Andreas Zafiratos

They Came from the Pipes

When They Came from the Pipes enters, manifest dread twice. (To manifest dread, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Whenever a face-down creature you control enters, draw a card.

Metamorphosis Fanatic

Lifelink
When Metamorphosis Fanatic enters, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lifelink counter on it.
Miracle {1}{B} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes

When Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, you may create Boo, a legendary 1/1 red Hamster creature token with trample and haste.
[+1]: Put three +1/+1 counters on up to one target creature with trample or haste.
[−2]: Sacrifice a creature. When you do, Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes deals X damage to any target, where X is that creature's power. If the sacrificed creature was a Hamster, draw X cards.
Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes can be your commander.

Lucky travelers reported a mighty winged creature among the geysers. Unlucky ones didn't make it back.

Stoic Sphinx

Flash
Flying
Stoic Sphinx has hexproof as long as you haven't cast a spell this turn.

Vadmir, New Blood

Whenever you commit a crime, put a +1/+1 counter on Vadmir, New Blood. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
As long as Vadmir has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has menace and lifelink.

The vault cracked open, and the unlikely alliance met the likeliest of ends, as greed, rage, and self-interest won out over any shred of loyalty.

Betrayal at the Vault

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each of two other target creatures.

"So, are we doing this the easy way or the fun way?"

Jolene, Plundering Pugilist

Whenever you attack with one or more creatures with power 4 or greater, create a Treasure token.
{1}{R}, Sacrifice a Treasure: Jolene, Plundering Pugilist deals 1 damage to any target.

Kambal, Profiteering Mayor

Whenever one or more tokens enter the battlefield under your opponents' control, for each of them, create a tapped token that's a copy of it. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Whenever one or more tokens enter the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Whenever one or more tokens your opponents control enter, for each of them, create a tapped token that's a copy of it. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever you cast a multicolored instant or sorcery spell from your hand, exile that spell instead of putting it into your graveyard as it resolves. If you do, it becomes plotted. (You may cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost.)

"I appreciate working with associates whose greatest loyalty is to the job at hand."
—Skurad of the Foundway Associates

Seasoned Consultant

Whenever you attack with three or more creatures, Seasoned Consultant gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Proft had never been a by-the-book investigator, but even he never expected to find himself breaking a notorious assassin out of a maximum-security Azorius holding cell.

Unauthorized Exit

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

"Running doesn't prove guilt, but innocent people don't typically flee into the North Ridge Forest."
—Alst of the Foundway Associates

They Went This Way

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth

Vigilance
When Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth enters the battlefield, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
{X}{W}{U}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a Clue: You draw X cards and gain X life.

Vigilance
When Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
{X}{W}{U}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a Clue: You draw X cards and gain X life.

Shadowy Backstreet

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
Shadowy Backstreet enters the battlefield tapped.
When Shadowy Backstreet enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
Shadowy Backstreet enters tapped.
When Shadowy Backstreet enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Melek, Reforged Researcher

Melek, Reforged Researcher's power and toughness are each equal to twice the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.
The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs {3} less to cast.

When a redcap raid threatened the Grand Ball at Delverhaugh, Goddric had no choice but to reveal his true identity and douse the invaders in dragonfire.

Expel the Interlopers

Choose a number between 0 and 10. Destroy all creatures with power greater than or equal to the chosen number.

Obyra's devoted servants shrieked as their sleeping mistress slashed at them, unseeing.

Obyra's Attendants // Desperate Parry

Cloud eaters, heaven tillers, beanstalk wurms—he favors prey worthy of a giant's appetite.

Skybeast Tracker

Reach
Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

What little light filters down through frost and fathoms is refracted into a million rainbow shards.

Crystal Grotto

When Crystal Grotto enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

When Crystal Grotto enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Kellan, the Fae-Blooded // Birthright Boon

Double strike
Other creatures you control get +1/+0 for each Aura and Equipment attached to Kellan, the Fae-Blooded.

Invasion of Gobakhan // Lightshield Array

(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When Invasion of Gobakhan enters the battlefield, look at target opponent's hand. You may exile a nonland card from it. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may play it. A spell cast this way costs {2} more to cast.

(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When Invasion of Gobakhan enters, look at target opponent's hand. You may exile a nonland card from it. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may play it. A spell cast this way costs {2} more to cast.

With barely a moment's warning, a one-giant avalanche crashed into Kaldheim's defenders.

Furnace Host Charger

Haste
Mountaincycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Silence quickly went from an annoying library rule to an imperative for survival.

Phyrexian Archivist

Reach
{2}, {T}: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

The first rebirth is a reward. The fifty-first is a punishment.

Vat Emergence

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Dragonwing Glider

For Mirrodin (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, create a 2/2 red Rebel creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and haste.
Equip {3}{R}{R}

For Mirrodin! (When this Equipment enters, create a 2/2 red Rebel creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and haste.
Equip {3}{R}{R}

Ria Ivor, Bane of Bladehold

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, the next time target creature would deal combat damage to one or more players this combat, prevent that damage. If damage is prevented this way, create that many 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature tokens with toxic 1 and "This creature can't block."

Kinzu of the Bleak Coven

Flying
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life and exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1 and has toxic 1. (Players dealt combat damage by it also get a poison counter.)

