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Anti anthem - v5
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Commander

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Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

Whenever you discard a creature card, you may pay {2}{U}. If you do, create a tapped token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.

Creature
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist (drc) 1

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Color changers

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Darkest Hour

All creatures are black.

Enchantment
Darkest Hour (7ed) 128
Glamerdye

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Instant
Glamerdye (eve) 21

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (onc) 145
Brightclimb Pathway

Land
Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (plst) ZNR-259Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (plst) ZNR-259
Cabal Pit

{T}: Add {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you. Threshold — {B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Land
Cabal Pit (plst) ODY-315
Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Caves of Koilos (tdc) 348
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (onc) 151
Crypt of Agadeem

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Land
Crypt of Agadeem (c14) 288
Darkslick Shores

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Darkslick Shores (one) 250
Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (drc) 152
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (tdc) 360
Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you tap this land for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Land
Forbidden Orchard (2x2) 323
Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Godless Shrine (rvr) 277
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rna) 251
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (scd) 340
Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (onc) 159
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (scd) 334
Skycloud Expanse

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Skycloud Expanse (tdc) 394
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (scd) 343
Temple of Silence

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Silence (tdc) 406
Tomb Fortress

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}{B}{B}{B}, {T}, Exile this land: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Tomb Fortress (40k) 168
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (grn) 259

Land

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Anthem

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Deathbringer Liege

Other white creatures you control get +1/+1. Other black creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever you cast a white spell, you may tap target creature. Whenever you cast a black spell, you may destroy target creature if it's tapped.

Creature
Deathbringer Liege (eve) 85
Flowering of the White Tree

Legendary creatures you control get +2/+1 and have ward {1}. Nonlegendary creatures you control get +1/+1.

Enchantment
Flowering of the White Tree (ltr) 466
Force of Virtue

If it's not your turn, you may exile a white card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Flash Creatures you control get +1/+1.

Enchantment
Force of Virtue (mh1) 10
Gideon, Ally of Zendikar

+1: Until end of turn, Gideon becomes a 5/5 Human Soldier Ally creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn. 0: Create a 2/2 white Knight Ally creature token. −4: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+1."

Planeswalker
Gideon, Ally of Zendikar (plst) BFZ-29
Paladin Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Spells your opponents cast during your turn cost {1} more to cast. {2}{W}: Level 2 Creatures you control get +1/+1. {4}{W}: Level 3 Whenever you attack, until end of turn, target attacking creature gets +1/+1 for each other attacking creature and gains double strike.

Enchantment
Paladin Class (afr) 29
The Immortal Sun

Players can't activate planeswalkers' loyalty abilities. At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card. Spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Creatures you control get +1/+1.

Artifact
The Immortal Sun (cmm) 393

Anthem

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Discard payoffs

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Bone Miser

Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever you discard a land card, add {B}{B}. Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Creature
Bone Miser (plst) C19-15

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Mana

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Boreas Charger

Flying When this creature leaves the battlefield, choose an opponent who controls more lands than you. Search your library for a number of Plains cards equal to the difference, reveal those cards, put one of them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Boreas Charger (voc) 79
Collector's Vault

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Artifact
Collector's Vault (woe) 244
Deep Gnome Terramancer

Flash Mold Earth — Whenever one or more lands enter under an opponent's control without being played, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Do this only once each turn.

Creature
Deep Gnome Terramancer (clb) 658
Dowsing Dagger

Artifact
Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale (plst) XLN-235Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale (plst) XLN-235
Kor Cartographer

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Kor Cartographer (zen) 18
Loyal Warhound

Vigilance When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for a basic Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Loyal Warhound (afr) 23
Scouting Hawk

Flying Keen Sight — When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for a basic Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Scouting Hawk (clb) 41
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (mrd) 245
Songs of the Damned

Add {B} for each creature card in your graveyard.

Instant
Songs of the Damned (ice) 160
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (scd) 287

Mana

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Anthem / Anti Anthem

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Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Vigilance Other creatures you control get +2/+2. Creatures your opponents control get -2/-2.

