Shards of Alara
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Creature — Human Soldier Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Bant's armies are primarily composed of members of the Mortar caste, loyal commoners who haven't yet earned a sigil. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Cleric
Rigorous faith and belief are rewarded on occasion, and richly so. 1/1 |
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Enchantment Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, you may tap target creature. "Even in single combat, I am never alone." —Rafiq of the Many |
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Instant Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Cycling Clash of sword and cry of beast fall mute when angels sound the call to prayer. |
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Creature — Human Wizard
"A night attack will be easy. We'll make an air raid over the Akrasan border. Just get me some flint to light the war torches." 2/2 |
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Creature — Angel Flying Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains lifelink until end of turn. 4/4 |
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Enchantment Whenever you gain life, you may pay Naya's trees grow tall and sturdy. Their foliage intertwines to form dewcups, rainwater pools where the elves gather to celebrate life. |
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Artifact
"I find its symmetry pleasing. It rids our world of offensive refuse while disposing of itself." —Dolomarus, Proctor of the Clean |
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Legendary Planeswalker — Elspeth [+1]: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token. [+1]: Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn. [−8]: You get an emblem with "Artifacts, creatures, enchantments, and lands you control have indestructible." |
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Artifact Creature — Human Cleric Each player who has cast a nonartifact spell this turn can't cast additional nonartifact spells. "The noble work of our order is to infuse all life on Esper with etherium. Our goal will be reached more rapidly if new life is . . . suppressed." 2/2 |
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Sorcery Put target creature on top of its owner's library. Rebels and other malcontents forced into the ritual awake lost in Topa's vast savannahs. Those who find their way back return humble and repentant. |
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Creature — Human Soldier Defender (This creature can't attack.) Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) "Only by the bravery of those who put loyalty above glory is our home kept safe." —Elspeth 0/4 |
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Creature — Human Wizard Flying Sacrifice Gustrider Exuberant: Creatures you control with power 5 or greater gain flying until end of turn. "The elves claim the canopy. The nacatl claim the mountains. I suppose you think we ought to stay on the jungle floor?" 1/2 |
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Sorcery Count the number of cards in your library. Your life total becomes that number. Bantians believe those who are born into the highest caste and live a life of discipline and virtue can ascend to become angels. |
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Creature — Human Knight
The Order of the Skyward Eye does the bidding of an evil force, unwittingly stirring fear and mistrust across Bant in accordance with his plans. 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Knight First strike When Knight of the White Orchid enters the battlefield, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Both guide and guard on open plain. 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Knight When Knight-Captain of Eos enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
The strength of Bant's caste system is the unfailing loyalty of its meekest members. 2/2 |
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Artifact
The cup was a gift from the sphinx Tameron, who hoped that those who drank from it would live long enough to decrypt the sphinxes' wisdom. |
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Artifact Creature — Human Artificer
"By the time I got there, the heart had stopped. Fortunately, I was able to replace it with something better." 1/2 |
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Enchantment When Oblivion Ring enters the battlefield, exile another target nonland permanent. When Oblivion Ring leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control. A circle of light and a word of confinement. |
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Creature — Human Soldier Ranger When Ranger of Eos enters the battlefield, you may search your library for up to two creature cards with mana value 1 or less, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. At his side, humble beasts become weapons more deadly than sharpened steel. 3/2 |
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Instant Exile target attacking creature.
Cycling |
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Creature — Rhino Soldier
"Aven bandits can be sly. You've got to fill the sky with boulders—and then seek cover immediately." —Knight-Captain Wyhorn 5/7 |
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Artifact Creature — Gargoyle Flying When Sanctum Gargoyle enters the battlefield, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. As their supplies of etherium dwindled, mechanists sent gargoyles farther and farther afield in search of salvage. 2/3 |
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Artifact
"Soon I will sleep, eyes closing to a world tarnished with flesh, and then wake to a polished vision." —Sharuum |
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Creature — Human Wizard Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
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Creature — Human Knight First strike Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Each sigil marks the recognition of a great deed and signifies a duty owed to the one who granted it. 2/2 |
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Instant You gain life equal to target creature's power. An avatar he sculpts of fellowship and light. |
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Creature — Human Druid Wizard At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature with power 5 or greater, you may gain 2 life.
