Karina's Explorations

Karina's Explorations contains 314 cards.
Released: 2022-07-01
Smoking Skull

Smoking Skull {B}

Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has menace.
Equip {1}
“The best way to win a fight is to make people not want to start one with you.”
—Mei Liva
Spiked Burrower

Spiked Burrower {2}{B}

Creature - Brushwagg
When Spiked Burrower dies, if it didn't have a counter on it, return it to the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter or a lifelink counter on it.
“When threatened, it digs deep and becomes a dangerous little ball of spikes.”
—Trainee Karina Oblay, field notes
2/2
Swipe Secrets

Swipe Secrets {B}

Sorcery
Target player reveals their hand. Exile a nonland card from it and put a secret counter on it. As long as that card remains exiled, that player may pay {2} any time they could cast a sorcery to put it into their hand.
{X}{B}{B}, Exile Swipe Secrets from your graveyard: Until end of turn, you may cast target card you exiled with a secret counter on it and mana value X without paying its mana cost.
Tireless Archivist

Tireless Archivist {1}{B}{B}

Artifact Creature - Advisor
Advance {3}{B}{B} (Cast this for {3}{B}{B} to advance it as it enters. {3}{B}{B}: Advance this as a sorcery.)
Whenever Tireless Archivist advances, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
With ever more knowledge required ever more modifications to contain it.
3/3
Token of Tribulation

Token of Tribulation {B}

Legendary Artifact - Equipment
At the beginning of each end step, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature for each creature that died this turn.
Equip {1}
Trophy Taker

Trophy Taker {B}

Creature - Human Scout Rogue
Deathtouch
“There's too much money in these beasts to let a little crocodile get in the way.”
1/1
Truth or Dare

Truth or Dare {3}{B}

Enchantment - Aura Curse
Enchant player
At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, they choose one —
• That player reveals their hand and discards a card.
• That player discards a card at random.
Unrelenting

Unrelenting {1}{B}{B}

Instant
Choose one, then choose another for each card named Unrelenting in your graveyard.
• Creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Create a 2/2 blue Elemental creature token.
• Each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.
• Search your library for a card with mana value 4 or greater, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Valinov Siphoner

Valinov Siphoner {1}{B}{B}

Artifact Creature - Vampire Rogue
Advance {4}{B}{B} (Cast this for {4}{B}{B} to advance it as it enters. {4}{B}{B}: Advance this as a sorcery.)
Flying
Whenever Valinov Siphoner advances, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
“House Valinov will see to you now, after you pay the entry fee, of course....”
2/3
Vampire Partaker

Vampire Partaker {1}{B}

Creature - Vampire Cleric
Vampire Partaker can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Vampire Partaker. You gain 1 life. Activate only as a sorcery.
“Usona offers a trade-off to my students, secrets are easy to get, but hardly filling.”
—Mei Liva
1/1
Well-Oiled Sniper

Well-Oiled Sniper {3}{B}

Artifact Creature - Human
Advance {5}{B}{B} (Cast this for {5}{B}{B} to advance it as it enters. {5}{B}{B}: Advance this as a sorcery.)
Whenever Well-Oiled Sniper advances, target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
“Those Valinov designs seem like they ain't from anywhere on Skalor...”
—Pidge, tinkering courier
3/3
Abrasive Citizen

Abrasive Citizen {1}{R}

Creature - Human Citizen
Whenever you make first contact, Abrasive Citizen gets +3/+0 until end of turn. (You make first contact the first time each turn you cast a spell with a name not in your graveyard or control already.)
As Entela opened its arms to the planes beyond, some of its citizens let the incoming migrants know they were not welcome here.
1/2
Aspiring Dragon

Aspiring Dragon {R}

Creature - Dragon
Aspiring Dragon has flying and haste as long as you control another Dragon.
{2}{R}{R}: Aspiring Dragon gets +3/+0 until end of turn.
“C'mon, this one's a baby! We'll be fine as long as we leave before its mom shows up!”
—Flynn Skara, to Karina
1/1
Barhopping in Minei

Barhopping in Minei {2}{R}

Enchantment
When Barhopping in Minei enters the battlefield, draw up to four cards, then put twice that many drink counters on Barhopping in Minei.
Your maximum hand size is reduced by the number of drink counters on Barhopping in Minei.
Better Together

Better Together {R}

Enchantment - Aura
Enchant two nonland permanents you control
Once each turn, when you activate an ability of one of the enchanted permanents, you may put a +1/+1 counter, a loyalty counter, or a charge counter on each enchanted permanent. (They can be different counters.)
Blitz Breaker

Blitz Breaker {R}

Artifact Creature - Human Warrior
Advance {1}{R} (Cast this for {1}{R} to advance it as it enters. {1}{R}: Advance this as a sorcery.)
Whenever Blitz Breaker advances, its power becomes equal to the amount of noncombat damage that's been dealt to your opponents this turn. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
1/1
Built to Smash

Built to Smash {R}

Instant
Target attacking creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. If it's an artifact creature, it gains trample until end of turn.
“That vampire tech is punching through our stuff like its nothing! Let's see if they're interested in selling.”
—Pidge, tinkering courier
Callous Conduit

Callous Conduit {R}

Creature - Human Wizard
First strike
Whenever you make first contact, Callous Conduit deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. (You make first contact the first time each turn you cast a spell with a name not in your graveyard or control already.)
“The extraplanars can't even survive Volaria on their own. Go back home where it's safer!”
1/1
Competing Design

Competing Design {1}{R}

Instant
Create a 1/1 colorless Construct artifact creature token. For each other card named Competing Design in your graveyard, create a colorless Canister artifact token with “{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add {C}.”
“Tell that Valinov fella that we ain't buying a speck of his stuff ‘til he shows us the specs.”
—Pidge, tinkering courier
Creativity

Creativity {R}{R}{R}

Enchantment
Whenever you cast a spell for an alternate cost, create two 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens.
Whenever you cast a red spell from your hand, reveal the top card of your library. If that card has a lesser mana value, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. Otherwise, draw a card, then discard a card.
Curio Hellkite

Curio Hellkite {2}{R}{R}

Creature - Dragon
Flying
Whenever you make first contact, Curio Hellkite deals 2 damage to any target. (You make first contact the first time each turn you cast a spell with a name not in your graveyard or control already.)
3/3
Dragon Dance

Dragon Dance {1}{R}

Instant
Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. If it's a Dragon, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
“Wanna go dragonriding with me?”
“Isn't that kinda dangerous?” Karina asked. “Only if you're a coward,” Flynn grinned back.
Experimental Power Source

Experimental Power Source {R}

Artifact
Advance costs you pay cost {1} less.
You may activate advance abilities of permanents you control any time you could cast an instant.
“Look, look! It's already doubled doubled our output already!”
Flying with Dragons

Flying with Dragons {3}{R}

Sorcery
Exile the top five cards of your library. You may play Dragon cards exiled this way as long as they remain exiled. You may play other cards exiled this way until the end of your next turn.
“He's sooo fluffy! Can we keep him?”
Goddess' Whimsy

Goddess' Whimsy {1}{R}

Sorcery
Shuffle your library, then exile the top two cards. Until end of turn, you may play one of those cards. Whenever you play a card exiled with Goddess' Whimsy this turn that doesn't share a card type with another card played this way, repeat that process.
“I should have guessed Reyhsia's kid wouldn't make things easy. You do seem more fun though.”