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0.33)","color":"#fcfcfe","bold":true},"insert":":"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"inherit"},"insert":" Instant-speed burst draw that yields 8 cards for a single black mana with the commander in play."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"#e7e7e7","bold":true},"insert":"Mirkwood Bats"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"#fcfcfe","bold":true},"insert":":"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"inherit"},"insert":" Drains opponents for each token created, providing direct lethal damage during token generation loops."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"#e7e7e7","bold":true},"insert":"Chatterfang, Squirrel General"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"#fcfcfe","bold":true},"insert":":"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"inherit"},"insert":" Doubles token generation and turns tokens into repeatable creature removal."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"#e7e7e7","bold":true},"insert":"Gaea's Cradle"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"#fcfcfe","bold":true},"insert":":"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"inherit"},"insert":" Produces explosive green mana scaled to creature count as a redundant mana engine."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"#e7e7e7","bold":true},"insert":"Allosaurus Shepherd"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"#fcfcfe","bold":true},"insert":":"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"inherit"},"insert":" Protects green spells and finishes from opposing countermagic."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"#e7e7e7","bold":true},"insert":"Heroic Intervention"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"#fcfcfe","bold":true},"insert":":"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"inherit"},"insert":" Shields the entire board against wipe effects and spot removal."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"#e7e7e7","bold":true},"insert":"Diabolic Revelation"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"#fcfcfe","bold":true},"insert":":"},{"attributes":{"background":"rgba(0, 0, 4, 0.33)","color":"inherit"},"insert":" Multi-card tutor that finds the complete winning package for {B}{B} under creature affinity."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"}]}
Witherbloom, the Balancer
Affinity for creatures (This spell costs
less to cast for each creature you control.)
Flying, deathtouch
Instant and sorcery spells you cast have affinity for creatures.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Witherbloom, the Balancer (sos) 288
$8.49 $8.92 $7.79

Commander

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Collective Unconscious
Draw a card for each creature you control.
Sorcery
Collective Unconscious (scd) 176
$0.99 $0.81 $0.75
Damnable Pact
Target player draws X cards and loses X life.
Sorcery
Damnable Pact (ncc) 245
$0.99 $1.19 $0.52
Genesis Wave
Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.
Sorcery
Genesis Wave (fdn) 396
$44.99 $42.57 $39.20
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (sld) 1937
$10.99 $5.53 $5.21
Ohran Frostfang
Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Snow Creature - Snake
Ohran Frostfang (soc) 279
$10.99 $7.20 $6.34
Shamanic Revelation
Draw a card for each creature you control.
Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.
Sorcery
Shamanic Revelation (soa) 57
$2.99 $2.31 $1.66
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
$1.49 $4.18 $0.39
Skullclamp
Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Skullclamp (sld) 1112
$57.99 $66.76 $54.71
Stinging Study
You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.
Instant
Stinging Study (c21) 371
$16.99 $10.18 $9.24
Sylvan Library
At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.
Enchantment
Sylvan Library (dmr) 350
$37.99 $27.33 $26.66

Draw

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Biorhythm
Each player's life total becomes the number of creatures they control.
Sorcery
Biorhythm (9ed) 231
$29.99 $34.70 $26.05
Craterhoof Behemoth
Haste
When this creature enters, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.
Creature - Beast
Craterhoof Behemoth (tdm) 404
$84.99 $73.24 $77.10
Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (cmm) 638
$4.99 $3.84 $3.11
Stensian Sanguinist
Whenever you attack, target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player this combat, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate (soc) 29
$8.99 $7.12 $5.66
Torment of Hailfire
Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.
Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77
$37.99 $31.71 $29.90

