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Volrath, the Shapestealer

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature. {1}: Until your next turn, Volrath becomes a copy of target creature with a counter on it, except it's 7/5 and it has this ability.

Creature
Volrath, the Shapestealer (c19) 51

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Board Disruption

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Culling Ritual

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add {B} or {G} for each permanent destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Culling Ritual (cmm) 921
Rottenmouth Viper

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of nonland permanents. This spell costs {1} less to cast for each permanent sacrificed this way. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, put a blight counter on it. Then for each blight counter on it, each opponent loses 4 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Creature
Rottenmouth Viper (blb) 107
Spitting Dilophosaurus

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature. Creatures your opponents control with -1/-1 counters on them can't block.

Creature
Spitting Dilophosaurus (rex) 3

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Card Advantage

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Arbiter of the Ideal

Flying Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact, creature, or land card, you may put it onto the battlefield with a manifestation counter on it. That permanent is an enchantment in addition to its other types.

Creature
Arbiter of the Ideal (pbng) 31★
Chevill, Bane of Monsters

Deathtouch At the beginning of your upkeep, if your opponents control no permanents with bounty counters on them, put a bounty counter on target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls. Whenever a permanent an opponent controls with a bounty counter on it dies, you gain 3 life and draw a card.

Creature
Chevill, Bane of Monsters (iko) 181
Generous Patron

When this creature enters, support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two other target creatures.) Whenever you put one or more counters on a creature you don't control, draw a card.

Creature
Generous Patron (bbd) 70
Goldberry, River-Daughter

{T}: Move a counter of each kind not on Goldberry from another target permanent you control onto Goldberry. {U}, {T}: Move one or more counters from Goldberry onto another target permanent you control. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Goldberry, River-Daughter (ltr) 351
Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Enchantment
Guardian Project (plst) RNA-130
Inspiring Call

Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Instant
Inspiring Call (pip) 203
Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Menace Creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.

Creature
Massacre Girl, Known Killer (mkm) 94
Return of the Wildspeaker

Choose one — • Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control. • Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.

Instant
Return of the Wildspeaker (afc) 168
Silent Hallcreeper

This creature can't be blocked. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, choose one that hasn't been chosen — • Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature. • Draw a card. • This creature becomes a copy of another target creature you control.

Creature Enchantment
Silent Hallcreeper (dsk) 72
Soul Diviner

{T}, Remove a counter from an artifact, creature, land, or planeswalker you control: Draw a card.

Creature
Soul Diviner (war) 218
Titanoth Rex

Trample Cycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, put a trample counter on target creature you control.

Creature
Titanoth Rex (plst) IKO-174
Void Beckoner

Deathtouch Cycling {2}{B} ({2}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, put a deathtouch counter on target creature you control.

Creature
Void Beckoner (plst) IKO-104

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Counters

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Duskfang Mentor

When this creature enters, put a lifelink counter on target non-Human creature you control. {1}{B}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with lifelink.

Creature
Duskfang Mentor (iko) 86
Evolving Adaptive

This creature enters with an oil counter on it. This creature gets +1/+1 for each oil counter on it. Whenever another creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put an oil counter on this creature.

Creature
Evolving Adaptive (one) 167
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.

Creature
Forgotten Ancient (c21) 189
Gift of the Viper

Put a +1/+1 counter, a reach counter, and a deathtouch counter on target creature. Untap it.

Instant
Gift of the Viper (mh3) 156
Hornbash Mentor

When this creature enters, put a trample counter on target non-Human creature you control. {2}{G}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with trample.

Creature
Hornbash Mentor (iko) 159
Hunted Nightmare

Menace When this creature enters, target opponent puts a deathtouch counter on a creature they control.

Creature
Hunted Nightmare (iko) 92
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.

Enchantment
Innkeeper's Talent (pblb) 180s
Lily Bowen, Raging Grandma

Vigilance Lily Bowen enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, double the number of +1/+1 counters on Lily Bowen if its power is 16 or less. Otherwise, remove all but one +1/+1 counter from it, then you gain 1 life for each +1/+1 counter removed this way.

Creature
Lily Bowen, Raging Grandma (pip) 79
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.

Creature
Omo, Queen of Vesuva (m3c) 2
Power Conduit

{T}, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Choose one — • Put a charge counter on target artifact. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Artifact
Power Conduit (plst) MRD-229
Tetzimoc, Primal Death

Deathtouch {B}, Reveal this card from your hand: Put a prey counter on target creature. Activate only during your turn. When Tetzimoc enters, destroy each creature your opponents control with a prey counter on it.

Creature
Tetzimoc, Primal Death (rix) 86
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.

Artifact
The Ozolith (iko) 237
Unexpected Fangs

Put a +1/+1 counter and a lifelink counter on target creature.

Instant
Unexpected Fangs (plst) IKO-102
Vigor

Trample If damage would be dealt to another creature you control, prevent that damage. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each 1 damage prevented this way. When Vigor is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Creature
Vigor (plst) BBD-215
Winding Constrictor

If one or more counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters are put on that permanent instead. If you would get one or more counters, you get that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters instead.

Creature
Winding Constrictor (pip) 223
Wingspan Mentor

When this creature enters, put a flying counter on target non-Human creature you control. {2}{U}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with flying.

