Andrew Robinson

"The Dauthi army grows by screams and bounds."
—Lyna, Soltari emissary

Dauthi Embrace

{B}{B}: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

"A ruler wears a crown while the rest of us wear hats, but which would you rather have when it's raining?"
—Barrin, *Principia*

Back to Basics

Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Hidden Herd

When an opponent plays a nonbasic land, if Hidden Herd is an enchantment, Hidden Herd becomes a 3/3 Beast creature.

Sabertooth Cobra

Whenever Sabertooth Cobra deals damage to a player, that player gets a poison counter. The player gets another poison counter at the beginning of their next upkeep unless they pay {2} before that step. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Radiant's eyes flashed. "Go, then," the angel spat at Serra, "and leave this world to those who truly care."

Catastrophe

Destroy all lands or all creatures. Creatures destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

"My battle cry reaches ears far keener than yours."
—Saidah, Joraga hunter

Bestial Menace

Create a 1/1 green Snake creature token, a 2/2 green Wolf creature token, and a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

"Some believe Sandstalkers to be illusions; those with scars know better."
—*Zhalfirin Guide to the Desert*

Viashino Sandstalker

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
At the beginning of the end step, return Viashino Sandstalker to its owner's hand. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

The wise pay as much attention to what they throw away as to what they keep.

Reclaim

Put target card from your graveyard on top of your library.

They drift in and out of shadow and ever on toward madness.

Thalakos Drifters

Discard a card: Thalakos Drifters gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

"The dauthi came from beneath the ruins one night, and the darkness cast them in the best possible light."
—Soltari Tales of Life

Dauthi Marauder

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Dracoplasm

Flying
As Dracoplasm enters the battlefield, sacrifice any number of creatures. Dracoplasm's power becomes the total power of those creatures and its toughness becomes their total toughness.
{R}: Dracoplasm gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Flying
As Dracoplasm enters, sacrifice any number of creatures. Dracoplasm's power becomes the total power of those creatures and its toughness becomes their total toughness.
{R}: Dracoplasm gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Scabland

Scabland enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.
{T}: Add {R} or {W} to your mana pool. Scabland deals 1 damage to you.

Scabland enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}. Scabland deals 1 damage to you.

Power Sink

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If he or she doesn't, that player taps all lands with mana abilities he or she controls and empties his or her mana pool.

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that player doesn't, they tap all lands with mana abilities they control and lose all unspent mana.

"May starving fleas birth a thousand generations on your stubborn hide, cow!"
—Bruse Tarl, Goma Fada nomad

Pillarfield Ox

"No simple coin toss can solve this riddle. You must think and choose wisely."
—Shai Fusan, archmage

Glimpse the Future

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

"She rose above me, and in that moment Varrik the Bloody died and I was born."
—Varrik the Just

Angel's Mercy

Ray of Command

Untap target creature an opponent controls and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn. When you lose control of the creature, tap it.

Villagers cloaked the town in magical silence, but their ears still bled.

Howling Banshee

Flying
When Howling Banshee enters the battlefield, each player loses 3 life.

Flying
When Howling Banshee enters, each player loses 3 life.

"Yeah, they've got a lot of meat. The only downside to eating 'em is that you often find human bones and body parts inside."
—Jaby, Silundi Sea nomad

Jwari Scuttler

Ancient lore locked in a mind driven mad is just as safe as when it was locked deep underground.

See Beyond

Draw two cards, then shuffle a card from your hand into your library.

Thada Adel, Acquisitor

Islandwalk
Whenever Thada Adel, Acquisitor deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for an artifact card and exile it. Then that player shuffles his or her library. Until end of turn, you may play that card.

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Thada Adel, Acquisitor deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for an artifact card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until end of turn, you may play that card.

Pulse trackers terrorize adventurers, driving them through the jungle toward certain death at the gates of Malakir.

Pulse Tracker

Whenever Pulse Tracker attacks, each opponent loses 1 life.

"The sky is like another sea. It teems with currents, life, and endless possibility."

Seascape Aerialist

Whenever Seascape Aerialist or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Ally creatures you control gain flying until end of turn.

Whenever Seascape Aerialist or another Ally you control enters, you may have Ally creatures you control gain flying until end of turn.

Torch Slinger

Kicker {1}{R} (You may pay an additional {1}{R} as you cast this spell.)
When Torch Slinger enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, it deals 2 damage to target creature.

Kicker {1}{R} (You may pay an additional {1}{R} as you cast this spell.)
When Torch Slinger enters, if it was kicked, it deals 2 damage to target creature.

"Danger! Danger! Come out of the safety of your holes!"

Warren Instigator

Double strike
Whenever Warren Instigator deals damage to an opponent, you may put a Goblin creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

If you're smaller than the anaconda, it considers you food. If you're larger than the anaconda, it considers you a lot of food.

Anaconda

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

In Mercadia City, loyalties extend only as far as your purse can stretch.

Bribery

Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card into play under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Root Greevil

o2o
G, oc
T, Sacrifice Root Greevil: Destroy all enchantments of the color of your choice.

{2}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice Root Greevil: Destroy all enchantments of the color of your choice.

Quick enough to avoid jhovalls when alone and fierce enough to attack them in packs, the hounds were as at home in the mountains as the Mercadians were atop theirs.

