So there would need to be an equipment on the field for Built-in to work right? Or does the equipment come from the hand?
Situation on Danghan escalates too quickly even if you keep in mind the speed of the progress. In response to the ascension of Ryertan dux, scared by newest innovations but also hoping to get them, Tangerine Empire, Halcurda sultanate and a couple of lesser countries declared the war. Shattered and scattered, Three Great Minds have to unite again to free their fourth member - and then they should decide quickly what to do to stop this madness unless it's too late, before Shadow of Motorium falls.
Proliferate
Modify [COST] ([COST]: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability costs 1 more to activate for each +1/+1 counter on it. Modify only as a sorcery.)
Missile counters (At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay X, where X is the number of missile counters you have. If you do, you deal X damage to any target.)
Project N (This project is fulfilled as long as it has N or more research counters on it.)
Project N (This project is fulfilled as long as it has N or more research counters on it.) Alarum - if an opponent cast a spell this turn, {effect}.
Built-in N (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with an Equipment you control with converted mana cost N or less attached to it.)
Mutant
• Token Creature - Mutant (S)
2/2
Mindstatic3U
Instant (C)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 6. "An ionized electrical field delays the brain's reaction time by a single second and prevents coherent thought. I hope it's not permanent."
-Brice, the Neuromind
Emaciated Contagi3R
Creature - Human Mutant (C) Brice and Galimed left Old Academy with all their speed, both already loathing themselves for trusting the dux.
5/2
Curtail the Research2W
Instant (C)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller loses 1 life for each research counter on it. An engine to purify the motorium and make it harmless to living beings, key to healing the contagi, will never be finished.
Tunnel Project3R
Enchantment - Project (C)
Project 3 (This project is fulfilled as long as it has three or more research counters on it.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less attacks, put a research counter on Tunnel Project and that creature can't be blocked this turn. Then if Tunnel Project is fulfilled, sacrifice it and destroy target land defending player controls.
Viper Pits2GG
Instant (C)
Create two 1/1 green Snake creature tokens. Alarum - if an opponent cast a spell this turn, creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
Eager Assistant1U
Creature - Vedalken Wizard (C) 1R, Sacrifice Eager Assistant: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. If that card is a Project, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. Galimed was no king, but he was never short of subjects.
1/1
Chaotic Reaction1R
Sorcery (C)
Starting with you, each player sacrifices a permanent of a permanent type that wasn't sacrificed by another player this way. Everybody knows that motorium is a devil. Everybody wants to make a deal with him.
Steady Salvo2RR
Sorcery (C)
Steady Salvo deals 3 damage to target creature. When a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, Steady Salvo deals 1 damage to that creature's controller and each creature they control. The Tangerine Empire had some firepower of its own.
Pistoned Dead3B
Creature - Zombie (C)
Menace
Built-in 1 (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with an Equipment you control with converted mana cost 1 or less attached to it.) "It is not a desecration. It is what our dead volunteers had wished." - Zagur of Halcurda, royal physician
2/3
Common 10 of 10:
Sultan's Spy2U
Creature - Faerie Rogue (C)
Flash
Flying Alarum - When Sultan's spy enters the battlefield, if an opponent cast a spell this turn, draw a card. "Noisy winds are bound."
-Ryertan expression meaning "Someone's listening."
1/1
Imperial Wanderblade3W
Artifact - Equipment (C)
Equipped creature gets +3/+2. 1B: Imperial Wanderblade becomes a 3/2 artifact creature with vigilance until end of turn. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
Equip 2 Motorium took the "man" out of "swordsman".
Glimpse of Beyond2U
Sorcery (C)
Look at the top six cards of your library. Put one into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Drowning in motorium, Tyla saw a thousand worlds and among them, Perfection.
{Story spotlight 3 of 6}
Situation on Danghan escalates too quickly even if you keep in mind the speed of the progress. In response to the ascension of Ryertan dux, scared by newest innovations but also hoping to get them, Tangerine Empire, Halcurda sultanate and a couple of lesser countries declared the war. Shattered and scattered, Three Great Minds have to unite again to free their fourth member - and then they should decide quickly what to do to stop this madness unless it's too late, before Shadow of Motorium falls.
Proliferate
Modify [COST] ([COST]: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability costs 1 more to activate for each +1/+1 counter on it. Modify only as a sorcery.)
Missile counters (At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay X, where X is the number of missile counters you have. If you do, you deal X damage to any target.)
Project N (This project is fulfilled as long as it has N or more research counters on it.)
Project N (This project is fulfilled as long as it has N or more research counters on it.) Alarum - if an opponent cast a spell this turn, {effect}.
Mutant
• Token Creature - Mutant (S)
2/2
Mindstatic3U
Instant (C)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 6. "An ionized electrical field delays the brain's reaction time by a single second and prevents coherent thought. I hope it's not permanent."
-Brice, the Neuromind
Emaciated Contagi3R
Creature - Human Mutant (C) Brice and Galimed left Old Academy with all their speed, both already loathing themselves for trusting the dux.
5/2
Curtail the Research2W
Instant (C)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller loses 1 life for each research counter on it. An engine to purify the motorium and make it harmless to living beings, key to healing the contagi, will never be finished.
Tunnel Project3R
Enchantment - Project (C)
Project 3 (This project is fulfilled as long as it has three or more research counters on it.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less attacks, put a research counter on Tunnel Project and that creature can't be blocked this turn. Then if Tunnel Project is fulfilled, sacrifice it and destroy target land defending player controls.
Viper Pits2GG
Instant (C)
Create two 1/1 green Snake creature tokens. Alarum - if an opponent cast a spell this turn, creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
Eager Assistant1U
Creature - Vedalken Wizard (C) 1R, Sacrifice Eager Assistant: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. If that card is a Project, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. Galimed was no king, but he was never short of subjects.
1/1
Chaotic Reaction1R
Sorcery (C)
Starting with you, each player sacrifices a permanent of a permanent type that wasn't sacrificed by another player this way. Everybody knows that motorium is a devil. Everybody wants to make a deal with him.
Common 8 of 10:
DuressB
Sorcery (C)
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card. "Tell me Tyla. Where are the others?"
Restoration Project2G
Enchantment - Project
Project 3 (This project is fulfilled as long as it has three or more research counters on it.)
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life and put a research counter on Restoration Project. If Restoration Project is fulfilled, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token instead. "Step by step, we reverse the damage we have done."
-Henstridge, the Musclemind
Steady Salvo2RR
Sorcery (C)
Steady Salvo deals 3 damage to target creature. When a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, Steady Salvo deals 1 damage to that creature's controller and each creature they control. The Tangerine Empire had some firepower of its own.
