Silmarillion: The War of the Jewels: 1st Playtest

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2017-07-16

General Notes

Ravnica guildgates were included at uncommon slots.

­Sapphire-Winged Herald: Appeared as a common in this draft. Two guys both thought this tapped target permanents. I'll be adding "of their choice" into the card.

Accidentally an old card called "Arts of Cruelty" slipped through: {1}{b}{b} / Sorcery / Target player sacs a creature, create tapped 2/2 Orc token.

Before drafting

Too many color intensive cards: make more splashable (Lifeless Recreant etc)

Two instances were in both cases Proclaim was understood as alternative casting cost at fist glance. Perhaps a more traditional "exile from your hand" variant would be clearer in intent...

After drafting

Official {w}{b} and {r}{u} archetypes nonexistent.

­Moon Dew (finale was "Moon Dew mirror" match). A simple solution offered was to increase enchantment removal (in colors other than {w}) even cards like Annul.
Also because of Moon Dew, the winning {w}{g} deck ended up being the token deck instead of the actual {b}{g} colors which had the token archetype.

­Starkindler should perhaps exile one enchantment. Many big creatures are enchantments so this can be quite a blowout - especially since it has flash.

The two players that had the option to play Singer of the Shore and Son of Anarchy but opted not to do so though I think it would have made their decks faster and more consistent (?).

­Ancient Huorn was noted as being rather big though it was never a problem. Suggestion was to increase its "loses defender" ability to cost {1}{g} or {2}{g}.

DECKLISTS

{w}{g} Enchantments (3-0 in matches, 6-1 in rounds)

CREATURE (6)

1 Varda's Progeny
1 Evanescent Eminence
2 Hunter and the Tamer
1 Oromë's Ranger
1 Shepherd of the Trees

OTHER (17)

2 Celestial Horizon
3 Stirred by the Stars
1 Light Before Fall
2 Twilight of the Hunt
1 Resounding Delight
3 Abide in Waiting
1 Varda Elentári
2 Opalescence
2 Moon Dew

LAND (17)

1 Selesnya Guildgate
8 Plains
8 Forest

VISUAL:

 U 
Creature – Elf Lord
Distinguished (This creature is legendary if no other permanent has the same name.)
As long as Varda's Progeny is legendary, whenever it blocks a creature, untap that creature and remove it from combat.
Too great is her beauty to be declared in the words of Men or of Elves; for the light of Ilúvatar lives still in her face.
Illus. MadElfTk on deviantART
2/1
 R 
Creature – Elf
{2}, Sacrifice Evanescent Eminence: For each color among the Elves you control and/or among the Elf cards in your graveyard, draw a card.
The Quendi wandered in the lonely places, and took to the moonlight and the starlight, becoming as shadows and memories.
Illus. Venlian (Venlian) | DeviantArt.com
2/1
 C 
Creature – Elf Warrior
Flash
When Hunter and the Tamer enters the battlefield, create a 2/2 green Hound creature token.
They followed Oromë’s horn, pursuing to the death the monsters and fell beasts.
Illus. Ashramart (Ashram)
1/1
 C 
Creature – Elf Warrior
Flash
When Hunter and the Tamer enters the battlefield, create a 2/2 green Hound creature token.
They followed Oromë’s horn, pursuing to the death the monsters and fell beasts.
Illus. Ashramart (Ashram)
1/1
 U 
Creature – Elf Archer Scout
When Oromë's Ranger enters the battlefield, create two 2/2 green Hound creature tokens.
{t}: Target creature token you control fights target creature you don’t control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
Illus. annamare - DeviantArt.com
1/1
 U 
Creature – Treefolk
Vigilance
When Shepherd of the Trees enters the battlefield, you may search your library for up to two Forest cards and put them onto the battlefield tapped. (Shuffle your library after a player searches it.)
Illus. Andrev Mironishin
4/7