Creature
Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite (nph) 9
Ethereal Absolution

Creatures you control get +1/+1. Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1. {2}{W}{B}: Exile target card from an opponent's graveyard. If it was a creature card, you create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Ethereal Absolution (rna) 170

Anthem / Anti Anthem

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Draw/Discard

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Bag of Holding

Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. {2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return all cards exiled with this artifact to their owner's hand.

Artifact
Bag of Holding (j22) 756
Corpse Augur

When this creature dies, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creature cards in target player's graveyard.

Creature
Corpse Augur (cmm) 145
Currency Converter

Whenever you discard a card, you may exile that card from your graveyard. {2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {T}: Put a card exiled with this artifact into your graveyard. If it's a land card, create a Treasure token. If it's a nonland card, create a 2/2 black Rogue creature token.

Artifact
Currency Converter (ncc) 81
Faithful Mending

You gain 2 life, draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {1}{W}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Faithful Mending (mid) 221
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (ulg) 32
Ledger Shredder

Flying Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Ledger Shredder (snc) 46
Likeness Looter

Flying {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {X}: This creature becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except it has flying and this ability. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Likeness Looter (woe) 208
Matzalantli, the Great Door

Artifact
Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256
Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Creature
Midnight Reaper (grn) 77
Obsessive Stitcher

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {2}{U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Obsessive Stitcher (afc) 189
Trade Routes

{1}: Return target land you control to its owner's hand. {1}, Discard a land card: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Trade Routes (plst) MMQ-112
Unfulfilled Desires

{1}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Enchantment
Unfulfilled Desires (mir) 285
Vanish into Memory

Exile target creature. You draw cards equal to that creature's power. At the beginning of your next upkeep, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If you do, discard cards equal to that creature's toughness.

Instant
Vanish into Memory (csp) 133
Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded an instant or sorcery card this way, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {2}, Sacrifice Vohar: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator (dmu) 226
Wojek Investigator

Flying, vigilance At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate once for each opponent who has more cards in hand than you. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature
Wojek Investigator (mkm) 36

Draw/Discard

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Recursion

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Agadeem's Awakening

Sorcery
Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90
Marshal's Anthem

Multikicker {1}{W} (You may pay an additional {1}{W} any number of times as you cast this spell.) Creatures you control get +1/+1. When this enchantment enters, return up to X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the number of times this enchantment was kicked.

Enchantment
Marshal's Anthem (otc) 82
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (tmp) 151
Sister Hospitaller

Medicus Ministorum — When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You gain life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Sister Hospitaller (40k) 141
Tortured Existence

{B}, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Tortured Existence (plst) STH-74

Recursion

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Anti anthem

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Archfiend of Ifnir

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Archfiend of Ifnir (akh) 78
Archfiend of Sorrows

Flying When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. Unearth {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Archfiend of Sorrows (mh2) 74
Crovax, Ascendant Hero

Other white creatures get +1/+1. Nonwhite creatures get -1/-1. Pay 2 life: Return Crovax to its owner's hand.

Creature
Crovax, Ascendant Hero (tsr) 15
Dread of Night

White creatures get -1/-1.

Enchantment
Dread of Night (6ed) 122
Illness in the Ranks

Creature tokens get -1/-1.

Enchantment
Illness in the Ranks (gtc) 69
Kaervek, the Spiteful

Other creatures get -1/-1.

Creature
Kaervek, the Spiteful (m21) 106
Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Creature
Massacre Wurm (j22) 441
Night of Souls' Betrayal

All creatures get -1/-1.

Enchantment
Night of Souls' Betrayal (chk) 133
Noxious Ghoul

Whenever this creature or another Zombie enters, all non-Zombie creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Noxious Ghoul (plst) LGN-77
Persistent Constrictor

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, they lose 1 life and you put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature they control. 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.)

Creature
Persistent Constrictor (dsc) 22
Plague Engineer

Deathtouch As this creature enters, choose a creature type. Creatures of the chosen type your opponents control get -1/-1.