Situation on Danghan escalates too quickly even if you keep in mind the speed of the progress. In response to the ascension of Ryertan dux, scared by newest innovations but also hoping to get them, Tangerine Empire, Halcurda sultanate and a couple of lesser countries declared the war. Shattered and scattered, Three Great Minds have to unite again to free their fourth member - and then they should decide quickly what to do to stop this madness unless it's too late, before Shadow of Motorium falls.
Proliferate
Modify [COST] ([COST]: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability costs 1 more to activate for each +1/+1 counter on it. Modify only as a sorcery.)
Missile counters (At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay X, where X is the number of missile counters you have. If you do, you deal X damage to any target.)
Project N (This project is fulfilled as long as it has N or more research counters on it.)
Project N (This project is fulfilled as long as it has N or more research counters on it.) Alarum - if an opponent cast a spell this turn, {effect}.
Mutant
• Token Creature - Mutant (S)
2/2
Mindstatic3U
Instant (C)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 6. "An ionized electrical field delays the brain's reaction time by a single second and prevents coherent thought. I hope it's not permanent."
-Brice, the Neuromind
Emaciated Contagi3R
Creature - Human Mutant (C) Brice and Galimed left Old Academy with all their speed, both already loathing themselves for trusting the dux.
5/2
Curtail the Research2W
Instant (C)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller loses 1 life for each research counter on it. An engine to purify the motorium and make it harmless to living beings, key to healing the contagi, will never be finished.
Tunnel Project3R
Enchantment - Project (C)
Project 3 (This project is fulfilled as long as it has three or more research counters on it.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less attacks, put a research counter on Tunnel Project and that creature can't be blocked this turn. Then if Tunnel Project is fulfilled, sacrifice it and destroy target land defending player controls.
Viper Pits2GG
Instant (C)
Create two 1/1 green Snake creature tokens. Alarum - if an opponent cast a spell this turn, creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
Common 6 of 10
Eager Assistant1U
Creature - Vedalken Wizard (C) 1R, Sacrifice Eager Assistant: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. If that card is a Project, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. Galimed was no king, but he was never short of subjects.
1/1
Synod Enforcer3W
Creature - Dwarf Soldier (C)
Vigilance
If an effect would place a counter on a permanent, that permanent's controller gains 1 life instead. "Progress is measured in lives saved, not lives taken!"
2/4
Up in Flames2R
Sorcery (C)
Each player sacrifices an enchantment or a land. "This is why I made copies."
-Brice, to Henstridge
Lim-Dûl, the Mastermind3BB
Legendary Planeswalker - Dûl (Mythic)
[+1]: Choose a card type. Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from among them of the chosen type. That player discards that card. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 life.
[-3]: Put an artifact or creature card from an opponents graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Each opponent puts the top X cards of their library into their graveyard, where X is that card's converted mana cost.
[-5]: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of cards in their graveyard.
{3}
Situation on Danghan escalates too quickly even if you keep in mind the speed of the progress. In response to the ascension of Ryertan dux, scared by newest innovations but also hoping to get them, Tangerine Empire, Halcurda sultanate and a couple of lesser countries declared the war. Shattered and scattered, Three Great Minds have to unite again to free their fourth member - and then they should decide quickly what to do to stop this madness unless it's too late, before Shadow of Motorium falls.
Proliferate
Modify [COST] ([COST]: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability costs 1 more to activate for each +1/+1 counter on it. Modify only as a sorcery.)
Missile counters (At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay X, where X is the number of missile counters you have. If you do, you deal X damage to any target.)
Project N (This project is fulfilled as long as it has N or more research counters on it.)
Mutant
• Token Creature - Mutant (S)
2/2
Mindstatic3U
Instant (C)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 6. "An ionized electrical field delays the brain's reaction time by a single second and prevents coherent thought. I hope it's not permanent."
-Brice, the Neuromind
Emaciated Contagi3R
Creature - Human Mutant (C) Brice and Galimed left Old Academy with all their speed, both already loathing themselves for trusting the dux.
5/2
Curtail the Research2W
Instant (C)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller loses 1 life for each research counter on it. An engine to purify the motorium and make it harmless to living beings, key to healing the contagi, will never be finished.
Common 4 of 10
Tunnel Project3R
Enchantment - Project (C)
Project 3 (This project is fulfilled as long as it has three or more research counters on it.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less attacks, put a research counter on Tunnel Project and that creature can't be blocked this turn. Then if Tunnel Project is fulfilled, sacrifice it and destroy target land defending player controls.
Master's Will1B
Sorcery (C)
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a permanent.
Draw two cards. "You've served your purpose."
-Mabaki, Dux of Ryertan
Crash of Jackalopes3G
Creature - Rabbit Beast (C)
Trample 1G: Crash of Jackalopes gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn for each Rabbit you control. What started out as a joke finished with a very heavy punchline.
4/4
Situation on Danghan escalates too quickly even if you keep in mind the speed of the progress. In response to the ascension of Ryertan dux, scared by newest innovations but also hoping to get them, Tangerine Empire, Halcurda sultanate and a couple of lesser countries declared the war. Shattered and scattered, Three Great Minds have to unite again to free their fourth member - and then they should decide quickly what to do to stop this madness unless it's too late, before Shadow of Motorium falls.
Proliferate
Modify [COST] ([COST]: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability costs 1 more to activate for each +1/+1 counter on it. Modify only as a sorcery.)
Missile counters (At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay X, where X is the number of missile counters you have. If you do, you deal X damage to any target.)
Project N (This project is fulfilled as long as it has N or more research counters on it.)
Mutant
• Token Creature - Mutant (S)
2/2
Common 1 of 10:
Tyla's Barricade2W
Artifact Creature - Wall (C)
Defender
When Tyla's Barricade enters the battlefield, you get a missile counter. (At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay X, where X is the number of missile counters you have. If you do, you deal X damage to any target.) Freeing the Blastmind proved difficult once her own weapons were being used to protect her.
0/3
Mindstatic3U
Instant (C)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 6. "An ionized electrical field delays the brain's reaction time by a single second and prevents coherent thought. I hope it's not permanent."
-Brice, the Neuromind
Sultan's Chant2B
Sorcery (C)
Create a 1/1 black Insect creature token, then target player loses 1 life for each creature you control. Motorium experimentation has made the Sultan's brood far more dangerous. And noisy.
Secrets of Equilor: Equilor is an ancient, mythical plane, said to be found only by those who are invited by its Elders. When Jace Beleren is invited to visit, he cannot help but oblige. What he finds is breadth of knowledge unseen anywhere else in the multiverse, but at a terrible cost that he cannot ignore.
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Callback N - COST (You may pay an additional COST as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into its owner's library Nth from the top as it resolves.)
Plunge N (Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, you may put the top N cards of your library into your graveyard. If you do, this creature gets +N/+N until end of turn.)
