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Eternal Masters Removal

by Sameer Merchant // Jun 9, 2016

This is a list of all the removal in Eternal Masters, divided into permanent creature removal, temporary creature removal (such as bounce, tap, and falter effects), non-creature removal, and off-battlefield removal (hand, stack, and graveyard).

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Permanent Creature Removal

Color	Card	Type	Oracle Text
White	Swords to Plowshares	Instant	Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
	Balance	Sorcery	Each player chooses a number of lands he or she controls equal to the number of lands controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Players discard cards and sacrifice creatures the same way.
	Pacifism	Enchantment	Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block.
	Faith's Fetters	Enchantment	Enchant permanent When Faith's Fetters enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life. Enchanted permanent's activated abilities can't be activated unless they're mana abilities. If enchanted permanent is a creature, it can't attack or block.
	Wrath of God	Sorcery	Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.
	Second Thoughts	Instant	Exile target attacking creature. Draw a card.
Blue	Hydroblast	Instant	Choose one — • Counter target spell if it's red. • Destroy target permanent if it's red.
	Stupefying Touch	Enchantment	Enchant creature When Stupefying Touch enters the battlefield, draw a card. Enchanted creature's activated abilities can't be activated.
	Gaseous Form	Enchantment	Enchant creature Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by enchanted creature.
	Prodigal Sorcerer	Creature	{T}: Prodigal Sorcerer deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
	Tidal Wave	Instant	Put a 5/5 blue Wall creature token with defender onto the battlefield. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
	Control Magic	Enchantment	Enchant creature You control enchanted creature.
	Phyrexian Ingester	Creature	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.
Black	Innocent Blood	Sorcery	Each player sacrifices a creature.
	Tragic Slip	Instant	Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.
	Malicious Affliction	Instant	Morbid — When you cast Malicious Affliction, if a creature died this turn, you may copy Malicious Affliction and may choose a new target for the copy. Destroy target nonblack creature.
	Nausea	Sorcery	All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.
	Plague Witch	Creature	{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
	Eyeblight's Ending	Tribal Instant	Destroy target non-Elf creature.
	Lys Alana Scarblade	Creature	{T}, Discard an Elf card: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Elves you control.
	Toxic Deluge	Sorcery	As an additional cost to cast Toxic Deluge, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
	Braids, Cabal Minion	Legendary Creature	At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices an artifact, creature, or land.
	Nekrataal	Creature	First strike When Nekrataal enters the battlefield, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.
	Annihilate	Instant	Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. Draw a card.
	Visara the Dreadful	Legendary Creature	Flying {T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.
	Havoc Demon	Creature	Flying When Havoc Demon dies, all creatures get -5/-5 until end of turn.
Red	Chain Lightning	Sorcery	Chain Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature or player. Then that player or that creature's controller may pay {R}{R}. If the player does, he or she may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.
	Firebolt	Sorcery	Firebolt deals 2 damage to target creature or player. Flashback {4}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
	Flame Jab	Sorcery	Flame Jab deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)
	Mogg Fanatic	Creature	Sacrifice Mogg Fanatic: Mogg Fanatic deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
	Pyroblast	Instant	Choose one — • Counter target spell if it's blue. • Destroy target permanent if it's blue.
	Burning Vengeance	Enchantment	Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, Burning Vengeance deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
	Carbonize	Instant	Carbonize deals 3 damage to target creature or player. That creature can't be regenerated this turn. If the creature would die this turn, exile it instead.
	Ghitu Slinger	Creature	Echo {2}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When Ghitu Slinger enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
	Honden of Infinite Rage	Legendary Enchantment	At the beginning of your upkeep, Honden of Infinite Rage deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of Shrines you control.
	Siege-Gang Commander	Creature	When Siege-Gang Commander enters the battlefield, put three 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield. {1}{R}, Sacrifice a Goblin: Siege-Gang Commander deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
	Crater Hellion	Creature	Echo {4}{R}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When Crater Hellion enters the battlefield, it deals 4 damage to each other creature.
	Pyrokinesis	Instant	You may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay Pyrokinesis's mana cost. Pyrokinesis deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.
Green	Roots	Enchantment	Enchant creature without flying When Roots enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
Colorless	Ticking Gnomes	Artifact Creature	Echo {3} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) Sacrifice Ticking Gnomes: Ticking Gnomes deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
	Goblin Charbelcher	Artifact	{3}, {T}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. Goblin Charbelcher deals damage equal to the number of nonland cards revealed this way to target creature or player. If the revealed land card was a Mountain, Goblin Charbelcher deals double that damage instead. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.
	Nevinyrral's Disk	Artifact	Nevinyrral's Disk enters the battlefield tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.
	Duplicant	Artifact Creature	Imprint — When Duplicant enters the battlefield, you may exile target nontoken creature. As long as a card exiled with Duplicant is a creature card, Duplicant has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with Duplicant. It's still a Shapeshifter.
Multi-Color	Zealous Persecution	Instant	Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 and creatures your opponents control get -1/-1.
	Dack Fayden	Planeswalker	+1: Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards. −2: Gain control of target artifact. −6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell that targets one or more permanents, gain control of those permanents."
	Vindicate	Sorcery	Destroy target permanent.
	Void	Sorcery	Choose a number. Destroy all artifacts and creatures with converted mana cost equal to that number. Then target player reveals his or her hand and discards all nonland cards with converted mana cost equal to the number.

