At the beginning of your upkeep, you may say "Ach! Hans, run! It's the . . ." and the name of a creature card. If you do, search your library for a card with that name, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. That creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
{3}{B}, Exile a permanent you control with a League of Dastardly Doom watermark: Return a permanent card with a League of Dastardly Doom watermark from your graveyard to the battlefield.
By the fourth funeral, the mooks had gotten pretty good at them.
Spells and abilities you control can't destroy, exile, target, or cause you to sacrifice A Good Thing. At the beginning of your upkeep, double your life total. Then, if you have 1,000 or more life, you lose the game.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Look at target opponent's hand and choose X cards from it. That player discards those cards.
As Gerrard's form vanished into the maw of trees, Hanna mouthed a silent plea, mourning a crushed dream.
You may cast spells that have a cycling ability from your graveyard. If a card that has a cycling ability would be put into your graveyard from anywhere and it wasn't cycled, exile it instead.
Although long since dead, the banished dissenters finally took their vengeance.
Enchant creature When Abduction enters the battlefield, untap enchanted creature. You control enchanted creature. When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Psionic Spells — When Aberrant Mind Sorcerer enters the battlefield, choose target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard, then roll a d20. 1—9 | You may put that card on top of your library. 10—20 | Return that card to your hand.
Until end of turn, target player can't cast instant or sorcery spells, and that player can't activate abilities that aren't mana abilities. Draw a card.
"I'm too modest a wizard to reveal the full extent of my abilities." —Ertai, wizard adept
Flying When Abhorrent Overlord enters the battlefield, create a number of 1/1 black Harpy creature tokens with flying equal to your devotion to black. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.
As Abian, Luvion Usurper enters the battlefield, you become Abian. (Your life total becomes equal to their loyalty. You can activate the loyalty abilities by spending or gaining life.) [+3]: Discard your hand, then draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. [+1]: Create a 3/2 red and green Spirit creature token. [–X]: You deal X damage to any target.
At the beginning of your end step, choose one — • You gain 1 life. • Return target creature card with mana value 1 from your graveyard to the battlefield.
"Into the smothering dark, Serra spoke a single word: 'Hope.'" —Song of All, canto 2
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a blue permanent. Counter target spell.
Mirri's hackles rose as Ertai continued expounding his virtues. "If that arrogant brat doesn't shut up soon," she growled to herself, "I'm going to have to kill him."