The Brothers' War

Gnawing Vermin

Gnawing Vermin {B}

Creature - Rat
When this creature enters, target player mills two cards.
When this creature dies, target creature you don't control gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
"Everyone warns about the sand and the food, but the rats are worse than both put together!"
—Sanwell, letter to his family
1/1
Go for the Throat

Go for the Throat {1}{B}

Instant
Destroy target nonartifact creature.
When Titania offered peace, Urza merely turned her down. Mishra made her people pay for the insult.
Gruesome Realization

Gruesome Realization {1}{B}{B}

Sorcery
Choose one —
• You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.
• Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.
Mishra was gone—all that remained was a machine wearing his face.
Gurgling Anointer

Gurgling Anointer {2}{B}

Creature - Phyrexian Horror
Flying
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, return another target creature card with mana value less than or equal to this creature's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.
1/3
Hostile Negotiations

Hostile Negotiations {3}{B}

Instant
Exile the top three cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top three cards of your library in another face-down pile. Look at the cards in each pile, then turn a pile of your choice face up. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. You lose 3 life.
Kill-Zone Acrobat

Kill-Zone Acrobat {2}{B}

Creature - Human Soldier
Whenever this creature attacks, you may sacrifice another creature or artifact. If you do, this creature gains flying until end of turn.
Her circus training proved surprisingly valuable on the battlefield.
3/2
Misery's Shadow

Misery's Shadow {1}{B}

Creature - Shade
If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
{1}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
In the ruins of Kroog, only anguish thrived.
2/2
Moment of Defiance

Moment of Defiance {2}{B}

Instant
Target creature gets +2/+1 and gains lifelink until end of turn.
Draw a card.
"Well? What are you waiting for? Let's not keep the buzzards waiting."
No One Left Behind

No One Left Behind {4}{B}

Sorcery
This spell costs {3} less to cast if it targets a creature card with mana value 3 or less.
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Dying for the cause is overrated.
Overwhelming Remorse

Overwhelming Remorse {4}{B}

Instant
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.
Tocasia's face haunted his vision. The explosion still rung in his ears. Mishra kept running and never once looked back.
Painful Quandary

Painful Quandary {3}{B}{B}

Enchantment
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.
In Mishra's desperation to destroy his brother, he allowed Gix to destroy him instead.
Powerstone Fracture

Powerstone Fracture {1}{B}

Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
"Move! When the powerstone blows, that behemoth will be nothing but a hole in the ground."
—Ashnod, to Hajar
Ravenous Gigamole

Ravenous Gigamole {3}{B}

Creature - Mole Horror
When this creature enters, mill three cards. You may put a creature card from among the cards milled this way into your hand. If you don't, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
2/3
Thran Vigil

Thran Vigil {1}{B}

Enchantment
Whenever one or more artifact and/or creature cards leave your graveyard during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Glacian built his automatons to last, and last they did, beyond even the Thran themselves.
Thraxodemon

Thraxodemon {1}{B}

Creature - Demon
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Draw a card.
Urza and Mishra weren't the only denizens of Terisiare to covet the powerstones' energy.
2/2
Trench Stalker

Trench Stalker {4}{B}

Creature - Beast Horror
As long as you've drawn two or more cards this turn, this creature has deathtouch and lifelink.
It can hear a panicked heartbeat from a thousand paces away.
4/5
Ashnod's Harvester

Ashnod's Harvester {2}

Artifact Creature - Construct
Whenever this creature attacks, exile target card from a graveyard.
Unearth {1}{B}
3/1
Clay Revenant

Clay Revenant {1}

Artifact Creature - Golem
This creature enters tapped.
{2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Tawnos built his clay statues for durability, not knowing they'd keep fighting long after the war.
1/2
Dredging Claw

Dredging Claw {2}

Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has menace.
Whenever a creature enters from your graveyard, you may attach this Equipment to it.
Equip {1}{B}
Goring Warplow

Goring Warplow {6}

Artifact Creature - Construct
Prototype {1}{B} — 1/1
Deathtouch
Built to crush walls and wills in equal measure.
5/4
Phyrexian Fleshgorger

Phyrexian Fleshgorger {7}

Artifact Creature - Phyrexian Wurm
Prototype {1}{B}{B} — 3/3
Menace, lifelink
Ward—Pay life equal to this creature's power.
7/5
Related card: March Toward Perfection
Razorlash Transmogrant

Razorlash Transmogrant {2}

Artifact Creature - Zombie
This creature can't block.
{4}{B}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. This ability costs {4} less to activate if an opponent controls four or more nonbasic lands.
3/1
Scrapwork Rager

Scrapwork Rager {4}

Artifact Creature - Phyrexian Horror
When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Unearth {3}{B}
2/2
Related card: March Toward Perfection
Transmogrant Altar

Transmogrant Altar {3}

Artifact
{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Create a 3/3 colorless Zombie artifact creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.
"The human body—like any other machine—can be stripped for parts."
—Ashnod
Transmogrant's Crown

Transmogrant's Crown {2}

Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw a card.
Equip {2} or {B}
Fallaji soldiers hated seeing loved ones' faces among the transmogrants. Ashnod devised a solution.