Rhox Bodyguard

Creature - Rhino Monk Soldier

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

When Rhox Bodyguard enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

An enlightened soul caged in a body made for battle.

Rhox Meditant

Creature - Rhino Monk

When Rhox Meditant enters the battlefield, if you control a green permanent, draw a card.

The weight of her conviction balances on the harmony of her soul.

Rotting Rats

Creature - Zombie Rat

When Rotting Rats enters the battlefield, each 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.)

Rupture Spire

Land

Rupture Spire enters the battlefield tapped.

When Rupture Spire enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you pay .

: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Sacellum Archers

Creature - Elf Archer

, : Sacellum Archers deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

"Our arrows are aimed not at the sacred behemoths but at those who dare to dream of such a trophy."

Salvage Slasher

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

Salvage Slasher gets +1/+0 for each artifact card in your graveyard.

Esper artificers never imagined that one day their scraps would be pressed against their soft and fragile throats.

Scarland Thrinax

Creature - Lizard

Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Scarland Thrinax.

"There is only one way of life in Jund: feed on the weak until you are cut down by something stronger."
-Jorshu of Clan Nel Toth

Scattershot Archer

Creature - Elf Archer

: Scattershot Archer deals 1 damage to each creature with flying.

To train her elves for war, Mayael would drop a sackful of acorns from the tree canopy. Each archer tried to split as many as possible before the acorns hit the forest floor below.

Scepter of Dominance

Artifact

, : Tap target permanent.

"Whether or not you will bow to me is not open to debate. The question is, will I ever let you rise?"
-Fridius, telemin master

Scepter of Fugue

Artifact

, : Target player discards a card. Activate this ability only during your turn.

One goes to Tidehollow either to forget or to be forgotten. Either way, the scullers will oblige.

Scepter of Insight

Artifact

, : Draw a card.

"The road to truth has many branches, and so must the cane with which I walk it."
-Voln the Elder

Scornful Æther-Lich

Artifact Creature - Zombie Wizard

: Scornful Æther-Lich gains fear and vigilance until end of turn. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap, and it can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"With no flesh, there is no pain, no hesitation, no emotion of any kind. He is crafted perfection."
-Tezzeret

Sedraxis Alchemist

Creature - Zombie Wizard

When Sedraxis Alchemist enters the battlefield, if you control a blue permanent, return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

The problem with a liquid that can dissolve anything is finding something to carry it in.

Shambling Remains

Creature - Zombie Horror

Shambling Remains can't block.

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.)

Shard Convergence

Sorcery

Search your library for a Plains card, an Island card, a Swamp card, and a Mountain card. Reveal those cards and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Alara is broken no more.

Sigil of the Empty Throne

Enchantment

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

When Asha left Bant, she ensured that the world would have protection and order in her absence.

Skyward Eye Prophets

Creature - Human Wizard

Vigilance

: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

They lament the doom that is coming to Bant without realizing the part their own leaders have played in it.

Sludge Strider

Artifact Creature - Insect

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control or another artifact you control leaves the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Underneath the cities of Esper are cycles of life unseen by those who feed them.

Soul's Majesty

Sorcery

Draw cards equal to the power of target creature you control.

An avatar he sculpts of wisdom and strength.

Sphinx Summoner

Artifact Creature - Sphinx

Flying

When Sphinx Summoner enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.

Spore Burst

Sorcery

Domain - Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield for each basic land type among lands you control.

Seeds from Jund don't drift gently on the wind. They get up and stampede.

Suicidal Charge

Enchantment

Sacrifice Suicidal Charge: Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. Those creatures attack this turn if able.

"They think they're winning. But they're just lining up to be dinner."
-Rakka Mar

Sylvan Bounty

Instant

Target player gains 8 life.

Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Some who scouted new lands chose to stay.

Telemin Performance

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a creature card. That player puts all noncreature cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard, then you put the creature card onto the battlefield under your control.

Thornling

Creature - Elemental Shapeshifter

: Thornling gains haste until end of turn.

: Thornling gains trample until end of turn.

: Thornling is indestructible this turn.