Sunseeders quest for areas of open sky. They train plowbeasts to beat back the dense jungle long enough to cultivate a crop. 1/1 |
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Creature — Bird Cleric Flying When Welkin Guide enters the battlefield, target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn. "Those talons really dig into your skin, but it's better than being dropped." —Rafiq of the Many 2/2 |
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Creature — Beast Cycling "It is sacrilege to confine a gargantuan to the grinding of straight lines. I will pray that it remembers who is the master of this land." —Syeena, elvish godtoucher 5/5 |
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Instant Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller draws a card. On Bant, a sigil is both a prize of honor and a bond of duty. The one who bears it may be called to fulfill that charge at any moment. |
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Instant Counter target spell. "What you are attempting is not against the law. It is, however, extremely foolish." |
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Creature — Human Wizard
"Forget. Only then will there be space for hope between the pain and fear." 1/1 |
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Artifact Creature — Drake Flying
A permanent storm rages over the plain of Cloudheath, and drakes ride its currents—two reminders that some elements of Esper will not be controlled. 3/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant artifact or creature Enchanted permanent doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. Etherium does not know sleep. Only magic can teach it the resting state of cold steel. |
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Artifact
In ages past, Esper couriers bore messages written on ornate scrolls. The medium has grown more sophisticated, but the principle remains the same. |
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Sorcery Reveal the top three cards of your library. Target opponent may choose to put those cards into your hand. If they don't, put those cards into your graveyard and draw five cards. Before signing anything on Grixis, always read the fine print. |
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Creature — Human Archer Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Their shots are fired most often as signals—or at those who didn't get the message. 1/1 |
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Artifact Creature — Human Wizard
She can heal the flesh, or exploit its many weaknesses. 2/2 |
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Artifact Flash
"Speculation is foolish when the tools of certainty are available." —Cinna, vedalken consul |
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Artifact Creature — Vedalken Artificer Artifact spells you cast cost The greatest masters of the craft abandon tools altogether, shaping metal with hand and mind alone. 1/2 |
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Creature — Zombie Wizard
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Artifact Creature — Vedalken Wizard
"We of the Sanctum Arcanum have pondered every word on every page of the Filigree Texts. If you can't say the same, don't bother speaking." 2/3 |
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Instant If a creature would enter the battlefield under an opponent's control this turn, it enters the battlefield under your control instead. "It's free to do whatever it wants. I've merely told it what that is." —Xorin, Architect of Will |
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Creature — Human Scout She stands ready, always watchful, knowing that weeks of peace and serenity can be overturned by a single distant sail. 2/1 |
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Creature — Bird Soldier Flying
Unearth 2/2 |
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Creature — Leviathan When Kederekt Leviathan enters the battlefield, return all other nonland permanents to their owners' hands.
Unearth 5/5 |
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Artifact Creature — Vedalken Wizard Master of Etherium's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control. Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1. "Only a mind unfettered with the concerns of the flesh can see the world as it truly is." */* |
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Enchantment Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player mills two cards. "The Filigree Texts do not compel you to act in accordance with their precepts. They only specify the consequences should you fail." —Lodus of the Ethersworn |
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Artifact Players can't search libraries. Rogue mechanists once rummaged through the wastes of the Tidehollow, constructing unauthorized golems to threaten the hegemony of the sphinxes. The orbs put a stop to that. |
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Creature — Human Knight Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) The island nation of Jhess is under constant siege from Valeron on the mainland. Riders traverse the coastline, always on the lookout for sails or aven. 2/2 |
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Artifact
"There is no such thing as scrap metal. All such material can be repaired with the proper bonding agent." —Quennus, metallurgeon |
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Instant Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
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Artifact Creature — Sphinx Flying Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Whether mechanical or biological, life finds a way to propagate itself. 4/4 |
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Artifact Creature — Human Wizard Play with the top card of your library revealed. As long as the top card of your library is an artifact or creature card, Skill Borrower has all activated abilities of that card. (If any of the abilities use that card's name, use this creature's name instead.) 1/3 |
