Unholy Officiant
Vigilance
{4}{W}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Unholy Officiant.
"Is this twisted ceremony simply a mockery of the human rite, or has Olivia fallen for her own charade?"
—Sorin Markov
Valorous Stance
Choose one —
• Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
• Destroy target creature with toughness 4 or greater.
Vampire Slayer
Whenever Vampire Slayer deals damage to a Vampire, destroy that creature.
When Kaya saved her village, Berit realized even vampires could be killed. When she brought one down herself, she realized she had found her calling.
Voice of the Blessed
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Voice of the Blessed.
As long as Voice of the Blessed has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has flying and vigilance.
As long as Voice of the Blessed has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has indestructible.
Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity
At the beginning of your end step, put an invitation counter on Wedding Announcement. If you attacked with two or more creatures this turn, draw a card. Otherwise, create a 1/1 white Human creature token. Then if Wedding Announcement has three or more invitation counters on it, transform it.
Creatures you control get +1/+1.
Vampires from every bloodline mingled together, all swelling with pride to be seen at the event of the century.
Welcoming Vampire
Flying
Whenever one or more other creatures with power 2 or less enter the battlefield under your control, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
From the moment they arrived, wedding guests were met with a pageant of wealth and excess.
Alchemist's Retrieval
Cleave {1}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Return target nonland permanent [you control] to its owner's hand.
To most, a terrifying apparition. To a necro-alchemist, a potent fuel source.
Binding Geist // Spectral Binding
Whenever Binding Geist attacks, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-0 until end of turn.
Disturb {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-0.
If Spectral Binding would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Biolume Egg // Biolume Serpent
Defender
When Biolume Egg enters the battlefield, scry 2.
When you sacrifice Biolume Egg, return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Serpents leave their eggs in the cold and inky depths...
Sacrifice two Islands: Biolume Serpent can't be blocked this turn.
...knowing their hatchlings are more fearsome than anything else that might come along.
Cemetery Illuminator
Flying
Whenever Cemetery Illuminator enters the battlefield or attacks, exile a card from a graveyard.
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
Once each turn, you may cast a spell from the top of your library if it shares a card type with a card exiled with Cemetery Illuminator.
Chill of the Grave
This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a Zombie.
Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Draw a card.
Frozen is frozen, whether it's with cold, terror, or both.
Cobbled Lancer
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard.
{3}{U}, Exile Cobbled Lancer from your graveyard: Draw a card.
"Don't worry everyone—I hear hoofbeats! The Gavony Riders are coming to save us!"
—Adin, Moorland villager
Consuming Tide
Each player chooses a nonland permanent they control. Return all nonland permanents not chosen this way to their owners' hands. Then you draw a card for each opponent who has more cards in their hand than you.
Nephalia's tides obey an unforgiving moon.
Cradle of Safety
Flash
Enchant creature you control
When Cradle of Safety enters the battlefield, enchanted creature gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Cruel Witness
Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
"I escaped, so why do I still feel like I'm being watched?"
—Gregel, militia leader
Diver Skaab
Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When Diver Skaab exploits a creature, target creature's owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library.
It doesn't need to breathe, but the suit does help keep the parts together.
Dreadlight Monstrosity
Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)
{3}{U}{U}: Dreadlight Monstrosity can't be blocked this turn. Activate only if you own a card in exile.
Dreamshackle Geist
Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose up to one —
• Tap target creature.
• Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Fear of Death
Enchant creature
When Fear of Death enters the battlefield, mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Enchanted creature gets -X/-0, where X is the number of cards in your graveyard.
Geistlight Snare
This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a Spirit. It also costs {1} less to cast if you control an enchantment.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
Tamil had always wanted a closer look at a geist's lantern. Now he had an eternity to study one.
Geralf, Visionary Stitcher
Zombies you control have flying.
{U}, {T}, Sacrifice another nontoken creature: Create an X/X blue Zombie creature token, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.
"Do you like it, Sister? Its dreadful visage was inspired by your own."
Gutter Skulker // Gutter Shortcut
Gutter Skulker can't be blocked as long as it's attacking alone.
Disturb {3}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
Geists have a knack for showing up wherever they're least expected.
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked as long as it's attacking alone.
If Gutter Shortcut would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Some people take that as inspiration.
Hullbreaker Horror
Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Inspired Idea
Cleave {3}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Draw three cards. [Your maximum hand size is reduced by three for the rest of the game.]
Stitching is an ever-evolving field, with each new advancement reaching a new height of horror.
