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Koma, World-Eater
Legendary Creature — Serpent

This spell can't be countered.

Trample, ward

Whenever Koma deals combat damage to a player, create four 3/3 blue Serpent creature tokens named Koma's Coil.

The gods imprisoned Koma, fearing he would eventually devour the Cosmos itself.

8/12
Kykar, Zephyr Awakener
Legendary Creature — Bird Wizard

Flying

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, choose one —

• Exile another target creature you control. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

• Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

3/4
Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
Legendary Creature — Dragon Wizard

Flying

You have no maximum hand size.

Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage to an opponent, you draw that many cards.

Ravnica's sharpest mind and its biggest ego.

5/5
Perforating Artist
Creature — Devil

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Raid — At the beginning of your end step, if you attacked this turn, each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

The first three rows of the audience are marketed as the "slash zone."

3/2
Wardens of the Cycle
Creature — Elf Warlock

Morbid — At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, choose one —

• You gain 2 life.

• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

"The wheel turns, and what meets its end begins again."

3/4
Zimone, Paradox Sculptor
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures you control.

, : Double the number of each kind of counter on up to two target creatures and/or artifacts you control.

"Extraplanar geometry isn't so hard once you get used to thinking in twelve dimensions."

1/4
Banner of Kinship
Artifact

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. This artifact enters with a fellowship counter on it for each creature you control of the chosen type.

Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each fellowship counter on this artifact.

Fishing Pole
Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has ", , Tap Fishing Pole: Put a bait counter on Fishing Pole."

Whenever equipped creature becomes untapped, remove a bait counter from this Equipment. If you do, create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Leyline Axe
Artifact — Equipment

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has double strike and trample.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

It awaits a worthy wielder.

Quick-Draw Katana
Artifact — Equipment

During your turn, equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"Draw swiftly, strike cleanly, and sheathe before the ground tastes blood."

—Munetsugu Takeno, Way of the Samurai

Ravenous Amulet
Artifact

, , Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card and put a soul counter on this artifact. Activate only as a sorcery.

, , Sacrifice this artifact: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of soul counters on this artifact.

Each of its owners' final moments is remembered within the roiling stone.

Scrawling Crawler
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Construct

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card.

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.

It spreads the machine gospel of New Phyrexia, its task incomplete until all surrender to perfection.

3/2
Soulstone Sanctuary
Land

: Add .

: This land becomes a 3/3 creature with vigilance and all creature types. It's still a land.

By tradition, travelers touched the pillar for good luck. One day, it decided to travel as well.

Ajani, Caller of the Pride
Legendary Planeswalker — Ajani

[+1]: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature.

[−3]: Target creature gains flying and double strike until end of turn.

[−8]: Create X 2/2 white Cat creature tokens, where X is your life total.

Loyalty: 4
Ajani's Pridemate
Creature — Cat Soldier

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Once rejected by his pride, Ajani is now revered by countless leonin as a healer and, more importantly, a friend.

2/2
Angel of Finality
Creature — Angel

Flying

When this creature enters, exile target player's graveyard.

"Better the dead depart utterly than be enslaved."

3/4
Authority of the Consuls
Enchantment

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Citizens are free to do as they wish, within the confines of the Consulate's laws.

Banishing Light
Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.

The Champion reached for a stone, and Heliod placed the sun into her hand.

The Theriad

Cathar Commando
Creature — Human Soldier

Flash

, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"Honorable tactics are for honorable foes. These werewolves are preying on innocent travelers. I'll stab them in the back while they sleep if I have to."

3/1
Day of Judgment
Sorcery

Destroy all creatures.

Clerics on both sides prayed for divine intervention to end the war. The gods didn't play favorites.

Giada, Font of Hope
Legendary Creature — Angel

Flying, vigilance

Each other Angel you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it for each Angel you already control.

: Add . Spend this mana only to cast an Angel spell.

Now she is New Capenna's greatest hope.

2/2
Healer's Hawk
Creature — Bird

Flying

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

The wounded see the glow of its vials long before they see its wings diving out of the clouds.

1/1
Make Your Move
Instant

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with power 4 or greater.

"If you're thinking only one step ahead, you're already falling behind."

—Teysa

Mischievous Pup
Creature — Dog

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

When this creature enters, return up to one other target permanent you control to its owner's hand.

As far as the dog was concerned, anything that fit in its mouth was a toy.

3/1
Resolute Reinforcements
Creature — Human Soldier

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Morale rarely survives the sudden appearance of a squad of Sursi skirmishers at an army's flank.