Automatons could be rebuilt. Powerstones could not.

Stone Retrieval Unit

When Stone Retrieval Unit enters, create a tapped Powerstone token. (It's an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")

Volo, Itinerant Scholar

When Volo enters the battlefield, create Volo's Journal, a legendary colorless artifact token with hexproof and "Whenever you cast a creature spell, note one of its creature types that hasn't been noted for this artifact."
{2}, {T}: Draw a card for each creature type noted for target permanent you control named Volo's Journal.
Choose a Background

When Volo enters, create Volo's Journal, a legendary colorless artifact token with hexproof and "Whenever you cast a creature spell, note one of its creature types that hasn't been noted for this artifact."
{2}, {T}: Draw a card for each creature type noted for target permanent you control named Volo's Journal.
Choose a Background

Life runs wild amid the tangled branches.

Bramble Sovereign

Whenever another nontoken creature enters the battlefield, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, that creature's controller creates a token that's a copy of that creature.

Whenever another nontoken creature enters, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, that creature's controller creates a token that's a copy of that creature.

They walk the Path of Kensei with perfect balance.

Oji, the Exquisite Blade

When Oji, the Exquisite Blade enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life and scry 2.
Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, exile up to one target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

When Oji, the Exquisite Blade enters, you gain 2 life and scry 2.
Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, exile up to one target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Delayed Blast Fireball

Delayed Blast Fireball deals 2 damage to each opponent and each creature they control. If this spell was cast from exile, it deals 5 damage to each opponent and each creature they control instead.
Foretell {4}{R}{R}

Delayed Blast Fireball deals 2 damage to each opponent and each creature they control. If this spell was cast from exile, it deals 5 damage to each opponent and each creature they control instead.
Foretell {4}{R}{R} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Next of Kin

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, you may put a creature card you own with lesser mana value from your hand or from the command zone onto the battlefield. If you do, return Next of Kin to the battlefield attached to that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Ziatora's second-in-command has a habit of appearing when and where her enemies least expect her.

Ognis, the Dragon's Lash

Haste
Whenever a creature you control with haste attacks, create a tapped Treasure token.

Short Circuit

Flash
Enchant artifact or creature
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it gets -3/-0 and loses flying.

Biting-Palm Ninja

Ninjutsu {2}{B}
Biting-Palm Ninja enters with a menace counter on it.
Whenever Biting-Palm Ninja deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a menace counter from it. When you do, that player reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.

Public access terminals around Towashi provide residents with up-to-date information on everything from traffic delays to hostile kami sightings.

Network Terminal

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{1}, {T}, Tap another untapped artifact you control: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Teferi stepped calmly into the fray. Suddenly the sun paused in the sky and the werewolves' snarls froze on their faces.

Borrowed Time

When Borrowed Time enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until Borrowed Time leaves the battlefield.

Brimstone Vandal

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
If it's neither day nor night, it becomes day as Brimstone Vandal enters.
Whenever day becomes night or night becomes day, Brimstone Vandal deals 1 damage to each opponent.

A moment of distraction, an hour off course.

Nebelgast Beguiler

Dreamshackle Geist

Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose up to one —
• Tap target creature.
• Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"I noticed you were short on party favors, so I brought my own."
—Higa, slayer-captain of Gatstaf

Flame-Blessed Bolt

Flame-Blessed Bolt deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If that creature or planeswalker would die this turn, exile it instead.

Glorious Sunrise

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose one —
• Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn.
• Target land gains "{T}: Add {G}{G}{G}" until end of turn.
• Draw a card if you control a creature with power 3 or greater.
• You gain 3 life.

A-Dreamshackle Geist

Skyshroud Ambush

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. When the creature you control wins the fight, draw a card.

Emergent Sequence

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. That land becomes a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature that's still a land. Put a +1/+1 counter on it for each land you had enter the battlefield under your control this turn.

Fractal

Prodigal Sorcerer

{T}: Prodigal Sorcerer deals 1 damage to any target.

Emerald Collector

Whenever Emerald Collector deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
When you draw your third card in a turn, conjure a card named Mox Emerald into your hand. This ability triggers only once.
{2}{G}: Emerald Collector has base power and toughness 4/4 until end of turn.

Pearl Collector

Deathtouch, Lifelink
At the beginning of your second main phase, if you gained 4 or more life this turn, conjure a card named Mox Pearl into your hand. This ability triggers only once.
{2}{W}: Another target creature perpetually gains lifelink.

Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot // Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot

"It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead."

Marchesa, the Black Rose

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Other creatures you control have dethrone.
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

Skybeast Tracker // Skybeast Tracker

Ria Ivor, Bane of Bladehold // Ria Ivor, Bane of Bladehold

Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes // Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes

Power Word Kill

Destroy target non-Angel, non-Demon, non-Devil, non-Dragon creature.

Key to the Archive

Key to the Archive enters the battlefield tapped.
When Key to the Archive enters the battlefield, draft a card from Key to the Archive's spellbook, then discard a card.
{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors.

Key to the Archive enters tapped.
When Key to the Archive enters, draft a card from Key to the Archive's spellbook, then discard a card.
{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors.