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Commander
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Commander

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Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
Whenever Hapatra deals combat damage to a player, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
Whenever you put one or more -1/-1 counters on a creature, create a 1/1 green Snake creature token with deathtouch.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons (ecc) 123

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Counters

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Blowfly Infestation
Whenever a creature dies, if it had a -1/-1 counter on it, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
Enchantment
Blowfly Infestation (ecc) 46
Carnifex Demon
Flying
This creature enters with two -1/-1 counters on it.
, Remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on each other creature.
Creature - Demon Phyrexian
Carnifex Demon (ecc) 72
Obelisk Spider
Reach
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.
Whenever you put one or more -1/-1 counters on a creature, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Spider
Obelisk Spider (plst) HOU-141
Soul Snuffers
When this creature enters, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature.
Creature - Elemental Shaman
Soul Snuffers (ecc) 87
Spitting Dilophosaurus
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature.
Creatures your opponents control with -1/-1 counters on them can't block.
Creature - Dinosaur
Spitting Dilophosaurus (rex) 3
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
Protection from Humans
Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card.
, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician (dmr) 110

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Drain

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Blood Artist
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Blood Artist (soc) 209

Drain

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Draw

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Augur of Autumn
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands from the top of your library.
Coven — As long as you control three or more creatures with different powers, you may cast creature spells from the top of your library.
Creature - Human Druid
Augur of Autumn (eoc) 92
Glissa Sunslayer
First strike, deathtouch
Whenever Glissa Sunslayer deals combat damage to a player, choose one —
• You draw a card and lose 1 life.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Remove up to three counters from target permanent.
Legendary Creature - Elf Zombie Phyrexian
Glissa Sunslayer (ecc) 122
Massacre Girl, Known Killer
Menace
Creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Assassin
Massacre Girl, Known Killer (ecc) 79
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
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 (fdc) 229
Sinister Gnarlbark
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card and blight 1. (Put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.)
Creature - Treefolk Warlock
Sinister Gnarlbark (ecc) 12
Skullclamp
Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Skullclamp (msc) 210
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) 179

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Land

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Blooming Marsh
This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Blooming Marsh (otj) 266
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (frc) 22
Deathcap Glade
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Deathcap Glade (sos) 253
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (frc) 70
Festering Thicket
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Swamp Forest
Festering Thicket (soc) 371
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (mdd) 301
Ifnir Deadlands
: Add
.
, Pay 1 life: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a Desert: Put two -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Desert
Ifnir Deadlands (ecc) 153
Llanowar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Llanowar Wastes (soc) 383
Nesting Grounds
: Add
.
,
: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto a second target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land
Nesting Grounds (ecc) 155
Nurturing Peatland
, Pay 1 life: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Land
Nurturing Peatland (mh1) 243
Overgrown Tomb
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Swamp Forest
Overgrown Tomb (trk) 289
Phyrexian Tower
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: Add
.
Legendary Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Scavenger Grounds
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.
Land - Desert
Scavenger Grounds (msc) 263
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (mdd) 296
Tainted Wood
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Wood (dsc) 305
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
: Add
.
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) 278
Twilight Mire
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Twilight Mire (soc) 418
Undergrowth Stadium
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Undergrowth Stadium (tmc) 80
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
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 (mh2) 440
Woodland Cemetery
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
: Add
or
.
Land
Woodland Cemetery (soc) 424
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth (m3c) 409

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Proliferate

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Contagion Clasp
When this artifact enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
,
: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Artifact
Contagion Clasp (ecc) 140
Evolution Sage
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Creature - Elf Druid
Evolution Sage (ecc) 105
Grim Affliction
Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Instant
Grim Affliction (plst) MM2-84
Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
Compleated (
can be paid with
or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
0: You draw a card and lose 1 life. Proliferate.
−2: Target creature becomes a Treasure artifact with "
, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color" and loses all other card types and abilities.
−9: If target player has fewer than nine poison counters, they get a number of poison counters equal to the difference.
Legendary Planeswalker - Vraska
Vraska, Betrayal's Sting (ecc) 88
Whisper of the Dross
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Instant
Whisper of the Dross (one) 117