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Instant Counter target spell unless its controller pays "Magic cast through a hand of flesh is just as weak as the flesh itself." —Lodus of the Ethersworn |
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Artifact Creature — Vedalken Wizard
He calls a riddle through the gaps of cloven clouds, hoping for an answer. 1/1 |
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Artifact Creature — Serpent Steelclad Serpent can't attack unless you control another artifact. "From the highest towers to the deepest sea, all life must be touched by etherium." —Lodus of the Ethersworn 4/5 |
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Legendary Planeswalker — Tezzeret [+1]: Untap up to two target artifacts. [−X]: Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. [−5]: Artifacts you control become artifact creatures with base power and toughness 5/5 until end of turn. |
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Instant Creatures you control gain shroud until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.) At sea, the Jhessian fleet strikes swiftly and decisively. On land, facing the elite cavalry of Valeron, its marines must rely on more cautious strategies. |
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Artifact Creature — Human Rogue
Even on Esper, there are those who eschew the use of magic in favor of simpler methods. 1/2 |
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Instant Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times. When the task spilled over into undeath, he stopped calling it his life's work. |
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Creature — Demon Flying, trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a non-Zombie creature, then create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. The necropolis at Unx was once a living city, its streets untrodden by death. 6/6 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller loses life equal to its toughness. The consuming undeath of Grixis terrifies the survivors of Vithia, but its fauna is just as fearsome. |
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Creature — Insect When Blister Beetle enters the battlefield, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Warriors of the Rip Clan wear their beetle-acid scars proudly, even modifying clothing and armor to better display the trophy. 1/1 |
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Sorcery As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Destroy target creature. Witches of the Split-Eye Coven speak of a future when Grixis will overflow with life energy. For now, they must harvest vis from the living to fuel their dark magics. |
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Creature — Zombie Wizard When Corpse Connoisseur enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a creature card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Unearth 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Wizard At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card. "Give me your memories, and you will have release from the suffering they bring you." 2/2 |
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Creature — Zombie Wizard Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch. For the necromancer barons, killing and recruitment are one and the same. 2/2 |
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Creature — Human Shaman Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life. "The bones of allies grant wisdom. The bones of enemies grant strength. The bones of dragons grant life eternal." 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
"May these deaths be the first of many." 1/1 |
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Creature — Zombie Beast "On our thirty-fourth day of digging, we unearthed a chamber that contained the intact remains of several species long extinct from Grixis. One in particular should make a fine siege engine . . . ." —Last notes of Shungus Nod, fleshcrafter 4/3 |
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Creature — Zombie Unearth The undead of Grixis are fueled by their hatred of the living. 2/1 |
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Artifact
There is always a moment of trepidation before opening a message capsule, for fear of the judgment that might be contained within. |
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Creature — Zombie Warrior When Fleshbag Marauder enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature. Grixis is a world where the only things found in abundance are death and decay. Corpses, whole or in part, are the standard currency among necromancers and demons. 3/1 |
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Artifact Creature — Illusion Flying Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control, Glaze Fiend gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Before the zealots of the Ethersworn came to power, Esper illusionists dreamed up creations to mimic a variety of substances. 0/1 |
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Creature — Human Wizard
Vitals of Grixis who eschew undeath must scrape and scratch to retain their mortality. The result is a breed of inventive mages. 2/2 |
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Sorcery All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. "This is why we don't go out in banewasp weather." —Rannon, Vithian holdout |
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Artifact
The goblet was a gift from the sphinx Gorael, who hoped humans and vedalken would eventually destroy each other to acquire it, leaving all of Esper to her own kind. |
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Artifact Creature — Human Wizard
He scowls at his imperfect creation, then crushes it to scrap. He salvages the etherium and begins anew. 1/2 |
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Sorcery Target player discards a card at random.
