mtg.wtf

"Lost in the woods" is an optimistic way to describe a villager's disappearance. "Found in the woods" is frequently more appropriate.

They are tasked with protecting the entrance to the embalming chambers.

"Before we can destroy our enemies, we must find them. We must peer into every wretched hovel and every teeming market."
—Baral, Chief of Compliance

After a series of ambushes, Uulbrek demanded a sentry with no blind spots.

Loitering is not only illegal but unwise, since those who stay too long in one place are apt to be stepped on.

The forked tongue of the naga is sensitive to drifting scent trails from the past, present, and sometimes even the future.

Don't mistake timidness for defenselessness.

The wings are held in place by wicker rods. The rods are held in place by pure faith.

Only in Ravnica do the wolves watch the flock.

Unpredictable as the sea itself, Water Elementals shift without warning from tranquility to tempest. Capricious and fickle, they flow restlessly from one shape to another, expressing their moods with their physical forms.

"This creature has innate perceptiveness. It knows when to rise and when to vanish into the tides."
—Jestus Dreya, Of Elements and Eternity

Luckily for the plummeting Johann, the hydroloft spell was one he had actually mastered.

"Beware an eddy where there should be none or a stretch that flows too fast or too slow."
—Old Fishbones, Martyne river guide

Form and function in perfect unity.

Closing time comes earlier to some than to others.

The bottom of the dark canals is littered with countless corpses and treasures.

"They come to drink, to bathe, and—I believe—to play."