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Protection

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Heroic Intervention
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Heroic Intervention (pip) 202
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (msc) 202
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 (plst) M20-198

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (frc) 20
Birds of Paradise
Flying
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Bird
Birds of Paradise (msc) 170
Channeler Initiate
When this creature enters, put three -1/-1 counters on target creature you control.
, Remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Human Druid
Channeler Initiate (ecc) 101
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 (msc) 172
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (msc) 793
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
Devoted Druid
: Add
.
Put a -1/-1 counter on this creature: Untap this creature.
Creature - Elf Druid
Devoted Druid (ecc) 104
Dread Tiller
When this creature enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
Whenever a creature with a -1/-1 counter on it dies, you may put a land card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield tapped.
Creature Artifact - Scarecrow
Dread Tiller (ecc) 20
Explore
You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Explore (tle) 259
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Llanowar Elves
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Llanowar Elves (fdn) 227
Nature's Lore
Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Nature's Lore (msc) 177
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Shaman Snake
Sakura-Tribe Elder (soc) 285
Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
,
, Return Shigeki to its owner's hand: Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest into your graveyard.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Return X target nonlegendary cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - Druid Snake
Shigeki, Jukai Visionary (tdc) 270
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (frc) 21
Talisman of Resilience
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Resilience (dsc) 255

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Recursion

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Aberrant Return
Put one, two, or three target creature cards from graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. Each of them enters with an additional -1/-1 counter on it.
Sorcery
Aberrant Return (ecc) 7
Necroskitter
Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Whenever a creature an opponent controls with a -1/-1 counter on it dies, you may return that card to the battlefield under your control.
Creature - Elemental
Necroskitter (ecc) 48
Persist
Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
Sorcery
Persist (ecc) 83
Puppeteer Clique
Flying
When this creature enters, put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. At the beginning of your next end step, exile 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 - Wizard Faerie
Puppeteer Clique (ecc) 84
Victimize
Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.
Sorcery
Victimize (tdc) 198

Recursion

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Removal

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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 (soc) 294
Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Instant
Beast Within (msc) 169
Black Sun's Zenith
Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.
Sorcery
Black Sun's Zenith (ecc) 71
Culling Ritual
Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add
or
for each permanent destroyed this way.
Sorcery
Culling Ritual (soc) 302
Deadly Rollick
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.
Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 147
Grim Poppet
This creature enters with three -1/-1 counters on it.
Remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on another target creature.
Creature Artifact - Scarecrow
Grim Poppet (ecc) 142
Incremental Blight
Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, two -1/-1 counters on another target creature, and three -1/-1 counters on a third target creature.
Sorcery
Incremental Blight (ecc) 76
Infernal Grasp
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Infernal Grasp (soc) 216
Lethal Scheme
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.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked this spell connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
Instant
Lethal Scheme (msc) 157
Midnight Banshee
Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each nonblack creature.
Creature - Spirit
Midnight Banshee (ecc) 80
Putrefy
Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Putrefy (ecc) 131
Skinrender
When this creature enters, put three -1/-1 counters on target creature.
Creature - Zombie Phyrexian
Skinrender (ecc) 86
The Meathook Massacre
When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.
Legendary Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (inr) 122
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 (msc) 161
Wickerbough Elder
This creature enters with a -1/-1 counter on it.
, Remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Creature - Shaman Treefolk
Wickerbough Elder (ecc) 118
Windgrace's Judgment
For any number of opponents, destroy target nonland permanent that player controls.
Instant
Windgrace's Judgment (eoc) 129

Removal

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Tokens

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Doubling Season
If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.
If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.
Enchantment
Doubling Season (fdn) 216
Nest of Scarabs
Whenever you put one or more -1/-1 counters on a creature, create that many 1/1 black Insect creature tokens.
Enchantment
Nest of Scarabs (akh) 101

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Tutor

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Tooth and Nail
Choose one —
• Search your library for up to two creature cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
• Put up to two creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.
Entwine
(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Sorcery
Tooth and Nail (cmm) 327

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