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Commander

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Saskia the Unyielding

Vigilance, haste As Saskia the Unyielding enters the battlefield, choose a player. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, it deals that much damage to the chosen player.

Creature
Saskia the Unyielding (c16) 41
1

Anthem

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Bloodmark Mentor

Red creatures you control have first strike.

Creature
Bloodmark Mentor (shm) 83
1

Bounce

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First Responder

Vigilance At the beginning of your end step, you may return another creature you control to its owner's hand, then put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that creature's power on First Responder.

Creature
First Responder (ncc) 60
1

Copy

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Jaxis, the Troublemaker

{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control. It gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery. Blitz {1}{R} (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

Creature
Jaxis, the Troublemaker (snc) 112
1

Creature

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Arc Runner

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Arc Runner.

Creature
Arc Runner (m11) 123
1
Ball Lightning

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Ball Lightning.

Creature
Ball Lightning (drk) 57
1
Blitz Hellion

Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, Blitz Hellion's owner shuffles it into their library.

Creature
Blitz Hellion (arb) 49
1
Giant Solifuge

({R/G} can be paid with either {R} or {G}.) Trample; haste; shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature
Giant Solifuge (gk2) 91
1
Groundbreaker

Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Groundbreaker.

Creature
Groundbreaker (plst) PLC-148
1
Hellspark Elemental

Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Hellspark Elemental. Unearth {1}{R} ({1}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Hellspark Elemental (pdci) 25
1
Mycoid Shepherd

Whenever Mycoid Shepherd or another creature you control with power 5 or greater dies, you may gain 5 life.

Creature
Mycoid Shepherd (arb) 73
1
Nova Chaser

Trample Champion an Elemental (When this enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you exile another Elemental you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.)

Creature
Nova Chaser (lrw) 187
1
Skizzik

Kicker {R} (You may pay an additional {R} as you cast this spell.) Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, if Skizzik wasn't kicked, sacrifice it.

Creature
Skizzik (inv) 169
1
Spark Trooper

Trample, lifelink, haste At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Spark Trooper.

Creature
Spark Trooper (gtc) 199
1
Thunderblust

Haste Thunderblust has trample as long as it has a -1/-1 counter on it. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Thunderblust (eve) 63
1
Yavimaya Ants

Trample, haste Cumulative upkeep {G}{G} (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.)

Creature
Yavimaya Ants (all) 105
1
Zurgo Helmsmasher

Haste Zurgo Helmsmasher attacks each combat if able. Zurgo Helmsmasher has indestructible as long as it's your turn. Whenever a creature dealt damage by Zurgo Helmsmasher this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Zurgo Helmsmasher.

Creature
Zurgo Helmsmasher (ktk) 214
1

Cycling

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Igneous Pouncer

Haste Swampcycling {2}, mountaincycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Igneous Pouncer (arb) 40
1

Discard

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Lightning Skelemental

Trample, haste Whenever Lightning Skelemental deals combat damage to a player, that player discards two cards. At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Lightning Skelemental.

Creature
Lightning Skelemental (mh1) 208
1

Draw

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Cream of the Crop

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may look at the top X cards of your library, where X is that creature's power. If you do, put one of those cards on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Enchantment
Cream of the Crop (mor) 117
1
Elemental Bond

Whenever a creature with power 3 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card.

Enchantment
Elemental Bond (c17) 148
1
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (dmc) 122
1
Jared Carthalion, True Heir

When Jared Carthalion, True Heir enters the battlefield, target opponent becomes the monarch. You can't become the monarch this turn. If damage would be dealt to Jared Carthalion while you're the monarch, prevent that damage and put that many +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Jared Carthalion, True Heir (cmr) 281
1
Mask of Memory

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Mask of Memory (mrd) 203
1
Skullclamp

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

Artifact
Skullclamp (cmd) 260
1
Winding Way

Choose creature or land. Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all cards of the chosen type revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Sorcery
Winding Way (mh1) 193
1

Evasion

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Familiar Ground

Each creature you control can't be blocked by more than one creature.