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Artifact Creature — Golem You may sacrifice three artifacts rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Exile three artifact cards from your graveyard: Return Salvage Titan from your graveyard to your hand. 6/4 |
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Creature — Drake Flying Whenever another creature dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenger Drake. Dragons consider drakes to be mockeries of their perfection, destroying them on sight. 1/1 |
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Instant Exile target card from a graveyard. You gain 3 life. "The future is a snake, devouring your life backwards through time. And when you die, believe me, it doesn't stop feeding." —Sedris, the Traitor King |
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Creature — Beast
Kathari, the sickly aven of Grixis, have learned that the corpses by the shoreline are more trap than treat. 2/2 |
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Creature — Bird Skeleton Flying
Undeath doesn't end the kathari's search for carrion; it only removes one corpse from the Dregscape. 3/2 |
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Creature — Elemental Devour 2 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.) When Tar Fiend enters the battlefield, target player discards a card for each creature it devoured. 4/4 |
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Creature — Zombie Cat
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Creature — Vampire Flying
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Creature — Zombie Ogre Warrior Cycling 3/3 |
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Creature — Elemental Sacrifice Bloodpyre Elemental: It deals 4 damage to target creature. Activate only as a sorcery. Elementals born of Jund are as cruel and unstable as the plane itself. 4/1 |
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Creature — Human Scout Haste
Naya's celebrants stoke the gargantuans into a rage, loosing a tide of muscle with the precision of an arrow. 1/1 |
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Creature — Hellion Devour 1 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with that many +1/+1 counters on it.) When Caldera Hellion enters the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to each creature. 3/3 |
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Enchantment Dragon creatures you control get +3/+3. "The dragon is a perfect marriage of power and the will to use it." —Sarkhan Vol |
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Sorcery Create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens. Goblins journey to the sacrificial peaks in pairs so that the rare survivor might be able to relate the details of the other's grisly demise. |
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Creature — Goblin Shaman
The penultimate step of the ritual involves bathing in a delicious glaze. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Druid Shaman At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature with power 5 or greater, you may have Exuberant Firestoker deal 2 damage to target player or planeswalker.
The artistry of Etlan's firedancers is more spectacular when behemoths join in. 1/1 |
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Creature — Dragon Flying
Whenever Flameblast Dragon attacks, you may pay Dragon lords of Jund rule by edicts of flame. 5/5 |
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Enchantment At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token with haste. Goblin creatures attack each combat if able. A goblin raid is a delicate gambit—a blend of stealth, precision, and screaming death. |
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Creature — Goblin Scout Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.) Goblin lairs sit high in Jund's mountains. This gives the goblins easy access to the sacrificial peaks above and lets them build up a head of steam before attacking prey down below. 1/1 |
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Creature — Elemental Flying, haste
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Hell's Thunder.
Unearth 4/4 |
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Creature — Lizard Whenever another creature dies, you may have Hissing Iguanar deal 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. Viashino thrashes keep iguanars as hunting companions, giving them wounded captives as playthings. 3/1 |
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Creature — Ogre Mutant Each mutation causes the incurables to look vastly different from one another. They are left with only one thing in common: their insatiable lust for the slaughter. 5/1 |
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Creature — Human Shaman
"Of your blood I will make my mead, an offering to the thirsty jungle." 2/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 and has first strike. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) "This is going to hurt a lot, but on the bright side, you'll be dead soon." —Sedris, the Traitor King |
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Instant Magma Spray deals 2 damage to target creature. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead. "Jund is a wounded world. Beware its searing blood spilling out onto the surface." —Rakka Mar |
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Creature — Dragon Flying, haste Devour 2 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.) Dragons make for spiteful gods. 4/4 |
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Instant Resounding Thunder deals 3 damage to any target.
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Creature — Beast Cycling "Only those with the strength to seize their destiny deserve to have one." —Nacatl scratchforms 6/4 |
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Creature — Elemental First strike Whenever another creature dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Rockslide Elemental. On Jund, even the landscape is a deadly hunter. Volcanoes, tar pits, and rock slides seem to prey upon the living. 1/1 |
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Creature — Devil When Scourge Devil enters the battlefield, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.
Unearth 3/3 |
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Instant Skeletonize deals 3 damage to target creature. When a creature dealt damage this way dies this turn, create a 1/1 black Skeleton creature token with " Fire burns away both flesh and freedom. |
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Instant Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to any target. An avatar he sculpts of anger and flame. |
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Creature — Viashino Warrior Devour 2 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.)
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Creature — Viashino Warrior Devour 3 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with three times that many +1/+1 counters on it.) Viashino thrashes are led by elders who have survived countless challenges. 1/1 |
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Creature — Viashino Skeleton
Underneath the Dregscape lay the remains of creatures long extinct from Grixis. 2/1 |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature dies, you may have Vicious Shadows deal damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand. "Thrashes of the ancient past still linger in spirit and shadow, desperate to sink their claws into our souls." —Rakka Mar |
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Creature — Human Shaman
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Sorcery Destroy target artifact or land.