: Thornling gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

: Thornling gets -1/+1 until end of turn.

Toxic Iguanar

Creature - Lizard

Toxic Iguanar has deathtouch as long as you control a green permanent. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

There are no "weak" creatures on Jund. Even the smallest can strike a deadly blow.

Traumatic Visions

Instant

Counter target spell.

Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Tukatongue Thallid

Creature - Fungus

When Tukatongue Thallid dies, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

Jund's thallids tried to disguise their deliciousness by covering themselves in spines harvested from the tukatongue tree.

Unstable Frontier

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Target land you control becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.

The goblins went to sleep in Jund and awoke in Grixis. They'd never seen a zombie before. They would never see one again.

Vagrant Plowbeasts

Creature - Beast

: Regenerate target creature with power 5 or greater.

Plowbeasts of Naya escaped their harnesses in droves, content to snack on the conveniently cultivated fields of Eos and Valeron.

Valeron Outlander

Creature - Human Scout

Protection from black

After years of honing her philosophy in debate with stubborn rhoxes, Niella was ready to convert any heathen.

Valiant Guard

Creature - Human Soldier

As the outsiders invaded Bant, soldiers who once saw sigils as the highest marks of glory began to see the scars of battle as tokens of equal worth.

Vectis Agents

Artifact Creature - Human Rogue

: Vectis Agents gets -2/-0 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

With their life energy suppressed under their etherium enhancements, thieves from Esper found it surprisingly easy to explore the ruins of Grixis.

Vedalken Outlander

Artifact Creature - Vedalken Scout

Protection from red

The Seekers of Carmot searched across the unknown lands for the mystical red stone that could reforge Esper in ethereal perfection.

Viashino Slaughtermaster

Creature - Viashino Warrior

Double strike

: Viashino Slaughtermaster gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

"I'll fight two at once, and then lick their guts from my blades."

View from Above

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. If you control a white permanent, return View from Above to its owner's hand.

"This air feels so heavy and thick. There are no winds to speak of. I fear the knowledge that comes from a place like this."

Voices from the Void

Sorcery

Domain - Target player discards a card for each basic land type among lands you control.

As Grixis collided with the rest of Alara, the worlds began to hear the hateful whispers of the forgotten dead.

Volcanic Fallout

Instant

Volcanic Fallout can't be countered.

Volcanic Fallout deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

"How can we outrun the sky?"
-Hadran, sunseeder of Naya

Voracious Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

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 Voracious Dragon enters the battlefield, it deals damage to target creature or player equal to twice the number of Goblins it devoured.

Wall of Reverence

Creature - Spirit Wall

Defender, flying

At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.

The lives of elves are long, but their memories are longer. Even after death, they do not desert their homes.

Wandering Goblins

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Domain - : Wandering Goblins gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each basic land type among lands you control.

Tired of waiting for a dragon to eat them, some hardy goblins struck out to become meals for the unknown.

Wild Leotau

Creature - Cat

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Wild Leotau unless you pay .

"Leotau that were born wild make the best mounts. It's like riding a thunderstorm."
-Rafiq of the Many

Worldheart Phoenix

Creature - Phoenix

Flying

You may cast Worldheart Phoenix from your graveyard by paying rather than paying its mana cost. If you do, it enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Worldly Counsel

Instant

Domain - Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Every horizon hides a new possibility.

Wretched Banquet

Sorcery

Destroy target creature if it has the least power or is tied for least power among creatures on the battlefield.

"The meek inherit nothing."
-Sedris, the Traitor King

Yoke of the Damned

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When a creature dies, destroy enchanted creature.

The demon's yoke is part leash, part noose.

Zombie Outlander

Creature - Zombie Scout

Protection from green

The ripe smell of life drifted into Grixis. The dead caught the scent and with reckless hunger followed it back into Jund.

Ad Nauseam

Instant

Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost. You may repeat this process any number of times.

When the task spilled over into undeath, he stopped calling it his life's work.

Agony Warp

Instant

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

Target creature gets -0/-3 until end of turn.

