Ray Lago

"Next to Grace is Reason, and Reason must be retained. If the web of Reason comes unwoven, madness will escape."
—*Song of All*, canto 167

Voice of Reason

Save Life

Choose one Target player gains 2{1/2} life; or prevent the next 2{1/2} damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.
Gotcha Whenever an opponent says "Save" or "Life," you may say "Gotcha" If you do, return Save Life from your graveyard to your hand.

Choose one —
• Target player gains 2½ life.
• Prevent the next 2½ damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.
Gotcha — If an opponent says "save" or "life," you may say "Gotcha!" When you do, return Save Life from your graveyard to your hand.

It suddenly dawned on Jorin that farming was quite a noble profession.

Second Thoughts

Exile target attacking creature.
Draw a card.

Karmic Justice

Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls destroys a noncreature permanent you control, you may destroy target permanent that opponent controls.

"The merfolk of the Pearl Trident have risen from the waves since the earliest days, at times allies to humans, other times enemies. Now their power is cresting again, and who can say which way the new tide will flow."
—Kalis, Onean scholar

Merfolk of the Pearl Trident

"It's not really stealing. It's more like extended borrowing."

Aura Graft

Gain control of target Aura that's attached to a permanent. Attach it to another permanent it can enchant.

"Get it? Bunnies, letters, -X/-X? Me neither."
—Bucky, flavor text writer

When Fluffy Bunnies Attack

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of times the letter of your choice appears in that creature's name.

Dead-Iron Sledge

Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy both creatures.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Slow and steady may not always win the race, but at least it doesn't end up splattered on the walls.

Overeager Apprentice

Discard a card, Sacrifice this creature: Add {B}{B}{B}.

Their whispered prayers rally the nomads better than any war cry could.

Divine Sacrament

White creatures get +1/+1.
Threshold — White creatures get an additional +1/+1 as long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Balshan Beguiler

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals the top two cards of their library. You choose one of those cards and put it into their graveyard.

Where the wind meets the water, change is inevitable.

Whirlpool Rider

When this creature enters, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

"I do not like it," said Grizzlegom, "but I will take every soldier I can get."

Putrid Warrior

Whenever this creature deals damage, choose one —
• Each player loses 1 life.
• Each player gains 1 life.

The Phyrexians have one word that means both "evolution" and "pain."

Foul Presence

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 and has "{T}: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn."

Some say they have the blood of hawks running through their veins.

Longbow Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
First strike

Lava Axe

Lava Axe deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Granite Grip

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 for each Mountain you control.

Watching the spider's web
—Llanowar expression meaning "focusing on the wrong thing"

Giant Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Psychic Battle

Whenever a player chooses one or more targets, each player reveals the top card of their library. The player who reveals the card with the greatest mana value may change the target or targets. If two or more cards are tied for greatest, the target or targets remain unchanged. Changing targets this way doesn't trigger abilities of permanents named Psychic Battle.

Her leadership forged the *Weatherlight*'s finest crew.

Captain Sisay

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

Made strong by reckless magic. Made horrid by reckless strife.

Nakaya Shade

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn unless any player pays {2}.

Celestial Convergence

This enchantment enters with seven omen counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an omen counter from this enchantment. If there are no omen counters on this enchantment, the player with the highest life total wins the game. If two or more players are tied for highest life total, the game is a draw.

The jhovalls are depleting its food sources, the Mercadians are eroding its home, and you're wondering why it's angry?

Deepwood Wolverine

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Are you sure you can afford such a luxury?

Charmed Griffin

Flying
When this creature enters, each other player may put an artifact or enchantment card onto the battlefield from their hand.

Yavimaya Elder

When this creature dies, you may search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

As no one has ever accepted a second invitation to Davvol's table, the evincar often dines alone.

Soul Feast

Target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.

After their first encounter, the goblins named him Chuck.

Bloodshot Cyclops

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: This creature deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to any target.