Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Underworld Dreams

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Underworld Dreams deals 1 damage to that player.

Dark Banishing

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Pyroclasm

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

Diabolic Vision

Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on top of your library in any order.

Goblin Snowman

Whenever Goblin Snowman blocks, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by it this turn.
{T}: Goblin Snowman deals 1 damage to target creature it's blocking.

Nevinyrral's Disk

Nevinyrral's Disk enters tapped.
{1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Counterspell

Deflection

Change the target of target spell with a single target.

Krovikan Sorcerer

{T}, Discard a nonblack card: Draw a card.
{T}, Discard a black card: Draw two cards, then discard one of them.

Magus of the Unseen

{1}{U}, {T}: Untap target artifact an opponent controls and gain control of it until end of turn. It gains haste until end of turn. When you lose control of the artifact, tap it.

Seasinger

When you control no Islands, sacrifice Seasinger.
You may choose not to untap Seasinger during your untap step.
{T}: Gain control of target creature whose controller controls an Island for as long as you control Seasinger and Seasinger remains tapped.

Time Elemental

When Time Elemental attacks or blocks, at end of combat, sacrifice it and it deals 5 damage to you.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Return target permanent that isn't enchanted to its owner's hand.

Dark Ritual

Fireball

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Inferno

Inferno deals 6 damage to each creature and each player.

Fellwar Stone

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

Howling Mine

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

Ice Floe

You may choose not to untap Ice Floe during your untap step.
{T}: Tap target creature without flying that's attacking you. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Ice Floe remains tapped.

Juxtapose

You and target player exchange control of the creature you each control with the highest mana value. Then exchange control of artifacts the same way. If two or more permanents a player controls are tied for highest, their controller chooses one of them.

Hell's Caretaker

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your upkeep.

Wall of Shadows

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Wall of Shadows by creatures it's blocking.
Wall of Shadows can't be the target of spells that can target only Walls or of abilities that can target only Walls.

Sol'kanar the Swamp King

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you gain 1 life.

Book of Rass

Horn of Deafening

{2}, {T}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target creature this turn.

Jalum Tome

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Soldevi Machinist

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to activate abilities of artifacts.

Total War

Whenever a player attacks with one or more creatures, destroy all untapped non-Wall creatures that player controls that didn't attack, except for creatures the player hasn't controlled continuously since the beginning of the turn.

Jeweled Amulet

{1}, {T}: Put a charge counter on Jeweled Amulet. Note the type of mana spent to pay this activation cost. Activate only if there are no charge counters on Jeweled Amulet.
{T}, Remove a charge counter from Jeweled Amulet: Add one mana of Jeweled Amulet's last noted type.

Pit Trap

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Pit Trap: Destroy target attacking creature without flying. It can't be regenerated.

Glacial Chasm

Cumulative upkeep—Pay 2 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
When Glacial Chasm enters, sacrifice a land.
Creatures you control can't attack.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Lava Tubes

Lava Tubes doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a depletion counter on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a depletion counter from Lava Tubes.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Put a depletion counter on Lava Tubes.

River Delta

River Delta doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a depletion counter on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a depletion counter from River Delta.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Put a depletion counter on River Delta.

Underground River

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Apprentice Wizard

Control Magic

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.

Wall of Air

Defender, flying (This creature can't attack, and it can block creatures with flying.)

Animate Dead

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

Ashes to Ashes

Exile two target nonartifact creatures. Ashes to Ashes deals 5 damage to you.

Greed

Nether Shadow

Haste
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Nether Shadow is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put Nether Shadow onto the battlefield.

Royal Assassin

Sorceress Queen

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

Uncle Istvan

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Uncle Istvan by creatures.

Wall of Bone

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{B}: Regenerate Wall of Bone. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Will-o'-the-Wisp

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
{B}: Regenerate Will-o'-the-Wisp. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Xenic Poltergeist

{T}: Until your next upkeep, target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

Detonate

Destroy target artifact with mana value X. It can't be regenerated. Detonate deals X damage to that artifact's controller.

Mana Flare

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Sisters of the Flame

Wall of Dust

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever Wall of Dust blocks a creature, that creature can't attack during its controller's next turn.

Black Vise

As Black Vise enters, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, Black Vise deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

Ivory Tower

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Jayemdae Tome

Mishra's Factory

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mishra's Factory becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Skull of Orm

{5}, {T}: Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Safe Haven

{2}, {T}: Exile target creature you control.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice Safe Haven. If you do, return each card exiled with Safe Haven to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Demonic Torment

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack.
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.

Hammerheim

{T}: Add {R}.
{T}: Target creature loses all landwalk abilities until end of turn.

Clone

You may have Clone enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

Drain Power

Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.

Steal Artifact

Enchant artifact
You control enchanted artifact.

Lord of the Pit

Flying, trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than Lord of the Pit. If you can't, Lord of the Pit deals 7 damage to you.

Earthquake

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Rock Hydra

Rock Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
For each 1 damage that would be dealt to Rock Hydra, if it has a +1/+1 counter on it, remove a +1/+1 counter from it and prevent that 1 damage.
{R}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Rock Hydra this turn.
{R}{R}{R}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Rock Hydra. Activate only during your upkeep.

Basalt Monolith

Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{3}: Untap Basalt Monolith.

Sol Ring

Desert

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Desert deals 1 damage to target attacking creature. Activate only during the end of combat step.

Mountain

Swamp

Island

Braingeyser

Chaos Lord

First strike
At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent gains control of Chaos Lord if the number of permanents is even.
Chaos Lord can attack as though it had haste unless it entered this turn.

Elkin Bottle

{3}, {T}: Exile the top card of your library. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card.

Jade Monolith

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Sentinel

{0}: Change Sentinel's base toughness to 1 plus the power of target creature blocking or blocked by Sentinel. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Brine Hag

When Brine Hag dies, change the base power and toughness of all creatures that dealt damage to it this turn to 0/2. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Dreams of the Dead

{1}{U}: Return target white or black creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains "Cumulative upkeep {2}." If the creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. (At the beginning of its controller's upkeep, that player puts an age counter on it, then sacrifices it unless they pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Library of Leng

You have no maximum hand size.
If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.

Dark Sphere

{T}, Sacrifice Dark Sphere: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent half that damage, rounded down.

Nicol Bolas

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Nicol Bolas unless you pay {U}{B}{R}.
Whenever Nicol Bolas deals damage to an opponent, that player discards their hand.

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