( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Target artifact or creature you control gains protection from artifacts or from the color of your choice until end of turn.

When Blade Splicer enters the battlefield, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token.

Golems you control have first strike.

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, when each opponent casts their first spell of the game, counter that spell unless that player pays .

Flying

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, counter it unless that player pays .

Permanents enter the battlefield tapped this turn.

Draw a card.

Imprint — When Exclusion Ritual enters the battlefield, exile target nonland permanent.

Players can't cast spells with the same name as the exiled card.

Sacrifice Gore Vassal: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. Then if that creature's toughness is 1 or greater, regenerate it.

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Marrow Shards deals 1 damage to each attacking creature.

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays for each of those creatures.

You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.

As long as you have 0 or less life, all damage is dealt to you as though its source had infect. (Damage is dealt to you in the form of poison counters.)

Vigilance

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Flying

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may gain 3 life.

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain 1 life.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may have that player lose 1 life.

You gain life equal to the number of creatures on the battlefield plus the number of artifacts on the battlefield.

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Chained Throatseeker can't attack unless defending player is poisoned.

Flying

Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Counter target spell if its controller is poisoned.

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

When Deceiver Exarch enters the battlefield, choose one —

• Untap target permanent you control.

• Tap target permanent an opponent controls.

Counter target spell, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Flying

Whenever Impaler Shrike deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. If you do, draw three cards.

Flash

At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards.

Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.

You draw two cards and target opponent discards two cards.

Enchant artifact or creature

Enchanted permanent doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted permanent's controller, that player loses 1 life.

Imprint — When Phyrexian Ingester enters the battlefield, you may exile target nontoken creature.

Phyrexian Ingester gets +X/+Y, where X is the exiled creature card's power and Y is its toughness.

Counter target creature spell. Its controller loses 1 life.

Flying

When Serum Raker dies, each player discards a card.

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Flying

Choose one —

• Counter target artifact spell.

• Return target artifact to its owner's hand.

Flying

Whenever Thrummingbird deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

, : Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. You may tap or untap that creature.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.

Draw three cards.

As Xenograft enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Each creature you control is the chosen type in addition to its other types.

Haste

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

When Blistergrub dies, each opponent loses 2 life.

Flying

Carnifex Demon enters the battlefield with two -1/-1 counters on it.

, Remove a -1/-1 counter from Carnifex Demon: Put a -1/-1 counter on each other creature.

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life, then you gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Flying, lifelink

, Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate Corrupted Harvester.

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.

Sacrifice a creature: Dross Hopper gains flying until end of turn.

When Entomber Exarch enters the battlefield, choose one —

• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

• Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature card from it. That player discards that card.

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Flying

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Sacrifice a creature: Flesh-Eater Imp gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

: Put target artifact or creature card with mana value X from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped. Then that player mills X cards.

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has infect.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature.

When Glistening Oil is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Glistening Oil to its owner's hand.

Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else.

Target player discards a card, then mills a card.

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

When Ichor Rats enters the battlefield, each player gets a poison counter.

Destroy all creatures, then search target opponent's library for up to three creature cards and put them into their graveyard. Then that player shuffles.

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Flying

When Necrogen Scudder enters the battlefield, you lose 3 life.