Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

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Ominous Seas
Enchantment

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on this enchantment.

Remove eight foreshadow counters from this enchantment: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Phase Dolphin
Creature — Elemental Whale

Whenever this creature attacks, another target attacking creature can't be blocked this turn.

"You've never had to trust your breath to an inhuman creature who could crush you at its whim, and I truly feel sorry for you."

—Eagan, seabonder

1/4
Pollywog Symbiote
Creature — Frog

Each creature spell you cast costs less to cast if it has mutate.

Whenever you cast a creature spell, if it has mutate, draw a card, then discard a card.

It always knew it was destined to be more than a frog.

1/3
Pouncing Shoreshark
Creature — Shark Beast

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Flash

Whenever this creature mutates, you may return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

4/3
Reconnaissance Mission
Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"The bonders work with creatures that fly, slink, and burrow. Assume they know everything."

—Jirina Kudro

Sea-Dasher Octopus
Creature — Octopus

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Flash

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

2/2
Shark Typhoon
Enchantment

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

When you cycle this card, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.

Startling Development
Instant

Until end of turn, target creature becomes a blue Serpent with base power and toughness 4/4.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Remarkably, dinner continued with no further interruptions.

Thieving Otter
Creature — Otter

Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card.

"You're telling me we spent a year securing the sanctuary against pterosaurs, rambeasts, and nightfangs . . . and we were robbed by what?"

—Endris, Drannith magistrate

2/2
Voracious Greatshark
Creature — Shark

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

When this creature enters, counter target artifact or creature spell.

There is no boat big enough.

5/4
Wingfold Pteron
Creature — Dinosaur

This creature enters with your choice of a flying counter or a hexproof counter on it. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

"Its weak spot is easily spotted, but only if it's swooping down on you."

—Jonald, mission naturalist

3/6
Wingspan Mentor
Creature — Human Wizard

When this creature enters, put a flying counter on target non-Human creature you control.

, : Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with flying.

Their bond grew over time, as did the height of their jumps.

1/3
Bastion of Remembrance
Enchantment

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

Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Lives taken are lives not easily forgotten.

Blitz Leech
Creature — Leech

Flash

When this creature enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Remove all counters from that creature.

"Fools wear armor against it as if the worst it could take is your blood."

—Gavi, nest warden

5/2
Blood Curdle
Instant

Destroy target creature. Put a menace counter on a creature you control. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Fear pierces the strongest armor.

Boot Nipper
Creature — Beast

This creature enters with your choice of a deathtouch counter or a lifelink counter on it.

"I have a number of hyper-specific phobias and this somehow hits all of them."

—Aaru, Zagoth lumberjack

2/1
Bushmeat Poacher
Creature — Human Soldier

, , Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Draw a card.

"If you've never feasted on Zagoth terror-pig, I got the best price you'll find."

2/4
Call of the Death-Dweller
Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards with total mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a deathtouch counter on either of them. Then put a menace counter on either of them.

The living fear Nethroi's whispers. The dead heed them.

Cavern Whisperer
Creature — Nightmare

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Whenever this creature mutates, each opponent discards a card.

4/4
Chittering Harvester
Creature — Nightmare

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Whenever this creature mutates, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

4/6
Corpse Churn
Instant

Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

"How did we find each other? So there I was, exploring a mound of monster corpses..."

Dark Bargain
Instant

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Dark Bargain deals 2 damage to you.

"The poacher's trade isn't monster parts. It's myth. People pay to be part of the fantasy."

—Kelsien, the Plague

Dead Weight
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.

"You're not my quarry, little one. I'm after whatever comes to investigate your cries."

—Kelsien, the Plague

Dirge Bat
Creature — Bat

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Flash

Flying

Whenever this creature mutates, destroy target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.

3/3
Durable Coilbug
Creature — Insect

: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I've seen them survive lava, trampling, and a moloch's digestive system. They just roll out and get on with their lives!"

—Gannet, Skysail zoologist

2/2
Duskfang Mentor
Creature — Human Cleric

When this creature enters, put a lifelink counter on target non-Human creature you control.

, : Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with lifelink.

"What she sees, I see. What she tastes, I taste."

1/3
Easy Prey
Instant

Destroy target creature with mana value 2 or less.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The definition of "bite-sized treat" depends on who you ask.

Extinction Event
Sorcery

Choose odd or even. Exile each creature with mana value of the chosen quality. (Zero is even.)

"Nature is more merciless than any hunter I've ever known."

—Zai, nightsquad captain

Gloom Pangolin
Creature — Nightmare Pangolin

"They say it survives on a purely bioluminescent diet. It's only active during the darkest of Indatha nights, making verification highly challenging."

—Gannet, Skysail zoologist

1/5
Grimdancer
Creature — Nightmare

This creature enters with your choice of two different counters on it from among menace, deathtouch, and lifelink.

Most monsters are more frightening when they skitter unseen in the dark. Most.

3/3
Heartless Act
Instant

Choose one —

• Destroy target creature with no counters on it.

• Remove up to three counters from target creature.

"It's them or us."

—General Kudro

Hunted Nightmare
Creature — Nightmare

Menace

When this creature enters, target opponent puts a deathtouch counter on a creature they control.

