Stephen Tappin

It is telling of the vedalkens' culture that they trust human couriers more than their own comrades.

Thought Courier

Temporal Isolation

Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has shadow. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Prevent all damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.

Pyrohemia

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Pyrohemia.
{R}: Pyrohemia deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Goblin Charbelcher

{3}, {T}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. Goblin Charbelcher deals damage equal to the number of nonland cards revealed this way to any target. If the revealed land card was a Mountain, Goblin Charbelcher deals double that damage instead. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

The swarm's million wings stir the foulest of breezes.

Death Cloud

Each player loses X life, discards X cards, sacrifices X creatures, then sacrifices X lands.

"I cannot teach you their brand of magic, but I can teach you how to defend against it."
—Tavalus, priest of Korlis

Rebuff the Wicked

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

Verdant Embrace

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has "At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token."

Chant of Vitu-Ghazi

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Prevent all damage that would be dealt by creatures this turn. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

"I am not afraid to die today nor afraid of what death will bring."

Promise of Bunrei

When a creature you control dies, sacrifice Promise of Bunrei. If you do, create four 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens.

"The Reito Massacre was a testament to the kami's unstoppable power. The human defenders might as well have been moths battling a forest fire."
—*Great Battles of Kamigawa*

Rend Flesh

All Auriok children know the tale, "Bolgri and the Long Day of Squashing."

Nuisance Engine

{2}, {T}: Create a 0/1 colorless Pest artifact creature token.

Water calls to water, and the world is left exhausted and withered in its wake.

Brine Elemental

Morph {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When Brine Elemental is turned face up, each opponent skips their next untap step.

Thrill of the Hunt

Target creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.
Flashback {W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sensei Golden-Tail

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{1}{W}, {T}: Put a training counter on target creature. That creature gains bushido 1 and becomes a Samurai in addition to its other creature types. Activate only as a sorcery.

Blasting Station

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Blasting Station deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever a creature enters, you may untap Blasting Station.

Forest

He is the only one who sees the patterns in the overlapping maps and conflicting reports.

Field Marshal

Other Soldier creatures get +1/+1 and have first strike.

Other Soldier creatures get +1/+1 and have first strike. (They deal combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Grelden knelt and felt the cool, dry hand of the priest on his brow. Hours later, when his wits returned, he was covered in his enemies' blood on the field of victory.

Icatian Priest

{1}{W}{W}: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Spellshift

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Its controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals an instant or sorcery card. That player may play that card without paying its mana cost. Then he or she shuffles his or her library.

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal an instant or sorcery card. That player may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then the player shuffles.

"Whether frozen or fertile, the land is our ally. It awaits the call to battle."

Balduvian Frostwaker

{U}, {T}: Target snow land becomes a 2/2 blue Elemental creature with flying. It's still a land.

Fury of the Horde

You may remove two red cards in your hand from the game rather than pay Fury of the Horde's mana cost.
Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

You may exile two red cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

True enlightenment comes not with a new thought, but with understanding of all the old ones.

Mnemonic Nexus

Each player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.

Each player shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Flash Conscription

Untap target creature and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn. If {W} was spent to play Flash Conscription, the creature gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage, you gain that much life" until end of turn.

Untap target creature and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn. If {W} was spent to cast this spell, the creature gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage, you gain that much life" until end of turn.

Thick of muscle, stout of heart, and possessing a burning love of justice and the battlefield, the Ordruun minotaurs are the foundation of the Boros Legion.

Ordruun Commando

{W}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Ordruun Commando this turn.

The shepherds work in secret, seeking out abominations against nature and returning them to earth and dust.

Nullmage Shepherd

Tap four untapped creatures you control: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Even the dead give way to the mineral gaze of the gorgon.

Gaze of the Gorgon

({BG} can be paid with either {B} or {G}.)
Regenerate target creature. At end of combat, destroy all creatures that blocked or were blocked by that creature this turn.

({B/G} can be paid with either {B} or {G}.)
Regenerate target creature. At this turn's next end of combat, destroy all creatures that blocked or were blocked by it this turn.

"There was a wall here. Now it is dust. A tower rose here. Now it is fallen. An army fought here. Now it is dead. A spirit was here. It is all that remains."
—Snow-Fur, kitsune poet

Kami of Old Stone

"The strain upon the veil between worlds began to show near the end of the Kami War. Strange happenings that neither side could control lashed out across Kamigawa."
—*Observations of the Kami War*

Aether Shockwave

Choose one Tap all Spirits; or tap all non-Spirit creatures.

Choose one —
• Tap all Spirits.
• Tap all non-Spirit creatures.

The ghostly objects around the kami circled faster and faster, creating a dizzying cyclone of motion. When it opened its eyes, it struck.

Inner Calm, Outer Strength

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Iname as One

When Iname as One comes into play, if you played it from your hand, you may search your library for a Spirit card, put it into play, then shuffle your library.
When Iname as One is put into a graveyard from play, you may remove it from the game. If you do, return target Spirit card from your graveyard to play.

When Iname as One enters, if you cast it from your hand, you may search your library for a Spirit permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
When Iname as One dies, you may exile it. If you do, return target Spirit permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"It seemed an easy thing, to step into the nothingness, to fall, to die. But then, for an instant, I saw it, eyes filled with endless sorrow, and I turned back to face my pain."
—Snow-Fur, kitsune poet

Guardian of Solitude

Whenever you play a Spirit or Arcane spell, target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"The battle at Ganzan Pass was a testament to human endurance. The untrained and frightened group escaped three legions of kami, leaving more than their share of slain foes in their wake."
—*Great Battles of Kamigawa*

Rend Spirit

The orochi and the monks had always had an unspoken agreement: live and let live. But when the kami began raging, some warrior youths began questioning that agreement.

Kashi-Tribe Warriors

Whenever Kashi-Tribe Warriors deals combat damage to a creature, tap that creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Infused Arrows

Sunburst (This comes into play with a charge counter on it for each color of mana used to pay its cost.)
{T}, Remove X charge counters from Infused Arrows: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Sunburst (This enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)
{T}, Remove X charge counters from Infused Arrows: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Summoning Station

{T}: Put a 2/2 colorless Pincher creature token into play.
Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from play, you may untap Summoning Station.

{T}: Create a 2/2 colorless Pincher creature token.
Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may untap Summoning Station.

The strongest of the pride are measured not by the steel in their hands but by the steel in their souls.

Leonin Battlemage

{T}: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Whenever you play a spell, you may untap Leonin Battlemage.

{T}: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Whenever you cast a spell, you may untap Leonin Battlemage.

"My grandfather knew enough spells to fill a hundred scrolls. Nowadays, if a spell cannot fight the levelers, it is not even taught to our young."

Auriok Transfixer

AWOL

Exile target attacking creature. Then remove it from the game. Then put it into the absolutely-removed-from-the-freaking-game-forever zone.

Urza's Hot Tub

{2}, Discard a card: Search your library for a card that shares a complete word in its name with the discarded card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

{2}, Discard a card: Search your library for a card that shares a complete word in its name with the discarded card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.