Basic Land - Forest

Abattoir Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

First strike

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Abattoir Ghoul this turn dies, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Death took his humanity but not his skill with the knife.

Abbey Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying, vigilance

"The darkness crawls with vampires and ghouls, but we are not without allies."
-Mikaeus, the Lunarch

Abhorrent Overlord

Creature - Demon

Flying

When Abhorrent Overlord enters the battlefield, put a number of 1/1 black Harpy creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield equal to your devotion to black. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

Abomination of Gudul

Creature - Horror

Flying

Whenever Abomination of Gudul deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Abrupt Decay

Instant

Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.

The Izzet quickly suspended their policy of lifetime guarantees.

Absolver Thrull

Creature - Thrull Cleric

Haunt (When this creature dies, exile it haunting target creature.)

When Absolver Thrull enters the battlefield or the creature it haunts dies, destroy target enchantment.

Absorb Vis

Sorcery

Target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.

Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Abstruse Interference

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . You put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C} to your mana pool." ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Abuna Acolyte

Creature - Cat Cleric

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target artifact creature this turn.

"You can break nothing I cannot mend."

Abuna's Chant

Instant

Choose one - You gain 5 life; or prevent the next 5 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Abundance

Enchantment

If you would draw a card, you may instead choose land or nonland and reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and put all other cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Abundant Growth

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

When Abundant Growth enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted land has ": Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."

Abyssal Nocturnus

Creature - Horror

Whenever an opponent discards a card, Abyssal Nocturnus gets +2/+2 and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"I fear to keep an open mind, for there are those who would use it as a door to my soul."
-Voka Schlak,
Mauzam Asylum inmate, diary

Abyssal Persecutor

Creature - Demon

Flying, trample

You can't win the game and your opponents can't lose the game.

His slaves crave death more than they desire freedom. He denies them both.

Abyssal Specter

Creature - Specter

Flying

Whenever Abyssal Specter deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.

"Mystic shadow, bending near me, /
Who art thou? / Whence come ye?"
-Stephen Crane,
"Mystic shadow, bending near me"

Abzan Advantage

Instant

Target player sacrifices an enchantment. Bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

"To survive, you must seize every opportunity."
-Daghatar the Adamant

Abzan Ascendancy

Enchantment

When Abzan Ascendancy enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Abzan Banner

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Abzan Banner: Draw a card.

Stone to endure, roots to remember.

Abzan Battle Priest

Creature - Human Cleric

Outlast (, : Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has lifelink.

"Wherever I walk, the ancestors walk too."

Abzan Beastmaster

Creature - Hound Shaman

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you control the creature with the greatest toughness or tied for the greatest toughness.

His beasts move the great siege towers of the Abzan across the endless sands.

Abzan Charm

Instant

Choose one -

• Exile target creature with power 3 or greater.

• You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

• Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures.

Abzan Falconer

Creature - Human Soldier

Outlast (, : Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying.

The fastest way across the dunes is above.

Abzan Guide

Creature - Human Warrior

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

"These roads are desolate and changeable. Follow me, or die in the wastes."

Abzan Kin-Guard

Creature - Human Warrior

Abzan Kin-Guard has lifelink as long as you control a white or black permanent.

"The Mardu rush headlong toward extinction. We ensure the longevity of our clan by protecting our territory, not rampaging through it."

Abzan Runemark

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Enchanted creature has vigilance as long as you control a black or green permanent.

Abzan Skycaptain

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

When Abzan Skycaptain dies, bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

"A tempest is coming. Turn your faces toward the wind!"

Academy Elite

Creature - Human Wizard

Academy Elite enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in all graveyards.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Academy Elite: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Academy Raider

Creature - Human Warrior

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Whenever Academy Raider deals combat damage to a player, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Academy Researchers

Creature - Human Wizard

When Academy Researchers enters the battlefield, you may put an Aura card from your hand onto the battlefield attached to Academy Researchers.

They brandish their latest theories as warriors would wield weapons.

Academy Ruins

Legendary Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Its secrets once wrought the greatest artifice ever known. Now crabs loot the rubble to decorate their shells.

Accorder Paladin

Creature - Human Knight

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)

"I fight for the suns, the surface, and everything in between."

Accorder's Shield

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +0/+3 and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

An Auriok shield is polished to a mirror finish even on the inside, enabling its bearer to watch foes ahead and behind.

Accursed Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Many have heard the slither of dragging armor and the soft squelch of its voice. But only its victims ever meet its icy gaze.

Acid Web Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach

When Acid Web Spider enters the battlefield, you may destroy target Equipment.

Its web is an excellent source of found copper for the daring or the stupid.

Acid-Spewer Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying, deathtouch

Megamorph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

When Acid-Spewer Dragon is turned face up, put a +1/+1 counter on each other Dragon creature you control.

