Abeyance Instant 1W R Thomas Gianni Arena Spring '99 Season Until end of turn, target player cannot play instants, interrupts, sorceries, or abilities requiring an activation cost. ; Draw a card. "I'm too modest a wizard to reveal the full extent of my abilities." -Ertai, wizard adept Adarkar Wastes Land R Gary Leach Arena <T>: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. ; <T>: Add <W> or <U> to your mana pool. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you. All Hallow's Eve Sorcery 2BB R Christopher Rush Arena Radiant '98 Season (1st place) Put two counters on this card. Remove a counter during your upkeep. When you remove the last counter from All Hallow's Eve, all players take all creatures from their graveyards and put them directly into play. Treat these creatures as though they were just summoned. You choose what order they come into play. Aswan Jaguar Smn Jaguar 1GG 2/2 R Pat Morrissey MPS PC Game When Aswan Jaguar comes into play, choose a random creature type from those in target opponent's deck. <GG, T>: Bury target creature of the chosen type. Autumn Willow Smn Legend 4GG 4/4 R Margaret Organ-Kean Arena '97 Harvest Season Cannot be the target of spells or effects. ; <G>: Target player may target Autumn Willow with spells or effects until end of turn. ``We must shake her limbs and rattle her brains.'' -Grandmother Sengir Balance Sorcery 1W R Mark Poole Arena '97 Harvest Season (2nd place) Whichever player has more lands in play must discard enough lands of his or her choice to equalize the number of lands both players have in play. Cards in hand and creatures in play must be equalized the same way. Creatures lost in this way may not be regenerated. Balduvian Horde Smn Barbarians 2RR 5/5 R Brian Snġddy Arena '97 Radiant Season When Balduvian Horde comes into play, discard a card at random from your hand or bury Balduvian Horde. "Peace will come only when we have taken Varchild's head.'' -Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain Baron Sengir Smn Legend 5BBB 5/5 R Pete Venters Arena '98 Spring Season Flying ; Whenever a creature is put into the graveyard the same turn Baron Sengir damaged it, put a +2/+2 counter on Baron Sengir. ; <T>: Regenerate target Vampire. "Beast. Defiler. The source of all my pain." -Ihsan's Shade Black Knight Smn Knight BB 2/2 R Adrian Smith Arena '98 Winter Season First strike, protection from white Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight. Black Lotus Mono Artifact 0 R Christopher Rush Duelist #? Adds 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool, then is discarded. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt. Blacker Lotus Artifact 0 R Christopher Rush Arena '98 Summer Season (1st place) <T>: Tear Blacker Lotus into pieces. Add four mana of any one color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source. Remove the pieces from the game afterwards. Blinking Spirit Smn Blinking Spirit 3W 2/2 R L. A. Williams Arena '98 Winter Season (1st place) <0>: Return Blinking Spirit to owner's hand. "Don't look at it! Maybe it'll go away!'' -Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician Brushland Land R Tom Wänerstrand Arena <T>: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. ; <T>: Add <G> or <W> to your mana pool. Brushland deals 1 damage to you. Cadaverous Bloom Enchantment 3BG R Alan Rabinowitz Arena '99 Tempest Season (2nd place) Choose a card in your hand and remove it from the game: Add <BB> or <GG> to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source. "It's filthy work, planting them." -Kifimbo, Shadow Guildmage Chaos Orb Mono Artifact 2 R Mark Tedin Inquest #12 <1>: Flip Chaos Orb onto the playing area from a height of at least one foot. Chaos Orb must turn completely over at least once or it is discarded with no effect. When Chaos Orb lands, any cards in play that it touches are destroyed, as is Chaos Orb. City of Brass Land R Mark Tedin Arena '97 Harvest Season (3rd place) Tap to add 1 mana of any color to your mana pool. You suffer 1 damage whenever City of Brass becomes tapped. City of