Flying
The banished have come home to roost.
Choose one —
• Target opponent exiles a creature they control.
• Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.
"This place has outlived its usefulness."
—Nicol Bolas
Menace
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards that many cards.
Eternalize (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Wizard with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Whenever you cycle or discard a card, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
No cartouches to earn. No afterlife to enter. Only the glory of a well-struck blow and the growing pile of felled enemies at her feet.
Exile target creature. If that creature was a God, its controller reveals their hand and exiles all cards from it with the same name as that creature.
The gods of the trials also faced the opportunity to prove themselves worthy.
Afflict 1 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 1 life.)
For many years, servant mummies toiled in the mines to extract lazotep. The emergence of the Eternals revealed the sacred substance's true purpose.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.
Destroy target creature.
Initiates once believed defeat was the worst fate possible—a sentiment they quickly abandoned.
Destroy target black creature or black planeswalker. If that permanent was a Liliana planeswalker, her controller loses 3 life.
"All the power you have gathered for yourself, Liliana, I can take away."
—Nicol Bolas
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
The dead that swept across Naktamun came in all shapes and sizes.
This creature can't block unless you control another Zombie.
With the Hekma destroyed, the wandering dead that sought entrance to Naktamun had free rein to lay waste to the city.
Afflict 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 2 life.)
, Discard a card: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
"My work here is complete. The people have done everything required of them."
—Nicol Bolas
Defender
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Before the monuments, before the first trials, before Naktamun itself, Bolas culled the plane of its adults in order to rebuild it for his own designs.
Flying, trample
Pay 2 life, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Liliana insisted on coming to Amonkhet to confront one of the two remaining demons to whom she is bound.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
"The blood ritual is complete. The end approaches."
Deathtouch
When this creature dies, exile target card from an opponent's graveyard.
From every shadow came the dull scratch of teeth on bones.
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Yell for help, and that may answer.
Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.
"Your God-Pharaoh has returned."
Enchant player
At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent of their choice or discard a card.
Like a carpet unrolling for their god, the scarabs poured out from the necropolis.
Put three -1/-1 counters on target creature. Its controller loses 3 life unless they sacrifice another nonland permanent of their choice or discard a card.
The Scorpion God's sting sends venom strong enough to poison blood, bone, and spirit.
This creature gets +1/+0 for each card with cycling in your graveyard.
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
The glyphs writhed and twisted, spewing out dark, vengeful magic.
Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it still dies.)
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When this creature dies, if you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, target player discards a card.
Perfectly adapted to cross the wastes in life, they bring the wastes with them in death.
Choose one —
• Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature.
• Destroy target artifact.
The desert is a voracious beast, devouring both flesh and stone.
Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. Blur of Blades deals 2 damage to that creature's controller.
Samut battled her way through the hordes, shouting the names of those who'd died in her crop and those she hoped yet to save.
First strike
, Discard a card: This creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
"There is no afterlife. Not for me, and not for you. So think again before getting in my way."
Chandra's Defeat deals 5 damage to target red creature or red planeswalker. If that permanent is a Chandra planeswalker, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
"Fire? Is that your only trick, Chandra?"
—Nicol Bolas
When this creature enters, it deals 3 damage to each other creature.
The food chain doesn't end at sandwurms.
Creatures you control gain trample until end of turn. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Draw a card.
"We have to get out of the city, Djeru. All of us! Gather as many as you can."
—Samut, former Tah-crop initiate
There were those who saw the death of the gods and the city's collapse as a final test of worth. Some believed it meant the God-Pharaoh had been killed. Only a few realized they had been deceived.
Haste
When this creature enters, target creature with power less than or equal to this creature's power can't block this turn.
Eternalize (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Jackal Warrior with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
: This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
, Exert this creature: It deals 1 damage to target creature. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)
"Everyone here is a honed fighter. We'll respond the only way we know how."
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
A word of vengeance, and her arrows awaken in flame.
Afflict 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 2 life.)
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
The God-Pharaoh's benevolence concealed the factory he created to produce an army of Eternals.
Whenever this creature attacks, if you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, target creature can't block this turn.
The plating of its horns is a token of honor from Hazoret, who favors creatures with great hearts.
Menace
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
"That one's not mine. Run!"
—Nissa Revane
Shuffle your library, then exile the top four cards. You may cast any number of spells with mana value 5 or less from among them without paying their mana costs. Lands you control don't untap during your next untap step.
All creatures lose indestructible until end of turn. Hour of Devastation deals 5 damage to each creature and each non-Bolas planeswalker.
"Everything here exists or perishes at my whim. Including you, Gatewatch."
—Nicol Bolas
This enchantment enters with a doom counter on it.
Whenever you cast a spell with mana value equal to the number of doom counters on this enchantment, this enchantment deals that much damage to any target. Then put a doom counter on this enchantment.
Inferno Jet deals 6 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
"When the whole world is crazy, it's important to find something you can rely on."
Menace
You may exert this creature as it attacks. When you do, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)
"There is no tomorrow, so hold nothing back."
Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
The minotaur stared at the Eternal bearing down on him—the embodiment of deadly skill he had aspired to become.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on this creature.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature.
Sand into glass and flesh into ash—such are the markers of its domain.
Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.)
This creature attacks each combat if able.
While most Eternals were initiates who completed the trials, Bolas had plans for some of Amonkhet's other denizens.
Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.)
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, add for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.
"This is what glory looks like."
—Nicol Bolas
Open Fire deals 3 damage to any target.
Some khenra archers fashion their arrows with a personal touch.
Puncturing Blow deals 5 damage to target creature. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.
"Neither the false God-Pharaoh nor his bugs will decide our fate."
—Samut, former Tah-crop initiate
When this creature enters, if you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, you may have this creature deal 3 damage to target creature.
The bombardment of sand disorients, chokes, and ultimately tenderizes its prey.
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
This creature has first strike as long as it's attacking.
Those who fled the destruction of the city stumbled into the territory of their prickly neighbors.
Afflict 4 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 4 life.)
Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature an opponent controls.
"Spent a lifetime learning from predators. Picked up a few tricks."
Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Though buried and muffled, nature's whisper still called to Nissa.
Vigilance, reach
"Remember, brother, the eyes are always vulnerable."
"I never forgot."
: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
When Rhonas fell, his followers stirred with newfound strength—a final gift from a god they thought indomitable.
, Tap an untapped Desert you control: You gain 1 life.
The desert had once been a place of endless horror. It was now the last refuge as the city of Naktamun fell.
When this creature dies, draw a card.
Once favored companions, many cats were left to fend for themselves.
: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.
It basks atop the rubble of Rhonas's monument, which still pulses with latent power.
Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains reach until end of turn.
"What greater testament can there be to Rhonas's lessons?"
She trusts that the potent poisons of her darts will reach the enemy before the enemy reaches her.
, : Untap target land.
, , Exert this creature: Untap two target lands. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)
Some refused to leave their shattered homes, vowing to rebuild at any cost.
Search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control three or more Deserts, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
With the Hekma breached and its protection removed, the deserts swept in.