{3}, {T}: Put a hatchling counter on this artifact. Sacrifice this artifact: Choose one. Activate only if there are two or more hatchling counters on this artifact. • You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.
"Resignedly beneath the sky/The melancholy waters lie./So blend the turrets and shadows there/That all seem pendulous in air,/While from a proud tower in town/Death looks gigantically down." —Edgar Allan Poe, "The City in the Sea"
Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Vaevictis Asmadi unless you pay {B}{R}{G}. {B}: Vaevictis Asmadi gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {R}: Vaevictis Asmadi gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {G}: Vaevictis Asmadi gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature and put X sleep counters on it. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step if it has a sleep counter on it. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, remove a sleep counter from that creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a pin counter on this artifact. At the beginning of your end step, if this artifact is untapped, destroy this artifact and it deals damage to you equal to the number of pin counters on it. {X}{X}, {T}: This artifact deals damage equal to the number of pin counters on it to any target. X is the number of pin counters on this artifact.
Defender Whenever this creature blocks a creature, if at least one other Wall creature is blocking that creature and no non-Wall creatures are blocking that creature, this creature gains banding until end of turn.
The ground shuddered violently and the earth seemed to come to life. The elemental force contained in the vast wall of earth was trapped, bent to its controller's will.