Mirage

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Sandstorm
Instant

Sandstorm deals 1 damage to each attacking creature.

Better to fight the sand for a few hours than to sleep beneath it forever.

—Suq'Ata truism

Seedling Charm
Instant

Choose one —

• Return target Aura attached to a creature to its owner's hand.

• Regenerate target green creature.

• Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

Seeds of Innocence
Sorcery

Destroy all artifacts. They can't be regenerated. The controller of each of those artifacts gains life equal to its mana value.

"I have hidden from the machinations of Zhalfir for centuries. Why should I join your campaign?"

—Jolrael

Serene Heart
Instant

Destroy all Auras.

"If magic is your crutch, cast it aside and learn to walk without it."

—Teferi

Stalking Tiger
Creature — Cat

This creature can't be blocked by more than one creature.

In the Jamuraan jungles, there is often no separating beauty from danger.

3/3
Superior Numbers
Sorcery

Superior Numbers deals damage to target creature equal to the number of creatures you control in excess of the number of creatures target opponent controls.

Tranquil Domain
Instant

Destroy all non-Aura enchantments.

"An ancient court mage unified the houses into guilds to serve Zhalfir above their own interests. Even during the civil war, the guilds stood together, a testament to the wisdom of Teferi."

—Afari, Tales

Tropical Storm
Sorcery

Tropical Storm deals X damage to each creature with flying and 1 additional damage to each blue creature.

"After the storm, I found a sea turtle dying on the sands, a blade of grass driven through its shell."

Travelogue of Najat

Uktabi Faerie
Creature — Faerie

Flying

, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact.

Victim of the two-toed faerie

—Suq'Ata expression meaning "broken"

1/1
Uktabi Wildcats
Creature — Cat

Uktabi Wildcats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Forests you control.

, Sacrifice a Forest: Regenerate this creature.

*/*
Unseen Walker
Creature — Dryad

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

: Target creature gains forestwalk until end of turn.

"To pass through the jungle: silence, courtesy, ferocity, as the occasion demands."

—Kamau, "Proper Passage"

1/1
Unyaro Bee Sting
Sorcery

Unyaro Bee Sting deals 2 damage to any target.

"Much can be learned from the bees about dying for a cause."

—Asmira, Holy Avenger

Village Elder
Creature — Human Druid

, , Sacrifice a Forest: Regenerate target creature.

"Enchant me with your tale-telling. Tell about Tree, Grass, River, and Wind. / Tell why Truth must fight with Falsehood, and why Truth will always win."

—"Love Song of Night and Day"

1/1
Waiting in the Weeds
Sorcery

Each player creates a 1/1 green Cat creature token for each untapped Forest they control.

The trees have ears, eyes, and teeth.

Wall of Roots
Creature — Plant Wall

Defender

Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add . Activate only once each turn.

Sometimes the wise ones wove their magic into living plants; as the plant grew, so grew the magic.

0/5
Wild Elephant
Creature — Elephant

Trample

"I will tell my father's stories . . . . How the elephants trampled the leopard cub, and its father, though he knew, killed nine goats instead."

—"Love Song of Night and Day"

3/3
Worldly Tutor
Instant

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.

"Aselbo soon had the rhino eating from his palm and the snake waiting at his heels."

—Afari, Tales

Asmira, Holy Avenger
Legendary Creature — Human Cleric

Flying

At the beginning of each end step, put a +1/+1 counter on Asmira for each creature put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.

"Omens lie in this early harvest's fruit."

—Asmira, Holy Avenger

2/3
Benthic Djinn
Creature — Djinn

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life.

"In all my years I've only met one mage who successfully trapped a djinn—and none who tried and failed."

—Talibah, embermage

5/3
Cadaverous Bloom
Enchantment

Exile a card from your hand: Add or .

"It's filthy work, planting them."

—Kifimbo, Shadow Guildmage

Circle of Despair
Enchantment

, Sacrifice a creature: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to any target this turn, prevent that damage.

"Life is a resource that should belong only to the strong."

—Shauku, Endbringer

Delirium
Instant

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn.

Tap target creature that player controls. That creature deals damage equal to its power to the player. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by the creature this turn.

Discordant Spirit
Creature — Spirit

At the beginning of each end step, if it's an opponent's turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each 1 damage dealt to you this turn.

At the beginning of your end step, remove all +1/+1 counters from this creature.

2/2
Emberwilde Caliph
Creature — Djinn

Flying, trample

This creature attacks each combat if able.

Whenever this creature deals damage, you lose that much life.

The fire breathes while the air burns.

4/4
Energy Bolt
Sorcery

Choose one —

• Energy Bolt deals X damage to target player or planeswalker.

• Target player gains X life.

Life and death are two faces of the same coin.

Frenetic Efreet
Creature — Efreet

Flying

: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, this creature phases out. If you lose the flip, sacrifice this creature. (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.)

2/1
Grim Feast
Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to you.

Whenever a creature is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, you gain life equal to its toughness.

"Hmmm—midnight snack."

Harbor Guardian
Creature — Gargoyle

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player may draw a card.

"Our guardian levies a tax on all traders. Wise travelers pay with a minimum of fuss."

—Qhattib, Vizier of Amiqat

3/4
Haunting Apparition
Creature — Spirit

Flying

As this creature enters, choose an opponent.

Haunting Apparition's power is equal to 1 plus the number of green creature cards in the chosen player's graveyard.

Like some foul herdbeast, it grazes on the dead.

