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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."

Mana:
Cardset: Knights vs. Dragons #30 (Unknown)
Shards of Alara #195 (Common)
Type: Instant

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.

Mana:
Cardset: Shards of Alara #219 (Rare)
Type: Artifact

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.

Mana:
Power: 2/2
Cardset: Shards of Alara #27 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

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.

Mana:
Power: 3/2
Cardset: Shards of Alara #88 (Common)
Type: Creature

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.

Mana:
Cardset: Shards of Alara #114 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

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.)

Mana:
Power: 1/3
Cardset: Shards of Alara #56 (Rare)
Type: Artifact Creature

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.

Mana:
Power: 3/3
Cardset: Shards of Alara #148 (Rare)
Type: Creature

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.

Mana:
Cardset: Shards of Alara #115 (Common)
Type: Instant

Soul's Grace

Instant

You gain life equal to target creature's power.

An avatar he sculpts of fellowship and light.

Mana:
Cardset: Shards of Alara #28 (Common)
Type: Instant

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.

Mana:
Cardset: Shards of Alara #149 (Common)
Type: Sorcery

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.

Mana:
Power: 5/5
Cardset: Shards of Alara #150 (Rare)
Type: Creature

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

Mana:
Cardset: Shards of Alara #57 (Common)
Type: Instant

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?"

Mana:
Power: 6/6
Cardset: Shards of Alara #196 (Mythic Rare)
Type: Artifact Creature

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.

Mana:
Power: 1/1
Cardset: Shards of Alara #58 (Uncommon)
Type: Artifact Creature

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.

Mana:
Power: 3/3
Cardset: Commander 2013 #219 (Uncommon)
Shards of Alara #197 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

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

Mana:
Power: 4/5
Cardset: Shards of Alara #59 (Common)
Type: Artifact Creature

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.

Mana:
Power: 2/2
Cardset: Knights vs. Dragons #11 (Unknown)
Shards of Alara #198 (Common)
Type: Creature

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.

Mana:
Power: 3/4
Cardset: Shards of Alara #199 (Rare)
Type: Creature

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.

Mana:
Power: 1/1
Cardset: Shards of Alara #29 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

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

Mana:
Cardset: Shards of Alara #200 (Uncommon)
Type: Instant

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.

Mana:
Power: 4/4
Cardset: Shards of Alara #89 (Rare)
Type: Creature

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.

Mana:
Cardset: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret #39 (Mythic Rare)
Shards of Alara #60 (Mythic Rare)
Type: Planeswalker

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.

Mana:
Power: 2/2
Cardset: Planechase 2012 #52 (Common)
Shards of Alara #116 (Common)
Type: Creature

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.

Mana:
Power: 1/1
Cardset: Shards of Alara #201 (Uncommon)
Type: Artifact Creature

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.

Mana:
Power: 1/1
Cardset: Planechase 2012 #53 (Uncommon)
Shards of Alara #117 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

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.

Mana:
Power: 2/2
Cardset: Modern Masters #184 (Uncommon)
Shards of Alara #202 (Uncommon)
Type: Artifact Creature

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.

Mana:
Power: 2/1
Cardset: Commander 2013 #222 (Common)
Shards of Alara #203 (Common)
Type: Artifact Creature

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

Mana:
Cardset: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas #31 (Rare)
Shards of Alara #204 (Rare)
Type: Sorcery

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.

Mana:
Power: 2/2
Cardset: Shards of Alara #151 (Uncommon)
Type: Creature

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.

Mana:
Cardset: Shards of Alara #61 (Common)
Type: Instant

Tower Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

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

Mana:
Power: 4/4
Cardset: Commander 2013 #223 (Uncommon)
Shards of Alara #205 (Uncommon)
Type: Artifact Creature

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.)

Mana:
Power: 3/4
Cardset: Shards of Alara #90 (Common)
Type: Creature

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.

Mana:
Power: 1/2
Cardset: Shards of Alara #62 (Common)
Type: Artifact Creature

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.

Mana:
Power: 4/4
Cardset: Shards of Alara #91 (Rare)
Type: Creature

Viashino Skeleton

Creature - Viashino Skeleton

, Discard a card: Regenerate Viashino Skeleton.

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

Mana:
Power: 2/1
Cardset: Shards of Alara #118 (Common)
Type: Creature

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

Mana:
Cardset: Shards of Alara #119 (Rare)
Type: Enchantment

Violent Ultimatum

Sorcery

Destroy three target permanents.

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

Mana:
Cardset: Shards of Alara #206 (Rare)
Type: Sorcery

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.)

Mana:
Power: 3/3
Cardset: Shards of Alara #92 (Common)
Type: Creature

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.)

Mana:
Cardset: Sorin vs. Tibalt #47 (Common)
Shards of Alara #120 (Common)
Type: Creature

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.

Mana:
Cardset: Shards of Alara #121 (Common)
Type: Sorcery