Kaja Foglio

From time, knowledge.
From knowledge, power.

Talas Researcher

{T}: Draw a card. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Sorcerous Sight

Look at target opponent's hand.
Draw a card.

Coffin Queen

You may choose not to untap Coffin Queen during your untap step.
{2}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. When Coffin Queen becomes untapped or you lose control of Coffin Queen, exile that creature.

Sisay continued the quest for the Legacy even when Gerrard chose to abandon it. She is devoted to the cause of good at whatever the price.

Captain Sisay

{T}: Search your library for a legendary card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Harmony of Nature

Tap any number of untapped creatures you control. You gain 4 life for each creature tapped this way.

"I am reminded of the fable of the silver egg. Its owner cracks it open to see what jewels it holds, only to discover a simple yellow yolk."
—Karn, silver golem

Bottle Gnomes

Sacrifice Bottle Gnomes: You gain 3 life.

"The silkworm spins itself a new existence. So the healer weaves the threads of life."
—Orim, Samite healer

Orim, Samite Healer

{T}: Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

{T}: Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

"Make people wait for what they want, and you have power over them. This is as true for merchants and militia as it is for cooks and couples."
—Gwendlyn Di Corci

Kismet

Artifacts, creatures, and lands played by your opponents enter the battlefield tapped.

Artifacts, creatures, and lands your opponents control enter tapped.

Energy Flux

All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay {2}."

Giant Tortoise

Giant Tortoise gets +0/+3 as long as it's untapped.

"Four things that never meet do here unite
To shed my blood and to ravage my heart,
A radiant brow and tresses that beguile
And rosy cheeks and a glittering smile."
—The Arabian Nights, trans. Haddawy

Bird Maiden

Sylvan Tutor

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

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

Al-abara simply laughed and lifted one finger, and the carpet carried her high out of our reach.

Al-abara's Carpet

{5}, {T}: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn by attacking creatures without flying.

Primal Clay

As Primal Clay enters the battlefield, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 artifact creature, a 2/2 artifact creature with flying, or a 1/6 Shapeshifter Wall artifact creature with defender.

As Primal Clay enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 artifact creature, a 2/2 artifact creature with flying, or a 1/6 Wall artifact creature with defender in addition to its other types. (A creature with defender can't attack.)

Though he eventually came to despise Tocasia, Mishra listened well to her lessons on clarity of purpose. Unlike his brother, he focused his mind on a single goal.

Mishra's Workshop

{T}: Add {3} to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells.

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells.

Even after the wall was breached in half a dozen places, the phalanxes fought on, standing solidly against the onrushing raiders. Disciplined and dedicated, they held their ranks to the end, even in the face of tremendous losses.

Icatian Phalanx

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.)

"More than lessons may be gained from the past."
—Halvor Arensson, Kjeldoran priest

Inheritance

Whenever a creature is put into a graveyard from play, you may pay {3}. If you do, draw a card.

Whenever a creature dies, you may pay {3}. If you do, draw a card.

"The so-called barbarians will not respect us for our military might—they will respect us for our honor."
—Lucilde Fiksdotter, leader of the Order of the White Shield

Swords to Plowshares

Remove target creature from the game. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Magus of the Unseen

{1}{U}, {T}: Untap target artifact an opponent controls and gain control of it until end of turn. It gains haste until end of turn. When you lose control of the artifact, tap it.

"To visit the sky requires bravery, and thought, and little else. To master the sky requires the binding of its masters, and little else."
—Arnjlot Olasson, sky mage

Wind Spirit

Flying
Wind Spirit can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.

Flying
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Scholars are uncertain whether it was the actual sound or some other magical property of the elven lyre that transformed its player.

Elven Lyre

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Elven Lyre: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"Heed the lessons of our time: the forms of water may move the land itself and hold captive the fires within."
—Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran royal mage

Hydroblast

Choose one Counter target spell if it's red; or destroy target permanent if it's red.

Choose one —
• Counter target spell if it's red.
• Destroy target permanent if it's red.

Initially bred for sacrifice, the thrulls eventually turned on their masters, the Order of the Ebon Hand, with gruesome results.
—*Sarpadian Empires, vol. II*

Basal Thrull

{T}, Sacrifice Basal Thrull: Add o
Bo
B to your mana pool.

Cuombajj Witches

{T}: Cuombajj Witches deals 1 damage to target creature or player and 1 damage to target creature or player of an opponent's choice.

{T}: Cuombajj Witches deals 1 damage to any target and 1 damage to any target of an opponent's choice.

"Just the thing for those pesky water mages."
—Jaya Ballard, task mage

Pyroblast

Choose one Counter target spell if it's blue; or destroy target permanent if it's blue.

Choose one —
• Counter target spell if it's blue.
• Destroy target permanent if it's blue.

