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Nev, the Practical Dean
Creatures you control with counters on them have trample.
Whenever you cast your first spell with
in its mana cost each turn, put X +1/+1 counters on Nev.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Nev, the Practical Dean (soc) 41

Commander

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Agatha's Soul Cauldron
You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to activate abilities of creatures you control.
Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with Agatha's Soul Cauldron.
: Exile target card from a graveyard. When a creature card is exiled this way, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Legendary Artifact
Agatha's Soul Cauldron (woe) 242
Benevolent Hydra
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on another creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control.
Creature - Hydra
Benevolent Hydra (soc) 124
Capricopian
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then you may reselect which player this creature is attacking. Only the player this creature is attacking may activate this ability and only during the declare attackers step. (It can't attack its controller.)
Creature - Hydra Goat
Capricopian (c20) 58
Clamavus
Proclamator Hailer — Each creature you control gets +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on it.
Creature - Human Artificer Tyranid
Clamavus (40k) 90
Fractal Harness
When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it and attach this Equipment to it.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on it.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Fractal Harness (soc) 268
Hungering Hydra
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
This creature can't be blocked by more than one creature.
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, put that many +1/+1 counters on it. (It must survive the damage to get the counters.)
Creature - Hydra
Hungering Hydra (c20) 177
Kalonian Hydra
Trample
This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever this creature attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
Creature - Hydra
Kalonian Hydra (moc) 305
Nyxborn Hydra
Bestow
(If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
Reach, trample
This permanent enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on this Aura and has reach and trample.
Creature Enchantment - Hydra
Nyxborn Hydra (mh3) 164
Primordial Hydra
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.
This creature has trample as long as it has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it.
Creature - Hydra
Primordial Hydra (soc) 284
Protean Hydra
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage and remove that many +1/+1 counters from it.
Whenever a +1/+1 counter is removed from this creature, put two +1/+1 counters on it at the beginning of the next end step.
Creature - Hydra
Protean Hydra (m11) 194

Counters

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Beast Whisperer
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.
Creature - Elf Druid
Beast Whisperer (clu) 158
Become the Avalanche
Draw a card for each creature you control with power 4 or greater. Then creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Sorcery
Become the Avalanche (tdc) 43
Disciple of Freyalise
When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, you gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.
Creature - Elf Druid
Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250
Guardian Project
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.
Enchantment
Guardian Project (rvr) 146
Heartwood Storyteller
Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, each of that player's opponents may draw a card.
Creature - Treefolk
Heartwood Storyteller (tsr) 209
Hormagaunt Horde
Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Endless Swarm — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay
. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Tyranid
Hormagaunt Horde (40k) 93
Inspiring Call
Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)
Instant
Inspiring Call (fdn) 226
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
Return of the Wildspeaker
Choose one —
• Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control.
• Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.
Instant
Return of the Wildspeaker (ecc) 115
Rishkar's Expertise
Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Sorcery
Rishkar's Expertise (lcc) 254
Terrasymbiosis
Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on a creature you control, you may draw that many cards. Do this only once each turn.
Enchantment
Terrasymbiosis (eoe) 210
The Great Henge
This spell costs
less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
: Add
. You gain 2 life.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.
Legendary Artifact
The Great Henge (cmm) 294

Draw

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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) 19

Enchantment

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Concordant Crossroads
All creatures have haste.
World Enchantment
Concordant Crossroads (2x2) 141

Finisher

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Boseiju, Who Endures
: Add
.
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) 266
Emergence Zone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
Land
Emergence Zone (war) 245
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (sos) 280
Mosswort Bridge
Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.
Land
Mosswort Bridge (tdc) 379
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
: Add
.
,
: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
Legendary Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (plst) THS-223
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (soc) 400
Shifting Woodland
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
: Add
.
Delirium —
: This land becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
Land
Shifting Woodland (mh3) 228