Cycling A dragon's death is almost as feared as its life. Old, dying dragons throw themselves into volcanoes, causing massive upheaval and widespread disaster. |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature with power 5 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Where Ancients Tread deal 5 damage to any target. "Never subtle nor cryptic is the reckoning of the mighty." —Mayael the Anima |
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Creature — Crocodile Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Whenever another creature dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Algae Gharial. It lurks just under the surface, using the algae-choked tar pits of Jund as both home and hunting blind. 1/1 |
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Creature — Elf Shaman
"Mine is an insatiable god, with appetites as magnificent as the jungle itself." 1/1 |
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Creature — Beast
Natives of Naya know better than to loiter near the mouth of a cave. Two glowing red eyes and the stench of foul breath are all the warning you're likely to get. 5/5 |
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Creature — Human Archer Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) The Sun-Dappled Court of Valeron stands secure behind a wall of steel-tipped arrows. 1/3 |
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Creature — Elf Scout From her sunsail tent high above the forest floor, an elf harkener can hear the footfalls of a single creature through the cacophony of Naya's jungle sounds. 2/2 |
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Creature — Elf Druid
Although the Anima herself remains at the Sacellum, her druids roam Naya, collecting mana bonds with every location in the world. 1/1 |
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Creature — Human Druid Warrior At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature with power 5 or greater, you may draw a card.
"I feel the vine-rhythm as my friends drive the beast to me. I will not miss my mark." 2/2 |
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Creature — Elf Shaman When Elvish Visionary enters the battlefield, draw a card. Before any major undertaking, a Cylian elf seeks the guidance of a visionary to learn the will of the gargantuan ancients. 1/1 |
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Creature — Hydra Beast Feral Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
It shreds its prey as each head fights for the choicest bits. 0/0 |
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Sorcery Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card and/or a land card from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. |
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Creature — Elf Cleric
"Gargantuans die not in moments but in moons. There is still time to aid this noble ancient." 2/2 |
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Creature — Spider Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Cycling Weavers' webs wall off swaths of territory more effectively than any portcullis made of iron. 5/6 |
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Creature — Elf Druid Whenever a player taps a Mountain, Forest, or Plains for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced. He watches over the valley where Progenitus sleeps, culling signs from its steaming breaths. 1/3 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant land Enchanted land is a Mountain, Forest, and Plains. Naya's bounty spills over upon itself. Each leaf and flower struggles against the next with thrashing thorns, acidic pollen, and strangling roots. |
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Enchantment Whenever a creature with power 5 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, you may put two +1/+1 counters on it. Why settle for mere enormity? |
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Creature — Ooze Whenever you cast a spell, Manaplasm gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is that spell's mana value. Urak froze when he heard it. That was his first mistake. He turned and cast a dramatic ward spell. That was his last. 1/1 |
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Creature — Plant Elephant
Whether gargantuans are the manifested will of Progenitus or simply the result of overabundant resources is moot when a herd of them is thundering at you. 5/3 |
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Creature — Fungus Devour 2 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.) At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each +1/+1 counter on Mycoloth. 4/4 |
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Instant Destroy target artifact or enchantment. The idols of old are rich in minerals and magic. They are torn apart when nature aims to eat well. |
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Creature — Human Shaman
"I have trained in all three schools of magic." 2/2 |
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Enchantment
Jund has little necromancy. Instead, the flesh of its dead gives rise to algal fiends. |
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Instant Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
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Creature — Rhino Soldier Trample Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) "Momentum is a great ally." 3/3 |
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Creature — Elf Druid
Her connection to the gargantuans puts her in line to become Anima, a sacred but daunting duty. 2/2 |
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Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has trample.
