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Teval, the Balanced Scale
Flying
Whenever Teval attacks, mill three cards. Then you may return a land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token.
Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit
Teval, the Balanced Scale (tdc) 8

Commander

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Adaptive Automaton
As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Adaptive Automaton (fdn) 723
Icon of Ancestry
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
,
: Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card of the chosen type from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Artifact
Icon of Ancestry (m20) 229

Anthem

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March from Velis Vel
Choose a nonbasic land type. Each land you control of that type becomes a copy of target creature you control until end of turn and gains haste until end of turn.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
March from Velis Vel (m3c) 100
Reflections of Littjara
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, copy that spell. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Enchantment
Reflections of Littjara (khm) 400

Copy

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Distant Melody
Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.
Sorcery
Distant Melody (ecc) 45
For the Ancestors
Choose a creature type. Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal any number of cards of the chosen type from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
For the Ancestors (cmm) 770
Harmonized Crescendo
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.)
Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.
Instant
Harmonized Crescendo (ecl) 54
Kindred Summons
Choose a creature type. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X creature cards of the chosen type, where X is the number of creatures you control of that type. Put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle the rest of the revealed cards into your library.
Instant
Kindred Summons (ecc) 112
Observed Stasis
Flash
Enchant creature an opponent controls
When this Aura enters, remove enchanted creature from combat. Then draw a card for each tapped creature its controller controls.
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and can't attack or block.
Enchantment - Aura
Observed Stasis (fic) 40

Draw

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Junktroller
Defender
: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Junktroller (rvr) 262

Honorary Lizard

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Barren Moor
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Barren Moor (blc) 292
Cephalid Coliseum
: Add
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold —
,
, Sacrifice this land: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Land
Cephalid Coliseum (tdc) 349
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (lcc) 325
Dreamroot Cascade
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dreamroot Cascade (sos) 254
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (fic) 388
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (msc) 240
Festering Thicket
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Swamp Forest
Festering Thicket (soc) 371
Fetid Pools
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Island Swamp
Fetid Pools (msc) 243
Foreboding Landscape
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Swamp, Forest, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Foreboding Landscape (tdc) 365
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (hob) 198
Hinterland Harbor
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Hinterland Harbor (drc) 160
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (hob) 195
Lonely Sandbar
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Lonely Sandbar (eoc) 166
Mudflat Village
: Add
.
: Add
. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Return target Bat, Lizard, Rat, or Squirrel card from your graveyard to your hand.
Land
Mudflat Village (blb) 257
Opulent Palace
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Opulent Palace (ecc) 157
Rain-Slicked Copse
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Island Forest
Rain-Slicked Copse (soc) 397
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (40k) 295
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (hob) 196
Terramorphic Expanse
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Terramorphic Expanse (msc) 273
Tranquil Thicket
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Tranquil Thicket (dsc) 318
Woodland Cemetery
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
: Add
or
.
Land
Woodland Cemetery (dom) 248

Land

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Adaptive Snapjaw
Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Creature - Beast Lizard
Adaptive Snapjaw (gtc) 113
Bloodspore Thrinax
Devour 1 (As this creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with that many +1/+1 counters on it.)
Each other creature you control enters with an additional X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Creature - Lizard
Bloodspore Thrinax (cmm) 276
Drakewing Krasis
Flying, trample
Creature - Lizard Drake
Drakewing Krasis (gtc) 157
Frilled Mystic
Flash
When this creature enters, you may counter target spell.
Creature - Wizard Elf Lizard
Frilled Mystic (rvr) 366
Galloping Lizrog
Trample
When this creature enters, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control. If you do, put twice that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Creature - Lizard Frog
Galloping Lizrog (rna) 175
Gilacorn
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Creature - Lizard
Gilacorn (tle) 231
Golgari Brownscale
When this card is put into your hand from your graveyard, you gain 2 life.
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Creature - Lizard
Golgari Brownscale (uma) 166
Infested Thrinax
Flash
When this creature enters, until end of turn, whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a number of 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens equal to that creature's power.
Creature - Lizard
Infested Thrinax (m3c) 74
Iridescent Vinelasher
Offspring
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to target opponent.
Creature - Assassin Lizard
Iridescent Vinelasher (blb) 99
Korozda Monitor
Trample
Scavenge
(
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Lizard
Korozda Monitor (rtr) 129
Leaping Lizard
: This creature gets -0/-1 and gains flying until end of turn.
Creature - Lizard
Leaping Lizard (hml) 90
Ludevic's Test Subject
Defender
: Put a hatchling counter on this creature. Then if there are five or more hatchling counters on it, remove all of them and transform it.
Creature - Lizard Egg
Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination (isd) 64Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination (isd) 64
Lurking Lizards
Trample
Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 4 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Lizard Villain
Lurking Lizards (msc) 816
Marrow Chomper
Devour 2 (As this creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.)
When this creature enters, you gain 2 life for each creature it devoured.
Creature - Zombie Lizard
Marrow Chomper (arb) 93
Rootwalla
: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.
Creature - Lizard
Rootwalla (w17) 27
Scaled Herbalist
: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Creature - Druid Lizard
Scaled Herbalist (afr) 204
Shefet Monitor
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Desert card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. (Do this before you draw.)
Creature - Lizard
Shefet Monitor (akh) 186
Slavering Branchsnapper
Trample
Forestcycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Creature - Lizard
Slavering Branchsnapper (dsk) 198
Sunbathing Rootwalla
Domain —
: Until end of turn, this creature gets +1/+1 for each basic land type among lands you control. Activate only once each turn.
Creature - Lizard
Sunbathing Rootwalla (dmu) 181
Undercity Necrolisk
, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains menace until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Creature - Zombie Lizard
Undercity Necrolisk (grn) 87
Unruly Krasis
Trample
Whenever this creature attacks, you may have the base power and toughness of another target creature you control become X/X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power.
: Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.)
Creature - Lizard Octopus Shark
Unruly Krasis (clu) 50
Whiptongue Hydra
Reach
When this creature enters, destroy all creatures with flying. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each creature destroyed this way.
Creature - Lizard Hydra
Whiptongue Hydra (nec) 134
Young Deathclaws
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Each creature card in your graveyard has scavenge. The scavenge cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Mutant Lizard
Young Deathclaws (pip) 125

