Magic Deck Essentials

Temple Bell

Witch's Oven

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Create a Food token. If the sacrificed creature's toughness was 4 or greater, create two Food tokens instead. (They're artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Misc. Counters

Doubling Season

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.
If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.

-1/-1 Counters

Woeleecher

{W}, {T}: Remove a -1/-1 counter from target creature. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Arden Angel

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Arden Angel is in your graveyard, roll a four-sided die. If the result is 1, return Arden Angel from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Old Ghastbark

Ring of Three Wishes

This artifact enters with three wish counters on it.
{5}, {T}, Remove a wish counter from this artifact: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Etched Monstrosity

This creature enters with five -1/-1 counters on it.
{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}, Remove five -1/-1 counters from this creature: Target player draws three cards.

Scarscale Ritual

As an additional cost to cast this spell, put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.
Draw two cards.

Mistveil Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)
This land enters tapped.
{W}, {T}: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Activate only if you control two or more white permanents.

Serrated Arrows

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

Gates

Boros Guildgate

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Tower Above

({2/G} can be paid with any two mana or with {G}. This card's mana value is 6.)
Until end of turn, target creature gets +4/+4 and gains trample, wither, and "When this creature attacks, target creature blocks it this turn if able." (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Don't Have

Smash to Smithereens

Destroy target artifact. Smash to Smithereens deals 3 damage to that artifact's controller.

Rattleblaze Scarecrow

This creature has persist as long as you control a black creature. (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
This creature has haste as long as you control a red creature.

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Haunted Crossroads

{B}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Contagion Engine

When this artifact enters, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature target player controls.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate twice. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Then do it again.)

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}

Food

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.

Inescapable Brute

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
This creature must be blocked if able.

Citadel Gate

This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than white.
{T}: Add {W} or one mana of the chosen color.

Kurbis, Harvest Celebrant

Kurbis enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the amount of mana spent to cast it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Kurbis: Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn to another target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Planar Nexus

This land is every nonbasic land type. (Nonbasic land types include Cave, Desert, Gate, Lair, Locus, Mine, Power-Plant, Sphere, Tower, and Urza's.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Sea Gate

This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than blue.
{T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Sideboard

Gates Ablaze

Gates Ablaze deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of Gates you control.

Cloak of the Bat

Equipped creature has flying and haste.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Watchwing Scarecrow

This creature has vigilance as long as you control a white creature.
This creature has flying as long as you control a blue creature.

Clue

Madblind Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)
This land enters tapped.
{R}, {T}: Shuffle your library. Activate only if you control two or more red permanents.

Gateway Plaza

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Citanul Flute

{X}, {T}: Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Leechridden Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)
This land enters tapped.
{B}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.

Inexorable Tide

Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Weapon Rack

This artifact enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.
{T}: Move a +1/+1 counter from this artifact onto target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Golgari Guildgate

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Innkeeper's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
{G}: Level 2
Permanents you control with counters on them have ward {1}.
{3}{G}: Level 3
If you would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, put twice that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead.

Incremental Blight

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, two -1/-1 counters on another target creature, and three -1/-1 counters on a third target creature.

Giant Fan

{2}, {T}: Move a counter from one permanent onto another. If the second permanent refers to any kind of counter, the moved counter becomes one of those counters. Otherwise, it becomes a +1/+1 counter.

Gond Gate

Gates you control enter untapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color that a Gate you control could produce.

Simic Guildgate

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Lockjaw Snapper

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
When this creature dies, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Thopter

Black Dragon Gate

This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than black.
{T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Contagion Clasp

When this artifact enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Cultbrand Cinder

When this creature enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Shapeshifter

Changeling (This token is every creature type.)

Everythingamajig

{2}, {T}: Move a counter from one permanent onto another. If the second permanent refers to any kind of counter, the moved counter becomes one of those counters. Otherwise, it becomes a +1/+1 counter.
{3}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Elixir of Immortality

{2}, {T}: You gain 5 life. Shuffle this artifact and your graveyard into their owner's library.

Tezzeret, Artifice Master Emblem

At the beginning of your end step, search your library for a permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Manor Gate

This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than green.
{T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.