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Creature — Elemental Devour 1 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with that many +1/+1 counters on it.) When Skullmulcher enters the battlefield, draw a card for each creature it devoured. 3/3 |
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Sorcery Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's power. An avatar he sculpts of instinct and force. |
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Creature — Beast Indestructible
Few Nayans dare hunt the gargantuans. They're regarded not as animals but as forces of nature, like landslides or typhoons. 5/5 |
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Creature — Human Monk Tap an untapped creature you control: Topan Ascetic gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Monks from Topa wander all of Bant, encouraging the Unbeholden to find their place in society through honorable combat. 2/2 |
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Creature — Cat Warrior Wild Nacatl gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Mountain. Wild Nacatl gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Plains. "The Cloud Nacatl sit and think, a bunch of soft paws. We are the Claws of Marisi, stalking, pouncing, drawing blood." 1/1 |
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Instant Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn. Target creature gets -0/-3 until end of turn. Life's circle has become inverted in Grixis. The same energy is endlessly recycled and becomes more stagnant with each pass. |
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Legendary Planeswalker — Ajani [+1]: Target permanent doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. [−2]: Ajani Vengeant deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life. [−7]: Destroy all lands target player controls. |
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Instant Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library. • Counter target instant spell. Bant is a world where death and chaos hold no sway. |
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Sorcery Blightning deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards two cards. While the smell of burning flesh is common in Grixis, the odor of smoldering brain matter is a rare treat. |
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Creature — Human Wizard
"To immortality." 1/1 |
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Instant Choose one or both — • Branching Bolt deals 3 damage to target creature with flying. • Branching Bolt deals 3 damage to target creature without flying. "Lightning lives in everything, in living flesh and growing things. It must be set free." —Rakka Mar |
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Sorcery Exile the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. You may play lands and cast spells from one of those piles. If you cast a spell this way, you cast it without paying its mana cost. Revealing the truth only deepened Tezzeret's curiosity for the secrets still buried. |
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Creature — Dragon Flying When Broodmate Dragon enters the battlefield, create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying. Frozen in fear, the goblins stared upward at the circling hunter—and were promptly eaten by its diving mate. 4/4 |
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Creature — Beast Vigilance, haste It holds motionless vigil, watching Naya in silence through the screen of the whitecover. When it senses anything amiss, it launches forward with the uncanny sound of torn fog. 5/5 |
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Creature — Viashino Warrior When Carrion Thrash dies, you may pay Viashino hunt in gangs called thrashes. Not all thrashes hunt the freshest game. 4/4 |
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Sorcery Choose five permanents you control. For each of those permanents, you may search your library for a card with the same name as that permanent. Put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Be worthy of a single blessing, and many more will follow. |
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Sorcery Target opponent sacrifices a creature, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life. There is always a greater power. |
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Creature — Human Rogue First strike Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Some Serul Cove rogues traffic in stolen sigils, which fetch a high price from those who would rather pay for honor than earn it. 2/1 |
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Creature — Angel Flying Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to Empyrial Archangel instead. Her wings are the prayers of the devoted; her sword, the despair of the vile. 5/8 |
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Instant Choose one — • Destroy target enchantment. • Draw two cards. • Target player discards two cards. "Thoughts are commodities. Someone will pay a good price for them. Even ones as simplistic as yours . . ." —Ennor, mentalist |
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Creature — Ogre Mutant First strike
Unearth 4/2 |
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Creature — Goblin Warrior Trample Every once in a while, when they aren't getting incinerated in lava, crushed under rock slides, or devoured by dragons, goblins experience moments of unmitigated glory in battle. 3/1 |
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Creature — Beast Vigilance
"Lay sacrifice to the godsire that it may spare us, but save some for his progeny who also will hunger." —Syeena, elvish godtoucher 8/8 |
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Instant Choose one — • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. • Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. "So many choices. Shall I choose loathing, hate, or malice today?" —Eliza of the Keep |
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Creature — Dragon Flying, trample, haste
"The dragon has no pretense of compassion, no false mask of civilization—just hunger, heat, and need." —Sarkhan Vol 8/8 |
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Instant Counter target spell that targets you or a permanent you control. Draw a card. Centuries of careful practice have elevated the casting of protective spells to an art form. What little offensive magic remains on Bant stands little chance of breaching them. |
