation (2021), Art by , Card text: Trapped Entry — Each player loses 1 life. (Leads to: Veils of Fear, Oubliette) Veils of Fear — Each player loses 2 life unless they discard a card. (Leads to: Sandfall Cell) Sandfall Cell — Each player loses 2 life unless they sacrifice a creature, artifact, or land of their choice. (Leads to: Cradle of the Death God) Oubliette — Discard a card and sacrifice a creature, an artifact, and a land. (Leads to: Cradle of the Death God) Cradle of the Death God — Create The Atropal, a legendary 4/4 black God Horror creature token with deathtouch.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Hunting Triad (2014), Art by Jim Nelson, Card text: Create three 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens. Reinforce 3—{3}{G} ({3}{G}, Discard this card: Put three +1/+1 counters on target creature.), "Eyeblights are easy to track. Just follow the imperfections."
A Magic The Gathering card: Ishkanah, Grafwidow (2016), Art by Christine Choi, Card text: Reach Delirium — When Ishkanah enters, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, create three 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach. {6}{B}: Target opponent loses 1 life for each Spider you control.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Magus of the Wheel (2019), Art by Carl Frank, Card text: {1}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards., "Fate is not as fixed as you might think."
A Magic The Gathering card: Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker (2021), Art by JungShan, Card text: Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice., "Michiko could not sit idly by while Kamigawa suffered for her father's actions."
A Magic The Gathering card: Crib Swap (2020), Art by Brandon Dorman, Card text: Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Exile target creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Korozda Guildmage (2012), Art by Ryan Pancoast, Card text: {1}{B}{G}: Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) {2}{B}{G}, Sacrifice a nontoken creature: Create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.,
A Magic The Gathering card: Survival Cache (2010), Art by Scott Chou, Card text: You gain 2 life. Then if you have more life than an opponent, draw a card. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.),
A Magic The Gathering card: Defiant Strike (2020), Art by Gabor Szikszai, Card text: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Draw a card., "My family was saved thanks to a single Boros soldier. It's why I joined the Legion. I will be the protector now."
A Magic The Gathering card: Swamp (2015), Art by Véronique Meignaud, Card text: ({T}: Add {B}.),