Riddlekeeper

Creature - Homunculus

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Fools surrender their sanity to his riddles. Even greater fools try to solve them.

Akrasan Squire

Creature - Human Soldier

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

Bant's armies are primarily composed of members of the Mortar caste, loyal commoners who haven't yet earned a sigil.

Angel's Herald

Creature - Human Cleric

, , Sacrifice a green creature, a white creature, and a blue creature: Search your library for a card named Empyrial Archangel and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Rigorous faith and belief are rewarded on occasion, and richly so.

Bant Battlemage

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

, : Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"A night attack will be easy. We'll make an air raid over the Akrasan border. Just get me some flint to light the war torches."

Battlegrace Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

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

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Gustrider Exuberant

Creature - Human Wizard

Flying

Sacrifice Gustrider Exuberant: Creatures you control with power 5 or greater gain flying until end of turn.

"The elves claim the canopy. The nacatl claim the mountains. I suppose you think we ought to stay on the jungle floor?"

Knight of the Skyward Eye

Creature - Human Knight

: Knight of the Skyward Eye gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

The Order of the Skyward Eye does the bidding of an evil force, unwittingly stirring fear and mistrust across Bant in accordance with his plans.

Knight of the White Orchid

Creature - Human Knight

First strike

When Knight of the White Orchid enters the battlefield, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Both guide and guard on open plain.

Knight-Captain of Eos

Creature - Human Knight

When Knight-Captain of Eos enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

, Sacrifice a Soldier: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

The strength of Bant's caste system is the unfailing loyalty of its meekest members.

Ranger of Eos

Creature - Human Soldier

When Ranger of Eos enters the battlefield, you may search your library for up to two creature cards with converted mana cost 1 or less, reveal them, and put them into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.

At his side, humble beasts become weapons more deadly than sharpened steel.

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

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.)

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.

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.

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

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

Cathartic Adept

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Forget. Only then will there be space for hope between the pain and fear."

Dawnray Archer

Creature - Human Archer

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

, : Dawnray Archer deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Their shots are fired most often as signals-or at those who didn't get the message.

Fatestitcher

Creature - Zombie Wizard

: You may tap or untap another target permanent.

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.)

Jhessian Lookout

Creature - Human Scout

She stands ready, always watchful, knowing that weeks of peace and serenity can be overturned by a single distant sail.

Kathari Screecher

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

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.)

Kederekt Leviathan

Creature - Leviathan

When Kederekt Leviathan enters the battlefield, return all other nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

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.)

Outrider of Jhess

Creature - Human Knight

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

The island nation of Jhess is under constant siege from Valeron on the mainland. Riders traverse the coastline, always on the lookout for sails or aven.

Archdemon of Unx

Creature - Demon

Flying, trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a non-Zombie creature, then put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

The necropolis at Unx was once a living city, its streets untrodden by death.

Blister Beetle

Creature - Insect

When Blister Beetle enters the battlefield, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Warriors of the Rip Clan wear their beetle-acid scars proudly, even modifying clothing and armor to better display the trophy.

Corpse Connoisseur

Creature - Zombie Wizard

When Corpse Connoisseur enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a creature card and put that card into your graveyard. If you do, shuffle your library.

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.)

Cunning Lethemancer

Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card.

"Give me your memories, and you will have release from the suffering they bring you."

Death Baron

Creature - Zombie Wizard

Skeleton creatures you control and other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch.

For the necromancer barons, killing and recruitment are one and the same.

Deathgreeter

Creature - Human Shaman

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

"The bones of allies grant wisdom. The bones of enemies grant strength. The bones of dragons grant life eternal."

Demon's Herald

Creature - Human Wizard

, , Sacrifice a blue creature, a black creature, and a red creature: Search your library for a card named Prince of Thralls and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

"May these deaths be the first of many."

Dreg Reaver

Creature - Zombie Beast

"On our thirty-fourth day of digging, we unearthed a chamber that contained the intact remains of several species long extinct from Grixis. One in particular should make a fine siege engine . . . ."
-Last notes of Shungus Nod, fleshcrafter

Dregscape Zombie

Creature - Zombie

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.)

The undead of Grixis are fueled by their hatred of the living.

Fleshbag Marauder

Creature - Zombie Warrior

When Fleshbag Marauder enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature.

Grixis is a world where the only things found in abundance are death and decay. Corpses, whole or in part, are the standard currency among necromancers and demons.

Grixis Battlemage

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Draw a card, then discard a card.

, : Target creature can't block this turn.

