Core Set 2021

M21 · 397 cards · Released

Chandra, Heart of Fire
Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra

[+1]: Discard your hand, then exile the top three cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may play cards exiled this way.

[+1]: Chandra deals 2 damage to any target.

[−9]: Search your graveyard and library for any number of red instant and/or sorcery cards, exile them, then shuffle. You may cast them this turn. Add six .

Loyalty: 5
Chandra's Incinerator
Creature — Elemental

This spell costs less to cast, where X is the total amount of noncombat damage dealt to your opponents this turn.

Trample

Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage to an opponent, this creature deals that much damage to target creature or planeswalker that player controls.

6/6
Chandra's Magmutt
Creature — Elemental Dog

: This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.

2/2
Chandra's Pyreling
Creature — Elemental Lizard

Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage to an opponent, this creature gets +1/+0 and gains double strike until end of turn. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

1/3
Garruk, Unleashed
Legendary Planeswalker — Garruk

[+1]: Up to one target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn.

[−2]: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Then if an opponent controls more creatures than you, put a loyalty counter on Garruk.

[−7]: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, you may search your library for a creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle."

Loyalty: 4
Garruk's Gorehorn
Creature — Beast
7/3
Garruk's Harbinger
Creature — Beast

Hexproof from black

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, look at that many cards from the top of your library. You may reveal a creature card or Garruk planeswalker card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

4/3
Garruk's Uprising
Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.

Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Plains
Basic Land — Plains

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Island
Basic Land — Island

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Swamp
Basic Land — Swamp

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Mountain
Basic Land — Mountain

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Forest
Basic Land — Forest

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Containment Priest
Creature — Human Cleric

Flash

If a nontoken creature would enter and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.

Some protection requires a bit of finesse.

2/2
Grim Tutor
Sorcery

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

As blood touched the empty page, it formed words that seared themselves into the wizard's mind.

Massacre Wurm
Creature — Phyrexian Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

6/5
Cultivate
Sorcery

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Scavenging Ooze
Creature — Ooze

: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

In nature, not a single bone or scrap of flesh goes to waste.

2/2
Solemn Simulacrum
Artifact Creature — Golem

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

2/2
Basri, Devoted Paladin
Legendary Planeswalker — Basri

[+1]: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. It gains vigilance until end of turn.

[−1]: Whenever a creature attacks this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

[−6]: Creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain flying until end of turn.

Loyalty: 4
Adherent of Hope
Creature — Human Soldier

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control a Basri planeswalker, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"Basri has shown me the way forward, and I will follow."

2/1
Basri's Aegis
Sorcery

Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures. You may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Basri, Devoted Paladin, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

"As long as we survive, we can rebuild."

—Basri Ket

Sigiled Contender
Creature — Human Warrior

This creature has lifelink as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it. (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

"All right. Warm-ups are over."

3/3
Teferi, Timeless Voyager
Legendary Planeswalker — Teferi

[+1]: Draw a card.

[−3]: Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

[−8]: Each creature target opponent controls phases out. Until the end of your next turn, they can't phase in. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist.)

Loyalty: 4
Historian of Zhalfir
Creature — Human Wizard

Whenever this creature attacks, if you control a Teferi planeswalker, draw a card.

"Come and listen. I'll tell you the story of a nation lost to time, and of the man who caused it."

3/3
Mystic Skyfish
Creature — Fish

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, this creature gains flying until end of turn.

The problem wasn't that fish had learned how to fly. It was that sharks had adapted to follow them.

3/1
Teferi's Wavecaster
Creature — Merfolk Wizard

Flash

When this creature enters, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Teferi, Timeless Voyager, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

3/3
Liliana, Death Mage
Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana

[+1]: Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

[−3]: Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life.

[−7]: Target opponent loses 2 life for each creature card in their graveyard.

Loyalty: 4
Liliana's Scorn
Sorcery

Destroy target creature. You may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Liliana, Death Mage, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

"We're done here."

Liliana's Scrounger
Creature — Human Wizard

At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, you may put a loyalty counter on a Liliana planeswalker you control.

"This arm's got plenty of use left in it. Who'd throw such a nice thing away?"

3/2
Spirit of Malevolence
Creature — Spirit

When this creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Great evil weighs on the soul.

2/1
Chandra, Flame's Catalyst
Legendary Planeswalker — Chandra

[+1]: Chandra deals 3 damage to each opponent.