Creature
Plague Engineer (mh1) 100
Stronghold Taskmaster

Other black creatures get -1/-1.

Creature
Stronghold Taskmaster (sth) 72
The Flesh Is Weak

When this enchantment enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them are artifacts in addition to their other types. Nonartifact creatures get -1/-1.

Enchantment
The Flesh Is Weak (40k) 122
Toxrill, the Corrosive

At the beginning of each end step, put a slime counter on each creature you don't control. Creatures you don't control get -1/-1 for each slime counter on them. Whenever a creature you don't control with a slime counter on it dies, create a 1/1 black Slug creature token. {U}{B}, Sacrifice a Slug: Draw a card.

Creature
Toxrill, the Corrosive (vow) 132
Urborg Shambler

Other black creatures get -1/-1.

Creature
Urborg Shambler (inv) 133

Anti anthem

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Enchantment

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Opalescence

Each other non-Aura enchantment is a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its mana value.

Enchantment
Opalescence (uds) 13

Enchantment

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Toughness sweeper

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Flatline

Creatures your opponents control have base power and toughness 0/1 until end of turn.

Instant
Flatline (who) 43
Godhead of Awe

Flying Other creatures have base power and toughness 1/1.

Creature
Godhead of Awe (shm) 142
Maha, Its Feathers Night

Flying, trample Ward—Discard a card. Creatures your opponents control have base toughness 1.

Creature
Maha, Its Feathers Night (blb) 100
Sorceress Queen

{T}: Target creature other than this creature has base power and toughness 0/2 until end of turn.

Creature
Sorceress Queen (5ed) 194
Warkite Marauder

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, target creature defending player controls loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 0/1 until end of turn.

Creature
Warkite Marauder (rix) 60

Toughness sweeper

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Maybeboard

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Alter Reality

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Alter Reality (tor) 22
Amphibian Downpour

Flash Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies. Copies become tokens.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a blue Frog creature with base power and toughness 1/1.

Enchantment
Amphibian Downpour (mh3) 51
Angel of Indemnity

Flying, lifelink When this creature enters, return target permanent card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Encore {6}{W}{W} ({6}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Angel of Indemnity (otc) 9
Anvil of Bogardan

Players have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card, then discards a card.

Artifact
Anvil of Bogardan (vis) 141
Ascendant Evincar

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Other black creatures get +1/+1. Nonblack creatures get -1/-1.

Creature
Ascendant Evincar (hop) 17
Bane, Lord of Darkness

As long as your life total is less than or equal to half your starting life total, Bane has indestructible. Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, target opponent may have you draw a card. If they don't, you may put a creature card with equal or lesser toughness from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Bane, Lord of Darkness (clb) 267
Benalish Marshal

Other creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature
Benalish Marshal (dom) 6
Blessed Orator

Other creatures you control get +0/+1.

Creature
Blessed Orator (ody) 12
Body Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature card in a graveyard.

Creature
Body Double (cmm) 75
Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Burnished Hart (cmm) 373
Caltrops

Whenever a creature attacks, this artifact deals 1 damage to it.

Artifact
Caltrops (7ed) 288
Clackbridge Troll

Trample, haste When this creature enters, target opponent creates three 0/1 white Goat creature tokens. At the beginning of combat on your turn, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap this creature, you gain 3 life, and you draw a card.

Creature
Clackbridge Troll (eld) 84
Clever Impersonator

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.

Creature
Clever Impersonator (c19) 82
Copy Enchantment

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

Enchantment
Copy Enchantment (rvr) 39
Cryptcaller Chariot

Menace Whenever you discard one or more cards, create that many tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Crew 2

Artifact
Cryptcaller Chariot (dft) 306
Disciple of Bolas

When this creature enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Creature
Disciple of Bolas (ncc) 247
Doomwake Giant

Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Doomwake Giant (cmm) 865
Dovescape

({W/U} can be paid with either {W} or {U}.) Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, counter that spell. That player creates X 1/1 white and blue Bird creature tokens with flying, where X is the spell's mana value.

