Archenemy Schemes

OARC · 45 cards · Released

All in Good Time
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, take an extra turn after this one. Schemes can't be set in motion that turn.

"Take a moment. Ponder the depths of your insignificance."

All Shall Smolder in My Wake
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, destroy up to one target artifact, up to one target enchantment, and up to one target nonbasic land.

"It's my goal to find the melting point of every substance."

Approach My Molten Realm
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, until your next turn, if a source would deal damage, it deals double that damage instead.

"It's a dragon-infested lavascape of notorious peril. Make yourselves at home."

Behold the Power of Destruction
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, destroy all nonland permanents target opponent controls.

"I'd call that a successful first test. Golem! Rearm the Doom Citadel!"

Choose Your Champion
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, target opponent chooses a player. Until your next turn, only you and the chosen player can cast spells and attack with creatures.

"It seems the fate of the world rests on your shoulders, feeble child."

Dance, Pathetic Marionette
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. Choose one of the revealed creature cards and put it onto the battlefield under your control. Put all other cards revealed this way into their owners' graveyards.

The Dead Shall Serve
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, for each opponent, put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Each of those creatures attacks its owner each combat if able.

"Tell your old master I said hello."

A Display of My Dark Power
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, until your next turn, whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

"What would you say is my greatest attribute? Is it my gluttonous lust for power?"

Embrace My Diabolical Vision
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library. You draw seven cards, then each other player draws four cards.

"My vision is for the good of everyone. Mostly me."

Every Hope Shall Vanish
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, each opponent reveals their hand. Choose a nonland card from each of those hands. Those players discard those cards.

"Oh, I think I will get away with this."

Every Last Vestige Shall Rot
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, you may pay . If you do, put each nonland permanent target player controls with mana value X or less on the bottom of its owner's library.

"May bloodberries grow from your remains."

Evil Comes to Fruition
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, create seven 0/1 green Plant creature tokens. If you control ten or more lands, create seven 3/3 green Elemental creature tokens instead.

"The plants justify the means."

The Fate of the Flammable
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, target opponent chooses self or others. If that player chooses self, this scheme deals 6 damage to that player. If the player chooses others, this scheme deals 3 damage to each of your other opponents.

Feed the Machine
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, target opponent chooses self or others. If that player chooses self, the player sacrifices two creatures of their choice. If the player chooses others, each of your other opponents sacrifices a creature of their choice.

"Even you have a purpose. Your blood will oil the gears."

I Bask in Your Silent Awe
Ongoing Scheme

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.)

Each opponent can't cast more than one spell each turn.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if no opponent cast a spell since your last turn ended, abandon this scheme.

I Call on the Ancient Magics
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, each other player searches their library for a card, reveals it, and puts it into their hand. Then you search your library for two cards and put them into your hand. Each player shuffles.

I Delight in Your Convulsions
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

"I can't imagine what you're feeling right now, but I'll try my best."

I Know All, I See All
Ongoing Scheme

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.)

Untap all permanents you control during each opponent's untap step.

At the beginning of each end step, if three or more cards were put into your graveyard this turn from anywhere, abandon this scheme.

Ignite the Cloneforge!
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, create a token that's a copy of target permanent an opponent controls.

"Heroes innovate. Villains duplicate."

Into the Earthen Maw
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, exile up to one target creature with flying, up to one target creature without flying, and all cards from up to one target opponent's graveyard.

"You may even see them again. Full digestion takes three hundred years."

Introductions Are in Order
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, choose one —

• Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

• You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Meet my newest minion. Come now, don't be shy—shake her pincer."

The Iron Guardian Stirs
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, create a 4/6 colorless Golem artifact creature token.

"It would be disappointing if you were unable to overcome this simplest of defenses. Hilarious, but disappointing."

Know Naught but Fire
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, it deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

"Cranial explosions for everyone. Still planning to outthink my dragons?"

Look Skyward and Despair
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.

"Today I take the reins of destiny itself. Today the Draconic Apocalypse is upon you."

May Civilization Collapse
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, target opponent chooses self or others. If that player chooses self, that player sacrifices two lands of their choice. If the player chooses others, each of your other opponents sacrifices a land of their choice.

"This should halt the spread of your insolence."

Mortal Flesh Is Weak
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, each opponent's life total becomes the lowest life total among your opponents.

"I certainly would have accepted my offer of eternal life. But if you choose death instead, who am I to argue?"

My Crushing Masterstroke
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, gain control of all nonland permanents your opponents control until end of turn. Untap those permanents. They gain haste until end of turn. Each of them attacks its owner this turn if able.

My Genius Knows No Bounds
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, you may pay . If you do, you gain X life and draw X cards.

"I can see . . . everything. The beginning and the end of time. The raw edges of reality. And now I see exactly how to kill you."

My Undead Horde Awakens
Ongoing Scheme

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.)

At the beginning of your end step, you may put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

When a creature put onto the battlefield with this scheme dies, abandon this scheme.

My Wish Is Your Command
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, each opponent reveals their hand. You may choose a noncreature, nonland card revealed this way and cast it without paying its mana cost.

"Indulge me. Just one spell. One potentially fatal spell gone horribly awry."

Nature Demands an Offering
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, target opponent chooses a creature you don't control and puts it on top of its owner's library, then repeats this process for an artifact, an enchantment, and a land. Then the owner of each permanent chosen this way shuffles.

Nature Shields Its Own
Ongoing Scheme

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.)

Whenever a creature attacks and isn't blocked, if you're the defending player, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token that's blocking that creature.

When four or more creatures attack you, abandon this scheme at end of combat.

Nothing Can Stop Me Now
Ongoing Scheme

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.)

If a source an opponent controls would deal damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.

At the beginning of each end step, if you've been dealt 5 or more damage this turn, abandon this scheme.

Only Blood Ends Your Nightmares
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. Then each opponent who didn't sacrifice a creature discards two cards.

"But nothing will end your regret."

The Pieces Are Coming Together
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, draw two cards. Artifact spells you cast this turn cost less to cast.

"Cretins build machines. I construct destiny."

Realms Befitting My Majesty
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Look around you. All you behold is mine to rule. It's the natural way."

Roots of All Evil
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, create five 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens.

"I assure you, these are not the kind that thrive on sunlight and water."

Rotted Ones, Lay Siege
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, for each opponent, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token that attacks that player each combat if able.

"Don't come back until you've got brains in your teeth."

Surrender Your Thoughts
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, target opponent chooses self or others. If that player chooses self, that player discards four cards. If the player chooses others, each of your other opponents discards two cards.

"Or, if you prefer, just surrender."

Tooth, Claw, and Tail
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, destroy up to three target nonland permanents.

"Silence your wailing. This is but a taste of the destruction my pets have in store."

The Very Soil Shall Shake
Ongoing Scheme

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.)

Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have trample.

When a creature you control dies, abandon this scheme.

Which of You Burns Brightest?
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, you may pay . If you do, this scheme deals X damage to target opponent or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.

"Let that be a lesson to you, your family, and everyone you've ever known."

Your Fate Is Thrice Sealed
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield and the rest into your hand.

"I can't abide laziness. Arise, forces of nature, and serve your master!"

Your Puny Minds Cannot Fathom
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, draw four cards. You have no maximum hand size until your next turn.

"I have seen far beyond this imperfect world, into a tomorrow that doesn't include you."

Your Will Is Not Your Own
Scheme

When you set this scheme in motion, gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gets +3/+3 and gains trample and haste until end of turn.

"Fool. I'll show you how to use that thing."