World Championship Decks 1997

WC97 · 121 cards · Released

Abeyance
Instant

Until end of turn, target player can't cast instant or sorcery spells, and that player can't activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.

Draw a card.

"I'm too modest a wizard to reveal the full extent of my abilities."

—Ertai, wizard adept

Exile
Instant

Exile target nonwhite attacking creature. You gain life equal to its toughness.

Honorable Passage
Instant

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to any target this turn, prevent that damage. If damage from a red source is prevented this way, Honorable Passage deals that much damage to the source's controller.

Circle of Protection: Black
Enchantment

: The next time a black source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Circle of Protection: Red
Enchantment

: The next time a red source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Disenchant
Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Disenchant
Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Disenchant
Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Force of Will
Instant

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Counter target spell.

Force of Will
Instant

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Counter target spell.

Cloud Elemental
Creature — Elemental

Flying

This creature can block only creatures with flying.

"You know you've angered the gods when the clouds turn against you."

—Sisay, Captain of the Weatherlight

2/3
Abduction
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

When this Aura enters, untap enchanted creature.

You control enchanted creature.

When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Impulse
Instant

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"Controlling time ensures you need never look impulsive again."

—Teferi

Knight of the Mists
Creature — Human Knight

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

When this creature enters, you may pay . If you don't, destroy target Knight and it can't be regenerated.

Fear the mists, for they are armed.

2/2
Man-o'-War
Creature — Jellyfish

When this creature enters, return target creature to its owner's hand.

"Beauty to the eye does not always translate to the touch."

—Naimah, Femeref philosopher

2/2
Disrupt
Instant

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays .

Draw a card.

Oh, I'm sorry—did I break your concentration?

Man-o'-War
Creature — Jellyfish

When this creature enters, return target creature to its owner's hand.

"Beauty to the eye does not always translate to the touch."

—Naimah, Femeref philosopher

2/2
Contagion
Instant

You may pay 1 life and exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Distribute two -2/-1 counters among one or two target creatures.

Ophidian
Creature — Snake

Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may draw a card. If you do, this creature assigns no combat damage this turn.

1/3
Dystopia
Enchantment

Cumulative upkeep—Pay 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a green or white permanent of their choice.

Swords to Plowshares
Instant

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

"The so-called Barbarians will not respect us for our military might—they will respect us for our honor."

—Lucilde Fiksdotter, Leader of the Order of the White Shield

Fallen Askari
Creature — Human Knight

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

This creature can't block.

In troubled times, there are few greater sorrows than a wayward savior.

2/2
Dissipate
Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

"If you weren't born with it, you don't need it."

—Grahilah, former trader of Amiqat

Nekrataal
Creature — Human Assassin

First strike

When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

"I have seen the horrors Kaervek has freed. My betrayal is certain—but of Kaervek or of Jamuraa, I cannot say."

—Jolrael

2/1
Pillage
Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land. It can't be regenerated.

"Were they to reduce us to ash, we would clog their throats and sting their eyes in payment."

—Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Necratog
Creature — Atog

Exile the top creature card of your graveyard: this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

The necratog can always dig up a meal.

1/2
Pillage
Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land. It can't be regenerated.

"Were they to reduce us to ash, we would clog their throats and sting their eyes in payment."

—Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

Counterspell
Instant

Counter target spell.

Counterspell
Instant

Counter target spell.

Pyrokinesis
Instant

You may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Pyrokinesis deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

"Anybody want some . . . toast?"

—Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Pyrokinesis
Instant

You may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Pyrokinesis deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

"Anybody want some . . . toast?"

—Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

Political Trickery
Sorcery

Exchange control of target land you control and target land an opponent controls. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

"Politics is a game—move a stone here, move a stone there—except sometimes the stones bleed."

—Shauku, Endbringer

Bounty of the Hunt
Instant

You may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Distribute three +1/+1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures. For each +1/+1 counter you put on a creature this way, remove a +1/+1 counter from that creature at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Bounty of the Hunt
Instant

You may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Distribute three +1/+1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures. For each +1/+1 counter you put on a creature this way, remove a +1/+1 counter from that creature at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Hydroblast
Instant

Choose one —

• Counter target spell if it's red.

• Destroy target permanent if it's red.