 C 
Sorcery
Reveal cards from the top of your library until a basic land card or six cards are revealed, whichever comes first. If a basic land card is revealed this way, put it onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest of the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.
Illus. Markus Holzum
 C 
Sorcery
Reveal cards from the top of your library until a basic land card or six cards are revealed, whichever comes first. If a basic land card is revealed this way, put it onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest of the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.
Illus. Markus Holzum
 C 
Instant
Untap all creatures you control. They get +1/+1 until end of turn.
By the starlit mere of Cuiviénen, Water of Awakening, they rose from the sleep of Ilúvatar; and while they dwelt yet silent by Cuiviénen their eyes beheld first of all things the stars of heaven.
Illus. Christas Vengel
 C 
Instant
Untap all creatures you control. They get +1/+1 until end of turn.
By the starlit mere of Cuiviénen, Water of Awakening, they rose from the sleep of Ilúvatar; and while they dwelt yet silent by Cuiviénen their eyes beheld first of all things the stars of heaven.
Illus. Christas Vengel
 C 
Instant
Untap all creatures you control. They get +1/+1 until end of turn.
By the starlit mere of Cuiviénen, Water of Awakening, they rose from the sleep of Ilúvatar; and while they dwelt yet silent by Cuiviénen their eyes beheld first of all things the stars of heaven.
Illus. Christas Vengel
 C 
Enchantment
{t}: You gain 1 life, then chant (Your enchantments can enhance this effect. Copy this effect for each enchantment you tap in response.).
The light that was spilled from the trees endured long, ere it was taken up into the airs or sank down into the earth.
Illus. John Pitre
 U 
Enchantment
Creature tokens you control get +1/+1 and can’t be blocked by more than one creature.
Oromë tamer of beasts would ride in the darkness of the unlit forests and his white horse Nahar shone like silver in the shadows.
Illus. Jessica Holman
 U 
Enchantment
Creature tokens you control get +1/+1 and can’t be blocked by more than one creature.
Oromë tamer of beasts would ride in the darkness of the unlit forests and his white horse Nahar shone like silver in the shadows.
Illus. Jessica Holman
 C 
Instant
Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. You gain life equal to its power.
In the midst of the war a spirit of great strength and hardihood came to the aid of the Valar, hearing in the far heaven that there was battle in the Little Kingdom; and Arda was filled with the sound of his laughter.
Illus. Antonio Vinci
 C 
Sorcery
Put target creature on the battlefield or creature card in a graveyard into its owner's library third from the top.
There he lay upon his face before the feet of Manwë and sued for pardon; but his prayer was denied, and he was cast into prison in the fastness of Mandos, whence none can escape, neither Vala, nor Elf, nor mortal Man.
Illus. Mary Sanche
 C 
Sorcery
Put target creature on the battlefield or creature card in a graveyard into its owner's library third from the top.
There he lay upon his face before the feet of Manwë and sued for pardon; but his prayer was denied, and he was cast into prison in the fastness of Mandos, whence none can escape, neither Vala, nor Elf, nor mortal Man.
Illus. Mary Sanche
 C 
Sorcery
Put target creature on the battlefield or creature card in a graveyard into its owner's library third from the top.
There he lay upon his face before the feet of Manwë and sued for pardon; but his prayer was denied, and he was cast into prison in the fastness of Mandos, whence none can escape, neither Vala, nor Elf, nor mortal Man.
Illus. Mary Sanche
 M 
Legendary Planeswalker – Varda
Varda Elentári has protection from each color among cards exiled with her.
+2: Exile up to four cards from the top of your library. Put each Plains card exiled this way into your hand.
-3: Each player may choose a nonland permanent other than Varda Elentári. Exile the permanents chosen this way.
-12: Cast each white card exiled with Varda Elentári without paying its mana costs.
Illus. Gracjana Zielinska
4
 U 
Enchantment
Each other non-Aura enchantment is a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its converted mana cost.
They were not as before, for light flashed from their limbs as they moved and they trod as lightly as does sunlight on the earth.
Illus. Freydoon Rassouli
 U 
Enchantment
Each other non-Aura enchantment is a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its converted mana cost.
They were not as before, for light flashed from their limbs as they moved and they trod as lightly as does sunlight on the earth.
Illus. Freydoon Rassouli
 U 
Enchantment
{1}{w}, {t}: Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying, then chant (Your enchantments can enhance this effect. Copy this effect for each enchantment you tap in response.).
With the tears of Vána was the radiance of old beheld once more as a globe of fire.
Illus. Bente Shlick
 U 
Enchantment
{1}{w}, {t}: Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying, then chant (Your enchantments can enhance this effect. Copy this effect for each enchantment you tap in response.).
With the tears of Vána was the radiance of old beheld once more as a globe of fire.
Illus. Bente Shlick

{w}{b} Control (2-1 in matches, 5-3 in rounds)

Notes

This was my deck. I and the guy next to me ended up screwing each other since we went both for {w}{b} colors. The draft order was left-right-left so I ended up picking all the removal and he ended up with the "rest" in two draft rounds. His was the last {w}{b} deck listed on this page.

CREATURE (9)

1 Ungoliant's Offpsring
2 Varda's Progeny
2 Dark-Folk Recusant
1 Sin-Begotten Horde
1 Transcendent Myth
1 (((Insolent Urulóki)))
1 Starkindler

OTHER (13)

1 Appointed Return
1 (((Long Bore Fate)))
1 False Counsel
1 Light Before Fall
1 Plead in Whispers
1 Bitter Cold
1 Crystal Ball
1 Out of the Pit
2 Broken Vessel
2 Fear No Evil
1 Moon Dew

LAND (18)

1 Undying Lands
1 Orzhov Guildgate
8 Plains
8 Swamp

VISUAL:

 C 
Creature – Spider
Deathtouch
There spiders of the fell race of Ungoliant abode, spinning their unseen webs in which all living things were snared; and monsters wandered there that were born in the long dark before the Sun, hunting silently with many eyes.
Illus. Cebob (EdwardB)
1/1
 U 
Creature – Elf Lord
Distinguished (This creature is legendary if no other permanent has the same name.)
As long as Varda's Progeny is legendary, whenever it blocks a creature, untap that creature and remove it from combat.
Too great is her beauty to be declared in the words of Men or of Elves; for the light of Ilúvatar lives still in her face.
Illus. MadElfTk on deviantART
2/1
 U 
Creature – Elf Lord
Distinguished (This creature is legendary if no other permanent has the same name.)
As long as Varda's Progeny is legendary, whenever it blocks a creature, untap that creature and remove it from combat.
Too great is her beauty to be declared in the words of Men or of Elves; for the light of Ilúvatar lives still in her face.
Illus. MadElfTk on deviantART
2/1
 C 
Creature – Elf Rebel
Dark-Folk Recusant can't block unless you control another Elf.
Those who never beheld the Light that was before the Sun and Moon are known as the Moriquendi, Elves of Darkness.
Illus. Josh Brunet
3/1
 C 
Creature – Elf Rebel
Dark-Folk Recusant can't block unless you control another Elf.
Those who never beheld the Light that was before the Sun and Moon are known as the Moriquendi, Elves of Darkness.
Illus. Josh Brunet
3/1
 C 
Creature – Orc Minion
Now the Orcs that multiplied in the darkness of the earth grew strong and fell, and their dark lord filled them with a lust of rain and death; and they issued from Angband’s gates under the clouds that Morgoth sent forth, and passed silently into the highlands of the north.
Illus. Darek Zabrocki “Daroz”
3/4
 R 
Enchantment Creature – Incarnation
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, untap all enchantments you control.
Transcendent Myth's power and toughness are each equal to the number of enchantments you control.
Illus. tolrone.tumblr.com
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((Insolent Urulóki))
 U 
Enchantment Creature – Spirit
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
When Starkindler enters the battlefield, you may put an enchantment card with converted mana cost 4 or less from your hand onto the battlefield.
Illus. Rovina Cai
4/3

 C 
Sorcery
Proclaim {3}{w} (Pay {3}{w} and continue play with this revealed from hand. Proclaim this card only as a sorcery and once only.)
Return target Elf card from your graveyard to your hand. If Appointed Return was proclaimed, return up to three target Elf cards from your graveyard to your hand instead.
Illus. Francesca Politi
((Long Bore Fate))
 U 
Sorcery
Look at target player’s hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player discards the chosen card, then draws a card.
Ever Melkor found some ears that would heed him; and his lies passed as secrets of which the knowledge proves the teller wise.
Illus. Simona Brunilde J.
 C 
Enchantment
{t}: You gain 1 life, then chant (Your enchantments can enhance this effect. Copy this effect for each enchantment you tap in response.).
The light that was spilled from the trees endured long, ere it was taken up into the airs or sank down into the earth.
Illus. John Pitre
 U 
Instant
Draw a card, then proclaim up to two cards. (To proclaim a card, reveal it from hand and play with it revealed. Proclaim a card only once.)
Elbereth they name her, and they call upon her name out of the shadows of Middle-earth, and uplift it in song at the rising of the stars.
Illus. Kip Rasmussen
 C 
Instant
Tap target permanent, then put two -1/-1 counters on it.
The light of the eyes of Melkor was like a flame that withers with heat and pierces with a deadly cold.
Illus. John Picacio
 U 
Artifact
{1}, {t}: Scry 2. (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.)
Crystals Fëanor made, wherein things far away could be seen small but clear, as with the eyes of the eagles of Manwë.
Illus. Ed Beard Jr.
 C 
Sorcery
Create two tapped 2/2 black Orc creature tokens.
Countless became the hosts of his beasts and demons in Angband, and the race of the Orcs, bred long before, grew and multiplied in the bowels of the earth.
Illus. John Howe
 U 
Enchantment – Aura
Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature is a Minion with base power and toughness 1/1 and loses all abilities.
Illus. Jay Lockwood Carpenter
 U 
Enchantment – Aura
Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature is a Minion with base power and toughness 1/1 and loses all abilities.
Illus. Jay Lockwood Carpenter
 C 
Instant
Proclaim {1}{w} (Pay {1}{w} and continue play with this revealed from hand. Proclaim this card only as a sorcery and once only.)
When you proclaim Fear No Evil, tap up to two target creatures.
Exile target tapped nonland permanent.
Illus. Dresden Codak
 C 
Instant
Proclaim {1}{w} (Pay {1}{w} and continue play with this revealed from hand. Proclaim this card only as a sorcery and once only.)
When you proclaim Fear No Evil, tap up to two target creatures.
Exile target tapped nonland permanent.
Illus. Dresden Codak
 U 
Enchantment
{1}{w}, {t}: Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying, then chant (Your enchantments can enhance this effect. Copy this effect for each enchantment you tap in response.).
With the tears of Vána was the radiance of old beheld once more as a globe of fire.
Illus. Bente Shlick

{u}{r} Aggro (1-1)

CREATURE (12)

2 Red-Handed Kinslayer
1 Ñoldorian Jewel-Wright
1 Fierce Fëanorian
2 Arisen Liberator
1 Maiden of the Day-Star
1 Swanship of Alqualondë
1 Spiteful Heir
1 Unbridled War-Wager
1 Child of Melkor
1 Sapphire-Winged Herald

OTHER (12)

2 Dejection
1 Oathkeeping
1 (((Traverse in Hubris)))
1 Aulë's Craft
2 Symphony of Designs
2 Let Them Burn
1 Descend Upon
1 Overflowing Zeal
1 Silences Yet Unmoved

LAND (17)

2 Izzet Guildgate
10 Mountain
5 Island

VISUAL:

