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Creature - Badger 2/2, 1GG (3)
Whenever Giant Badger blocks, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.1 The wizard Greensleeves called a Giant Badger to her aid in an battle with the desert mage Karli.
Illus. Liz Danforth
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Creature - Centaur 2/2, 1RR (3)
Vigilance1 Loyal and passionate in battle, the Windseeker tribe roams the Green Lands near the Honeyed Sea.
Illus. Anson Maddocks
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Instant, 2BB (4)
Choose target creature. If it's attacking, it's unblockable this turn. If it's blocking, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by it and each creature it's blocking.1
Illus. Melissa Benson
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 8/1/2008: This spell can target any creature. The check for whether that creature is attacking or blocking made on resolution, and it will have the appropriate effect at that time.
- 8/1/2008: If the creature is neither an attacking creature nor a blocking creature at the time the spell resolves, it will have no effect.
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Land
{3}, {T}: Tap target creature you control and target creature of an opponent's choice he or she controls. Each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to the other.1
Illus. Rob Alexander
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: The power of the creatures when the effect resolves is used to determine how much damage is done.
- 10/4/2004: In multiplayer games, you can choose a different opposing player each time it the ability is activated.
- 10/4/2004: Either or both creatures can be tapped prior to using the ability and it still works.
- 9/25/2006: If either target is illegal at the time the ability resolves (whether because it has left the battlefield, because it has gained Shroud or Protection, or for any other reason), the ability taps the remaining target, but no damage is dealt. If both targets are illegal, the ability is countered.
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Creature - Wurm 5/4, 4G (5)
"As it moved, the wurm's spines gathered up bits of flowstone, which took the shapes of dead villagers' heads. Each head spoke a single sound, but if taken together, they said, 'Alas for the living.'" - Dal myth of the wurm
Illus. Keith Parkinson
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Creature - Horror 2/2, 2B (3)
When Phyrexian Rager enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.1 It takes no prisoners, but it keeps the choicest bits for Phyrexia.
Illus. Mark Tedin
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Creature - Hound 3/2, 2RR (4)
First strike1 Quick enough to avoid jhovalls when alone and fierce enough to attack them in packs, the hounds were as at home in the mountains as the Mercadians were atop theirs.
Illus. Andrew Robinson
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Creature - Drake 3/3, 1WU (3)
Flying When Silver Drake enters the battlefield, return a white or blue creature you control to its owner's hand.1
Illus. Allan Pollack
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: You choose the creature to return on resolution of the triggered ability. This is not targeted.
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Creature - Minotaur Monger 3/3, 3R (4)
{2}: Warmonger deals 1 damage to each creature without flying and each player. Any player may activate this ability.1 Funny how money and war travel so well together.
Illus. Heather Hudson
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Sorcery, 1R (2)
Reveal any number of red cards in your hand. Scent of Cinder deals X damage to target creature or player, where X is the number of cards revealed this way.1
Illus. Carl Critchlow
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: You reveal cards, and thereby set the value of X, on resolution.
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Artifact, 0 (0)
At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Mana Crypt deals 3 damage to you. {T}: Add {2} to your mana pool.1
Illus. Mark Tedin
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Instant, U (1)
Choose one - Counter target red spell; or destroy target red permanent.1
Illus. Richard Thomas
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/4/2004: The decision to counter a spell or destroy a permanent is a decision made on announcement before the target is selected. If the spell is redirected, this mode can't be changed, so only targets of the selected type are valid.
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Sorcery, XR (1)
Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of target creatures and/or players. Fireball costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first.1
Illus. Mark Tedin
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 12/1/2004: The additional cost is paid when you pay the rest of Fireball's costs, even though that text appears second on the card (to make the card easier to read). The additional cost doesn't count toward Fireball's converted mana cost.
- 12/1/2004: If, for example, X is 5 and you choose three target creatures, Fireball has a total cost of {7}{R} and it deals 1 damage to each of those three creatures.
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Creature - Dragon 1/1, 2RR (4)
Flying; banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.) {R}: Nalathni Dragon gets +1/+0 until end of turn. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice Nalathni Dragon at the beginning of the next end step.1
Illus. Michael Whelan
Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]
- 10/1/2008: If a creature with banding attacks, it can team up with any number of other attacking creatures with banding (and up to one nonbanding creature) and attack as a unit called a "band." The band can be blocked by any creature that could block a single creature in the band. Blocking any creature in a band blocks the entire band. If a creature with banding is blocked, the attacking player chooses how the blockers' damage is assigned.
- 10/1/2008: A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.
- 10/1/2008: Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.
- 10/1/2009: If a creature in combat has banding, it's controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it. That player can ignore the damage assignment order when making this assignment.
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Planeswalker - Jace 3/, 1UU (3)
+2: Each player draws a card. -1: Target player draws a card. -10: Target player puts the top twenty cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
Illus.
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Planeswalker - Garruk 3/, 2GG (4)
+1: Untap two target lands. -1: Put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield. -4: Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.1
Illus. Nils Hanim
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Legendary Creature - Giant Warrior 4/4, 2WR (4)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) {R}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature other than Brion Stoutarm: Brion Stoutarm deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player.1
Illus. Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai
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Legendary Creature - Human Spellshaper 2/2, 1RR (3)
{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Destroy target blue permanent. {1}{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Jaya Ballard, Task Mage deals 3 damage to target creature or player. A creature dealt damage this way can't be regenerated this turn. {5}{R}{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Jaya Ballard deals 6 damage to each creature and each player.
Illus. Matt Cavotta
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