"I am reminded of the fable of the silver egg. Its owner cracks it open to see what jewels it holds, only to discover a simple yellow yolk." —Karn, silver golem
You may pay 1 life and exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Distribute two -2/-1 counters among one or two target creatures.
Buyback {2} Return the top creature card of your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
{3}, {T}: Choose a card name, then reveal a card at random from your hand. If that card has the chosen name, Cursed Scroll deals 2 damage to any target.
Choose one — • Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. • Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard. • Target creature gains fear until end of turn.
Players can't gain life. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life. Whenever Forsaken Wastes becomes the target of a spell, that spell's controller loses 5 life.
Gemstone Mine enters with three mining counters on it. {T}, Remove a mining counter from Gemstone Mine: Add one mana of any color. If there are no mining counters on Gemstone Mine, sacrifice it.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.
"I will flay the skin from your flesh and the flesh from your bones and scrape your bones dry. And still you will not have suffered enough." —Greven il-Vec, to Gerrard
The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to any target this turn, prevent that damage. If damage from a red source is prevented this way, Honorable Passage deals that much damage to the source's controller.
Choose one — • Counter target spell if it's red. • Destroy target permanent if it's red.
"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