Mark Churchwell

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He/Him, Nerd?, curator of the Dream Chiseled Cube, Chromatic Karlach, and Elder Dinosaur Highlander.

Overgrown Estate {W}{B}{G} Enchantment Sacrifice a land: You gain 3 life. The decay of Crovax’s ancestral home matched the state of his soul. Illustrated by Brian Snõddy
Boseiju, Who Endures Legendary Land {T}: Add {G}. Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control. Illustrated by Chris Ostrowski
Beledros Witherbloom {5}{B}{G} Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon Flying At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with “When this token dies, you gain 1 life.” Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn. 4/4 Watermark: Witherbloom Illustrated by Raymond Swanland
Ghost Quarter Land {T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Upon scattering her grandmother’s ashes, the Envoy was bathed in a warm spectral glow. Illustrated by Sidharth Chaturvedi
Rites of Flourishing {2}{G} Enchantment At the beginning of each player’s draw step, that player draws an additional card. Each player may play an additional land on each of their turns. “Dance, and bring forth the coil! It is an umbilical to Gaea herself, fattening us with the earth’s rich bounty.” Illustrated by Brandon Kitkouski
Jocasta, Automaton Avenger {3} Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot Hero Flying Whenever your commander deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on Jocasta. Whenever you attack with your commander, if this card is in your graveyard, you may return it to the battlefield tapped and attacking. 2/2 Illustrated by Myles Wohl
Transmute Artifact {U}{U} Sorcery Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, search your library for an artifact card. If that card’s mana value is less than or equal to the sacrificed artifact’s mana value, put it onto the battlefield. If it’s greater, you may pay {X}, where X is the difference. If you do, put it onto the battlefield. If you don’t, put it into its owner’s graveyard. Then shuffle. Illustrated by Jason Felix Part of the Reserved List
Virtue of Loyalty {3}{W}{W} Enchantment At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Untap those creatures. Ardenvale Fealty {1}{W} Instant — Adventure Create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance. (Then exile this card. You may cast the enchantment later from exile.) Illustrated by Piotr Dura
Brushwagg {1}{G}{G} Creature — Brushwagg Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets -2/+2 until end of turn. “Defiantly, the young cyclops popped the brushwagg into his mouth. His cheeks suddenly puffed, his eye bulged, and he was forced to agree with his elder.” —Afari, Tales 3/2 Illustrated by Ian Miller Part of the Reserved List
Defenestrate {2}{B} Instant Destroy target creature without flying. The chaplain would perhaps have found some small comfort had he known that the replacement window would be named in his honor. Illustrated by Darek Zabrocki
Paras from Pokémon. A spider/crab with mushrooms on its back.
Blood Feud {4}{R}{R} Sorcery Target creature fights another target creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.) Succession is a matter of blood, and by blood it is often decided. Illustrated by Winona Nelson
Goblin Glasswright {1}{R} Creature — Goblin Sorcerer This creature enters prepared. (While it’s prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.) 2/2 Craft with Pride {R} Sorcery Create a Treasure token. (It’s an artifact with “{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.”) Illustrated by David Auden Nash
Endless Foot Assault {2}{W} Enchantment Squad {1}{W} (As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay {1}{W} any number of times. When this enchantment enters, create that many tokens that are copies of it.) Whenever you attack, for each opponent, create a 1/1 black Ninja creature token that’s tapped and attacking that player. Illustrated by Ryan Valle
Metamorphosis Fanatic {4}{B}{B} Creature — Human Cleric Lifelink When this creature enters, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lifelink counter on it. Miracle {1}{B} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it’s the first card you drew this turn.) 4/4 Illustrated by Andreas Zafiratos
Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury {3}{B}{R} Legendary Creature — Dragon Flying Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn. Dash {3}{B}{R} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it’s returned from the battlefield to its owner’s hand at the beginning of the next end step.) 4/5 Illustrated by Jaime Jones
Nezahal, Primal Tide {5}{U}{U} Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur This spell can’t be countered. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card. Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner’s control at the beginning of the next end step. 7/7 Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han
Add to Deck The Countdown Is at One {3}{R}{R} Sorcery Players play a Magic subgame, starting at 1 life and using their libraries as their decks. For the rest of the main game, if a source would deal damage to a player who didn’t win the subgame, it deals double that damage to that player instead. Watermark: League of Dastardly Doom Illustrated by Jesper Ejsing
Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho {3} Legendary Artifact — Equipment Equipped creature gets +3/+1. Whenever equipped creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control if it’s a Samurai card. When Oathkeeper is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile equipped creature. Equip {2} Illustrated by Arnie Swekel
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Sprout Swarm {1}{G} Instant Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature’s color.) Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. Illustrated by Chippy
“Witchcraft!”
