Core Set 2019 Removal List
This is a list of all the removal in Core Set 2019, 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).
Permanent Creature Removal
Color | Mana Cost | Card | Rarity | Type | Oracle Text | Notes |
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Explosive Apparatus | ![]() |
Artifact | {3}, {T}, Sacrifice Explosive Apparatus: It deals 2 damage to any target. | |
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Transmogrifying Wand | ![]() |
Artifact | Transmogrifying Wand enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it. {1}, {T}, Remove a charge counter from Transmogrifying Wand: Destroy target creature. Its controller creates a 2/4 white Ox creature token. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery. | ||
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Meteor Golem | ![]() |
Artifact Creature | When Meteor Golem enters the battlefield, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls. | 3/3 | |
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Isolate | ![]() |
Instant | Exile target permanent with converted mana cost 1. | |
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Take Vengeance | ![]() |
Sorcery | Destroy target tapped creature. | ||
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Luminous Bonds | ![]() |
Enchantment | Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block. | ||
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Hieromancer's Cage | ![]() |
Enchantment | When Hieromancer's Cage enters the battlefield, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until Hieromancer's Cage leaves the battlefield. | ||
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Cleansing Nova | ![]() |
Sorcery | Choose one — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all artifacts and enchantments. | ||
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Dwindle | ![]() |
Enchantment | Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -6/-0. When enchanted creature blocks, destroy it. | |
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Switcheroo | ![]() |
Sorcery | Exchange control of two target creatures. | ||
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Nightmare's Thirst | ![]() |
Instant | You gain 1 life. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. | |
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Infernal Reckoning | ![]() |
Instant | Exile target colorless creature. You gain life equal to its power. | ||
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Murder | ![]() |
Instant | Destroy target creature. | ||
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Plague Mare | ![]() |
Creature | Plague Mare can't be blocked by white creatures. When Plague Mare enters the battlefield, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. | 2/2 | |
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Skeleton Archer | ![]() |
Creature | When Skeleton Archer enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to any target. | 3/3 | |
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Strangling Spores | ![]() |
Instant | Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. | ||
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Liliana, Untouched by Death | ![]() |
Planeswalker | +1: Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard. If at least one of them is a Zombie card, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. −2: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Zombies you control. −3: You may cast Zombie cards from your graveyard this turn. | ||
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Lich's Caress | ![]() |
Sorcery | Destroy target creature. You gain 3 life. | ||
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Fraying Omnipotence | ![]() |
Sorcery | Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the creatures they control. Round up each time. | ||
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Shock | ![]() |
Instant | Shock deals 2 damage to any target. | |
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Thud | ![]() |
Sorcery | As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Thud deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to any target. | ||
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Banefire | ![]() |
Sorcery | Banefire deals X damage to any target. If X is 5 or more, this spell can't be countered and the damage can't be prevented. | ||
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Lightning Strike | ![]() |
Instant | Lightning Strike deals 3 damage to any target. | ||
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Dismissive Pyromancer | ![]() |
Creature | {R}, {T}, Discard a card: Draw a card. {2}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Dismissive Pyromancer: It deals 4 damage to target creature. | 2/2 | |
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Spit Flame | ![]() |
Instant | Spit Flame deals 4 damage to target creature. Whenever a Dragon enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay {R}. If you do, return Spit Flame from your graveyard to your hand. | ||
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Electrify | ![]() |
Instant | Electrify deals 4 damage to target creature. | ||
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Volley Veteran | ![]() |
Creature | When Volley Veteran enters the battlefield, it deals damage to target creature an opponent controls equal to the number of Goblins you control. | 4/2 | |
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Sarkhan's Unsealing | ![]() |
Enchantment | Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 4, 5, or 6, Sarkhan's Unsealing deals 4 damage to any target. Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 7 or greater, Sarkhan's Unsealing deals 4 damage to each opponent and each creature and planeswalker they control. | ||
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Sparktongue Dragon | ![]() |
Creature | Flying When Sparktongue Dragon enters the battlefield, you may pay {2}{R}. When you do, it deals 3 damage to any target. | 3/3 | |
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Fiery Finish | ![]() |
Sorcery | Fiery Finish deals 7 damage to target creature. | ||
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Plummet | ![]() |
Instant | Destroy target creature with flying. | |
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Rabid Bite | ![]() |
Sorcery | Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. | ||
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Declare Dominance | ![]() |
Sorcery | Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. All creatures able to block it this turn do so. | ||
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Vivien Reid | ![]() |
Planeswalker | +1: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. −3: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying. −8: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have vigilance, trample, and indestructible." | ||
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Vivien's Invocation | ![]() |
Sorcery | Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. When a creature is put onto the battlefield this way, it deals damage equal to its power to target creature an opponent controls. | ||
Multi-Color | Nicol Bolas, the Arisen | ![]() |
