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Mana Key:
U - Blue, W - White, G - Green, B - Black, R - Red;
Numbers - Colorless (Generic) Mana

Note: n/a means "not applicable"

Card Title: Air Elemental
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Elemental
Cost: 3UU
Pow/Tgh: 4/4
Card Text: Flying
Artist: Richard Thomas
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Ancestral Recall
Color: Blue
Card Type: Instant
Cost: U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Draw 3 cards or force opponent to draw 3 cards.
Artist: Mark Poole
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Animate Artifact
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchant Artifact
Cost: 3U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Target artifact is now a creature with both power and
toughness equal to its casting cost; target retains all its
original abilities as well. This will destroy artifacts with 0
casting cost.
Artist: Douglas Schuler
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Animate Dead
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchant Dead Creature
Cost: 1B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Any creature in either player's graveyard comes into play
on your side with -1 to its original power. If this
enchantment is removed, or at end of game, target creature
is returned to its owner's graveyard. Target creature may be
killed as normal.
Artist: Anson Maddocks
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Animate Wall
Color: White
Card Type: Enchant Wall
Cost: W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Target wall can now attack. Target wall's power and
toughness are unchanged, even if its power is 0.
Artist: Dan Frazier
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Ankh of Mishra
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Continuous Artifact
Cost: 2
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Ankh does 2 damage to anyone who puts a new land into
play.
Artist: Amy Weber
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Armageddon
Color: White
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 3W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: All lands in play are destroyed.
Artist: Jesper Myrfors
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Aspect of Wolf
Color: Green
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 1G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Target creature's power and toughness are increased by half
the number of forests you have in play, rounding down for
power and up for toughness.
Artist: Jeff A. Menges
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Bad Moon
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: All black creatures in play gain +1/+1.
Artist: Jesper Myrfors
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Badlands
Color: Land
Card Type: Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Tap to add either R or B to your mana pool.
Counts as both mountains and swamp and is affected by
spells that affect either. If a spell destroys one of these land
types, this card is destroyed; if a spell alters one of these land
types, the other land type is unaffected.
Artist: Rob Alexander
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Balance
Color: White
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 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 manner may not be regenerated.
Artist: Mark Poole
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Basalt Monolith
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Mono Artifact
Cost: 3
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Tap to add 3 colorless mana to your mana pool. Does not
untap as normal during untap phase; you may spend 3 to
untap. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt
Artist: Jesper Myrfors
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Bayou
Color: Land
Card Type: Land
Cost: n/a
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Counts as both swamp and forest and is affected by spells that
affect either. Tap to add either B or G to your mana pool.
Artist: Jesper Myrfors
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Benalish Hero
Color: White
Card Type: Summon Hero
Cost: W
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: Bands
Artist: Douglas Schuler
Rarity: Common 1

Card Title: Berserk
Color: Green
Card Type: Instant
Cost: G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Until end of turn, target creature's current power doubles and
it gains trample ability. If it attacks, target creature is destroyed
at end of turn. This spell cannot be cast after current turn's
attack is completed.
Artist: Dan Frazier
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Birds of Paradise
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Mana Birds
Cost: G
Pow/Tgh: 0/1
Card Text: Flying
Tap to add one mana of any color to your mana pool. This
tap may be played as an interrupt.
Artist: Mark Poole
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Black Knight
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Knight
Cost: BB
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Card Text: Protection from white, first strike
Artist: Jeff A. Menges
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Black Lotus
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Mono Artifact
Cost: 0
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 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.
Artist: Christopher Rush
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Black Vise
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Continuous Artifact
Cost: 1
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: If opponent has more than four cards in hand during upkeep,
Black Vise does 1 damage to opponent for each card in excess
of four.
Artist: Richard Thomas
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Black Ward
Color: White
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Target creature gains protection from black.
Artist: Dan Frazier
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Blaze of Glory
Color: White
Card Type: Instant
Cost: W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Target defending creature can and must block all attacking
creatures it can legally block. For example, a normal
non-flying target defender can and must block all normal
non-flying attackers at once, but it cannot block any flying
creatures. Controller of target defender may distribute
damage among attackers as desired. Play before defense is
chosen.
Artist: Richard Thomas
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Blessing
Color: White
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: WW
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: W: Target creature gains +1/+1 until end of turn.
Artist: Julie Baroh
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Blue Elemental Blast
Color: Blue
Card Type: Interrupt
Cost: B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Counters target red spell being cast or destroys a red card in
play.
Artist: Richard Thomas
Rarity: Common 1

