Cliques of Nylin

Cliques of Nylin contains 285 cards.
Released: 2024-09-01
Cryptology

Cryptology {1}{B}

Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a card from your graveyard.
Search your library for a card with the same mana value as the exiled card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 2 life.
Deadly Dispute

Deadly Dispute {1}{B}

Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token.
They say business is a cutthroat industry. The Vishanki aim slightly higher.
Estranged Aristocrat

Estranged Aristocrat {1}{B}

Creature - Elf Noble
{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Make a pledge.
“It is only fair that all lives are equal, but I am more fair than them all.”
1/3
Expendable Medic

Expendable Medic {B}

Creature - Minion
Decayed
{1}{B}, Exile Expendable Medic from your graveyard: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.
2/2
Extraction Mission

Extraction Mission {2}{B}

Sorcery
You may cast this spell as though it had flash as long as {U} is spent to cast it.
Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. If {R} was spent to cast this spell, create a token that's a copy of that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Hazakh Conscriptor

Hazakh Conscriptor {2}{B}

Creature - Human Advisor
Whenever Hazakh Conscriptor deals combat damage to a player, create a 2/2 colorless Minion creature token with decayed.
The Hazakh offer their prisoners a simple choice: their allegiance or their life.
3/2
Judge, Jury, and Executioner

Judge, Jury, and Executioner {3}{B}

Creature - Human Advisor Citizen Assassin
Flying
Approval — When Judge, Jury, and Executioner enters, exile up to one target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of colors among permanents you control.
3/2
Killing in the Name of . . .

Killing in the Name of . . . {1}{B}

Sorcery
Destroy target monocolored creature. Make a pledge.
It's easy to die for one's cause. To get others to do the same takes some . . . convincing.
Lofty Voter

Lofty Voter {2}{B}

Creature - Human Citizen
Flying
When Lofty Voter enters, make a pledge.
2/1
Merciless Headsman

Merciless Headsman {2}{B}

Creature - Zombie Assassin
When Merciless Headsman enters, create a 2/2 colorless Minion creature token with decayed.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw a card.
2/3
Night Squad

Night Squad {3}{B}

Creature - Human Assassin
When Night Squad enters, teach target creature menace. If you put a +1/+1 counter on it this way, it can't be blocked this turn.
4/2
Noxious Conditions

Noxious Conditions {3}{B}

Instant
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Until end of turn, whenever one of those creatures die, create a tapped Treasure token.
The Vishanki reward their hardest workers with a livelihood and the rest with their life.
Old Times Ruminator

Old Times Ruminator {2}{B}{B}

Creature - Human Elder
During your turn, you may play cards from your graveyard but not from anywhere else.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, exile that card instead of putting it into your graveyard as it resolves.
If another permanent you control would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
“Back in my day . . .”
3/3
Presidential Pardon

Presidential Pardon {B}

Instant
Until end of turn, target creature gains “When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and teach it flying.”
For Nylin's most corrupt politicians, one life sentence is rarely enough.
Product of Nepotism

Product of Nepotism {1}{B}

Creature - Human Noble
Whenever you cast a spell, if mana from an artifact source was spent to cast it, you may pay 1 life. If you do, draw a card. Do this only once each turn.
To the spoiled go the spoils.
2/1
Rank and Defile

Rank and Defile {1}{B}

Sorcery
Each player sacrifices a creature.
As long as a creature card or creature token was put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, Rank and Defile has flashback {2}{B}.
Rigged Trial

Rigged Trial {5}{B}

Instant
Approval — This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the number of colors among permanents you control.
Exile target creature.
“Read him his rights, for he clearly knows only what is wrong.”
—High Senator Talpa
Senators' Chauffeur

Senators' Chauffeur {5}{B}

Creature - Skeleton Pilot
Approval — When Senators' Chauffeur enters, return up to one target creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of colors among permanents you control from your graveyard to the battlefield.
4/4
Serve Again

Serve Again {2}{B}

Enchantment
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a Minion and has decayed.
“Your mission is not yet complete.”
—Krint, Five Star
Swamp

Swamp

Basic Land - Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
The Venerable Veteran

The Venerable Veteran {1}{B}

Legendary Creature - Minion
Decayed
You may cast The Venerable Veteran from your graveyard.
Every life a mere trial; every death an antibody against the same.
3/3
Warrant-Borne Cop

Warrant-Borne Cop {2}{B}

Creature - Human Soldier
Approval — When Warrant-Borne Cop enters, target player reveals X cards from their hand, where X is the number of colors among permanents you control. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.
2/2
Alamer, Profit Rerecorder

Alamer, Profit Rerecorder {3}{R}

Legendary Creature - Human Noble
Whenever you cast a spell, if mana from an artifact source was spent to cast it, you may copy that spell, and you may choose new targets for the copy. Do this only once each turn.
3/3
Ardent Voter

Ardent Voter {2}{R}

Creature - Human Citizen
Menace
When Ardent Voter enters, make a pledge.
3/1
Battlefield Tactician

Battlefield Tactician {3}{R}

Creature - Human Soldier
{2}, Sacrifice a creature: Teach target creature menace.
Victory isn't decided by how much you want to win, but by how much you're willing to lose.
4/3