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Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
If a red source you control would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.
Legendary Creature - Dwarf Noble
Torbran, Thane of Red Fell (plst) ELD-147

Commander

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Ankh of Mishra
Whenever a land enters, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.
Artifact
Ankh of Mishra (6ed) 273
Aria of Flame
When this enchantment enters, each opponent gains 10 life.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a verse counter on this enchantment, then it deals damage equal to the number of verse counters on it to target player or planeswalker.
Enchantment
Aria of Flame (mh1) 118
Cemetery Gatekeeper
First strike
When this creature enters, exile a card from a graveyard.
Whenever a player plays a land or casts a spell, if it shares a card type with the exiled card, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.
Creature - Vampire
Cemetery Gatekeeper (vow) 148
Citadel of Pain
At the beginning of each player's end step, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they control.
Enchantment
Citadel of Pain (pcy) 86
Electrostatic Field
Defender
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Creature - Wall
Electrostatic Field (otc) 164
Erebor Flamesmith
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Creature - Artificer Dwarf
Erebor Flamesmith (ltr) 122
Fiery Emancipation
If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals triple that damage to that permanent or player instead.
Enchantment
Fiery Emancipation (m21) 143
Firebrand Archer
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Creature - Human Archer
Firebrand Archer (fdn) 196
Flame Rift
Flame Rift deals 4 damage to each player.
Sorcery
Flame Rift (mh2) 278
Guttersnipe
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.
Creature - Goblin Shaman
Guttersnipe (hoc) 196
Harsh Mentor
Whenever an opponent activates an ability of an artifact, creature, or land on the battlefield, if it isn't a mana ability, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.
Creature - Human Cleric
Harsh Mentor (dsc) 165
Kessig Flamebreather
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Creature - Human Shaman
Kessig Flamebreather (vow) 164
Maddening Hex
Enchant player
Whenever enchanted player casts a noncreature spell, roll a d6. This Aura deals damage to that player equal to the result. Then attach this Aura to another one of your opponents chosen at random.
Enchantment - Aura Curse
Maddening Hex (afc) 32
Manabarbs
Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.
Enchantment
Manabarbs (m12) 150
Mechanized Warfare
If a red or artifact source you control would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals that much damage plus 1 instead.
Enchantment
Mechanized Warfare (bro) 139
Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might
Trample
If a red source you control would deal an amount of noncombat damage less than Ojer Axonil's power to an opponent, that source deals damage equal to Ojer Axonil's power instead.
When Ojer Axonil dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control.
Legendary Creature - God
Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power (lci) 158Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power (lci) 158
Play with Fire
Play with Fire deals 2 damage to any target. If a player is dealt damage this way, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Instant
Play with Fire (j25) 586
Price of Progress
Price of Progress deals damage to each player equal to twice the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.
Instant
Price of Progress (plst) EMA-141
Pyrostatic Pillar
Whenever a player casts a spell with mana value 3 or less, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.
Enchantment
Pyrostatic Pillar (scg) 100
Rampaging Ferocidon
Menace
Players can't gain life.
Whenever another creature enters, this creature deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.
Creature - Dinosaur
Rampaging Ferocidon (dsc) 167
Roiling Vortex
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to them.
Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast that spell, this enchantment deals 5 damage to that player.
: Your opponents can't gain life this turn.
Enchantment
Roiling Vortex (znr) 156
Scab-Clan Berserker
Haste
Renown 1 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes renowned.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, if this creature is renowned, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.
Creature - Human Berserker
Scab-Clan Berserker (ori) 160
Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals double that damage to that player or permanent instead.
, Discard two cards: Put an indestructible counter on Solphim. (
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Legendary Creature - Horror Phyrexian
Solphim, Mayhem Dominus (one) 150
Spellshock
Whenever a player casts a spell, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.
Enchantment
Spellshock (plst) EXO-104
Sulfuric Vortex
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.
If a player would gain life, that player gains no life instead.
Enchantment
Sulfuric Vortex (dmr) 144
Sunspine Lynx
Players can't gain life.
Damage can't be prevented.
When this creature enters, it deals damage to each player equal to the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.
Creature - Elemental Cat
Sunspine Lynx (blb) 155
Zo-Zu the Punisher
Whenever a land enters, Zo-Zu deals 2 damage to that land's controller.
Legendary Creature - Goblin Warrior
Zo-Zu the Punisher (dds) 41

Burn

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Opera Love Song
Choose one —
• Exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards until your next end step.
• One or two target creatures each get +2/+0 until end of turn.
Instant
Opera Love Song (fin) 147
Reckless Impulse
Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.
Sorcery
Reckless Impulse (trk) 168
Tectonic Giant
Whenever this creature attacks or becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, choose one —
• This creature deals 3 damage to each opponent.
• Exile the top two cards of your library. Choose one of them. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.
Creature - Elemental Giant
Tectonic Giant (dsc) 168
Valakut Awakening
Put any number of cards from your hand on the bottom of your library, then draw that many cards plus one.
Instant
Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (plst) ZNR-174Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (plst) ZNR-174
Valakut Exploration
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.
At the beginning of your end step, if there are cards exiled with this enchantment, put them into their owner's graveyard, then this enchantment deals that much damage to each opponent.
Enchantment
Valakut Exploration (znr) 175
Wrenn's Resolve
Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.
Sorcery
Wrenn's Resolve (mom) 173