Card Title: Blue Ward
Color: White
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Target creature gains protection from blue.
Artist: Dan Frazier
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Bog Wraith
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Wraith
Cost: 3B
Pow/Tgh: 3/3
Card Text: Swampwalk
Artist: Jeff A. Menges
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Braingeyser
Color: Blue
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: XUU
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Target player must draw X cards.
Artist: Mark Tedin
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Burrowing
Color: Red
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Target creature gains mountainwalk.
Artist: Mark Poole
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Camouflage
Color: Green
Card Type: Instant
Cost: G
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: You may rearrange your attacking creatures and place them
face down, revealing which is which only after defense is
chosen. If this results in impossible blocks, such as
non-flying creatures blocking flying creatures, illegal blockers
cannot block this turn.
Artist: Jesper Myrfors
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Castle
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 3W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Your untapped creatures gain +0/+2. Attacking creatures
lose this bonus.
Artist: Dameon Willich
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Celestial Prism
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Mono Artifact
Cost: 3
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 2: Provides 1 mana of any color. This use can be played as
an interrupt.
Artist: Amy Weber
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Channel
Color: Green
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: GG
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Until end of turn, you may add colorless mana to your
mana pool at a cost of 1 life each. These additions are played
with the speed of an interrupt. Effects that prevent damage
may not be used to counter this loss of life.
Artist: Richard Thomas
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Chaos Orb
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Mono Artifact
Cost: 2
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 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.
Artist: Mark Tedin
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Chaoslace
Color: Red
Card Type: Interrupt
Cost: R
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Changes the color of one card either being played or already
in play to red. Cost to cast, tap, maintain, or use a special
ability of target card remains entirely unchanged.
Artist: Dameon Willich
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Circle of Protection: Black
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 1: Prevents all damage against you from one black source.
If a source does damage to you more than once in a turn, you
must pay 1 mana each time you want to prevent the damage.
Artist: Jesper Myrfors
Rarity: Common 1

Card Title: Circle of Protection: Blue
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 1: Prevents all damage against you from one blue source.
If a source does damage to you more than once in a turn,
you must pay 1 mana each time you want to prevent the
damage.
Artist: Dameon Willich
Rarity: Common 1

Card Title: Circle of Protection: Green
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 1: Prevents all damage against you from one green source.
If a source does damage to you more than once in a turn,
you must pay 1 mana each time you want to prevent the
damage.
Artist: Sandra Everingham
Rarity: Common 1

Card Title: Circle of Protection: Red
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 1: Prevents all damage against you from one red source. If a
source does damage to you more than once in a turn, you
must pay 1 mana each time you want to prevent the
damage.
Artist: Mark Tedin (Anson Maddocks credited in Alpha)
Rarity: Common 1

Card Title: Circle of Protection: White
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 1: Prevents all damage against you from one white source.
If a source does damage to you more than once in a turn, you
must pay 1 mana each time you want to prevent the damage.
Artist: Douglas Schuler
Rarity: Common 1

