Yotia Declares War

Yotia Declares War (Dominaria United)
Fariba Khamseh

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.) I — Create a 0/2 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying named Ornithopter. II — Tap any number of untapped artifacts you control. When you do, this Saga deals that much damage to target creature or planeswalker. III — Up to one target artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 4/4 until end of turn.

Ornithopter (Dominaria United Tokens)
Fariba Khamseh

Flying

Shoot the Sheriff (Outlaws of Thunder Junction)
Fariba Khamseh

Destroy target non-outlaw creature. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws. Everyone else is fair game.)

"Now, where is that deputy?" —Jana, Hellspur thunderslinger

Nicanzil, Current Conductor (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Fariba Khamseh

Whenever a creature you control explores a land card, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. Whenever a creature you control explores a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on Nicanzil.

"This water can guide you anywhere, if you know how to ask."

Dawnhart Mentor (Innistrad: Double Feature)
Fariba Khamseh

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Human creature token. Coven — {5}{G}: Target creature you control gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn. Activate only if you control three or more creatures with different powers.

Archpriest of Shadows (March of the Machine Promos)
Fariba Khamseh

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.) Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Moonsnare Prototype (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Fariba Khamseh

{T}, Tap an untapped artifact or creature you control: Add {C}. Channel — {4}{U}, Discard this card: The owner of target nonland permanent puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Baral and Kari Zev (March of the Machine Promos)
Fariba Khamseh

First strike, menace Whenever you cast your first instant or sorcery spell each turn, you may cast a spell with lesser mana value that shares a card type with it from your hand without paying its mana cost. If you don't, create First Mate Ragavan, a legendary 2/1 red Monkey Pirate creature token. It gains haste until end of turn.

Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos)
Fariba Khamseh

When Ezuri enters, you may pay {3}. If you do, proliferate twice. Whenever you proliferate, draw a card.

"Ah, my old friends. Have you decided at last to stop clinging to the past and join me in the grand pursuit of perfection?"

Dawnhart Mentor (Innistrad: Midnight Hunt)
Fariba Khamseh

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Human creature token. Coven — {5}{G}: Target creature you control gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn. Activate only if you control three or more creatures with different powers.

Scrying Sheets (Secret Lair Drop)
Fariba Khamseh

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{S}, {T}: Look at the top card of your library. If that card is snow, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

The forecast predicts a blizzard of ballads.

Unable to Scream (Duskmourn: House of Horror)
Fariba Khamseh

Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a Toy artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/2 in addition to its other types. As long as enchanted creature is face down, it can't be turned face up.

Leinore, Autumn Sovereign (Midnight Hunt Commander)
Fariba Khamseh

Coven — At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control. Then if you control three or more creatures with different powers, draw a card.

She keeps the festival's revels from faltering, infusing the witches' rituals with hope.

Perplexing Test (Commander 2021)
Fariba Khamseh

Choose one — • Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands. • Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.

"Your proofs were a bit nontraditional, but effective nonetheless. Full marks."

Kitt Kanto, Mayhem Diva (New Capenna Commander)
Fariba Khamseh

When Kitt Kanto enters, create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token. At the beginning of combat on each player's turn, you may tap two untapped creatures you control. When you do, target creature that player controls gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn. Goad that creature.

Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres (Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos)
Fariba Khamseh

When Ezuri enters, you may pay {3}. If you do, proliferate twice. Whenever you proliferate, draw a card.

"Ah, my old friends. Have you decided at last to stop clinging to the past and join me in the grand pursuit of perfection?"

Pixie Guide (Adventures in the Forgotten Realms)
Fariba Khamseh

Flying Grant an Advantage — If you would roll one or more dice, instead roll that many dice plus one and ignore the lowest roll.

Pixies are well known as pranksters, but some delight in more helpful magic.

Yotian Tactician (The Brothers' War)
Fariba Khamseh

Other Soldiers you control get +1/+1.

"Time for the Iron Alliance to remind the qadir's army how inhospitable the Sword Marches can be."

Kitt Kanto, Mayhem Diva (New Capenna Commander)
Fariba Khamseh

When Kitt Kanto enters, create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token. At the beginning of combat on each player's turn, you may tap two untapped creatures you control. When you do, target creature that player controls gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn. Goad that creature.

Yotia Declares War (Dominaria United)
Fariba Khamseh

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.) I — Create a 0/2 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying named Ornithopter. II — Tap any number of untapped artifacts you control. When you do, this Saga deals that much damage to target creature or planeswalker. III — Up to one target artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 4/4 until end of turn.

