Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas

DDH · 80 cards · Released

Recoil
Instant

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Then that player discards a card.

Anything sent into a plagued world is bound to come back infected.

Undermine
Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller loses 3 life.

"Which would you like first, the insult or the injury?"

Grixis Charm
Instant

Choose one —

• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

• Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

• Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

"So many choices. Shall I choose loathing, hate, or malice today?"

—Eliza of the Keep

Icy Manipulator
Artifact

, : Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

In fire there is the spark of chaos and destruction, the seed of life. In ice there is perfect tranquility, perfect order, and the silence of death.

Deep Analysis
Sorcery

Target player draws two cards.

Flashback, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"No fact escapes me. Why do you think you can?"

Agonizing Demise
Instant

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. If this spell was kicked, Agonizing Demise deals damage equal to that creature's power to the creature's controller.

Slave of Bolas
Sorcery

Gain control of target creature. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Nicol Bolas doesn't distinguish between servants and victims.

Elder Mastery
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has flying.

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a player, that player discards two cards.

Taste his power, hunger for his command.

Cruel Ultimatum
Sorcery

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life.

There is always a greater power.

Profane Command
Sorcery

Choose two —

• Target player loses X life.

• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Spite
Instant

Counter target noncreature spell.

Malice
Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Pain
Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

Suffering
Sorcery

Destroy target land.

Rise
Sorcery

Return target creature card from a graveyard and target creature on the battlefield to their owners' hands.

Fall
Sorcery

Target player reveals two cards at random from their hand, then discards each nonland card revealed this way.

Crumbling Necropolis
Land

This land enters tapped.

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"They say the ruins of Sedraxis were once a shining capital in Vithia. Now it is a blight, a place to be avoided by the living."

—Olcot, Rider of Joffik

Rupture Spire
Land

This land enters tapped.

When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay .

: Add one mana of any color.

Terramorphic Expanse
Land

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Take two steps north into the unsettled future, south into the unquiet past, east into the present day, or west into the great unknown.

Swamp
Basic Land — Swamp

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Swamp
Basic Land — Swamp

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Island
Basic Land — Island

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Mountain
Basic Land — Mountain

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