Island

Mountain

Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever Body of Knowledge is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Treasure

Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator

Flying
Whenever one or more Pirates you control deal damage to your opponents, you create a Treasure token for each opponent dealt damage. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Quicksmiths are eager to jump from one project to the next, relying on flashes of inspiration rather than careful research.

Quicksmith Genius

Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Shapeshifter

Maskwood Nexus

Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)

"Violence is the food it craves. Feed it if you dare."
—Doriel, mentor of Mistral Isle

Illusory Ambusher

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Whenever Illusory Ambusher is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Darksteel Hydra

Darksteel Plate

"If there can be no victory, then I will fight forever."
—Koth of the Hammer

Indestructible
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip {2}

His mind whirled with grand plans, never thinking of what might happen if he were to succeed.

Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Artificial Evolution

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one creature type with another. The new creature type can't be Wall. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
+1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.
−8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.

When Otarians learned not to trust wizards, the wizards learned to adapt.

Imagecrafter

{T}: Choose a creature type other than Wall. Target creature becomes that type until end of turn.

The mizzium-sphere array drove her mind deep into the thought field, where only the rarest motes of genius may be plucked.

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Ponder

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

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

"Sometimes the hardest choice is between two wonders."
—Gadwick, the Wizened

Serum Visions

Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

"Surely you know the joy of the hunt, my furry friend. My kind of hunt just takes a different form than yours."

Curiosity

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Ophidian Eye

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Tandem Lookout

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Tandem Lookout is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card."

Omen Machine

Players can't draw cards.
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player exiles the top card of their library. If it's a land card, the player puts it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, the player casts it without paying its mana cost if able.

It contains the totality of Alhammarret's notes, theories, and ponderings.

Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Only when two oracles speak in unison is an omen accepted as truth.

Thought Reflection

If you would draw a card, draw two cards instead.

"Echoes of the Mirari's power yet linger."
—Zyd, Kamahlite druid

Reiterate

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

When the twin-spell bonus round begins, the crowd rises to its feet in anticipation of incredible combinations.

Bonus Round

Until end of turn, whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, that player copies it and may choose new targets for the copy.

When the great vault fell, it scattered its wonders across Thunder Junction.

Sol Ring

"Choices belong to those with the luxuries of time and distance. We have neither. I recommend we proceed with the plan to destroy all shrines of the kami."
—Lady Azami, letter to Sensei Hisoka

Azami, Lady of Scrolls

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Draw a card.

Insect

The Locust God

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, create a 1/1 blue and red Insect creature token with flying and haste.
{2}{U}{R}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
When The Locust God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Revolutionist

When Revolutionist enters the battlefield, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Madness {3}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Twinflame

Copy

Strive — This spell costs {2}{R} more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Choose any number of target creatures you control. For each of them, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it has haste. Exile those tokens at the beginning of the next end step.

Even in New Phyrexia, red mana sparks glimmers of individualism, passion, and freedom.

Priest of Urabrask

When Priest of Urabrask enters the battlefield, add {R}{R}{R}.

"There's no better place to divine the future than at a nexus of branching presents."

Eligeth, Crossroads Augur

Flying
If you would scry a number of cards, draw that many cards instead.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

To consult a sphinx is a test in patience. Perhaps that's the point.

Curator of Mysteries

Flying
Whenever you cycle or discard another card, scry 1.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

At first, Johann was annoyed that the library had decided to reorganize itself. But he had to admit that storing the cookbooks in the cauldron made a certain kind of sense.

Quick Study

Teferi gave them time. Karn gave them a chance. But it was Melira who paid the ultimate price to free Ajani from Phyrexia's grasp.

Negate

"Fire! Fire! Fire! What joy! What fire! Burn it all!"

Guttersnipe

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Guttersnipe deals 2 damage to each opponent.

"Shooting first don't mean much if you ain't got proper follow-through."

Slick Sequence

Slick Sequence deals 2 damage to any target. If you've cast another spell this turn, draw a card.

Izzet Charm

Choose one —
• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.
• Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature.
• Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Niv-Mizzet, Parun

This spell can't be countered.
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet, Parun deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, you draw a card.

Proft's Eidetic Memory

When Proft's Eidetic Memory enters the battlefield, draw a card.
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've drawn more than one card this turn, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn minus one.

The pyromancer summoned up her mightiest onslaught of fire and rage. Jace feigned interest.