1+*/2
Hazerider Drake
Creature — Drake

Flying, protection from red

"The hazerider danced in the thunderstorm and sang to its music."

—Afari, Tales

2/3
Jungle Troll
Creature — Troll

: Regenerate this creature.

: Regenerate this creature.

"You eat plants; I eat plants. You eat beasts; I eat you."

—Drulvurg, troll king

2/1
Kaervek's Purge
Sorcery

Destroy target creature with mana value X. If that creature dies this way, Kaervek's Purge deals damage equal to the creature's power to the creature's controller.

Leering Gargoyle
Creature — Gargoyle

Flying

: This creature gets -2/+2 and loses flying until end of turn.

"Only a gargoyle would take such delight in a thunderstorm."

—Qhattib, Vizier of Amiqat

2/2
Malignant Growth
Enchantment

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.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a growth counter on this enchantment.

At the beginning of each opponent's draw step, that player draws an additional card for each growth counter on this enchantment, then this enchantment deals damage to the player equal to the number of cards they drew this way.

Phyrexian Purge
Sorcery

This spell costs 3 life more to cast for each target.

Destroy any number of target creatures.

Only those who have nothing have nothing to fear.

Prismatic Boon
Instant

Choose a color. X target creatures gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.

"How ironic that the greatest forge of civilization is battle."

—Mangara

Purgatory
Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, exile that card.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay and 2 life. If you do, return a card exiled with this enchantment to the battlefield.

Radiant Essence
Creature — Spirit

This creature gets +1/+2 as long as an opponent controls a black permanent.

"Her beauty was the beauty of the Sun at midday, deadly to those who underestimated her strength."

—Azeworai, "Kenechi's Dream"

2/3
Reflect Damage
Instant

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage this turn, that damage is dealt to that source's controller instead.

From you to me, so me to you.

—Femeref children's taunt

Reparations
Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts a spell that targets you or a creature you control, you may draw a card.

"Sorry I burned down your village. Here's some gold."

Rock Basilisk
Creature — Basilisk

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

In the eastern reaches of Jamuraa are arrangements of massive stones. No one knows their origins—for certain.

4/5
Savage Twister
Sorcery

Savage Twister deals X damage to each creature.

"Frozen, we watched the funnel pluck up three of the goats—pook! pook! pook!—before we ran for the wadi."

Travelogue of Najat

Savage Twister
Sorcery

Savage Twister deals X damage to each creature.

"Frozen, we watched the funnel pluck up three of the goats—pook! pook! pook!—before we ran for the wadi."

Travelogue of Najat

Sawback Manticore
Creature — Manticore

: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

: This creature deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. Activate only if this creature is attacking or blocking and only once each turn.

2/4
Sealed Fate
Sorcery

Look at the top X cards of target opponent's library. Exile one of those cards and put the rest back on top of that player's library in any order.

It's good to know more about your enemy's fate than your enemy does.

Shauku's Minion
Creature — Human Minion

, : This creature deals 2 damage to target white creature.

"My minions serve me in the light; I serve no one."

—Shauku, Endbringer

2/2
Spatial Binding
Enchantment

Pay 1 life: Until your next upkeep, target permanent can't phase out.

Time is the one shackle you can't break.

—Zhalfirin aphorism

Unfulfilled Desires
Enchantment

, Pay 1 life: Draw a card, then discard a card.

"Like Day from Night, / I'll live my life apart from you, just glimpsing you across the sky, / because you cannot change, my dear, and nor can I."

—"Love Song of Night and Day"

Vitalizing Cascade
Instant

You gain X plus 3 life.

"Water is like breathing—necessary for life."

—Asmira, Holy Avenger

Warping Wurm
Creature — Wurm

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, this creature phases out unless you pay .

Whenever this creature phases in, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Even wurms start out small.

1/1
Wellspring
Enchantment — Aura

Enchant land

When this Aura enters, gain control of enchanted land until end of turn.

At the beginning of your upkeep, untap enchanted land. You gain control of that land until end of turn.

Windreaper Falcon
Creature — Bird

Flying, protection from blue

Watching the windreaper

—Zhalfirin phrase meaning "daydreaming"

1/1
Zebra Unicorn
Creature — Unicorn

Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

"I'll capture gentle zebras / for your steeds and fill the stable with every kind of unicorn."

—"Love Song of Night and Day"

2/2
Acidic Dagger
Artifact

, : Whenever target creature deals combat damage to a non-Wall creature this turn, destroy that non-Wall creature. When the targeted creature leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice this artifact. Activate only before blockers are declared.

Amber Prison
Artifact

You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step.

, : Tap target artifact, creature, or land. That permanent doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as this artifact remains tapped.

Amulet of Unmaking
Artifact

, , Exile this artifact: Exile target artifact, creature, or land. Activate only as a sorcery.

Trade to trade, not to keep.

—Suq'Ata motto

Basalt Golem
Artifact Creature — Golem

This creature can't be blocked by artifact creatures.

Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller sacrifices it at end of combat. If the player does, they create a 0/2 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender.

2/4
Bone Mask
Artifact

, : The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. Exile cards from the top of your library equal to the damage prevented this way.

"The protection offered comes at a price. How numerous are your kin?"

—Purraj of Urborg

Charcoal Diamond
Artifact

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add .

Chariot of the Sun
Artifact

, : Until end of turn, target creature you control gains flying and has base toughness 1.

"Sun follows Moon until she tires, then carries her until she's strong / and runs ahead of him again."

—"Love Song of Night and Day"