David O'Connor

"A brilliant light can either illuminate or blind. How will you know which until you open your eyes?"
—Asmira, Holy Avenger

Illumination

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. That spell's caster gains an amount of life equal to the spell's casting cost.

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. Its controller gains life equal to its mana value.

Gifts Ungiven

Search your library for up to four cards with different names and reveal them. Target opponent chooses two of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your graveyard and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle.

An elder in one pride, of the Sigiled caste in another.

Qasali Pridemage

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Forest

"Hang out our banners on the outward walls; / The cry is still, 'They come'; our castle's strength / Will laugh a siege to scorn."
—William Shakespeare, *Macbeth*

Castle

Untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.

Jolrael's choice of homes was far better than her choice of allies.

Undiscovered Paradise

{T}: Add one mana of any color. During your next untap step, as you untap your permanents, return this land to its owner's hand.

Bogardan Phoenix

Flying
When this creature dies, exile it if it had a death counter on it. Otherwise, return it to the battlefield under your control and put a death counter on it.

"Aselbo soon had the rhino eating from his palm and the snake waiting at his heels."
—Afari, *Tales*

Worldly Tutor

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.

My thunder comes before the lightning; my lightning comes before the clouds; my rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?
—Femeref riddle

Volcanic Geyser

Volcanic Geyser deals X damage to any target.

"Comfortable even in a furnace? I've never met one who'd accept my wager."
—Talibah, embermage

Suq'Ata Firewalker

This creature can't be the target of red spells or abilities from red sources.
{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Prismatic Lace

Target permanent becomes the color or colors of your choice. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

"To the tutors, a 'poem of sand' was of little account, a 'poem of ivory,' priceless."
—Afari, *Tales*

Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Catacomb Dragon

Flying
Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a nonartifact, non-Dragon creature, that creature gets -X/-0 until end of turn, where X is half the creature's power, rounded down.