Vitals of Grixis who eschew undeath must scrape and scratch to retain their mortality. The result is a breed of inventive mages.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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.)

Bloodpyre Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Sacrifice Bloodpyre Elemental: Bloodpyre Elemental deals 4 damage to target creature. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Elementals born of Jund are as cruel and unstable as the plane itself.

Bloodthorn Taunter

Creature - Human Scout

Haste

: Target creature with power 5 or greater gains haste until end of turn.

Naya's celebrants stoke the gargantuans into a rage, loosing a tide of muscle with the precision of an arrow.

Caldera Hellion

Creature - Hellion

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 Caldera Hellion enters the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to each creature.

Dragon's Herald

Creature - Goblin Shaman

, , Sacrifice a black creature, a red creature, and a green creature: Search your library for a card named Hellkite Overlord and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

The penultimate step of the ritual involves bathing in a delicious glaze.

Exuberant Firestoker

Creature - Human Druid Shaman

At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature with power 5 or greater, you may have Exuberant Firestoker deal 2 damage to target player.

: Add to your mana pool.

The artistry of Etlan's firedancers is more spectacular when behemoths join in.

Goblin Mountaineer

Creature - Goblin Scout

Mountainwalk

Goblin lairs sit high in Jund's mountains. This gives the goblins easy access to the sacrificial peaks above and lets them build up a head of steam before attacking prey down below.

Hell's Thunder

Creature - Elemental

Flying, haste

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Hell's Thunder.

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.)

Hissing Iguanar

Creature - Lizard

Whenever another creature dies, you may have Hissing Iguanar deal 1 damage to target player.

Viashino thrashes keep iguanars as hunting companions, giving them wounded captives as playthings.

Incurable Ogre

Creature - Ogre Mutant

Each mutation causes the incurables to look vastly different from one another. They are left with only one thing in common: their insatiable lust for the slaughter.

Jund Battlemage

Creature - Human Shaman

, : Target player loses 1 life.

, : Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

"Of your blood I will make my mead, an offering to the thirsty jungle."

Predator Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying, haste

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.)

Dragons make for spiteful gods.

Ridge Rannet

Creature - Beast

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

"Only those with the strength to seize their destiny deserve to have one."
-Nacatl scratchforms

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.

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.)

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.

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.

Viashino Skeleton

Creature - Viashino Skeleton

, Discard a card: Regenerate Viashino Skeleton.

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

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.)

Algae Gharial

Creature - Crocodile

Shroud

Whenever another creature dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Algae Gharial.

It lurks just under the surface, using the algae-choked tar pits of Jund as both home and hunting blind.

Behemoth's Herald

Creature - Elf Shaman

, , Sacrifice a red creature, a green creature, and a white creature: Search your library for a card named Godsire and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

"Mine is an insatiable god, with appetites as magnificent as the jungle itself."

Cavern Thoctar

Creature - Beast

: Cavern Thoctar gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Natives of Naya know better than to loiter near the mouth of a cave. Two glowing red eyes and the stench of foul breath are all the warning you're likely to get.

Court Archers

Creature - Human Archer

Reach (This can block creatures with flying.)

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

The Sun-Dappled Court of Valeron stands secure behind a wall of steel-tipped arrows.

Cylian Elf

Creature - Elf Scout

From her sunsail tent high above the forest floor, an elf harkener can hear the footfalls of a single creature through the cacophony of Naya's jungle sounds.

Druid of the Anima

Creature - Elf Druid

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

Although the Anima herself remains at the Sacellum, her druids roam Naya, collecting mana bonds with every location in the world.

Drumhunter

Creature - Human Druid Warrior

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

: Add to your mana pool.

"I feel the vine-rhythm as my friends drive the beast to me. I will not miss my mark."

Feral Hydra

Creature - Hydra Beast

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

: Put a +1/+1 counter on Feral Hydra. Any player may activate this ability.

It shreds its prey as each head fights for the choicest bits.

Godtoucher

Creature - Elf Cleric

, : Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target creature with power 5 or greater this turn.

"Gargantuans die not in moments but in moons. There is still time to aid this noble ancient."

Jungle Weaver

Creature - Spider

Reach (This can block creatures with flying.)

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

Weavers' webs wall off swaths of territory more effectively than any portcullis made of iron.

Keeper of Progenitus

Creature - Elf Druid

Whenever a player taps a Mountain, Forest, or Plains for mana, that player adds one mana to his or her mana pool of any type that land produced.

He watches over the valley where Progenitus sleeps, culling signs from its steaming breaths.

Manaplasm

Creature - Ooze

Whenever you cast a spell, Manaplasm gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.

