Pearled Unicorn

Creature - Unicorn

"‘Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!' ‘Well, now that we have seen each other,' said the Unicorn, ‘if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.'"
-Lewis Carroll

Personal Incarnation

Creature - Avatar Incarnation

: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to Personal Incarnation this turn is dealt to its owner instead. Any player may activate this ability, but only if he or she owns Personal Incarnation.

When Personal Incarnation dies, its owner loses half his or her life, rounded up.

Phantasmal Forces

Creature - Illusion

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Phantasmal Forces unless you pay .

These beings embody the essence of true heroes long dead. Summoned from the dreamrealms, they rise to meet their enemies.

Phantom Monster

Creature - Illusion

Flying

"While, like a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door,
A hideous throng rush out forever,
And laugh-but smile no more."
-Edgar Allan Poe, "The Haunted Palace"

Pirate Ship

Creature - Human Pirate

Pirate Ship can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

: Pirate Ship deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

When you control no Islands, sacrifice Pirate Ship.

Plague Rats

Creature - Rat

Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.

"Should you a Rat to madness tease
Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..."
-Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"

Prodigal Sorcerer

Creature - Human Wizard

: Prodigal Sorcerer deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Occasionally a member of the Institute of Arcane Study acquires a taste for worldly pleasures. Seldom do they have trouble finding employment.

Roc of Kher Ridges

Creature - Bird

Flying

We encountered a valley topped with immense boulders and eerie rock formations. Suddenly one of these boulders toppled from its perch and sprouted gargantuan wings, casting a shadow of darkness and sending us fleeing in terror.

Rock Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Rock Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

For each 1 damage that would be dealt to Rock Hydra, if it has a +1/+1 counter on it, remove a +1/+1 counter from it and prevent that 1 damage.

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Rock Hydra this turn.

: Put a +1/+1 counter on Rock Hydra. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Scavenging Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on Scavenging Ghoul for each creature that died this turn.

Remove a corpse counter from Scavenging Ghoul: Regenerate Scavenging Ghoul.

Scryb Sprites

Creature - Faerie

Flying

The only sound was the gentle clicking of the Faeries' wings. Then those intruders who were still standing turned and fled. One thing was certain: they didn't think the Scryb were very funny anymore.

Sea Serpent

Creature - Serpent

Sea Serpent can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

When you control no Islands, sacrifice Sea Serpent.

Legend has it that Serpents used to be bigger, but how could that be?

Sedge Troll

Creature - Troll

Sedge Troll gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp.

: Regenerate Sedge Troll.

The stench in the hovel was overpowering; something loathsome was cooking. Occasionally something surfaced in the thick paste, but my host would casually push it down before I could make out what it was.

Shanodin Dryads

Creature - Dryad

Forestwalk

Moving without sound, swift figures pass through branches and undergrowth completely unhindered. One with the trees around them, the Dryads of Shanodin Forest are seen only when they wish to be.

Thicket Basilisk

Creature - Basilisk

Whenever Thicket Basilisk blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

Moss-covered statues littered the area, a macabre monument to the Basilisk's power.

Timber Wolves

Creature - Wolf

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Though many think of Wolves as solitary predators, they are actually extremely social animals. During a hunt they often call to each other, which can be quite unsettling for their prey.

Two-Headed Giant of Foriys

Creature - Giant

Trample

Two-Headed Giant of Foriys can block an additional creature.

None know if this Giant is the result of aberrant magics, Siamese twins, or a mentalist's schizophrenia.

Uthden Troll

Creature - Troll

: Regenerate Uthden Troll.

"Oi oi oi, me gotta hurt in 'ere,
Oi oi oi, me smell a ting is near,
Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da
hurt'll disappear."
-Traditional

Vesuvan Doppelganger

Creature - Shapeshifter

You may have Vesuvan Doppelganger enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield except it doesn't copy that creature's color and it gains "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have this creature become a copy of target creature except it doesn't copy that creature's color. If you do, this creature gains this ability."

Veteran Bodyguard

Creature - Human

As long as Veteran Bodyguard is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to Veteran Bodyguard instead.

Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.

Wall of Brambles

Creature - Plant Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Regenerate Wall of Brambles.

"What else, when chaos draws all forces inward to shape a single leaf." -Conrad Aiken

Wall of Ice

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

"And through the drifts the snowy cliffs/ Did send a dismal sheen:/ Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken-/ The ice was all between."/-Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Wall of Stone

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

The Earth herself lends her strength to these walls of living stone, which possess the stability of ancient mountains. These mighty bulwarks thwart ground-based troops, providing welcome relief for weary warriors who defend the land.

Wall of Water

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Wall of Water gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

A deafening roar arose as the fury of an enormous vertical river supplanted our serenity. Eddies turned into whirling geysers, leveling everything in their path.

War Mammoth

Creature - Elephant

Trample

I didn't think Mammoths could ever hold a candle to a well-trained battle horse. Then one day I turned my back on a drunken soldier. His blow never landed; Mi'cha flung the brute over ten meters.

Water Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Unpredictable as the sea itself, Water Elementals shift without warning from tranquility to tempest. Capricious and fickle, they flow restlessly from one shape to another, expressing their moods with their physical forms.

Zombie Master

Creature - Zombie

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk.

Other Zombies have ": Regenerate this permanent."

They say the Zombie Master controlled these foul creatures even before his own death, but now that he is one of them, nothing can make them betray him.