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Why does it always have to be Snakes?
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Pharika, God of Affliction

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black and green is less than seven, Pharika isn't a creature. {B}{G}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Its owner creates a 1/1 black and green Snake enchantment creature token with deathtouch.

Creature Enchantment
Pharika, God of Affliction (jou) 154

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Ancestral Mask

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 for each other enchantment on the battlefield.

Enchantment
Ancestral Mask (mmq) 229
Nylea's Colossus

Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, double target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Nylea's Colossus (c18) 33

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Arasta of the Endless Web

Reach Whenever an opponent casts an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach.

Creature Enchantment
Arasta of the Endless Web (thb) 352
Chalk Outline

Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token, then investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Enchantment
Chalk Outline (mkm) 157
Defiled Crypt

Enchantment
Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab (dsk) 91
Desecrated Tomb

Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.

Artifact
Desecrated Tomb (m19) 230
Infernal Genesis

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player mills a card. Then they create X 1/1 black Minion creature tokens, where X is the milled card's mana value.

Enchantment
Infernal Genesis (pcy) 68
Insidious Roots

Creature tokens you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.

Enchantment
Insidious Roots (mkm) 208
Skeleton Crew

Each other creature you control that's a Skeleton or Pirate gets +1/+1. Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Skeleton Pirate creature token. (This ability triggers only from the battlefield.) {5}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Skeleton Crew (lcc) 85
Springheart Nantuko

Bestow {1}{G} Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay {1}{G} if this permanent is attached to a creature you control. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature. If you didn't create a token this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

Creature Enchantment
Springheart Nantuko (mh3) 171
Tormod, the Desecrator

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Tormod, the Desecrator (cmr) 155

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Land

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Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180
Bonders' Enclave

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Land
Bonders' Enclave (iko) 245
Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}. Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Boseiju, Who Endures (neo) 266
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 (ody) 315
Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c21) 284
Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Demolition Field (bro) 260
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (neo) 301
Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (2x2) 324
Hagra Mauling

Instant
Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106
Hissing Quagmire

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. {1}{B}{G}: This land becomes a 2/2 black and green Elemental creature with deathtouch until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Hissing Quagmire (ogw) 171
Lazotep Quarry

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color. {X}{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Lazotep Quarry (m3c) 131
Llanowar Wastes

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

Land
Llanowar Wastes (c21) 297
Overgrown Tomb

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

Land
Overgrown Tomb (grn) 253
Pendelhaven

{T}: Add {G}. {T}: Target 1/1 creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

Land
Pendelhaven (tsb) 120
Revitalizing Repast

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

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (neo) 297
Tainted Wood

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Wood (c21) 321
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 278
Temple of Malady

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 {B} or {G}.

Land
Temple of Malady (jou) 165
Twilight Mire

{T}: Add {C}. {B/G}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{G}, or {G}{G}.

Land
Twilight Mire (ncc) 443
Undergrowth Stadium

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

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmr) 359
Woodland Cemetery

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

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dsc) 326

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Destiny Spinner

Creature and enchantment spells you control can't be countered. {3}{G}: Target land you control becomes an X/X Elemental creature with trample and haste until end of turn, where X is the number of enchantments you control. It's still a land.

Creature Enchantment
Destiny Spinner (woc) 123
Elephant Grass

Cumulative upkeep {1} (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.) Black creatures can't attack you. Nonblack creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Elephant Grass (vis) 104

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Hidden Gibbons

When an opponent casts an instant spell, if this permanent is an enchantment, it becomes a 4/4 Ape creature.

Enchantment
Hidden Gibbons (ulg) 104

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Ping Damage

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Balemurk Leech

Eerie — Whenever an enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Balemurk Leech (dsk) 84
Bastion of Remembrance

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (blc) 179
Blood Artist

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (lcc) 182
Grim Guardian

Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Enchantment
Grim Guardian (jou) 73
Marionette Apprentice

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.) Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marionette Apprentice (mh3) 100
Poison-Tip Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever another creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Poison-Tip Archer (m19) 220
Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (blc) 190

Ping Damage

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Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Black Market (c17) 98
Cadaverous Bloom

Exile a card from your hand: Add {B}{B} or {G}{G}.

Enchantment
Cadaverous Bloom (mir) 258
Case of the Locked Hothouse

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. To solve — You control seven or more lands. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — You may look at the top card of your library any time, and you may play lands and cast creature and enchantment spells from the top of your library.

Enchantment
Case of the Locked Hothouse (mkm) 155
Composer of Spring

Constellation — Whenever an enchantment you control enters, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. If you control six or more enchantments, instead you may put a creature or land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Composer of Spring (cmm) 739
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.

Creature Enchantment
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove (sld) 191
Exploration

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Enchantment
Exploration (dmr) 159
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
Herald of the Pantheon

Enchantment spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Herald of the Pantheon (cmm) 898
Omenpath Journey

When this enchantment enters, search your library for up to five land cards that have different names, exile them, then shuffle. At the beginning of your end step, choose a card at random exiled with this enchantment and put it onto the battlefield tapped.