Life's circle has become inverted in Grixis. The same energy is endlessly recycled and becomes more stagnant with each pass.

Ajani Vengeant

Planeswalker - Ajani (Loyalty: 3)

+1: Target permanent doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

-2: Ajani Vengeant deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.

-7: Destroy all lands target player controls.

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.

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.

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.

Angelsong

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

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

Clash of sword and cry of beast fall mute when angels sound the call to prayer.

Arcane Sanctum

Land

Arcane Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

"We must rely on our own knowledge, not on the dogma of the seekers or the mutterings of the sphinxes."
-Tullus of Palandius

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.

Banewasp Affliction

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller loses life equal to its toughness.

The consuming undeath of Grixis terrifies the survivors of Vithia, but its fauna is just as fearsome.

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."

Bant Charm

Instant

Choose one - Destroy target artifact; or put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library; or counter target instant spell.

Bant is a world where death and chaos hold no sway.

Bant Panorama

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Bant Panorama: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

Bant's hearts are as pure as its air and as bright as its skies.

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.

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."

Blightning

Sorcery

Blightning deals 3 damage to target player. That player discards two cards.

While the smell of burning flesh is common in Grixis, the odor of smoldering brain matter is a rare treat.

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.

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."

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.

Branching Bolt

Instant

Choose one or both - Branching Bolt deals 3 damage to target creature with flying; and/or Branching Bolt deals 3 damage to target creature without flying.

"Lightning lives in everything, in living flesh and growing things. It must be set free."
-Rakka Mar

Brilliant Ultimatum

Sorcery

Exile the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. You may play any number of cards from one of those piles without paying their mana costs.

Revealing the truth only deepened Tezzeret's curiosity for the secrets still buried.

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.

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.

Call to Heel

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller draws a card.

On Bant, a sigil is both a prize of honor and a bond of duty. The one who bears it may be called to fulfill that charge at any moment.

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.

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."

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.

Clarion Ultimatum

Sorcery

Choose five permanents you control. For each of those permanents, you may search your library for a card with the same name as that permanent. Put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Be worthy of a single blessing, and many more will follow.

Cloudheath Drake

Artifact Creature - Drake

Flying

: Cloudheath Drake gains vigilance until end of turn.

A permanent storm rages over the plain of Cloudheath, and drakes ride its currents-two reminders that some elements of Esper will not be controlled.

Coma Veil

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact or creature

Enchanted permanent doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Etherium does not know sleep. Only magic can teach it the resting state of cold steel.

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.)

Courier's Capsule

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Courier's Capsule: Draw two cards.

In ages past, Esper couriers bore messages written on ornate scrolls. The medium has grown more sophisticated, but the principle remains the same.

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.

Covenant of Minds

Sorcery

Reveal the top three cards of your library. Target opponent may choose to put those cards into your hand. If he or she doesn't, put those cards into your graveyard and draw five cards.

Before signing anything on Grixis, always read the fine print.

Cradle of Vitality

Enchantment

Whenever you gain life, you may pay . If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature for each 1 life you gained.

Naya's trees grow tall and sturdy. Their foliage intertwines to form dewcups, rainwater pools where the elves gather to celebrate life.

Crucible of Fire

Enchantment

Dragon creatures you control get +3/+3.

"The dragon is a perfect marriage of power and the will to use it."
-Sarkhan Vol

Cruel Ultimatum

Sorcery

Target opponent sacrifices a creature, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life.

There is always a greater power.

Crumbling Necropolis

Land

Crumbling Necropolis enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

"They say the ruins of Sedraxis were once a shining capital in Vithia. Now it is a blight, a place to be avoided by the living."
-Olcot, Rider of Joffik

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."

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.

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.

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."

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.

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."

Dispeller's Capsule

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Dispeller's Capsule: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"I find its symmetry pleasing. It rids our world of offensive refuse while disposing of itself."
-Dolomarus, Proctor of the Clean

Dragon Fodder

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Goblins journey to the sacrificial peaks in pairs so that the rare survivor might be able to relate the details of the other's grisly demise.

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.

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.

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.