Bryon Wackwitz

Force Spike

Target spell is countered unless its caster spends an additional {1}.

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

"The first caravan has passed safely through the Karplusan Mountains without incident, forging a trade route to Balduvia. Kjeld himself would never have believed it!"
—King Darien of Kjeldor

Kjeldoran Escort

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks . . . Stand like Druids of eld."
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline"

Pendelhaven

{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Target 1/1 creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

"We willingly trade with Kjeldor, but the peace we build must come from both our lands."
—Lovisa Coldeyes, Balduvian Chieftain

"The only 'art' these beasts possess is the art of noise!"
—Jaya Ballard

Gorilla War Cry

Cast this spell only during combat before blockers are declared.
All creatures gain menace until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Theirs is the art of blood."
—Jaeuhl Carthalion, Juniper Order Advocate

Veldt

This land doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a depletion counter on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a depletion counter from this land.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}. Put a depletion counter on this land.

"Let any who doubt the evil of using the ancient devices look at this infernal machine. What manner of fiend would design such a sadistic device?"
—Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Skull Catapult

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: This artifact deals 2 damage to any target.

"Let the past be the past. Do not call up that which you cannot put down. Destroy that which destroyed us, so long ago."
—Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Shatter

Lava Tubes

This land doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a depletion counter on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a depletion counter from this land.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Put a depletion counter on this land.

Brushland

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

"As the climate worsened, some Thelonites turned to fertilizing with fresh blood in an attempt to keep Havenwood alive and growing."
—*Sarpadian Empires, vol. III*

Thelonite Monk

{T}, Sacrifice a green creature: Target land becomes a Forest. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Followers of Tourach regarded all other religions equally: with open contempt. Not so the followers of Leitbur, who made it their mission to eradicate the Order of the Ebon Hand.

Order of Leitbur

Protection from black
{W}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.
{W}{W}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"The powers of the corrupt will fade before the fury of the pure."
—Bethan Leitbur, "The Way"

Homarid

This creature enters with a tide counter on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a tide counter on this creature.
As long as there is exactly one tide counter on this creature, it gets -1/-1.
As long as there are exactly three tide counters on this creature, it gets +1/+1.
Whenever there are four or more tide counters on this creature, remove all tide counters from it.

"The few remaining pieces from this period suggest the Dwarves eventually made weapons and armor out of everything, even children's toys."
—*Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV*

Dwarven Armorer

{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a +0/+1 counter or a +1/+0 counter on target creature.

"Resignedly beneath the sky/The melancholy waters lie./So blend the turrets and shadows there/That all seem pendulous in air,/While from a proud tower in town/Death looks gigantically down." —Edgar Allan Poe, "The City in the Sea"

Urborg

{T}: Add {B}.
{T}: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.

Living Plane

All lands are 1/1 creatures that are still lands.

Lady Caleria

{T}: Lady Caleria deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

"'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,/ And robes the mountain in its azure hue." —Thomas Campbell, "Pleasures of Hope"

Hammerheim

{T}: Add {R}.
{T}: Target creature loses all landwalk abilities until end of turn.

Disharmony

Cast this spell only during combat before blockers are declared.
Untap target attacking creature and remove it from combat. Gain control of that creature until end of turn.

Unpredictable in the extreme, these carnivorous apes will prey even upon their own kind.

Barbary Apes

Ayesha Tanaka

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
{T}: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source unless that ability's controller pays {W}. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

"Battles no longer served a purpose in Karakas." —Angus Mackenzie, *Diary*

Angus Mackenzie

{G}{W}{U}, {T}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. Activate only before the combat damage step.