"Heed the lessons of our time: the forms of water may move the land itself and hold captive the fires within."

—Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran royal mage

Hydroblast
Instant

Choose one —

• Counter target spell if it's red.

• Destroy target permanent if it's red.

"Heed the lessons of our time: the forms of water may move the land itself and hold captive the fires within."

—Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran royal mage

Suq'Ata Lancer
Creature — Human Knight

Haste

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

"Never stop 'til you see your lance come out the other side."

—Telim'Tor

2/2
Spectral Bears
Creature — Bear Spirit

Whenever this creature attacks, if defending player controls no black nontoken permanents, it doesn't untap during your next untap step.

"I hear there are Bears—or spirits—that guard caravans passing through the forest."

—Gulsen, Abbey Matron

3/3
City of Solitude
Enchantment

Players can cast spells and activate abilities only during their own turns.

"My horizon was the arcing petals, my new home resplendent with spires of weeds and pillows of fragrant pollen."

—Naimah, Femeref philosopher

Emerald Charm
Instant

Choose one —

• Untap target permanent.

• Destroy target non-Aura enchantment.

• Target creature loses flying until end of turn.

Serrated Arrows
Artifact

This artifact enters with three arrowhead counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no arrowhead counters on this artifact, sacrifice it.

, Remove an arrowhead counter from this artifact: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Choking Sands
Sorcery

Destroy target non-Swamp land. If that land was nonbasic, Choking Sands deals 2 damage to the land's controller.

"The people wiped the sand from their eyes and cursed—and left the barren land to the hyenas and vipers."

—Afari, Tales

Quirion Ranger
Creature — Elf Ranger

Return a Forest you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.

"Respect the earth, for it will one day be your shield and another day your blanket."

—Liefellen, Quirion exarch

1/1
River Boa
Creature — Snake

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

: Regenerate this creature.

"But no one heard the snake's gentle hiss for peace over the elephant's trumpeting of war."

—Afari, Tales

2/1
Ebony Charm
Instant

Choose one —

• Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

• Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.

• Target creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Uktabi Orangutan
Creature — Ape

When this creature enters, destroy target artifact.

"Is it true that the apes wear furs of gold when they marry?"

—Rana, Suq'Ata market fool

2/2
Uktabi Orangutan
Creature — Ape

When this creature enters, destroy target artifact.

"Is it true that the apes wear furs of gold when they marry?"

—Rana, Suq'Ata market fool

2/2
Uktabi Orangutan
Creature — Ape

When this creature enters, destroy target artifact.

"Is it true that the apes wear furs of gold when they marry?"

—Rana, Suq'Ata market fool

2/2
Forsaken Wastes
World Enchantment

Players can't gain life.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life.

Whenever this enchantment becomes the target of a spell, that spell's controller loses 5 life.

Harvest Wurm
Creature — Wurm

When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you return a basic land card from your graveyard to your hand.

The wurm's weave

—Elvish expression meaning "plowed fields"

3/2
Heart of Yavimaya
Land

If this land would enter, sacrifice a Forest instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.

: Add .

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

Kjeldoran Outpost
Land

If this land would enter, sacrifice a Plains instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.

: Add .

, : Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Rogue Elephant
Creature — Elephant

When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice a Forest.

"When are trees like grass?"

The One Thousand Questions

3/3
Shadow Guildmage
Creature — Human Wizard

, : Put target creature you control on top of its owner's library.

, : This creature deals 1 damage to any target and 1 damage to you.

To keep the dead so others may live.

—Shadow Guild maxim

1/1
Black Knight
Creature — Human Knight

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.

2/2
Thawing Glaciers
Land

This land enters tapped.

, : Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Return this land to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Mind Stone
Artifact

: Add .

, , Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Phyrexian Furnace
Artifact

: Exile the bottom card of target player's graveyard.

, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

Gemstone Mine
Land

This land enters with three mining counters on it.

, Remove a mining counter from this land: Add one mana of any color. If there are no mining counters on this land, sacrifice it.

Undiscovered Paradise
Land

: Add one mana of any color. During your next untap step, as you untap your permanents, return this land to its owner's hand.

Jolrael's choice of homes was far better than her choice of allies.