Finisher

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Bayou
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Land - Swamp Forest
Bayou (3ed) 283
$549.99 $499.32 $322.74
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
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Land
Bojuka Bog (ltc) 358
$49.99 $36.69 $34.37
Boseiju, Who Endures
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Channel —
, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Boseiju, Who Endures (neo) 412
$94.99 $63.47 $60.42
City of Brass
Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
: Add one mana of any color.
Land
City of Brass (2x2) 403
$32.99 $27.01 $26.36
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (pw25) 17
$11.99 $11.02 $9.55
Deathcap Glade
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
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Land
Deathcap Glade (vow) 281
$7.49 $4.97 $4.06
Dryad Arbor
(This land isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "
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Creature Land - Dryad Forest
Dryad Arbor (sld) 2281
$44.99 $26.09 $26.59
Evendo, Waking Haven
This land enters tapped.
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Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
12+ |
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for each creature you control.
Land - Planet
Evendo, Waking Haven (eoe) 279
$32.99 $23.55 $18.74
Forest
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Basic Land - Forest
Forest (ust) 216
$3.49 $3.58 $2.46
Gaea's Cradle
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for each creature you control.
Legendary Land
Gaea's Cradle (usg) 321
$2199.99 $1649.66 $1198.27
Llanowar Wastes
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or
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Land
Llanowar Wastes (bro) 299
$5.49 $3.72 $3.12
Mana Confluence
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
$47.99 $34.16 $32.04
Overgrown Tomb
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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Swamp Forest
Overgrown Tomb (rvr) 296
$21.99 $14.77 $13.33
Swamp
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Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (ust) 214
$4.49 $3.61 $2.34
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
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Channel —
, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 416
$29.99 $18.28 $16.13
Twilight Mire
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Land
Twilight Mire (soc) 418
$0.99 $0.41 $0.34
Undergrowth Stadium
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
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or
.
Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmm) 666
$15.99 $11.67 $10.26
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (ltc) 375
$139.99 $116.52 $112.52
Verdant Catacombs
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Verdant Catacombs (spg) 118
$449.99 $363.02 $389.70
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth (ltc) 407
$199.99 $211.49 $199.81

Land

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Allosaurus Shepherd
This spell can't be countered.
Green spells you control can't be countered.
: Until end of turn, each Elf creature you control has base power and toughness 5/5 and becomes a Dinosaur in addition to its other creature types.
Creature - Elf Shaman
Allosaurus Shepherd (2x2) 365
$69.99 $60.47 $57.31
Arachnogenesis
Create X 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach, where X is the number of creatures attacking you. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by non-Spider creatures.
Instant
Arachnogenesis (cmm) 647
$8.99 $6.52 $5.36
Heroic Intervention
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Heroic Intervention (afc) 161
$20.99 $17.08 $14.87
Tyvar's Stand
Target creature you control gets +X/+X and gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Instant
Tyvar's Stand (soc) 291
$3.49 $1.36 $1.02
Wrap in Vigor
Regenerate each creature you control.
Instant
Wrap in Vigor (plst) FUT-141
$2.99 $1.19 $1.03

Protection

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (lcc) 104
$44.99 $35.77 $32.30
Awaken the Woods
Create X 1/1 green Forest Dryad land creature tokens. (They're affected by summoning sickness.)
Sorcery
Awaken the Woods (soa) 49
$13.99 $13.36 $11.45
Birds of Paradise
Flying
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Bird
Birds of Paradise (blc) 81
$19.99 $15.38 $14.26
Circle of Dreams Druid
: Add
for each creature you control.
Creature - Elf Druid
Circle of Dreams Druid (afr) 383
$22.99 $19.10 $13.59
Cryptolith Rite
Creatures you control have "
: Add one mana of any color."
Enchantment
Cryptolith Rite (sld) 2293
$21.99 $16.04 $15.67
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 (sld) 246
$6.49 $6.83 $5.98
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (sld) 1170
$139.99 $129.84 $133.11
Elves of Deep Shadow
: Add
. This creature deals 1 damage to you.
Creature - Elf Druid
Elves of Deep Shadow (sld) 1710
$24.99 $17.24 $19.29
Elvish Mystic
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Elvish Mystic (cmm) 648
$0.99 $0.91 $0.51
Growing Rites of Itlimoc
When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Growing Rites of Itlimoc.
Legendary Enchantment
Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (lci) 188Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (lci) 188
$10.99 $7.76 $6.74
Llanowar Elves
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Llanowar Elves (slc) 12
$13.99 $12.79 $10.97
Nature's Lore
Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Nature's Lore (sld) 189
$32.99 $33.88 $30.74
Phyrexian Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (inv) 306
$79.99 $61.18 $58.13
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 703
$11.99 $10.21 $7.54
Three Visits
Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Three Visits (sld) 1676
$49.99 $50.02 $46.15