Perplexing Test (March of the Machine Commander)
Fariba Khamseh

Choose one — • Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands. • Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.

"Your proofs were a bit nontraditional, but effective nonetheless. Full marks."

Perplexing Test (Bloomburrow Commander)
Fariba Khamseh

Choose one — • Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands. • Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.

"Your proofs were a bit nontraditional, but effective nonetheless. Full marks."

Guildsworn Prowler (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate)
Fariba Khamseh

Deathtouch When this creature dies, if it wasn't blocking, draw a card.

"Of course it's part of my plan. Who do you think started the bar fight?"

Baral and Kari Zev (March of the Machine Promos)
Fariba Khamseh

First strike, menace Whenever you cast your first instant or sorcery spell each turn, you may cast a spell with lesser mana value that shares a card type with it from your hand without paying its mana cost. If you don't, create First Mate Ragavan, a legendary 2/1 red Monkey Pirate creature token. It gains haste until end of turn.

Archpriest of Shadows (March of the Machine)
Fariba Khamseh

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.) Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Archpriest of Shadows (March of the Machine)
Fariba Khamseh

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.) Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Council of Echoes (The Lost Caverns of Ixalan)
Fariba Khamseh

Flying Descend 4 — When this creature enters, if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard, return up to one target nonland permanent other than this creature to its owner's hand.

The Komon Winaq, ancestors of the Oltec, linger on as the eldest of the Echoes.

Baral and Kari Zev (Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander)
Fariba Khamseh

First strike, menace Whenever you cast your first instant or sorcery spell each turn, you may cast a spell with lesser mana value that shares a card type with it from your hand without paying its mana cost. If you don't, create First Mate Ragavan, a legendary 2/1 red Monkey Pirate creature token. It gains haste until end of turn.

Diminisher Witch (Wilds of Eldraine)
Fariba Khamseh

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was bargained, create a Cursed Role token attached to target creature an opponent controls. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature is 1/1.)

Rukarumel, Biologist (Commander Masters)
Fariba Khamseh

As Rukarumel enters, choose a creature type. Slivers you control and nontoken creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other creature types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. {3}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Sliver creature token.

Plan the Heist (Outlaws of Thunder Junction)
Fariba Khamseh

Surveil 3 if you have no cards in hand. Then draw three cards. (To surveil 3, look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Plot {3}{U} (You may pay {3}{U} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Unforgiving One (Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty)
Fariba Khamseh

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever this creature attacks, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the number of modified creatures you control. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Leinore, Autumn Sovereign (Midnight Hunt Commander)
Fariba Khamseh

Coven — At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control. Then if you control three or more creatures with different powers, draw a card.

Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres (Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
Fariba Khamseh

When Ezuri enters, you may pay {3}. If you do, proliferate twice. Whenever you proliferate, draw a card.

"Ah, my old friends. Have you decided at last to stop clinging to the past and join me in the grand pursuit of perfection?"

Kitt Kanto, Mayhem Diva (The List)
Fariba Khamseh

When Kitt Kanto enters, create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token. At the beginning of combat on each player's turn, you may tap two untapped creatures you control. When you do, target creature that player controls gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn. Goad that creature.

Perplexing Test (Wilds of Eldraine Commander)
Fariba Khamseh

Choose one — • Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands. • Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.

"Your proofs were a bit nontraditional, but effective nonetheless. Full marks."

Perplexing Test (Commander 2021)
Fariba Khamseh

Choose one — • Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands. • Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.

Archpriest of Shadows (March of the Machine Promos)
Fariba Khamseh

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.) Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Perplexing Test (Wilds of Eldraine Commander)
Fariba Khamseh

Scegli uno — • Fai tornare tutte le pedine creatura in mano ai rispettivi proprietari. • Fai tornare tutte le creature non pedina in mano ai rispettivi proprietari.

"Le tue dimostrazioni sono poco convenzionali, ma comunque efficaci. Punteggio massimo."

Llanowar Stalker (Dominaria United)
Fariba Khamseh

Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

If you spot one elf in Llanowar, it's likely there's another with a knife at your back.

Rukarumel, Biologist (Commander Masters)
Fariba Khamseh

As Rukarumel enters, choose a creature type. Slivers you control and nontoken creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other creature types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. {3}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Sliver creature token.

Baral and Kari Zev (March of the Machine)
Fariba Khamseh

First strike, menace Whenever you cast your first instant or sorcery spell each turn, you may cast a spell with lesser mana value that shares a card type with it from your hand without paying its mana cost. If you don't, create First Mate Ragavan, a legendary 2/1 red Monkey Pirate creature token. It gains haste until end of turn.