Descent from the Highlands
Descent from the Highlands contains 137 cards.
Released: 2019-07-01
Read the Clouds {1}{U}
Instant
Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)
Foresee — As you draw Read the Clouds, you may reveal it and pay {1}{U}. When you do, scry 2, then draw a card.
Foresee — As you draw Read the Clouds, you may reveal it and pay {1}{U}. When you do, scry 2, then draw a card.
Rimebreath Tyrant {4}{U}{U}
Creature - Dragon
Flying
Whenever Rimebreath Tyrant attacks, you may discard a card. When you do, tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Whenever Rimebreath Tyrant attacks, you may discard a card. When you do, tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
5/5
Sage of the Aurora {U}
Creature - Cat Spirit
Prowess
{U}: Sage of the Aurora gains flying until end of turn.
{U}: Sage of the Aurora gains flying until end of turn.
Manifestations of the Aurora's unguided power, they impart their prophetic sight to those brave enough to seek it.
1/1
Selene the Cruel {1}{U}
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Whenever you cast a spell, sacrifice a permanent and draw a card.
Exile three cards from your graveyard: Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Exile three cards from your graveyard: Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}.
“I've never understood why I am called heartless. I actually have quite the collection.”
2/2
Silent Musing {U}
Instant
Return target creature to its owner's hand. If you controlled that creature, draw a card.
The mountain springs offer a unique magic—the ability to forget the body and dissolve into your memories.
Smokeweaver Initiate {2}{U}
Creature - Human Cleric
When Smokeweaver Initiate dies, draw a card.
“Death is not an impediment. It is but a stepping stone.”
3/2
Snowline Ascetic {1}{U}
Creature - Human Wizard
Prowess
When Snowline Ascetic enters the battlefield, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
When Snowline Ascetic enters the battlefield, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
“I have spent my life studying these magics. Don't force me to turn my theory into practice.”
2/1
Spotless Mind {2}{U}{U}
Sorcery
Cast this spell only if an opponent controls a creature with power 5 or greater or you control six or more lands.
Return all nonland permanents target player controls to their owner's hand.
Return all nonland permanents target player controls to their owner's hand.
Stalker in the Underbrush {4}{U}
Creature - Demon
Bloodprice {2}{U} (You may cast this card by sacrificing a creature and paying its bloodprice.)
A slain demon spends years plotting its revenge before a cultist summons them anew, and even longer enacting it.
4/5
Streamlash {2}{U}
Instant
Creatures your opponents control get -3/-0 until end of turn.
Draw a card.
Draw a card.
Water magic doesn't look scary until you remember that at such high altitudes, the temperature is close to freezing.
Tea of Augury {U}
Artifact
{U}, Exile a card from your hand or graveyard that doesn't share a type with a card exiled by Tea of Augury: Draw a card.
The power of prophecy is much like tea; the impatient are inevitably burned.
The Tree of Wisdom {4}{U}{U}{U}
Legendary Creature - Plant
Defender
Your maximum hand size is thirteen.
{T}: If you have fewer than thirteen cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference. Activate only as a sorcery.
Your maximum hand size is thirteen.
{T}: If you have fewer than thirteen cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference. Activate only as a sorcery.
Seekers drown themselves in the pool at its roots to comprehend the web of fate. None emerge.
0/13
Wild Skycub {U}{U}
Creature - Cat Spirit
As long as you control another creature with flying, Wild Skycub has flying.
“Their little paws are so cute when they're not used to flying yet.”
—Amelie Mayn
—Amelie Mayn
2/2
Windwise Mentor {2}{U}
Creature - Cat Spirit
Flying
{3}{W}: Scry 2. You gain 2 life.
{3}{W}: Scry 2. You gain 2 life.
Unfettered by reality, the inhabitants of the Aurora share their wisdom with those brave enough to visit them.
1/4
Beckon the Shadows {B}
Sorcery
Bloodprice {2}{B}{B} (You may cast this card by sacrificing a creature and paying its bloodprice.)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If you cast this spell for its bloodprice, return that card to the battlefield instead.
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If you cast this spell for its bloodprice, return that card to the battlefield instead.
Brutal Champion {2}{B}{B}
Creature - Cat Berserker
Glorious end — When Brutal Champion dies, if it was tapped, each opponent sacrifices a creature.
3/1
Conjured Shade {B}
Creature - Demon
When Conjured Shade dies, target creature you don't control gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Animated by a drop of blood and the foul miasma of the Gloam, the undying legions of Ligos march to war.
1/1
Dark Huntress {3}{B}{B}{B}
Creature - Demon
Bloodprice {4}{B} (You may cast this card by sacrificing a creature and paying its bloodprice.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are five or more creature cards in your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Demon creature token.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are five or more creature cards in your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Demon creature token.
6/6
Desiccate {2}{B}{B}
Sorcery
Cast this spell only if you have 10 or less life or if you control six or more lands.
All creatures get -5/-5 until end of turn.
All creatures get -5/-5 until end of turn.
“For how precious a mortal soul is, it resides in a disappointingly fragile fortress.”
—Ulric of Ligas
—Ulric of Ligas
Diabolic Designs {1}{B}
Instant
Target player sacrifices a creature. You may return up to one target Demon creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
“The inviolate rule—a life for a life. Selene will usher in a new age of smoke on the corpses of your kind.”
Emissary of Smoke {4}{B}
Creature - Demon
Bloodprice {2}{B} (You may cast this card by sacrificing a creature and paying its bloodprice.)
At the heart of each summoning lies one inviolate rule—a life for a life.
5/4
Gloaming Smokeweaver {1}{B}
Creature - Human Cleric
Gloaming Smokeweaver has deathtouch as long as there is a creature card in your graveyard.
Most disciples of the Gloaming do not survive their apprenticeship. Those that do, therefore, have plenty of raw material to work with.
2/2
Invoking the Name {B}
Sorcery
Search your library for a Demon card or a black card with mana value 6 or greater, reveal it, put that card in your hand, then shuffle.
Even broken and dead, he stirs.
Jejun, Dark Hunter {4}{B}{B}
Legendary Creature - Demon
Bloodprice {B}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card by sacrificing a creature and paying its bloodprice.)
Lifelink, haste
Sacrifice another Demon: Jejun, Dark Hunter gains flying and indestructible until end of turn.
Lifelink, haste
Sacrifice another Demon: Jejun, Dark Hunter gains flying and indestructible until end of turn.
6/6
Onyx Ritualist {2}{B}
Creature - Human Cleric
Flying
Spells your opponents cast cost an additional 2 life to cast.
Spells your opponents cast cost an additional 2 life to cast.
On Astento, there are no vampires. Blood is too precious a resource to be wasted on the dead.
3/1