Jacob Hauken, Inspector // Hauken's Insight
{T}: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand face down. You may look at that card for as long as it remains exiled. You may pay {4}{U}{U}. If you do, transform Jacob Hauken, Inspector.
"Our world may be dark, but there's still plenty to see."
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library face down. You may look at that card for as long as it remains exiled.
Once during each of your turns, you may play a land or cast a spell from among the cards exiled with this permanent without paying its mana cost.
Lantern Bearer // Lanterns' Lift
Flying
Disturb {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
Val didn't know what the silent geist was offering . . .
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.
If Lanterns' Lift would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
. . . but she knew it would be rude to refuse.
Lunar Rejection
Cleave {3}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Return target [Wolf or Werewolf] creature to its owner's hand.
Draw a card.
Mirrorhall Mimic // Ghastly Mimicry
You may have Mirrorhall Mimic enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Spirit in addition to its other types.
Disturb {3}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted creature, except it's a Spirit in addition to its other types.
If Ghastly Mimicry would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Mischievous Catgeist // Catlike Curiosity
Whenever Mischievous Catgeist deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Disturb {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
"I never get any knitting done, but I don't entirely mind."
—Lorn, Lambholt innkeeper
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
If Catlike Curiosity would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Necroduality
Whenever a nontoken Zombie enters the battlefield under your control, create a token that's a copy of that creature.
"Geralf's prowess continues to grow. He can now replicate my own creations with near-perfect accuracy."
—Ludevic's laboratory notes
Overcharged Amalgam
Flash
Flying
Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When Overcharged Amalgam exploits a creature, counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability.
Patchwork Crawler
{2}{U}: Exile target creature card from your graveyard and put a +1/+1 counter on Patchwork Crawler.
Patchwork Crawler has all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with it.
Repository Skaab
Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When Repository Skaab exploits a creature, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Created to capture the spark of genius for later use.
Scattered Thoughts
Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of those cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Stitchers delegate the most important tasks to assistants with a good eye for detail.
Screaming Swarm
Flying
Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, target player mills that many cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
{2}{U}: Put Screaming Swarm from your graveyard into your library second from the top.
Selhoff Entomber
{T}, Discard a creature card: Draw a card.
It knows one fundamental truth: bodies belong in graves.
Serpentine Ambush
Until end of turn, target creature becomes a blue Serpent with base power and toughness 5/5.
The merchant did guarantee the new bait would bring in something big.
Skywarp Skaab
Flying
When Skywarp Skaab enters the battlefield, you may exile two creature cards from your graveyard. If you do, draw a card.
"If I wanted all the parts to match, I wouldn't have become a stitcher."
—Barton, stitcher
Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit
Soulcipher Board enters the battlefield with three omen counters on it.
{1}{U}, {T}: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your graveyard.
Whenever a creature card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, remove an omen counter from Soulcipher Board. Then if it has no omen counters on it, transform it.
Flying
Cipherbound Spirit can block only creatures with flying.
{3}{U}: Draw two cards, then discard a card.
Rather than consort with demons, the Quietus Cult seeks wisdom from the dead.
Steelclad Spirit
Defender
Whenever an enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, Steelclad Spirit can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.
Some geists imitate the lives they left behind. Others follow the dreams they never realized.
Stitched Assistant
Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When Stitched Assistant exploits a creature, scry 1, then draw a card. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom of your library.)
Stormchaser Drake
Flying
Whenever Stormchaser Drake becomes the target of a spell you control, draw a card.
"Blasted drake's interfering with the conductivity again. Garl! Go chase it away."
—Ludevic, necro-alchemist
Syncopate
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
"Fool! Can't you see the tide has turned against you?"
Syphon Essence
Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. Create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
The third step in creating a skaab requires draining the body of blood and replacing it with *viscus vitae*, a mixture of angel's blood and lamp oil.
Thirst for Discovery
Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a basic land card.
"This is your only warning, alchemist. The secrets of the sea are not yours to behold. Lord Krothuss will not be so merciful next time."
—Runo Stromkirk
Wanderlight Spirit
Flying
Wanderlight Spirit can block only creatures with flying.
The towers and catwalks of the Voldaren fortress are lit by the lanterns of geists endlessly seeking a way out.
Wash Away
Cleave {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Counter target spell [that wasn't cast from its owner's hand].
"May the ocean take it"
—Nephalia expression meaning
"good riddance"
Whispering Wizard
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Ivold was aghast when his device revealed the full scope of the geist infestation.