Skeleton Beast
• Token Creature - Skeleton Beast (S)
4/4
Goblin SecretaryR
Creature - Goblin (C)
When Goblin Secretary enters the battlefield, each player shuffles their library. "It's definitely in the archives. Somewhere."
1/1
Churning Eddy3U
Sorcery (C)
Return target creature and target land to their owners’ hands. The Eon Fog is not a place of stasis, but one of entropy, wherein everything fluxes into a state of nonexistence.
Crypt Sentry1B
Creature - Skeleton Soldier (C) 2W: Crypt Sentry gains indestructible until end of turn. "Even in death, we protect each other."
-Taln, Elder of Suns
1/1
Ancient Alarum5W
Instant (C)
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. The ghost-voice of the loxodon clergy is a power that calls their people to battle with vivid visions of their ancestors.
Revoke Promise1U
Instant (C)
Choose one -
• Counter target spell if no mana was spent to cast it.
• Counter target spell if its converted mana cost is greater than the number of lands that spell's controller controls. Jace tried to impress the elders. They were impressed at how spectacularly he failed.
Bloodhill Ministrant2R
Creature - Human (C)
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. "Usefulness is a matter of useless knowledge extracted from subject's head." — Hermera, chancellor of flayed sphinxes
2/2
Earthen Remembrance1G
Sorcery (C)
Callback 5 - 2(You may pay an additional 2 as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into its owner's library fifth from the top as it resolves.)
Reveal the top three cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. "The people may have forgotten what Equilor once was, but the land has not."
- Nissa Revane
Aeon Riders4W
Creature - Spirit Knight (C)
Vigilance 1G: Aeon Riders gains trample until end of turn. They perfectly remember their last suicidal charge and will gladly repeat it again and again.
4/4
Deepcreeper2G
Creature - Plant Beast (C)
Reach
Plunge 2 (Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, you may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard. If you do, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.) "It's good to tame them and fight alongside them, as long as you don't mind giving them most of your water." - Mogleth
1/1
Holdout SentryGW
Creature - Elephant Soldier (U)
Defender
Holdout Sentry can attack as though it didn't have defender if you or a planeswalker you control were attacked since your last turn ended. "Sometimes I think the way they trained them IS the greatest secret of this world." - Jace Beleren
4/4
Sinking Down2W
Sorcery (U)
Destroy target tapped creature with power 3 or greater.
Sacrifice a Swamp: Return Sinking Down from your graveyard to your hand. "If you are weighed down by anything excess, Guharr's quicksands will swallow you. Even an excess of sin." - Eudes Zan, loxodon judge
Cursed Lightning2BR
Sorcery (U)
Cursed Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature and 3 damage to that creature's controller.
Whenever Cursed Lightning is exiled from your graveyard, you may have it deal 1 damage to target creature and 1 damage to that creature's controller. The tricky thing about uncovering the past is you run into things best left buried.
Brainskewer5RR
Creature - Avatar Warrior (R)
Double strike
Plunge 6 (Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, you may put the top six cards of your library into your graveyard. If you do, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.) Mindless rage given its own raging mind.
1/1
Masterpiece 1 of 1:
Ring of Immortals5
Artifact (S) 3, T: Counter target instant or Aura spell that targets a permanent you control. An unending life granted by the suppression of change.
Drop of HoneyG
Enchantment (S)
At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy the creature with the least power. It can’t be regenerated. If two or more creatures are tied for least power, you choose one of them.
When there are no creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice Drop of Honey. The very last drop on all Equilor, many of its owners have killed for less.
Reversal Engine4
Legendary Artifact (S) 2U, T, Put Reversal Engine on the bottom of its owner's library: Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. Untap up to three lands. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
Secrets of Equilor: Equilor is an ancient, mythical plane, said to be found only by those who are invited by its Elders. When Jace Beleren is invited to visit, he cannot help but oblige. What he finds is breadth of knowledge unseen anywhere else in the multiverse, but at a terrible cost that he cannot ignore.
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Callback N - COST (You may pay an additional COST as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into its owner's library Nth from the top as it resolves.)
Plunge N (Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, you may put the top N cards of your library into your graveyard. If you do, this creature gets +N/+N until end of turn.)
Skeleton Beast
• Token Creature - Skeleton Beast (S)
4/4
Goblin SecretaryR
Creature - Goblin (C)
When Goblin Secretary enters the battlefield, each player shuffles their library. "It's definitely in the archives. Somewhere."
1/1
Churning Eddy3U
Sorcery (C)
Return target creature and target land to their owners’ hands. The Eon Fog is not a place of stasis, but one of entropy, wherein everything fluxes into a state of nonexistence.
Crypt Sentry1B
Creature - Skeleton Soldier (C) 2W: Crypt Sentry gains indestructible until end of turn. "Even in death, we protect each other."
-Taln, Elder of Suns
1/1
Ancient Alarum5W
Instant (C)
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. The ghost-voice of the loxodon clergy is a power that calls their people to battle with vivid visions of their ancestors.
Revoke Promise1U
Instant (C)
Choose one -
• Counter target spell if no mana was spent to cast it.
• Counter target spell if its converted mana cost is greater than the number of lands that spell's controller controls. Jace tried to impress the elders. They were impressed at how spectacularly he failed.
Bloodhill Ministrant2R
Creature - Human (C)
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. "Usefulness is a matter of useless knowledge extracted from subject's head." — Hermera, chancellor of flayed sphinxes
2/2
Earthen Remembrance1G
Sorcery (C)
Callback 5 - 2(You may pay an additional 2 as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into its owner's library fifth from the top as it resolves.)
Reveal the top three cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. "The people may have forgotten what Equilor once was, but the land has not."
- Nissa Revane
Aeon Riders4W
Creature - Spirit Knight (C)
Vigilance 1G: Aeon Riders gains trample until end of turn. They perfectly remember their last suicidal charge and will gladly repeat it again and again.
4/4
Deepcreeper2G
Creature - Plant Beast (C)
Reach
Plunge 2 (Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, you may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard. If you do, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.) "It's good to tame them and fight alongside them, as long as you don't mind giving them most of your water." - Mogleth
1/1
Holdout SentryGW
Creature - Elephant Soldier (U)
Defender
Holdout Sentry can attack as though it didn't have defender if you or a planeswalker you control were attacked since your last turn ended. "Sometimes I think the way they trained them IS the greatest secret of this world." - Jace Beleren
4/4
Sinking Down2W
Sorcery (U)
Destroy target tapped creature with power 3 or greater.
Sacrifice a Swamp: Return Sinking Down from your graveyard to your hand. "If you are weighed down by anything excess, Guharr's quicksands will swallow you. Even an excess of sin." - Eudes Zan, loxodon judge
Uncommon 3 of 3:
Ego Forgotten4UU
Instant (U)
The owner of target nonland permanent shuffles it into their library. It's easy to lose yourself in the Infinite Archive.
