If you control a creature, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.
"Believe in the ideal, not the idol."
—Serra
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.
Flying
Pray that it doesn't seek the safety of your lungs.
Flying
Pray that it doesn't seek the safety of your lungs.
: Draw a card.
"Words—so innocent and powerless are they, as standing in a dictionary; how potent for good and evil they become to one who knows how to combine them!"
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
: Draw a card.
"Words—so innocent and powerless are they, as standing in a dictionary; how potent for good and evil they become to one who knows how to combine them!"
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
The same spears that catch their food today will defend their homes tomorrow.
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
The same spears that catch their food today will defend their homes tomorrow.
If target opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.
"To empty your mind is to fill your grave."
—Lat-Nam teaching
If target opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.
"To empty your mind is to fill your grave."
—Lat-Nam teaching
Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
"Returne from whence ye came. . . ."
—Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
"Returne from whence ye came. . . ."
—Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.
In Mercadia City, loyalties extend only as far as your purse can stretch.
Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.
In Mercadia City, loyalties extend only as far as your purse can stretch.
Draw two cards, then discard a card.
Though those who study are as many as the hairs on an ox, those who succeed are as rare as unicorns' horns.
—Chinese proverb
Draw two cards, then discard a card.
Though those who study are as many as the hairs on an ox, those who succeed are as rare as unicorns' horns.
—Chinese proverb
Sacrifice a land: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
Jamuraan farmers fear three things above all else: droughts, floods, and hornclaws.
Sacrifice a land: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
Jamuraan farmers fear three things above all else: droughts, floods, and hornclaws.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.
"I don't like to think of myself as a pirate. I'm more like a stimulator of the local economy."
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.
"I don't like to think of myself as a pirate. I'm more like a stimulator of the local economy."
Draw three cards.
"The treasure in my mind is greater than any worldly glory."
Draw three cards.
"The treasure in my mind is greater than any worldly glory."
Enchant permanent
You control enchanted permanent.
"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."
—Mark Twain, More Maxims of Mark
Enchant permanent
You control enchanted permanent.
"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."
—Mark Twain, More Maxims of Mark
Some fishers like to eat eels, and some eels like to eat fishers.
Some fishers like to eat eels, and some eels like to eat fishers.
Whenever a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, return that creature to its owner's hand. (It won't be affected by the spell or ability.)
"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once."
—William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Whenever a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, return that creature to its owner's hand. (It won't be affected by the spell or ability.)
"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once."
—William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.
"You know that secret? The one that wakes you up at night in a cold sweat? The one you think no one else in the world knows? Well, guess what."
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.
"You know that secret? The one that wakes you up at night in a cold sweat? The one you think no one else in the world knows? Well, guess what."
, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell.
"I've seen my master do this a hundred times. How hard can it be?"
, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell.
"I've seen my master do this a hundred times. How hard can it be?"
Change the target of target spell with a single target.
The golden rule of revenge: Do unto others what they tried to do unto you.
Change the target of target spell with a single target.
The golden rule of revenge: Do unto others what they tried to do unto you.
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
"Cry to the sun and watch as even your tears forsake you."
—Acolyte of Marit Lage
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
"Cry to the sun and watch as even your tears forsake you."
—Acolyte of Marit Lage
Return all creatures to their owners' hands.
Which is more unsettling: the roar of battle or the silence that follows?
Return all creatures to their owners' hands.
Which is more unsettling: the roar of battle or the silence that follows?
Flying
Scholars in their ivory towers call them "sharks of the sky." Scholars on the road don't call them at all.
Flying
Scholars in their ivory towers call them "sharks of the sky." Scholars on the road don't call them at all.
Counter target instant spell.
"So much for that bright idea!"
Counter target instant spell.
"So much for that bright idea!"
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
—Aesop, Fables, trans. Jacobs
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
—Aesop, Fables, trans. Jacobs
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has flying.
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has flying.
The College of Lat-Nam is often forced to expel students whose experiments grow too risky or too cruel.
The College of Lat-Nam is often forced to expel students whose experiments grow too risky or too cruel.
Return all green permanents to their owners' hands.
The deep sleep of winter is not always restful.
Return all green permanents to their owners' hands.
The deep sleep of winter is not always restful.
It doesn't like having visitors . . . unless it's having them for lunch.
It doesn't like having visitors . . . unless it's having them for lunch.
Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
"Let's see . . . Mercadia, mercenary, merfolk . . . you know, I really need a better filing system."
Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
"Let's see . . . Mercadia, mercenary, merfolk . . . you know, I really need a better filing system."
Target player draws two cards.
Madness and genius are separated only by degrees of success.
Target player draws two cards.
Madness and genius are separated only by degrees of success.
Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.
One footstep among many is silent. One footstep alone is deafening.
Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.
One footstep among many is silent. One footstep alone is deafening.
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by Walls.
Verick held his breath. Breathing wouldn't reveal his position, but it would force him to smell the goblins.