Brass Land R Mark Tedin Arena '97 Harvest Season (4th place) Tap to add 1 mana of any color to your mana pool. You suffer 1 damage whenever City of Brass becomes tapped. Crimson Hellkite Smn Dragon 6RRR 6/6 R Gerry Grace Arena '99 Radiant Season (2nd place) Flying ; < X, T>: Crimson Hellkite deals X damage to target creature. Spend only red mana in this way. "Dragonfire forged me a warrior." -Rashida Scalebane Cursed Scroll Artifact 1 R D. Alexander Gregory Arena '99 Radiant Season (1st place) <3, T>: Name a card, target opponent chooses a card at random from your hand. If he or she chooses the named card, Cursed Scroll deals 2 damage to target creature or player. Dark Banishing Instant 2B R John Matson Arena '98 Harvest Season Destroy target nonblack creature. That creature cannot be regenerated this turn. "It is the way of most wizards to begin by exiling themselves and to end by exiling everyone else." -Hanna, Weatherlight navigator Deflection Interrupt 3U R Mike Raabe Arena '98 Winter Season (3rd place) Target spell, which must have a single target, targets a new legal target of your choice. Up and down,/ over and through,/ back around-/ the joke's on you. Deflection Interrupt 3U R Mike Raabe Arena '98 Winter Season (4th place) Target spell, which must have a single target, targets a new legal target of your choice. Up and down, over and through, back around--- the joke's on you. Disenchant Instant 1W R Kevin McCann Arena '98 Radiant Season Destroy target enchantment or artifact. Dissipate Interrupt 1UU R Richard Kane-Ferguson Arena '99 Radiant Season (3rd place) Counter target spell. Remove that card from the game. "If you weren't born with it, you don't need it." -Grahilah, former trader of Amiqat Dissipate Interrupt 1UU R Richard Kane Ferguson Arena '99 Radiant Season (4th place) Counter target spell. Remove that spell card from the game. "If you weren't born with it, you don't need it." ---Grahilah, former trader of Amiqat Drain Life Sorcery 1B R Andrew Robinson Arena '99 Winter Season <X>: Drain Life deals X damage to target creature or player. Spend only black mana in this way. Gain 1 life for each 1 damage dealt, but not more than the toughness of the creature or the life total of the player Drain Life damages. Earthquake Sorcery XR R Richard Kane-Ferguson Arena '98 Tempest Season (1st place) Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player. Enduring Renewal Enchantment 2WW R Harold McNeill Arena '98 Spring Season (3rd place) Play with the cards in your hand face up on the table. If you draw a creature card from your library, discard it. Whenever a creature goes to your graveyard from play, put that creature into your hand. That which lasts longer serves best. Enduring Renewal Enchantment 2WW R Harold McNeill Arena '98 Spring Season (4th place) Play with the cards in your hand face up on the table. If you draw a creature card from your library, discard it. Whenever a creature goes to your graveyard from play, put that creature into your hand. That which lasts longest serves best. Erhnam Djinn Smn Djinn 3G 4/5 R Ken Meyer, Jr. Arena '98 Radiant Season (3rd place) During your upkeep, you must choose one of opponent's non-wall creatures in play. Until your next upkeep, that creature gains the forestwalk ability. If opponent has no creatures, ignore this effect. Erhnam Djinn Smn Djinn 3G 4/5 R Ken Meyer, Jr. Arena '98 Radiant Season (4th place) During your upkeep, you must choose one of opponent's non-wall creatures in play. Until your next upkeep, that creature gains the forestwalk ability. If opponent has no creatures, ignore this effect. Fallen Angel Smn Angel 3BB 3/3 R Anson Maddocks Arena '97 Summer Season (3rd place) Flying ; Sacrifice a creature to give Fallen Angel +2/+1 until end of turn. Fallen Angel Smn Angel 3BB 3/3 R Anson Maddocks Arena '97 Summer Season (4th place) Flying Sacrifice a creature to give Fallen Angel +2/+1 until end of turn. Fireball Sorcery XR R Jock Arena '99 Radiant Season Fireball deals X damage, divided evenly (round down) among any number of target creatures and/or players. Pay an