Cursed Lightning2BR
Sorcery (U)
Cursed Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature and 3 damage to that creature's controller.
Whenever Cursed Lightning is exiled from your graveyard, you may have it deal 1 damage to target creature and 1 damage to that creature's controller. The tricky thing about uncovering the past is you run into things best left buried.
Sparkmutt4R
Creature - Elemental Hound (U)
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Trample, haste
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Sparkmutt. "Have you ever asked a thunderstorm to 'sit'?
-Pasha, Elder of Storms"
4/3
TheRavenManIsSquee: This is way too overpowered. The swords already give a huge aggressive advantage in protection and buffing but this thing can absolutely cripple opponents when it connects, and the other triggered ability is just as broken imo. This would need to be scaled back a hell of a lot before it would be acceptable.
Cardz5000: Well balanced for sure, and I appreciate trying to make exhaust as an evergreen term (not sure it's the word I would use but I'm not sure what I would use). My only gripe is that the two abilities of the swords usually distinguish the colors pretty well, whereas here both abilities seem a lot more blue than white.
EventideSojourner: Way too strong, especially with the +1/+1 counters. Forestsguy's version is significantly more balanced and still overs the same value over time thing you're going for here.
Forestsguy: What's interesting about this is that it's not especially obvious to me which effect is white and which one is green, which I suppose isn't super good when the swords' abilities are so tied to each of their colors. I like that the proliferation comes before the counter so as to not generate too big of an advantage, and I'm also curious as to why target any permanent with the +1/+1 counter ability.
VolraththeRisen: The first effect is very red and is pretty nice because it's not super oppressive, but the green effect is too similar to Feast and Famine's for me, and I find it odd that it untaps all basics not just your own.
I'm going to give the win to VolraththeRisen!
Next challenge: A new archvillain to replace Bolas
Secrets of Equilor: Equilor is an ancient, mythical plane, said to be found only by those who are invited by its Elders. When Jace Beleren is invited to visit, he cannot help but oblige. What he finds is breadth of knowledge unseen anywhere else in the multiverse, but at a terrible cost that he cannot ignore.
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Skeleton Beast
• Token Creature - Skeleton Beast (S)
4/4
Goblin SecretaryR
Creature - Goblin (C)
When Goblin Secretary enters the battlefield, each player shuffles their library. "It's definitely in the archives. Somewhere."
1/1
Churning Eddy3U
Sorcery (C)
Return target creature and target land to their owners’ hands. The Eon Fog is not a place of stasis, but one of entropy, wherein everything fluxes into a state of nonexistence.
Crypt Sentry1B
Creature - Skeleton Soldier (C) 2W: Crypt Sentry gains indestructible until end of turn. "Even in death, we protect each other."
-Taln, Elder of Suns
1/1
Ancient Alarum5W
Instant (C)
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. The ghost-voice of the loxodon clergy is a power that calls their people to battle with vivid visions of their ancestors.
Revoke Promise1U
Instant (C)
Choose one -
• Counter target spell if no mana was spent to cast it.
• Counter target spell if its converted mana cost is greater than the number of lands that spell's controller controls. Jace tried to impress the elders. They were impressed at how spectacularly he failed.
Bloodhill Ministrant2R
Creature - Human (C)
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. "Usefulness is a matter of useless knowledge extracted from subject's head." — Hermera, chancellor of flayed sphinxes
2/2
Common 7 of 9 (Masterpiece in the end):
Measure of PainR
Instant (C)
Measure of Pain deals 2 damage to target creature dealt damage this turn.
Draw a card. "Let's pick your brain a little."
-Nin, the Pain Artist
Earthen Remembrance1G
Sorcery (C)
Callback 5 2(You may pay an additional 2 as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into its owner's library fifth from the top as it resolves.)
Reveal the top three cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. "The people may have forgotten what Equilor once was, but the land has not."
- Nissa Revane
Wand of Vertebrae1
Artifact (C) T: Put the top card of your library into your graveyard. 2, T, Exile Wand of Vertebrae: Shuffle up to five target cards from your graveyard into your library. The dead never forget. They cannot afford to.
Secrets of Equilor: Equilor is an ancient, mythical plane, said to be found only by those who are invited by its Elders. When Jace Beleren is invited to visit, he cannot help but oblige. What he finds is breadth of knowledge unseen anywhere else in the multiverse, but at a terrible cost that he cannot ignore.
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Skeleton Beast
• Token Creature - Skeleton Beast (S)
4/4
Goblin SecretaryR
Creature - Goblin (C)
When Goblin Secretary enters the battlefield, each player shuffles their library. "It's definitely in the archives. Somewhere."
1/1
Churning Eddy3U
Sorcery (C)
Return target creature and target land to their owners’ hands. The Eon Fog is not a place of stasis, but one of entropy, wherein everything fluxes into a state of nonexistence.
Crypt Sentry1B
Creature - Skeleton Soldier (C) 2W: Crypt Sentry gains indestructible until end of turn. "Even in death, we protect each other."
-Taln, Elder of Suns
1/1
Ancient Alarum5W
Instant (C)
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. The ghost-voice of the loxodon clergy is a power that calls their people to battle with vivid visions of their ancestors.
Common 5 of 9 (Relic of the Past Masterpiece at the end):
Revoke Promise1U
Instant (C)
Choose one -
• Counter target spell if no mana was spent to cast it.
• Counter target spell if its converted mana cost is greater than the number of lands that spell's controller controls. Jace tried to impress the elders. They were impressed at how spectacularly he failed.
Second Strike1R
Sorcery (C)
Callback 3 R(You may pay an additional R as you cast this spell. If you do, put it into its owner's library three cards beneath the top as it resolves.)
Second Strike deals 3 damage to any target. "It is a misconception among the multiverse that lightning never strikes twice. Allow me to retort."
-Pasha, Elder of Storms
Secrets of Equilor is an ancient, mythical plane, said to be found only by those who are invited by its Elders. When Jace Beleren is invited to visit, he cannot help but oblige. What he finds is breadth of knowledge unseen anywhere else in the multiverse, but at a terrible cost that he cannot ignore.
Skeleton Beast
• Token Creature - Skeleton Beast (S)
4/4
Goblin SecretaryR
Creature - Goblin (C)
When Goblin Secretary enters the battlefield, each player shuffles their library. "It's definitely in the archives. Somewhere."
1/1
Churning Eddy3U
Sorcery (C)
Return target creature and target land to their owners’ hands. The Eon Fog is not a place of stasis, but one of entropy, wherein everything fluxes into a state of nonexistence.
