Searstep Pathway

Blightstep Pathway

Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway

From the Catacombs

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control with a corpse counter on it. You take the initiative. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else.
Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Pink Horror

Coruscating Flames — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Pink Horror deals 2 damage to any target.
Split — When Pink Horror dies, create two 2/2 blue and red Demon Horror creature tokens named Blue Horror with "Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 1 damage to any target."

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Torrential Gearhulk

Flash
When Torrential Gearhulk enters, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Big Score

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Devil's Play

Devil's Play deals X damage to any target.
Flashback {X}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Reliquary Tower

Guardian Idol

Guardian Idol enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}: Guardian Idol becomes a 2/2 Golem artifact creature until end of turn.

Viridian Longbow

Equipped creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Unexpected Windfall

Tribute Mage

When Tribute Mage enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 2, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Counterspell

Anhelo, the Painter

Deathtouch
The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn has casualty 2. (As you cast that spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy the spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.)

Halo Forager

Flying
When Halo Forager enters, you may pay {X}. When you do, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value X from a graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Cryptic Pursuit

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, manifest the top card of your library. (Put that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Whenever a face-down creature you control dies, exile it if it's an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card until the end of your next turn.

Electric Revelation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards.
Flashback {3}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

Mountain

Visions of Beyond

Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.

Cosmium Catalyst

{1}{R}, {T}: Choose an exiled card used to craft Cosmium Catalyst at random. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

Ore-Rich Stalactite

{T}: Add {R}. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.
Craft with four or more red instant and/or sorcery cards {3}{R}{R} ({3}{R}{R}, Exile this artifact, Exile the four or more from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)

Ore-Rich Stalactite // Cosmium Catalyst

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Bond of Insight

Each player mills four cards. Return up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Bond of Insight.

Sinister Concierge

When Sinister Concierge dies, you may exile it and put three time counters on it. If you do, exile up to one target creature and put three time counters on it. Each card exiled this way that doesn't have suspend gains suspend. (For each card with suspend, its owner removes a time counter from it at the beginning of their upkeep. When the last is removed, they may cast it without paying its mana cost. Those creature spells have haste.)

Curse of the Restless Dead

Enchant player
Whenever a land enchanted player controls enters, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Mishra's Factory

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mishra's Factory becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Dogged Detective

When Dogged Detective enters, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you may return Dogged Detective from your graveyard to your hand.

Invoke the Winds

Gain control of target artifact or creature. Untap it.

Profane Command

Choose two —
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards.

Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Wandering Fumarole

Wandering Fumarole enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.
{2}{U}{R}: Until end of turn, Wandering Fumarole becomes a 1/4 blue and red Elemental creature with "{0}: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn." It's still a land.

Maestros Ascendancy

Once during each of your turns, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your graveyard by sacrificing a creature in addition to paying its other costs. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Wizards of Thay

Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.

Darkwater Catacombs

Malicious Affliction

Morbid — When you cast this spell, if a creature died this turn, you may copy Malicious Affliction and may choose a new target for the copy.
Destroy target nonblack creature.

Cormela, Glamour Thief

Haste
{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}{R}. Spend this mana only to cast instant and/or sorcery spells.
When Cormela, Glamour Thief dies, return up to one target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Make an Example

Each opponent separates the creatures they control into two piles. For each opponent, you choose one of their piles. Each opponent sacrifices the creatures in their chosen pile. (Piles can be empty.)

Island

Restless Spire

Restless Spire enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.
{U}{R}: Until end of turn, Restless Spire becomes a 2/1 blue and red Elemental creature with "During your turn, this creature has first strike." It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Spire attacks, scry 1.

Elminster's Simulacrum

For each opponent, you create a token that's a copy of up to one target creature that player controls.

Urza's Factory

{T}: Add {C}.
{7}, {T}: Create a 2/2 colorless Assembly-Worker artifact creature token.

Rakdos Signet

Battle Display

Destroy target artifact. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Embereth Shieldbreaker

Embereth Shieldbreaker // Battle Display

Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch

Sorcerous Inspiration — At the beginning of your upkeep, return an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard to your hand.
Fire of Tzeentch — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Agadeem, the Undercrypt

As Agadeem, the Undercrypt enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Agadeem's Awakening

Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different mana value X or less.

Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt

Faerie Conclave

Faerie Conclave enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}: Faerie Conclave becomes a 2/1 blue Faerie creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.

Command Tower

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Curtains' Call

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.)
Destroy two target creatures.

Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.

Feed the Swarm

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

Restless Vents

Restless Vents enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.
{1}{B}{R}: Until end of turn, Restless Vents becomes a 2/3 black and red Insect creature with menace. It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Vents attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Swift End

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Murderous Rider

Lifelink
When Murderous Rider dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.

Murderous Rider // Swift End

Dimir Signet

Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Terrain Generator

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Mishra's Foundry

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}: Mishra's Foundry becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
{1}, {T}: Target attacking Assembly-Worker gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Ardent Elementalist

When Ardent Elementalist enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Swamp

Cult Conscript

Cult Conscript enters tapped.
{1}{B}: Return Cult Conscript from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only if a non-Skeleton creature died under your control this turn.

Mizzium Mortars

Mizzium Mortars deals 4 damage to target creature you don't control.
Overload {3}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Extract from Darkness

Each player mills two cards. Then you put a creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Seize the Spoils

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Bloodwater Entity

Flying
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
When Bloodwater Entity enters, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Night's Whisper

Creeping Tar Pit

Creeping Tar Pit enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{1}{U}{B}: Creeping Tar Pit becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. It's still a land.

Restless Reef

Restless Reef enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{2}{U}{B}: Until end of turn, Restless Reef becomes a 4/4 blue and black Shark creature with deathtouch. It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Reef attacks, target player mills four cards.

Wonder

Flying
As long as Wonder is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Cathartic Reunion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard two cards.
Draw three cards.

Shark Typhoon

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.
Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Shark Typhoon, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.

Scarscale Ritual

As an additional cost to cast this spell, put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.
Draw two cards.

Blue Sun's Twilight

Gain control of target creature with mana value X or less. If X is 5 or more, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Ghitu Encampment

Ghitu Encampment enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
{1}{R}: Ghitu Encampment becomes a 2/1 red Warrior creature with first strike until end of turn. It's still a land. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Lavaclaw Reaches

Lavaclaw Reaches enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.
{1}{B}{R}: Until end of turn, Lavaclaw Reaches becomes a 2/2 black and red Elemental creature with "{X}: This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn." It's still a land.

Petty Theft

Return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Brazen Borrower

Flash
Flying
Brazen Borrower can block only creatures with flying.

Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft

Witchstalker Frenzy

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature that attacked this turn.
Witchstalker Frenzy deals 5 damage to target creature.

Sublime Epiphany

Choose one or more —
• Counter target spell.
• Counter target activated or triggered ability.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
• Target player draws a card.

Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Arterial Flow

Each opponent discards two cards. If you control a Vampire, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Wandering Mind

Flying
When Wandering Mind enters, look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Shadowblood Ridge

Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass

As Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.

Shatterskull Smashing

Shatterskull Smashing deals X damage divided as you choose among up to two target creatures and/or planeswalkers. If X is 6 or more, Shatterskull Smashing deals twice X damage divided as you choose among them instead.

Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass

Bloodghast

Bloodghast can't block.
Bloodghast has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return Bloodghast from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.)
Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

Izzet Signet

Shipwreck Marsh

Shipwreck Marsh enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Alchemist's Retrieval

Cleave {1}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Return target nonland permanent [you control] to its owner's hand.