Urak froze when he heard it. That was his first mistake. He turned and cast a dramatic ward spell. That was his last.

Mosstodon

Creature - Plant Elephant

: Target creature with power 5 or greater gains trample until end of turn.

Whether gargantuans are the manifested will of Progenitus or simply the result of overabundant resources is moot when a herd of them is thundering at you.

Mycoloth

Creature - Fungus

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.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield for each +1/+1 counter on Mycoloth.

Naya Battlemage

Creature - Human Shaman

, : Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

, : Tap target creature.

"I have trained in all three schools of magic."

Rhox Charger

Creature - Rhino Soldier

Trample

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

"Momentum is a great ally."

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.

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.

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.

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."

Blood Cultist

Creature - Human Wizard

: Blood Cultist deals 1 damage to target creature.

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

"To immortality."

Broodmate Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Broodmate Dragon enters the battlefield, put a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Frozen in fear, the goblins stared upward at the circling hunter-and were promptly eaten by its diving mate.

Bull Cerodon

Creature - Beast

Vigilance, haste

It holds motionless vigil, watching Naya in silence through the screen of the whitecover. When it senses anything amiss, it launches forward with the uncanny sound of torn fog.

Carrion Thrash

Creature - Viashino Warrior

When Carrion Thrash dies, you may pay . If you do, return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Viashino hunt in gangs called thrashes. Not all thrashes hunt the freshest game.

Deft Duelist

Creature - Human Rogue

First strike

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Some Serul Cove rogues traffic in stolen sigils, which fetch a high price from those who would rather pay for honor than earn it.

Empyrial Archangel

Creature - Angel

Flying, shroud

All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to Empyrial Archangel instead.

Her wings are the prayers of the devoted; her sword, the despair of the vile.

Fire-Field Ogre

Creature - Ogre Mutant

First strike

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.)

Goblin Deathraiders

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Trample

Every once in a while, when they aren't getting incinerated in lava, crushed under rock slides, or devoured by dragons, goblins experience moments of unmitigated glory in battle.

Godsire

Creature - Beast

Vigilance

: Put an 8/8 Beast creature token that's red, green, and white onto the battlefield.

"Lay sacrifice to the godsire that it may spare us, but save some for his progeny who also will hunger."
-Syeena, elvish godtoucher

Hellkite Overlord

Creature - Dragon

Flying, trample, haste

: Hellkite Overlord gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Regenerate Hellkite Overlord.

"The dragon has no pretense of compassion, no false mask of civilization-just hunger, heat, and need."
-Sarkhan Vol

Jhessian Infiltrator

Creature - Human Rogue

Jhessian Infiltrator is unblockable.

The Jhessian navy makes successful raids on Valeron's coastal towns thanks to their spies planted during peacetime.

Kederekt Creeper

Creature - Horror

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

Kederekt Creeper can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.

Bloated with venom, it crawls Grixis looking for victims to ooze onto.

Kresh the Bloodbraided

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

Whenever another creature dies, you may put X +1/+1 counters on Kresh the Bloodbraided, where X is that creature's power.

Each of his twenty-two braids is bound with bone and leather from a foe.

Mayael the Anima

Legendary Creature - Elf Shaman

, : Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature card with power 5 or greater from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

The sacred Anima's eyes are blind to all but the grandest truths.

Prince of Thralls

Creature - Demon

Whenever a permanent an opponent controls is put into a graveyard, put that card onto the battlefield under your control unless that opponent pays 3 life.

"There are none alive that I cannot crush. There are none dead that I do not command."

Qasali Ambusher

Creature - Cat Warrior

Reach

If a creature is attacking you and you control a Forest and a Plains, you may cast Qasali Ambusher without paying its mana cost and as though it had flash.

The surprise of a battle cry can be as deadly as a blade.

Rafiq of the Many

Legendary Creature - Human Knight

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

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains double strike until end of turn.

Many sigils, one purpose.

Rakeclaw Gargantuan

Creature - Beast

: Target creature with power 5 or greater gains first strike until end of turn.

Naya teems with gargantuans, titanic monsters to whom both nature and civilization defer.

Realm Razer

Creature - Beast

When Realm Razer enters the battlefield, exile all lands.

When Realm Razer leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield tapped under their owners' control.

The behemoth roared, and the world was blasted free of empires and tyrants.

Rhox War Monk

Creature - Rhino Monk

Lifelink

Rhox monks are dedicated to spiritual growth and learning, and most bear the sigils of many students. However, they do not gladly suffer fools or those who disagree with their carefully wrought dogma.