Secret Lair Countdown

SLC · 84 cards · Released

Altar of the Brood
Artifact

Whenever another permanent you control enters, each opponent mills a card.

Worshippers are allowed to pluck one memory from a chosen nonbeliever. Maybe a battle plan. Maybe a profession of love.

Brain Freeze
Instant

Target player mills three cards.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Crop Rotation
Instant

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

Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Everyone gets some time in the good soil. This week it's the Turnipsons.

Demonic Consultation
Instant

Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.

Eerie Ultimatum
Sorcery

Return any number of permanent cards with different names from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Field of the Dead
Land

This land enters tapped.

: Add .

Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Creature — Zombie

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

They say you can't take it with you, but he's out to prove them wrong.

2/4
Hymn to Tourach
Sorcery

Target player discards two cards at random.

Isochron Scepter
Artifact

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand.

, : You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

"Again—mana! And tap it! And cast! Feel the burn—you're doing great!"

Junji, the Midnight Sky
Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit

Flying, menace

When Junji dies, choose one —

• Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life.

• Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.

5/5
Krark-Clan Ironworks
Artifact

Sacrifice an artifact: Add .

Llanowar Elves
Creature — Elf Druid

: Add .

Always they are watching, carefully tallying twig snaps.

1/1
Myrel, Shield of Argive
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

Whenever Myrel attacks, create X 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature tokens, where X is the number of Soldiers you control.

3/4
Narset's Reversal
Instant

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
Legendary Creature — Demon

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have target player lose 3 life. If you do, put three +1/+1 counters on Ob Nixilis.

Many live lives of quiet desperation. His

is quite loud.

3/3
Phyrexian Altar
Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Questing Beast
Legendary Creature — Beast

Vigilance, deathtouch, haste

Questing Beast can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

Combat damage that would be dealt by creatures you control can't be prevented.

Whenever Questing Beast deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to target planeswalker that player controls.

4/4
Retrofitter Foundry
Artifact

: Untap this artifact.

, : Create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.

, , Sacrifice a Servo: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

, Sacrifice a Thopter: Create a 4/4 colorless Construct artifact creature token.

Sol Ring
Artifact

: Add .

Temple of the False God
Land

: Add . Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Urza's Saga
Enchantment Land — Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I — This Saga gains ": Add ."

II — This Saga gains ", : Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"

III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost or , put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Vesuva
Land

You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land on the battlefield.

Wasteland
Land

: Add .

, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Xantcha, Sleeper Agent
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Minion

Xantcha enters under the control of an opponent of your choice.

Xantcha attacks each combat if able and can't attack its owner or planeswalkers its owner controls.

: Xantcha's controller loses 2 life and you draw a card. Any player may activate this ability.

5/5
Yarok, the Desecrated
Legendary Creature — Elemental Horror

Deathtouch, lifelink

If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Bala Ged scribes have stanza upon stanza of its exploits stalking jungles and the mirey quags within.

3/5
Zo-Zu the Punisher
Legendary Creature — Goblin Warrior

Whenever a land enters, Zo-Zu deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

2/2
Alhammarret's Archive
Legendary Artifact

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Altar of the Brood
Artifact

Whenever another permanent you control enters, each opponent mills a card.

Worshippers are allowed to pluck one memory from a chosen nonbeliever. Maybe a battle plan. Maybe a profession of love.

Brain Freeze
Instant

Target player mills three cards.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Crop Rotation
Instant

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

Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Everyone gets some time in the good soil. This week it's the Turnipsons.

Demonic Consultation
Instant

Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.

Eerie Ultimatum
Sorcery

Return any number of permanent cards with different names from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Field of the Dead
Land

This land enters tapped.

: Add .

Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Creature — Zombie

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

They say you can't take it with you, but he's out to prove them wrong.

2/4
Hymn to Tourach
Sorcery

Target player discards two cards at random.

Isochron Scepter
Artifact

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand.

, : You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

"Again—mana! And tap it! And cast! Feel the burn—you're doing great!"

Junji, the Midnight Sky
Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit

Flying, menace

When Junji dies, choose one —

• Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life.

• Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.

5/5
Krark-Clan Ironworks
Artifact

Sacrifice an artifact: Add .

Llanowar Elves
Creature — Elf Druid

: Add .

Always they are watching, carefully tallying twig snaps.

1/1
Myrel, Shield of Argive
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

Whenever Myrel attacks, create X 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature tokens, where X is the number of Soldiers you control.

3/4
Narset's Reversal
Instant

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
Legendary Creature — Demon

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have target player lose 3 life. If you do, put three +1/+1 counters on Ob Nixilis.

Many live lives of quiet desperation. His

is quite loud.

3/3
Phyrexian Altar
Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Questing Beast
Legendary Creature — Beast

Vigilance, deathtouch, haste

Questing Beast can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

Combat damage that would be dealt by creatures you control can't be prevented.

Whenever Questing Beast deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to target planeswalker that player controls.

4/4
Retrofitter Foundry
Artifact

: Untap this artifact.

, : Create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.

, , Sacrifice a Servo: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

, Sacrifice a Thopter: Create a 4/4 colorless Construct artifact creature token.

Sol Ring
Artifact

: Add .

Temple of the False God
Land

: Add . Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Urza's Saga
Enchantment Land — Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I — This Saga gains ": Add ."

II — This Saga gains ", : Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"

III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost or , put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Vesuva
Land

You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land on the battlefield.

Wasteland
Land

: Add .

, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Xantcha, Sleeper Agent
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Minion

Xantcha enters under the control of an opponent of your choice.

Xantcha attacks each combat if able and can't attack its owner or planeswalkers its owner controls.

: Xantcha's controller loses 2 life and you draw a card. Any player may activate this ability.

5/5
Yarok, the Desecrated
Legendary Creature — Elemental Horror

Deathtouch, lifelink

If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Bala Ged scribes have stanza upon stanza of its exploits stalking jungles and the mirey quags within.

3/5
Zo-Zu the Punisher
Legendary Creature — Goblin Warrior

Whenever a land enters, Zo-Zu deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

2/2
Shivan Dragon
Creature — Dragon

Flying

: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

While it's true most Dragons are cruel, the Shivan Dragon seems to take particular glee in the misery of others, often tormenting its victims much like a cat plays with a mouse before delivering the final blow.

5/5
Mishra's Factory
Land

: Add .

: This land becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Necropotence
Enchantment

Skip your draw step.

Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.

Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Lim-Dûl's Vault
Instant

Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle and put the last cards you looked at this way on top in any order.

Tradewind Rider
Creature — Spirit

Flying

, Tap two untapped creatures you control: Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

It is said that the wind will blow the world past if you wait long enough.

1/4
Smokestack
Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on this artifact.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice for each soot counter on this artifact.

Squee, Goblin Nabob
Legendary Creature — Goblin

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

"General?!" Tahngarth roared. "General nuisance, maybe."

1/1