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Creature — Human Rogue Jhessian Infiltrator can't be blocked. The Jhessian navy makes successful raids on Valeron's coastal towns thanks to their spies planted during peacetime. 2/2 |
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Instant Choose one — • Exile target player's graveyard. • Jund Charm deals 2 damage to each creature. • Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. Jund pulses with raw energy, waiting for shamans to shape it into useful form. |
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Creature — Horror Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Bloated with venom, it crawls Grixis looking for victims to ooze onto. 2/3 |
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Sorcery Target player gains 7 life and draws two cards. Once a year, Akrasa holds a joust that draws knights and their leotaus from every nation on Bant. The prize is an Akrasan sigil, but the true reward is the angel's kiss. |
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Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Whenever another creature dies, you may put X +1/+1 counters on Kresh the Bloodbraided, where X is that creature's power. Each of his twenty-two braids is bound with bone and leather from a foe. 3/3 |
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Legendary Creature — Elf Shaman
The sacred Anima's eyes are blind to all but the grandest truths. 2/3 |
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Instant Choose one — • Naya Charm deals 3 damage to target creature. • Return target card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. • Tap all creatures target player controls. Deep in nature's core lies a potential unsullied by greed or civilization. |
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Enchantment
"Those may be the squirms of one life ending or of another beginning. Either way, I'd leave it alone." —Rakka Mar |
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Creature — Demon Whenever a permanent an opponent controls is put into a graveyard, put that card onto the battlefield under your control unless that opponent pays 3 life. "There are none alive that I cannot crush. There are none dead that I do not command." 7/7 |
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Instant Counter target spell. Its controller loses 3 life and you gain 3 life. "Amateurish. Nearsighted. A waste of my time and everyone else's." —Indra, nullmage of Vectis |
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Creature — Cat Warrior Reach If a creature is attacking you and you control a Forest and a Plains, you may cast Qasali Ambusher without paying its mana cost and as though it had flash. The surprise of a battle cry can be as deadly as a blade. 2/3 |
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Legendary Creature — Human Knight Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains double strike until end of turn. Many sigils, one purpose. 3/3 |
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Creature — Beast
Naya teems with gargantuans, titanic monsters to whom both nature and civilization defer. 5/3 |
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Creature — Beast When Realm Razer enters the battlefield, exile all lands. When Realm Razer leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield tapped under their owners' control. The behemoth roared, and the world was blasted free of empires and tyrants. 4/2 |
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Creature — Rhino Monk Lifelink Rhox monks are dedicated to spiritual growth and learning, and most bear the sigils of many students. However, they do not gladly suffer fools or those who disagree with their carefully wrought dogma. 3/4 |
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Creature — Human Warrior Haste If you breathe, she will fight you. If you breathe fire, she must fight you. 2/2 |
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Sorcery Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains double strike until end of turn. Some believe the spiky crystal called sangrite is concentrated dragon's breath. Others think it's crystallized life energy. The clans care only about the power it unleashes when crushed. |
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Legendary Planeswalker — Sarkhan [+1]: Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain haste until end of turn. [−2]: Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. [−6]: Create five 4/4 red Dragon creature tokens with flying. |
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Creature — Specter Flying
Whenever Sedraxis Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.
Unearth 3/2 |
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Legendary Creature — Zombie Warrior Each creature card in your graveyard has unearth He bids his minions rise from their graves to their knees. 5/5 |
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Legendary Artifact Creature — Sphinx Flying When Sharuum the Hegemon enters the battlefield, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield. To gain audience with the hegemon, one must bring a riddle she has not heard. 5/5 |
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Instant Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +3/+3 and other creatures you control get +1/+1. "For unwavering commitment and unflinching strength, the Order of the White Orchid confers its sigil. Rise, knight-captain, and do your duty." |
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Artifact Creature — Sphinx Flying At the beginning of your end step, you gain 3 life if Sphinx Sovereign is untapped. Otherwise, each opponent loses 3 life. "What rises without legs, whispers without a voice, bites without teeth, and dies without having life?" 6/6 |
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Creature — Lizard When Sprouting Thrinax dies, create three 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens. The vast network of predation on Jund has actually caused some strange creatures to adapt to being eaten. 3/3 |
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Creature — Human Druid Knight Vigilance
Knight-stewards guard the Sun-Dappled Court, a grove of immense, sculptured olive trees that represent Valeron's twelve noble families. 2/2 |
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Creature — Angel Flying, vigilance Players can't untap more than one creature during their untap steps. Even the most battle-hardened soldiers pause in her presence for a moment of introspection. 3/4 |
