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Diabolic Edict
Color Black
Type Instant
Cost Cost=1B
Expansion TE(C)/BD(F1)
Text(TE):Target player sacrifices a creature.
The choice of what to sacrifice is made by the player on resolution. [Duelist Magazine #23, Page 22]

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Diabolic Intent
Color Black
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=1B
Expansion PS(R)
Text(PS):As an additional cost to play ~this~, sacrifice a creature. ; Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
You must choose a card if there are any in your library. [Planeshift FAQ 2001/01/26]

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Diabolic Machine
Color Artifact
Type Artifact Creature
Cost Cost=7
Expansion DK(U2)/45(U)
Text(4th/5th+errata):4/4. ; {3}: Regenerate ~this~. [Oracle 1999/07/23]

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Diabolic Servitude
Color Black
Type Enchantment
Cost Cost=3B
Expansion US(U)
Text(US+errata):When ~this~ comes into play, return target creature card from your graveyard to play. ; When the returned creature is put into a graveyard, remove that creature from the game and return ~this~ to its owner's hand. ; When ~this~ leaves play, remove that creature from the game. [Oracle 2000/02/01]
You choose the target creature card when this card's "comes into play" ability (see Rule E.3) is played. If the targeted creature card is not in the graveyard when the ability resolves, it brings nothing into play and sits in play with no further effects in the future. If there is no creature card to target, then you skip playing the ability. [D'Angelo 1998/10/08]
If the creature is in play and is unsummoned or is removed from the game, this card loses track of the creature and has no further effects in the future. [D'Angelo 1998/10/08]
Note -Also see Comes Into Play Abilities, Rule E.3.

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Diabolic Tutor
Color Black
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=2BB
Expansion OD(U)
Text(OD):Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

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Diabolic Vision
Color Multi
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=UB
Expansion IA(U)/BD(F1)
Text(IA+errata):Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on top of your library. [Oracle 2000/10/24]

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Diamond Kaleidoscope
Color Artifact
Type Artifact
Cost Cost=4
Expansion VI(R)
Text(VI+errata):{3},{Tap}: Put a 0/1 Prism artifact creature token into play. ; Sacrifice a Prism token: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. [Oracle 1999/07/01]
Note -Also see Token Creatures, Rule K.25.

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Diamond Valley
Color Land
Type Land
Cost Cost=None
Expansion AN(U2)
Text(AN+errata):{Tap},Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. [Oracle 1999/09/03]
Extended tournaments (see Rule D.15) have always banned this card.

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Diaochan, Artful Beauty
Color Red
Type Creature - Legend
Cost Cost=3R
Expansion P3(R)
Text(P3):1/1. ; On your turn, before you attack, you may tap ~this~ to destroy any one creature. Then, your opponent destroys any one creature of his or her choice.
When played under non-Portal rules, the text should be read as "{Tap}: You and your opponent each choose a target creature. Destroy those creatures. Play this ability only during your turn before combat." [D'Angelo 2000/06/05]
All tournament formats have banned this card because it only appears in Portal.
Note -Also see Legendary Permanents, Rule K.17.

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Didgeridoo
Color Artifact
Type Artifact
Cost Cost=1
Expansion HL(U1)
Text(HL+errata):{3}: Put a Minotaur card from your hand into play. [Oracle 1999/07/23]

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Diligent Farmhand
Color Green
Type Creature - Druid
Cost Cost=G
Expansion OD(C)
Text(OD):1/1. ; {1}{G},Sacrifice ~this~: Search your library for a basic land card, and put that card into play tapped. Then shuffle your library. ; If ~this~ is in a graveyard, Muscle Burst's effect counts it as a Muscle Burst.
You can choose not to find a basic land if you don't want to. [D'Angelo 2001/10/10]

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Dimensional Breach
Color White
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=5WW
Expansion SC(R)
Text(SC):Remove all permanents from the game. As long as any of those cards remain removed from the game, at the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player returns one of the removed cards he or she owns to play.
Each player chooses which one of their removed cards to return during each of their upkeeps. [Scourge FAQ 2003/05/30]
Remember that the returned creature just came under your control, so it cannot attack until you start a turn with it under your control. [Scourge FAQ 2003/05/30]

