Branches of Skavjando: Mechanics
Carve a Red Rune:
Create a Red Rune enchantment token with ", Sacrifice this enchantment: Deal 1 damage to any target."
Used on 10 cards:
Firepaint, Release Inner Magic, Rock Zoom Goat, Cleavespell Viking, Molten Mentor, Rage Carving, Risk-Taking, Wildblooded Fury, Scorching Volleyist, Sear-Born
Purification of a red soul. Red was one of the three colors selected for purification because of red's emotional ties.
Purify:
PARAM1, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a 1/1 black spirit token with lifelink. Purify only as a sorcery
Used on 10 cards:
Sister of Departed Souls, Darkheart Ogre, Mirebound Chief, Vindictive Marauder, Blackheart Soul, Grimbeard Giant, Tainted Sorcerer, Barebones Berserker, Macabre Priest, Twilight Shielder
Purifying ambitious souls
Carve a Blue Rune:
Create a blue Rune enchantment token with ", Sacrifice this enchantment: Tap or untap target creature.
Used on 11 cards:
Ureidr Scriptforger, Nichuf Snoweye, Time to Understand, Ancient Rejection, Scribe the Future, Icicle Architect , Tactical Retreat, Runebinder, Insightful Glance, Scarred Narhwal, Studious Lass
Create a white Rune enchantment token with ", Sacrifice this enchantment: Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains vigilance until end of turn."
Carve a Black Rune:
Create a black Rune enchantment token with ", Sacrifice this enchantment: Target creature gets -1/-1 until the end of the turn.
Used on 10 cards:
End Carver, Etch in Blood, Dark Insights, Vengeful Runecarver, Hammerheart Hexer, Rathai's Vanguard, Paint Horror, Blood Tracer, Mysteries of the Runes, Write with Intestines
In card text or details pages, write the mechanic's code name (playtest name) between square brackets, like "[Crittercast]", "[Bushido 1]" or "[Delay 4 {2}{R}{R}]". It will be expanded to the mechanic's name plus reminder text, such as "Suspend 4 – . (Rather than cast this spell from your hand,...)"
To expand a mechanic's name but not its reminder text, include parentheses at the end of the square brackets: "[Crittercast()]", "[Delay 9 {R}()]".