Fighting Drake
Flying
Two things are needed to survive the harsh skies of Rath: a thick hide and a thicker skull.
Forbid
Buyback—Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Counter target spell.
Gaseous Form
Enchant creature
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by enchanted creature.
"It's hard to hurt anyone when you're as transparent as your motives."
—Ertai, wizard adept
Hammerhead Shark
Hammerhead Shark can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
Cross the eyes of a hammerhead and you'll dot its teeth.
Horned Turtle
"So like men are they: a hardened shell with fragile flesh beneath."
—Selenia, dark angel
Intuition
Search your library for three cards and reveal them. Target opponent chooses one. Put that card into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Then shuffle.
Killer Whale
{U}: Killer Whale gains flying until end of turn.
Hunger is like the sea: deep, endless, and unforgiving.
Legacy's Allure
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a treasure counter on Legacy's Allure.
Sacrifice Legacy's Allure: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of treasure counters on Legacy's Allure. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Legerdemain
Exchange control of target artifact or creature and another target permanent that shares one of those types with it. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Squee tucked the warm ball in his pocket and slipped a pebble in its place. "Glok," he mumbled, and hid.
Mana Leak
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
"The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy."
—Volrath
Mawcor
Flying
{T}: Mawcor deals 1 damage to any target.
From its maw comes neither word nor whisper—only wind.
Meditate
Draw four cards. You skip your next turn.
"Part of me believes that Barrin taught me meditation simply to shut me up."
—Ertai, wizard adept
Merfolk Looter
{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
In the depths of Rootwater, salvage and sewage differ only in texture.
Mnemonic Sliver
All Slivers have "{2}, Sacrifice this permanent: Draw a card."
"A jigsaw puzzle that lives, breeds, and thinks."
—Hanna, *Weatherlight* navigator
Rootwater Hunter
{T}: Rootwater Hunter deals 1 damage to any target.
"Bitter water, vicious wave;
Shadow-cold shallows, root-made maze.
Home's angry embrace."
—Rootwater Saga
Scrivener
When Scrivener enters the battlefield, you may return target instant card from your graveyard to your hand.
"History is a potent weapon."
—Karn, silver golem
Sea Monster
Sea Monster can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
Water is life. Or perhaps it is just something to wash it down with.
Shadow Rift
Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Draw a card.
Sift
Draw three cards, then discard a card.
"Twice I have let the Legacy slip away. Never again."
—Karn, silver golem
Silver Wyvern
Flying
{U}: Change the target of target spell or ability that targets only Silver Wyvern. The new target must be a creature.
Spell Blast
Counter target spell with mana value X. (For example, if that spell's mana cost is {3}{U}{U}, X is 5.)
Call it the thinking mage's version of brute force.
Thalakos Drifters
Discard a card: Thalakos Drifters gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
They drift in and out of shadow and ever on toward madness.
Thalakos Scout
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Discard a card: Return Thalakos Scout to its owner's hand.
Thalakos Seer
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
When Thalakos Seer leaves the battlefield, draw a card.
"You see our world when you shut your eyes so tightly that tiny shapes float before them."
—Lyna, to Ertai
Time Ebb
Put target creature on top of its owner's library.
"Gone today, here tomorrow."
—Ertai, wizard adept
Time Warp
Target player takes an extra turn after this one.
"Let's do it again!"
—Squee, goblin cabin hand
Tradewind Rider
Flying
{T}, Tap two untapped creatures you control: Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
It is said that the wind will blow the world past if you wait long enough.
Twitch
You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.
Draw a card.
Battles are won in nuance.
Volrath's Curse
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated. That creature's controller may sacrifice a permanent for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.
{1}{U}: Return Volrath's Curse to its owner's hand.
Wayward Soul
Flying
{U}: Put Wayward Soul on top of its owner's library.
"No home, no heart, no hope."
—Stronghold graffito
Whispers of the Muse
Buyback {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Draw a card.
"I followed her song only to find it was a dirge."
—Crovax
Wind Dancer
Flying
{T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
"Flying like a bird does not make you as free as one."
—Volrath
Wind Drake
Flying
Orim regarded Gerrard coolly. "You are like the drake," she said, her expression unchanging. "It works hard to maintain its position, but to us it seems to glide along effortlessly. You must do the same."
Winged Sliver
All Sliver creatures have flying.
"Everything around here has cut a deal with gravity."
—Gerrard of the Weatherlight
Cannibalize
Choose two target creatures controlled by the same player. Exile one of those creatures and put two +1/+1 counters on the other.
"Mine."
Carnophage
At the beginning of your upkeep, tap Carnophage unless you pay 1 life.
Eating is all it knows.
Clot Sliver
All Slivers have "{2}: Regenerate this permanent."
"One would think I would be accustomed to unexpected returns."
—Hanna, *Weatherlight* navigator
Coercion
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card.
"There's very little that escapes me, Greven. And you will escape very little if you fail."
—Volrath
Coffin Queen
You may choose not to untap Coffin Queen during your untap step.
{2}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. When Coffin Queen becomes untapped or you lose control of Coffin Queen, exile that creature.
Commander Greven il-Vec
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When Commander Greven il-Vec enters the battlefield, sacrifice a creature.
"Rage is the only freedom left to me."
Corpse Dance
Buyback {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Return the top creature card of your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Crovax the Cursed
Crovax the Cursed enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Crovax. If you don't, remove a +1/+1 counter from Crovax.
{B}: Crovax gains flying until end of turn.
Cursed Flesh
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 and has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
A farewell to arms . . . and feet . . . and legs . . .
Dark Banishing
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
"It is the way of most wizards to begin by exiling themselves and to end by exiling everyone else."
—Hanna, *Weatherlight* navigator
Dark Ritual
Add {B}{B}{B}.
"If there is such a thing as too much power, I have not discovered it."
—Volrath
Dauthi Horror
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Dauthi Horror can't be blocked by white creatures.
Dauthi Jackal
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
{B}{B}, Sacrifice Dauthi Jackal: Destroy target blocking creature.
"All dauthi are jackals, regardless of breed."
—Lyna, soltari emissary
Dauthi Marauder
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
"The dauthi came from beneath the ruins one night, and the darkness cast them in the best possible light."
—Soltari Tales of Life