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Diminishing Returns
Color Blue
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=2UU
Expansion AL(R2)/6(R)
Text(6th):Each player shuffles his or her hand and graveyard into his or her library. You remove the top ten cards of your library from the game. Then each player draws up to seven cards.
You (and the other players) decide during resolution how many cards to draw. You choose first, then your opponent. [D'Angelo 1999/05/01]
You can choose any number from 0 to 7. You are not forced to draw 7 cards. [Aahz 1996/05/21]

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Dingus Egg
Color Artifact
Type Artifact
Cost Cost=4
Expansion ABUR4567(R)
Text(6th/7th+errata):Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from play, ~this~ deals 2 damage to that land's controller. [Oracle 2002/10/01]
If multiple lands are destroyed at once, each land causes the Egg to trigger separately and do 2 points of damage. [D'Angelo 1998/02/03]
Type 1 tournaments (see Rule D.13) restricted this card from 1994/01/25 to 1994/05/01.

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Dingus Staff
Color Artifact
Type Artifact
Cost Cost=4
Expansion WL(U)
Text(WL+errata):Whenever a creature is put into a graveyard from play, ~this~ deals 2 damage to that creature's controller. [Oracle 2003/02/01]

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Diplomatic Escort
Color Blue
Type Creature - Spellshaper
Cost Cost=1U
Expansion MM(U)
Text(MM):1/1. ; {U},{Tap},Discard a card from your hand: Counter target spell or ability that targets a creature.

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Diplomatic Immunity
Color Blue
Type Enchant Creature
Cost Cost=1U
Expansion MM(C)
Text(MM):Enchanted creature can't be the target of spells or abilities. ; ~this~ can't be the target of spells or abilities.
The text does not apply until after it is in play, so it can be the target of a spell while it is on the stack. [D'Angelo 2001/08/15]
Any local enchantments already on the enchanted creature remain there. [D'Angelo 2002/07/21]

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Dire Wolves
Color Green
Type Creature - Wolf
Cost Cost=2G
Expansion IA(C)
Text(IA+errata):2/2. ; ~this~ has banding as long as you control a plains. [Oracle 2000/02/01]
Note -Also see Banding, Rule A.8.

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Dirge of Dread
Color Black
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=2B
Expansion ON(C)
Text(ON):All creatures gain fear until end of turn. ; Cycling {1}{B}. ; When you cycle ~this~, you may have target creature gain fear until end of turn.
Note -Also see Cycling, Rule A.12.
Note -Also see Fear, Rule A.17.

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Dirtcowl Wurm
Color Green
Type Creature - Wurm
Cost Cost=4G
Expansion TE(R)/BR(F1)
Text(TE+errata):3/4. ; Whenever an opponent plays a land, put a +1/+1 counter on ~this~. [Oracle 1999/05/01]
A spell or ability that tells a player to "put a land into play" does not count as playing a land. [D'Angelo 1998/12/16]

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Dirtwater Wraith
Color Black
Type Creature - Wraith
Cost Cost=3B
Expansion MI(C)
Text(MI+errata):1/3, Swampwalk. ; {B}: ~this~ gets +1/+0 until end of turn. [Oracle 1998/07/01]
Note -Also see Landwalk, Rule A.27.

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Dirty Wererat
Color Black
Type Creature - Minion Rat
Cost Cost=3B
Expansion OD(C)
Text(OD):2/3. ; {B},Discard a card from your hand: Regenerate ~this~. ; Threshold - ~this~ gets +2/+2 and can't block. (You have threshold as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.)
This card is of creature type Minion and of type Rat. [D'Angelo 2001/10/10]
Note -Also see Threshold, Rule A.36.

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Disappear
Color Blue
Type Enchant Creature
Cost Cost=2UU
Expansion UD(U)
Text(UD):{U}: Return enchanted creature and ~this~ to their owners' hands.

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Disciple of Grace
Color White
Type Creature - Cleric
Cost Cost=1W
Expansion US(C)/ON(C)
Text(US/ON):1/2, Protection from black ; Cycling {2}.
Note -Also see Cycling, Rule A.12.
Note -Also see Protection, Rule A.31.

