"They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,
Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
It had been strange, even in a dream,
To have seen those dead men rise."
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
No one in Aphetto answers a knock at the door after sundown.
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
No one in Aphetto answers a knock at the door after sundown.
When this creature enters, target opponent gains control of it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 2 damage to you.
Target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.
"I smell the tang of a mortal's fresh blood. I hear it sliding wetly beneath its skin. My hunger cannot refuse the invitation."
—Yuri, Sengir vampire
This creature can't block.
What it lacks in backbone, it makes up for in cruelty.
Each player loses 1 life for each creature they control.
In Urborg, the instigators of each new rebellion are soaked in the blood of the last.
Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
, Sacrifice this creature: Look at target player's hand and choose a card from it. That player discards that card. Activate only as a sorcery.
"Just take a little off the top."
Whenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.
"In the drowsy dark cave of the mind, dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan."
—Rabindranath Tagore
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.
Such power grows the body as it shrinks the soul.
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.
Such power grows the body as it shrinks the soul.
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
"They who challenge a minotaur enjoy the taste of their own blood."
—Mirri of the Weatherlight
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
"They who challenge a minotaur enjoy the taste of their own blood."
—Mirri of the Weatherlight
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has ": This creature deals 1 damage to any target."
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has ": This creature deals 1 damage to any target."
Not all knowledge is learned from parchment.
Beacon of Destruction deals 5 damage to any target. Shuffle Beacon of Destruction into its owner's library.
The Great Furnace's blessing is a spectacular sight, but the best view comes at a high cost.
Blaze deals X damage to any target.
, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 6 damage to each creature and each player.
It took all its strength to contain the fire within.
This creature attacks each combat if able.
"There are only fifty words in the cyclops language, and ten of them mean 'kill.'"
—Ertai
When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to target creature.
"The next one who tells me to relax and curl up by a fire is dead."
—Mirri of the Weatherlight
Cone of Flame deals 1 damage to any target, 2 damage to another target, and 3 damage to a third target.
Destroy target Plains or Island. Cryoclasm deals 3 damage to that land's controller.
The people of Terisiare had come to live on frozen fields as though on solid ground. Nothing reminded them of the difference more clearly than the rifts brought on by the Thaw.
Destroy target artifact or land.
"Pound the steel until it fits. Doesn't work? Bash to bits."
—Dwarven forging song
: Create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Dragons erupt from peaks of chaos and flow from rivers of molten rage.
: Create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Dragons erupt from peaks of chaos and flow from rivers of molten rage.
: Target creature can't block this creature this turn.
"Boss told us to try and train 'em. Trained it to attack—it ate Flugg. Trained it to run fast—it got away. Success!"
—Dlig, goblin spelunker
Earth elementals have the eternal strength of stone and the endurance of mountains. Primordially connected to the land they inhabit, they take a long-term view of things, scorning the impetuous haste of short-lived mortal creatures.
Enchant creature
: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Enchant creature
: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
"Cradle your rage close to your heart and nurture your grudge with hatred that you may unleash upon your foes a dragon's fury."
—Tomor, dragonspeaker shaman
Target creature gets +4/+0 until end of turn.
Gron's mind reeled with possibilities, most of which are best left unmentioned.
: This creature deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker.
Inside even the humblest goblin lurks the potential for far greater things—and far worse.
All creatures get +X/-X until end of turn.
"Like an avalanche. With teeth. That will chase you. Uphill."
—Flint Foot, viashino runner
If a source would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.
The furnace awaits the next master who would stoke the fires of apocalypse.
Flying
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Baby dragons can't figure out humans—if they didn't want to be killed, why were they made of meat and treasure?
Flying
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Baby dragons can't figure out humans—if they didn't want to be killed, why were they made of meat and treasure?
Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
They talk a good fight.
Other Goblins get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk.
To be king, Numsgil did in Blog, who did in Unkful, who did in Viddle, who did in Loll, who did in Alrok. . . .
Other Goblins get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk.
To be king, Numsgil did in Blog, who did in Unkful, who did in Viddle, who did in Loll, who did in Alrok. . . .
Draw four cards, then discard three cards at random.
"Now listen closely, my young gob. There are many ways to eat pimple bugs, but I say the best way is all smashed together between two slug chips."
Once he'd worked out which end of the thing was sharp, he was promoted to guard duty.
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
The goblin word for "flying" is more accurately translated as "falling slowly."
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
The goblin word for "flying" is more accurately translated as "falling slowly."
Guerrilla Tactics deals 2 damage to any target.
When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, it deals 4 damage to any target.
Fortunately, hill giants have large blind spots in which a human can easily hide. Unfortunately, these blind spots are beneath the bottoms of their feet.
Incinerate deals 3 damage to any target. A creature dealt damage this way can't be regenerated this turn.
"Yes, I think 'toast' is an appropriate description."
—Jaya Ballard, task mage
Haste (This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)
: Kamahl deals 3 damage to any target.
In times when freedom seems lost, great souls arise to reclaim it.
Haste (This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)
: Kamahl deals 3 damage to any target.
In times when freedom seems lost, great souls arise to reclaim it.
Lava Axe deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker.
"Catch!"
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has two or fewer cards in hand, this creature deals 3 damage to that player.
"Her voice is disaster, painful and final."
—Matoc, lavamancer
Haste (This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)
"A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
He passes from life to his rest in the grave."
—William Knox, "Mortality"
Haste (This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)
"A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
He passes from life to his rest in the grave."
—William Knox, "Mortality"
Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.
"I don't know why people say a double-edged sword is bad. It's a sword. With two edges."
—Kamahl, pit fighter
Sacrifice this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.
"I got it! I got it! I—"
: This creature deals 2 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.
"So they want to kill my men? Well two can play at that game."
—General Khurzog
: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.
"What am I looking at? Ashes, dead man."