Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Alliances Card List (Released June 10th, 1996) 199 Cards Total (8 Lands, 26 Artifacts, 10 Multicolor, 31 White, 31 Green, 31 Red, 31 Black, 31 Blue) Explanation of Rarity: the number after the rarity (e.g.: Common 1), means that that card appears that many times on the print sheet. The following Card Lists are also available for Magic: The Gathering: Alpha/Beta/Unlimited, Promo Cards, Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, The Dark, Fallen Empires, Revised, 4th Edition, Ice Age, Chronicles, Homelands, Mirage, Visions, and 5th Edition. Mana Key: U - Blue, W - White, G - Green, B - Black, R - Red; Numbers - Colorless (Generic) Mana Note: n/a means "not applicable" Card Title: Aesthir Glider (2 versions) Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Creature Cost: 3 Pow/Tgh: 2/1 Card Text: Flying Cannot be assigned to block. Artist: Ruth Thompson Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Agent of Stromgald (2 versions) Color: Red Type: Summon Knight Cost: R Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Card Text: R: Add B to your mana pool. Play this ability as an interrupt. Artist: Alan Rabinowitz Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Arcane Denial (2 versions) Color: Blue Type: Interrupt Cost: 1U Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Counter target spell. That spell's caster may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. Artist: Richard Kane Ferguson Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Ashnod's Cylix Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Cost: 2 Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: 3, TAP: Target player looks at the top three cards of his or her library and puts one of them on top of that library. Remove the remaining two from the game. Artist: Nicola Leonard Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Astrolabe (2 versions) Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Cost: 3 Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: 1, TAP: Sacrifice Astrolabe to add two mana of any one color to your mana pool. Play this ability as an interrupt. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. Artist: Amy Weber Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Awesome Presence (2 versions) Color: Blue Type: Enchant Creature Cost: U Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Enchanted creature cannot be blocked unless defending player pays an additional 3 for each creature assigned to block enchanted creature. Artist: Lawrence Snelly Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Balduvian Dead Color: Black Type: Summon Zombies Cost: 3B Pow/Tgh: 2/3 Card Text: 2R: Remove target summon card in your graveyard from the game to put a Graveborn token into play. Treat this token as a 3/1 black and red creature that can attack the turn it comes into play. Bury Graveborn token at end of turn. Artist: Mike Kimble Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Balduvian Horde Color: Red Type: Summon Barbarians Cost: 2RR Pow/Tgh: 5/5 Card Text: When Balduvian Horde comes into play, discard a card at random from your hand or bury Balduvian Horde. Artist: Brian Snoddy Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Balduvian Trading Post Color: Land Type: Land Cost: n/a Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: When Balduvian Trading Post comes into play, sacrifice an untapped mountain or bury Balduvian Trading Post. TAP: Add 1R to your mana pool. 1, TAP: Balduvian Trading Post deals 1 damage to target attacking creature. Artist: Tom Wanerstrand Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Balduvian War-Makers (2 versions) Color: Red Type: Summon Barbarians Cost: 4R Pow/Tgh: 3/3 Card Text: Rampage: 1 Balduvian War-Makers can attack the turn it comes into play on your side. Artist: Mike Kimble Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Benthic Explorers (2 versions) Color: Blue Type: Summon Merfolk Cost: 3U Pow/Tgh: 2/4 Card Text: TAP: Untap target tapped land an opponent controls to add one mana of any type that land produces to your mana pool. Artist: Greg Simanson Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Bestial Fury (2 versions) Color: Red Type: Enchant Creature Cost: 2R Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Draw a card at the beginning of the upkeep of the turn after Bestial Fury comes into play. If enchanted creature attacks and is blocked, it gains trample and gets +4/+0 until end of turn. Artist: Mike Raabe Rarity: Common 2 Card Title: Bounty of the Hunt Color: Green Type: Instant Cost: 3GG Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: You may remove a green card in your hand from the game instead of paying Bounty of the Hunt's casting cost. Put three +1/+1 counters, distributed any way you choose, on any number of target creatures. Remove these counters at end of turn. Artist: Jeff A. Menges Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Browse Color: Blue Type: Enchantment Cost: 2UU Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: 2UU: Look at the top five cards of your library and put one of them into your hand. Remove the remaining four from the game. Artist: Phil Foglio Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Burnout Color: Red Type: Interrupt Cost: 1R Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Counter target interrupt spell if it is blue. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. Artist: Mike Raabe Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Carrier Pigeons (2 versions) Color: White Type: Summon Pigeons Cost: 3W Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Card Text: Flying Draw a card at the beginning of the upkeep of the turn after Carrier Pigeons comes into play. Artist: Pat Morrissey Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Casting of Bones (2 versions) Color: Black Type: Enchant Creature Cost: 2B Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: If enchanted creature is put into the graveyard, draw three cards. Choose and discard one of those cards. Artist: Anson Maddocks Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Chaos Harlequin Color: Red Type: Summon Harlequin Cost: 2RR Pow/Tgh: 2/4 Card Text: R: Remove the top card of your library from the game. If that card is a land, Chaos Harlequin gets -4/-0 until end of turn; otherwise, Chaos Harlequin gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Artist: Alan Rabinowitz Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Contagion Color: Black Type: Instant Cost: 3BB Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: You may pay 1 life and remove a black card in your hand from the game instead of paying Contagion's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Put two -2/-1 counters, distributed any way you choose, on any number of target creatures. Artist: Mike Raabe Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Deadly Insect (2 versions) Color: Green Type: Summon Insect Cost: 4G Pow/Tgh: 6/1 Card Text: Cannot be the target of spells or effects. Artist: Scott Kirschner Rarity: Uncommon 3 Card Title: Death Spark Color: Red Type: Instant Cost: R Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Death Spark deals 1 damage to target creature or player. At the end of your upkeep, if Death Spark is in your graveyard with a creature card directly above it, you may pay 1 to put Death Spark into your hand. Artist: Mark Tedin Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Diminishing Returns Color: Blue Type: Sorcery Cost: 2UU Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Each player shuffles his or her hand and graveyard into his or her library. Remove the top ten cards of your library from the game. Each player draws up to seven cards. Artist: L.A. Williams Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Diseased Vermin Color: Black Type: Summon Rats Cost: 2B Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Card Text: During your upkeep, Diseased Vermin deals 1 damage to a single target opponent it has previously damaged for each infection counter on Diseased Vermin. If Diseased Vermin damages a player in combat, put an infection counter on it. Artist: Scott Kirschner Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Dystopia Color: Black Type: Enchantment Cost: 1BB Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Cumulative Upkeep: 1 life During each player's upkeep, if that player controls any green or white permanents, he or she sacrifices a green or white permanent. Artist: Ruth Thompson Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Elvish Bard Color: Green Type: Summon Elf Cost: 3GG Pow/Tgh: 2/4 Card Text: All creatures able to block Elvish Bard do so. If this forces a creature to block more attackers than allowed, defending player assigns that creature to block as many of those attackers as allowed. Artist: Susan Van Camp Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Elvish Ranger (2 versions) Color: Green Type: Summon Elf Cost: 2G Pow/Tgh: 4/1 Card Text: n/a Artist: Terese Nielsen Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Elvish Spirit Guide Color: Green Type: Summon Spirit Cost: 2G Pow/Tgh: 2/2 Card Text: If Elvish Spirit Guide is in your hand, you may remove it from the game to add G to your mana pool. Play this ability as an interrupt. Artist: Julie Baroh Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Energy Arc Color: Multi-Color Type: Instant Cost: WU Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Untap any number of target creatures. Those creatures neither deal nor receive damage in combat this turn. Artist: Terese Nielsen Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Enslaved Scout (2 versions) Color: Red Type: Summon Goblin Cost: 2R Pow/Tgh: 2/2 Card Text: 2: Mountainwalk until end of turn Artist: Rebecca Guay Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Errand of Duty (2 versions) Color: White Type: Instant Cost: 1W Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Put a Knight token into play. Treat this token as a 1/1 white creature with banding. Artist: Julie Baroh Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Exile Color: White Type: Instant Cost: 2W Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Remove target non-white attacking creature from the game. Gain life equal to that creature's toughness. Artist: Rob Alexander Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: False Demise (2 versions) Color: Blue Type: Enchant Creature Cost: 2U Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: If enchanted creature is put into the graveyard, return that creature to play under your control as though it were just cast. Artist: Randy Gallegos Rarity: Uncommon 3 Card Title: Fatal Lore Color: Black Type: Sorcery Cost: 2BB Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Target opponent chooses one: you draw three cards; or you choose and bury up to two target creatures that opponent controls and he or she draws up to three cards. Artist: Lawrence Snelly Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Feast or Famine (2 versions) Color: Black Type: Instant Cost: 3B Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Bury target non-black, non-artifact creature or put a Zombie token into play. Treat this token as a 2/2 black creature. Artist: Pete Venters Rarity: Uncommon 3 Card Title: Fevered Strength (2 versions) Color: Black Type: Instant Cost: 2B Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. Artist: Brian Snoddy Rarity: Common 2/1 Card Title: Floodwater Dam Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Cost: 3 Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: XX1, TAP: Tap X target lands. Artist: Randy Gallegos Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Force of Will Color: Blue Type: Interrupt Cost: 3UU Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell. Artist: Terese Nielsen Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Foresight (2 versions) Color: Blue Type: Sorcery Cost: 1U Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Search your library for any three cards and remove them from the game. Shuffle your library afterwards. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. Artist: Terese Nielsen Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Fyndhorn Druid (2 versions) Color: Green Type: Summon Druid Cost: 2G Pow/Tgh: 2/2 Card Text: If Fyndhorn Druid is put into the graveyard the same turn it was blocked, gain 4 life. Artist: Rob Alexander Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Gargantuan Gorilla Color: Green Type: Summon Gorilla Cost: 4GGG Pow/Tgh: 7/7 Card Text: During your upkeep, sacrifice a forest, or bury Gargantuan Gorilla and Gargantuan Gorilla deals 7 damage to you. If you sacrifice a snow-covered forest in this way, Gargantuan Gorilla gains trample until end of turn. TAP: Gargantuan Gorilla deals an amount of damage equal to its power to any other target creature. That creature deals an amount of damage equal to its power to Gargantuan Gorilla. Artist: Greg Simanson Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Gift of the Woods (2 versions) Color: Green Type: Enchant Creature Cost: G Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: If enchanted creature blocks or is blocked by any creatures, enchanted creature gets +0/+3 until end of turn and you gain 1 life. Artist: Susan Van Camp Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Gorilla Berserkers (2 versions) Color: Green Type: Summon Gorillas Cost: 3GG Pow/Tgh: 2/3 Card Text: Trample, rampage: 2 Cannot be blocked by fewer than three creatures. Artist: John Matson Rarity: Common 2/1 Card Title: Gorilla Chieftain (2 versions) Color: Green Type: Summon Gorilla Cost: 2GG Pow/Tgh: 3/3 Card Text: 1G: Regenerate Artist: Quinton Hoover Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Gorilla Shaman (2 versions) Color: Red Type: Summon Gorilla Cost: R Pow/Tgh: n/a1/1 Card Text: XX1: Destroy target non-creature artifact with casting cost equal to X. Artist: Anthony Waters Rarity: Uncommon 3/2 Card Title: Gorilla War Cry (2 versions) Color: Red Type: Instant Cost: 1R Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Attacking creatures cannot be blocked by only one creature this turn. Play only during combat before defense is chosen. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. Artist: Bryon Wackwitz Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Guerrilla Tactics (2 versions) Color: Red Type: Instant Cost: 1R Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Guerrilla Tactics deals 2 damage to target creature or player. If a spell or effect controlled by an opponent causes you to discard Guerrilla Tactics from your hand, reveal Guerrilla Tactics to all players, and it deals 4 damage to target creature or player. Artist: Randy Asplund-Faith Rarity: Common 2/1 Card Title: Gustha's Scepter Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Cost: 0 Card Text: If Gustha's Scepter leaves play or you lose control of it, put all cards under Gustha's Scepter into your graveyard. TAP: Put any card from your hand face down under Gustha's Scepter. You may look at that card at any time. TAP: Return any card under Gustha's Scepter to your hand. Artist: Sandra Everingham Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Hail Storm Color: Green Type: Instant Cost: 1GG Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Hail Storm deals 2 damage to each attacking creature and 1 damage to you and each creature you control. Artist: Jeff A. Menges Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Heart of Yavimaya Color: Land Type: Land Cost: n/a Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: When Heart of Yavimaya comes into play, sacrifice a forest or bury Heart of Yavimaya. TAP: Add G to your mana pool. TAP: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Artist: Pete Venters Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Helm of Obedience Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Cost: 4 Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: X, TAP: Put the top card of target opponent's library into his or her graveyard. Continue doing this until you have put X cards or a creature card into that graveyard, whichever occurs first. If the last card put into the graveyard is a creature card, bury Helm of Obedience and put that creature into play under your control as though it were just cast. X cannot be equal to 0. Artist: Brian Snoddy Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Inheritance Color: White Type: Enchantment Cost: W Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: 3: Draw a card. Use this ability only when a creature is put into the graveyard from play, and only once for each creature put into the graveyard. Artist: Kaja Foglio Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Insidious Bookworms (2 versions) Color: Black Type: Summon Worms Cost: B Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Card Text: 1B: Target player discards a card at random from his or her hand. Use this ability only when Insidious Bookworms is put into the graveyard from play. You cannot spend more than 1B in this way each turn. Artist: Greg Simanson Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Ivory Gargoyle Color: White Type: Summon Gargoyle Cost: 4W Pow/Tgh: 2/2 Card Text: Flying If Ivory Gargoyle is put into the graveyard from play, put it into play under owner's control at end of turn and skip your next draw phase. 4W: Remove Ivory Gargoyle from the game. Artist: Quinton Hoover Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Juniper Order Advocate Color: White Type: Summon Knight Cost: 2W Pow/Tgh: 1/2 Card Text: As long as Juniper Order Advocate is untapped, all green creatures you control get +1/+1. Artist: Douglas Shuler Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Kaysa Color: Green Type: Summon Legend Cost: 3GG Pow/Tgh: 2/3 Card Text: All green creatures you control get +1/+1. Artist: Rebecca Guay Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Keeper of Tresserhorn Color: Black Type: Summon Keeper Cost: 5B Pow/Tgh: 6/6 Card Text: If Keeper of Tresserhorn attacks and is not blocked, it deals no damage to defending player this turn and that player loses 2 life. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Artist: Z. Plucinski and Artist: D.A. Gregory Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Kjeldoran Escort (2 versions) Color: White Type: Summon Soldier Cost: 2WW Pow/Tgh: 2/3 Card Text: Banding Artist: Bryon Wackwitz Rarity: Common 2/1 Card Title: Kjeldoran Home Guard Color: White Type: Summon Soldier Cost: 3W Pow/Tgh: 1/6 Card Text: At the end of any combat in which Kjeldoran Home Guard attacked or blocked, put a -0/-1 counter on Kjeldoran Home Guard and put a Deserter token into play. Treat this token as a 0/1 white creature. Artist: Andi Rusu Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Kjeldoran Outpost Color: Land Type: Land Cost: n/a Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: When Kjeldoran Outpost comes into play, sacrifice a plains or bury Kjeldoran Outpost. TAP: Add W to your mana pool. 1W, TAP: Put a Soldier token into play. Treat this token as a 1/1 white creature. Artist: Jeff A. Menges Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Kjeldoran Pride (2 versions) Color: White Type: Enchant Creature Cost: 1W Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Enchanted creature gets +1/+2. 2U: Switch Kjeldoran Pride from creature it enchants to another creature. Kjeldoran Pride's new target must be legal. Treat Kjeldoran Pride as though it were just cast on the new target. Artist: Kaja Foglio Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Krovikan Horror Color: Black Type: Summon Horror Cost: 3B Pow/Tgh: 2/2 Card Text: At the end of any turn, if Krovikan Horror is in your graveyard with a summon card directly above it, you may put Krovikan Horror into your hand. 1: Sacrifice a creature to have Krovikan Horror deal 1 damage to target creature or player. Artist: Christopher Rush Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Krovikan Plague Color: Black Type: Enchant Creature Cost: 2B Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Play on a non-wall creature you control.Draw a card at the beginning of the upkeep of the turn after Krovikan Plague comes into play. 0: Tap enchanted creature to have Krovikan Plague deal 1 damage to target creature or player. Put a -0/-1 counter on enchanted creature. Artist: Liz Danforth Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Lake of the Dead Color: Land Type: Land Cost: n/a Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: When Lake of the Dead comes into play, sacrifice a swamp or bury Lake of the Dead. TAP: Add B to your mana pool. TAP: Sacrifice a swamp to add BBBB to your mana pool. Artist: Pete Venters Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Lat-Nam's Legacy (2 versions) Color: Blue Type: Instant Cost: 1U Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Choose a card from your hand and shuffle that card into your library to draw two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. Artist: Tom Wanerstrand Rarity: Common 1 u Card Title: Library of Lat-Nam Color: Blue Type: Sorcery Cost: 4U Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Target opponent chooses one: you draw three cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep; or you search your library for a card, put it into your hand, and then shuffle your library. Artist: Alan Rabinowitz Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Lim-Dul's High Guard (2 versions) Color: Black Type: Summon Skeleton Cost: 1BB Pow/Tgh: 2/1 Card Text: First strike 1B: Regenerate Artist: Anson Maddocks Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Lim-Dul's Paladin Color: Multi-Color Type: Summon Paladin Cost: 2BR Pow/Tgh: 0/3 Card Text: Trample Card Text: During your upkeep, choose and discard a card from your hand, or bury Lim-Dul's Paladin and draw a card. If any creatures are assigned to block it, Lim-Dul's Paladin gets +6/+3 until end of turn. If Lim-Dul's Paladin attacks and is not blocked, it deals no damage to defending player this turn and that player loses 4 life. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Artist: Christopher Rush Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Lim-Dul's Vault Color: Multi-Color Type: Instant Cost: UB Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life to put those cards on the bottom of your library and look at the top five cards of your library. Shuffle all but the top five cards of your library; put those five on top of your library in any order. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Artist: Rob Alexander Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Lodestone Bauble Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Cost: 0 Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: 1, TAP: Sacrifice Lodestone Bauble to put up to four target basic lands from any player's graveyard on top of his or her library in any order. That player draws a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. Artist: Douglas Shuler Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Lord of Tresserhorn Color: Multi-Color Type: Summon Legend Cost: 1UBR Pow/Tgh: 10/4 Card Text: When Lord of Tresserhorn comes into play, pay 2 life and sacrifice two creatures, and target opponent draws two cards. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. B: Regenerate Artist: Anson Maddocks Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Martyrdom (2 versions) Color: White Type: Instant Cost: 1WW Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Until end of turn, you may redirect to target creature you control any amount of damage. Artist: Mark Poole Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Misfortune Color: Multi-Color Type: Sorcery Cost: 1BRG Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Target opponent chooses one: you put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and gain 4 life; or you put a -1/-1 counter on each creature that opponent controls and Misfortune deals 4 damage to him or her. Artist: Ron Spencer Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Mishra's Groundbreaker Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Cost: 4 Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: TAP: Sacrifice Mishra's Groundbreaker. Target land becomes a 3/3 artifact creature.That creature still counts as a land. Artist: Randy Gallegos Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Misinformation Color: Black Type: Instant Cost: B Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Put up to three target cards from an opponent's graveyard on top of his or her library in any order. Artist: Richard Kane Ferguson Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Mystic Compass Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Cost: 2 Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: 1, TAP: Target mana-producing land becomes a basic land type of your choice until end of turn. Artist: Amy Weber Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Nature's Blessing Color: Multi-Color Type: Enchantment Cost: 2WG Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: WG: Choose and discard a card from your hand to have target creature gain banding, first strike, or trample or get a +1/+1 counter. Artist: Sandra Everingham Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Nature's Chosen Color: Green Type: Enchant Creature Cost: G Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Play on a creature you control. 0: Untap enchanted creature. Use this ability only during your turn and only once each turn. 0: Tap enchanted creature to untap target artifact, creature, or land. Use this ability only if enchanted creature is white and only once each turn. Artist: Rebecca Guay Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Nature's Wrath Color: Green Type: Enchantment Cost: 4GG Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: During your upkeep, pay G or bury Nature's Wrath. Whenever a player puts a swamp or black permanent into play, he or she sacrifices a swamp or black permanent. Whenever a player puts an island or a blue permanent into play, he or she sacrifices an island or a blue permanent. Artist: Liz Danforth Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Noble Steeds (2 versions) Color: White Type: Enchantment Cost: 2W Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: 1W: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn. Artist: Rebecca Guay Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Omen of Fire Color: Red Type: Instant Cost: 3RR Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Return all islands to their owners' hands. Each player sacrifices a plains or a white permanent for each white permanent he or she controls. Artist: Pete Venters Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Phantasmal Fiend (2 versions) Color: Black Type: Summon Phantasm Cost: 3B Pow/Tgh: 1/5 Card Text: B: +1/-1 until end of turn 1U: Switch Phantasmal Fiend's power and toughness until end of turn. Effects that alter Phantasmal Fiend's power alter its toughness instead, and vice versa. Artist: Scott Kirschner Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Phantasmal Sphere Color: Blue Type: Summon Phantasm Cost: 1U Pow/Tgh: 0/1 Card Text: Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on Phantasmal Sphere. During your upkeep, pay 1 for each of these +1/+1 counters or bury Phantasmal Sphere. If Phantasmal Sphere leaves play, put an Orb token into play under target opponent's control. Treat this token as a */* blue creature with flying, where * is equal to the number of these +1/+1 counters on Phantasmal Sphere. Artist: Mark Tedin Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Phelddagrif Color: Multi-Color Type: Summon Legend Cost: 1WUG Pow/Tgh: 4/4 Card Text: W: Flying until end of turn. Target opponent gains 2 life. U: Return Phelddagrif to owner's hand. Target opponent may draw a card. G: Trample until end of turn. Put a Hippo token into play under target opponent's control. Treat this token as a 1/1 green creature. Artist: Amy Weber Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Phyrexian Boon (2 versions) Color: Black Type: Enchant Creature Cost: 2B Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: As long as enchanted creature is black, it gets +2/+1; otherwise, it gets -1/-2. Artist: Mark Tedin Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Phyrexian Devourer Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Creature Cost: 6 Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Card Text: If Phyrexian Devourer's power is 7 or greater, bury it. 0: Remove the top card of your library from the game to put a +X/+X counter on Phyrexian Devourer, where X is equal to that card's casting cost. Artist: Mark Tedin Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Phyrexian Portal Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Cost: 3 Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: 3: Target opponent looks at the top ten cards of your library and separates them into two face-down piles. Choose one of those piles and remove it from the game. Search the remaining pile and put one of those cards into your hand. Shuffle the remaining cards into your library. Ignore this effect if you have fewer than ten cards in your library. Artist: Pete Venters Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Phyrexian War Beast (2 versions) Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Creature Cost: 3 Pow/Tgh: 3/4 Card Text: If Phyrexian War Beast leaves play, sacrifice a land, and Phyrexian War Beast deals 1 damage to you. Artist: Bill Sienkiewicz Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Pillage