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Disciple of Kangee
Color White
Type Creature - Wizard
Cost Cost=2W
Expansion PS(C)
Text(PS):2/2. ; {U},{Tap}: Target creature gains flying and becomes blue until end of turn.

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Disciple of Law
Color White
Type Creature - Cleric
Cost Cost=1W
Expansion US(C)
Text(US):1/2, Protection from red ; Cycling {2}.
Note -Also see Cycling, Rule A.12.
Note -Also see Protection, Rule A.31.

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Disciple of Malice
Color Black
Type Creature - Cleric
Cost Cost=1B
Expansion ON(C)
Text(ON):1/2, Protection from White. ; Cycling {2}.
Note -Also see Cycling, Rule A.12.
Note -Also see Protection, Rule A.31.

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Discombobulate
Color Blue
Type Instant
Cost Cost=2UU
Expansion ON(U)
Text(ON):Counter target spell. Look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

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Discordant Dirge
Color Black
Type Enchantment
Cost Cost=3BB
Expansion US(R)
Text(US+errata):At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on ~this~. ; {B},Sacrifice ~this~: Look at target opponent's hand and choose up to X cards from it, where X is the number of verse counters on ~this~. That player discards those cards. [Oracle 1999/05/01]
Adding a counter is optional. If you forget to add one during your upkeep, you cannot back up and add one later. [Urza's Saga Rule Page]

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Discordant Spirit
Color Multi
Type Creature - Spirit
Cost Cost=2BR
Expansion MI(R)
Text(MI+errata):2/2. ; At the end of each opponent's turn, put a +1/+1 counter on ~this~ for each 1 damage dealt to you that turn. ; At the end of your turn, remove all +1/+1 counters on ~this~. [Oracle 1999/07/01]
Will not count damage that was prevented. [D'Angelo 1999/07/10]

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Disease Carriers
Color Black
Type Creature - Rat
Cost Cost=2BB
Expansion UD(C)
Text(UD):2/2. ; When ~this~ is put into a graveyard from play, target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

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Diseased Vermin
Color Black
Type Creature - Rat
Cost Cost=2B
Expansion AL(U2)
Text(AL+errata):1/1. ; Whenever ~this~ deals combat damage to a player, put an infection counter on it. ; At the beginning of your upkeep, ~this~ deals X damage to target opponent previously dealt damage by it, where X is the number of infection counters on it. [Oracle 2000/10/24]

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Disempower
Color White
Type Instant
Cost Cost=1W
Expansion MI(C)
Text(MI+errata):Put target artifact or enchantment on top of its owner's library. [Oracle 1999/07/01]

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Disenchant
Color White
Type Instant
Cost Cost=1W
Expansion ABUR4567(C)/IA(C)/MI(C)/TE(C)/US(C)/MM(C)/AT(F1)/BR(F1)
Text(5th/6th/7th/US/MM):Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Artifact creatures can regenerate from destroy effects like this. [D'Angelo 1998/02/03]
This spell is not modal. If the target changes from an artifact to an enchantment or vice versa (as with Transmogrifying Licid), this spell still destroys it. [WotC Rules Team 1998/07/01]

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Disharmony
Color Red
Type Instant
Cost Cost=2R
Expansion LG(R)
Text(LG+errata):Play ~this~ only during combat before the declare blockers step. ; Untap target attacking creature. Gain control of that creature until end of turn. [Oracle 2001/08/24]
Works even if the attacker was not tapped to attack. [Aahz 1994/12/13]
Can work on creatures you control. [Aahz 1996/06/16]
It untaps (if it was tapped) before you get control of the creature. [D'Angelo 2000/03/03]
Extended tournaments (see Rule D.15) have always banned this card.
Note -The artist is actually Byron Wackwitz, not Phil Foglio. [Duelist Magazine #2, Page 7]

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Disintegrate
Color Red
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=XR
Expansion ABUR45(C)
Text(5th+errata):~this~ deals X damage to target creature or player. That creature can't be regenerated this turn. If the creature would be put into a graveyard this turn, remove it from the game instead. [Oracle 2000/02/01]
The "can't regenerate" is an effect of Disintegrate and not an effect of the damage. So it works even if the damage is prevented or redirected away. If redirected, the damage does not take this effect with it. [WotC Rules Team 1994/02/07]
Disintegrated creatures do not go to the graveyard at all before leaving the game. They do not trigger abilities which happen due to a creature going to the graveyard. [WotC Rules Team 1994/09/15]
Note -Also see X Costs, Rule K.28.