Ramp

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Eternal Witness
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Shaman
Eternal Witness (2x2) 368
$4.49 $2.61 $1.72
Regrowth
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery
Regrowth (sta) 56
$1.99 $1.47 $0.80

Recursion

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Assassin's Trophy
Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Instant
Assassin's Trophy (sld) 139
$23.99 $19.53 $19.30
Culling Ritual
Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add
or
for each permanent destroyed this way.
Sorcery
Culling Ritual (pw25) 4
$4.99 $5.51 $2.15
Deadly Rollick
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.
Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 695
$57.99 $38.82 $38.40
Ezuri's Predation
For each creature your opponents control, create a 4/4 green Phyrexian Beast creature token. Each of those tokens fights a different one of those creatures.
Sorcery
Ezuri's Predation (dsc) 178
$3.49 $2.37 $1.07
Feed the Swarm
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (soa) 29
$1.99 $1.06 $0.26
Golgari Charm
Choose one —
• All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Regenerate each creature you control.
Instant
Golgari Charm (plst) GK1-62
$1.29 $0.84 $0.71
In Garruk's Wake
Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.
Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (clb) 759
$2.99 $2.99 $2.11
Infernal Grasp
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Infernal Grasp (soc) 216
$0.99 $0.26 $0.20
Pest Infestation
Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Sorcery
Pest Infestation (soc) 282
$1.29 $0.59 $0.40
Toxic Deluge
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (soc) 120
$8.99 $5.74 $5.19

Removal

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Beledros Witherbloom
Flying
At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Beledros Witherbloom (stx) 282
$13.99 $13.07 $10.19
Bitterbloom Bearer
Flash
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 blue and black Faerie creature token with flying.
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Bitterbloom Bearer (ecl) 310
$23.99 $17.54 $16.29
Blight Mound
Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have menace.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Enchantment
Blight Mound (c21) 363
$6.99 $6.28 $3.85
Chatterfang, Squirrel General
Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus that many 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens are created instead.
, Sacrifice X Squirrels: Target creature gets +X/-X until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Warrior Squirrel
Chatterfang, Squirrel General (blc) 82
$47.99 $44.39 $37.49
Creakwood Liege
Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other green creatures you control get +1/+1.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a 1/1 black and green Worm creature token.
Creature - Horror
Creakwood Liege (2x2) 197
$0.79 $1.23 $0.17
Mirkwood Bats
Flying
Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Bat
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 421
$1.49 $0.95 $0.51
Parallel Lives
If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.
Enchantment
Parallel Lives (wot) 58
$42.99 $37.02 $36.44
Pest Rescuer
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you don't control a Pest creature token, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
Creature - Druid Dryad
Pest Rescuer (soc) 90
$1.49 $0.84 $0.25
Springleaf Parade
When this enchantment enters, create X 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature tokens with changeling. (They're every creature type.)
Creature tokens you control have "
: Add one mana of any color."
Enchantment
Springleaf Parade (ecc) 39
$10.99 $8.35 $7.21
Sprout Swarm
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Buyback
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Instant
Sprout Swarm (plst) FUT-138
$2.99 $6.86 $3.76
Tervigon
Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Trample
Spawn Termagants — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many 1/1 green Tyranid creature tokens.
Creature - Tyranid
Tervigon (40k) 100
$3.49 $3.49 $2.51

Tokens

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Chord of Calling
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Instant
Chord of Calling (rvr) 134
$9.99 $7.37 $5.99
Demonic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (sld) 1856
$99.99 $107.60 $120.87
Diabolic Revelation
Search your library for up to X cards, put those cards into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Diabolic Revelation (m13) 87
$5.49 $2.86 $2.14
Finale of Devastation
Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. If X is 10 or more, creatures you control get +X/+X and gain haste until end of turn.
Sorcery
Finale of Devastation (cmm) 700
$44.99 $37.11 $29.28
Grim Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.
Sorcery
Grim Tutor (spg) 76
$29.99 $24.49 $23.45

Tutor

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Army of the Damned
Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Army of the Damned (j25) 399
$0.99 $0.98 $0.19
Avoid Fate
Counter target instant or Aura spell that targets a permanent you control.
Instant
Avoid Fate (leg) 175
$9.99 $23.32 $8.32
Bala Ged Recovery
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180
$9.99 $7.85 $6.96
Bitterblossom
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.
Enchantment Kindred - Faerie
Bitterblossom (spg) 133
$44.99 $33.08 $33.83
Blood Artist
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Blood Artist (sld) 42
$11.99 $11.56 $8.94
Delighted Halfling
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can't be countered.
Creature - Citizen Halfling
Delighted Halfling (ltr) 158
$34.99 $21.39 $20.94
Dosan the Falling Leaf
Players can cast spells only during their own turns.
Legendary Creature - Human Monk
Dosan the Falling Leaf (chk) 205
$23.99 $24.29 $16.14
Entish Restoration
Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, instead search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Instant
Entish Restoration (ltr) 163
$3.49 $1.59 $1.35
Fanatic of Rhonas
: Add
.
Ferocious —
: Add
. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Eternalize
(
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Druid Snake
Fanatic of Rhonas (mh3) 152
$19.99 $16.06 $12.96
For the Common Good
Create X tokens that are copies of target token you control. Then tokens you control gain indestructible until your next turn. You gain 1 life for each token you control.
Sorcery
For the Common Good (blb) 321
$5.99 $4.50 $3.16
Imp's Mischief
Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.
Instant
Imp's Mischief (cmm) 167
$12.99 $9.43 $8.57
Lab Rats
Buyback
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.
Sorcery
Lab Rats (sth) 61
$0.35 $0.28 $0.15
Moldervine Reclamation
Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (sld) 1716
$10.99 $12.32 $13.42
Ophiomancer
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.
Creature - Human Shaman
Ophiomancer (soc) 118
$2.29 $1.38 $1.03
Preposterous Proportions
Creatures you control get +10/+10 and gain vigilance until end of turn.
Sorcery
Preposterous Proportions (fdn) 338
$2.29 $1.20 $0.93
Putrefy
Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Putrefy (sta) 126
$2.49 $1.37 $1.43
Reclamation Sage
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Creature - Elf Shaman
Reclamation Sage (fdn) 340
$0.49 $0.31 $0.15
Saproling Symbiosis
You may cast this spell as though it had flash if you pay
more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each creature you control.
Sorcery
Saproling Symbiosis (dmr) 175
$1.99 $1.52 $0.87
Seedguide Ash
When this creature dies, you may search your library for up to three Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Druid Treefolk
Seedguide Ash (plst) LRW-235
$1.99 $0.69 $0.16
Sowing Mycospawn
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
When you cast this spell, search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
When you cast this spell, if it was kicked, exile target land.
Creature - Fungus Eldrazi
Sowing Mycospawn (mh3) 340
$4.49 $3.77 $2.43
Swiftfoot Boots
Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (fic) 361
$3.49 $2.42 $2.29
Talisman of Resilience
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Resilience (dsc) 255
$0.59 $0.45 $0.30
Twitching Doll
: Add one mana of any color. Put a nest counter on this creature.
, Sacrifice this creature: Create a 2/2 green Spider creature token with reach for each counter on this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature Artifact - Spider Toy
Twitching Doll (dsk) 201
$2.49 $2.39 $1.65
Veil of Summer
Draw a card if an opponent has cast a blue or black spell this turn. Spells you control can't be countered this turn. You and permanents you control gain hexproof from blue and from black until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of blue or black spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant
Veil of Summer (soa) 60
$5.49 $4.70 $3.50
World Shaper
Whenever this creature attacks, you may mill three cards.
When this creature dies, return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Merfolk Shaman
World Shaper (sld) 2017
$12.99 $10.40 $9.19

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0 mana - 8 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 8 cards
37 pips - 25 cards
29 mana - 25 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 8 cards
61 pips - 41 cards
39 mana - 35 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 3 cards
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