Draw

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Ancient Tomb
: Add
. This land deals 2 damage to you.
Land
Ancient Tomb (plst) TMP-315
Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (mdd) 298
Myriad Landscape
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Myriad Landscape (eoc) 169
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
Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens. They gain haste until end of turn. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance (neo) 276
Spinerock Knoll
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 an opponent was dealt 7 or more damage this turn.
Land
Spinerock Knoll (fdc) 314
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
This land enters tapped.
Whenever a Mountain you control enters, if you control at least five other Mountains, you may have this land deal 3 damage to any target.
: Add
.
Land
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle (zen) 228
War Room
: Add
.
,
, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.
Land
War Room (soc) 422

Land

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Shadowspear
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.
: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Shadowspear (plst) THB-236

Lifegain

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Brimstone Trebuchet
Defender, reach
: This creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Whenever a Knight you control enters, untap this creature.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Brimstone Trebuchet (eld) 116
Cinder Pyromancer
: This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
Whenever you cast a red spell, you may untap this creature.
Creature - Elemental Shaman
Cinder Pyromancer (eve) 50
Thermo-Alchemist
Defender
: This creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, untap this creature.
Creature - Human Shaman
Thermo-Alchemist (inr) 174

Pingers

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Bolt Bend
This spell costs
less to cast if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
Instant
Bolt Bend (tle) 163
Deflecting Swat
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.
Instant
Deflecting Swat (cmm) 214
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (trc) 496

Protection

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (trc) 485
Chandra, Dressed to Kill
+1: Add
. Chandra deals 1 damage to up to one target player or planeswalker.
+1: Exile the top card of your library. If it's red, you may cast it this turn.
−7: Exile the top five cards of your library. You may cast red spells from among them this turn. You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a red spell, this emblem deals X damage to any target, where X is the amount of mana spent to cast that spell."
Legendary Planeswalker - Chandra
Chandra, Dressed to Kill (inr) 148
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
+1: Exile the top card of your library. You may cast that card. If you don't, Chandra deals 2 damage to each opponent.
+1: Add
.
−3: Chandra deals 4 damage to target creature.
−7: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, this emblem deals 5 damage to any target."
Legendary Planeswalker - Chandra
Chandra, Torch of Defiance (fra) 244
Descent into Avernus
At the beginning of your upkeep, put two descent counters on this enchantment. Then each player creates X Treasure tokens and this enchantment deals X damage to each player, where X is the number of descent counters on this enchantment.
Enchantment
Descent into Avernus (clb) 169
Jeska's Will
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Add
for each card in target opponent's hand.
• Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.
Sorcery
Jeska's Will (mkc) 156
Liquimetal Torque
: Add
.
: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.
Artifact
Liquimetal Torque (brc) 145
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (trc) 497
Ruby Medallion
Red spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Ruby Medallion (mh3) 295
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (trc) 499
Storm-Kiln Artist
This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature - Shaman Dwarf
Storm-Kiln Artist (soc) 255
Urabrask
First strike
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Urabrask deals 1 damage to target opponent. Add
.
: Exile Urabrask, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you've cast three or more instant and/or sorcery spells this turn.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Urabrask // The Great Work (mom) 169Urabrask // The Great Work (mom) 169

Ramp

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Abrade
Choose one —
• Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature.
• Destroy target artifact.
Instant
Abrade (trc) 449
Basilisk Collar
Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Basilisk Collar (fdc) 246
Blasphemous Act
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.
Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (msc) 163
Chain Reaction
Chain Reaction deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield.
Sorcery
Chain Reaction (trc) 450
Chaos Warp
The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.
Instant
Chaos Warp (msc) 164
Electrodominance
Electrodominance deals X damage to any target. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Instant
Electrodominance (tdc) 212
End the Festivities
End the Festivities deals 1 damage to each opponent and each creature and planeswalker they control.
Sorcery
End the Festivities (vow) 155
Fiery Confluence
Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Fiery Confluence deals 1 damage to each creature.
• Fiery Confluence deals 2 damage to each opponent.
• Destroy target artifact.
Sorcery
Fiery Confluence (tle) 165
Goblin Chainwhirler
First strike
When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to each opponent and each creature and planeswalker they control.
Creature - Goblin Warrior
Goblin Chainwhirler (plst) DOM-129
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.
Instant
Lightning Bolt (msc) 806
Pyrohemia
At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.
: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
Enchantment
Pyrohemia (plst) PLC-119
Tectonic Hazard
Tectonic Hazard deals 1 damage to each opponent and each creature they control.
Sorcery
Tectonic Hazard (lci) 169
Tibalt's Trickery
Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.
Instant
Tibalt's Trickery (khm) 153
Untimely Malfunction
Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
• One or two target creatures can't block this turn.
Instant
Untimely Malfunction (dsk) 161
Vandalblast
Destroy target artifact you don't control.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Vandalblast (msc) 168

Removal

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