additional <1> for each target beyond the first. Force of Nature Smn Force 2GGGG 8/8 R Douglas Shuler Arena '98 Harvest Season (1st place) Trample ; During your upkeep, pay <GGGG> or Force of Nature deals 8 damage to you. "It blinked, and flower petals fell like tears. Harthar, sensing weakness, attacked-and his blood fell like petals." -Shesul Fass, faerie bard Forest Land R Tony Roberts Arena <T>: Add <G> to your mana pool. Greater Realm of Preservation Enchantment 1W R Steve Lake Arena '98 Spring Season (2nd place) <1W>: Prevent all damage to you from a black or red source. Treat further damage from that source normally. Guardian Beast Smn Guardian 3B 2/4 R Ken Meyer, Jr. Arena '97 Autumn Season (3rd place) As long as guardian Beast is untapped, your non-creature artifacts cannot be further enchanted, destroyed, or taken under someone else's control. If something occurs that would destroy the Guardian Beast and artifacts simultaneously, the Guardian Beast is destroyed but your artifacts are not. If an artifact is enchanted or stolen while Guardian Beast is tapped, it remains so when Guardian Beast becomes untapped. Guardian Beast Smn Guardian 3B 2/4 R Ken Meyer, Jr. Arena '97 Autumn Season (4th place) As long as guardian Beast is untapped, your non-creature artifacts cannot be further enchanted, destroyed, or taken under someone else's control. If something occurs that would destroy the Guardian Beast and artifacts simultaneously, the Guardian Beast is destroyed but your artifacts are not. If an artifact is enchanted or stolen while Guardian Beast is tapped, it remains so when Guardian Beast becomes untapped. Hurloon Minotaur Smn Minotaur 1RR 2/3 R Anson Maddocks Caravan Tour The Minotaurs of the Hurloon Mountains are known for their love of battle. They are also known for their hymns to the dead, sung for friend and foe alike. These hymns can last for days, filling the mountain valleys with their low, haunting sounds. Hurricane Sorcery XG R Cornelius Brudi Arena '98 Autumn Season (2nd place) Hurricane deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player. "The raging winds. . ., settling on the sea, the surges sweep,/ Raise liquid mountains, and disclose the deep." -Virgil, Aeneid, Book I, trans. Dryden Hydroblast Interrupt U R Kaja Foglio Arena '98 Autumn Season (3rd place) Counter target spell if it is red or destroy target permanent if it is red. (If this spell targets a permanent, play it as an instant.) "Heed the lessons of our time: the forms of water may move the land itself and hold captive the fires within." -Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran royal mage Hydroblast Interrupt U R Kaja Foglio Arena '98 Autumn Season (4th place) Counter target spell if it is red, or destroy target permanent if it is red. (If this spell targets a permanent, play it as an instant.) "Heed the lessons of our time: the forms of water may move the land itself and hold captive the fires within." -Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran royal mage Icy Manipulator Mono Artifact 4 R Douglas Shuler Arena '97 Radiant Season (1st place) <1>: You may tap any land, creature, or artifact in play on either side. No effects are generated by the target card. Incinerate Instant 1R R Brian Snġddy Arena '98 Radiant Season (2nd place) Incinerate deals 3 damage to target creature or player. A creature damaged by Incinerate cannot regenerate this turn. "Never taunt an embermage, 'What are you going to do about it?'" -Akin, seasoned askari Incoming! Sorcery 4GGGG R Quinton Hoover GenCon 1998 Each player searches his or her library for any number of artifacts, creatures, enchantments, and lands and puts those cards into play. Each player shuffles his or her library afterwards. Infernal Contract Sorcery BBB R Roger Raupp Arena '99 Spring Season (2nd place) Pay half your life, rounded up: Draw four cards. "But I signed nothing!" -Taraneh, Suq'Ata mage Infernal Spawn of Evil Smn (Demon) Beast 6BBB 7/7 R Ron Spencer Arena '98 Summer Season Flying, first strike ; <1B>, Reveal Infernal Spawn of Evil from your hand, Say "It's