Greg Simanson

Flickering Ward

Enchant creature
As Flickering Ward enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove Flickering Ward.
{W}: Return Flickering Ward to its owner's hand.

Enchant creature
As this enchantment enters, choose a color.
Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove this enchantment.
{W}: Return this enchantment to its owner's hand.

Dragon Blood

{3}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Cold Storage

{3}: Exile target creature you control.
Sacrifice this artifact: Return each creature card exiled with this artifact to the battlefield under your control.

Orim regarded Gerrard coolly. "You are like the drake," she said, her expression unchanging. "It works hard to maintain its position, but to us it seems to glide along effortlessly. You must do the same."

Wind Drake

"Memory is a burden that wears at the soul as weather wears at stone."
—Crovax

Grindstone

{3}, {T}: Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If both cards share a color, repeat this process.

{3}, {T}: Target player mills two cards. If two cards that share a color were milled this way, repeat this process.

"High in the Karplusans, death is swift and razor-clawed."
—Arna Kennerüd, skycaptain

Wild Aesthir

Flying, first strike
{W}{W}: Wild Aesthir gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Flying, first strike
{W}{W}: this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

The rising oceans brought new lakes—and new terrors—to Terisiare. The Explorers found their ancient enemies spawning everywhere.

Benthic Explorers

{T}, Untap a tapped land an opponent controls: Add one mana of any type that land could produce to your mana pool.

{T}, Untap a tapped land an opponent controls: Add one mana of any type that land could produce.

Gargantuan Gorilla

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Gargantuan Gorilla unless you sacrifice a Forest. If you sacrifice Gargantuan Gorilla this way, it deals 7 damage to you. If you sacrifice a snow Forest this way, Gargantuan Gorilla gains trample until end of turn.
{T}: Gargantuan Gorilla deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to Gargantuan Gorilla.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice a Forest. If you sacrifice a snow Forest this way, this creature gains trample until end of turn. If you don't sacrifice a Forest, sacrifice this creature and it deals 7 damage to you.
{T}: this creature deals damage equal to its power to another target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to this creature.

Chill

Call it the thinking mage's version of brute force.

Spell Blast

Counter target spell with converted mana cost equal to X.

Counter target spell with mana value X. (For example, if that spell's mana cost is {3}{U}{U}, X is 5.)

The most effective way to destroy a spell is to ensure it was never cast in the first place.

Annul

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

Recantation

During your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Recantation.
o
U, Sacrifice Recantation: Return up to X target permanents to owner's hand, where X is the number of verse counters on Recantation.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on this enchantment.
{U}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Return up to X target permanents to their owners' hands, where X is the number of verse counters on this enchantment.

Rejuvenate

Gain 6 life.
Cycling o2 (You may pay o2 and discard this card from your hand to draw a card. Play this ability as an instant.)

You gain 6 life.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

To hone swords and dull minds.
—Whetstone inscription

Whetstone

o3: Each player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"As we neared, Belfar proclaimed the wall to be made of glass and went forward to prove it. We had no choice but to pull his hands free from where he had touched it, leaving flesh palmprints on the icy wall."
—Tross, Vainus Expedition leader

Glacial Wall

Manabarbs

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, Manabarbs deals 1 damage to that player.

Panic

Play only during combat before blockers are declared.
Target creature cannot be assigned to block this turn.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn.

Cast this spell only during combat before blockers are declared.
Target creature can't block this turn.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Only fools believe they will face my armies but once."
—Kaervek

Bone Harvest

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"In the forest, fires light the sky as black clouds unfold their weight."
—"Love Song of Night and Day"

Flare

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

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

"My minions serve me in the light; I serve no one."
—Shauku, Endbringer

Shauku's Minion

o
Bo
R, oc
T: Shauku's Minion deals 2 damage to target white creature.

{B}{R}, {T}: this creature deals 2 damage to target white creature.

"High in the Karplusans, death is swift and razor-clawed."
—Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain

Flying, first strike
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Wo
W: +2/+0 until end of turn. You cannot spend more than o
Wo
W in this way each turn.

Flying, first strike
{W}{W}: Wild Aesthir gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

Distant Atlantis charged these Explorers with the task of venturing into unknown waters to track the despised Viscerids.

oc
T: Untap target tapped land an opponent controls to add one mana of any type that land produces to your mana pool.

Insidious Bookworms

o1o
B: Target player discards a card at random from his or her hand. Use this ability only when Insidious Bookworms is put into the graveyard from play. You cannot spend more than o1o
B in this way each turn.

When Insidious Bookworms dies, you may pay {1}{B}. If you do, target player discards a card at random.

"Humans and machines working together can be fearsome indeed!"
—Arcum Dagsson

Urza's Engine

Trample
o3: Banding until end of turn
o3: All creatures banded with Urza's Engine gain trample until end of turn.

Trample
{3}: Urza's Engine gains banding until end of turn. (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.)
{3}: Attacking creatures banded with Urza's Engine gain trample until end of turn.