Lizard

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Cold Storage
: Exile target creature you control.
Sacrifice this artifact: Return each creature card exiled with this artifact to the battlefield under your control.
Artifact
Cold Storage (tmp) 280
Scales of Shale
Affinity for Lizards (This spell costs
less to cast for each Lizard you control.)
Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Scales of Shale (blb) 110

Protection

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (soc) 127
Farseek
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Farseek (msc) 173
Gathering Stone
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Spells you cast of the chosen type cost
less to cast.
When this artifact enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard.
Artifact
Gathering Stone (ecl) 257
Harrow
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Instant
Harrow (j25) 668
Rampant Growth
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Rampant Growth (mir) 235
Rites of Flourishing
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Each player may play an additional land on each of their turns.
Enchantment
Rites of Flourishing (blc) 122

Ramp

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Bloodline Bidding
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.)
Choose a creature type. Return all creature cards of the chosen type from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Bloodline Bidding (ecl) 359
Conduit of Worlds
You may play lands from your graveyard.
: Choose target nonland permanent card in your graveyard. If you haven't cast a spell this turn, you may cast that card. If you do, you can't cast additional spells this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Conduit of Worlds (msc) 171
Gravedig
Choose one —
• Target player creates a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Entwine
(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Sorcery
Gravedig (mh3) 96
Morgue Theft
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Morgue Theft (ody) 151

Recursion

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Consumed by Greed
Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Target opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. If the gift was promised, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Instant
Consumed by Greed (blb) 87
Cremate
Exile target card from a graveyard.
Draw a card.
Instant
Cremate (rtr) 59
Deadly Allure
Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn and must be blocked this turn if able.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Deadly Allure (inr) 103
Death Begets Life
Destroy all creatures and enchantments. Draw a card for each permanent destroyed this way.
Sorcery
Death Begets Life (tdm) 176
Mana Leak
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Mana Leak (ima) 66
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (tmt) 47
Putrefy
Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Putrefy (ecc) 131
Rotten Reunion
Exile up to one target card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Rotten Reunion (mid) 119
Tear Asunder
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Exile target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, exile target nonland permanent instead.
Instant
Tear Asunder (eoc) 109

Removal

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Zuran Orb
Sacrifice a land: You gain 2 life.
Artifact
Zuran Orb (ice) 350

Sac Outlet

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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 (ncc) 242
Ghoulcaller's Harvest
Create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens with decayed, where X is half the number of creature cards in your graveyard, rounded up. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Ghoulcaller's Harvest (mid) 225
Necrogenesis
: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Enchantment
Necrogenesis (mm2) 181
Night Soil
, Exile two creature cards from a single graveyard: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Enchantment
Night Soil (plst) C13-158

Tokens

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Analyze the Pollen
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 8. (Exile cards with total mana value 8 or greater from your graveyard.)
Search your library for a basic land card. If evidence was collected, instead search your library for a creature or land card. Reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Analyze the Pollen (mkm) 150
Celestial Reunion
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may choose a creature type and behold two creatures of that type.
Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. If this spell's additional cost was paid and the revealed card is the chosen type, put that card onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand.
Sorcery
Celestial Reunion (ecl) 170
Pyre of Heroes
,
, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card that shares a creature type with the sacrificed creature and has mana value equal to 1 plus that creature's mana value. Put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Pyre of Heroes (khm) 241
Rushed Rebirth
Choose target creature. When that creature dies this turn, search your library for a creature card with lesser mana value, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Instant
Rushed Rebirth (stx) 228

Tutor

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Artful Dodge
Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Artful Dodge (dka) 27
Blur
Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Draw a card.
Instant
Blur (clb) 58
Conspiracy
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control are the chosen type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
Enchantment
Conspiracy (acr) 88
Crawl from the Cellar
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target Zombie you control.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Crawl from the Cellar (inr) 376
Dread Return
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Dread Return (dmr) 80
Grasp of Phantoms
Put target creature on top of its owner's library.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Grasp of Phantoms (plst) MM3-41
Life from the Loam
Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Sorcery
Life from the Loam (uma) 172
Necromantic Selection
Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.
Sorcery
Necromantic Selection (tdc) 189
Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has trample.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, choose a creature type. Create a Treasure token for each creature you control of that type.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver (hob) 177
Valley Rotcaller
Menace
Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of other Squirrels, Bats, Lizards, and Rats you control.
Creature - Squirrel Warlock
Valley Rotcaller (blb) 119

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0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 2 cards
16 pips - 14 cards
17 mana - 17 cards
25 pips - 21 cards
16 mana - 16 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 2 cards
45 pips - 36 cards
15 mana - 15 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
2 mana - 2 cards
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