At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you exile the top creature card of your graveyard.
"They killed my family to deny me a future. They fed on my ancestors to deny me a past."
—Crovax
Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may put the top creature card of defending player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. If you do, this creature assigns no combat damage this turn.
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
"Is it worse to walk while dead, or to be buried alive? I have witnessed both."
—Crovax
Flying
You may discard this card any time you could cast an instant.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you exile the top creature card of your graveyard.
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/-1.
Sacrifice this Aura: Destroy all non-Wall creatures blocking enchanted creature.
Serpentine locks shape ornate rocks.
Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.
Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn. It can't be regenerated.
"What is crueler? To let a wound of the heart fester, or to simply cut it out?"
—Crovax
At the beginning of your upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
, Sacrifice this enchantment: It deals 3 damage to each creature and each player.
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to you.
"The young can be quite dangerous. Trust me, I should know."
—Ertai, wizard adept
Trample
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.)
"If its skin looks like stone, it is only to match its heart."
—Crovax
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X creature cards from your graveyard.
Haunting Misery deals X damage to target player or planeswalker.
"I am condemned without end."
—Crovax
When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you discard a creature card.
Lifespans are measured by its dreadful length.
, Sacrifice a nontoken permanent: Draw a card.
"I would not barter my soul for any of the filth that they called power. So they took it from me and damned me to solitude."
—Crovax
Flying
Pay 1 life: Regenerate this creature.
"The past is a ghost that haunts you from the moment it exists until the moment you don't."
—Gerrard of the Weatherlight
Flying
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.)
"I looked into its eyes, and its soul was so empty I saw no reflection, no light there."
—Crovax
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.
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.
By the time you've seen it, you won't remember that you did.
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
"Men and rats both hunger: we for our playthings; they, for us."
—Crovax
Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
In its world of complete darkness, it has no shadows to fear.
Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. You lose X life.
"You must be mad to want one such as I aboard the Weatherlight. But I would be mad to remain here with my rotting family. I accept."
—Crovax
You may exile the top three black cards of your graveyard rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Spinning Darkness deals 3 damage to target nonblack creature. You gain 3 life.
, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice a Swamp: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
"I have seen the night torn into thin darkling strips and woven into shapes too bleak for dreams."
—Crovax
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Target opponent discards two cards.
"Because I am incapable of tears does not mean I have no need to shed them."
—Karn, silver golem
Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice for each creature put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.
"It is a narrow line between justice and vengeance."
—Crovax
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player controls a nonblack, nonland permanent, this creature deals 1 damage to that player.
"May you be a stalker's dream."
—Urborg curse
Cumulative upkeep (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 your draw step, destroy each creature with mana value equal to the number of age counters on this enchantment. They can't be regenerated.
The sea of fear has endless depths.
Exile the top creature card of your graveyard: Regenerate this creature.
"Pick a shell upon my shore and put it to your ear. That sound isn't the sea, but the whispers of the fallen."
—Crovax
Whenever a creature enters, this enchantment deals 2 damage to it.
"You can't get there from here. Well, you can—it just won't be fun."
—Ertai, wizard adept
Enchant creature
Sacrifice an untapped creature: Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
Sacrifice enchanted creature: Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.
This creature attacks each combat if able.
"He's big an' dumb an' ready to fight. A lot like ol' Hornhead here."
—Squee, goblin cabin hand, scouting report
When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to target creature.
"The next one who tells me to relax and curl up by a fire is dead."
—Mirri of the Weatherlight
Target creature attacks this turn if able.
Draw a card.
Your father has no horns!
Your mother wears a bell!
You drink the milk of goats!
—Talruum taunts
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 2 damage to each other creature you control.
"The giant wept tears of embers for the deaths of his allies."
—Azeworai, "The Lonely Giant"
Defender
When this creature blocks, destroy it at end of combat.
"Easy. All ya gotta do is push somebody into it."
—Squee, goblin cabin hand, scouting report
Cone of Flame deals 1 damage to any target, 2 damage to another target, and 3 damage to a third target.
"Mine is not the warmth of compassion."
—Ertai, wizard adept
Choose a source you control and flip a coin. If you win the flip, the next time that source would deal damage this turn, it deals double that damage instead. If you lose the flip, the next time it would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage.
Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +3/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.
"I may be small, but I can kick your butt."
: Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
Creatures you control have haste. (They can attack and as soon as they come under your control.)
"If your blood doesn't run hot, I will make it run in the sands!"
—Maraxus of Keld
Enchant creature you control
Enchanted creature has ": This creature deals 1 damage to any target."
Sacrifice this Aura: It deals 1 damage to any target.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.
Firestorm deals X damage to each of X targets.
"Glok loved storms! He'd sit an' watch an' laugh through the whole thing. I miss him."
—Squee, goblin cabin hand
Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains first strike until end of turn.
"Anger is fleeting; remorse is eternal."
—Karn, silver golem
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may flip a coin. If you win the flip, put a fuse counter on this enchantment. If you lose the flip, remove a fuse counter from this enchantment.
Remove five fuse counters from this enchantment and sacrifice it: It deals 20 damage to target player or planeswalker.
Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, destroy target creature and target land.
For once, Squee realized, he wasn't the dumb one.
Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may pay . If you do, destroy target artifact defending player controls and this creature assigns no combat damage this turn.
Cumulative upkeep (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.)
When a player doesn't pay this enchantment's cumulative upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls, where X is twice the number of age counters on this enchantment minus 2.
At end of combat, destroy each creature that blocked or was blocked this turn.
"Stroke of heat or stroke of blade. Choose your fate, traitor."
—Maraxus of Keld, to Starke
When this creature dies, each player sacrifices a land of their choice.
"I believe it when they say they're connected to the land—looks like somebody plowed her face."
—Tahngarth of the Weatherlight
Haste
When this creature enters, it deals 4 damage to you.
What cats bury, dogs eat.
—Urborg aphorism
Lava Storm deals 2 damage to each attacking creature or Lava Storm deals 2 damage to each blocking creature.
They say lava conquers all.
Maraxus's power and toughness are each equal to the number of untapped artifacts, creatures, and lands you control.
"I have no master. I am chaos."
—Maraxus of Keld
, , Sacrifice this creature: Destroy X target lands.
They wouldn't know their house from a charred hole in the ground.
This creature enters with four shell counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a shell counter from this creature.
As long as this creature has no shell counters on it, it gets +3/+2 and has flying.
Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, this creature deals 1 damage to that creature at end of combat.
"You will sharpen your teeth on my enemies' bones," Maraxus promised them, and his ogres cheered.
Choose one —
• Thunderbolt deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Thunderbolt deals 4 damage to target creature with flying.
"Most wizards consider a thunderbolt to be a proper retort."
—Ertai, wizard adept
Haste (This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)
When this creature enters, tap all other creatures.
Its hooves strike lightning and the thunder follows quickly after.
Cumulative upkeep—Put a -1/-1 counter on this creature. (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.)
The Weatherlight banked sharply as the colossal beast rose up to crush the lone rider. "My bet's on the dirt," Gerrard said flatly.
Cumulative upkeep (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.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.
"No matter where we cat warriors go in the world, those stupid slobberers find us."
—Mirri of the Weatherlight
When this creature dies, exile it, then shuffle all creature cards from your graveyard into your library.
You gain life equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
"I place this wreath for you, my kin. Even in death, you give me strength to avenge you."
—Mirri of the Weatherlight