Enchantment
Dovescape (dis) 143
Dying to Serve

Whenever you discard one or more cards, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Dying to Serve (vow) 109
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (j22) 765
Genesis Chamber

Whenever a nontoken creature enters, if this artifact is untapped, that creature's controller creates a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.

Artifact
Genesis Chamber (bbd) 235
Glen Elendra Liege

Flying Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1. Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature
Glen Elendra Liege (woc) 138
Grim Haruspex

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Creature
Grim Haruspex (clb) 754
Hall of Heliod's Generosity

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{W}, {T}: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Hall of Heliod's Generosity (dsc) 283
Harbinger of Night

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature.

Creature
Harbinger of Night (mir) 128
Hideous Laughter

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Splice onto Arcane {3}{B}{B} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Hideous Laughter (chk) 115
Humility

All creatures lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 1/1.

Enchantment
Humility (tmp) 24
Hunted Bonebrute

Menace When this creature enters, target opponent creates two 1/1 white Dog creature tokens. When this creature dies, each opponent loses 3 life. Disguise {1}{B}

Creature
Hunted Bonebrute (mkm) 87
Hunted Phantasm

This creature can't be blocked. When this creature enters, target opponent creates five 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.

Creature
Hunted Phantasm (rav) 55
Kabira Vindicator

Level up {2}{W} ({2}{W}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.) LEVEL 2-4 3/6 Other creatures you control get +1/+1. LEVEL 5+ 4/8 Other creatures you control get +2/+2.

Creature
Kabira Vindicator (plst) DDP-4
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor

Whenever one or more tokens your opponents control enter, for each of them, create a tapped token that's a copy of it. This ability triggers only once each turn. Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor (otj) 211
Kongming, "Sleeping Dragon"

Other creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature
Kongming, "Sleeping Dragon" (a25) 20
Kormus Bell

All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

Artifact
Kormus Bell (4ed) 332
Lazotep Chancellor

Whenever you discard a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, amass Zombies 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

Creature
Lazotep Chancellor (drc) 117
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Malicious Eclipse

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If a creature an opponent controls would die this turn, exile it instead.

Sorcery
Malicious Eclipse (lci) 111
Mass Diminish

Until your next turn, creatures target player controls have base power and toughness 1/1. Flashback {3}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Mass Diminish (c19) 10
Midnight Banshee

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each nonblack creature.

Creature
Midnight Banshee (mm2) 86
Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (inr) 388
Mulldrifter

Flying When this creature enters, draw two cards. Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Mulldrifter (2x2) 60
Necrologia

Cast this spell only during your end step. As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Draw X cards.

Instant
Necrologia (plst) 7ED-149
Night Clubber

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. Blitz {2}{B} (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

Creature
Night Clubber (snc) 89
Orzhov Pontiff

Haunt (When this creature dies, exile it haunting target creature.) When this creature enters or the creature it haunts dies, choose one — • Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. • Creatures you don't control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Orzhov Pontiff (2x2) 261
Painter's Servant

As this creature enters, choose a color. All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are the chosen color in addition to their other colors.

Creature Artifact
Painter's Servant (shm) 257
Palace Jailer

When this creature enters, you become the monarch. When this creature enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until an opponent becomes the monarch.

Creature
Palace Jailer (cmm) 47
Phantatog

Sacrifice an enchantment: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Discard a card: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Phantatog (ody) 291
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Phyrexian Delver

When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Creature
Phyrexian Delver (inv) 115
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Plague Mare

This creature can't be blocked by white creatures. When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Plague Mare (m19) 114
Plague Spitter

At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Creature
Plague Spitter (j22) 456
Polymorphist's Jest

Until end of turn, each creature target player controls loses all abilities and becomes a blue Frog with base power and toughness 1/1.

Instant
Polymorphist's Jest (c17) 90
Primaris Eliminator

When this creature enters, choose one — • Executioner Round — Destroy target creature. • Hyperfrag Round — Creatures target player controls get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Primaris Eliminator (40k) 50
Quicksand

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target attacking creature without flying gets -1/-2 until end of turn.

