Rockcaster Platoon

Creature - Rhino Soldier

: Rockcaster Platoon deals 2 damage to each creature with flying and each player.

"Aven bandits can be sly. You've got to fill the sky with boulders-and then seek cover immediately."
-Knight-Captain Wyhorn

Rockslide Elemental

Creature - Elemental

First strike

Whenever another creature dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Rockslide Elemental.

On Jund, even the landscape is a deadly hunter. Volcanoes, tar pits, and rock slides seem to prey upon the living.

Sacellum Godspeaker

Creature - Elf Druid

: Reveal any number of creature cards with power 5 or greater from your hand. Add to your mana pool for each card revealed this way.

Her connection to the gargantuans puts her in line to become Anima, a sacred but daunting duty.

Salvage Titan

Artifact Creature - Golem

You may sacrifice three artifacts rather than pay Salvage Titan's mana cost.

Exile three artifact cards from your graveyard: Return Salvage Titan from your graveyard to your hand.

Sanctum Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

When Sanctum Gargoyle enters the battlefield, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

As their supplies of etherium dwindled, mechanists sent gargoyles farther and farther afield in search of salvage.

Sangrite Surge

Sorcery

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains double strike until end of turn.

Some believe the spiky crystal called sangrite is concentrated dragon's breath. Others think it's crystallized life energy. The clans care only about the power it unleashes when crushed.

Sarkhan Vol

Planeswalker - Sarkhan (Loyalty: 4)

+1: Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain haste until end of turn.

-2: Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

-6: Put five 4/4 red Dragon creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

Savage Hunger

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has trample.

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

Savage Lands

Land

Savage Lands enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

Jund is a world as cruel as those who call it home. Their brutal struggles scar the land even as it carves them in its image, a vicious circle spiraling out of control.

Scavenger Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

Whenever another creature dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenger Drake.

Dragons consider drakes to be mockeries of their perfection, destroying them on sight.

Scourge Devil

Creature - Devil

When Scourge Devil enters the battlefield, creatures you control get +1/+0 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.)

Scourglass

Artifact

, Sacrifice Scourglass: Destroy all permanents except for artifacts and lands. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

"Soon I will sleep, eyes closing to a world tarnished with flesh, and then wake to a polished vision."
-Sharuum

Seaside Citadel

Land

Seaside Citadel enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

For wisdom's sake, it was built high to gaze on all things. For glory's sake, it was built high as a testament of power. For strength's sake, it was built high to repel all attacks.

Sedraxis Specter

Creature - Specter

Flying

Whenever Sedraxis Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player discards 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.)

Sedris, the Traitor King

Legendary Creature - Zombie Warrior

Each creature card in your graveyard has unearth . (: Return the card to the battlefield. The creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

He bids his minions rise from their graves to their knees.

Shadowfeed

Instant

Exile target card from a graveyard. You gain 3 life.

"The future is a snake, devouring your life backwards through time. And when you die, believe me, it doesn't stop feeding."
-Sedris, the Traitor King

Sharding Sphinx

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may put a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Whether mechanical or biological, life finds a way to propagate itself.

Sharuum the Hegemon

Legendary Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Sharuum the Hegemon enters the battlefield, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

To gain audience with the hegemon, one must bring a riddle she has not heard.

Shore Snapper

Creature - Beast

: Shore Snapper gains islandwalk until end of turn.

Kathari, the sickly aven of Grixis, have learned that the corpses by the shoreline are more trap than treat.

Sighted-Caste Sorcerer

Creature - Human Wizard

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

: Sighted-Caste Sorcerer gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Sigil Blessing

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +3/+3 and other creatures you control get +1/+1.

"For unwavering commitment and unflinching strength, the Order of the White Orchid confers its sigil. Rise, knight-captain, and do your duty."

Sigil of Distinction

Artifact - Equipment

Sigil of Distinction enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Sigil of Distinction.

Equip-Remove a charge counter from Sigil of Distinction.

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.

Skeletonize

Instant

Skeletonize deals 3 damage to target creature. When a creature dealt damage this way dies this turn, put a 1/1 black Skeleton creature token onto the battlefield with ": Regenerate this creature."

Fire burns away both flesh and freedom.

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.

Soul's Fire

Instant

Target creature you control on the battlefield deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

An avatar he sculpts of anger and flame.

Soul's Grace

Instant

You gain life equal to target creature's power.

An avatar he sculpts of fellowship and light.

Soul's Might

Sorcery

Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's power.

An avatar he sculpts of instinct and force.

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.

Spell Snip

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

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

"Magic cast through a hand of flesh is just as weak as the flesh itself."
-Lodus of the Ethersworn

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.

Swerve

Instant

Change the target of target spell with a single target.

"We can't beat the necromancers in numbers or raw power. We must beat them with ingenuity and timing."
-Rannon, Vithian holdout

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.

Tezzeret the Seeker

Planeswalker - Tezzeret (Loyalty: 4)

+1: Untap up to two target artifacts.

-X: Search your library for an artifact card with converted mana cost X or less and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

-5: Artifacts you control become 5/5 artifact creatures until end of turn.

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.

Titanic Ultimatum

Sorcery

Until end of turn, creatures you control get +5/+5 and gain first strike, lifelink, and trample.

"Retribution is best delivered by claws and rage, with both magnified."
-Ajani

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.

Tortoise Formation

Instant

Creatures you control gain shroud until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

At sea, the Jhessian fleet strikes swiftly and decisively. On land, facing the elite cavalry of Valeron, its marines must rely on more cautious strategies.

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.

Vicious Shadows

Enchantment

Whenever a creature dies, you may have Vicious Shadows deal damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

"Thrashes of the ancient past still linger in spirit and shadow, desperate to sink their claws into our souls."
-Rakka Mar

Violent Ultimatum

Sorcery

Destroy three target permanents.

"Words are a waste of time. Destruction is a language everyone understands."
-Sarkhan Vol

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.)

Volcanic Submersion

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

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

A dragon's death is almost as feared as its life. Old, dying dragons throw themselves into volcanoes, causing massive upheaval and widespread disaster.

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

Where Ancients Tread

Enchantment

Whenever a creature with power 5 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Where Ancients Tread deal 5 damage to target creature or player.

"Never subtle nor cryptic is the reckoning of the mighty."
-Mayael the Anima

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

Form of the Dragon

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, Form of the Dragon deals 5 damage to target creature or player.

At the beginning of each end step, your life total becomes 5.

Creatures without flying can't attack you.

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.