coming!": Infernal Spawn of Evil deals 1 damage to target opponent. Use this ability only during your upkeep and only once each upkeep. Island Land R Tony Roberts Arena <T>: Add <U> to your mana pool. Ivory Tower Artifact 1 R Margaret Organ-Kean Arena '97 Autumn Season (2nd place) At the beginning of your upkeep, gain 1 life for each card in your hand in excess of four. Valuing scholarship above all else, the inhabitants of the Ivory Tower reward those who sacrifice power for knowledge. Jester's Cap Artifact 4 R Dan Frazier Duelist #18 <2, T>: Sacrifice Jester's Cap: Look through target player's library and remove three of those cards from the game. Shuffle that library afterwards. "Know your foes' strengths as well as their weaknesses.'' -Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi machinist Jokulhaups Sorcery 4RR R Richard Thomas Arena '98 Autumn Season (1st place) Bury all artifacts, creatures, and lands. "The raging waters had swept away trees, bridges, and even houses. My healers had much work to do." -Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran priest Juzam Djinn Smn Djinn 2BB 5/5 R Mark Tedin Duelist #12 Juzam Djinn does 1 damage to you during your upkeep. "Expect my visit when the darkness comes. The night I think is best for hiding all." -Ouallada Karplusan Forest Land R Randy Gallegos Arena <T>: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. ; <T>: Add <R> or <G> to your mana pool. Karplusan Forest deals 1 damage to you. Lhurgoyf Smn Lhurgoyf 2GG */1+* R Pete Venters Arena '97 Autumn Season Lhurgoyf has power equal to the total number of creatures in all graveyards, and toughness equal to 1 plus the total number of creatures in all graveyards. "Ach! Hans, run! It's the Lhurgoyf!'' -Saffi Eriksdotter, last words Library of Alexandria Land R Mark Poole Arena '97 Summer Season (1st place) Tap to add 1 colorless mana to your mana pool OR draw a card from your library; you may use the card-drawing ability only if you have exactly seven cards in your hand. Meditate Instant 2U R Susan Van Camp Arena '99 Spring Season (3rd place) Skip your next turn: Draw four cards. "Part of me believes that Barrin taught me meditation simply to shut me up." -Ertai, wizard adept Meditate Instant 2U R Susan Van Camp Arena '99 Spring Season (4th place) Skip your next turn: Draw four cards. "Part of me believes that Barrin taught me meditation simply to shut me up." ---Ertai, wizard adept Mirror Mirror Artifact 7 R Kaja Foglio oilgoF ajaK Arena '98 Summer Season (2nd place) Mirror Mirror comes into play tapped. ; <7, T,> Sacrifice Mirror Mirror: At end of turn, exchange life totals with target player and exchange all cards in play that you control, and all cards in your hand, library, and graveyard, with that player until end of game. Mirror Universe Artifact 6 R Phil Foglio Arena '97 Harvest Season (1st place) <T>: Sacrifice Mirror Universe during your upkeep, and trade your number of life points with opponent. For example, if you had 2 life points and your opponent had 10, you would now have 10 life points and your opponent would have 2. Effects that prevent or redirect damage may not be used to counter this change of life. Mountain Land R Tony Roberts Arena <T>: Add <R> to your mana pool. Natural Balance Sorcery 2GG R John Malloy Arena '99 Tempest Season (3rd place) Each player controlling six or more lands sacrifices enough lands to reduce his or her land total to five. ; Each player controlling four or fewer lands may search his or her library for enough basic land to bring his or her land total to five and put those lands into play. Those players shuffle their library afterwards. Natural Balance Sorcery 2GG R John Malloy Arena '99 Tempest Season (4th place) Each player controlling six or more lands sacrifices enough lands to reduce his or her land total to five. ; Each player controlling four or fewer lands may search his or her library for enough basic land to bring his or her land total to five and put those lands into play. Those players shuffle their library afterwards. Necropotence Enchantment BBB R Mark