Common 3 of 9 (Relic of the Past Masterpiece at the end):
Loxodon Mystic3WW
Creature - Elephant Cleric (C) W, T: Tap target creature. The Loxodon enforce the Elder's decrees with a gentleness that betrays their physique.
3/3
Crypt Sentry1B
Creature - Skeleton Soldier (C) 2W: Crypt Sentry gains indestructible until end of turn. "Even in death, we protect each other."
-Taln, Elder of Suns
1/1
Seek Life3G
Sorcery (C)
Obstruct 4 - Discard a card. (When you cast this spell, any opponent may discard a card. If they do, change this spell's text by replacing all instances of a number word with 'four.'")
Reveal the top six cards of your library you may reveal up to two creature and/or a lands card from among them and put them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Harpoon Trap4WW
Instant - Trap (U)
If exactly one creature is attacking you, you may pay W rather than pay Harpoon Trap's mana cost.
Destroy all attacking creatures. The hunter was the prey all along.
Equilor is an ancient, mythical plane, said to be found only by those who are invited by its Elders. When Jace Beleren is invited to visit, he cannot help but oblige. What he finds is breadth of knowledge unseen anywhere else in the multiverse, but at a terrible cost that he cannot ignore.
Skeleton Beast
• Token Creature - Skeleton Beast (S)
4/4
Common 1 of 9 (Relic of the Past Masterpiece at the end):
Damana DruidG
Creature - Elf Druid (C) T: Add C. T, expend Damana Druid: Add one mana of any color. (To expend a creature, put a fatigue counter on it. It can't have or gain abilities for as long as it has a fatigue counter on it.) "So little is left of our world's resources that the Damana order is all but useful."
1/1
Into the Archives4W
Sorcery (C)
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Return target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand. You gain 3 life. "There's so much knowledge here, it's impossible to sort out what's useful and what isn't."
Jace Beleren
Goblin SecretaryR
Creature - Goblin (C)
When Goblin Secretary enters the battlefield, each player shuffles their library. "It's definitely in the archives. Somewhere."
1/1
Situation on Danghan escalates too quickly even if you keep in mind the speed of the progress. In response to the ascension of Ryertan dux, scared by newest innovations but also hoping to get them, Tangerine Empire, Halcurda sultanate and a couple of lesser countries declared the war. Shattered and scattered, Three Great Minds have to unite again to free their fourth member - and then they should decide quickly what to do to stop this madness unless it's too late, before Shadow of Motorium falls.
Modify [COST] ([COST]: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability costs 1 more to activate for each +1/+1 counter on it. Modify only as a sorcery.)
Missile counters (At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay X, where X is the number of missile counters you have. If you do, you deal X damage to any target.)
Project N (This project is fulfilled as long as it has N or more research counters on it.)
Alarum - if an opponent cast a spell this turn, {effect}.
Built-in N (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with an Equipment you control with converted mana cost N or less attached to it.)
• Token Creature - Mutant (S)
2/2
Mindstatic 3U
Instant (C)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 6.
"An ionized electrical field delays the brain's reaction time by a single second and prevents coherent thought. I hope it's not permanent."
-Brice, the Neuromind
Emaciated Contagi 3R
Creature - Human Mutant (C)
Brice and Galimed left Old Academy with all their speed, both already loathing themselves for trusting the dux.
5/2
Curtail the Research 2W
Instant (C)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller loses 1 life for each research counter on it.
An engine to purify the motorium and make it harmless to living beings, key to healing the contagi, will never be finished.
Tunnel Project 3R
Enchantment - Project (C)
Project 3 (This project is fulfilled as long as it has three or more research counters on it.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less attacks, put a research counter on Tunnel Project and that creature can't be blocked this turn. Then if Tunnel Project is fulfilled, sacrifice it and destroy target land defending player controls.
Viper Pits 2GG
Instant (C)
Create two 1/1 green Snake creature tokens.
Alarum - if an opponent cast a spell this turn, creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
Eager Assistant 1U
Creature - Vedalken Wizard (C)
1R, Sacrifice Eager Assistant: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. If that card is a Project, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.
Galimed was no king, but he was never short of subjects.
1/1
Chaotic Reaction 1R
Sorcery (C)
Starting with you, each player sacrifices a permanent of a permanent type that wasn't sacrificed by another player this way.
Everybody knows that motorium is a devil. Everybody wants to make a deal with him.
Steady Salvo 2RR
Sorcery (C)
Steady Salvo deals 3 damage to target creature. When a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, Steady Salvo deals 1 damage to that creature's controller and each creature they control.
The Tangerine Empire had some firepower of its own.
Pistoned Dead 3B
Creature - Zombie (C)
Menace
Built-in 1 (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with an Equipment you control with converted mana cost 1 or less attached to it.)
"It is not a desecration. It is what our dead volunteers had wished." - Zagur of Halcurda, royal physician
2/3
Sultan's Spy 2U
Creature - Faerie Rogue (C)
Flash
Flying
Alarum - When Sultan's spy enters the battlefield, if an opponent cast a spell this turn, draw a card.
"Noisy winds are bound."
-Ryertan expression meaning "Someone's listening."
1/1
Imperial Wanderblade 3W
Artifact - Equipment (C)
Equipped creature gets +3/+2.
1B: Imperial Wanderblade becomes a 3/2 artifact creature with vigilance until end of turn. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
Equip 2
Motorium took the "man" out of "swordsman".
Glimpse of Beyond 2U
Sorcery (C)
Look at the top six cards of your library. Put one into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Drowning in motorium, Tyla saw a thousand worlds and among them, Perfection.
{Story spotlight 3 of 6}
Modify [COST] ([COST]: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability costs 1 more to activate for each +1/+1 counter on it. Modify only as a sorcery.)
Missile counters (At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay X, where X is the number of missile counters you have. If you do, you deal X damage to any target.)
Project N (This project is fulfilled as long as it has N or more research counters on it.)
Alarum - if an opponent cast a spell this turn, {effect}.
• Token Creature - Mutant (S)
2/2
Mindstatic 3U
Instant (C)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 6.
"An ionized electrical field delays the brain's reaction time by a single second and prevents coherent thought. I hope it's not permanent."
-Brice, the Neuromind
Emaciated Contagi 3R
Creature - Human Mutant (C)
Brice and Galimed left Old Academy with all their speed, both already loathing themselves for trusting the dux.
5/2
Curtail the Research 2W
Instant (C)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller loses 1 life for each research counter on it.
An engine to purify the motorium and make it harmless to living beings, key to healing the contagi, will never be finished.
Tunnel Project 3R
Enchantment - Project (C)
Project 3 (This project is fulfilled as long as it has three or more research counters on it.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less attacks, put a research counter on Tunnel Project and that creature can't be blocked this turn. Then if Tunnel Project is fulfilled, sacrifice it and destroy target land defending player controls.