Color: Red Type: Sorcery Cost: 1RR Card Text: Bury target artifact or land. Artist: Richard Kane Ferguson Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Primitive Justice Color: Red Type: Sorcery Cost: 1R Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Destroy target artifact. Destroy a target artifact for each 1R you pay in addition to the casting cost. Destroy a target artifact and gain 1 life for each 1G you pay in addition to the casting cost. Artist: Anthony Waters Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Pyrokinesis Color: Red Type: Instant Cost: 4RR Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: You may remove a red card in your hand from the game instead of paying Pyrokinesis's casting cost. Pyrokinesis deals 4 damage, divided any way you choose among any number of target creatures. Artist: Ron Spencer Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Reinforcements (2 versions) Color: White Type: Instant Cost: W Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Put up to three target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library in any order. Artist: Diana Vick Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Reprisal (2 versions) Color: White Type: Instant Cost: 1W Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Bury target creature with power 4 or greater. Artist: Randy Asplund-Faith Rarity: Uncommon 3 Card Title: Ritual of the Machine Color: Black Type: Sorcery Cost: 2BB Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Sacrifice a creature to gain control of target non-black, non-artifact creature. Artist: Anson Maddocks Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Rogue Skycaptain Color: Red Type: Summon Mercenary Cost: 2R Pow/Tgh: 3/4 Card Text: Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, put a wage counter on Rogue Skycaptain. During your upkeep, pay 2 for each wage counter on Rogue Skycaptain, or remove all wage counters from Rogue Skycaptain and target opponent gains control of Rogue Skycaptain. Artist: Randy Asplund-Faith Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Royal Decree Color: White Type: Enchantment Cost: 2WW Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Cumulative Upkeep: W Whenever a swamp, mountain, black permanent, or red permanent becomes tapped, Royal Decree deals 1 damage to that permanent's controller. Artist: Pete Venters Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Royal Herbalist (2 versions) Color: White Type: Summon Cleric Cost: W Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Card Text: 2: Remove the top card of your library from the game to gain 1 life. Artist: Douglas Shuler Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Scarab of the Unseen Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Cost: 2 Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: TAP: Sacrifice Scarab of the Unseen to return all enchantments on target permanent you own to their owners' hand. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. Artist: Sandra Everingham Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Scars of the Veteran Color: White Type: Instant Cost: 4W Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: You may remove a white card in your hand from the game instead of paying Scars of the Veteran's casting cost. Prevent up to 7 damage to target creature or player. For each 1 damage to a creature prevented by Scars of the Veteran, put a +0/+1 counter on that creature at end of turn. Artist: Dan Frazier Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: School of the Unseen Color: Land Type: Land Cost: n/a Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: TAP: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. 2, TAP: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Artist: Pat Morrissey Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Seasoned Tactician Color: White Type: Summon Tactician Cost: 2W Pow/Tgh: 1/3 Card Text: 3: Remove the top four cards of your library from the game to prevent all damage to you from one source. Artist: Dan Frazier Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Sheltered Valley Color: Land Type: Land Cost: n/a Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: When Sheltered Valley comes into play, bury any other Sheltered Valley you control. During your upkeep, if you control three or fewer lands, gain 1 life. TAP: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. Artist: Rob Alexander Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Shield Sphere Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Creature Cost: 0 Pow/Tgh: 0/6 Card Text: Counts as a wall If Shield Sphere is assigned as a blocker, put a -0/-1 counter on it. Artist: Alan Rabinowitz Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Sol Grail Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Cost: 3 Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: When Sol Grail comes into play, choose a color. TAP: Add one mana of the chosen color to your mana pool. Play this ability as an interrupt. Artist: Christopher Rush Rarity: Rare 6 Card Title: Soldevi Adnate (2 versions) Color: Black Type: Summon Cleric Cost: 1B Pow/Tgh: 1/2 Card Text: TAP: Sacrifice a black or artifact creature to add an amount of B equal to that creature's casting cost to your mana pool. Play this ability as an interrupt. Artist: Christopher Rush Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Soldevi Digger Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Cost: 2 Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: 2: Put the top card of your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Artist: Amy Weber Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Soldevi Excavations Color: Land Type: Land Cost: n/a Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: When Soldevi Excavations comes into play, sacrifice an untapped island or bury Soldevi Excavations. TAP: Add 1U to your mana pool. 