Creature
Wingspan Mentor (ncc) 239

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Evasion

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Hexavus

Flying This creature enters with six +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a flying counter on another target creature. {1}, Remove a counter from another creature you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature Artifact
Hexavus (brc) 61
Thrummingbird

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Thrummingbird (cmm) 858

Evasion

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Land

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Barkchannel Pathway

Land
Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 290Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 290
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (znc) 124
Darkbore Pathway

Land
Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (khm) 292Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (khm) 292
Drowned Catacomb

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

Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (bro) 261
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (cmm) 993
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (one) 271
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (one) 268
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.)

Land
Karn's Bastion (cmm) 1007
Littjara Mirrorlake

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {2}{G}{G}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Littjara Mirrorlake (ncc) 412
Llanowar Reborn

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Graft 1 (This land enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this land onto it.)

Land
Llanowar Reborn (ncc) 413
Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Mana Confluence (sld) 1012a
Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress

Minas Morgul enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {3}{B}, {T}: Put a shadow counter on target creature. For as long as that creature has a shadow counter on it, it's a Wraith in addition to its other types. (A creature with shadow can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Land
Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress (ltc) 514
Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Nesting Grounds (ncc) 418
Novijen, Heart of Progress

{T}: Add {C}. {G}{U}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature that entered this turn.

Land
Novijen, Heart of Progress (dis) 175
Opulent Palace

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

Land
Opulent Palace (c19) 264
Rejuvenating Springs

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmr) 354
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 425
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (znc) 138
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (ncc) 431
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (one) 269
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (40k) 300
Vesuva

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

Land
Vesuva (tsr) 289
Woodland Cemetery

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dmr) 261
Zagoth Triome

({T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Zagoth Triome (iko) 259

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Protection

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Cathedral Acolyte

Each creature you control with a counter on it has ward {1}. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.) {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature that entered this turn.

Creature
Cathedral Acolyte (pip) 75
Mutational Advantage

Permanents you control with counters on them gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to those permanents this turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Mutational Advantage (pip) 111
Revitalizing Repast

Instant
Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 367
Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (plst) CN2-176
Bounty Board

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Put a bounty counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery. Whenever a creature with a bounty counter on it dies, each of its controller's opponents draws a card and gains 2 life.

Artifact
Bounty Board (otc) 73
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (pw23) 6
Fain, the Broker

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. {T}, Remove a counter from a creature you control: Create a Treasure token. {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying. {3}{B}: Untap Fain.

Creature
Fain, the Broker (c21) 40
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (c19) 165
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (cmm) 657
Freestrider Lookout

Reach Whenever you commit a crime, look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Freestrider Lookout (otj) 163
Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Kodama's Reach (cmm) 649
Replicating Ring

{T}: Add one mana of any color. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a night counter on this artifact. Then if it has eight or more night counters on it, remove all of them and create eight colorless snow artifact tokens named Replicated Ring with "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Artifact
Replicating Ring (khm) 244
Skyserpent Seeker

Flying, deathtouch Exhaust — {4}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal two land cards. Put those land cards onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)

Creature
Skyserpent Seeker (dft) 224
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 703

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Targeted Disruption

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Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Assassin's Trophy (mkm) 412
Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (m3c) 223
Emperor of Bones

At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile up to one target card from a graveyard. {1}{B}: Adapt 2. Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, put a creature card exiled with this creature onto the battlefield under your control with a finality counter on it. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Emperor of Bones (mh3) 90
Mystic Reflection

Choose target nonlegendary creature. The next time one or more creatures or planeswalkers enter this turn, they enter as copies of the chosen creature. Foretell {U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Mystic Reflection (khm) 69
Necroskitter

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Whenever a creature an opponent controls with a -1/-1 counter on it dies, you may return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Necroskitter (mm2) 88
Repulsive Mutation

Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Then counter up to one target spell unless its controller pays mana equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.

Instant
Repulsive Mutation (mkm) 227
Sink into Stupor

Instant
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241
Slip Out the Back

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)

Instant
Slip Out the Back (snc) 62
Tolarian Contempt

When this enchantment enters, put a rejection counter on each creature your opponents control. At the beginning of your end step, for each opponent, choose up to one target creature they control with a rejection counter on it. That creature's owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Enchantment
Tolarian Contempt (mat) 58
Vexing Radgull

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player gets two rad counters if they don't have any rad counters. Otherwise, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Vexing Radgull (pip) 41

Targeted Disruption

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Ayara's Oathsworn

Menace Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it has fewer than four +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has exactly four +1/+1 counters on it, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Ayara's Oathsworn (mat) 11
Defense of the Heart

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls three or more creatures, sacrifice this enchantment, search your library for up to two creature cards, put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Defense of the Heart (plst) ULG-100

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Sideboard

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Lavaspur Boots

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has haste and ward {1}. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Lavaspur Boots (otj) 243
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68

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Maybeboard

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Crystalline Giant

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose a kind of counter at random that this creature doesn't have on it from among flying, first strike, deathtouch, hexproof, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, vigilance, and +1/+1. Put a counter of that kind on this creature.

Creature Artifact
Crystalline Giant (ncc) 364
Fraying Line

When this artifact enters, put a rope counter on target creature you control. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may pay {2}. If they do, they put a rope counter on a creature they control. Otherwise, exile this artifact and each creature without a rope counter on it, then remove all rope counters from all creatures.

Artifact
Fraying Line (clb) 314
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood

Whenever Xolatoyac enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. At the beginning of your end step, untap each permanent you control with a counter on it.

Creature
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood (lcc) 8

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