Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas
Ajani Vengeant
+1: Target permanent doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
−2: Ajani Vengeant deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
−7: Destroy all lands target player controls.
Kird Ape
Kird Ape gets +1/+2 as long as you control a Forest.
Apes can be gentle, contemplative beasts—but context is everything.
Essence Warden
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
"The more our numbers grow, the more I gain hope that Volrath and his cursed stronghold will one day fall."
—Eladamri, Lord of Leaves
Wild Nacatl
Wild Nacatl gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Mountain.
Wild Nacatl gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Plains.
"The Cloud Nacatl sit and think, a bunch of soft paws. We are the Claws of Marisi, stalking, pouncing, drawing blood."
Loam Lion
Loam Lion gets +1/+2 as long as you control a Forest.
In Zendikar, today's grassland could be tomorrow's jungle, and hunting grounds change as quickly as the weather.
Canyon Wildcat
Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)
"Relative of yours?" Ertai teased. Mirri simply sneered.
Jade Mage
{2}{G}: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
"We are one with the wild things. Life blooms from our fingertips and nature responds to our summons."
—Jade creed
Sylvan Ranger
When Sylvan Ranger enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
"Not all paths are found on the forest floor."
Ajani's Pridemate
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Ajani's Pridemate.
"When one of us prospers, the pride prospers."
—Jazal Goldmane
Qasali Pridemage
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{1}, Sacrifice Qasali Pridemage: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
An elder in one pride, of the Sigiled caste in another.
Grazing Gladehart
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain 2 life.
"Don't be fooled. If it were as docile as it looks, it would've died off long ago."
—Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist
Fleetfoot Panther
Flash
When Fleetfoot Panther enters the battlefield, return a green or white creature you control to its owner's hand.
Woolly Thoctar
One of the most ferocious and deadly gargantuans, the thoctar never sees its worshippers, but it often awakens surrounded by gifts and sacrifices.
Briarhorn
Flash
When Briarhorn enters the battlefield, target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
Evoke {1}{G} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)
Loxodon Hierarch
When Loxodon Hierarch enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life.
{G}{W}, Sacrifice Loxodon Hierarch: Regenerate each creature you control.
"I have lived long, and I remember how this city once was. If my death serves to bring back the Ravnica in my memory, then so be it."
Spitemare
Whenever Spitemare is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to any target.
"I knew a creature carved from a dream of wild freedom. Any attempt to leash or exploit it failed, and at terrible cost."
—Ashling
Marisi's Twinclaws
Double strike
"Looks like we're completely outnumbered."
"Lucky for us. I thought we'd be bored."
Ageless Entity
Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on Ageless Entity.
Tel-Jilad's sworn protectors are the trolls, yet more fearsome protectors were created by the Tangle itself.
Pride of Lions
You may have Pride of Lions assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.
There's only one thing worse than a hungry lion—many hungry lions.
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."
Firemane Angel
Flying, first strike
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Firemane Angel is in your graveyard or on the battlefield, you may gain 1 life.
{6}{R}{R}{W}{W}: Return Firemane Angel from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your upkeep.
Ajani's Mantra
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may gain 1 life.
"He hasn't returned to the Cloud Forest. But I can still sense his calming presence."
—Zaliki of Naya
Lightning Helix
Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
"Rage is not the answer. Rage followed by fitting vengeance is the answer."
—Ajani
Lead the Stampede
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal any number of creature cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Griffin Guide
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying.
When enchanted creature dies, create a 2/2 white Griffin creature token with flying.
Recumbent Bliss
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may gain 1 life.
Kithkin somnomancers enjoy the peaceful dreams wafting from their victims.
Searing Meditation
Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, Searing Meditation deals 2 damage to any target.
"When I meditate I see the world as it should be. All that does not fit, I remove."
—Alovnek, Boros guildmage
Behemoth Sledge
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has trample and lifelink.
Equip {3}
"May this grant you all the strength of the behemoths and none of their serenity."
—Ajani
Naya Charm
Choose one —
• Naya Charm deals 3 damage to target creature.
• Return target card from a graveyard to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures target player controls.
Deep in nature's core lies a potential unsullied by greed or civilization.
Sylvan Bounty
Target player gains 8 life.
Basic landcycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Some who scouted new lands chose to stay.
Titanic Ultimatum
Until end of turn, creatures you control get +5/+5 and gain first strike, trample, and lifelink.
"Retribution is best delivered by claws and rage, with both magnified."
—Ajani
Evolving Wilds
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Every world is an organism, able to grow new lands. Some just do it faster than others.
Graypelt Refuge
Graypelt Refuge enters the battlefield tapped.
When Graypelt Refuge enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.
Jungle Shrine
Jungle Shrine enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R}, {G}, or {W}.
On Naya, ambition and treachery are scarce, hunted nearly to extinction by the awe owed to terrestrial gods.
Kazandu Refuge
Kazandu Refuge enters the battlefield tapped.
When Kazandu Refuge enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.
Sapseep Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
Sapseep Forest enters the battlefield tapped.
{G}, {T}: You gain 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more green permanents.
Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{G}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
In the autumn, she casts her seeds across the streets below, and come spring, her children rise in service to the Conclave.
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
Mountain
({T}: Add {R}.)
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
+3: Destroy target noncreature permanent.
−2: Gain control of target creature.
−9: Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker deals 7 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards seven cards, then sacrifices seven permanents.
Surveilling Sprite
Flying
When Surveilling Sprite dies, you may draw a card.
Their natural curiosity, combined with a knack for trespassing, makes sprites excellent spies.
Nightscape Familiar
Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{1}{B}: Regenerate Nightscape Familiar.
Nightscape masters don't stop at raising the spirit of a fallen battlemage. They raise the flesh along with it.
Slavering Nulls
Whenever Slavering Nulls deals combat damage to a player, if you control a Swamp, you may have that player discard a card.
Having lost their minds, they now want yours.
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.)
Morgue Toad
Sacrifice Morgue Toad: Add {U}{R}.
"The toads of Urborg aren't fast, powerful, or pleasant, but they have their uses."
—Ertai
Hellfire Mongrel
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has two or fewer cards in hand, Hellfire Mongrel deals 2 damage to that player.
There is no fondness between the hound and its master. There is only a common appreciation of the hunt.
