Ryan Yee

When defeat is near and guidance is scarce, all eyes look in one direction.

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

The first spell taught to young mages, it has spared the lives of many whose hands are too small to hold a sword.

Fleeting Distraction

Target creature gets -1/-0 until end of turn.
Draw a card.

"It's a truly disconcerting sight to see their shadows cast upon the deck."
—Captain Triff

Kapsho Kitefins

Flying
Whenever Kapsho Kitefins or another creature you control enters, tap target creature an opponent controls.

Predator Ooze

Indestructible (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature.)
Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar

Reach, trample
Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar gets +1/+1 for each land you control and each land card in your graveyard.
{1}{G}, Return two lands you control to their owner's hand: Return Multani from your graveyard to your hand.

"Elemental fire shimmers with rose hues and, unlike terrestrial blazes, smolders long after it's extinguished."
—Jestus Dreya, *Of Elements and Eternity*

Fire Servant

If a red instant or sorcery spell you control would deal damage, it deals double that damage instead.

If there's anything a werewolf hates, it's a collar—especially Avacyn's Collar, the symbol of her church.

Ancient Grudge

Destroy target artifact.
Flashback {G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Watcher in the Mist

Flying
When Watcher in the Mist enters the battlefield, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Flying
When Watcher in the Mist enters, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Molten Psyche

Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.
Metalcraft — If you control three or more artifacts, Molten Psyche deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of cards that player has drawn this turn.

Vizier of Many Faces

You may have Vizier of Many Faces enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except if Vizier of Many Faces was embalmed, the token has no mana cost, it's white, and it's a Zombie in addition to its other types.
Embalm {3}{U}{U}

You may have Vizier of Many Faces enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except if Vizier of Many Faces was embalmed, the token has no mana cost, it's white, and it's a Zombie in addition to its other types.
Embalm {3}{U}{U}

"This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great. Who of all the Wise could have foreseen it?"

Elrond, Lord of Rivendell

Whenever Elrond, Lord of Rivendell or another creature you control enters, scry 1. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, the Ring tempts you.

"I hope you'll be comfortable. You'll be wanting supper, I don't doubt. As soon as may be. This way now!"

Butterbur, Bree Innkeeper

At the beginning of your end step, if you don't control a Food, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

"Through every verdant field, every bough that hangs heavy with fruit, Karametra shows her love."

Sythis, Harvest's Hand

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Most clocks measure time, but a few measure everything.

Clock of Omens

Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Untap target artifact.

The throng flitted from castle to castle, leaving a trail of star-crossed love, damaging rumors, and missing heirlooms in their wake.

Faerie Formation

Flying
{3}{U}: Create a 1/1 blue Faerie creature token with flying. Draw a card.

Martyred for worshipping her ancestors, she now walks among them.

Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit

Whenever another nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Blossom Prancer

Reach
When Blossom Prancer enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or enchantment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If you didn't put a card into your hand this way, you gain 4 life.

Moonmist

Transform all Humans. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures other than Werewolves and Wolves. (Only double-faced cards can be transformed.)

Relentless Dead

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
When Relentless Dead dies, you may pay {B}. If you do, return it to its owner's hand.
When Relentless Dead dies, you may pay {X}. If you do, return another target Zombie creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Her song plucks the strings of the storm, shifting wind and storm into a harmony that will carry her ship to safety.

Lookout's Dispersal

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a Pirate.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}.

With Thraben's army recalled to its city walls, outlying villages were left to fend for themselves.

Endless Ranks of the Dead

At the beginning of your upkeep, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is half the number of Zombies you control, rounded down.

"I can't bear to see another plane broken before I make my own home whole. I'm sorry, but my watch is over."

Broken Bond

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Leave behind the sorrow of this body. Be blessed, being of light."

Cathartic Pyre

Choose one —
• Cathartic Pyre deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
• Discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards.

Die beneath a tree, wake up a part of it.

Willow Geist

Trample
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Willow Geist.
When Willow Geist dies, you gain life equal to its power.