Eureka

Starting with you, each player may put a permanent card from his or her hand into play. Repeat this process until no one puts a card into play.

Starting with you, each player may put a permanent card from their hand onto the battlefield. Repeat this process until no one puts a card onto the battlefield.

Rabid Wombat

Vigilance
Rabid Wombat gets +2/+2 for each Aura attached to it.

"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!"
—William Shakespeare, King Lear

Winter Blast

Tap X target creatures. Winter Blast deals 2 damage to each of those creatures with flying.

Mishra's Factory

{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.
{1}: Mishra's Factory becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: Mishra's Factory becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

In the feudal days of Icatia, finding the Rainbow Vale was often the goal of knights' quests.

Rainbow Vale

{T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. An opponent gains control of Rainbow Vale at end of turn.

{T}: Add one mana of any color. An opponent gains control of Rainbow Vale at the beginning of the next end step.

Thunderstaff

If Thunderstaff is untapped and a creature would deal combat damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.
{2}, {T}: Attacking creatures get +1/+0 until end of turn.

As long as Thunderstaff is untapped, if a creature would deal combat damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.
{2}, {T}: Attacking creatures get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Spirit Link

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

In front of every great wizard is a doomed apprentice.

Daring Apprentice

oc
T, Sacrifice Daring Apprentice: Counter target spell.

{T}, Sacrifice Daring Apprentice: Counter target spell.

Summer sends its kiss with warmth and blooming life.

Summer Bloom

Play up to three additional lands this turn.

You may play up to three additional lands this turn.

More than one mage has been driven insane by the sound of the millstone relentlessly grinding away.

Millstone

o2, oc
T: Put the top two cards of target player's library into his or her graveyard.

Teferi's Puzzle Box

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player counts the cards in his or her hand, puts them on the bottom of his or her library, and then draws that many cards.

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player puts the cards in their hand on the bottom of their library in any order, then draws that many cards.

"Water is firmament to the finned."
—Oracle *en*-Vec

Manta Riders

o
U: Manta Riders gains flying until end of turn.

{U}: Manta Riders gains flying until end of turn.

"Out there, there are spirits, but here, there is wine."
—Blessing for the bounty of Kjeld

Blessed Wine

Gain 1 life.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn.

You gain 1 life.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"We have always counted time with sand; this pinch is your meaningless life."
—Nailah, self-proclaimed Queen of Rabiah

Sorceress Queen

oc
T: Target creature other than Sorceress Queen is 0/2 until end of turn.

{T}: Target creature other than Sorceress Queen has base power and toughness 0/2 until end of turn.

With Suleiman's ascension to power, the djinn and efreets of ancient Rabiah learned humility.

Suleiman's Legacy

When Suleiman's Legacy comes into play, bury all Djinns and Efreets.
Whenever a Djinn or Efreet comes into play, bury it.

When Suleiman's Legacy enters, destroy all Djinns and Efreets. They can't be regenerated.
Whenever a Djinn or Efreet enters, destroy it. It can't be regenerated.

Trade to trade, not to keep.
—Suq'Ata motto

Amulet of Unmaking

o5, oc
T, Remove Amulet of Unmaking from the game: Remove target artifact, creature, or land from the game. Play this ability as a sorcery.

{5}, {T}, Exile Amulet of Unmaking: Exile target artifact, creature, or land. Activate only as a sorcery.

Kjeldoran Pride

Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.
o2o
U: Switch Kjeldoran Pride from creature it enchants to another creature. Kjeldoran Pride's new target must be legal. Treat Kjeldoran Pride as though it were just cast on the new target.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.
{2}{U}: Attach Kjeldoran Pride to target creature other than enchanted creature.

Trade Caravan

During your upkeep, put a currency counter on Trade Caravan.
o0: Remove two currency counters from Trade Caravan to untap target basic land. Use this ability only during any opponent's upkeep.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a currency counter on Trade Caravan.
Remove two currency counters from Trade Caravan: Untap target basic land. Activate only during an opponent's upkeep.

Orcish Mine

When Orcish Mine comes into play, put three ore counters on it. During your upkeep and whenever target land becomes tapped, remove an ore counter from Orcish Mine. When the last ore counter is removed from Orcish Mine, destroy the land Orcish Mine enchants; Orcish Mine deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Enchant land
Orcish Mine enters with three ore counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep and whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, remove an ore counter from Orcish Mine.
When the last ore counter is removed from Orcish Mine, destroy enchanted land and Orcish Mine deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Renewal

Sacrifice a land to search your library for a basic land and put it directly into play. This does not count towards your one land per turn limit. Reshuffle your library afterwards. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are revealed unto the meek." —Ecclesiasticus 3:19

Revelation

All players play with the cards in their hands face up on the table.