Tedin Arena '97 Autumn Season (1st place) Skip your draw phase. ; Whenever you discard a card, remove that card from the game. ; Pay 1 life: Set aside the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your discard phase. Nether Shadow Smn Shadow BB 1/1 R DiTerlizzi Arena '98 Tempest Season (3rd place) Nether Shadow is unaffected by summoning sickness. ; At the end of your upkeep, if Nether Shadow is in your graveyard with at least three creature cards above it, you may put Nether Shadow into play. Nether Shadow Smn Shadow BB 1/1 R DiTerlizzi Arena '98 Tempest Season (4th place) Nether Shadow is unaffected by summoning sickness. ; At the end of your upkeep, if Nether Shadow is in your graveyard with at least three creature cards above it, you may put Nether Shadow into play. Order of the White Shield Smn Knights WW 2/1 R Ruth Thompson Arena '98 Autumn Season Protection from black ; <W>: First strike until end of turn. ; <WW>: +1/+0 until end of turn. A shield of light admits no shadow. Personal Incarnation Smn Avatar 3WWW 6/6 R Kev. Walker Arena '98 Tempest Season (2nd place) Personal Incarnation's owner may redirect any amount of damage from it to himself or herself. ; If Personal Incarnation is put into any graveyard from play, its owner loses half his or her life, rounded up. Plains Land R Tony Roberts Arena <T>: Add <W> to your mana pool. Pox Sorcery BBB R Scott M. Fischer Arena '99 Winter Season (1st place) Each player loses 1/3 of his or her life; then chooses and discards 1/3 of the cards in his or her hand; then sacrifices 1/3 of the creatures he or she controls; and finally sacrifices 1/3 of the lands he or she controls. Round each loss up. Prosperity Sorcery XU R Dan Frazier Arena '99 Tempest Season Each player draws X cards. "Wealth is a good thing, compared to poverty-your food is better, your robes are softer, and your companions have bathed more recently." -Kipkemboi, Kukemssa pirate Pyroblast Interrupt R R Kaja Foglio Arena '98 Harvest Season (3rd place) Counter target spell if it is blue or destroy target permanent if it is blue. (If this spell targets a permanent, play it as an instant.) "Just the thing for those pesky water mages." -Jaya Ballard, task mage Pyroblast Interrupt R R Kaja Foglio Arena '98 Harvest Season (4th place) Counter target spell if it is blue or destroy target permanent if it is blue. (If this spell targets a permanent, play it as an instant.) "Just the thing for those pesky water mages." --Jaya Ballard, task mage Pyroclasm Sorcery 1R R Pat Morrissey Arena '99 Winter Season (3rd place) Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature. "Leaves more room for the big ones to fight in, you know." -Jaya Ballard, Task Mage Pyroclasm Sorcery 1R R Pat Morrissey Arena '99 Winter Season (4th place) Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature. "Leaves more room for the big ones to fight in, you know." -Jaya Ballard, Task Mage Recall Sorcery XXU R Richard Kane-Ferguson Arena '98 Tempest Season Choose and discard X cards: Return X target cards in your graveyard to your hand. Remove Recall from the game. Serra Angel Smn Angel 3WW 4/4 R Rebecca Guay Caravan Tour Flying ; Attacking does not cause Serra Angel to tap. Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity. Serra Angel Smn Angel 3WW 4/4 R Douglas Shuler Comic Book Flying ; Attacking does not cause Serra Angel to tap. Born with wings of light and a sword of faith, this heavenly incarnation embodies both fury and purity. Shatterstorm Sorcery 2RR R James Allen Arena '98 Harvest Season (2nd place) Bury all artifacts. Chains of leaping fire and sizzling lightning laid waste the artificers' handiwork, sparing not a single device. Shivan Dragon Smn Dragon 4RR 5/5 R Melissa Benson Duelist #21 Flying ; <R>: +1/+0 until end of turn. While it's true most Dragons are cruel, the Shivan Dragon seems to take particular glee in the misery of others, often tormenting its victims much like a cat plays with a mouse before delivering the final blow. Sibilant Spirit Smn Spirit 5U 5/6 R Ron Spencer Arena '98 Spring Season Flying ; If