Enchantment
Familiar Ground (wth) 127
1

Land

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Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (ncc) 386
1
Battlefield Forge

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {W}. Battlefield Forge deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Battlefield Forge (apc) 139
1
Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (c19) 232
1
Cinder Glade

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) Cinder Glade enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Cinder Glade (afc) 229
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmr) 350
1
Dwarven Ruins

Dwarven Ruins enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {T}, Sacrifice Dwarven Ruins: Add {R}{R}.

Land
Dwarven Ruins (fem) 94
1
Fire-Lit Thicket

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

Land
Fire-Lit Thicket (2xm) 317
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (c16) 351
5
Grand Coliseum

Grand Coliseum enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Grand Coliseum deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Grand Coliseum (c16) 299
1
Graven Cairns

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

Land
Graven Cairns (ima) 237
1
Grove of the Burnwillows

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {G}. Each opponent gains 1 life.

Land
Grove of the Burnwillows (fut) 176
1
Jund Panorama

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Jund Panorama: Search your library for a basic Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Jund Panorama (ncc) 408
1
Jungle Shrine

Jungle Shrine enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R}, {G}, or {W}.

Land
Jungle Shrine (c16) 304
1
Karplusan Forest

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {G}. Karplusan Forest deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Karplusan Forest (ice) 356
1
Mossfire Valley

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Land
Mossfire Valley (ncc) 414
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (c16) 346
4
Nomad Outpost

Nomad Outpost enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.

Land
Nomad Outpost (ktk) 237
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (c16) 338
3
Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
1
Rugged Prairie

{T}: Add {C}. {R/W}, {T}: Add {R}{R}, {R}{W}, or {W}{W}.

Land
Rugged Prairie (2xm) 325
1
Savage Lands

Savage Lands enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

Land
Savage Lands (ala) 228
1
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) Smoldering Marsh enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (dmc) 234
1
Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Sulfurous Springs (ice) 360
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (c16) 345
3

Mill

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Mulch

Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Sorcery
Mulch (c15) 191
1
Satyr Wayfinder

When Satyr Wayfinder enters the battlefield, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

Creature
Satyr Wayfinder (c16) 165
1

Protection

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Caverns of Despair

No more than two creatures can attack each combat. No more than two creatures can block each combat.

Enchantment
Caverns of Despair (leg) 136
1
Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (cn2) 86
1
Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur, Doomscourge enters the battlefield, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able. Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kardur, Doomscourge (khm) 216
1
Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs

Whenever a creature an opponent controls attacks, if you're the defending player, create a 3/3 red Ogre creature token unless that creature's controller pays {3}.

Creature
Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs (wwk) 84
1

Pump

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Primal Forcemage

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, that creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Creature
Primal Forcemage (tsr) 225
1

Ramp

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Caravan Vigil

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Morbid — You may put that card onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand if a creature died this turn.

Sorcery
Caravan Vigil (isd) 173
1
Coalition Relic

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Put a charge counter on Coalition Relic. At the beginning of your precombat main phase, remove all charge counters from Coalition Relic. Add one mana of any color for each charge counter removed this way.

Artifact
Coalition Relic (dmc) 180
1
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (ncc) 285
1
Farhaven Elf

When Farhaven Elf enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Farhaven Elf (cmr) 225
1
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (rav) 163
1
Heart of Ramos

{T}: Add {R}. Sacrifice Heart of Ramos: Add {R}.

Artifact
Heart of Ramos (mmq) 296
1
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (mir) 235
1
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (chk) 239
1
Ziatora, the Incinerator

Flying At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, Ziatora, the Incinerator deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target and you create three Treasure tokens.

Creature
Ziatora, the Incinerator (snc) 231
1

Recursion

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Athreos, God of Passage

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you own dies, return it to your hand unless target opponent pays 3 life.