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Dismantling Blow
Color White
Type Instant
Cost Cost=2W
Expansion IN(C)
Text(IN):Kicker {2}{U} (You may pay an additional {2}{U} as you play this spell.) ; Destroy target artifact or enchantment. ; If you paid the kicker cost, draw two cards.
If the target is not legal on resolution, the spell is countered and you do not get to draw the two cards. [D'Angelo 2001/03/12]
Note -Also see Kicker, Rule A.24.

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Dismiss
Color Blue
Type Instant
Cost Cost=2UU
Expansion TE(U)
Text(TE):Counter target spell. ; Draw a card.
Note -Before errata this card was of type Interrupt. It is now an Instant. [Oracle 1999/05/01]

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Disorder
Color Red
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=1R
Expansion US(U)/7(U)
Text(US/7th):~this~ deals 2 damage to each white creature and each player who controls a white creature.
Players take 0 or 2 damage. Does not do 2 damage per creature to the player. [DeLaney 1998/10/05]

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Dispersal Shield
Color Blue
Type Instant
Cost Cost=1U
Expansion SC(C)
Text(SC):Counter target spell if its converted mana cost is less than or equal to the highest converted mana cost among permanents you control.
Note -Also see Converted Mana Cost, Rule K.8.

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Dispersing Orb
Color Blue
Type Enchantment
Cost Cost=3UU
Expansion ON(U)
Text(ON):{3}{U},Sacrifice a permanent: Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

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Disrupt
Color Blue
Type Instant
Cost Cost=U
Expansion WL(C)/IN(U)
Text(IN):Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. ; Draw a card.
If you draw another counterspell when Disrupt resolves, and the player paid the mana to stop Disrupt from countering the spell, you may use the newly drawn counterspell to try again to counter the spell being cast. [Duelist Magazine #19, Page 34]
Note -The Weatherlight version of this card was of type Interrupt.

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Disrupting Scepter
Color Artifact
Type Artifact
Cost Cost=3
Expansion ABUR4567(R)
Text(6th/7th):{3},{Tap}: Target player chooses and discards a card from his or her hand. Play this ability only during your turn.
You can use it on yourself. [Duelist Magazine #4, Page 64]
Can be used on a player with no cards, but has no effect. [Duelist Magazine #5, Page 23]

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Disruptive Pitmage
Color Blue
Type Creature - Wizard
Cost Cost=2U
Expansion ON(C)
Text(ON):1/1. ; {Tap}: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. ; Morph {U}.
Note -Also see Morph, Rule A.29.

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Disruptive Student
Color Blue
Type Creature - Wizard
Cost Cost=2U
Expansion US(C)/BR(F1)
Text(US+errata):1/1. ; {Tap}: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. [Oracle 1999/05/01]

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Dissipate
Color Blue
Type Instant
Cost Cost=1UU
Expansion MI(U)
Text(MI+errata):Counter target spell. If it's countered this way, remove it from the game instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. [Oracle 2001/05/02]
The card does not go to the graveyard before being removed from the game. [DeLaney 1999/01/04]
If the spell is not countered (because the spell it targets cannot be countered), then it does not get removed from the game. [D'Angelo 2001/04/16]
Note -Before errata, this card was of type Interrupt. [Oracle 1999/07/01]

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Distorting Lens
Color Artifact
Type Artifact
Cost Cost=2
Expansion MM(R)
Text(MM):{Tap}: Target permanent becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

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Distorting Wake
Color Blue
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=XUUU
Expansion IN(R)
Text(IN):Return X target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.
Note -Also see X Costs, Rule K.28.

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Disturbed Burial
Color Black
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=1B
Expansion TE(C)
Text(TE):Buyback {3}. ; Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Note -Also see Buyback, Rule A.10.

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Dive Bomber
Color White
Type Creature - Bird Soldier
Cost Cost=3W
Expansion ON(C)
Text(ON):2/2, Flying. ; {Tap},Sacrifice ~this~: ~this~ deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

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Divergent Growth
Color Green
Type Instant
Cost Cost=G
Expansion SC(C)
Text(SC):Until end of turn, lands you control gain "{Tap}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."