Victimize {2}{B} Sorcery Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped. Illustrated by Kekai Kotaki
Ferropede {3} Artifact Creature — Insect This creature can’t be blocked. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a counter from target permanent. 1/1 Illustrated by Jeff Easley
Ghost Quarter Land {T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Upon scattering her grandmother’s ashes, the Envoy was bathed in a warm spectral glow. Illustrated by Sidharth Chaturvedi
Indominus Rex, Alpha {1}{U/B}{U/B}{G}{G} Legendary Creature — Dinosaur Mutant As Indominus Rex enters, discard any number of creature cards. It enters with a flying counter on it if a card discarded this way has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, hexproof, haste, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance. When Indominus Rex enters, draw a card for each counter on it. 6/6 Illustrated by Miro Petrov
Snow-Covered Island (White border + Snow Frame) Basic Snow Land — Island ({T}: Add {U}.) Illustrated by Franz Vohwinkel
Werefox Bodyguard {1}{W}{W} Creature — Elf Fox Knight Flash When this creature enters, exile up to one other target non-Fox creature until this creature leaves the battlefield. {1}{W}, Sacrifice this creature: You gain 2 life. 2/2 Illustrated by Néstor Ossandón Leal
Honor's Reward {2}{W} Instant You gain 4 life. Bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.) It seldom rains in Abzan lands. When it does, the khan marks the occasion by honoring the families of the fallen. Watermark: Abzan Illustrated by Izzy
Glittering Stockpile {2}{R} Artifact — Treasure {T}: Add {R}. Put a stash counter on this artifact. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of stash counters on this artifact. The only thing Ziatora desires is “more.” Illustrated by Brock Grossman
Stormscale Scion {4}{R}{R} Creature — Dragon Flying Other Dragons you control get +1/+1. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. Copies become tokens.) Dragons of Tarkir are born fully formed, roars blending with the storms as a single, inseparable voice. 4/4 Illustrated by Andrew Mar
Stormscale Scion {4}{R}{R} Creature — Dragon Flying Other Dragons you control get +1/+1. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. Copies become tokens.) Dragons of Tarkir are born fully formed, roars blending with the storms as a single, inseparable voice. 4/4 Illustrated by Andrew Mar
Zacama, Primal Calamity {6}{R}{G}{W} Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur Vigilance, reach, trample When Zacama enters, if you cast it, untap all lands you control. {2}{R}: Zacama deals 3 damage to target creature. {2}{G}: Destroy target artifact or enchantment. {2}{W}: You gain 3 life. 9/9 Illustrated by Jaime Jones
Game-Trail Changeling {3}{G}{G} Creature — Shapeshifter Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Trample “I pity them, never knowing the pleasures of a single familiar form, but at least they find a noble shape at times.” —Desmera, perfect of Wren’s Run 4/4 Illustrated by Martina Pilcerova
Dogged Detective {1}{B} Creature — Human Rogue When this creature enters, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand. 2/1 Illustrated by Caroline Gariba
Showdown of the Skalds {2}{R}{W} Enchantment — Saga (As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Exile the top four cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. II, III — Whenever you cast a spell this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Illustrated by Steven Belledin
Zask, Skittering Swarmlord {3}{G}{G} Legendary Creature — Insect You may play lands and cast Insect spells from your graveyard. Whenever another Insect you control dies, put it on the bottom of its owner’s library, then mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) {1}{B/G}: Target Insect gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. ({B/G} can be paid with either {B} or {G}.) 5/5 Illustrated by Alexander Ostrowski
A tracker for Indominus Rex Alpha's keyword counters. Featuring it's keywords, next to their Arena symbology.