 U 
Creature – Elf Rebel
Distinguished (This creature is legendary if no other permanent has the same name.)
Red-Handed Kinslayer gets +1/+0 for each legendary creature you control. (Including itself if it’s legendary.)
Illus. Hook Woojin
0/2
 U 
Creature – Elf Rebel
Distinguished (This creature is legendary if no other permanent has the same name.)
Red-Handed Kinslayer gets +1/+0 for each legendary creature you control. (Including itself if it’s legendary.)
Illus. Hook Woojin
0/2
 U 
Creature – Elf
When Ñoldorian Jewel-Wright enters the battlefield, create a colorless Treasure artifact token with "{t}, Sacrifice this artifact: Produce one mana of any color."
The masons quarrying in the hills first discovered the earth-gems, and brought them forth in countless myriads.
Illus. Ji You Zhong
1/2
 C 
Creature – Elf Rebel
Uprise (Whenever this attacks, produce {r} at the beginning of your next main phase.)
Fëanor now began openly to speak words of rebellion against the Valar, crying aloud that he would depart from Valinor back to the world without.
Illus. Tuuliky on deviantART.com
2/1
 U 
Creature – Elf Rebel
Uprise (Whenever this attacks, produce {r} at the beginning of your next main phase.)
Whenever Arisen Liberator attacks, it and other Rebels you control get +1/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn.
"Through sorrow we will now try find joy; or freedom, at the least."
Illus. Efflam Mercier
2/2
 U 
Creature – Elf Rebel
Uprise (Whenever this attacks, produce {r} at the beginning of your next main phase.)
Whenever Arisen Liberator attacks, it and other Rebels you control get +1/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn.
"Through sorrow we will now try find joy; or freedom, at the least."
Illus. Efflam Mercier
2/2
 U 
Enchantment Creature – Spirit
Distinguished (This creature is legendary if no other permanent has the same name.)
Legendary red creatures you control have "{t}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player."
She was as a naked flame, terrible in the fullness of her splendour.
Illus. Alexandra Khitrova
3/3
 C 
Creature – Elf Soldier
Swanship of Alqualondë can’t be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.
Many pearls they won for themselves from the sea, and their halls were of pearl, and of pearl were the mansions of Olwë at Alqualondë, the Haven of the Swans.
Illus. Ted Nasmith
2/4
 C 
Creature – Elf Rebel Lord
Distinguished (This creature is legendary if no other permanent has the same name.)
As long as Spiteful Heir is legendary, it gets +2/-2 and has haste.
“Yea more!” He laughed aloud as he wielded his sword, rejoicing that he might see the hour of his vengeance.
Illus. Jong Yi
2/4
 R 
Enchantment Creature – Spirit
Distinguished (This creature is legendary if no other permanent has the same name.)
As long as Unbridled War-Wager is legendary, creatures you control have first strike and attack each combat if able.
In unceasing battle the red light of torches is reflected in the blades of naked swords.
Illus. Melkoron Tolrone
5/3
 C 
Creature – Giant
Distinguished (This creature is legendary if no other permanent has the same name.)
As long as Child of Melkor is legendary, it has "Whenever this is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to each player."
It loathed the Master whom it served, the maker only of its misery.
Illus. Anastasiya Sytnik
7/5
 C 
Enchantment Creature – Spirit
Flash
When Sapphire-Winged Herald enters the battlefield, each opponent chooses an untapped permanent they control and taps it. Then, you chant (Your enchantments can enhance this effect. Copy this effect for each enchantment you tap in response.).
Illus. Anna Steinbauer
5/4

 C 
Sorcery
Return target untapped creature to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 2 life.
Fëanor fled into the night; for his father was dearer to him than the Light of Valinor or the peerless works of his hands.
Illus. Helena Nelson-Reed
 C 
Sorcery
Return target untapped creature to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 2 life.
Fëanor fled into the night; for his father was dearer to him than the Light of Valinor or the peerless works of his hands.
Illus. Helena Nelson-Reed
 C 
Instant
Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains haste until end of turn. It attacks this turn if able.
“We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens.”
—Fëanor, Spirit of Fire
Illus. Ted Nasmith
((Traverse in Hubris))
 C 
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
Aulë wrought many beautiful and shapely works; of him comes the lore of the Earth and of an things that it contains.
Illus. Alan Lee
 U 
Sorcery
Draw a card, then chant (Your enchantments can enhance this effect. Copy this effect for each enchantment you tap in response.).
As they looked and wondered this World began to unfold its history, and it seemed to them that it lived and grew.
Illus. Philip Straub
 U 
Sorcery
Draw a card, then chant (Your enchantments can enhance this effect. Copy this effect for each enchantment you tap in response.).
As they looked and wondered this World began to unfold its history, and it seemed to them that it lived and grew.
Illus. Philip Straub
 C 
Instant
Let Them Burn deals an amount of damage of your choice to you and target creature you don’t control.
"None and none! What I have left behind I count now no loss; needless baggage on the road it has proved."
—Fëanor, Spirit of Fire
Illus. Ted Nasmith
 C 
Instant
Let Them Burn deals an amount of damage of your choice to you and target creature you don’t control.
"None and none! What I have left behind I count now no loss; needless baggage on the road it has proved."
—Fëanor, Spirit of Fire
Illus. Ted Nasmith
 C 
Enchantment
At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature you control gains menace and haste until end of turn.
At times the Valar may clothe themselves in their own thought, made visible in forms of majesty and dread.
Illus. Stefan Meisl
 U 
Enchantment – Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has haste and attacks each turn if able.
When Overflowing Zeal enters the battlefield, untap enchanted creature and gain control of it until end of turn.
Illus. Karolina Wegrzyn
 C 
Instant
Proclaim {u} (Pay {u} and continue play with this revealed from hand. Proclaim this card only as a sorcery and once only.)
When you proclaim Silences Yet Unmoved, scry 3.
Counter target nonenchantment spell.
Illus. Rongrong Wang