Card Title: Clockwork Beast
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact Creature
Cost: 6
Pow/Tgh: 0/4
Card Text: Put seven +1/+0 counters on Beast. After Beast attacks or
blocks, discard a counter. During the untap phase, controller
may buy back lost counters for 1 mana per counter; this taps
Beast if it wasn't tapped already
Artist: Drew Tucker
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Clone
Color: Blue
Card Type: Summon Clone
Cost: 3U
Pow/Tgh: */*
Card Text: Upon summoning, Clone acquires all characteristics,
including color, of any one creature in play on either side;
any creature enchantments on original creature are not
copied. Clone retains these characteristics even after original
creature is destroyed. Clone cannot be summoned if there
are no creatures in play.
Artist: Julie Baroh
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Cockatrice
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon Cockatrice
Cost: 3GG
Pow/Tgh: 2/4
Card Text: Flying
Any non-wall creature blocking Cockatrice is destroyed, as
is any creature blocked by Cockatrice. Creatures destroyed
in this way deal their damage before dying.
Artist: Dan Frazier
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Consecrate Land
Color: White
Card Type: Enchant Land
Cost: W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: All enchantments on target land are destoyed. Land cannot
be destroyed or further enchanted until Consecrate Land
has been destroyed.
Artist: Jeff A. Menges
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Conservator
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Mono Artifact
Cost: 4
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 3: Prevent the loss of up to 2 life.
Artist: Amy Weber
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Contract from Below
Color: Black
Card Type: Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Discard your current hand and draw eight new cards,
adding the first drawn to your ante. Remove this card from
your deck before playing if you are not playing for ante.
Artist: Douglas Schuler
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Control Magic
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 2UU
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: You control target creature until enchantment is discarded
or game ends. You can't tap target creature this turn, but if
it was already tapped it stays tapped until you can untap it.
If destroyed, target creature is put in its owner's graveyard.
Artist: Dameon Willich
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Conversion
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 2WW
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: All mountains are considered plains while Conversion is
in play. Pay WW during upkeep or Conversion is discarded.
Artist: Jesper Myrfors
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Copper Tablet
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Continuous Artifact
Cost: 2
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Copper Tablet does 1 damage to each player during his or
her upkeep.
Artist: Amy Weber
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Copy Artifact
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Select any artifact in play. This enchantment acts as a
duplicate of that artifact; it is affected by cards that affect
either enchantments or artifacts. The copy remains even if
the original artifact is destroyed. Enchantments on the
original artifact are not copied.
Artist: Amy Weber
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Counterspell
Color: Blue
Card Type: Interrupt
Cost: UU
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Counters target spell as it is being cast.
Artist: Mark Poole
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Craw Wurm
Color: Green
Card Type: Summon wurm
Cost: 4GG
Pow/Tgh: 6/4
Card Text: n/a
Artist: Daniel Gelon
Rarity: Common 1

Card Title: Creature Bond
Color: Blue
Card Type: Enchant Creature
Cost: 1U
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: If target creature is destroyed, Creature Bond does an
amount of damage equal to creature's toughness to
creature's controller.
Artist: Anson Maddocks
Rarity: Common 1

Card Title: Crusade
Color: White
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: WW
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: All white creatures gain +1/+1.
Artist: Mark Poole
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Crystal Rod
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Poly Artifact
Cost: 1
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 1: Any blue spell cast by any player gives you 1 life.
Artist: Amy Weber
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Cursed Land
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchant Land
Cost: 2BB
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Cursed Land does 1 damage to target land's controller
during each upkeep.
Artist: Jesper Myrfors
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Cyclopean Tomb
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Mono Artifact
Cost: 4
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 2: Turn any one non-swamp land into swamp during your
upkeep. Mark the changed lands with tokens. If Cyclopean
Tomb is destroyed, remove one token of your choice each
upkeep, returning that land to its original nature.
Artist: Anson Maddocks
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Dark Ritual
Color: Black
Card Type: Interrupt
Cost: B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Add 3 black mana to your mana pool.
Artist: Sandra Everingham
Rarity: Common 1