Planeswalker | +2: Draw two cards. −3: Nicol Bolas, the Arisen deals 10 damage to target creature or planeswalker. −4: Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. −12: Exile all but the bottom card of target player's library. | ||
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Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire | ![]() |
Creature | Flying Whenever Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire attacks, for each player, choose target permanent that player controls. Those players sacrifice those permanents. Each player who sacrificed a permanent this way reveals the top card of their library, then puts it onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card. | 6/6 |
Temporary Creature Removal
Color | Mana Cost | Card | Rarity | Type | Oracle Text | Notes |
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Star-Crowned Stag | ![]() |
Creature | Whenever Star-Crowned Stag attacks, tap target creature defending player controls. | 3/3 |
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Disperse | ![]() |
Instant | Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. | |
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Exclusion Mage | ![]() |
Creature | When Exclusion Mage enters the battlefield, return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand. | 2/2 | |
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Sleep | ![]() |
Sorcery | Tap all creatures target player controls. Those creatures don't untap during that player's next untap step. | ||
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Totally Lost | ![]() |
Instant | Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library. | ||
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Act of Treason | ![]() |
Sorcery | Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. | |
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Tectonic Rift | ![]() |
Sorcery | Destroy target land. Creatures without flying can't block this turn. | ||
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Siegebreaker Giant | ![]() |
Creature | Trample {3}{R}: Target creature can't block this turn. | 6/3 |
Artifact, Enchantment, and Land Removal
Color | Mana Cost | Card | Rarity | Type | Oracle Text | Notes |
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Meteor Golem | ![]() |
Artifact Creature | When Meteor Golem enters the battlefield, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls. | 3/3 |
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Isolate | ![]() |
Instant | Exile target permanent with converted mana cost 1. | |
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Invoke the Divine | ![]() |
Instant | Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 4 life. | ||
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Hieromancer's Cage | ![]() |
Enchantment | When Hieromancer's Cage enters the battlefield, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until Hieromancer's Cage leaves the battlefield. | ||
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Cleansing Nova | ![]() |
Sorcery | Choose one — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all artifacts and enchantments. | ||
Blue | ![]() ![]() |
Disperse | ![]() |
Instant | Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. | |
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Totally Lost | ![]() |
Instant | Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library. | ||
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Smelt | ![]() |
Instant | Destroy target artifact. | |
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Alpine Moon | ![]() |
Enchantment | As Alpine Moon enters the battlefield, choose a nonbasic land card name. Lands your opponents control with the chosen name lose all land types and abilities, and they gain "{T}: Add one mana of any color." | ||
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Tectonic Rift | ![]() |
Sorcery | Destroy target land. Creatures without flying can't block this turn. | ||
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Goblin Trashmaster | ![]() |
Creature | Other Goblins you control get +1/+1. Sacrifice a Goblin: Destroy target artifact. | 3/3 | |
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Naturalize | ![]() |
Instant | Destroy target artifact or enchantment. | |
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Reclamation Sage | ![]() |
Creature | When Reclamation Sage enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment. | 2/1 | |
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Vivien Reid | ![]() |
Planeswalker | +1: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. −3: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying. −8: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have vigilance, trample, and indestructible." | ||
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Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire | ![]() |
Creature | Flying Whenever Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire attacks, for each player, choose target permanent that player controls. Those players sacrifice those permanents. Each player who sacrificed a permanent this way reveals the top card of their library, then puts it onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card. | 6/6 |
Off-Battlefield Removal
Color | Mana Cost | Card | Rarity | Type | Oracle Text | Notes |
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Remorseful Cleric | ![]() |
Creature | Flying Sacrifice Remorseful Cleric: Exile all cards from target player's graveyard. | 2/1 |
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Mistcaller | ![]() |
Creature | Sacrifice Mistcaller: Until end of turn, if a nontoken creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead. | 1/1 |
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Essence Scatter | ![]() |
Instant | Counter target creature spell. | ||
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Cancel | ![]() |
Instant | Counter target spell. | ||
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Bone to Ash | ![]() |
Instant | Counter target creature spell. Draw a card. | ||
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Duress | ![]() |
Sorcery | Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card. | |
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Mind Rot | ![]() |
Sorcery | Target player discards two cards. | ||
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Fell Specter | ![]() |
Creature | Flying When Fell Specter enters the battlefield, target opponent discards a card. Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life. | 1/3 | |
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Fraying Omnipotence | ![]() |
Sorcery | Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the creatures they control. Round up each time. | ||
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Nicol Bolas, the Ravager | ![]() |
Creature | Flying When Nicol Bolas, the Ravager enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card. {4}{U}{B}{R}: Exile Nicol Bolas, the Ravager, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery. | 4/4 |
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Psychic Symbiont | ![]() |
Creature | Flying When Psychic Symbiont enters the battlefield, target opponent discards a card and you draw a card. | 3/3 |