{b}{g} Midrange (1-1)

CREATURE (15)

2 Ungoliant's Offpsring
2 Elvish Lyrist
1 Almaren Arbor
2 Dancing Deer
1 Giver of Fruits
1 Elvish Harbinger
1 Utopia Ambassador
1 Sin-Begotten Horde
1 Abhorrent Master
1 Valinorian Mûmak
2 Ancient Huorn

OTHER (8)

1 Celestial Horizon
1 Shed Innocence
2 Bitter Cold
1 Resounding Delight
1 (((Arts of Cruelty)))
1 Harvest of Slumber
1 Dismal Devices

LAND (17)

1 Golgari Guildgate
8 Swamp
8 Forest

VISUAL:

 C 
Creature – Spider
Deathtouch
There spiders of the fell race of Ungoliant abode, spinning their unseen webs in which all living things were snared; and monsters wandered there that were born in the long dark before the Sun, hunting silently with many eyes.
Illus. Cebob (EdwardB)
1/1
 C 
Creature – Spider
Deathtouch
There spiders of the fell race of Ungoliant abode, spinning their unseen webs in which all living things were snared; and monsters wandered there that were born in the long dark before the Sun, hunting silently with many eyes.
Illus. Cebob (EdwardB)
1/1
 U 
Creature – Elf Bard
{g}, {t}, Sacrifice Elvish Lyrist: Destroy target enchantment.
With her tears she washed away the defilements of Ungoliant; and she sang in mourning for the bitterness of the world and the Marring of Arda.
Illus. Rebecca Guay
1/1
 U 
Creature – Elf Bard
{g}, {t}, Sacrifice Elvish Lyrist: Destroy target enchantment.
With her tears she washed away the defilements of Ungoliant; and she sang in mourning for the bitterness of the world and the Marring of Arda.
Illus. Rebecca Guay
1/1
 C 
Creature – Plant
Defender
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.
There upon the Isle of Almaren was the first dwelling of the Valar when all things were young, and new-made green was yet a marvel in the eyes of the makers.
Illus. Marius Janusonis
0/3
 C 
Creature – Elk
Haste, vigilance
It is sung that in that feast of the Spring of Arda Tulka espoused Nessa the sister of Oromë, and she danced before the Valar upon the green grass of Almaren.
Illus. Angela Taratuta
1/1
 C 
Creature – Elk
Haste, vigilance
It is sung that in that feast of the Spring of Arda Tulka espoused Nessa the sister of Oromë, and she danced before the Valar upon the green grass of Almaren.
Illus. Angela Taratuta
1/1
 C 
Creature – Elf Druid
When Giver of Fruits enters the battlefield, you may play an additional land this turn.
She is the lover of all things that grow in the earth, and all their countless forms she holds in her mind.
Illus. steamey (Olga G)
2/2
 U 
Creature – Elf Druid
When Elvish Harbinger enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Elf card, reveal it, and put that card on top of your library after shuffling it. (Shuffle your library after a player searches it.)
{t}: Produce one mana of any color.
Illus. Kyoung Hwan Kim
1/2
 U 
Creature – Elf Shaman
When Utopia Ambassador dies, you may put it on the bottom of its owner’s library. If you do, return a card from your graveyard to your hand.
The glory and majesty of Valinor will eternally haunt those who have even once bared witness to it.
Illus. Christas Vengel
2/2
 C 
Creature – Orc Minion
Now the Orcs that multiplied in the darkness of the earth grew strong and fell, and their dark lord filled them with a lust of rain and death; and they issued from Angband’s gates under the clouds that Morgoth sent forth, and passed silently into the highlands of the north.
Illus. Darek Zabrocki “Daroz”
3/4
 U 
Enchantment Creature – Spirit
Deathtouch
Minion creatures and creature tokens you control have deathtouch.
A sorcerer of dreadful power, foul in wisdom, cruel in strength, misshaping what he touched, twisting what he ruled; his dominion was torment.
Illus. Salmon Violet
3/2
 C 
Creature – Elephant
Valinorian Mûmak costs {1} less to cast for each proclaimed card in your hand.
In the Elder Days of the Lamps the oldest living things had arisen; beasts of horn and ivory that dwelt in the woods that Yavanna brought forth.
Illus. unded (dedy) - DeviantArt.com
8/8
 C 
Creature – Plant
Defender
{1}{g}: Ancient Huorn can attack this turn as though it didn’t have defender.
"Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril."
—Yavanna Kementári
Illus. Luke Mancini
6/6
 C 
Creature – Plant
Defender
{1}{g}: Ancient Huorn can attack this turn as though it didn’t have defender.
"Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril."
—Yavanna Kementári
Illus. Luke Mancini
6/6

