Growing Threat

Esper

Artifact spells cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever chaos ensues, creatures you control that are white, blue, and/or black become artifacts in addition to their other types until end of turn. Then each artifact creature you control gains vigilance, menace, and lifelink until end of turn.

The more Esper changes, the more he refuses to.

Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.

Esper Origins // Summon: Esper Maduin

Surveil 2. You gain 2 life. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, exile it, then put it onto the battlefield transformed under its owner's control with a finality counter on it. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)
Flashback {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Esper is an expansive canvas painted by precise, controlling hands.

Esper Panorama

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Come to me, my magicite pretty . . . come, and help me build the Magitek Empire of Kefka!"

Espers to Magicite

Exile each opponent's graveyard. When you do, choose up to one target creature card exiled this way. Create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's an artifact and it loses all other card types.

Esper Charm

Choose one —
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Draw two cards.
• Target player discards two cards.

The more metal it digests, the more its jelly will fetch on the alchemists' market.

Esperzoa

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, return an artifact you control to its owner's hand.

Stormcallers came to appreciate the novelty of Jund's volcanic updrafts.

Esper Stormblade

As long as you control another multicolored permanent, this creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.

The wilder the frontier, the greater the need for a controlling hand.

Esper Sojourners

When you cycle this card and when this creature dies, you may tap or untap target permanent.
Cycling {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"The smiths of this land must be mad to reach so far and so high for another creature to decorate."
—Cagen Vargan, Jhessian sea scout

Esper Cormorants

She can heal the flesh, or exploit its many weaknesses.

Esper Battlemage

{W}, {T}: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.
{B}, {T}: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Summon: Esper Valigarmanda

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I — Exile an instant or sorcery card from each graveyard.
II, III, IV — Add {R} for each lore counter on this Saga. You may cast an instant or sorcery card exiled with this Saga, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.
Flying, haste

Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra

When Terra enters, mill five cards. Put up to one enchantment card milled this way into your hand.
Trance — {4}{R}{G}, {T}: Exile Terra, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Summon: Esper Ramuh

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Judgment Bolt — This creature deals damage equal to the number of noncreature, nonland cards in your graveyard to target creature an opponent controls.
II, III — Wizards you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

It is a monument as austere, unyielding, and inscrutable as Esper itself.

Obelisk of Esper

Retrieve the Esper

Create a 3/3 blue Robot Warrior artifact creature token. Then if this spell was cast from a graveyard, put two +1/+1 counters on that token.
Flashback {5}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

Desperate Ritual

Add {R}{R}{R}.
Splice onto Arcane {1}{R} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

"By all the signs, there's a large warrior loose, with an Elf-sword, and an axe as well maybe." Gorbag spat. Sam smiled grimly at this description of himself.

Sam's Desperate Rescue

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. The Ring tempts you.

"Heard you've been horning in on my turf. How about I introduce you to some surf?"

Deepmuck Desperado

Whenever you commit a crime, each opponent mills three cards. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Desperate Plea

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Choose one or both —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield if its power is less than or equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
• Destroy target creature.

"Sing for us when we depart for battle, and sing for us if we fail to return."
—Mardu parting

Desperate Measures

Target creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. When it dies under your control this turn, draw two cards.

Desperate Gambit

Choose a source you control and flip a coin. If you win the flip, the next time that source would deal damage this turn, it deals double that damage instead. If you lose the flip, the next time it would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage.

With no mammals around, some vampires tried to feed on cactusfolk, with horrible results for everyone involved.

Desperate Bloodseeker

Lifelink
When this creature enters, target player mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Her mind was quite gone, yet she spoke nothing but truth.

Desperate Ravings

Draw two cards, then discard a card at random.
Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Vesperlark

Flying
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return target creature card with power 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Evoke {1}{W} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

A tragic moment pushed him to a blasphemous act.

Desperate Farmer // Depraved Harvester

Lifelink
When another creature you control dies, transform this creature.

Obyra's devoted servants shrieked as their sleeping mistress slashed at them, unseeing.

Obyra's Attendants // Desperate Parry

"Nature's exceptions remind us not to think in absolutes. Just as the orchid blossoms on blackened stone, so does the gift of mana occasionally manifest in the undead."
—Bougrat, druid of the Cult of Yore

Vesper Ghoul

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Ravnica held its breath as the hero of the resistance—their last hope—flew through the sky, his dark sword ready to strike a god.

Desperate Lunge

Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

As realities merged, the futures she could read dwindled.

Desperate Futurescribe

Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn. If you've scried or surveilled this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature instead.

Desperate Sentry

When this creature dies, create a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token.
Delirium — This creature gets +3/+0 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

At the Akroan gates, hoplites revived the tactics of Kytheon Iora's infamous irregulars.

Desperate Stand

Strive — This spell costs {R}{W} more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Any number of target creatures each get +2/+0 and gain first strike and vigilance until end of turn.

A pirate crew without a ship is a crew that will do anything to get one.

Desperate Castaways

This creature can't attack unless you control an artifact.

Desperate Research

Choose a card name other than a basic land card name. Reveal the top seven cards of your library and put all of them with that name into your hand. Exile the rest.

"Lieutenants dishonored, corpses carted home; The general raises troops again to take revenge."

Desperate Charge

Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.