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Instant Change the target of target spell with a single target. "We can't beat the necromancers in numbers or raw power. We must beat them with ingenuity and timing." —Rannon, Vithian holdout |
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Artifact Creature — Human Rogue
Agents of the Architects of Will mark their victims as a reminder that their secrets are secret no longer. 1/1 |
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Artifact Creature — Zombie When Tidehollow Sculler enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card. When Tidehollow Sculler leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand. 2/2 |
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Artifact Creature — Bird Flying Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) The scullers beneath Esper keep strixes as trained pets, and set them loose when a fare refuses to pay. 2/1 |
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Sorcery Until end of turn, creatures you control get +5/+5 and gain first strike, trample, and lifelink. "Retribution is best delivered by claws and rage, with both magnified." —Ajani |
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Artifact Creature — Gargoyle Flying "Esper, like any work of art, can be truly appreciated only from a distance." —Tezzeret 4/4 |
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Sorcery Destroy three target permanents. "Words are a waste of time. Destruction is a language everyone understands." —Sarkhan Vol |
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Creature — Bird Soldier Flying Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) The greatest gift you can give a sea aven is solitude. 2/4 |
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Artifact Creature — Human Wizard Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Windwright Mage has flying as long as an artifact card is in your graveyard. She knows the names and secrets of each of Esper's twenty-three winds. 2/2 |
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Creature — Beast One of the most ferocious and deadly gargantuans, the thoctar never sees its worshippers, but it often awakens surrounded by gifts and sacrifices. 5/4 |
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Artifact If you would lose the game, instead shuffle your hand, your graveyard, and all permanents you own into your library, then draw seven cards and your life total becomes 20. It shows not what you are but what you were. |
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Artifact Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay To crack a mirror is to provide an opening for the reflection to escape. |
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Artifact
Whether incorporated into the structure of castles or admired as lone symbols, the obelisks stand for Bant's values of loyalty, honor, and truth. |
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Artifact
It is a monument as austere, unyielding, and inscrutable as Esper itself. |
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Artifact
Like most features of Grixis, the obelisks that remain from the time of Alara now exist only for dark exploitation. |
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Artifact
Volcanic ash-winds batter it, climbing vines overwhelm it, dragonfire roasts it, and yet it still stands as a testament to a forgotten world. |
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Artifact
Centuries have passed since the plane shattered, yet the obelisks of each shard faithfully serve their long-forgotten purpose. |
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Artifact — Equipment Equipped creature has deathtouch.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.
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Artifact
Elves believe the hydra-god Progenitus sleeps beneath Naya, feeding on forgotten magics. |
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Artifact — Equipment Sigil of Distinction enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it. Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Sigil of Distinction. Equip—Remove a charge counter from Sigil of Distinction. |
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Land Arcane Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped.
"We must rely on our own knowledge, not on the dogma of the seekers or the mutterings of the sphinxes." —Tullus of Palandius |
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Land
Bant's hearts are as pure as its air and as bright as its skies. |
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Land Crumbling Necropolis enters the battlefield tapped.
"They say the ruins of Sedraxis were once a shining capital in Vithia. Now it is a blight, a place to be avoided by the living." —Olcot, Rider of Joffik |
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Esper is an expansive canvas painted by precise, controlling hands. |
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Land
There is no height above Grixis that is free from the stench of death. |
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Land
The sky is the dragon's throne, the seat from which it issues its fiery decrees. |
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Land Jungle Shrine enters the battlefield tapped.
On Naya, ambition and treachery are scarce, hunted nearly to extinction by the awe owed to terrestrial gods. |
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Between the thunderous footfalls of Naya's behemoths lie moments of perfect quiet. |
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Land Savage Lands enters the battlefield tapped.
Jund is a world as cruel as those who call it home. Their brutal struggles scar the land even as it carves them in its image, a vicious circle spiraling out of control. |
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Land Seaside Citadel enters the battlefield tapped.
For wisdom's sake, it was built high to gaze on all things. For glory's sake, it was built high as a testament of power. For strength's sake, it was built high to repel all attacks. |
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Legendary Creature — Human Knight Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains double strike until end of turn. 3/3 |
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