{1}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card, then discard a card.
"Like Day from Night, / I'll live my life apart from you, just glimpsing you across the sky, / because you cannot change, my dear, and nor can I." —"Love Song of Night and Day"
Veldt doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a depletion counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a depletion counter from Veldt. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. Put a depletion counter on Veldt.
{X}{1}, {T}: Put X charge counters on Ventifact Bottle. Activate only as a sorcery. At the beginning of your precombat main phase, if Ventifact Bottle has a charge counter on it, tap it and remove all charge counters from it. Add {C} for each charge counter removed this way.
You may have Vesuvan Doppelganger enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it doesn't copy that creature's color and it has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have this creature become a copy of target creature, except it doesn't copy that creature's color and it has this ability."
First strike Vodalian Knights can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. When you control no Islands, sacrifice Vodalian Knights. {U}: Vodalian Knights gains flying until end of turn.
Fear the Knight leaping from the water into the air, weapon ready.
Defender Tap an untapped Merfolk you control: Vodalian War Machine can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. Tap an untapped Merfolk you control: Vodalian War Machine gets +2/+1 until end of turn. When Vodalian War Machine dies, destroy all Merfolk tapped this turn to pay for its abilities.
As long as the top card of your graveyard is a creature card, Volrath's Shapeshifter has the full text of that card and has the text "{2}: Discard a card." {2}: Discard a card.
{W}, Pay 1 life: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn. {U}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target Cleric or Wizard creature this turn. {B}, Put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target player or planeswalker this turn.
Cumulative upkeep {1} At the beginning of your draw step, destroy each creature with mana value equal to the number of age counters on Wave of Terror. They can't be regenerated.
During the brothers' childhood, Tocasia took them to explore the sacred cave of Koilos. There, in the Hall of Tagsin, Mishra discovered the mysterious weakstone.
Enchant land When Wellspring enters the battlefield, gain control of enchanted land until end of turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, untap enchanted land. You gain control of that land until end of turn.