Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Draw a card.
Mirri leapt quickly and silently. The guard died likewise.
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.
"Many have been lost to pity."
—Karn, silver golem
: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Merfolk tell their young of Dandân, humans of Rag Man. Dal tell tales of the Dauthi, and they are far worse.
Flying
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
A sickness stirs in its eyes, a nightmare born in darkened wails.
, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
"There are terrors lurking in the unseen corners of us all."
—Crovax
, : This creature loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay to end this effect.
Enchanted creature can't block.
Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Fanning the Flames deals X damage to any target.
Flame Wave deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.
"I hear the roaring of a wave whose waters are red and whose mists are black."
—Oracle en-Vec
Haste
: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
Volrath leaves no stone untrained.
All creatures block each combat if able.
The attacking player chooses how each creature blocks each combat.
Gerrard studied the globe as Mirri kept watch. Suddenly, his eyes widened. "This is Dominaria!"
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
Stand clear if he gets an itch.
Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.
Explosive Welcome deals 5 damage to any target and 3 damage to any other target. Add .
Rowan and Will were a natural fit in Prismari College, the school of outrageous elemental arts.
Whenever a creature you control enters this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it gains haste until end of turn.
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
A captured elemental makes for a potent, albeit unstable, power source.
Trample
When this creature enters, you gain 3 life and draw a card.
: Put this card from your graveyard into your library third from the top.
It takes "devouring a book in one sitting" to a frightening extreme.
Target creature gains trample until end of turn.
Draw a card.
"What a move! Lorehold gets caught flat-footed, and Witherbloom barrels ahead."
—Cremik, Mage Tower commentator
You gain 2 life. Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
"If a seedling can push through solid stone, there's no limit to what I could do."
Whenever an opponent attacks one or more planeswalkers you control, put a loyalty counter on each planeswalker you control.
Whenever a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card.
[+1]: You may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. If a creature card was discarded this way, draw two cards instead.
[−2]: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of your next upkeep.
[−7]: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target."
, Discard a card: Draw a card.
, : Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonlegendary, nonland card with mana value 3 or less. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put all revealed cards not cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Other tapped creatures you control get +1/+0.
Other untapped creatures you control get +0/+1.
Whenever you attack, untap each creature you control, then tap any number of creatures you control.
Flying, vigilance
: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature that entered the battlefield under your control this turn.
"You are so much stronger than you know."
: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature, then Embrose deals 2 damage to that creature.
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, draw a card.
Menace, lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. When you do, you may pay . If you do, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Whenever you gain life, you may pay . If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and those creatures gain trample until end of turn.
"Life is as fleeting as it is vibrant. Embrace the brief blessing of a flower before it withers."
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
, Sacrifice another creature: Dina gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.
"Your defiance is amusing, little mage. It's time you learn how fragile you really are."
—Extus Narr
Spirits you control get +1/+0.
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.
"Every life has a story to tell. I won't let them be forgotten."
Return up to one target artifact card, up to one target enchantment card, up to one target instant card, up to one target sorcery card, and up to one target planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.
Exile Reconstruct History.
, Return Rootha to its owner's hand: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.
"Art is never finished. Merely abandoned."
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
"All we are—every feeling, every action—powered by a single, delicate little organ. Life is so terrifyingly, beautifully fragile."
Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.
"Do not flinch from studying the horrors of the past. History's most important lessons are cloaked in terror and tragedy."
—Augusta, Lorehold dean
: Add one mana of any color.
, , Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
The letter unfolded, inviting the twins to Strixhaven. Will saw a chance for arcane study. Rowan saw a chance for power.
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay .
: Add one mana of any color.
Vigilance
Whenever this creature attacks, it gains flying until end of turn if you control a creature with flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, indestructible, lifelink, menace, and trample.
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.
Some emeritus professors return from their wanderings periodically to share tales of the mystical wonders of Arcavios.
Return target spell or permanent with mana value 1 or greater to its owner's hand.
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
"Misery. Inadequacy. Failure. The common denominator is you."
Flying
When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
The most important skill in a Mage Tower match is keeping one's cool.
: Untap another target permanent you control.
: Tap target permanent. Activate only if you control eight or more lands.
Kelpies are drawn to paradoxes, making them ideal companions for Quandrix mages.
Create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is one plus the total number of instant and sorcery cards you own in exile and in your graveyard.
"Math bites."
—Bim, Lorehold mage-student
You may pay rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.
Choose one —
• Return target planeswalker card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Remove twice X loyalty counters from target planeswalker an opponent controls.
"Why, Gideon? Of all people, why save me?"
Target player discards two cards. Then exile that player's graveyard.
The only feeling worse than not knowing the answer is the certainty that you once did.
Target creature gets +2/-2 until end of turn.
"The strongest shadow spells come from disdain for someone else, not frustration with yourself."
—Embrose, Silverquill dean
Menace
Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.)
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Dragon's Approach deals 3 damage to each opponent. You may exile Dragon's Approach and four cards named Dragon's Approach from your graveyard. If you do, search your library for a Dragon creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
A deck can have any number of cards named Dragon's Approach.
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on this artifact.
, Remove two charge counters from this artifact: Create a 2/2 colorless Spawn artifact creature token.
Lifelink
, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature or enchantment you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
"Dawn-kissed, he nourishes the golden grain."
—Psemilla, Meletian poet
, Sacrifice a creature: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
"Grief-struck, she weeps for each mortal's final death."
—Psemilla, Meletian poet
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/-1.
Escape—, Exile two other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Rage-crowned Mogis swiftly rewards the virtue of brutality.
Choose one —
• Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
• Target opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice.
"If you will not pour your drink out for me, I shall pour mine out for you."
Anax's power is equal to your devotion to red. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to red.)
Whenever Anax or another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 red Satyr creature token with "This token can't block." If the creature had power 4 or greater, create two of those tokens instead.
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Exile target permanent an opponent controls with mana value 3 or greater.
II — Noncreature spells your opponents cast cost more to cast until your next turn.
III — Return target creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +1/+1 counter or a loyalty counter on it.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card until you exile another card with this enchantment.
Klothys set out to mend the destiny of Theros, her fury guiding every stitch.
Creature and enchantment spells you control can't be countered.
: Target land you control becomes an X/X Elemental creature with trample and haste until end of turn, where X is the number of enchantments you control. It's still a land.
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.
"Vine-wreathed, he nurtures life among the dead."
—Psemilla, Meletian poet
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, double the number of +1/+1 counters on enchanted creature.
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature.
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control.
: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
Enchant creature you control
When this Aura enters, enchanted creature fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2.
Enchant creature
This Aura enters with four task counters on it.
Enchanted creature can't attack or block. It loses all abilities and has ": Remove a task counter from Heliod's Punishment. Then if it has no task counters on it, destroy Heliod's Punishment."
Constellation — Whenever an enchantment you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. That creature gains flying until end of turn.
Nylea speaks to her in the windblown leaves; Thassa in the rushing tides.
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to red and green is less than seven, Klothys isn't a creature.
At the beginning of your first main phase, exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a land card, add or . Otherwise, you gain 2 life and Klothys deals 2 damage to each opponent.