When Thornmantle Striker enters the battlefield, choose one — • Remove X counters from target permanent, where X is the number of Elves you control. • Target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Elves you control.
When Thornmantle Striker enters the battlefield, choose one — • Remove X counters from target permanent, where X is the number of Elves you control. • Target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Elves you control.
Kicker {R} and/or {W} When Thornscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {R} kicker, it deals 2 damage to any target. When Thornscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {W} kicker, destroy target artifact.
"The dead perform all the work here—farming, building, teaching, even embalming their fellow mummies. The living need do nothing but train. What system could be more perfect?" —Temmet, vizier of Naktamun
Imprint — When Thought Prison enters the battlefield, you may have target player reveal their hand. If you do, choose a nonland card from it and exile that card. Whenever a player casts a spell that shares a color or mana value with the exiled card, Thought Prison deals 2 damage to that player.
"As you inject the viscus vitae into the brain stem, don't let the spastic moaning bother you. It will soon become music to your ears." —Stitcher Geralf
"As the rest of the mortal world waged war, Lady Azami and her students invaded tomes of knowledge. Their search yielded spells critical in the fight." —Observations of the Kami War
Defender Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on Thoughtbound Phantasm. As long as Thoughtbound Phantasm has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, if a player controls more Wizards than each other player, the player who controls the most Wizards gains control of Thoughtbound Primoc.
Efforts to use them as spies failed when they kept reporting to the enemy.