Benevolent Offering

Choose an opponent. You and that player each create three 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying.
Choose an opponent. You gain 2 life for each creature you control and that player gains 2 life for each creature they control.

Sudden Edict

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Counterspell

Intent: This illustration uses an existing visual gag that shows the moments before and after a spell was cast. We'd like you to use this visual gag for a spell that destroys a creature.

Action: We'd like you to design Sythis, a legendary green- and white-aligned female dryad who's closely tied to Karametra, the god of the harvest (p.26).

Paradox Zone

Paradox Zone enters the battlefield with a growth counter on it.
At the beginning of your end step, double the number of growth counters on Paradox Zone. Then create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of growth counters on Paradox Zone.

Paradox Zone enters with a growth counter on it.
At the beginning of your end step, double the number of growth counters on Paradox Zone. Then create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of growth counters on Paradox Zone.

Elspeth Conquers Death

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Exile target permanent an opponent controls with mana value 3 or greater.
II — Noncreature spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast until your next turn.
III — Return target creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +1/+1 counter or a loyalty counter on it.

All the birds of the skies are the spirit's brood, gathered for safety under its wings.

Empyrean Eagle

Flying
Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.

Haunting Voyage

Choose a creature type. Return up to two creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was foretold, return all creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield instead.
Foretell {5}{B}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Die Young

Choose target creature. You get {E}{E} (two energy counters), then you may pay any amount of {E}. The creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each {E} paid this way.

Gifted Aetherborn

Live Fast

You draw two cards, lose 2 life, and get {E}{E} (two energy counters).

Pride Sovereign

Pride Sovereign gets +1/+1 for each other Cat you control.
{W}, {T}, Exert Pride Sovereign: Create two 1/1 white Cat creature tokens with lifelink. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)

The Mardu warrior was overjoyed when Tasigur set him free and granted him passage through the jungle. He failed to notice the Sultai leader's cruel smile.

Douse in Gloom

Douse in Gloom deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

"I sang of storms, there came a squall. I sang of waves, the seas grew tall. I sang of love, but no voice called."

Mistral Singer

Flying
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

It is the soul of a philosopher who died of starvation contemplating the universe.

Eidolon of Rhetoric

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

"We have come at last to this holiest of holy places. What was stolen from us long ago is ours once again."

Exultant Skymarcher

Ghostblade Eidolon

Bestow {5}{W} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)
Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has double strike.

"You know it to be false, but when its claws find you, what you know won't matter much at all."
—Pol Jamaar, illusionist

Phantasmal Bear

When Phantasmal Bear becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

"Improvisation is for those who failed to prepare."
—Jace Beleren

Contingency Plan

Surveil 5. (Look at the top five cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Renegade's Getaway

Target permanent gains indestructible until end of turn. Create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy a permanent with indestructible, and if it's a creature, it can't be destroyed by damage.)

"Dragons in flight seldom expect company."
—Kadri, Dromoka warrior

Shape the Sands

Target creature gets +0/+5 and gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

The courage of those who work the land is born of long days of labor in the hot summer sun and the cold winter wind. It is the courage of the earth itself.

Yoked Ox

"Safe passage requires only a simple answer to a simple question, traveler."

Riddlemaster Sphinx

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
When Riddlemaster Sphinx enters the battlefield, you may return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
When Riddlemaster Sphinx enters, you may return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Ugin's Conjurant

Ugin's Conjurant enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
If damage would be dealt to Ugin's Conjurant while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove that many +1/+1 counters from Ugin's Conjurant.

The moment Liliana defied Nicol Bolas, her contract was broken, and her life was forfeit. But she was free to choose her fate, and she decided it was worth the price.

Price of Betrayal

Remove up to five counters from target artifact, creature, planeswalker, or opponent.

Angel of Grace

Flash
Flying
When Angel of Grace enters the battlefield, until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.
{4}{W}{W}, Exile Angel of Grace from your graveyard: Your life total becomes 10.

