Lost Soul
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Her hand gently beckons, she whispers your name—
But those who go with her are never the same.
Marsh Gas
All creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn.
"Comes right outta th' ground. If ya can smell it, it's too late."
—Keevy Bogsbury
Mind Twist
Target player discards X cards at random.
Murk Dwellers
Whenever Murk Dwellers attacks and isn't blocked, it gets +2/+0 until end of combat.
When Raganorn unsealed the catacombs, he found more than the dead and their treasures.
Nether Shadow
Haste
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Nether Shadow is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put Nether Shadow onto the battlefield.
Nightmare
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Nightmare's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.
The Nightmare arises from its lair in the swamps. As the poisoned land spreads, so does the Nightmare's rage and terrifying strength.
Paralyze
Enchant creature
When Paralyze enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.
Pestilence
At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Pestilence.
{B}: Pestilence deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
Pit Scorpion
Whenever Pit Scorpion deals damage to a player, that player gets a poison counter. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)
Sometimes the smallest nuisance can be the greatest pain.
Plague Rats
Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.
During the dark times, the rats seemed to grow ever stronger.
Rag Man
{B}{B}{B}, {T}: Target opponent reveals their hand and discards a creature card at random. Activate only during your turn.
"Aw, he's just a silly, dirty little man. What's to be afraid of?"
Raise Dead
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Royal Assassin
{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.
Trained in the arts of stealth, the Royal Assassins choose their victims carefully, relying on timing and precision rather than brute force.
Scathe Zombies
"They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,
Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
It had been strange, even in a dream,
To have seen those dead men rise."
—Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Scavenging Ghoul
At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on Scavenging Ghoul for each creature that died this turn.
Remove a corpse counter from Scavenging Ghoul: Regenerate Scavenging Ghoul.
Sengir Vampire
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Sengir Vampire this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Sengir Vampire.
Simulacrum
You gain life equal to the damage dealt to you this turn. Simulacrum deals damage to target creature you control equal to the damage dealt to you this turn.
Sorceress Queen
{T}: Target creature other than Sorceress Queen has base power and toughness 0/2 until end of turn.
Spirit Shackle
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature becomes tapped, put a -0/-2 counter on it.
Terror
Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Uncle Istvan
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Uncle Istvan by creatures.
Solitude drove the old hermit insane. Now he only keeps company with those he can catch.
Unholy Strength
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.
Vampire Bats
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
{B}: Vampire Bats gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.
"For something is amiss or out of place When mice with wings can wear a human face."
—Theodore Roethke, "The Bat"
Wall of Bone
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{B}: Regenerate Wall of Bone. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)
The Wall of Bone is said to be an aspect of the Great Wall in Hel, where the bones of all sinners wait for Ragnarok, when Hela will call them forth for the final battle.
Warp Artifact
Enchant artifact
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted artifact's controller, Warp Artifact deals 1 damage to that player.
Weakness
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.
Will-o'-the-Wisp
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
{B}: Regenerate Will-o'-the-Wisp. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)
"About, about in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white."
—Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Word of Binding
Tap X target creatures.
"That was the worst experience of my days: standing there helpless as they killed my whole troop."
—Maeveen O'Donagh, *Memoirs of a Soldier*
Xenic Poltergeist
{T}: Until your next upkeep, target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.
Zombie Master
Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."
They say the Zombie Master controlled these foul creatures even before his own death, but now that he is one of them, nothing can make them betray him.
Ali Baba
{R}: Tap target Wall.
"When he reached the entrance of the cavern, he pronounced the words, 'Open, Sesame!'"
—*The Arabian Nights*, Junior Classics trans.
Ball Lightning
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Ball Lightning.
Bird Maiden
Flying
Four things that never meet do here unite
To shed my blood and to ravage my heart,
A radiant brow and tresses that beguile
And rosy cheeks and a glittering smile."
—*The Arabian Nights*, trans. Haddawy
Blood Lust
If target creature has toughness 5 or greater, it gets +4/-4 until end of turn. Otherwise, it gets +4/-X until end of turn, where X is its toughness minus 1.
Brothers of Fire
{1}{R}{R}: Brothers of Fire deals 1 damage to any target and 1 damage to you.
Fire is never a gentle master.
Burrowing
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has mountainwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)
Cave People
Whenever Cave People attacks, it gets +1/-2 until end of turn.
{1}{R}{R}, {T}: Target creature gains mountainwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)
Chaoslace
Target spell or permanent becomes red. (Its mana symbols remain unchanged.)
Crimson Manticore
Flying
{R}, {T}: Crimson Manticore deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.
Noted neither for their good looks nor their charm, Manticores can be fearsome allies. As dinner companions, however, they are best left alone.
Detonate
Destroy target artifact with mana value X. It can't be regenerated. Detonate deals X damage to that artifact's controller.
Disintegrate
Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.
Dragon Whelp
Flying
{R}: Dragon Whelp gets +1/+0 until end of turn. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice Dragon Whelp at the beginning of the next end step.
"O to be a dragon . . . of silkworm size or immense . . ." —Marianne Moore, "O to Be a Dragon"
Dwarven Warriors
{T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.
Earth Elemental
Earth Elementals have the eternal strength of stone and the endurance of mountains. Primordially connected to the land they inhabit, they take a long-term view of things, scorning the impetuous haste of short-lived mortal creatures.
Earthquake
Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.
Eternal Warrior
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has vigilance.
Warriors of the Tsunami-nito School spend years in training to master the way of effortless effort.
Fire Elemental
Fire Elementals are ruthless infernos, annihilating and consuming their foes in a frenzied holocaust. Crackling and blazing, they sear swift, terrible paths, leaving the land charred and scorched in their wake.
Fireball
This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.
