Card Codex

M:tG card similarity search

17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Startling Development

1U · Instant

Until end of turn, target creature becomes a blue Serpent with base power and toughness 4/4. Cycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Similar cards

Color identity:
NameManaTypeText
Goldfury Strider 4RArtifact Creature — Golem Trample Tap two untapped artifacts and/or creatures you control: Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery. 3/5
Really Epic Punch 1GSorcery Target creature you control gets +2/+2 if it's a host or has augment. Then it fights target creature you don't control.
Triumph of the Hordes 2GGSorcery Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample and infect. (Creatures with infect deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Aven Trailblazer 2WCreature — Bird Soldier Flying Domain — Aven Trailblazer's toughness is equal to the number of basic land types among lands you control. 2/*
Locthwain Gargoyle 1Artifact Creature — Gargoyle {4}: Locthwain Gargoyle gets +2/+0 and gains flying until end of turn. 0/3
Diminished Returner 1BBCreature — Phyrexian Skeleton Diminished Returner enters the battlefield tapped. {B}{B}: Diminished Returner perpetually gets -1/-1, then return it to the battlefield. Activate only if Diminished Returner is in your graveyard and its toughness is 2 or greater. 4/3
Collector's Cage 1WArtifact Hideaway 5 (When this artifact enters the battlefield, look at the top five cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) {1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then if you control three or more creatures with different powers, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.
Master of the Wild Hunt 2GGCreature — Human Shaman At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token. {T}: Tap all untapped Wolf creatures you control. Each Wolf tapped this way deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power divided as its controller chooses among any number of those Wolves. 3/3
Nefashu 4BBCreature — Zombie Mutant Whenever Nefashu attacks, up to five target creatures each get -1/-1 until end of turn. 5/3
Nissa, Who Shakes the World 3GGLegendary Planeswalker — Nissa Whenever you tap a Forest for mana, add an additional {G}. [+1]: Put three +1/+1 counters on up to one target noncreature land you control. Untap it. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with vigilance and haste that's still a land. [−8]: You get an emblem with "Lands you control have indestructible." Search your library for any number of Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Loyalty 5
Page 341