Talon Gates of Madara

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out.
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.
{4}: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Puppeteer Clique

Flying
When this creature enters, put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. At the beginning of your next end step, exile it.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Skeleton Ship

When you control no Islands, sacrifice Skeleton Ship.
{T}: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Debt to the Deathless

Each opponent loses two times X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

One with the Multiverse

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.
Once during each of your turns, you may cast a spell from your hand or the top of your library without paying its mana cost.

Liliana's Influence

Put a -1/-1 counter on each creature you don't control. You may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Liliana, Death Wielder, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Liliana, Death Mage

+1: Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
−3: Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life.
−7: Target opponent loses 2 life for each creature card in their graveyard.

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Raking Canopy

Whenever a creature with flying attacks you, this enchantment deals 4 damage to it.

Devious Cover-Up

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may shuffle up to four target cards from your graveyard into your library.

Dawnglow Infusion

You gain X life if {G} was spent to cast this spell and X life if {W} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {G}{W} was spent.)

Biting Tether

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature.

Forgotten Ancient

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Tezzeret, Artifice Master

+1: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
0: Draw a card. If you control three or more artifacts, draw two cards instead.
−9: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, search your library for a permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle."

Poison the Well

Destroy target land. Poison the Well deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Lobe Lobber

Equipped creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. Roll a six-sided die. On a 5 or higher, untap it."
Equip {2}

Coalition Victory

You win the game if you control a land of each basic land type and a creature of each color.

Rakdos Guildgate

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Farmstead Gleaner

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
{2}, {Q}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Scarecrone

{1}, Sacrifice a Scarecrow: Draw a card.
{4}, {T}: Return target artifact creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Together Forever

When this enchantment enters, support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)
{1}: Choose target creature with a counter on it. When that creature dies this turn, return that card to its owner's hand.

Transmutation Font

{T}: Create your choice of a Blood token, a Clue token, or a Food token.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice three artifact tokens with different names: Search your library for an artifact card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Windbrisk Raptor

Flying
Attacking creatures you control have lifelink.

Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.
{T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

Moonring Island

({T}: Add {U}.)
This land enters tapped.
{U}, {T}: Look at the top card of target player's library. Activate only if you control two or more blue permanents.

Conduit of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard.
{T}: Choose target nonland permanent card in your graveyard. If you haven't cast a spell this turn, you may cast that card. If you do, you can't cast additional spells this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Scar

Gatekeeper Gargoyle

Flying
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Gate you control.

Absorb

Rustrazor Butcher

First strike
Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Maskwood Nexus

Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)

Thornwatch Scarecrow

This creature has wither as long as you control a green creature. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
This creature has vigilance as long as you control a white creature.

Gatebreaker Ram

This creature gets +1/+1 for each Gate you control.
As long as you control two or more Gates, this creature has vigilance and trample.

Darksteel Reactor

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on this artifact.
When this artifact has twenty or more charge counters on it, you win the game.

Prismatic Omen

Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.

The Ozolith

Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.

Baldur's Gate

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of other Gates you control.

Scaretiller

Whenever this creature becomes tapped, choose one —
• You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
• Return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Darksteel Monolith

Indestructible
Once each turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for a colorless spell you cast from your hand.

Grim Affliction

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Oasis Gardener

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Gate Colossus

Affinity for Gates (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Gate you control.)
This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
Whenever a Gate you control enters, you may put this card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Sickle Ripper

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Cliffgate

This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than red.
{T}: Add {R} or one mana of the chosen color.

Crackling Perimeter

Tap an untapped Gate you control: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Howling Mine

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if this artifact is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

Raving Dead

Deathtouch
At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose an opponent at random. This creature attacks that player this combat if able.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded down.

Omo, Queen of Vesuva

Whenever Omo enters or attacks, put an everything counter on each of up to one target land and up to one target creature.
Each land with an everything counter on it is every land type in addition to its other types.
Each nonland creature with an everything counter on it is every creature type.

Orzhov Guildgate

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Dust

Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)
Exile any number of target creatures that have -1/-1 counters on them.