Viper Pits 2GG
Instant (C)
Create two 1/1 green Snake creature tokens.
Alarum - if an opponent cast a spell this turn, creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
Eager Assistant 1U
Creature - Vedalken Wizard (C)
1R, Sacrifice Eager Assistant: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. If that card is a Project, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.
Galimed was no king, but he was never short of subjects.
1/1
Chaotic Reaction 1R
Sorcery (C)
Starting with you, each player sacrifices a permanent of a permanent type that wasn't sacrificed by another player this way.
Everybody knows that motorium is a devil. Everybody wants to make a deal with him.
Duress B
Sorcery (C)
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
"Tell me Tyla. Where are the others?"
Restoration Project 2G
Enchantment - Project
Project 3 (This project is fulfilled as long as it has three or more research counters on it.)
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life and put a research counter on Restoration Project. If Restoration Project is fulfilled, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token instead.
"Step by step, we reverse the damage we have done."
-Henstridge, the Musclemind
Steady Salvo 2RR
Sorcery (C)
Steady Salvo deals 3 damage to target creature. When a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, Steady Salvo deals 1 damage to that creature's controller and each creature they control.
The Tangerine Empire had some firepower of its own.
Modify [COST] ([COST]: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability costs 1 more to activate for each +1/+1 counter on it. Modify only as a sorcery.)
Missile counters (At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay X, where X is the number of missile counters you have. If you do, you deal X damage to any target.)
Project N (This project is fulfilled as long as it has N or more research counters on it.)
Alarum - if an opponent cast a spell this turn, {effect}.
• Token Creature - Mutant (S)
2/2
Mindstatic 3U
Instant (C)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 6.
"An ionized electrical field delays the brain's reaction time by a single second and prevents coherent thought. I hope it's not permanent."
-Brice, the Neuromind
Emaciated Contagi 3R
Creature - Human Mutant (C)
Brice and Galimed left Old Academy with all their speed, both already loathing themselves for trusting the dux.
5/2
Curtail the Research 2W
Instant (C)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller loses 1 life for each research counter on it.
An engine to purify the motorium and make it harmless to living beings, key to healing the contagi, will never be finished.
Tunnel Project 3R
Enchantment - Project (C)
Project 3 (This project is fulfilled as long as it has three or more research counters on it.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less attacks, put a research counter on Tunnel Project and that creature can't be blocked this turn. Then if Tunnel Project is fulfilled, sacrifice it and destroy target land defending player controls.
Viper Pits 2GG
Instant (C)
Create two 1/1 green Snake creature tokens.
Alarum - if an opponent cast a spell this turn, creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
Eager Assistant 1U
Creature - Vedalken Wizard (C)
1R, Sacrifice Eager Assistant: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. If that card is a Project, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.
Galimed was no king, but he was never short of subjects.
1/1
Synod Enforcer 3W
Creature - Dwarf Soldier (C)
Vigilance
If an effect would place a counter on a permanent, that permanent's controller gains 1 life instead.
"Progress is measured in lives saved, not lives taken!"
2/4
Up in Flames 2R
Sorcery (C)
Each player sacrifices an enchantment or a land.
"This is why I made copies."
-Brice, to Henstridge
Legendary Planeswalker - Dûl (Mythic)
[+1]: Choose a card type. Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from among them of the chosen type. That player discards that card. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 life.
[-3]: Put an artifact or creature card from an opponents graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Each opponent puts the top X cards of their library into their graveyard, where X is that card's converted mana cost.
[-5]: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of cards in their graveyard.
{3}
IIW: Uncommon lands with a basic land type.
Modify [COST] ([COST]: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability costs 1 more to activate for each +1/+1 counter on it. Modify only as a sorcery.)
Missile counters (At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay X, where X is the number of missile counters you have. If you do, you deal X damage to any target.)
Project N (This project is fulfilled as long as it has N or more research counters on it.)
• Token Creature - Mutant (S)
2/2
Mindstatic 3U
Instant (C)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 6.
"An ionized electrical field delays the brain's reaction time by a single second and prevents coherent thought. I hope it's not permanent."
-Brice, the Neuromind
Emaciated Contagi 3R
Creature - Human Mutant (C)
Brice and Galimed left Old Academy with all their speed, both already loathing themselves for trusting the dux.
5/2
Curtail the Research 2W
Instant (C)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller loses 1 life for each research counter on it.
An engine to purify the motorium and make it harmless to living beings, key to healing the contagi, will never be finished.
Tunnel Project 3R
Enchantment - Project (C)
Project 3 (This project is fulfilled as long as it has three or more research counters on it.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less attacks, put a research counter on Tunnel Project and that creature can't be blocked this turn. Then if Tunnel Project is fulfilled, sacrifice it and destroy target land defending player controls.
Master's Will 1B
Sorcery (C)
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a permanent.
Draw two cards.
"You've served your purpose."
-Mabaki, Dux of Ryertan
Crash of Jackalopes 3G
Creature - Rabbit Beast (C)
Trample
1G: Crash of Jackalopes gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn for each Rabbit you control.
What started out as a joke finished with a very heavy punchline.
4/4
Modify [COST] ([COST]: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability costs 1 more to activate for each +1/+1 counter on it. Modify only as a sorcery.)
Missile counters (At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay X, where X is the number of missile counters you have. If you do, you deal X damage to any target.)
Project N (This project is fulfilled as long as it has N or more research counters on it.)
• Token Creature - Mutant (S)
2/2
Tyla's Barricade 2W
Artifact Creature - Wall (C)
Defender
When Tyla's Barricade enters the battlefield, you get a missile counter. (At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay X, where X is the number of missile counters you have. If you do, you deal X damage to any target.)
Freeing the Blastmind proved difficult once her own weapons were being used to protect her.
0/3
Mindstatic 3U
Instant (C)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 6.
"An ionized electrical field delays the brain's reaction time by a single second and prevents coherent thought. I hope it's not permanent."
-Brice, the Neuromind
Sultan's Chant 2B
Sorcery (C)
Create a 1/1 black Insect creature token, then target player loses 1 life for each creature you control.
Motorium experimentation has made the Sultan's brood far more dangerous. And noisy.
Callback N - COST (You may pay an additional COST as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into its owner's library Nth from the top as it resolves.)
Plunge N (Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, you may put the top N cards of your library into your graveyard. If you do, this creature gets +N/+N until end of turn.)
• Token Creature - Skeleton Beast (S)
4/4
Goblin Secretary R
Creature - Goblin (C)
When Goblin Secretary enters the battlefield, each player shuffles their library.
"It's definitely in the archives. Somewhere."
1/1
Churning Eddy 3U
Sorcery (C)
Return target creature and target land to their owners’ hands.