"The cruelest monsters inspire the greatest tales. The greatest tales inspire the cruelest hunters."

—Rielle, the Everwise

4/5
Insatiable Hemophage
Creature — Nightmare

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Deathtouch

Whenever this creature mutates, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of times this creature has mutated.

3/3
Lurking Deadeye
Creature — Human Assassin

Flash

When this creature enters, destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

"There's no roar so mighty that it can't be silenced."

4/2
Memory Leak
Sorcery

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from that player's graveyard or hand and exile it.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"By halves does youth depart. I remember halves of names, halves of years, halves of myself."

—Ogaro, wandering sage

Mutual Destruction
Sorcery

This spell has flash as long as you control a permanent with flash.

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

Destroy target creature.

Hunter and hunted both died thinking they had outwitted the other.

Mythos of Nethroi
Instant

Destroy target nonland permanent if it's a creature or if was spent to cast this spell.

"And then the shadow took living form, and the shadow devoured the man whole—body, mind, and soul."

Tales of the Ozolith

Nightsquad Commando
Creature — Human Soldier

When this creature enters, if you attacked this turn, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.

"The big fella sounds hungry. Let's send him to bed without his supper."

2/3
Serrated Scorpion
Creature — Scorpion

When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.

Each scorpion's venom is unique, thwarting sanctuary healers' attempts to develop an antidote.

1/2
Suffocating Fumes
Instant

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"Yesterday it was flying tigers and crumbling bridges. Who knows what today will bring?"

—Dol, Lavabrink quartermaster

Unbreakable Bond
Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lifelink counter on it.

From now until the crystals stop glowing

—Ketria oath meaning "forever"

Unexpected Fangs
Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter and a lifelink counter on target creature.

"With the frequent mutations, predator-prey relationships seem to change every moment. I already like it here."

—Vivien Reid

Unlikely Aid
Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

"I appreciate you not letting me fall to my death in the acid bogs. Now, can you let me down?"

Void Beckoner
Creature — Nightmare Horror

Deathtouch

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

When you cycle this card, put a deathtouch counter on target creature you control.

8/8
Whisper Squad
Creature — Human Soldier

: Search your library for a card named Whisper Squad, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Ears can't hear them. Eyes see too many of them.

1/1
Zagoth Mamba
Creature — Nightmare Snake

Whenever this creature mutates, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

"It's just a snake. A many-eyed snake with venom that turns your blood to smoke, but still, just a snake."

—Kinnan, bonder prodigy

1/1
Blazing Volley
Sorcery

Blazing Volley deals 1 damage to each creature your opponents control.

"Don't ask me what to do if you miss. They're stingdrakes. Don't miss."

—Orthion, Lavabrink captain

Blisterspit Gremlin
Creature — Gremlin

, : This creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, untap this creature.

"Ah, we have a critic."

—Orthion, Lavabrink captain

1/1
Blitz of the Thunder-Raptor
Instant

Blitz of the Thunder-Raptor deals damage to target creature or planeswalker equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. If that creature or planeswalker would die this turn, exile it instead.

The sound of Vadrok's gigantic wings is ominous. But the true terror is when they fall silent.

Cathartic Reunion
Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard two cards.

Draw three cards.

The soldier had given up his wealth, his title, even his home, but he had no room for regret. At last, he had saved his friend.

Clash of Titans
Instant

Target creature fights another target creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

"Let the brutes fight. If they kill each other, we lose no more soldiers today."

—Orthion, Lavabrink captain

Cloudpiercer
Creature — Dinosaur

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Reach

Whenever this creature mutates, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

5/4
Drannith Stinger
Creature — Human Wizard

Whenever you cycle another card, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The first line of defense, and the last person you want to anger.

2/2
Everquill Phoenix
Creature — Phoenix

Mutate (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Flying

Whenever this creature mutates, create a red artifact token named Feather with ", Sacrifice this token: Return target Phoenix card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped."

4/4
Ferocious Tigorilla
Creature — Cat Ape

This creature enters with your choice of a trample counter or a menace counter on it. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

From a certain perspective, it's an inspiring story of overcoming obstacles.

4/3
Fire Prophecy
Instant

Fire Prophecy deals 3 damage to target creature. You may put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library. If you do, draw a card.

"Water and bone tell many tales, but fire is fickle. It would rather consume than reveal."

—Rielle, the Everwise

Flame Spill
Instant

Flame Spill deals 4 damage to target creature. Excess damage is dealt to that creature's controller instead.

Fragile, floating Skysail suddenly seemed like an appealingly safe place to live.

Footfall Crater
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ": Target creature gains trample and haste until end of turn."

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Forbidden Friendship
Sorcery

Create a 1/1 red Dinosaur creature token with haste and a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.

The two looked at each other, and neither fled. "I see," the soldier murmured. "We're both just fighting for survival out here, aren't we?"

Frenzied Raptor
Creature — Dinosaur

"Though the road through Raugrin is lined with alarm crystals, some monsters seem to be adapting. We've had raptors feigning attacks on provision caravans, while others try to sneak through the lava curtain."

—Dol, Lavabrink quartermaster

4/2