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Creature - Spirit 0/1, 2BB (4)
{X}, {T}: Banshee deals half X damage, rounded down, to target creature or player, and half X damage, rounded up, to you.1
Some say Banshees are the hounds of Death, baying to herd their prey into the arms of their master.
Illus. Jesper Myrfors
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Creature - Rat 1/1, B (1)
Bog Rats can't be blocked by Walls.1
Their stench was vile and strong enough, but not nearly as powerful as their hunger.
Illus. Ron Spencer
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Creature - Human Wizard 1/3, BB (2)
{T}: Cuombajj Witches deals 1 damage to target creature or player and 1 damage to target creature or player of an opponent's choice.1
Illus. Kaja Foglio
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: In multiplayer games you can choose a different opposing player each time it is used. You also don't have to choose the same player that you targeted with the effect (or whose creature you targeted).
- 10/4/2004: If either target becomes invalid, the other one is still affected.
- 10/4/2004: Both targets are chosen on activation, but you choose your target before the opponent chooses.
- 10/4/2004: It does not target the opponent, but you choose an opponent to do the targeting.
- 10/1/2005: The two targets can be the same.
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Creature - Angel 3/3, 3BB (5)
Flying
Sacrifice a creature: Fallen Angel gets +2/+1 until end of turn.1
Illus. Anson Maddocks
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: Can sacrifice itself.
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Creature - Slug 1/1, 1B (2)
{5}: At the beginning of your next upkeep, choose a basic land type. Giant Slug gains landwalk of the chosen type until the end of that turn.1
Illus. Anson Maddocks
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: If the Slug changes controllers after the mana is spent, the player who activates this ability selects a landwalk during their next upkeep even if they don't control it at the time.
- 10/4/2004: When the ability resolves, it creates another ability that triggers at the beginning of your next upkeep. When that ability resolves, you choose a basic land type.
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Creature - Ogre 3/2, BB (2)
Whenever Hasran Ogress attacks, it deals 3 damage to you unless you pay {2}.1
Illus. Dan Frazier
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: You either take damage or pay the 2 mana during resolution.
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Creature - Horror 1/1, 3B (4)
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.1
You might leave here, Chenndra, should another take your place...
Illus. Sandra Everingham
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: Can sacrifice itself.
- 8/1/2005: This is not a beginning of upkeep triggered ability; you can activate it any time during your upkeep.
- 8/1/2005: The ability does not give the returned creature Haste.
- 4/1/2008: A "creature card" is any card with the type Creature, even if it has other types such as Artifact, Enchantment, or Land. Older cards of type Summon are also Creature cards.
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Creature - Nightstalker 4/4, 3BB (5)
{B}, {T}: All damage that would be dealt to you this turn by target attacking creature is dealt to Shimian Night Stalker instead.1
"When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out/ Contagion to this world." -William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Illus. Jesper Myrfors
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: Can redirect damage from combat and from abilities, but the creature must be attacking before you can use this card's ability.
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Enchantment - Aura, 2BB (4)
Enchant creature
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -0/-1 counter on that creature.
When enchanted creature is put into a graveyard, that creature's controller chooses a creature that Takklemaggot could enchant. If he or she does, return Takklemaggot to the battlefield under your control attached to that creature. If he or she doesn't, return Takklemaggot to the battlefield under your control as a non-Aura enchantment. It loses "enchant creature" and gains "At the beginning of that player's upkeep, Takklemaggot deals 1 damage to him or her."1
Illus. Daniel Gelon
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: If the creature leaves play without going to the graveyard, Takklemaggot is simply put into its owner's graveyard.
- 5/1/2008: The controller of the creature which is destroyed chooses which creature it will enchant after returning to play. If there are no legal choices, then Takklemaggot returns to play as a non-Aura enchantment.
- 5/1/2008: The new creature is chosen, and Takklemaggot is put on that creature all during the resolution of the triggered ability.
- 5/1/2008: Takklemaggot's controller no longer changes as it returns to play. The player who controlled it when it left play is the same player that controls it when it returns to play, even though a different player may be choosing what it will be attached to after returning into play.
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Creature - Zombie 2/3, 1BBB (4)
At the beginning of your upkeep, The Fallen deals 1 damage to each opponent it has dealt damage to this game.1
Magic often masters those who cannot master it.
Illus. Jesper Myrfors
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: It stops damaging players and forgets which players it damaged when it leaves the battlefield.
- 9/16/2007: If The Fallen phases out and back in, it remembers which players it has dealt damage to this game.