Land
Quicksand (a25) 245
Ruthless Sniper

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Creature
Ruthless Sniper (akh) 105
Sandstone Oracle

Flying When this creature enters, choose an opponent. If that player has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.

Creature Artifact
Sandstone Oracle (cmm) 406
Shadows of the Past

Whenever a creature dies, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {4}{B}: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Activate only if there are four or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Enchantment
Shadows of the Past (ddr) 60
Shrouded Shepherd

Creature
Shrouded Shepherd // Cleave Shadows (woe) 236
Slaughter Specialist

When this creature enters, each opponent creates a 1/1 white Human creature token. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Slaughter Specialist (mid) 122
Slithermuse

When this creature leaves the battlefield, choose an opponent. If that player has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference. Evoke {3}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Slithermuse (mor) 50
Suffocating Fumes

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Suffocating Fumes (plst) IKO-100
Sway of Illusion

Any number of target creatures become the color of your choice until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Sway of Illusion (inv) 77
Tainted Aether

Whenever a creature enters, its controller sacrifices a creature or land of their choice.

Enchantment
Tainted Aether (usg) 161
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (mid) 112
Thief of Blood

Flying As this creature enters, remove all counters from all permanents. This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each counter removed this way.

Creature
Thief of Blood (cma) 71
Thistledown Liege

Flash Other white creatures you control get +1/+1. Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature
Thistledown Liege (2x2) 285
Tombstone Stairwell

Cumulative upkeep {1}{B} (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 upkeep, if this enchantment is on the battlefield, each player creates a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with haste named Tombspawn for each creature card in their graveyard. At the beginning of each end step and when this enchantment leaves the battlefield, destroy all tokens created with this enchantment. They can't be regenerated.

Enchantment
Tombstone Stairwell (mir) 149
Tourach's Chant

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay {B}. Whenever a player puts a Forest onto the battlefield, this enchantment deals 3 damage to that player unless they put a -1/-1 counter on a creature they control.

Enchantment
Tourach's Chant (fem) 47
Virulent Plague

Creature tokens get -2/-2.

Enchantment
Virulent Plague (dtk) 125
Wail of War

Choose one — • Creatures target opponent controls get -1/-1 until end of turn. • Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Wail of War (tdm) 98
Wake the Dead

Cast this spell only during combat on an opponent's turn. Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice those creatures at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Wake the Dead (cmm) 197
Will Kenrith

+2: Until your next turn, up to two target creatures each have base power and toughness 0/3 and lose all abilities. −2: Target player draws two cards. Until your next turn, instant, sorcery, and planeswalker spells that player casts cost {2} less to cast. −8: Target player gets an emblem with "Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy." Partner with Rowan Kenrith Will Kenrith can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Will Kenrith (clb) 738
Zealous Persecution

Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 and creatures your opponents control get -1/-1.

Instant
Zealous Persecution (plst) E02-41

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (mkc) 125
Engineered Plague

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. All creatures of the chosen type get -1/-1.

Enchantment
Engineered Plague (ulg) 51

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Clue

{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.

Artifact Token
Clue (tinr) 22
Copy

(This token can be used to represent a token that's a copy of a permanent.)

Token
Copy (tdsk) 1
Gideon, Ally of Zendikar Emblem

Creatures you control get +1/+1.

Emblem
Gideon, Ally of Zendikar Emblem (tbfz) 12
Knight Ally

Creature Token
Knight Ally (tbfz) 5
Plant

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Token
Plant (plst) TXLN-6
Rogue

Creature Token
Rogue (totc) 9
Slug

Creature Token
Slug (tvow) 6
Spirit

Creature Token
Spirit (t2x2) 2
Spirit

Flying

Creature Token
Spirit (tmh3) 28
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (t30a) 15

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35 pips - 22 cards
20 mana - 18 cards
18 pips - 14 cards
18 mana - 16 cards
48 pips - 32 cards
32 mana - 28 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
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0 mana - 6 cards
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2 mana - 2 cards
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