Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning

DDN · 81 cards · Released

Stave Off
Instant

Target creature gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Swift Justice
Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike and lifelink.

"Having conviction is more important than being righteous."

—Aurelia

Impulse
Instant

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"You call it luck. I call it preparation."

Mana Leak
Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy.

Lightning Helix
Instant

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

Though less well-known than its army of soldiers, the Boros Legion's mage-priests are as respected by the innocent as they are hated by the ghosts of the guilty.

Hold the Line
Instant

Blocking creatures get +7/+7 until end of turn.

"Forgive me, Master Kami, but in the interest of my people I must halt your advance."

Inferno Trap
Instant — Trap

If you've been dealt damage by two or more creatures this turn, you may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Inferno Trap deals 4 damage to target creature.

"Do you smell something burning?"

Steam Augury
Instant

Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Keranos is a fickle god, delivering punishment as readily as prophecy.

Traumatic Visions
Instant

Counter target spell.

Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Whiplash Trap
Instant — Trap

If an opponent had two or more creatures enter the battlefield under their control this turn, you may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.

Arrow Volley Trap
Instant — Trap

If four or more creatures are attacking, you may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Arrow Volley Trap deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target attacking creatures.

Repeal
Instant

Return target nonland permanent with mana value X to its owner's hand.

Draw a card.

"Your deed cannot be undone. You, however, can be."

—Agosto, Azorius imperator

Mystic Monastery
Land

This land enters tapped.

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When asked how many paths reach enlightenment, the monk kicked a heap of sand. "Count," he smiled, "and then find more grains."

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.

Island
Basic Land — Island

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Island
Basic Land — Island

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Island
Basic Land — Island

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Mountain
Basic Land — Mountain

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Plains
Basic Land — Plains

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Plains
Basic Land — Plains

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Plains
Basic Land — Plains

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