Adarkar Sentinel

Artifact Creature — Soldier 3/3, 5 (5)

{1}: Adarkar Sentinel gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"We encountered the Sentinels in the wastes, near no living thing. Their purpose was inscrutable."
—Disa the Restless, journal entry

Illus. Melissa Benson

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Adarkar Unicorn

Creature — Unicorn 2/2, 1WW (3)

{T}: Add {U} or {1}{U} to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to pay cumulative upkeep costs.

"There is no nobler creature in all of Terisiare."
—General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Illus. Quinton Hoover

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Commander

Adarkar Valkyrie

Snow Creature — Angel 4/5, 4WW (6)

Flying, vigilance

{T}: When target creature other than Adarkar Valkyrie dies this turn, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

She doesn't escort the dead to the afterlife, but instead raises them to fight and die again.

Illus. Jeremy Jarvis

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 7/15/2006: Adarkar Valkyrie's ability can target a token creature, but since token creatures cease to exist when they leave the battlefield, it won't be returned to the battlefield.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Adarkar Wastes

Land

{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.

{T}: Add {W} or {U} to your mana pool. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Illus. John Avon

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Adarkar Windform

Snow Creature — Illusion 3/3, 4U (5)

Flying

{1}{S}: Target creature loses flying until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow permanent.)

Terisiare has only two kinds of weather: cold and weird.

Illus. Randy Gallegos

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Clinging Darkness

Enchantment — Aura, 1B (2)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -4/-1.

There's an experience worse than blindness—it's the certainty that your vision is perfect and the horror that there's no world around you to see.

Illus. Glen Angus

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Cover of Darkness

Enchantment, 1B (2)

As Cover of Darkness enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Creatures of the chosen type have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Illus. Kev Walker

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Dark Banishing

Instant, 2B (3)

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

"Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say ‘death,'
For exile hath more terror in his look,
Much more than death."
—William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Illus. Dermot Power

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Dark Confidant

Creature — Human Wizard 2/1, 1B (2)

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost.

Greatness, at any cost.

Illus. Ron Spears

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Dark Depths

Legendary Snow Land

Dark Depths enters the battlefield with ten ice counters on it.

{3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths.

When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, put a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and "This creature is indestructible" named Marit Lage onto the battlefield.

Illus. Stephan Martiniere

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 7/15/2006: Dark Depths is a land with no mana ability.
• 7/15/2006: Dark Depths's last ability is a state trigger. It will not trigger again while the ability is on the stack, but if the ability is countered and Dark Depths is still on the battlefield with no ice counters on it, it will trigger again immediately.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Banned in Modern

Dark Favor

Enchantment — Aura, 1B (2)

Enchant creature

When Dark Favor enters the battlefield, you lose 1 life.

Enchanted creature gets +3/+1.

When he began to curse what he held holy, his strength grew unrivaled.

Illus. Allen Williams

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 9/22/2011: If the creature targeted by Dark Favor is an illegal target when Dark Favor tries to resolve, Dark Favor will be countered. It won't enter the battlefield and its enters-the-battlefield ability won't trigger.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Dark Hatchling

Creature — Horror 3/3, 4BB (6)

Flying

When Dark Hatchling enters the battlefield, destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Illus. Brad Rigney

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Dark Heart of the Wood

Enchantment, BG (2)

Sacrifice a Forest: You gain 3 life.

"The soil here is rich with the rotting dead, and the sun's fingers barely penetrate the dark canopy. Plant our brethren here. This shall be our sanctuary."
—Savra

Illus. Mark Tedin

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Dark Impostor

Creature — Vampire Assassin 2/2, 2B (3)

{4}{B}{B}: Exile target creature and put a +1/+1 counter on Dark Impostor.

Dark Impostor has all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with it.

"Ah, this is a nice life. I can see why you were so desperate to keep it."

Illus. Johannes Voss

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 5/1/2012: Dark Impostor gains only activated abilities. It doesn't gain triggered abilities or static abilities. Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keywords are activated abilities; they have colons in their reminder text.
• 5/1/2012: If an activated ability of a card in exile references the card it's printed on by name, treat Dark Impostor's version of that ability as though it referenced Dark Impostor by name instead. For example, if Marrow Bats (which says "Pay 4 life: Regenerate Marrow Bats") is exiled with Dark Impostor, Dark Impostor has the ability "Pay 4 life: Regenerate Dark Impostor."
• 5/1/2012: Dark Impostor can target and exile a permanent that's only a creature temporarily, like an animated land. However, because that card isn't a creature card, Dark Impostor won't have any of that card's activated abilities.
• 5/1/2012: If you control more than one Dark Impostor, each will have only the activated abilities of creature cards exiled with that specific Dark Impostor.
• 5/1/2012: Once Dark Impostor leaves the battlefield, it will no longer have the activated abilities of the creature cards exiled with it. If it returns to the battlefield, it will be a new Dark Impostor with no connection to those exiled cards.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Dark Maze

Creature — Wall 4/5, 4U (5)

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

{0}: Dark Maze can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

"Stray not onto the path of darkness, or be lost forever."
—Baki, wizard attendant

Illus. David Seeley

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Commander

Dark Offering

Sorcery, 4BB (6)

Destroy target nonblack creature. You gain 3 life.

"Our greatest hope has become our enemy's greatest triumph."
—Court counselor

Illus. Edward P. Beard, Jr.

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Commander

Dark Privilege

Enchantment — Aura, 1B (2)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.

Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate enchanted creature.

"As you breathe your last, understand why I accept such forbidden gifts."
—Purraj of Urborg

Illus. Tom Kyffin

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Dark Revenant

Creature — Spirit 2/2, 3B (4)

Flying

When Dark Revenant dies, put it on top of its owner's library.

The murderer faced justice in the Azorius courts, but his soul was set free on a technicality.

Illus. Daarken

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/1/2012: Dark Revenant’s ability isn’t optional. However, if Dark Revenant leaves the graveyard before its ability resolves, it won’t be put on top of its owner’s library.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Dark Ritual

Instant, B (1)

Add {B}{B}{B} to your mana pool.

"From void evolved Phyrexia. Great Yawgmoth, Father of Machines, saw its perfection. Thus the Grand Evolution began."
—Phyrexian Scriptures

Illus. Tom Fleming

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Dark Sphere

Artifact, 0

{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.

"I was struck senseless for a moment, but revived when the strange curiosity I carried fell to the ground, screaming like a dying animal." —Barl, Lord Ith

Illus. Mark Tedin

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 4/15/2013: If two or more of these effects would apply, you apply them sequentially. So if the source would deal 5 damage after two of these abilities have resolved, the first one prevents 2 damage, reducing it to 3 damage, then the second one prevents a further 1 damage, reducing the total damage dealt to 2.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Commander