Sigiled Paladin

Creature - Human Knight

First strike

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Each sigil marks the recognition of a great deed and signifies a duty owed to the one who granted it.

Skeletal Kathari

Creature - Bird Skeleton

Flying

, Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate Skeletal Kathari.

Undeath doesn't end the kathari's search for carrion; it only removes one corpse from the Dregscape.

Skill Borrower

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

As long as the top card of your library is an artifact or creature card, Skill Borrower has all activated abilities of that card. (If any of the abilities use that card's name, use this creature's name instead.)

Skullmulcher

Creature - Elemental

Devour 1 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

When Skullmulcher enters the battlefield, draw a card for each creature it devoured.

Spearbreaker Behemoth

Creature - Beast

Spearbreaker Behemoth is indestructible.

: Target creature with power 5 or greater is indestructible this turn.

Few Nayans dare hunt the gargantuans. They're regarded not as animals but as forces of nature, like landslides or typhoons.

Sphinx Sovereign

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

At the beginning of your end step, you gain 3 life if Sphinx Sovereign is untapped. Otherwise, each opponent loses 3 life.

"What rises without legs, whispers without a voice, bites without teeth, and dies without having life?"

Sphinx's Herald

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Wizard

, , Sacrifice a white creature, a blue creature, and a black creature: Search your library for a card named Sphinx Sovereign and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

He calls a riddle through the gaps of cloven clouds, hoping for an answer.

Sprouting Thrinax

Creature - Lizard

When Sprouting Thrinax dies, put three 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

The vast network of predation on Jund has actually caused some strange creatures to adapt to being eaten.

Steelclad Serpent

Artifact Creature - Serpent

Steelclad Serpent can't attack unless you control another artifact.

"From the highest towers to the deepest sea, all life must be touched by etherium."
-Lodus of the Ethersworn

Steward of Valeron

Creature - Human Druid Knight

Vigilance

: Add to your mana pool.

Knight-stewards guard the Sun-Dappled Court, a grove of immense, sculptured olive trees that represent Valeron's twelve noble families.

Stoic Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying, vigilance

Players can't untap more than one creature during their untap steps.

Even the most battle-hardened soldiers pause in her presence for a moment of introspection.

Sunseed Nurturer

Creature - Human Druid Wizard

At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature with power 5 or greater, you may gain 2 life.

: Add to your mana pool.

Sunseeders quest for areas of open sky. They train plowbeasts to beat back the dense jungle long enough to cultivate a crop.

Tar Fiend

Creature - Elemental

Devour 2 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

When Tar Fiend enters the battlefield, target player discards a card for each creature it devoured.

Thorn-Thrash Viashino

Creature - Viashino Warrior

Devour 2 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

: Thorn-Thrash Viashino gains trample until end of turn.

Thoughtcutter Agent

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

, : Target player loses 1 life and reveals his or her hand.

Agents of the Architects of Will mark their victims as a reminder that their secrets are secret no longer.

Thunder-Thrash Elder

Creature - Viashino Warrior

Devour 3 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with three times that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

Viashino thrashes are led by elders who have survived countless challenges.

Tidehollow Sculler

Artifact Creature - Zombie

When Tidehollow Sculler enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.

When Tidehollow Sculler leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.

Tidehollow Strix

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

The scullers beneath Esper keep strixes as trained pets, and set them loose when a fare refuses to pay.

Topan Ascetic

Creature - Human Monk

Tap an untapped creature you control: Topan Ascetic gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Monks from Topa wander all of Bant, encouraging the Unbeholden to find their place in society through honorable combat.

Tower Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

"Esper, like any work of art, can be truly appreciated only from a distance."
-Tezzeret

Undead Leotau

Creature - Zombie Cat

: Undead Leotau gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Unearth (: 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.)

Vectis Silencers

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Silencers gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.)

Even on Esper, there are those who eschew the use of magic in favor of simpler methods.

Vein Drinker

Creature - Vampire

Flying

, : Vein Drinker deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to Vein Drinker.

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Vein Drinker this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Vein Drinker.

Viashino Skeleton

Creature - Viashino Skeleton

, Discard a card: Regenerate Viashino Skeleton.

Underneath the Dregscape lay the remains of creatures long extinct from Grixis.

Viscera Dragger

Creature - Zombie Ogre Warrior

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Unearth (: 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.)

Vithian Stinger

Creature - Human Shaman

: Vithian Stinger deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Unearth (: 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.)

Waveskimmer Aven

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

The greatest gift you can give a sea aven is solitude.

Welkin Guide

Creature - Bird Cleric

Flying

When Welkin Guide enters the battlefield, target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.

"Those talons really dig into your skin, but it's better than being dropped."
-Rafiq of the Many

Wild Nacatl

Creature - Cat Warrior

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."

Windwright Mage

Artifact Creature - Human Wizard

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Windwright Mage has flying as long as an artifact card is in your graveyard.

She knows the names and secrets of each of Esper's twenty-three winds.

Woolly Thoctar

Creature - Beast

One of the most ferocious and deadly gargantuans, the thoctar never sees its worshippers, but it often awakens surrounded by gifts and sacrifices.

Yoked Plowbeast

Creature - Beast

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"It is sacrilege to confine a gargantuan to the grinding of straight lines. I will pray that it remembers who is the master of this land."
-Syeena, elvish godtoucher

Draco

Artifact Creature - Dragon

Domain - Draco costs less to cast for each basic land type among lands you control.

Flying

Domain - At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Draco unless you pay . This cost is reduced by for each basic land type among lands you control.

Ebon Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Ebon Dragon enters the battlefield, you may have target opponent discard a card.

"The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth."
-Troilus and Cressida, William Shakespeare

Nicol Bolas

Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Nicol Bolas unless you pay .

Whenever Nicol Bolas deals damage to an opponent, that player discards his or her hand.

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Legendary Creature - Dragon Wizard

Flying

Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

: Draw a card.

Rith, the Awakener

Legendary Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever Rith, the Awakener deals combat damage to a player, you may pay . If you do, choose a color, then put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield for each permanent of that color.

Thunder Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Thunder Dragon enters the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to each creature without flying.

Sometimes primitive cultures attributed natural phenomena to monsters. Sometimes they were right.

Two-Headed Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Two-Headed Dragon gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Two-Headed Dragon can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.

Two-Headed Dragon can block an additional creature.