Enchantment
Omenpath Journey (big) 18
Sanctum Weaver

{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

Creature Enchantment
Sanctum Weaver (mh2) 171
Shigeki, Jukai Visionary

{1}{G}, {T}, Return Shigeki to its owner's hand: Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest into your graveyard. Channel — {X}{X}{G}{G}, Discard this card: Return X target nonlegendary cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature Enchantment
Shigeki, Jukai Visionary (neo) 206
Wight of the Reliquary

Vigilance This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Wight of the Reliquary (mh3) 207
Wild Growth

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.

Enchantment
Wild Growth (mkc) 195

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Courser of Kruphix

Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play lands from the top of your library. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature Enchantment
Courser of Kruphix (cmm) 888
Deathreap Ritual

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Deathreap Ritual (c18) 174
Eidolon of Blossoms

Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, draw a card.

Creature Enchantment
Eidolon of Blossoms (jou) 122
Elvish Archivist

Whenever one or more artifacts you control enter, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature. This ability triggers only once each turn. Whenever one or more enchantments you control enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Elvish Archivist (woe) 168
Enchantress's Presence

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, draw a card.

Enchantment
Enchantress's Presence (woc) 125
Evolutionary Leap

{G}, Sacrifice a creature: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Enchantment
Evolutionary Leap (ncc) 288
Holistic Wisdom

{2}, Exile a card from your hand: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand if it shares a card type with the card exiled this way. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, kindred, instant, land, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.)

Enchantment
Holistic Wisdom (ody) 243
Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (c21) 225
Nessian Wanderer

Constellation — Whenever an enchantment you control enters, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a land card from among them and put that card into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Nessian Wanderer (cmm) 905
Path of Discovery

Whenever a creature you control enters, it explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on the creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Enchantment
Path of Discovery (rix) 142
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (c15) 130
Setessan Champion

Constellation — Whenever an enchantment you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and draw a card.

Creature
Setessan Champion (thb) 198
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (blc) 283
Verduran Enchantress

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may draw a card.

Creature
Verduran Enchantress (cmm) 915

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Agent of Erebos

Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, exile target player's graveyard.

Creature Enchantment
Agent of Erebos (jou) 59
Attrition

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Enchantment
Attrition (uds) 52
Binding the Old Gods

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls. II — Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. III — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.

Enchantment
Binding the Old Gods (khm) 206
Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (scg) 64
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 (jou) 66
Extinguish All Hope

Destroy all nonenchantment creatures.

Sorcery
Extinguish All Hope (jou) 68
Fatal Push

Destroy target creature if it has mana value 2 or less. Revolt — Destroy that creature if it has mana value 4 or less instead if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn.

Instant
Fatal Push (2xm) 93
Golgari Charm

Choose one — • All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn. • Destroy target enchantment. • Regenerate each creature you control.

Instant
Golgari Charm (uma) 201
Kenrith's Transformation

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green Elk creature with base power and toughness 3/3. (It loses all other card types and creature types.)

Enchantment
Kenrith's Transformation (afc) 162
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 (m21) 316
Pernicious Deed

{X}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy each artifact, creature, and enchantment with mana value X or less.

Enchantment
Pernicious Deed (cns) 191
Pestilence

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment. {B}: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Enchantment
Pestilence (plst) USG-147
Seal of Primordium

Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment
Seal of Primordium (mm3) 135
Thoughtrender Lamia

Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature Enchantment
Thoughtrender Lamia (jou) 85

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Abrupt Decay

This spell can't be countered. Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.

Instant
Abrupt Decay (otp) 34
Beastmaster Ascension

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. As long as this enchantment has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

Enchantment
Beastmaster Ascension (blc) 118
Deadly Tempest

Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Deadly Tempest (c20) 131
Dig Up

Cleave {1}{B}{B}{G} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Search your library for a [basic land] card, [reveal it,] put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Dig Up (vow) 197
Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (j25) 437
Fertile Ground

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Enchantment
Fertile Ground (woc) 126
Font of Fertility

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

Enchantment
Font of Fertility (cmm) 895
Genesis Wave

Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.

Sorcery
Genesis Wave (fdn) 221
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (plst) A25-96
Nurgle's Rot

Enchant creature an opponent controls When enchanted creature dies, return this card to its owner's hand and you create a 1/3 black Demon creature token named Plaguebearer of Nurgle.

Enchantment
Nurgle's Rot (40k) 45
Rancor

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Rancor (ulg) 110
Scavenger's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Whenever one or more creatures you control die, create a Food token. This ability triggers only once each turn. {1}{B}: Level 2 Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, target player mills two cards. {2}{B}: Level 3 At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice three other nonland permanents. If you do, return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it.

Enchantment
Scavenger's Talent (blb) 111
Skull Prophet

{T}: Add {B} or {G}. {T}: Mill two cards.

Creature
Skull Prophet (tdc) 304
Snarling Gorehound

Menace Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Snarling Gorehound (mkm) 105
Teval's Judgment

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn — • Draw a card. • Create a Treasure token. • Create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token.

Enchantment
Teval's Judgment (tdc) 28
Willow Geist

Trample Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, you gain life equal to its power.

Creature
Willow Geist (mid) 207

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