Counterspell

Return the Favor

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {1} — Copy target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
+ {1} — Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

"The water looks like liquid gold. Wonder how many died trying to bottle it."
—Pioneer journal of Big Ralph

Eroded Canyon

Eroded Canyon enters the battlefield tapped.
When Eroded Canyon enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

"If that brain can't figure out the secret of the serum, then add more brains."
—Rhmir, Hand of the Augur

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

When asked how much power is required, Izzet mages always answer "more."

Goblin Electromancer

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Commander's Sphere

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

"Skreeg! I thought I told you to stop messing with... Oh, that worked. Good job, Skreeg."
—Ral Zarek

Invert Polarity

Choose target spell, then flip a coin. If you win the flip, gain control of that spell and you may choose new targets for it. If you lose the flip, counter that spell.

"Madness can't touch a mind ignited by genius."

Thermo-Alchemist

Defender
{T}: Thermo-Alchemist deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, untap Thermo-Alchemist.

The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy.

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Faerie

Improbable Alliance

"I agreed to light his way as long as he always had my back."
—Squill, Mistford pixie

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 blue Faerie creature token with flying.
{4}{U}{R}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Detective of the Month

Detective

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
As long as you have the city's blessing, Detectives you control can't be blocked.
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token.

"The perfection of the lotus reminds me of my hopes for this world . . . and my failures. I will not rest until I've atoned for them."
—Karn

Gilded Lotus

"The cost of your opposition will be extracted from your wits."
—Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

"The Origin Query will wait. We must ensure we survive to return to it."
—Pelyus, vedalken ordinar

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Mizzix's Mastery

Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery.
Overload {5}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Rapid Hybridization

Frog Lizard

"We've merged your life essence with that of several creatures at once. You're welcome."
—Speaker Trifon

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

"What do you mean a walking clock destroyed all our cannons?!"
—Captain Lannery Storm

Abrade

Choose one —
• Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature.
• Destroy target artifact.

"You slew the gorgon? Show me."
—King Igalus, last words

Gorgon's Head

Equipped creature has deathtouch.
Equip {2}

Wheel of Misfortune

Each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously and determine the highest and lowest numbers revealed this way. Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number to each player who chose that number. Each player who didn't choose the lowest number discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

"My flesh holds no secrets, monster. The spirit of Mirrodin will fight on."
—Vy Covalt, Mirran resistance

Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.

It is the glimpse of a new horizon beyond the hills, the briny taste of salt spray off a ship's hull, and the whisper of pages turning in a new book. It is discovery.

Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

As brilliant as a cut diamond, and with just as cruel an edge.

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind deals 1 damage to any target.
{T}: Draw a card.

"Loss has no meaning here. You cannot take from those who have nothing."

Kess, Dissident Mage

Flying
Once during each of your turns, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

A humble appearance belies a master's skill.

Garth One-Eye

{T}: Choose a card name that hasn't been chosen from among Disenchant, Braingeyser, Terror, Shivan Dragon, Regrowth, and Black Lotus. Create a copy of the card with the chosen name. You may cast the copy. (You still pay its costs.)

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth.

"Rats and jackals feast in his swath, but even they will not walk with him."
—Mangara

Kaervek the Merciless

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, Kaervek the Merciless deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to any target.

Cecily, Haunted Mage

Your maximum hand size is eleven.
Whenever Cecily, Haunted Mage attacks, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Then if you have eleven or more cards in your hand, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Friends forever (You can have two commanders if both have friends forever.)

His name means "he who paints the earth red."

Thraximundar

Haste
Whenever Thraximundar attacks, defending player sacrifices a creature.
Whenever a player sacrifices a creature, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Thraximundar.

His enemies wondered if the lich king's brutal death and unnatural rebirth had been his plan all along.

Nekusar, the Mindrazer

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, Nekusar, the Mindrazer deals 1 damage to that player.

Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Vigilance, trample, haste
Whenever Gishath, Sun's Avatar deals combat damage to a player, reveal that many cards from the top of your library. Put any number of Dinosaur creature cards from among them onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sydri, Galvanic Genius

{U}: Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value until end of turn.
{W}{B}: Target artifact creature gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

"So many have died in search of that map. And now it appears in the hands of the arrogant child Chandra Nalaar."

Anowon, the Ruin Sage

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player sacrifices a non-Vampire creature.

Atraxa, Grand Unifier

Flying, vigilance, deathtouch, lifelink
When Atraxa, Grand Unifier enters the battlefield, reveal the top ten cards of your library. For each card type, you may put a card of that type from among the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.)

Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep

Vigilance, ward {3}
Whenever you cast a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent spell from your hand, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value less than X from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

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