Black Scarab

Target creature gets +2/+2 as long as any opponent controls any black cards. That creature cannot be blocked by black creatures.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked by black creatures.
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 as long as an opponent controls a black permanent.

"We could feel the Shaman's power, as surely as we felt the storm."
—Disa the Restless, journal entry

Illusionary Presence

Cumulative Upkeep: o
U
During your upkeep, Illusionary Presence gains a landwalk ability of your choice until end of turn.

Cumulative upkeep {U} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a land type. Illusionary Presence gains landwalk of the chosen type until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a land of that type.)

"May the forces that took Argoth beneath the waves never come among us again."
—Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Stone Rain

Freyalise's tears bring life and renewal, though they also bring trouble.

Flooded Woodlands

No green creature can attack unless its controller sacrifices a land whenever that creature attacks.

Green creatures can't attack unless their controller sacrifices a land for each green creature they control that's attacking. (This cost is paid as attackers are declared.)

"Many Initiates sacrificed a hand to become full members of the Order."
—*Sarpadian Empires, vol. II*

Initiates of the Ebon Hand

o1: Add o
B to your mana pool. Play this ability as an interrupt. If more than o3 is spent in this way during one turn, bury Initiates of the Ebon Hand at end of turn.

{1}: Add {B}. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice Initiates of the Ebon Hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Some people say that the world is round, and if you travel far enough you'll come to the other side, where everything is upside down.

Field of Dreams

The top card of each player's library is always face up.

Players play with the top card of their libraries revealed.

Silhouette

Until end of turn, damage done to target creature by spells or effects that target it is reduced to 0.

Choose target creature. If a spell or ability that targets that creature would cause a source to deal damage to that creature this turn, prevent that damage.

North Star

o4oc
T: You may cast one spell this turn by paying its casting cost with any type of mana. For example, o2o
Go
G becomes o4. However, the card still retains its original color. This ability is played as an interrupt.

{4}, {T}: For one spell this turn, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to pay that spell's mana cost. (Additional costs are still paid normally.)

Tap to add 1 colorless mana to your mana pool or give any Assembly Worker +1/+1 until end of turn.
o1: Mishra's Factory becomes an Assembly Worker, a 2/2 artifact creature, until end of turn. Assembly Worker is still considered a land as well.

Shahrazad

Players must leave game in progress as it is and use the cards left in their libraries as decks with which to play a subgame of Magic. When subgame is over, players shuffle these cards, return them to libraries, and resume game in progress, with any loser of subgame halving his or her remaining life points, rounding down. Effects that prevent damage may not be used to counter this loss of life. The subgame has no ante; using less than forty cards may be necessary.

Players play a Magic subgame, using their libraries as their decks. Each player who doesn't win the subgame loses half their life, rounded up.

Few remember the exploits of Dakkon's grandmother, Eunice Blackblade.

Granny's Payback

"I don't want what I don't have. I want more of what I *do* have."

Touch of Brilliance

Charm School

When Charm School comes into play, choose a color and balance Charm School on your head.
Prevent all damage to you of the chosen color.
If Charm School falls off your head, sacrifice Charm School.

As Charm School enters, choose a color and balance Charm School on your head.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you by sources of the chosen color.
When Charm School falls off your head, sacrifice Charm School.

Sorry

Before playing any spell, if a copy of that spell card is in any graveyard, the spell's caster may say "Sorry." If he or she does not, any other player may counter the spell by saying "Sorry" as it is cast.
If any player says "Sorry" at any other time, Sorry deals 2 damage to that player.

Before any player casts a spell with the same name as a card in any graveyard, that player may say "sorry." If they don't, any other player may say "sorry" as the spell is being cast. When another player says "sorry" this way, counter the spell.
Whenever a player says "sorry" at any other time, Sorry deals 2 damage to that player.

"Nothing comes between me and my Didgeridoos™."

Hurloon Wrangler

Denimwalk (If defending player is wearing any clothing made of denim, this creature is unblockable.)

Denimwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player is wearing denim.)

Mirror Mirror

Mirror Mirror comes into play tapped.
o7, oc
T, Sacrifice Mirror Mirror: At end of turn, exchange life totals with target player and exchange all cards in play that you control, and all cards in your hand, library, and graveyard, with that player until end of game.

Mirror Mirror enters tapped.
{7}, {T}, Sacrifice Mirror Mirror: Choose target player. At the beginning of the next end step, exchange life totals with that player, exchange control of all permanents you and that player control, and exchange cards in your hands, cards in your libraries, and cards in your graveyards.

Exhaustion

At the beginning of your opponent's next turn, he or she skips untapping creatures and lands.

Creatures and lands target opponent controls don't untap during their next untap step.

Gift of Estates

If your opponent has more lands in play than you do, search your deck for up to three plains and put them into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterwards.

If an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for up to three Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.