Card Title: Darkpact
Color: Black
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: BBB
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Without looking at it first, swap top card of your library with
either card of ante; this swap is permanent. You must have
a card in your library to cast this spell. Remove this card from
your deck before playing if you are not playing for ante.
Artist: Quinton Hoover
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Death Ward
Color: White
Card Type: Instant
Cost: W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Regenerates target creature.
Artist: Mark Poole (Dan Frazier in Alpha)
Rarity: Common 1

Card Title: Deathgrip
Color: Black
Card Type: Enchantment
Cost: BB
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: BB: Destroy a green spell as it is being cast.
This action may be played as an interrupt, and does not
affect green cards already in play.
Artist: Anson Maddocks
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Deathlace
Color: Black
Card Type: Interrupt
Cost: B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Changes the color of one card either being played or already
in play to black. Cost to cast, tap, maintain, or use a special
ability of target card remains entirely unchanged.
Artist: Sandra Everingham
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Demonic Attorney
Color: Black
Card Type: Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 1BB
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: If opponent doesn't concede the game immediately, each
player must ante an additional card from the top of his or
her library. Remove this card from your deck before playing
if you are not playing for ante.
Artist: Daniel Gelon
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Demonic Hordes
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Demons
Cost: 3BBB
Pow/Tgh: 5/5
Card Text: Tap to destroy 1 land. Pay BBB during upkeep or the Hordes
become tapped and you lose a land of opponent's choice.
Artist: Jesper Myrfors
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Demonic Tutor
Color: Black
Card Type: Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 1B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: You may search your library for one card and take it into
your hand. Reshuffle your library afterwards.
Artist: Douglas Schuler
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Dingus Egg
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Artifact
Cost: 4
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Whenever anyone loses a land, Egg does 2 damage to that
player for each land lost.
Artist: Dan Frazier
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Disenchant
Color: White
Card Type: Instant
Cost: 1W
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Target enchantment or artifact must be discarded.
Artist: Amy Weber
Rarity: Common 1

Card Title: Disintegrate
Color: Red
Card Type: Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: XR
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Disintegrate does X damage to one target. If target dies this
turn, it is removed from game entirely and cannot be
regenerated. Return target to its owner's deck only when
game is over.
Artist: Anson Maddocks
Rarity: Common 1

Card Title: Disrupting Scepter
Color: Artifact
Card Type: Mono Artifact
Cost: 3
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: 3: Opponent must discard one card of his or her choice.
Can only be used during your turn.
Artist: Dan Frazier
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Dragon Whelp
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Dragon
Cost: 2RR
Pow/Tgh: 2/3
Card Text: Flying
R: +1/+0 until end of turn; if more than RRR is spent in
this way, Dragon Whelp is destroyed at end of turn.
Artist: Amy Weber
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Drain Life
Color: Black
Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: 1B
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Drain Life does 1 damage to a single target for each B spent
in addition to the casting cost. Caster gains 1 life for each
damage inflicted. If you drain life from a creature, you
cannot gain more life than the creature's toughness.
Artist: Douglas Schuler
Rarity: Common 1

Card Title: Drain Power
Color: Blue
Card Type: Card Type: Sorcery
Cost: UU
Pow/Tgh: n/a
Card Text: Tap all opponent's land, takin all this mana and all mana in
opponent's mana pool into your mana pool. You can't
tap fewer than all opponent's lands.
Artist: Douglas Schuler
Rarity: Rare 1

Card Title: Drudge Skeletons
Color: Black
Card Type: Summon Skeletons
Cost: 1B
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: B: Regenerates
Artist: Sandra Everingham
Rarity: Common 1

Card Title: Dwarven Demolition Team
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Dwarves
Cost: 2R
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: Tap to destroy a wall.
Artist: Kev Brockschmidt
Rarity: Uncommon 1

Card Title: Dwarven Warriors
Color: Red
Card Type: Summon Dwarves
Cost: 2R
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Card Text: Tap to make a creature of power no greater than 2
unblockable until end of turn. Other cards may later be used
to increase target creature's power beyond 2 after defense is
chosen.
Artist:

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