Elephant Grass

Elephant Grass (The List)
Tony Roberts

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Black creatures can't attack you. Nonblack creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

"How have I angered nature that she would imprison me in a labyrinth of grass?" —Kasib ibn Naji, Letters

Elephant Grass (Visions)
Tony Roberts

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Black creatures can't attack you. Nonblack creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

"How have I angered nature that she would imprison me in a labyrinth of grass?" —Kasib ibn Naji, Letters

Noble Elephant (Mirage)
Tony Roberts

Trample; 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.)

"Proud am I, / strong am I, / courageous in defending my children / and fierce in punishing what stands in my way." —"So the Elephant Speaks," Zhalfirin song

Forest (Mirage)
Tony Roberts

({T}: Add {G}.)

Soar (Mirage)
Tony Roberts

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+1 and has flying.

"Would you give up your hands to fly? That is what the birds have done." —*The One Thousand Questions*

Femeref Knight (Mirage)
Tony Roberts

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) {W}: This creature gains vigilance until end of turn.

"I will return / with lizard skins for your sandals. Paint your eyes black and wait for me." —"Love Song of Night and Day"

Forest (Mirage)
Tony Roberts

({T}: Add {G}.)

Windreaper Falcon (Mirage)
Tony Roberts

Flying, protection from blue

Watching the windreaper —Zhalfirin phrase meaning "daydreaming"

Forest (Anthologies)
Tony Roberts

({T}: Add {G}.)

Pyric Salamander (Mirage)
Tony Roberts

{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Sacrifice this creature at the beginning of the next end step.

When you've been chased by a dragon, you run from every lizard. —Suq'Ata saying

Swamp (Arena League 1996)
Tony Roberts

({T}: Add {B}.)

Elephant Grass (The List)
Tony Roberts

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Black creatures can't attack you. Nonblack creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

"How have I angered nature that she would imprison me in a labyrinth of grass?" —Kasib ibn Naji, Letters

Iron Tusk Elephant (Mirage)
Tony Roberts

Trample

"The fury in the lion's eye; the patience in the hippo's yawn; the pride within the griffin's cry are one within the iron tusk's stride." —"Iron Tusk," Femeref song

Forest (Mirage)
Tony Roberts

({T}: Add {G}.)

Mountain (Arena League 1996)
Tony Roberts

({T}: Add {R}.)

Stone Rain (Mirage)
Tony Roberts

Destroy target land.

"What rainbow could possibly come of this rain?" —Asmira, Holy Avenger

Roots of Life (Mirage)
Tony Roberts

As this enchantment enters, choose Island or Swamp. Whenever a land of the chosen type an opponent controls becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Plains (Arena League 1996)
Tony Roberts

({T}: Add {W}.)

Forest (Mirage)
Tony Roberts

({T}: Add {G}.)

Stone Rain (Fifth Edition)
Tony Roberts

Destroy target land.

Forest (Arena League 1996)
Tony Roberts

({T}: Add {G}.)

Wall of Brambles (Fifth Edition)
Tony Roberts

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {G}: Regenerate this creature.

Sleeping in brambles —Elven phrase meaning "plagued by guilt"

Wall of Fire (Fifth Edition)
Tony Roberts

Defender (This creature can't attack.) {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Struggle, and you will only fan the flames." —Talibah, embermage

Elephant Grass (Visions)
Tony Roberts

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Black creatures can't attack you. Nonblack creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

"How have I angered nature that she would imprison me in a labyrinth of grass?" —Kasib ibn Naji, Letters

Island (Arena League 1996)
Tony Roberts

({T}: Add {U}.)