Sibilant Spirit attacks, defending player may draw a card. She had expected death to roar, to thunder, to growl. She did not recognize it when it came hissing to her side. Sol'kanar the Swamp King Smn Legend 2RBU 5/5 R Richard Kane-Ferguson Arena '97 Summer Season Swampwalk ; Sol'kanar's controller gains 1 life each time a black spell is cast. Squandered Resources Enchantment BG R Romas Kukalis <Sacrifice a land>: Add to your mana pool one mana of any type the sacrificed land could produce. Play this ability as a mana source. "He traded sand for skins, skins for gold, gold for life. In the end, he traded life for sand." -Afari, Tales Squirrel Farm Enchantment 2G R Ron Spencer Arena '98 Summer Season (3rd place) <1G>: Choose a card in your hand. Covering the artist's name, reveal the card to target player. If that player cannot name the artist, reveal the artist's name and put a Squirrel token into play. Treat this token as a 1/1 green creature. "And the ignorant shall fall to the squirrels." -Chip 2:54 Squirrel Farm Enchantment 2G R Ron Spencer Arena '98 Summer Season (4th place) <1G>: Choose a card in your hand. Covering the artist's name, reveal the card to target player. If that player cannot name the artist, reveal the artist's name and put a Squirrel token into play. Treat this token as a 1/1 green creature. "And the ignorant shall fall to the squirrels." ---Chip 2:54 Stormbind Enchantment 1RG R NéNé Thomas & Phillip Mosness Arena '98 Winter Season (2nd place) <2>: Discard a card at random from your hand to have Stormbind deal 2 damage to target creature or player. "Once, our people could call down the storm itself to do our bidding." -Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain Swamp Land R Tony Roberts Arena <T>: Add <B> to your mana pool. Swords to Plowshares Instant W R Jeff A. Menges Arena '98 Radiant Season (3rd place) Remove target creature from the game. That creature's controller gains life equal to its power. "The so-called Barbarians will not respect us for our military might-they will respect us for our honor." -Lucilde Fiksdotter, Leader of the Order of the White Shield Swords to Plowshares Instant W R Kaja Foglio Arena '98 Radiant Season (4th place) Remove target creature from the game. That creature's controller gains life equal to its power. "The so-called Barbarians will not respect us for our military might-they will respect us for our honor." -Lucilde Fiksdotter, Leader of the Order of the White Shield Thorn Elemental Creature - Elemental 5GG 7/7 R rk post Starter Gift Box (1999) You may have Thorn Elemental deal its combat damage to defending player as though it weren't blocked. Vampiric Tutor Instant B R Gary Leach Arena '99 Spring Season (1st place) Pay 2 life: Search your library for any one card. Shuffle your library, then put that card on top of your library. "I write upon clean white parchment with a sharp quill and the blood of my students, divining their secrets." -Shauku, Endbringer Vesuvan Doppelganger Smn Doppelganger 3UU */* R Quinton Hoover Arena '97 Summer Season (2nd place) Upon summoning, Doppelganger acquires all characteristics except color of any one creature in play on either side; any creature enchantments on the original creature are not copied. During controller's upkeep, Doppelganger may take on the characteristics of a different creature in play instead. Doppelganger may continue to copy a creature even after that creature leaves play, but if it switches it won't be able to switch back. Wheel of Fortune Sorcery 2R R Daniel Gelon Arena '97 Radiant Season (2nd place) Both players must discard their hands and draw seven new cards. Zuran Orb Artifact 0 R Sandra Everingham Arena '98 Winter Season (2nd place) <0>: Sacrifice a land to gain 2 life. "I will go to any length to achieve my goal. Eternal life is worth any sacrifice.'' -Zur the Enchanter Statistics: Number of cards 94 Cards Colors 14 Red, 17 Black, 13 White, 12 Blue, 13 Green, 4 Gold, 10 Artifacts Types 11 Lands 29 Creatures 54 Spells Rarity 94 Rares 0 Uncommons 0 Commons Card Value $0.00 Cards by Edition 94 6x9 Cards