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When Dominate the Desert enters, create a 3/3 green Elephant creature token with trample.
Whenever a creature you control assaults, you may return Dominate the Desert to its owner's hand.

Foretell {2}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
If this spell is foretold, you may cast it as though it had flash.
Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.

Equipped creature has first strike.
Whenever another creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature.
Equip {2}

Menace
When Doomed Questant enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature and discards a card.

Primal—Reappropriate green. (During your turn, you may cast this spell by exiling two green cards from your hand and/or graveyard instead of playing a land.)
When Dovon's Masterwork enters, return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

First mate — Twelve or more cards in your starting deck have “gain control” or “exchange control” in their printed rules text. (If this card outside the game is your chosen first mate, you may swap it with a card in your opening hand.)
Dr. Telsi of the Ark can't be blocked.
Dr. Telsi gets +1/+1 for each permanent you control but don't own.

{2}{U}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. It gains myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may put a token that's a copy of this creature onto the battlefield tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)

Instant, sorcery, and Dragon cadence (Whenever you cast an instant, sorcery or Dragon spell, if its mana value is greater than this creature's power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Draw a card.

Dragon's Wrath deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker and 2 damage to that permanent's controller.

Harmony — Add one mana of any color.
{1}, {T}: Harmonize. Then sacrifice Dragonglass Harp. (To harmonize, trigger up to one harmony of a permanent you control.)
When Dragonglass Harp is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Flying
Ride {3}{U} ({3}{U}: Transform this and attach it to target creature you control without a Steed. Ride only as a sorcery.)

Dramatic Peril deals damage equal to the number of lands you control to any target. (Cast a copy of this spell once while this creatures is on the battlefield.)

When Driftpicker enters, you may return another non-Crab creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, create two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying.

Assault {1}{R} (Whenever this attacks, if it has no +1/+1 counters on it, you may pay its assault cost to put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Whenever a creature you control assaults, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Assault {1}{G} (Whenever this attacks, if it has no +1/+1 counters on it, you may pay its assault cost to put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
When Dune Tromper assaults, it gains trample until end of turn.

When Dunecrest Pariah enters, you may search your library for a basic land or Desert card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{T}, Sacrifice Dunecrest Pariah: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Lifelink
Erratic (When this creature dies, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put a creature card that costs less than this revealed this way onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Mirage {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell as though it had flash for its mirage cost. If you do, sacrifice it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.)

Dunesea Expanse enters tapped unless you control another Desert.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard. If a creature or planeswalker card is exiled this way, create a Vessel token. (It's an enchantment with “{2}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.”)

{2}{R}, Sacrifice an artifact or land: Draw a card. Edelber Mine Captain deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Defender
Civilized — {T}: Edge of the Empires deals 1 damage to each opponent. Activate only if you control an artifact, a creature, and an enchantment.

Flying
Civilized — Whenever Edifice Overseer attacks, if you control an artifact, a creature, and an enchantment, other attacking creatures you control gain flying until end of turn.

Ward—Pay 3 life and discard a card.
Once each turn, when another creature leaves the battlefield, you may have target creature become a copy of that creature until end of turn.

When Eighth-Life Companion enters, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.
Recite {1}{W} (You may cast this from your graveyard for its recite cost. If you do, exile it when it enters or if it would leave.)
Revive {2}{W}{W} ({2}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it except it has no mana cost. Revive only as a sorcery.)

Whenever Ekebram the Scholar becomes untapped, draw a card.
Whenever you draw your third card each turn, you may transform Ekebram.