- 9/16/2007: The Fallen's ability causes it to deal damage only to opponents of its current controller. If The Fallen has dealt damage to you, and then you gain control of it, you won't be damaged during your upkeep.
- 9/16/2007: The effect isn't cumulative. When it resolves, The Fallen deals 1 damage to each opponent previously dealt damage by it, regardless of how many times The Fallen dealt damage to that opponent before.
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Creature - Demon 2/5, 3BB (5)
At end of combat, gain control of all creatures blocking The Wretched for as long as you control The Wretched.1
Illus. Christopher Rush
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: It affects creatures currently being blocked by this card at the end of combat and not ones that might have been removed before then.
- 10/4/2004: If The Wretched blocks and regenerates, it is removed from combat, so The Wretched will not be blocking anything at the end of combat. This means there will be no creatures blocking it when the triggered ability resolves and so the ability does nothing.
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Instant, 1B (2)
Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.1
"You know what I was,/ You see what I am: change me, change me!" -Randall Jarrell, The Woman at the Washington Zoo
Illus. Susan Van Camp
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 11/1/2005: Note that the wording "Effects that alter the creature's power alter its toughness instead, and vice versa, this turn" has been removed.
- 10/1/2009: When figuring a creature's power and toughness, apply effects in a series of sublayers in the following order: (a) effects from characteristic-defining abilities; (b) effects that set power and/or toughness to a specific number or value; (c) effects that modify power and/or toughness but don't set power and/or toughness to a specific number or value; (d) changes from counters; (e) effects that switch a creature's power and toughness. This means that effects that switch power and toughness are always applied last when determining a creature's power and toughness, even if other power/toughness-changing effects are created later in the turn.
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Creature - Wall 0/1, 1BB (3)
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.1
Illus. Pete Venters
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: The Chronicles vesion of this card was printed with the wrong expansion symbol. That version of this card has errata to replace that symbol with a Legends symbol.
- 10/4/2004: Can be targeted by a modal spell that can target a non-Wall in one of its modes, even if it has a mode that targets only Walls. That spell can, in theory, target a non-Wall, so it is not a "spell that can target only walls".
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Creature - Demon 6/6, 4BB (6)
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice an artifact. If you don't, tap Yawgmoth Demon and it deals 2 damage to you.1
Illus. Sandra Everingham
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: The sacrificing of an artifact is not mandatory. You can choose not to sacrifice an artifact but will pay the consequences.
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Creature - Drake 2/4, 3U (4)
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)1
The Azure Drake would be more powerful were it not so easily distracted.
Illus. Dan Frazier
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Instant, UU (2)
Return target permanent to its owner's hand.1
"O! call back yesterday, bid time return." -William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second
Illus. Brian Snõddy
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Enchantment, UU (2)
When Dance of Many enters the battlefield, put a token that's a copy of target nontoken creature onto the battlefield.
When Dance of Many leaves the battlefield, exile the token.
When the token leaves the battlefield, sacrifice Dance of Many.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Dance of Many unless you pay {U}{U}.1
Illus. Sandra Everingham
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: Destroying the creature that was copied will not cause the token creature to be destroyed as well.
- 10/4/2004: The "remove from game" triggered abilities are on Dance of Many and not from the token. If Dance of Many loses its abilities, removing one from play won't destroy the other.
- 10/4/2004: Each Dance of Many is associated only with its token creature. If one leaves play, only the corresponding token is affect, not all tokens from all instances of Dance of Many.
- 10/4/2004: The ability is targeted and checks the validity of the target when declared and when resolving. If the creature is not still there when the copy resolves, the copy ability is countered and no token is put into play. This card remains in play as a global enchantment with no token.
- 10/4/2004: The mana cost is copied. This makes Dance of Many the exception to the rule that token creatures have a mana cost of zero.
- 10/4/2004: Treat the token as coming into play as a copy of the chosen creature. If that creature normally gets counters when played, the token creature gets counters.
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Creature - Fish 4/1, UU (2)
Dandân can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice Dandân.1
Illus. Drew Tucker
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Instant, U (1)
Attach target Aura attached to a creature or land to another permanent of that type.1
Illus. Brian Snõddy
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 8/1/2005: If you change this card's target, you can change which Aura is targeted, but you can't choose where that Aura will be moved.
- 8/1/2005: Only targets the Aura and not either of the things the Aura may be on.
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Enchantment - Aura, 1U (2)
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)
Enchanted creature has islandwalk. (This creature is unblockable as long as defending player controls an Island.)1
Then the maiden bade him cast off his robes and cover his body with fishliver oil, that he might safely follow her into the sea.
Illus. Anson Maddocks
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