 C 
Sorcery
Reveal cards from the top of your library until a basic land card or six cards are revealed, whichever comes first. If a basic land card is revealed this way, put it onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest of the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.
Illus. Markus Holzum
 U 
Enchantment – Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has hidden and can't be blocked. (As long as it's untapped, your opponents can’t target it.)
Thus unclad Melkor passed from place to place as a shadowy cloud in the hills.
Illus. Anastasiya Sytnik
 C 
Instant
Tap target permanent, then put two -1/-1 counters on it.
The light of the eyes of Melkor was like a flame that withers with heat and pierces with a deadly cold.
Illus. John Picacio
 C 
Instant
Tap target permanent, then put two -1/-1 counters on it.
The light of the eyes of Melkor was like a flame that withers with heat and pierces with a deadly cold.
Illus. John Picacio
 C 
Instant
Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. You gain life equal to its power.
In the midst of the war a spirit of great strength and hardihood came to the aid of the Valar, hearing in the far heaven that there was battle in the Little Kingdom; and Arda was filled with the sound of his laughter.
Illus. Antonio Vinci
((Arts of Cruelty))
 C 
Enchantment – Aura
Enchant artifact, enchantment, or land
Enchanted permanent can't be untapped and can't have counters put on it.
Yavanna set a sleep upon many things that had arisen in the Spring, so that they should not age, but should wait for a time of awakening that yet should be.
Illus. Jimmy Ling
 C 
Instant
Draw two cards. Each player loses 2 life.
From Melkor the Elves learnt many things it were not good for any but the great Valar to know, for being half-comprehended such deep and hidden things slay happiness.
Illus. Anna Dittmann

{u}{g} Proclaim (0-1) had to discontinue

CREATURE (12)

1 Elf-Sage of Valinor
1 Watchtower Loremaster
1 Lady of the Sea
2 Giver of Fruits
1 Tideling of Turmoil
1 Utopia Ambassador
1 Host of the Eldar
1 Oromë's Ranger
1 Ancient Huorn
1 Wingild Foam-Maiden
1 Sapphire-Winged Herald

OTHER (11)

1 Essence of Being
1 Unfathomable Depths
3 Coming of the Firstborn
1 Spin a Tale
1 Silences Yet Unmoved
1 Call of the Sea
1 Harvest of Slumber
1 Ulmo, Lord of Waters
1 Veil of Sleep

LAND (17)

2 Simic Guildgate
9 Island
6 Forest

VISUAL:

 U 
Creature – Elf Wizard
{t}: Produce {c}{u}. Spend this mana only to proclaim cards or cast proclaimed spells.
“More tales to head’s filling the wanderer shall have on the morrow.”
Illus. steamey (Olga G)
0/1
 C 
Creature – Elf Advisor
When Watchtower Loremaster enters the battlefield, draw a card.
In the Noontide of the Realm the Eldar became full-grown in stature of body and of mind, and advanced ever in skill and knowledge.
Illus. Sara M. Morello
1/1
 U 
Enchantment Creature – Spirit
{t}: Target creature gets -1/-0 until end of turn, then chant (Your enchantments can enhance this effect. Copy this effect for each enchantment you tap in response.).
All creatures she loves that live in the salt streams; to her mariners cry, for she can lay calm upon the waves.
Illus. Rongrong Wang
1/3
 C 
Creature – Elf Druid
When Giver of Fruits enters the battlefield, you may play an additional land this turn.
She is the lover of all things that grow in the earth, and all their countless forms she holds in her mind.
Illus. steamey (Olga G)
2/2
 C 
Creature – Elf Druid
When Giver of Fruits enters the battlefield, you may play an additional land this turn.
She is the lover of all things that grow in the earth, and all their countless forms she holds in her mind.
Illus. steamey (Olga G)
2/2
 C 
Creature – Elemental Serpent
Whenever Tideling of Turmoil deals combat damage, return it to its owner’s hand. (Return it only if it survived combat.)
In water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth.
Illus. Jean Tay
4/3
 U 
Creature – Elf Shaman
When Utopia Ambassador dies, you may put it on the bottom of its owner’s library. If you do, return a card from your graveyard to your hand.
The glory and majesty of Valinor will eternally haunt those who have even once bared witness to it.
Illus. Christas Vengel
2/2
 U 
Creature – Elf
Lurk (As long as this creature is untapped, your opponents can’t target it.)
Host of the Eldar's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Elves you control
Many of their kindred feared rather their journey’s end than hoped for it.
Illus. Aelin Laer
*/*
 U 
Creature – Elf Archer Scout
When Oromë's Ranger enters the battlefield, create two 2/2 green Hound creature tokens.
{t}: Target creature token you control fights target creature you don’t control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
Illus. annamare - DeviantArt.com
1/1
 C 
Creature – Plant
Defender
{1}{g}: Ancient Huorn can attack this turn as though it didn’t have defender.
"Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril."
—Yavanna Kementári
Illus. Luke Mancini
6/6
 R 
Enchantment Creature – Spirit
Whenever Wingild Foam-Maiden or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, return up to one target nonland permanent to its owner’s hand.
Illus. Elena Kukanova
3/3
 C 
Enchantment Creature – Spirit
Flash
When Sapphire-Winged Herald enters the battlefield, each opponent chooses an untapped permanent they control and taps it. Then, you chant (Your enchantments can enhance this effect. Copy this effect for each enchantment you tap in response.).
Illus. Anna Steinbauer
5/4