Temporary Creature Removal

Color	Card	Type	Oracle Text
White	Unexpectedly Absent	Instant	Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library just beneath the top X cards of that library.
	Kor Hookmaster	Creature	When Kor Hookmaster enters the battlefield, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
	Glimmerpoint Stag	Creature	Vigilance When Glimmerpoint Stag enters the battlefield, exile another target permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Blue	Silent Departure	Sorcery	Return target creature to its owner's hand. Flashback {4}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
	Man-o'-War	Creature	When Man-o'-War enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand.
	Jace, the Mind Sculptor	Planeswalker	+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. −1: Return target creature to its owner's hand. −12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles his or her hand into his or her library.
Red	Seismic Stomp	Sorcery	Creatures without flying can't block this turn.
Red	Stingscourger	Creature	Echo {3}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When Stingscourger enters the battlefield, return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
Multi-Color	Glare of Subdual	Enchantment	Tap an untapped creature you control: Tap target artifact or creature.
Lands	Karakas	Legendary Land	{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool. {T}: Return target legendary creature to its owner's hand.
Lands	Maze of Ith	Land	{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Non-Creature Removal

Color	Card	Type	Oracle Text
Black	Sinkhole	Sorcery	Destroy target land.
Green	Nature's Claim	Instant	Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.
Colorless	Winter Orb	Artifact	As long as Winter Orb is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.
Colorless	Nevinyrral's Disk	Artifact	Nevinyrral's Disk enters the battlefield tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.
Multi-Color	Dack Fayden	Planeswalker	+1: Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards. −2: Gain control of target artifact. −6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell that targets one or more permanents, gain control of those permanents."
	Trygon Predator	Creature	Flying Whenever Trygon Predator deals combat damage to a player, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls.
	Vindicate	Sorcery	Destroy target permanent.
	Glare of Subdual	Enchantment	Tap an untapped creature you control: Tap target artifact or creature.
	Void	Sorcery	Choose a number. Destroy all artifacts and creatures with converted mana cost equal to that number. Then target player reveals his or her hand and discards all nonland cards with converted mana cost equal to the number.
Lands	Wasteland	Land	{T}: Add {C} to your mana pool. {T}, Sacrifice Wasteland: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Not on the Battlefield

Color	Card	Type	Oracle Text
Blue	Hydroblast	Instant	Choose one — • Counter target spell if it's red. • Destroy target permanent if it's red.
	Counterspell	Instant	Counter target spell.
	Daze	Instant	You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay Daze's mana cost. Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
	Memory Lapse	Instant	Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.
	Jace, the Mind Sculptor	Planeswalker	+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. −1: Return target creature to its owner's hand. −12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles his or her hand into his or her library.
	Force of Will	Instant	You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay Force of Will's mana cost. Counter target spell.
Black	Cabal Therapy	Sorcery	Name a nonland card. Target player reveals his or her hand and discards all cards with that name. Flashback—Sacrifice a creature. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
	Deathrite Shaman	Creature	{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. {B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life. {G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.
	Duress	Sorcery	Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
	Hymn to Tourach	Sorcery	Target player discards two cards at random.
	Deadbridge Shaman	Creature	When Deadbridge Shaman dies, target opponent discards a card.
Red	Pyroblast	Instant	Choose one — • Counter target spell if it's blue. • Destroy target permanent if it's blue.
Green	Gaea's Blessing	Sorcery	Target player shuffles up to three target cards from his or her graveyard into his or her library. Draw a card. When Gaea's Blessing is put into your graveyard from your library, shuffle your graveyard into your library.
Colorless	Relic of Progenitus	Artifact	{T}: Target player exiles a card from his or her graveyard. {1}, Exile Relic of Progenitus: Exile all cards from all graveyards. Draw a card.

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