The Eon Fog is not a place of stasis, but one of entropy, wherein everything fluxes into a state of nonexistence.
Crypt Sentry 1B
Creature - Skeleton Soldier (C)
2W: Crypt Sentry gains indestructible until end of turn.
"Even in death, we protect each other."
-Taln, Elder of Suns
1/1
Ancient Alarum 5W
Instant (C)
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn.
The ghost-voice of the loxodon clergy is a power that calls their people to battle with vivid visions of their ancestors.
Revoke Promise 1U
Instant (C)
Choose one -
• Counter target spell if no mana was spent to cast it.
• Counter target spell if its converted mana cost is greater than the number of lands that spell's controller controls.
Jace tried to impress the elders. They were impressed at how spectacularly he failed.
Bloodhill Ministrant 2R
Creature - Human (C)
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
"Usefulness is a matter of useless knowledge extracted from subject's head." — Hermera, chancellor of flayed sphinxes
2/2
Earthen Remembrance 1G
Sorcery (C)
Callback 5 - 2 (You may pay an additional 2 as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into its owner's library fifth from the top as it resolves.)
Reveal the top three cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
"The people may have forgotten what Equilor once was, but the land has not."
- Nissa Revane
Aeon Riders 4W
Creature - Spirit Knight (C)
Vigilance
1G: Aeon Riders gains trample until end of turn.
They perfectly remember their last suicidal charge and will gladly repeat it again and again.
4/4
Deepcreeper 2G
Creature - Plant Beast (C)
Reach
Plunge 2 (Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, you may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard. If you do, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.)
"It's good to tame them and fight alongside them, as long as you don't mind giving them most of your water." - Mogleth
1/1
Holdout Sentry GW
Creature - Elephant Soldier (U)
Defender
Holdout Sentry can attack as though it didn't have defender if you or a planeswalker you control were attacked since your last turn ended.
"Sometimes I think the way they trained them IS the greatest secret of this world." - Jace Beleren
4/4
Sinking Down 2W
Sorcery (U)
Destroy target tapped creature with power 3 or greater.
Sacrifice a Swamp: Return Sinking Down from your graveyard to your hand.
"If you are weighed down by anything excess, Guharr's quicksands will swallow you. Even an excess of sin." - Eudes Zan, loxodon judge
Cursed Lightning 2BR
Sorcery (U)
Cursed Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature and 3 damage to that creature's controller.
Whenever Cursed Lightning is exiled from your graveyard, you may have it deal 1 damage to target creature and 1 damage to that creature's controller.
The tricky thing about uncovering the past is you run into things best left buried.
Brainskewer 5RR
Creature - Avatar Warrior (R)
Double strike
Plunge 6 (Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, you may put the top six cards of your library into your graveyard. If you do, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.)
Mindless rage given its own raging mind.
1/1
Ring of Immortals 5
Artifact (S)
3, T: Counter target instant or Aura spell that targets a permanent you control.
An unending life granted by the suppression of change.
Drop of Honey G
Enchantment (S)
At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy the creature with the least power. It can’t be regenerated. If two or more creatures are tied for least power, you choose one of them.
When there are no creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice Drop of Honey.
The very last drop on all Equilor, many of its owners have killed for less.
Reversal Engine 4
Legendary Artifact (S)
2U, T, Put Reversal Engine on the bottom of its owner's library: Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. Untap up to three lands. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
Callback N - COST (You may pay an additional COST as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into its owner's library Nth from the top as it resolves.)
Plunge N (Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, you may put the top N cards of your library into your graveyard. If you do, this creature gets +N/+N until end of turn.)
• Token Creature - Skeleton Beast (S)
4/4
Goblin Secretary R
Creature - Goblin (C)
When Goblin Secretary enters the battlefield, each player shuffles their library.
"It's definitely in the archives. Somewhere."
1/1
Churning Eddy 3U
Sorcery (C)
Return target creature and target land to their owners’ hands.
The Eon Fog is not a place of stasis, but one of entropy, wherein everything fluxes into a state of nonexistence.
Crypt Sentry 1B
Creature - Skeleton Soldier (C)
2W: Crypt Sentry gains indestructible until end of turn.
"Even in death, we protect each other."
-Taln, Elder of Suns
1/1
Ancient Alarum 5W
Instant (C)
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn.
The ghost-voice of the loxodon clergy is a power that calls their people to battle with vivid visions of their ancestors.
Revoke Promise 1U
Instant (C)
Choose one -
• Counter target spell if no mana was spent to cast it.
• Counter target spell if its converted mana cost is greater than the number of lands that spell's controller controls.
Jace tried to impress the elders. They were impressed at how spectacularly he failed.
Bloodhill Ministrant 2R
Creature - Human (C)
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
"Usefulness is a matter of useless knowledge extracted from subject's head." — Hermera, chancellor of flayed sphinxes
2/2
Earthen Remembrance 1G
Sorcery (C)
Callback 5 - 2 (You may pay an additional 2 as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into its owner's library fifth from the top as it resolves.)
Reveal the top three cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
"The people may have forgotten what Equilor once was, but the land has not."
- Nissa Revane
Aeon Riders 4W
Creature - Spirit Knight (C)
Vigilance
1G: Aeon Riders gains trample until end of turn.
They perfectly remember their last suicidal charge and will gladly repeat it again and again.
4/4
Deepcreeper 2G
Creature - Plant Beast (C)
Reach
Plunge 2 (Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, you may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard. If you do, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.)
"It's good to tame them and fight alongside them, as long as you don't mind giving them most of your water." - Mogleth
1/1
Holdout Sentry GW
Creature - Elephant Soldier (U)
Defender
Holdout Sentry can attack as though it didn't have defender if you or a planeswalker you control were attacked since your last turn ended.
"Sometimes I think the way they trained them IS the greatest secret of this world." - Jace Beleren
4/4
Sinking Down 2W
Sorcery (U)
Destroy target tapped creature with power 3 or greater.
Sacrifice a Swamp: Return Sinking Down from your graveyard to your hand.
"If you are weighed down by anything excess, Guharr's quicksands will swallow you. Even an excess of sin." - Eudes Zan, loxodon judge
Ego Forgotten 4UU
Instant (U)
The owner of target nonland permanent shuffles it into their library.
It's easy to lose yourself in the Infinite Archive.
Cursed Lightning 2BR
Sorcery (U)
Cursed Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature and 3 damage to that creature's controller.
Whenever Cursed Lightning is exiled from your graveyard, you may have it deal 1 damage to target creature and 1 damage to that creature's controller.
The tricky thing about uncovering the past is you run into things best left buried.
Sparkmutt 4R
Creature - Elemental Hound (U)
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Trample, haste
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Sparkmutt.
