Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
"If you weren't born with it, you don't need it."
—Grahilah, former trader of Amiqat
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand both on top of your library or both on the bottom of your library.
Dreams' riches are easily spent.
—Suq'Ata adage
Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, this creature and that creature phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)
Not only the sleeping should fear dreams.
As this enchantment enters, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove all vortex counters from this enchantment.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 3 damage to that player unless they pay for each vortex counter on this enchantment.
: Put X vortex counters on this enchantment. Activate only during your upkeep.
Put target creature on top of its owner's library. If that creature is red, you may put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead.
"Whoa—my tail will never fit through that hole!"
You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you do, sacrifice it unless you pay its mana cost reduced by .
Defender
When this creature has flying, sacrifice it.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, it deals damage to each nonblue creature without flying equal to half the number of Islands you control, rounded down.
"Quick, Rhirhok—teach me to swim!"
—Makht, goblin casualty
Flying
: Return target Aura card from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to Hakim. Activate only during your upkeep and only if Hakim isn't enchanted.
, : Destroy all Auras attached to Hakim.
Flying
: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
"One moment I was walking along the beach, and the next I was high in the air, staring into a hideous smiling face."
—Tarub, Suq'Ata sailor
You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
"There's nothing like a sudden shock to clarify one's thoughts."
—Pashad ibn Asim, Suq'Ata trader
Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may gain control of target artifact defending player controls. If you do, this creature assigns no combat damage this turn.
". . . pirates gambled with a djinn and lost the thing more dear than gold."
—"Love Song of Night and Day"
This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
, Sacrifice an Island: Target land an opponent controls becomes an Island until end of turn.
When you control no Islands, sacrifice this creature.
If target spell has only one target and that target is a creature, change that spell's target to another creature.
"Shadimir was as surprised as he was relieved when the blow turned aside."
—Afari, Tales
Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.
"The caliph was so intelligent he could not remember what he knew."
—Azeworai, "Three Riddles"
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)
"Turn your back for a second and they just vanish! As if they weren't shifty enough before."
—Rhirhok, goblin archer
When this creature dies, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.
The sea leaves no room for tears.
—Zhalfirin adage
Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another. (For example, you may change "nonblack creature" to "nongreen creature" or "forestwalk" to "islandwalk." This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Enchant red or green creature
Cumulative upkeep (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
You control enchanted creature.
Centuries ago, Mangara won the loyalty of the Quirion not by ruling their minds but by supporting their independence.
: This creature gains flying. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
: This creature loses flying. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
: This creature phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before you untap during your next untap step.)
"Across the plains, farmers who braved the mists began to vanish. Most blamed the goblins; none guessed the truth."
—Hakim, Loreweaver
Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
"To the tutors, a 'poem of sand' was of little account, a 'poem of ivory,' priceless."
—Afari, Tales
Exchange control of target land you control and target land an opponent controls. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
"Politics is a game—move a stone here, move a stone there—except sometimes the stones bleed."
—Shauku, Endbringer
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. The player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles all other cards revealed this way into their library.
"Ahh! Opposable digits!"
Counter target spell unless its controller pays . If that player doesn't, they tap all lands with mana abilities they control and lose all unspent mana.
Target permanent becomes the color or colors of your choice. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
If the difference between your life total and target player's life total is 5 or less, exchange life totals with that player.
"The memory of your existence will fade like the final stars of morning."
—Kaervek
Untap target creature an opponent controls and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn. When you lose control of the creature, tap it.
"Heel."
Target artifact, creature, or land phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)
"Can you prepare for the unexpected? No, you cannot. You can prepare only to be surprised."
—Teferi
Target artifact, creature, or land phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)
Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)
"We've run aground sandbars before, but today, a sandbar ran aground us."
—Kipkemboi, Kukemssa pirate
Choose one —
• Target player draws a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
• Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
• Target creature an opponent controls phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)
: Add .
, : Add .
, : Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.
, : Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Shape this world in Zhalfir's image.
—Shaper Guild maxim
As this enchantment enters, choose a land type.
Each land of the chosen type has phasing. (It phases in or out before its controller untaps during each of their untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)
To buy unseen land, pay in unseen coin.
—Suq'Ata maxim
You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+1 and has flying.
"Would you give up your hands to fly? That is what the birds have done."
—The One Thousand Questions
This creature can't be the target of red spells or abilities from red sources.
: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.
"Comfortable even in a furnace? I've never met one who'd accept my wager."
—Talibah, embermage
Trample
Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, all lands you control phase out. (They phase in before you untap during your next untap step.)
"Taniwha rolls in its sleep, and the land is awash with the waves."
—Poetics of Hanan
Enchant artifact or creature
Enchanted permanent has phasing. (It phases in or out before its controller untaps during each of their untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)
"Stepping through time is like riding a camel. It may get you where you want to go, but the ride is rarely pleasant."
—Teferi
Flying
Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)
"We threw dried fruit to the drakes that rode the air, streaming along the Weatherlight's side as we sailed amidst the clouds."
—Sisay, Captain of the Weatherlight
Flying
Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.)
Whenever this creature phases out, discard a card.
Whenever this creature phases in, draw a card.
Made you look.
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this Aura unless you pay .
The first of the Thousand Deaths.
Create a 5/5 blue Wall creature token with defender. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
When mountains ride the sea, waves live upon the fields.
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature phases out unless you pay . (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before you untap during your next untap step.)
"What is taking them so long to fill the waterskins?"
—Mwani, Mtenda goatherd
, , Sacrifice this creature: Tap up to three target creatures without flying.
"Consider the wave: how weak the mother yet how strong the child."
—Tywanna, Shaper Guildmage
, : Tap target creature. This creature deals damage equal to its power to that creature.
Some smiles show cheer; some merely show teeth.
Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
"What you call decay, I call ripening. You'll gain no sustenance from this harvest."
—Kaervek
: Target green creature blocking this creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
"The Mwonvuli Jungle has given the darkness teeth for tearing the gift of life from the weak."
—Jolrael
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, this Aura deals that much damage to that creature's controller.
A crash of rhinos in my head
—Femeref expression meaning "a severe head pain"
, Sacrifice a Swamp: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
"Only fools believe they will face my armies but once."
—Kaervek
: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
"As a child, I slept with a cloth over my face, to hide from the spirits that might pull the air from my lungs."
—Mosi, Femeref weaver
Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
: Regenerate this creature.
Grieve for the soul in death dishonored.
—Shadow Guild saying
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Create X 0/1 black Insect creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
King or herder, the maggots care not.
Flying
Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a nonartifact, non-Dragon creature, that creature gets -X/-0 until end of turn, where X is half the creature's power, rounded down.
Destroy target non-Swamp land. If that land was nonbasic, Choking Sands deals 2 damage to the land's controller.
"The people wiped the sand from their eyes and cursed—and left the barren land to the hyenas and vipers."
—Afari, Tales
Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, defending player gets a poison counter. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
"Femeref was guided by the wisdom of the Council of Voices. But in one terrible instant, they were slain, leaving Asmira as the sole voice of leadership."
—Hakim, Loreweaver
Add .
"The ceremony ended with a voice from the shadows, a voice with vast, ominous power."
—Kifimbo, Shadow Guildmage
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
"The foul entities of the Uuserk swamp had never before dared to spread their influence to the very heart of Zhalfir."
—Hakim, Loreweaver
Spend only black mana on X.
Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.
Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a nonblack creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.
Whatever follows life is incurable.
—Zhalfirin aphorism