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Sandstorm Verge Land — Desert {T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Target creature can’t block this turn. Activate only as a sorcery. “Ever been caught out in a storm like that? Think of it like drowning, but all the water is knives.” —Annie Flash Illustrated by Jorge Jacinto
Domanik Mayer Patreon Goblin Tokens
Warping Wail {1}{C} Instant ({C} represents colorless mana.) Choose one — • Exile target creature with power or toughness 1 or less. • Counter target sorcery spell. • Create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has “Sacrifice this token: Add {C}.” Illustrated by Jason Felix
Beledros Witherbloom {5}{B}{G} Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon Flying At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with “When this token dies, you gain 1 life.” Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn. 4/4 Watermark: Witherbloom Illustrated by Raymond Swanland
"Early" Cuyler, the father squid from Adult Swim show Squidbillies in one of his titular slogan hats. This one says "Your Dumbass Idea Here" with arrows pointing to every corner of the hat.
Galvanic Blast {R} Instant Galvanic Blast deals 2 damage to any target. Metalcraft — Galvanic Blast deals 4 damage instead if you control three or more artifacts. Mirrodin has little weather, but it certainly has lightning. Illustrated by Marc Simonetti
Avatar Aang {R}{G}{W}{U} Legendary Creature — Human Avatar Ally Flying, firebending 2 Whenever you waterbend, earthbend, firebend, or airbend, draw a card. Then if you’ve done all four this turn, transform Avatar Aang. “It’s easy to do nothing. It’s hard to forgive.” 4/4 Aang, Master of Elements Legendary Creature — Avatar Ally Flying Spells you cast cost {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} less to cast. At the beginning of each upkeep, you may transform Aang, Master of Elements. If you do, you gain 4 life, draw four cards, put four +1/+1 counters on him, and he deals 4 damage to each opponent. 6/6
Corporeal Projection {U}{R} Sorcery Target creature you control gains myriad until end of turn. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that’s tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Overload {3}{U}{U}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change “target” in its text to “each.”) Watermark: Izzet Illustrated by Anna Pavleeva
Nadier's Nightblade {2}{B} Creature — Elf Warrior Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. Checking around every corner doesn’t help if you forget to look up. 1/3 Illustrated by Randy Vargas
Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury {3}{B}{R} Legendary Creature — Dragon Flying Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn. Dash {3}{B}{R} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it’s returned from the battlefield to its owner’s hand at the beginning of the next end step.) 4/5 Watermark: Kolaghan Illustrated by Jaime Jones
Explorer {2}{G}{G} Creature — Insect Scout You may play an additional land on each of your turns. You may play lands from your graveyard. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, mill a card. “Come! Join me in the sun!” 2/4 Illustrated by Warren Mahy
A rocket flying through space with a man popping up and saying "Space Meat" from the TV show Invader Zim
Recycle {4}{G}{G} Enchantment Skip your draw step. Whenever you play a card, draw a card. Your maximum hand size is two. Illustrated by Phil Foglio Part of the Reserved List
Moraug, Fury of Akoum {4}{R}{R} Legendary Creature — Minotaur Warrior Each creature you control gets +1/+0 for each time it has attacked this turn. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, if it’s your main phase, there’s an additional combat phase after this phase. At the beginning of that combat, untap all creatures you control. 6/6 Illustrated by Dominik Mayer
Felidar Retreat {3}{W} Enchantment Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • Create a 2/2 white Cat Beast creature token. • Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn. Illustrated by Ralph Horsley
Llanowar Elves {G} Creature — Elf Druid {T}: Add {G}. The elves of the Llanowar forest have defended it for generations. It is their sacred duty to keep outside influences from corrupting their ancestral home. 1/1 Illustrated by Kev Walker