[−2]: You may cast target red instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

[−8]: Discard your hand, then draw seven cards. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.

Loyalty: 5
Chandra's Firemaw
Creature — Hellion

Haste

When this creature enters, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Chandra, Flame's Catalyst, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

4/2
Keral Keep Disciples
Creature — Human Monk

Whenever you activate a loyalty ability of a Chandra planeswalker, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

"You're not setting foot in here. Not on our watch!"

4/3
Storm Caller
Creature — Ogre Shaman

When this creature enters, it deals 2 damage to each opponent.

He became elder shaman when his predecessor was mysteriously struck by lightning on a cloudless day.

3/2
Garruk, Savage Herald
Legendary Planeswalker — Garruk

[+1]: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, put it on the bottom of your library.

[−2]: Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to another target creature.

[−7]: Until end of turn, creatures you control gain "You may have this creature assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked."

Loyalty: 5
Garruk's Warsteed
Creature — Rhino

Vigilance

When this creature enters, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Garruk, Savage Herald, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

3/5
Predatory Wurm
Creature — Wurm

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

This creature gets +2/+2 as long as you control a Garruk planeswalker.

"The strong eat. The weak are eaten. That's the way of things."

—Garruk Wildspeaker

4/4
Wildwood Patrol
Creature — Centaur Scout

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

If you're lucky, the centaurs will give a single warning to leave their territory before driving a spear into you. If you're unlucky, the spear is the warning.

4/2
Baneslayer Angel
Creature — Angel

Flying, first strike, lifelink, protection from Demons and from Dragons

5/5
Glorious Anthem
Enchantment

Creatures you control get +1/+1.

Idol of Endurance
Artifact

When this artifact enters, exile all creature cards with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard until this artifact leaves the battlefield.

, : Until end of turn, you may cast a creature spell from among cards exiled with this artifact without paying its mana cost.

Mangara, the Diplomat
Legendary Creature — Human Cleric

Lifelink

Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card.

Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

2/4
Nine Lives
Enchantment

Hexproof

If a source would deal damage to you, prevent that damage and put an incarnation counter on this enchantment.

When there are nine or more incarnation counters on this enchantment, exile it.

When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.

Pack Leader
Creature — Dog

Other Dogs you control get +1/+1.

Whenever this creature attacks, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn to Dogs you control.

2/2
Runed Halo
Enchantment

As this enchantment enters, choose a card name.

You have protection from the chosen card name. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything with that name.)

Speaker of the Heavens
Creature — Human Cleric

Vigilance, lifelink (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total and only as a sorcery.

1/1
Barrin, Tolarian Archmage
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

When Barrin enters, return up to one other target creature or planeswalker to its owner's hand.

At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent was put into your hand from the battlefield this turn, draw a card.

2/2
Discontinuity
Instant

During your turn, this spell costs less to cast.

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

Ghostly Pilferer
Creature — Spirit Rogue

Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Whenever an opponent casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card.

Discard a card: This creature can't be blocked this turn.

2/1
Pursued Whale
Creature — Whale

When this creature enters, each opponent creates a 1/1 red Pirate creature token with "This token can't block" and "Creatures you control attack each combat if able."

Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost more to cast.

8/8
See the Truth
Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. If this spell was cast from anywhere other than your hand, put each of those cards into your hand instead.

Shacklegeist
Creature — Spirit

Flying

This creature can block only creatures with flying.

Tap two untapped Spirits you control: Tap target creature you don't control.

2/2
Stormwing Entity
Creature — Elemental

This spell costs less to cast if you've cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn.

Flying

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

When this creature enters, scry 2.

3/3
Sublime Epiphany
Instant

Choose one or more —

• Counter target spell.

• Counter target activated or triggered ability.

• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

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

• Target player draws a card.

Demonic Embrace
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+1, has flying, and is a Demon in addition to its other types.

You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying 3 life and discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs.

Hooded Blightfang
Creature — Snake

Deathtouch

Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals damage to a planeswalker, destroy that planeswalker.

1/4
Kaervek, the Spiteful
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock

Other creatures get -1/-1.

3/2
Necromentia
Sorcery

Choose a card name other than a basic land card name. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles, then creates a 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each card exiled from their hand this way.

Peer into the Abyss
Sorcery

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.