Creature Enchantment
Athreos, God of Passage (jou) 146
1
Can't Stay Away

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains "If this creature would die, exile it instead." Flashback {3}{W}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Can't Stay Away (mid) 213
1
Feldon of the Third Path

{2}{R}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of target creature card in your graveyard, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Feldon of the Third Path (tsr) 344
1
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 (cm2) 68
1
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (ulg) 63
1
Priest of Fell Rites

{T}, Pay 3 life, Sacrifice Priest of Fell Rites: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery. Unearth {3}{W}{B} ({3}{W}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Priest of Fell Rites (mh2) 208
1
Purgatory

Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, exile that card. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4} and 2 life. If you do, return a card exiled with Purgatory to the battlefield.

Enchantment
Purgatory (mir) 275
1
Rally the Ancestors

Return each creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile those creatures at the beginning of your next upkeep. Exile Rally the Ancestors.

Instant
Rally the Ancestors (frf) 22
1
Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Unearth (ulg) 72
1

Removal

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Damn

Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated. Overload {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Damn (mh2) 80
1
Impetuous Devils

Trample, haste When Impetuous Devils attacks, up to one target creature defending player controls blocks it this combat if able. At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Impetuous Devils.

Creature
Impetuous Devils (emn) 132
1
Merciless Eviction

Choose one — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all planeswalkers.

Sorcery
Merciless Eviction (c16) 211
1
Naya Charm

Choose one — • Naya Charm deals 3 damage to target creature. • Return target card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. • Tap all creatures target player controls.

Instant
Naya Charm (c13) 200
1
Ochran Assassin

Deathtouch All creatures able to block Ochran Assassin do so.

Creature
Ochran Assassin (grn) 194
1

Sac Outlet

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Brion Stoutarm

Lifelink {R}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Brion Stoutarm deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player or planeswalker.

Creature
Brion Stoutarm (pres) A2
1
Grafted Wargear

Equipped creature gets +3/+2. Whenever Grafted Wargear becomes unattached from a permanent, sacrifice that permanent. Equip {0} ({0}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Grafted Wargear (5dn) 126
1
Ooze Garden

{1}{G}, Sacrifice a non-Ooze creature: Create an X/X green Ooze creature token, where X is the sacrificed creature's power. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Ooze Garden (ala) 143
1

Tokens

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Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 3/1 black and red Graveborn creature token with haste.

Creature
Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper (csp) 131
1
Soul Foundry

Imprint — When Soul Foundry enters the battlefield, you may exile a creature card from your hand. {X}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card. X is the mana value of that card.

Artifact
Soul Foundry (mrd) 246
1
Séance

At the beginning of each upkeep, you may exile target creature card from your graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a Spirit in addition to its other types. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment
Séance (mm3) 22
1

Tutor

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Uncage the Menagerie

Search your library for up to X creature cards with different names that each have mana value X, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Uncage the Menagerie (hou) 137
1

Maybeboard

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Blistering Firecat

Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Blistering Firecat. Morph {R}{R} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature
Blistering Firecat (ons) 189
1
Haktos the Unscarred

Haktos the Unscarred attacks each combat if able. As Haktos enters the battlefield, choose 2, 3, or 4 at random. Haktos has protection from each mana value other than the chosen number.

Creature
Haktos the Unscarred (thb) 218
1
Ignoble Hierarch

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

Creature
Ignoble Hierarch (mh2) 166
1
Life's Legacy

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Sorcery
Life's Legacy (ncc) 300
1
Lightning Coils

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, put a charge counter on Lightning Coils. At the beginning of your upkeep, if Lightning Coils has five or more charge counters on it, remove all of them from it and create that many 3/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.

Artifact
Lightning Coils (mrd) 198
1
Urabrask's Forge

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put an oil counter on Urabrask's Forge, then create an X/1 red Phyrexian Horror creature token with trample and haste, where X is the number of oil counters on Urabrask's Forge. Sacrifice that token at the beginning of the next end step.

Artifact
Urabrask's Forge (one) 153
1

Tokens & Extras

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Graveborn

Haste

Creature Token
Graveborn (tcmm) 38
1
Ogre

Creature Token
Ogre (twwk) 3
1
Ooze

Creature Token
Ooze (tala) 8
1
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (tsnc) 14
1

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Description

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