1, TAP: Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library. Artist: Liz Danforth Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Soldevi Heretic (2 versions) Color: Blue Type: Summon Heretic Cost: 2U Pow/Tgh: 2/2 Card Text: W, TAP: Prevent up to 2 damage to any creature. Target opponent may draw a card. Artist: Mike Kimble Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Soldevi Sage (2 versions) Color: Blue Type: Summon Wizard Cost: 1U Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Card Text: TAP: Sacrifice two lands to draw three cards. Choose and discard one of those cards. Artist: Carol Heyer Rarity: Common 2/1 Card Title: Soldevi Sentry (2 versions) Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Creature Cost: 1 Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Card Text: 1: Regenerate. Target opponent may draw a card. Artist: Alan Rabinowitz Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Soldevi Steam Beast (2 versions) Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Creature Cost: 5 Pow/Tgh: 4/2 Card Text: Whenever Soldevi Steam Beast becomes tapped, target opponent gains 2 life. 2: Regenerate Artist: Bill Sienkiewicz Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Soldier of Fortune Color: Red Type: Summon Mercenary Cost: R Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Card Text: R, TAP: Target player shuffles his or her library. Artist: Douglas Shuler Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Spiny Starfish Color: Blue Type: Summon Starfish Cost: 2U Pow/Tgh: 0/1 Card Text: U: Regenerate At the end of any turn in which Spiny Starfish regenerated, put a Starfish token into play for each time it regenerated that turn. Treat these tokens as 0/1 blue creatures. Artist: Alan Rabinowitz Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Splintering Wind Color: Green Type: Enchantment Cost: 2GG Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: 2G: Splintering Wind deals 1 damage to target creature. Put a Splinter token into play. Treat this token as a1/1 green creature with flying and Cumulative Upkeep: G.If this token leaves play, it deals 1 damage to you and to each creature you control. Artist: Ron Spencer Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Stench of Decay (2 versions) Color: Black Type: Instant Cost: 1BB Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: All non-artifact creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn. Artist: Heather Hudson Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Storm Cauldron Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Cost: 5 Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: During each player's turn, that player may put one additional land into play. Whenever a land is tapped for mana, return that land to owner's hand. Artist: Dan Frazier Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Storm Crow (2 versions) Color: Blue Type: Summon Bird Cost: 1U Pow/Tgh: 1/2 Card Text: Flying Artist: Sandra Everingham Rarity: Common 2/1 Card Title: Storm Elemental Color: Blue Type: Summon Elemental Cost: 5U Pow/Tgh: 3/4 Card Text: Flying U: Remove the top card of your library from the game to tap target creature with flying. U: Remove the top card of your library from the game. If that card is a snow-covered land, Storm Elemental gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Artist: John Matson Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Storm Shaman (2 versions) Color: Red Type: Summon Cleric Cost: 2R Pow/Tgh: 0/4 Card Text: R: +1/+0 until end of turn Artist: Carol Heyer Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Stromgald Spy Color: Black Type: Summon Spy Cost: 3B Pow/Tgh: 2/4 Card Text: If Stromgald Spy attacks and is not blocked, you may choose to have it deal no damage to defending player this turn. If you do so, defending player must play with his or her hand face up on the table until Stromgald Spy leaves play. Artist: Zak Plucinski Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Suffocation Color: Blue Type: Instant Cost: 1U Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Play only when a red sorcery or instant deals damage to you. Suffocation deals 4 damage to that spell's caster. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. Artist: L.A. Williams Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Surge of Strength Color: Multi-Color Type: Instant Cost: RG Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Choose and discard a red or green card from your hand to have target creature gain trample and get +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is equal to that creature's casting cost. Artist: Ruth Thompson Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Sustaining Spirit Color: White Type: Summon Guardian Cost: 1W Pow/Tgh: 0/3 Card Text: Cumulative Upkeep: 1W Any damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 instead reduces it to 1. Artist: Rebecca Guay Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Swamp Mosquito (2 versions) Color: Black Type: Summon Mosquito Cost: 1B Pow/Tgh: 0/1 Card Text: Flying If Swamp Mosquito attacks and is not blocked, defending player gets a poison counter. If a player has ten or more poison counters, he or she loses the game. Artist: Nicola Leonard Rarity: Common 2/1 Card Title: Sworn Defender Color: White Type: Summon Knight Cost: 2WW Pow/Tgh: 1/3 Card Text: 1: Change Sworn Defender's power to the toughness of target creature blocking or being blocked by Sworn Defender, minus 1, until end of turn. Change Sworn Defender's toughness to 1 plus the power of that creature, until end of turn. Artist: D. Alexander Gregory Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Taste of Paradise (2 versions) Color: Green Type: Sorcery Cost: 3G Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Gain 3 life. Gain 3 life for each 1G you pay in addition to the casting cost. Artist: Lawrence Snelly Rarity: Common 2/1 Card Title: Thawing Glaciers Color: Land Type: Land Cost: n/a Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Comes into play tapped. 