Aerie Mystics
Flying
{1}{G}{U}: Creatures you control gain shroud until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)
They are cautious with their body language and facial expressions. Any stray movement could betray the positions of the troops they protect and cost many lives.
Asha's Favor
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has flying, first strike, and vigilance.
As his new wings lifted him high above Bant, Taric felt his earthly aspirations transform into heavenly resolve.
Aven Squire
Flying
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
When the meek charge into battle, courage becomes infectious.
Aven Trailblazer
Flying
Domain — Aven Trailblazer's toughness is equal to the number of basic land types among lands you control.
"The bird wore the form of a man, bereft of filigree. Why do the Texts not speak of it?"
—Belator of Esper
Celestial Purge
Exile target black or red permanent.
"This new chaos confounds us. We must fling it into our winds, our storms. These we can control."
—Bezzit Plar, Esper stormcaller
Court Homunculus
Court Homunculus gets +1/+1 as long as you control another artifact.
Mages of Esper measure their wealth and status by the number of servants in their retinues.
Darklit Gargoyle
Flying
{B}: Darklit Gargoyle gets +2/-1 until end of turn.
It shines in the darkness of its master's ambitions.
Gleam of Resistance
Creatures you control get +1/+2 until end of turn. Untap those creatures.
Basic landcycling {1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Lapse of Certainty
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.
Without a connection of mind and body, magic is just an idea stuck in the head, a word on the tip of a tongue.
Mark of Asylum
Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to creatures you control.
A paragon of honor, Galo Aher fell to a blast of fire. The Order of the White Orchid was so saddened that they forged a new sigil in his likeness.
Martial Coup
Create X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens. If X is 5 or more, destroy all other creatures.
Their war forgotten, the nations of Bant stood united in the face of a common threat.
Mirror-Sigil Sergeant
Trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a blue permanent, you may create a token that's a copy of Mirror-Sigil Sergeant.
"If I had many lives, I would give them all for Bant."
Nacatl Hunt-Pride
Vigilance
{R}, {T}: Target creature can't block this turn.
{G}, {T}: Target creature blocks this turn if able.
"We must hunt and kill the dragon before it can return to raze our ancient city."
Paragon of the Amesha
First strike
{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Until end of turn, Paragon of the Amesha becomes an Angel, gets +3/+3, and gains flying and lifelink.
"Let my lance sing with the voices of angels and the heathen cower before my shield, for I will teach this land the meaning of honor."
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Rhox Meditant
When Rhox Meditant enters the battlefield, if you control a green permanent, draw a card.
The weight of her conviction balances on the harmony of her soul.
Scepter of Dominance
{W}, {T}: Tap target permanent.
"Whether or not you will bow to me is not open to debate. The question is, will I ever let you rise?"
—Fridius, telemin master
Sigil of the Empty Throne
Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying.
When Asha left Bant, she ensured that the world would have protection and order in her absence.
Valiant Guard
As the outsiders invaded Bant, soldiers who once saw sigils as the highest marks of glory began to see the scars of battle as tokens of equal worth.
Wall of Reverence
Defender, flying
At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.
The lives of elves are long, but their memories are longer. Even after death, they do not desert their homes.
Brackwater Elemental
When Brackwater Elemental attacks or blocks, sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Unearth {2}{U} ({2}{U}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
Constricting Tendrils
Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Priests of Bant protect their temples with traps more elaborate than any mosaic floor.
Controlled Instincts
Enchant red or green creature
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
Togk Manytooth struggled helplessly as the kathari circled above him. For a warrior, immobilization is a fate worse than death.
Cumber Stone
Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0.
"The stone is more potent than ever. The flesh that creeps into our land will become even more slovenly and weak."
—Niclavs, archmage of Esper
Esperzoa
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, return an artifact you control to its owner's hand.
The more metal it digests, the more its jelly will fetch on the alchemists' market.
Ethersworn Adjudicator
Flying
{1}{W}{B}, {T}: Destroy target creature or enchantment.
{2}{U}: Untap Ethersworn Adjudicator.
Esper mages devised their weapons to be so devastating that war seemed unnecessary.
Faerie Mechanist
Flying
When Faerie Mechanist enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Frontline Sage
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{U}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
The battle was won in the commander's head before the first weapon was drawn.
Grixis Illusionist
{T}: Target land you control becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.
"It's simple, really. If they can't find us, they can't kill us."
Inkwell Leviathan
Trample
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
"Into its maw went the seventh sea, never to be seen again while the world remains."
—Esper fable
Master Transmuter
{U}, {T}, Return an artifact you control to its owner's hand: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.
"Wasted potential surrounds us. Lend me that bauble, and let me see what it can be made to be."
Parasitic Strix
Flying
When Parasitic Strix enters the battlefield, if you control a black permanent, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
After finding no sustenance on the edges of Grixis, it turned to the skies of Bant.
Scepter of Insight
{3}{U}, {T}: Draw a card.
"The road to truth has many branches, and so must the cane with which I walk it."
—Voln the Elder
Scornful Aether-Lich
{W}{B}: Scornful Aether-Lich gains fear and vigilance until end of turn. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap, and it can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
"With no flesh, there is no pain, no hesitation, no emotion of any kind. He is crafted perfection."
—Tezzeret
Telemin Performance
Target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. That player puts all noncreature cards revealed this way into their graveyard, then you put the creature card onto the battlefield under your control.
Traumatic Visions
Counter target spell.
Basic landcycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Unsummon
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
"Send it back to its own strange world so we can avoid another inglorious combat with these wicked beings."
—Captain Valek of Jhess
View from Above
Target creature gains flying until end of turn. If you control a white permanent, return View from Above to its owner's hand.
"This air feels so heavy and thick. There are no winds to speak of. I fear the knowledge that comes from a place like this."
Worldly Counsel
Domain — Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Every horizon hides a new possibility.
Absorb Vis
Target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.
Basic landcycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Corrupted Roots
Enchant Forest or Plains
Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller loses 2 life.
The bones of Jund's dead resurfaced in Naya, poisoning the jungle and killing the sunseeders' crops.
Drag Down
Domain — Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each basic land type among lands you control.
The barbarians of Jund believe the bottomless tar pits extend forever into other, darker worlds.
Dreadwing
{1}{U}{R}: Dreadwing gets +3/+0 and gains flying until end of turn.
Dreadwings spring from lofty perches to surprise kathari in midflight. They smother their prey and then consume it as they glide gently toward the ground.
Extractor Demon
Flying
Whenever another creature leaves the battlefield, you may have target player mill two cards.
Unearth {2}{B} ({2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
Fleshformer
{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Fleshformer gets +2/+2 and gains fear until end of turn. Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Activate only during your turn. (A creature with fear can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Necromancers who discovered the new sources of mana were quick to dream up new nightmares with them.
Grixis Slavedriver
When Grixis Slavedriver leaves the battlefield, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Unearth {3}{B} ({3}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
Infectious Horror
Whenever Infectious Horror attacks, each opponent loses 2 life.
Not once in the history of Grixis has anyone died of old age.
Kederekt Parasite
Whenever an opponent draws a card, if you control a red permanent, you may have Kederekt Parasite deal 1 damage to that player.
When the smell of passing thoughts piques its hunger, its maw becomes primed with acid and a taste for brains.