Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas
Dimir Cutpurse
Whenever Dimir Cutpurse deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you draw a card.
Other guilds demand tolls from those who travel their territories, but not House Dimir. It takes its share secretly, one coin purse at a time.
Steamcore Weird
When Steamcore Weird enters the battlefield, if {R} was spent to cast it, it deals 2 damage to any target.
Like many Izzet creations, weirds are based on wild contradictions yet somehow manage to work.
Moroii
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.
"Touched by moroii"
—Undercity slang meaning "to grow old"
Blazing Specter
Flying, haste
Whenever Blazing Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.
Fire-Field Ogre
First strike
Unearth {U}{B}{R} ({U}{B}{R}: 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.)
Shriekmaw
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When Shriekmaw enters the battlefield, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)
Ogre Savant
When Ogre Savant enters the battlefield, if {U} was spent to cast it, return target creature to its owner's hand.
He's an oxymoron.
Jhessian Zombies
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Islandcycling {2}, swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Igneous Pouncer
Haste
Swampcycling {2}, mountaincycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Vapor Snag
Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 1 life.
"This creature is inadequate. Send it to the splicers for innovation."
—Malcator, Executor of Synthesis
Countersquall
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.
"The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
—Nicol Bolas
Obelisk of Grixis
{T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.
Like most features of Grixis, the obelisks that remain from the time of Alara now exist only for dark exploitation.
Recoil
Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Then that player discards a card.
Anything sent into a plagued world is bound to come back infected.
Undermine
Counter target spell. Its controller loses 3 life.
"Which would you like first, the insult or the injury?"
Grixis Charm
Choose one —
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.
• Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.
"So many choices. Shall I choose loathing, hate, or malice today?"
—Eliza of the Keep
Icy Manipulator
{1}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.
In fire there is the spark of chaos and destruction, the seed of life. In ice there is perfect tranquility, perfect order, and the silence of death.
Deep Analysis
Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
"No fact escapes me. Why do you think you can?"
Agonizing Demise
Kicker {1}{R} (You may pay an additional {1}{R} as you cast this spell.)
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. If this spell was kicked, Agonizing Demise deals damage equal to that creature's power to the creature's controller.
Slave of Bolas
Gain control of target creature. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Nicol Bolas doesn't distinguish between servants and victims.
Elder Mastery
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has flying.
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a player, that player discards two cards.
Taste his power, hunger for his command.
Cruel Ultimatum
Target opponent sacrifices a creature, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life.
There is always a greater power.
Profane Command
Choose two —
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Spite // Malice
Counter target noncreature spell.
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Pain // Suffering
Target player discards a card.
Destroy target land.
Rise // Fall
Return target creature card from a graveyard and target creature on the battlefield to their owners' hands.
Target player reveals two cards at random from their hand, then discards each nonland card revealed this way.
Crumbling Necropolis
Crumbling Necropolis enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.
"They say the ruins of Sedraxis were once a shining capital in Vithia. Now it is a blight, a place to be avoided by the living."
—Olcot, Rider of Joffik
Rupture Spire
Rupture Spire enters the battlefield tapped.
When Rupture Spire enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Terramorphic Expanse
{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Take two steps north into the unsettled future, south into the unquiet past, east into the present day, or west into the great unknown.
Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Mountain
({T}: Add {R}.)