1, TAP: Search your library for a basic land and put it into play tapped. This does not count towards your one land per turn limit. Shuffle your library afterwards. At end of turn, return Thawing Glaciers to owner's hand. Artist: Jeff A. Menges Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Thought Lash Color: Blue Type: Enchantment Cost: 2UU Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Cumulative Upkeep: Remove the top card of your library from the game. If you do not, remove your library from the game and bury Thought Lash. 0: Remove the top card of your library from the game to prevent 1 damage to you. Artist: Mark Tedin Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Tidal Control Color: Blue Type: Enchantment Cost: 1UU Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Cumulative Upkeep: 2 Any player may pay 2 or 2 life to counter target red or green spell. Play this ability as an interrupt. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Artist: Randy Gallegos Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Tornado Color: Green Type: Enchantment Cost: 4G Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Cumulative Upkeep: G 2G: Pay 3 life for each velocity counter on Tornado. Destroy target permanent and put a velocity counter on Tornado. Use this ability only once each turn. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Artist: Susan Van Camp Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Undergrowth (2 versions) Color: Green Type: Instant Cost: G Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: No creatures deal damage in combat this turn. If you pay 2R in addition to the casting cost, Undergrowth does not affect red creatures. Artist: Pat Morrissey Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Unlikely Alliance Color: White Type: Enchantment Cost: 1W Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: 1W: Target non-attacking, non-blocking creature gets +0/+2 until end of turn. Artist: Phil Foglio Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Urza's Engine Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Creature Cost: 5 Pow/Tgh: 1/5 Card Text: Trample 3: Banding until end of turn 3: All creatures banded with Urza's Engine gain trample until end of turn. Artist: Greg Simanson Rarity: Rare 6 Card Title: Varchild's Crusader (2 versions) Color: Red Type: Summon Knight Cost: 3R Pow/Tgh: 3/2 Card Text: 0: Varchild's Crusader cannot be blocked except by walls this turn. Bury Varchild's Crusader at end of turn. Artist: Mark Poole Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Varchild's War-Riders Color: Red Type: Summon War-Riders Cost: 1R Pow/Tgh: 3/4 Card Text: Trample, rampage: 1 Cumulative Upkeep: Put a Survivor token into play under target opponent's control. Treat this token as a 1/1 red creature. Artist: Susan Van Camp Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Veteran's Voice (2 versions) Color: Red Type: Enchant Creature Cost: R Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Play on a creature you control. 0: Tap enchanted creature to give any other target creature +2/+1 until end of turn. Artist: Andi Rusu Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Viscerid Armor (2 versions) Color: Blue Type: Enchant Creature Cost: 1U Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. 1U: Return Viscerid Armor to owner's hand. Artist: Heather Hudson Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Viscerid Drone Color: Blue Type: Summon Homarid Cost: 1U Pow/Tgh: 1/2 Card Text: TAP: Sacrifice a creature and a swamp to bury target non-artifact creature. TAP: Sacrifice a creature and a snow-covered swamp to bury target creature. Artist: Heather Hudson Rarity: Uncommon 2 Card Title: Wandering Mage Color: Multi-Color Type: Summon Cleric Cost: WUB Pow/Tgh: 0/3 Card Text: W: Pay 1 life to prevent up to 2 damage to any creature. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. U: Prevent 1 damage to any Cleric or Wizard. B: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature you control to prevent up to 2 damage to any player. Artist: Pete Venters Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Whip Vine (2 versions) Color: Green Type: Summon Wall Cost: 2G Pow/Tgh: 1/4 Card Text: Can block creatures with flying. You may choose not to untap Whip Vine during your untap phase. TAP: Tap target creature with flying blocked by Whip Vine. That creature does not untap during its controller's untap phase as long as Whip Vine remains tapped. Artist: L.A. Williams Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Whirling Catapult Color: Artifact Type: Artifact Cost: 4 Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: 2: Remove the top two cards of your library from the game to have Whirling Catapult deal 1 damage to each creature with flying and each player. Artist: Dan Frazier Rarity: Rare 6 Card Title: Wild Aesthir (2 versions) Color: White Type: Summon Aesthir Cost: 2W Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Card Text: Flying, first strike WW: +2/+0 until end of turn. You cannot spend more than WW in this way each turn. Artist: Greg Simanson Rarity: Common 2/1 Card Title: Winter's Night Color: Multi-Color Type: Enchant World Cost: WRG Pow/Tgh: n/a Card Text: Whenever a snow-covered land is tapped for mana, it produces one additional mana of the same type and does not untap during its controller's next untap phase. Artist: Rob Alexander Rarity: Rare 2 Card Title: Yavimaya Ancients (2 versions) Color: Green Type: Summon Treefolk Cost: 3GG Pow/Tgh: 2/7 Card Text: G: +1/-2 until end of turn Artist: Quinton Hoover Rarity: Common 1 Card Title: Yavimaya Ants Color: Green Type: Summon Swarm Cost: 2GG Pow/Tgh: 5/1 Card Text: Trample Cumulative Upkeep: GG Yavimaya Ants can attack the turn it comes into play on your side. 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