Tricks of the Trade

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and can't be blocked.

Harbor Serpent

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Harbor Serpent can't attack unless there are five or more Islands on the battlefield.

Have

Disentomb

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Mulldrifter

Flying
When Mulldrifter enters, draw two cards.
Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Candlekeep Sage

Commander creatures you own have "When this creature enters or leaves the battlefield, draw a card."

Polluted Mire

Polluted Mire enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Field Research

Kicker {2}{U} (You may pay an additional {2}{U} as you cast this spell.)
Draw two cards. If this spell was kicked, draw three cards instead.

Swamp

Okiba-Gang Shinobi

Ninjutsu {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Okiba-Gang Shinobi deals combat damage to a player, that player discards two cards.

Cloudfin Raptor

Flying
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.)

Rot-Tide Gargantua

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When Rot-Tide Gargantua exploits a creature, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Consign to the Pit

Destroy target creature. Consign to the Pit deals 2 damage to that creature's controller.

Daggerdrome Imp

Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Mizzium Skin

Target creature you control gets +0/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn.
Overload {1}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Witness Protection

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)

Combat Courier

{2}, Sacrifice Combat Courier: Draw a card.
Unearth {U} ({U}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Ashnod's Intervention

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand."

Security Bypass

Enchant creature
As long as enchanted creature is attacking alone, it can't be blocked.
Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, it connives." (Its controller draws a card, then discards a card. If they discarded a nonland card, they put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Ominous Parcel

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Ominous Parcel: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice Ominous Parcel: It deals 4 damage to target creature.

Impaler Shrike

Flying
Whenever Impaler Shrike deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. If you do, draw three cards.

Frogify

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a blue Frog creature with base power and toughness 1/1. (It loses all other card types and creature types.)

Scroll Thief

Whenever Scroll Thief deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Battlefly Swarm

Flying
{B}: Battlefly Swarm gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}

Aqueous Form

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked.
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Howl from Beyond

Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Cloud of Faeries

Flying
When Cloud of Faeries enters, untap up to two lands.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Island

Parcel Myr

Incriminate

Choose two target creatures controlled by the same player. That player sacrifices one of them of their choice.

Shambling Ghast

When Shambling Ghast dies, choose one —
• Target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Midnight Assassin

Flying
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Wormfang Drake

Flying
When Wormfang Drake enters, sacrifice it unless you exile a creature you control other than Wormfang Drake.
When Wormfang Drake leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Encrust

Enchant artifact or creature
Enchanted permanent doesn't untap during its controller's untap step and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Tidal Terror

Whenever Tidal Terror attacks, you may tap two other untapped creatures you control. If you do, Tidal Terror can't be blocked this turn.
Islandcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Demon's Due

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life.

Scrapwork Rager

When Scrapwork Rager enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Unearth {3}{B} ({3}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Expendable Lackey

{1}{U}, Exile Expendable Lackey from your graveyard: Create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token with "This creature can't be blocked." Activate only as a sorcery.

Mirrorshell Crab

Ward {3} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {3}.)
Channel — {2}{U}, Discard Mirrorshell Crab: Counter target spell or ability unless its controller pays {3}.

Welkin Tern

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Welkin Tern can block only creatures with flying.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Mistblade Shinobi

Ninjutsu {U} ({U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Mistblade Shinobi deals combat damage to a player, you may return target creature that player controls to its owner's hand.

Impede Momentum

Tap target creature and put three stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Gitaxian Mindstinger

Deathtouch
Whenever Gitaxian Mindstinger deals combat damage to a player or battle, draw a card.

Aetherblade Agent

Deathtouch
{4}{U/P}: Transform Aetherblade Agent. Activate only as a sorcery. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Aetherblade Agent // Gitaxian Mindstinger

Wedding Invitation

When Wedding Invitation enters, draw a card.
{T}, Sacrifice Wedding Invitation: Target creature can't be blocked this turn. If it's a Vampire, it also gains lifelink until end of turn.

Peregrine Drake

Flying
When Peregrine Drake enters, untap up to five lands.

Index

Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Helm of the Ghastlord

Enchant creature
As long as enchanted creature is blue, it gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card."
As long as enchanted creature is black, it gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card."

Murder

Jhessian Thief

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever Jhessian Thief deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Ichor Slick

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Madness {3}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Moon-Circuit Hacker

Ninjutsu {U} ({U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Moon-Circuit Hacker deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card unless Moon-Circuit Hacker entered this turn.

Gingerbrute

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
{1}: Gingerbrute can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Gingerbrute: You gain 3 life.

Aarakocra Sneak

Flying
When Aarakocra Sneak enters, you take the initiative.

Ninja of the Deep Hours

Ninjutsu {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Ninja of the Deep Hours deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Writhing Necromass

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Deathtouch

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Mukotai Ambusher

Ninjutsu {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Lifelink

Vermin Gorger

{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Essence Scatter

Gloomfang Mauler

Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Backup 2 (When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.)
Menace

Runewing

Slither Blade

Phyrexian Rager

When Phyrexian Rager enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Krydle of Baldur's Gate

Whenever Krydle of Baldur's Gate deals combat damage to a player, that player loses 1 life and mills a card, then you gain 1 life and scry 1.
Whenever you attack, you may pay {2}. If you do, target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)