Val Mayerik

Gerrard grinned and drew his sword. "This won't be a fair fight," he called to his crew. "They should have brought a second ship!"

Gerrard's Battle Cry

{2}{W}: All creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

{2}{W}: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"Are they dead yet? No? Then my previous order stands."

Drench the Soil in Their Blood

When you set this scheme in motion, after this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Creatures you control gain vigilance until end of turn.

All Mirri wanted to do was rest, but she couldn't ignore a nagging suspicion as she followed Crovax's skulking form.

Curiosity

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

The priest cast Xantcha to the ground. "It is defective. We must scrap it."

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

"You deify nature as female—kind and gentle—yet you cringe at what is natural."
—Mirri of the *Weatherlight*

Tooth and Claw

Sacrifice two creatures: Create a 3/1 red Beast creature token named Carnivore.

The Very Soil Shall Shake

(An ongoing scheme remains face up until it's abandoned.)
Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have trample.
When a creature you control dies, abandon this scheme.

"Cranial explosions for everyone. Still planning to outthink my dragons?"

Know Naught but Fire

When you set this scheme in motion, it deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Merrow schools rarely form by design. They come together naturally as eager learners surround the wisest teachers.

Stonybrook Schoolmaster

Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you may create a 1/1 blue Merfolk Wizard creature token.

Kithkin Zephyrnaut

Kinship — At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it shares a creature type with this creature, you may reveal it. If you do, this creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying and vigilance until end of turn.

The bloom contains no seeds. It's meant only to nourish the forest's inhabitants.

Tanglebloom

Pegasus Charger

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Needle Storm

Needle Storm deals 4 damage to each creature with flying.

"No, *you* get the water. I ain't thirsty."
—Squee

Tainted Well

Enchant land
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
Enchanted land is a Swamp.

Fires of Yavimaya

Creatures you control have haste.
Sacrifice this enchantment: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Task Mage Assembly

When there are no creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.
{2}: This enchantment deals 1 damage to target creature. Any player may activate this ability but only as a sorcery.

"They no longer care about their own suffering. Show them something worse."
—Latulla, Keldon overseer

Brutal Suppression

Activated abilities of nontoken Rebels cost an additional "Sacrifice a land" to activate.

The air that holds them aloft can just as easily put them down.

Squall

Squall deals 2 damage to each creature with flying.

Security Detail

{W}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token. Activate only if you control no creatures and only once each turn.

"You are the disease that plagues Mercadia. I am the healer's knife that will cut you out."

Righteous Indignation

Whenever a creature blocks a black or red creature, the blocking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Peat Bog

This land enters tapped with two depletion counters on it.
{T}, Remove a depletion counter from this land: Add {B}{B}. If there are no depletion counters on this land, sacrifice it.

It's not always clear who's the master and who's the servant.

Indentured Djinn

Flying
When this creature enters, each other player may draw up to three cards.

Food Chain

Exile a creature you control: Add X mana of any one color, where X is 1 plus the exiled creature's mana value. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.

"You say Saprazzo is a city built on water? I hope they have enough to wash the dust from my throat."
—Sisay

Dehydration

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Assembly Hall

{4}, {T}: Reveal a creature card in your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

The Phyrexians' only interest in organic life is discerning its weakness.

Sick and Tired

Two target creatures each get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Iron Will

Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Faerie Conclave

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}: This land becomes a 2/1 blue Faerie creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.

When the winds rock the trees, listen for voices in the creaking of the trunks. If you hear your name, you are one of the Goddess's chosen.

Titania's Boon

Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Remembrance

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you may search your library for a card with the same name as that creature, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"When the sword becomes a burden, let the warrior lay it aside that another with a truer heart might take it up."
—Radiant, archangel

Path of Peace

Destroy target creature. Its owner gains 4 life.

Launch

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has flying.
When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

"It is not your place to rule, Radiant. It may not even be mine."
—Serra

Humble

Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 0/1.

Designed to carry equipment across rivers, the hopping automaton was soon pressed into service in the infantry.

Hopping Automaton

{0}: This creature gets -1/-1 and gains flying until end of turn.

The academy's libraries were protected by fire-prevention spells. Even after the disaster, the books were intact—though forever sealed in time.

Douse

Citanul Centaurs

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Echo {3}{G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

Reconnaissance

{0}: Remove target attacking creature you control from combat and untap it. (If you activate during end of combat, the creature will untap after it deals combat damage.)

Seething Anger

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

The Kor forsake roots for the winding of the path; forsake voices for the silence of the mind; forsake all else for the poverty of isolation.

Nomads en-Kor

{0}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to this creature this turn is dealt to target creature you control instead.

"Predictable little man. In all these years you taught me so much yet learned so little."
—Volrath, to Starke

Contempt

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature attacks, return it and this Aura to their owners' hands at end of combat.

Soltari Guerrillas

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
{0}: The next time this creature would deal combat damage to an opponent this turn, it deals that damage to target creature instead.

Like a kettle set to boil, it must eventually go off—on someone.

Energizer

{2}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.