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Diversionary Tactics
Color White
Type Enchantment
Cost Cost=3W
Expansion AP(U)
Text(AP):Tap two untapped creatures you control: Tap target creature.

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Divert
Color Blue
Type Instant
Cost Cost=U
Expansion OD(R)
Text(OD):Change the target of target spell with a single target unless that spell's controller pays {2}.

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Divine Intervention
Color White
Type Enchantment
Cost Cost=6WW
Expansion LG(R)
Text(LG+errata):~this~ comes into play with two intervention counters on it. ; At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an intervention counter from ~this~. If there are no intervention counters on it, the game is a draw. [Oracle 2001/08/24]
Type 1 tournaments (see Rule D.13) banned this card from 1994/08/01 until 1999/10/01.
Type 1.5 tournaments (see Rule D.14) banned this card until 1999/10/01.
Extended tournaments (see Rule D.15) have always banned this card.
Standard (Type 2) tournaments (see Rule D.16) have always banned this card, since it is not part of the environment.
Note -Also see Comes Into Play Abilities, Rule E.3.

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Divine Light
Color White
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=W
Expansion AP(C)
Text(AP):Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn to creatures you control.

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Divine Offering
Color White
Type Instant
Cost Cost=1W LG
Expansion LG(C2)/CH(C3)/MI(C)/5(C)
Text(5th+errata):Destroy target artifact. You gain life equal to its converted mana cost. [Oracle 1999/07/01]
You may regenerate the artifact without losing the life bonus. [Duelist Magazine #2, Page 8]
It can be used on your opponent's artifacts and you still gain the life. [bethmo 1994/09/05]
If the target artifact becomes illegal before resolution, you do not gain any life. [Duelist Magazine #5, Page 23]
Note -Also see Converted Mana Cost, Rule K.8.

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Divine Presence
Color White
Type Enchantment
Cost Cost=2W
Expansion IN(R)
Text(IN):If a source would deal 4 damage or more to a creature or player, that source deals 3 damage to that creature or player instead.
This is not preventing damage since it does not use the word "prevent". It is a replacement. [D'Angelo 2002/06/18]

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Divine Retribution
Color White
Type Instant
Cost Cost=1W
Expansion MI(R)
Text(MI+errata):~this~ deals to target attacking creature damage equal to the number of attacking creatures. [Oracle 1999/07/01]

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Divine Sacrament
Color White
Type Enchantment
Cost Cost=1WW
Expansion OD(R)
Text(OD):White creatures get +1/+1. ; Threshold - White creatures get an additional +1/+1. (You have threshold as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.)
Note -Also see Threshold, Rule A.36.

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Divine Transformation
Color White
Type Enchant Creature
Cost Cost=2WW
Expansion LG(R)/456(U)
Text(5th/6th):Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

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Diving Griffin
Color White
Type Creature - Griffin
Cost Cost=1WW
Expansion PY(C)
Text(PY):2/2, Flying. ; Attacking doesn't cause ~this~ to tap.

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Divining Witch
Color Black
Type Creature - Spellshaper
Cost Cost=1B
Expansion NE(R)
Text(NE):1/1. ; {1}{B},{Tap},Discard a card from your hand: Name a card. Remove the top six cards of your library from the game. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal the named card, then put that card into your hand. Remove all other cards revealed this way from the game.
You name a card during resolution of the ability. [Nemesis FAQ 2000/02/07]
Note -Cycle with Arc Mage, Avenger en-Dal, Bola Warrior, Harvest Mage, Netter en-Dal, Plague Witch, Stampede Driver, Stronghold Biologist, Stronghold Machinist, and Trickster Mage.

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Dizzying Gaze
Color Red
Type Enchant Creature
Cost Cost=R
Expansion EX(C)
Text(EX+errata):~this~ can enchant only a creature you control. ; {R}: Enchanted creature deals 1 damage to target creature with flying. [Oracle 2000/10/24]
Cannot be played on an opponent's creature. And this card is put into the graveyard if ever on a creature you do not control. [Barclay 1998/06/10]

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