"Have you ever asked a thunderstorm to 'sit'?
-Pasha, Elder of Storms"
4/3
Cardz5000: Well balanced for sure, and I appreciate trying to make exhaust as an evergreen term (not sure it's the word I would use but I'm not sure what I would use). My only gripe is that the two abilities of the swords usually distinguish the colors pretty well, whereas here both abilities seem a lot more blue than white.
EventideSojourner: Way too strong, especially with the +1/+1 counters. Forestsguy's version is significantly more balanced and still overs the same value over time thing you're going for here.
Forestsguy: What's interesting about this is that it's not especially obvious to me which effect is white and which one is green, which I suppose isn't super good when the swords' abilities are so tied to each of their colors. I like that the proliferation comes before the counter so as to not generate too big of an advantage, and I'm also curious as to why target any permanent with the +1/+1 counter ability.
VolraththeRisen: The first effect is very red and is pretty nice because it's not super oppressive, but the green effect is too similar to Feast and Famine's for me, and I find it odd that it untaps all basics not just your own.
I'm going to give the win to VolraththeRisen!
Next challenge: A new archvillain to replace Bolas
• Token Creature - Skeleton Beast (S)
4/4
Goblin Secretary R
Creature - Goblin (C)
When Goblin Secretary enters the battlefield, each player shuffles their library.
"It's definitely in the archives. Somewhere."
1/1
Churning Eddy 3U
Sorcery (C)
Return target creature and target land to their owners’ hands.
The Eon Fog is not a place of stasis, but one of entropy, wherein everything fluxes into a state of nonexistence.
Crypt Sentry 1B
Creature - Skeleton Soldier (C)
2W: Crypt Sentry gains indestructible until end of turn.
"Even in death, we protect each other."
-Taln, Elder of Suns
1/1
Ancient Alarum 5W
Instant (C)
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn.
The ghost-voice of the loxodon clergy is a power that calls their people to battle with vivid visions of their ancestors.
Revoke Promise 1U
Instant (C)
Choose one -
• Counter target spell if no mana was spent to cast it.
• Counter target spell if its converted mana cost is greater than the number of lands that spell's controller controls.
Jace tried to impress the elders. They were impressed at how spectacularly he failed.
Bloodhill Ministrant 2R
Creature - Human (C)
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
"Usefulness is a matter of useless knowledge extracted from subject's head." — Hermera, chancellor of flayed sphinxes
2/2
Measure of Pain R
Instant (C)
Measure of Pain deals 2 damage to target creature dealt damage this turn.
Draw a card.
"Let's pick your brain a little."
-Nin, the Pain Artist
Earthen Remembrance 1G
Sorcery (C)
Callback 5 2 (You may pay an additional 2 as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into its owner's library fifth from the top as it resolves.)
Reveal the top three cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
"The people may have forgotten what Equilor once was, but the land has not."
- Nissa Revane
Wand of Vertebrae 1
Artifact (C)
T: Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.
2, T, Exile Wand of Vertebrae: Shuffle up to five target cards from your graveyard into your library.
The dead never forget. They cannot afford to.
• Token Creature - Skeleton Beast (S)
4/4
Goblin Secretary R
Creature - Goblin (C)
When Goblin Secretary enters the battlefield, each player shuffles their library.
"It's definitely in the archives. Somewhere."
1/1
Churning Eddy 3U
Sorcery (C)
Return target creature and target land to their owners’ hands.
The Eon Fog is not a place of stasis, but one of entropy, wherein everything fluxes into a state of nonexistence.
Crypt Sentry 1B
Creature - Skeleton Soldier (C)
2W: Crypt Sentry gains indestructible until end of turn.
"Even in death, we protect each other."
-Taln, Elder of Suns
1/1
Ancient Alarum 5W
Instant (C)
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn.
The ghost-voice of the loxodon clergy is a power that calls their people to battle with vivid visions of their ancestors.
Revoke Promise 1U
Instant (C)
Choose one -
• Counter target spell if no mana was spent to cast it.
• Counter target spell if its converted mana cost is greater than the number of lands that spell's controller controls.
Jace tried to impress the elders. They were impressed at how spectacularly he failed.
Second Strike 1R
Sorcery (C)
Callback 3 R (You may pay an additional R as you cast this spell. If you do, put it into its owner's library three cards beneath the top as it resolves.)
Second Strike deals 3 damage to any target.
"It is a misconception among the multiverse that lightning never strikes twice. Allow me to retort."
-Pasha, Elder of Storms
Secrets of Equilor is an ancient, mythical plane, said to be found only by those who are invited by its Elders. When Jace Beleren is invited to visit, he cannot help but oblige. What he finds is breadth of knowledge unseen anywhere else in the multiverse, but at a terrible cost that he cannot ignore.
• Token Creature - Skeleton Beast (S)
4/4
Goblin Secretary R
Creature - Goblin (C)
When Goblin Secretary enters the battlefield, each player shuffles their library.
"It's definitely in the archives. Somewhere."
1/1
Churning Eddy 3U
Sorcery (C)
Return target creature and target land to their owners’ hands.
The Eon Fog is not a place of stasis, but one of entropy, wherein everything fluxes into a state of nonexistence.
Loxodon Mystic 3WW
Creature - Elephant Cleric (C)
W, T: Tap target creature.
The Loxodon enforce the Elder's decrees with a gentleness that betrays their physique.
3/3
Crypt Sentry 1B
Creature - Skeleton Soldier (C)
2W: Crypt Sentry gains indestructible until end of turn.
"Even in death, we protect each other."
-Taln, Elder of Suns
1/1
Seek Life 3G
Sorcery (C)
Obstruct 4 - Discard a card. (When you cast this spell, any opponent may discard a card. If they do, change this spell's text by replacing all instances of a number word with 'four.'")
Reveal the top six cards of your library you may reveal up to two creature and/or a lands card from among them and put them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Instant - Trap (U)
If exactly one creature is attacking you, you may pay W rather than pay Harpoon Trap's mana cost.
Destroy all attacking creatures.
The hunter was the prey all along.
• Token Creature - Skeleton Beast (S)
4/4
Damana Druid G
Creature - Elf Druid (C)
T: Add C.
T, expend Damana Druid: Add one mana of any color. (To expend a creature, put a fatigue counter on it. It can't have or gain abilities for as long as it has a fatigue counter on it.)
"So little is left of our world's resources that the Damana order is all but useful."
1/1
Into the Archives 4W
Sorcery (C)
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
Return target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand. You gain 3 life.
"There's so much knowledge here, it's impossible to sort out what's useful and what isn't."
Jace Beleren
Goblin Secretary R
Creature - Goblin (C)
When Goblin Secretary enters the battlefield, each player shuffles their library.
"It's definitely in the archives. Somewhere."
1/1