1/1
Savannah Lions
Creature — Cat

"One alone is fearsome; one among many is unstoppable."

—Benalish proverb

2/1
Serra Angel
Creature — Angel

Flying

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Follow the light. In its absence, follow her.

4/4
Stroke of Midnight
Instant

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.

"Who was that knight, so graceful and strong? Why did she flee before the food was gone?"

Tale of the Masked Maiden

Youthful Valkyrie
Creature — Angel

Flying

Whenever another Angel you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Before she is admitted to the host of Starnheim, a young valkyrie must learn a thousand tales of her ancestors.

1/3
Aegis Turtle
Creature — Turtle

On Ikoria, even the gentlest creatures are constantly evolving, outpacing tooth and claw with mighty natural armor.

0/5
Aetherize
Instant

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

"You can come back once you've learned some manners—and figured out how to reconstitute your physical forms."

Brineborn Cutthroat
Creature — Merfolk Pirate

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"I always attack from where their spyglasses can't see."

2/1
Essence Scatter
Instant

Counter target creature spell.

"The greatest victory is a battle unfought."

Tome of Obstructions

Extravagant Replication
Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of another target nonland permanent you control.

"Just one aether tiger? What do I look like, a peasant?"

Fleeting Distraction
Instant

Target creature gets -1/-0 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

The first spell taught to young mages, it has spared the lives of many whose hands are too small to hold a sword.

Imprisoned in the Moon
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker

Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with ": Add " and loses all other card types and abilities.

Only one vault was great enough to hold Emrakul.

Lightshell Duo
Creature — Rat Otter

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

When this creature enters, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

3/4
Micromancer
Creature — Human Wizard

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 1, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"Ideas don't have to be big to be great."

3/3
Mocking Sprite
Creature — Faerie Rogue

Flying

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost less to cast.

"Look at me, everyone! I'm a High Fae! Watch me do important High Fae things!"

2/1
An Offer You Can't Refuse
Instant

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with ", Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

"I think you'll find my terms quite agreeable, if you know what's good for you."

Omniscience
Enchantment

You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.

"The things I once imagined would be my greatest achievements were only the first steps toward a future I can only begin to fathom."

—Jace Beleren

Run Away Together
Instant

Choose two target creatures controlled by different players. Return those creatures to their owners' hands.

"Virtue is virtue, whatever the heart that nurtures it."

—Malacan, Vantress exile

Self-Reflection
Sorcery

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.

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

Some Echoes remember every moment of their past lives and spend their existence contemplating past choices.

Spectral Sailor
Creature — Spirit Pirate

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Flying

: Draw a card.

"Any ship that sails on these mean seas for long is bound to pick up a ghost or two."

—Admiral Beckett Brass

1/1
Think Twice
Instant

Draw a card.

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

"Either I know just the spell I need, or I'm about to."

Time Stop
Instant

End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities, including this spell. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage heals and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

Tolarian Terror
Creature — Serpent

This spell costs less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

Ward (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays .)

Afterward, a number of treatises on sea serpent morphology were swiftly revised.

5/5
Witness Protection
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)

Bake into a Pie
Instant

Destroy target creature. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

"My secret ingredient? Well, I can't tell you that. But here's a hint. It's not love."

Burglar Rat
Creature — Rat

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

"Even rats hoard their treasures. Are your precious things so different?"

—Izoni

1/1
Diregraf Ghoul
Creature — Zombie

This creature enters tapped.

"At least this one still has arms and legs. Well, most of its legs."

—Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

2/2
Eaten Alive
Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay .

Exile target creature or planeswalker.

"If you hear a groaning noise in the cellar, don't investigate. Don't split up. Just lock the door and barricade it."

—Emili, guard captain

Exsanguinate
Sorcery

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

"I didn't say I would help you find your way home. I said I would help you finish your adventure."

Fake Your Own Death
Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Hero's Downfall
Instant

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Odric resisted the vampire's curse with all his strength. But after a lifetime of fighting monsters, he was doomed to become one himself.

Liliana, Dreadhorde General
Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.

[+1]: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

[−4]: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.

[−9]: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Loyalty: 6
Macabre Waltz
Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card.

Liliana is never one to follow someone else's lead.

Marauding Blight-Priest
Creature — Vampire Cleric

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

"The vampires never had gods. We followed our bloodchiefs. Now they are gone. What is left? Destruction and death, my friends. That is enough."

3/2
Painful Quandary
Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

In Mishra's desperation to destroy his brother, he allowed Gix to destroy him instead.

Phyrexian Arena
Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

A spark of resistance against a tide of corruption.