Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may return target card named Groffskithur from your graveyard to your hand.
It growls not to threaten, but to summon.
Each artifact spell costs more to cast for each artifact its controller controls.
The elves learned long ago that anything left here slowly vanishes. Now it is a sacred site where the dead are laid to rest and where unnatural magic is erased forever.
Choose one —
• Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
• You may play up to two additional lands this turn.
Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens.
In its center is a single red ant, a queen that regulates the hive's movements.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices an artifact of their choice.
Fortunately for it, Mirrodin is a plane without salt.
Choose one —
• Create a 5/5 green Beast creature token.
• Create five 1/1 green Insect creature tokens.
Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Beneath the Tangle, the wurm tunnels stretch . . . wide as a stone's throw, long as forever, deep as you dare.
Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
If you hear it coming, you're not its prey.
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Born amid the molten metal of the Great Furnace, the slith have more than adapted to the perils of a metal world.
Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
One glimpse of an elf's home lasts her weeks away in the wild.
Protection from artifacts; reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
They are extensions of the Tangle, stretching its vines into the furthest reaches of the sky.
Protection from artifacts
"It is my honor to keep safe Tel-Jilad's secrets, not to know them."
: Regenerate this creature.
For his crimes, he was made to forget all the trolls' secrets. Now he knows only that he is outcast, but not why.
Choose one —
• Search your library for up to two creature cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
• Put up to two creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.
Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
: Regenerate this creature.
It's no coincidence that the oldest trolls are also the angriest.
: Regenerate target green creature.
"The secret of this world weighs upon us, and we have been shaped by time and duty to bear it."
Destroy target Equipment. Add .
Mirrodin's inhabitants must be prepared for anything—including suddenly being unprepared.
: Add an amount of equal to this creature's power.
"The Tangle reaches out to itself constantly, forming new connections. We must follow its example."
When this creature enters, destroy target artifact.
Because the elves are so in touch with Mirrodin's nature, they understand best how to dismantle it.
When this creature enters, distribute three +1/+1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures.
It takes three weeks for a patrol of hunters to down a slagwurm. It takes just as long to make a single cut in its hide.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
"Release that which was never caged."
—Spellbomb inscription
First to charge, first to fight.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add for each charge counter on this artifact.
, : Destroy target creature. Then put a charge counter on this artifact.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on this Equipment.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put a charge counter on this Equipment.
Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
At the beginning of each player's first main phase, if this artifact is untapped, that player adds for each artifact they control.
The vedalken embed such urns in their living artifact creations.
Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Equip
Trample
, Sacrifice an artifact: Bosh deals damage equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value to any target.
As Glissa searches for the truth about Memnarch, Bosh searches to unearth the secrets of his past.
Sacrifice this creature: You gain 3 life.
Reinforcements . . . or refreshments?
When this creature dies, add .
Cathodions repair the Great Furnace by soldering parts of themselves to the mechanism. Eventually, they become one with the machine.
This artifact enters with X charge counters on it.
Whenever a player casts a spell with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact, counter that spell.
, , Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color. Draw a card.
"As expected, this sphere's design reflects the colors of the four moons . . . plus another?"
—Pontifex, elder researcher
Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.
: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.
This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.
Flying
This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.
Flying
This creature enters with six +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.
: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Trample
This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.
: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
Centuries before the first tides of the Quicksilver Sea rose to meet each new sun, Mirrodin's light shone on the golems alone.
: Add .
The elves thought of the myr as minor threats, just as the myr thought of the elves.
, or , : Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays .
The vedalken know it is not of this world, so they know that this world is not the only one.
At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy target nonland permanent with the lowest mana value. (If two or more permanents are tied for lowest, target any one of them.)
Activated abilities of artifacts and creatures can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.
The priests tried cursing it. The mages tried dispelling it. In the end, they all obeyed it.
Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy both creatures.
Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
, : Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
A single drop turns skin to scale and fist to claw.
Whenever this creature or another artifact creature dies, you may untap target artifact.
They skitter out of the mists to consume fresh kill before Mephidross has a chance to corrode it away.
Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature.
As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.
Whenever this creature becomes blocked, regenerate it.
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
At the setting of each sun, it emerges to clean Mirrodin's floor of the day's carrion.
, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target enchantment.
It hunts with unnerving ferocity.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each card in your hand.
Equip
Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile target land you control.
Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any type that land produced.
Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you, if this artifact is untapped, you may draw a card.
It turns the adversity of the moment into the knowledge of a lifetime.
Equipped creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.)
At first, vedalken observers thought blinkmoths naturally avoided certain places. Then they realized those places were frogmite feeding grounds.
Flash
, : Untap target artifact.
A solution in search of a problem.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player reveals the top card of their library. If it's an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card, the player may put it onto the battlefield.
: Add three mana of any one color.
Over such beauty, wars are fought. With such power, wars are won.
, : Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. This artifact deals damage equal to the number of nonland cards revealed this way to any target. If the revealed land card was a Mountain, this artifact deals double that damage instead. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.
Flying
This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, untap this creature.
, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact.
It destroys with unthinking glee.
This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, untap this creature.
: Add .
The leonin thought of the myr as omens, never imagining the sinister fate they foretold.