Land

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Heroic Intervention
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Heroic Intervention (cmm) 295
Kurbis, Harvest Celebrant
Kurbis enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the amount of mana spent to cast it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Kurbis: Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn to another target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Legendary Creature - Treefolk
Kurbis, Harvest Celebrant (mic) 27
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (soc) 350
Saryth, the Viper's Fang
Other tapped creatures you control have deathtouch.
Other untapped creatures you control have hexproof.
,
: Untap another target creature or land you control.
Legendary Creature - Human Warlock
Saryth, the Viper's Fang (mkc) 185
Silkguard
Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to X target creatures you control.
Auras, Equipment, and modified creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)
Instant
Silkguard (soc) 286
Temur Sabertooth
: You may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
Creature - Cat
Temur Sabertooth (ncc) 315
Tyrant Guard
Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Shieldwall — Sacrifice this creature: Creatures you control with counters on them gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Creature - Tyranid
Tyrant Guard (40k) 103
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
Yeva, Nature's Herald
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
You may cast green creature spells as though they had flash.
Legendary Creature - Elf Shaman
Yeva, Nature's Herald (rvr) 162

Protection

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Animist's Awakening
Reveal the top X cards of your library. Put all land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, untap those lands.
Sorcery
Animist's Awakening (soc) 261
Awaken the Woods
Create X 1/1 green Forest Dryad land creature tokens. (They're affected by summoning sickness.)
Sorcery
Awaken the Woods (bro) 170
Circle of Dreams Druid
: Add
for each creature you control.
Creature - Elf Druid
Circle of Dreams Druid (afr) 176
Crop Rotation
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Instant
Crop Rotation (dmr) 154
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
Exploration
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Enchantment
Exploration (dmr) 159
Goldvein Hydra
Vigilance, trample, haste
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to its power.
Creature - Hydra
Goldvein Hydra (soc) 270
Karametra's Acolyte
: Add an amount of
equal to your devotion to green. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)
Creature - Human Druid
Karametra's Acolyte (ths) 160
Seedborn Muse
Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.
Creature - Spirit
Seedborn Muse (tdc) 268
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
Whenever another creature enters, its controller may draw a card if its power is greater than each other creature's power.
,
: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Legendary Creature - Elf Scout
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds (ecc) 116
Skyshroud Claim
Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Skyshroud Claim (eoc) 107
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (soc) 128
Sporocyst
Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.)
Defender
Spore Chimney — When this creature enters, search your library for up to X basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Tyranid
Sporocyst (40k) 98

Ramp

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Bala Ged Recovery
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180
Wildest Dreams
Return X target cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Wildest Dreams.
Sorcery
Wildest Dreams (kld) 174

Recursion

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Archdruid's Charm
Choose one —
• Search your library for a creature or land card and reveal it. Put it onto the battlefield tapped if it's a land card. Otherwise, put it into your hand. Then shuffle.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.
• Exile target artifact or enchantment.
Instant
Archdruid's Charm (mkm) 151
Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Instant
Beast Within (soc) 263
Haywire Mite
When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.
, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.
Creature Artifact - Insect
Haywire Mite (soc) 349
Kenrith's Transformation
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green Elk creature with base power and toughness 3/3. (It loses all other card types and creature types.)
Enchantment - Aura
Kenrith's Transformation (afc) 162
Kogla, the Titan Ape
When Kogla enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control.
Whenever Kogla attacks, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls.
: Return target Human you control to its owner's hand. Kogla gains indestructible until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Ape
Kogla, the Titan Ape (iko) 162
Krosan Grip
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Instant
Krosan Grip (c21) 198
Steelbane Hydra
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Creature - Hydra Turtle
Steelbane Hydra (soc) 288
Voracious Hydra
Trample
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.
• This creature fights target creature you don't control.
Creature - Hydra
Voracious Hydra (m20) 200

Removal

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Gelatinous Genesis
Create X X/X green Ooze creature tokens.
Sorcery
Gelatinous Genesis (2xm) 169
Hooded Hydra
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, create a 1/1 green Snake creature token for each +1/+1 counter on it.
Morph

As this creature is turned face up, put five +1/+1 counters on it.
Creature - Snake Hydra
Hooded Hydra (mkc) 171

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
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) 289
Green Sun's Zenith
Search your library for a green creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.
Sorcery
Green Sun's Zenith (2x2) 150
Nature's Rhythm
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Harmonize
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its harmonize cost. You may tap a creature you control to reduce that cost by an amount of generic mana equal to its power. Then exile this spell.)
Sorcery
Nature's Rhythm (tdm) 150
Worldly Tutor
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.
Instant
Worldly Tutor (dmr) 185

Tutor

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Staff of Domination
: Untap this artifact.
,
: You gain 1 life.
,
: Untap target creature.
,
: Tap target creature.
,
: Draw a card.
Artifact
Staff of Domination (cmr) 343

Untap

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