Flash
Flying
When Angel of Grace enters, until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.
{4}{W}{W}, Exile Angel of Grace from your graveyard: Your life total becomes 10.

Forbidding Spirit

When Forbidding Spirit enters the battlefield, until your next turn, creatures can't attack you or a planeswalker you control unless their controller pays {2} for each of those creatures.

When Forbidding Spirit enters, until your next turn, creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {2} for each of those creatures.

It's pointless to hold on when you have nothing to hold on with.

Disperse

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Hospitality is of little concern to those who do not wish to be disturbed.

Mistcaller

Sacrifice Mistcaller: Until end of turn, if a nontoken creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.

Sacrifice Mistcaller: Until end of turn, if a nontoken creature would enter and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.

Planeswalkers seek out great monuments throughout the Multiverse, knowing that their builders were unwittingly drawn by the convergence of mana in the area.

Manalith

The travelers were warned to watch out for children on the road.

Blood Bairn

Sacrifice another creature: Blood Bairn gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Caller of the Pack

Trample
Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token that's a copy of this creature that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker he or she controls. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)

Trample
Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)

A lawmage's runic script is an act of governance given form: legislation written directly onto the air itself.

Ascended Lawmage

Flying
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

The flicker of candlelight and the echo of hymns told the villagers that the monastery wasn't truly abandoned.

Geist of the Lonely Vigil

Defender, flying
Delirium — Geist of the Lonely Vigil can attack as though it didn't have defender as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

It has no apparent purpose or direction. It simply drifts, buoyed by breezes both tangible and otherworldly.

Moorland Drifter

Delirium — Moorland Drifter has flying as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Necromantic Summons

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, that creature enters the battlefield with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, that creature enters with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Shadows of the Past

Whenever a creature dies, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.){4}{B}: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Activate this ability only if there are four or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Whenever a creature dies, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{4}{B}: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Activate only if there are four or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Silumgar's Scorn

As an additional cost to cast Silumgar's Scorn, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. If you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast Silumgar's Scorn, counter that spell instead.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. If you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell, counter that spell instead.

"I will be the ancestor my descendants call upon for aid. On that day I will take up my sword for my family once more."

Fruit of the First Tree

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, you gain X life and draw X cards, where X is its toughness.

Its hunting instincts have long since rotted away. Its hunger, however, remains.

Kheru Dreadmaw

Defender
{1}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Ideas, not stones, form the true foundation of Meletis.

Pull from the Deep

Return up to one target instant card and up to one target sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Pull from the Deep.

Purphoros shaped the oreads out of stray coals from his forge.

Forgeborn Oreads

Constellation — Whenever Forgeborn Oreads or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, Forgeborn Oreads deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Constellation — Whenever Forgeborn Oreads or another enchantment you control enters, Forgeborn Oreads deals 1 damage to any target.

Heroes act without thought of glory or reward. Accolades are a consequence, not a goal.

Hall of Triumph

As Hall of Triumph enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.

As Hall of Triumph enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.

"Was this gift cast adrift for any to find, or did Thassa guide the currents to bring it to me alone?"
—Kenessos, priest of Thassa

Thassa's Bounty

Draw three cards. Target player puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Draw three cards. Target player mills three cards.

"Is the maze itself a phantom? Or is one as real as the other? Perhaps I am as mad as the dragon."
—Jace Beleren, journal

Leyline Phantom

When Leyline Phantom deals combat damage, return it to its owner's hand. (Return it only if it survived combat.)

Tireless and merciless, shades are harnessed as spies by the Dimir.

Gateway Shade

{B}: Gateway Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Tap an untapped Gate you control: Gateway Shade gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

A hunter's precision and a durkvine's strength are a potent combination.

Snare the Skies

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Bladed Bracers

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
As long as equipped creature is a Human or an Angel, it has vigilance.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death

{T}: You gain 1 life. Then if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total, transform Chalice of Life.