 U 
Instant
Proclaim {3}{g} (Pay {3}{g} and continue play with this revealed from hand. Proclaim this card only as a sorcery and once only.)
Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn turn. If Essence of Being was proclaimed, that creature gets +6/+0 until end of turn.
Illus. Gilbert Williams
 U 
Enchantment
{t}, Sacrifice Unfathomable Depths: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.
"O Valar, ye know not all wonders, and many secret things are there beneath the Earth's dark keel."
—Ulmo, Lord of Waters
Illus. Francisco Albert Albusac
 C 
Instant
Proclaim {1}{g} (Pay {1}{g} and continue play with this revealed from hand. Proclaim this card only as a sorcery and once only.)
Create two 1/1 white and green Elf creature tokens. If Coming of the Firstborn was proclaimed, create three of those tokens instead.
Illus. Nataly Sinelnikova
 C 
Instant
Proclaim {1}{g} (Pay {1}{g} and continue play with this revealed from hand. Proclaim this card only as a sorcery and once only.)
Create two 1/1 white and green Elf creature tokens. If Coming of the Firstborn was proclaimed, create three of those tokens instead.
Illus. Nataly Sinelnikova
 C 
Instant
Proclaim {1}{g} (Pay {1}{g} and continue play with this revealed from hand. Proclaim this card only as a sorcery and once only.)
Create two 1/1 white and green Elf creature tokens. If Coming of the Firstborn was proclaimed, create three of those tokens instead.
Illus. Nataly Sinelnikova
 C 
Sorcery
At the beginning of the next end step, draw three cards, then discard a card.
Vairë the Weaver is his spouse, who weaves all things that have ever been in Time into her storied webs, and the halls of Mandos that ever widen as the ages pass are clothed with them.
Illus. Erika Craig
 C 
Instant
Proclaim {u} (Pay {u} and continue play with this revealed from hand. Proclaim this card only as a sorcery and once only.)
When you proclaim Silences Yet Unmoved, scry 3.
Counter target nonenchantment spell.
Illus. Rongrong Wang
 U 
Sorcery
Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of Islands you control. (This effect last indefinitely.)
Those to whom that music comes hear it ever after in their hearts, and longing for the sea never leaves them again.
Illus. kimberly80 (kimberly) on DeviantArt.com
 C 
Enchantment – Aura
Enchant artifact, enchantment, or land
Enchanted permanent can't be untapped and can't have counters put on it.
Yavanna set a sleep upon many things that had arisen in the Spring, so that they should not age, but should wait for a time of awakening that yet should be.
Illus. Jimmy Ling
 M 
Legendary Planeswalker – Ulmo
Whenever a nontoken permanent is returned to its owner’s hand, create a colorless Island land token.
0: Return any number of nontoken lands you control to their owners’ hands, then put that many loyalty counters on Ulmo.
-2: Until your next turn, up to two target creatures each get -1/-0 for each card in your hand.
-9: You get three emblems with "Exile this emblem: Return target permanent to its owner’s hand."
Illus. Kamehame
3
 R 
Enchantment
When Veil of Sleep enters the battlefield, tap all creatures and they fall asleep.
Sleeping creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.
If a sleeping creature becomes untapped, it's no longer asleep.
Illus. Tor Søreide Design

{w}{b} Aggro? (0-2)

CREATURE (13)

2 Fair-One of Minyar
1 Royal Messenger
1 Dark-Folk Recusant
1 Silver Steed
1 Lifeless Recreant
2 Eagles of Taniquetil
1 Houseless Defector
2 Scion of Kings
1 Starkindler
1 True Deceiver

OTHER (11)

1 Glimmer of Hope
2 Gloomweaving
1 False Counsel
1 Crystal Ball
1 Heaven's Arc
2 Feed the Emptiness
1 Out of the Pit
1 Council of Judgement
1 Dismal Devices

LAND (16)

1 Orzhov Guildgate
8 Plains
7 Swamp

VISUAL:

 C 
Creature – Elf
Distinguished (This creature is legendary if no other permanent has the same name.)
As long as Fair-One of Minyar is legendary, it has "Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you gain 2 life."
The Vanyar grew to love the land of the Valar and the full light of the Trees.
Illus. kimberly80 on deviantART
1/2
 C 
Creature – Elf
Distinguished (This creature is legendary if no other permanent has the same name.)
As long as Fair-One of Minyar is legendary, it has "Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you gain 2 life."
The Vanyar grew to love the land of the Valar and the full light of the Trees.
Illus. kimberly80 on deviantART
1/2
 C 
Creature – Elf Soldier
When Royal Messenger enters the battlefield, tap target creature.
Whenever you proclaim, you may return Royal Messenger to its owner’s hand.
"Go not forth! For the hour is evil, and your road leads to sorrow that ye do not foresee."
Illus. Bramasta Aji
1/1
 C 
Creature – Elf Rebel
Dark-Folk Recusant can't block unless you control another Elf.
Those who never beheld the Light that was before the Sun and Moon are known as the Moriquendi, Elves of Darkness.
Illus. Josh Brunet
3/1
 U 
Creature – Horse
Distinguished (This creature is legendary if no other permanent has the same name.)
When Silver Steed enters the battlefield, destroy target enchantment.
{2}{w}: Return target legendary creature you control to its owner’s hand.
Illus. Amir Salehi
3/3
 U 
Enchantment Creature – Spirit Rebel
Whenever Lifeless Recreant or another Rebel you own dies, return that card to your hand unless target opponent pays 2 life.
Not all who now dwell in the vast halls of Mandos hold the Valar in reverence.
Illus. Anastasiya Sytnik
2/1
 C 
Creature – Bird
Flying
When Eagles of Taniquetil enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand.
Hawks and eagles flew ever to and from Manwë's halls; and their eyes could pierce the caverns beneath the world.
Illus. Emile Denis
2/2
 C 
Creature – Bird
Flying
When Eagles of Taniquetil enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand.
Hawks and eagles flew ever to and from Manwë's halls; and their eyes could pierce the caverns beneath the world.
Illus. Emile Denis
2/2
 C 
Creature – Elf Rebel Rogue
Lurk (As long as this creature is untapped, your opponents can’t target it.)
When Houseless Defector dies, create a 1/1 black Spirit creature token with flying.
The corrupted slain Elves refuse the summons of the Valar and instead maliciously haunt places they had frequented in life.
Illus. Chenthooran Nambiarooran
2/2
 C 
Creature – Elf Knight
Distinguished (This creature is legendary if no other permanent has the same name.)
Scion of Kings has double strike and lifelink as long as you control three or more legendary permanents. (Including itself if it’s legendary.)
Illus. Elena Kukanova
2/4
 C 
Creature – Elf Knight
Distinguished (This creature is legendary if no other permanent has the same name.)
Scion of Kings has double strike and lifelink as long as you control three or more legendary permanents. (Including itself if it’s legendary.)
Illus. Elena Kukanova
2/4
 U 
Enchantment Creature – Spirit
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
When Starkindler enters the battlefield, you may put an enchantment card with converted mana cost 4 or less from your hand onto the battlefield.
Illus. Rovina Cai
4/3
 R 
Creature – Minion Rebel
{t}, Exile True Deceiver: Gain control of target legendary creature. It becomes black. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
"This is no herald, but a rebel, a thief, and a murderer. He hath defiled the sanctity of Valinor, and cast his insolence in our teeth."
—Tulkas, Champion of Valar
Illus. Joel Kilpatrick
3/3

 C 
Enchantment
Whenever you draw one or more cards, up to one target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
"We still remember, we who dwell
In this far land beneath the trees,
Thy starlight on the Western Seas."
—Elven hymn to Varda
Illus. Freydoon Rassouli
 C 
Enchantment – Aura
Enchant creature
{b}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
A cloak of darkness she wove about them when Melkor and Ungoliant set forth; an Unlight, in which things seemed to be no more, and which eyes could not pierce.
Illus. Igor Mugerza
 C 
Enchantment – Aura
Enchant creature
{b}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
A cloak of darkness she wove about them when Melkor and Ungoliant set forth; an Unlight, in which things seemed to be no more, and which eyes could not pierce.
Illus. Igor Mugerza
 U 
Sorcery
Look at target player’s hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player discards the chosen card, then draws a card.
Ever Melkor found some ears that would heed him; and his lies passed as secrets of which the knowledge proves the teller wise.
Illus. Simona Brunilde J.
 U 
Artifact
{1}, {t}: Scry 2. (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.)
Crystals Fëanor made, wherein things far away could be seen small but clear, as with the eyes of the eagles of Manwë.
Illus. Ed Beard Jr.
 C 
Sorcery
Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put an enchantment card and/or a Plains card among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Illus. 00B00 (B00) | DeviantArt.com
 C 
Sorcery
Each player loses 5 life. This can’t reduce your life total to less than 1.
“What wouldst thou have more? Dost thou desire all the world for thy belly?”
—Morgoth Bauglir
Illus. Richard Luong
 C 
Sorcery
Each player loses 5 life. This can’t reduce your life total to less than 1.
“What wouldst thou have more? Dost thou desire all the world for thy belly?”
—Morgoth Bauglir
Illus. Richard Luong
 C 
Sorcery
Create two tapped 2/2 black Orc creature tokens.
Countless became the hosts of his beasts and demons in Angband, and the race of the Orcs, bred long before, grew and multiplied in the bowels of the earth.
Illus. John Howe
 R 
Enchantment
At the beginning of each opponent’s upkeep, if that player controls more permanents than you, that player sacrifices the permanent they controls with the highest converted mana cost. If two or more permanents are tied for highest cost, that player chooses one.
Again the Valar were gathered in council at the Ring of Doom, and they were divided in debate.
Illus. Jacek Kopalski
 C 
Instant
Draw two cards. Each player loses 2 life.
From Melkor the Elves learnt many things it were not good for any but the great Valar to know, for being half-comprehended such deep and hidden things slay happiness.
Illus. Anna Dittmann

Updated on 09 Mar 2018 by Tahazzar