Lightning Hounds

Asked how it survived a run-in with a bog imp, the pegasus just shook its mane and burped.

Armored Pegasus

Hurricane

Hurricane deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player.

Soul Net

Whenever a creature is put into a graveyard from play, you may pay o1. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Whenever a creature dies, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Clear

Destroy target enchantment.
Cycling o2 (You may pay o2 and discard this card from your hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)

Destroy target enchantment.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Devoured by the mists, Tolaria was stuck in time, trapped between two eternal heartbeats.

Pendrell Flux

Enchanted creature gains "During your upkeep, pay this creature's casting cost or sacrifice it."

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay its mana cost."

Somnophore

Flying
Whenever Somnophore successfully deals damage to a player, tap target creature that player controls. That creature does not untap during its controller's untap phase as long as Somnophore remains in play.

Flying
Whenever Somnophore deals damage to a player, tap target creature that player controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Somnophore remains on the battlefield.

Veiled Apparition

When one of your opponents successfully casts a spell, if Veiled Apparition is an enchantment, Veiled Apparition becomes a 3/3 creature with flying and "During your upkeep, pay o1o
U or sacrifice Veiled Apparition" and that counts as an Illusion.

When an opponent casts a spell, if Veiled Apparition is an enchantment, Veiled Apparition becomes a 3/3 Illusion creature with flying and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Veiled Apparition unless you pay {1}{U}."

Destructive Urge

Whenever enchanted creature successfully deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a land.

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a land.

Noetic Scales

During each player's upkeep, return to owner's hand each creature that player controls with power greater than the number of cards in his or her hand.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, return to its owner's hand each creature that player controls with power greater than the number of cards in their hand.

The tide of magic brought them here. Now it would take them home.

Aether Tide

Choose and discard X creature cards: Return X target creatures to their owner's hand.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X creature cards.
Return X target creatures to their owners' hands.

Mind Games

Buyback o2o
U (You may pay an additional o2o
U when you play this spell. If you do, put it into your hand instead of your graveyard as part of the spell's effect.)
Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Buyback {2}{U} (You may pay an additional {2}{U} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Thalakos Deceiver

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Sacrifice Thalakos Deceiver: Gain control of target creature permanently. Use this ability only if Thalakos Deceiver is attacking and unblocked.

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever Thalakos Deceiver attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, gain control of target creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Quickening Licid

o1o
W, oc
T: Quickening Licid loses this ability and becomes a creature enchantment that reads "Enchanted creature gains first strike" instead of a creature. Move Quickening Licid onto target creature. You may pay o
W to end this effect.

{1}{W}, {T}: Quickening Licid loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay {W} to end this effect.
Enchanted creature has first strike.

"Ill luck and poor geography caught the Thalakos between us and the Dauthi."
—Lyna, Soltari emissary

Thalakos Sentry

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow)

As insubstantial—and as insistent—as appetite.

Pendrell Mists

Each creature gains "During your upkeep, pay o1 or bury this creature."

All creatures have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {1}."

"Stroke of heat or stroke of blade. Choose your fate, traitor."
—Maraxus of Keld, to Starke

Heat Stroke

At the end of each combat, destroy all creatures that blocked or were blocked this turn.

At end of combat, destroy each creature that blocked or was blocked this turn.

"The dead may be beyond the law, but speaking the wisdom of the dead will afford no protection!"
—Calmont, Aysen bureaucrat

Death Speakers

Drain Life

oo
X Drain Life deals X damage to target creature or player. Spend only black mana in this way. Gain 1 life for each 1 damage dealt, but not more than the toughness of the creature or the life total of the player Drain Life damages.

Spend only black mana on X.
Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

The secret of destruction is simple: everything burns.

Flare

Flare deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn.

Flare deals 1 damage to any target.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Swamp

"One timely cry of warning can save nine of surprise."
—Sidar Jabari

Alarum

Untap target nonattacking creature. That creature gets +1/+3 until end of turn.

Untap target nonattacking creature. It gets +1/+3 until end of turn.

To condemn the innocent you must first condemn yourself.
—Civic Guild maxim

Civic Guildmage

o
G, oc
T: Target creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
o
U, oc
T: Put target creature you control on top of owner's library.

{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
{U}, {T}: Put target creature you control on top of its owner's library.

Hivis of the Scale

You may choose not to untap Hivis of the Scale during your untap phase.
oc
T: Gain control of target Dragon. If Hivis becomes untapped or you lose control of Hivis, lose control of that Dragon.

You may choose not to untap Hivis of the Scale during your untap step.
{T}: Gain control of target Dragon for as long as you control Hivis and Hivis remains tapped.

Zirilan of the Claw

o1o
Ro
R, oc
T: Search your library for a Dragon card and put it into play as though it were just played. Shuffle your library afterwards. That creature is unaffected by summoning sickness. Remove the creature from the game at end of any turn.

{1}{R}{R}, {T}: Search your library for a Dragon permanent card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. That Dragon gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Lure of Prey

Play only if an opponent successfully cast a summon spell this turn.
Put a green summon card from your hand into play as though it were just played.

Cast this spell only if an opponent cast a creature spell this turn.
You may put a green creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Vampire Nocturnus

Play with the top card of your library revealed.
As long as the top card of your library is black, Vampire Nocturnus and other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+1 and have flying.

Bitter as wormwood, sweet as mulled wine.