Acidic Slime

Creature - Ooze

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

When Acidic Slime enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Acolyte of Xathrid

Creature - Human Cleric

, : Target player loses 1 life.

Like all priests, she gives her blessings only to those truly worthy of them.

Acolyte's Reward

Instant

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn, where X is your devotion to white. If damage is prevented this way, Acolyte's Reward deals that much damage to target creature or player. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.)

Acorn Catapult

Artifact

, : Acorn Catapult deals 1 damage to target creature or player. That creature's controller or that player puts a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token onto the battlefield.

The Kalonian word for "ammunition" is the same as the word for "bait."

Acquire

Sorcery

Search target opponent's library for an artifact card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Sometimes "innovation" means "stealing another's secret before anyone else can."

Act of Aggression

Instant

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Act of Authority

Enchantment

When Act of Authority enters the battlefield, you may exile target artifact or enchantment.At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile target artifact or enchantment. If you do, its controller gains control of Act of Authority.

Act of Treason

Sorcery

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and this turn.)

"Rage courses in every heart, yearning to betray its rational prison."
-Sarkhan Vol

Act on Impulse

Sorcery

Exile the top three cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may play cards exiled this way. (If you cast a spell this way, you still pay its costs. You can play a land this way only if you have an available land play remaining.)

"You don't want to know what happens after I put on the goggles."

Ad Nauseam

Instant

Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost. You may repeat this process any number of times.

When the task spilled over into undeath, he stopped calling it his life's work.

Adamaro, First to Desire

Legendary Creature - Spirit

Adamaro, First to Desire's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in the hand of the opponent with the most cards in hand.

"Beware Adamaro! In him all pain and anger is perfected."
-Isao, Enlightened Bushi

Adaptive Automaton

Artifact Creature - Construct

As Adaptive Automaton enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Adaptive Automaton is the chosen type in addition to its other types.

Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Such loyalty can only be made.

Adaptive Snapjaw

Creature - Lizard Beast

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

"Eh, needs more toad."
-Gulistan, Simic biomancer

Adarkar Valkyrie

Snow Creature - Angel

Flying, vigilance

: When target creature other than Adarkar Valkyrie dies this turn, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

She doesn't escort the dead to the afterlife, but instead raises them to fight and die again.

Adarkar Wastes

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Add or to your mana pool. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Adarkar Windform

Snow Creature - Illusion

Flying

{S}: Target creature loses flying until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow permanent.)

Terisiare has only two kinds of weather: cold and weird.

Adder-Staff Boggart

Creature - Goblin Warrior

When Adder-Staff Boggart enters the battlefield, clash with an opponent. If you win, put a +1/+1 counter on Adder-Staff Boggart. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Admonition Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may exile target nonland permanent other than Admonition Angel.

When Admonition Angel leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Advanced Hoverguard

Creature - Drone

Flying

: Advanced Hoverguard gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"They are like their vedalken masters: untouchable, aloof, and omnipresent."
-Bruenna, Neurok leader

Advantageous Proclamation

Conspiracy

(Start the game with this conspiracy face up in the command zone.)

Your minimum deck size is reduced by five.

"The beneficent council deems you worthy of favor. They hope this doesn't provoke envy from your peers."

Advent of the Wurm

Instant

Put a 5/5 green Wurm creature token with trample onto the battlefield.

The consciousness of Mat'Selesnya does not always spread in peaceful ways.

Adventuring Gear

Artifact - Equipment

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

An explorer's essentials in a wild world.

Adverse Conditions

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step. Put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Advice from the Fae

Sorcery

( can be paid with any two mana or with . This card's converted mana cost is 6.)

Look at the top five cards of your library. If you control more creatures than each other player, put two of those cards into your hand. Otherwise, put one of them into your hand. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Advocate of the Beast

Creature - Elf Shaman

At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on target Beast creature you control.

"I am neither their drover nor their leader. To these majestic beasts, I am simply their herdmate and nothing more."

Aegis Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

When Aegis Angel enters the battlefield, another target permanent is indestructible for as long as you control Aegis Angel. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy that permanent. An indestructible creature can't be destroyed by damage.)

Aegis of the Gods

Enchantment Creature - Human Soldier

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Athreos cares little for the other gods' conflict with mortals. He is concerned only with safe passage for the dead.

Aeon Chronicler

Creature - Avatar

Aeon Chronicler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Suspend X-. X can't be 0. (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with X time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Whenever a time counter is removed from Aeon Chronicler while it's exiled, draw a card.

Aerial Formation

Instant

Strive - Aerial Formation costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Any number of target creatures each get +1/+1 and gain flying until end of turn.

Aerial Maneuver

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains flying and first strike until end of turn.

"When you put all of yourself into an attack, without fear or hesitation, in that instant you may attain greatness."
-Predak, Gateless freemage

Aerial Predation

Instant

Destroy target creature with flying. You gain 2 life.

In the towering trees of the Samok Stand and the predators that guard them, the might of the Ravnican wild has returned.

Aerie Bowmasters

Creature - Hound Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Megamorph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Aerie Mystics

Creature - Bird Wizard

Flying

: Creatures you control gain shroud until end of turn.

They are cautious with their body language and facial expressions. Any stray movement could betray the positions of the troops they protect and cost many lives.

Aerie Ouphes

Creature - Ouphe

Sacrifice Aerie Ouphes: Aerie Ouphes deals damage equal to its power to target creature with flying.

Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Aerie Worshippers

Creature - Human Cleric

Inspired - Whenever Aerie Worshippers becomes untapped, you may pay . If you do, put a 2/2 blue Bird enchantment creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

They can conjure stars from a clear sky.

Aeronaut Tinkerer

Creature - Human Artificer

Aeronaut Tinkerer has flying as long as you control an artifact. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

"All tinkerers have their heads in the clouds. I don't intend to stop there."

Affa Guard Hound

Creature - Hound

Flash

When Affa Guard Hound enters the battlefield, target creature gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

Once a welcoming hub for explorers, Affa became a place of guarded tongues and quick defenses.

Affa Protector

Creature - Human Soldier Ally

Vigilance

"Through all the terrors we face, I hold on to the memory of the world before the Eldrazi came. I'd like to see that world again."

Afflict

Instant

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

When one of the Patriarch's champions displeased him, he would only shake his finger. That was enough.

Afflicted Deserter

Creature - Human Werewolf

At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform Afflicted Deserter.

The rising of the first full moon eliminated any doubt as to the horrible truth lurking within.

Afterlife

Instant

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller puts a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Agadeem Occultist

Creature - Human Shaman Ally

: Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control if its converted mana cost is less than or equal to the number of Allies you control.

Ageless Entity

Creature - Elemental

Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on Ageless Entity.

Tel-Jilad's sworn protectors are the trolls, yet more fearsome protectors were created by the Tangle itself.

Agent of Acquisitions

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Agent of Acquisitions face up.

Instead of drafting a card from a booster pack, you may draft each card in that booster pack, one at a time. If you do, turn Agent of Acquisitions face down and you can't draft cards for the rest of this draft round. (You may look at booster packs passed to you.)

Agent of Erebos

Enchantment Creature - Zombie

Constellation - Whenever Agent of Erebos or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, exile all cards from target player's graveyard.

Erebos's minions hunt the Returned and warn those who consider the same folly.

Agent of Horizons

Creature - Human Rogue

: Agent of Horizons can't be blocked this turn.

The light in the woods just before dawn reveals a glimmering network of branches, roots, and spiderwebs. The acolytes of Kruphix walk this lattice unseen.

Agent of Masks

Creature - Human Advisor

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

"You say that I am two-faced? Enough with the flattery. We have business to conduct."

Agent of the Fates

Creature - Human Assassin

Deathtouch

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Agent of the Fates, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

"You are breathing borrowed air."

Aggravate

Instant

Aggravate deals 1 damage to each creature target player controls. Each creature dealt damage this way attacks this turn if able.

"Barbarians! They burned my favorite chair! We'll kill them all!"
-Anje Falkenrath

Aggressive Mining

Enchantment

You can't play lands.

Sacrifice a land: Draw two cards. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Designed by Markus Persson

Aggressive Urge

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Draw a card.

The power of the wild, concentrated in a single charge.

Agonizing Memories

Sorcery

Look at target player's hand and choose two cards from it. Put them on top of that player's library in any order.

In the aftermath of war, when the slaying is long done, the greatest miseries come home to roost.

Agony Warp

Instant

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

Target creature gets -0/-3 until end of turn.

Life's circle has become inverted in Grixis. The same energy is endlessly recycled and becomes more stagnant with each pass.

Agoraphobia

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -5/-0.

: Return Agoraphobia to its owner's hand.

"Everyone in this city is choosing sides. I choose inside."

Agrus Kos, Wojek Veteran

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever Agrus Kos, Wojek Veteran attacks, attacking red creatures get +2/+0 and attacking white creatures get +0/+2 until end of turn.

Lieutenant Kos has never met a group of recruits he could not inspire or a mob he could not quell.

Ainok Artillerist

Creature - Hound Archer

Ainok Artillerist has reach as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it. (It can block creatures with flying.)

"In the Tarkir I once knew, the Abzan revered their ancestor trees. Now, as Dromoka, they cut their finest groves to make weapons."
-Sarkhan Vol

Ainok Bond-Kin

Creature - Hound Soldier

Outlast (, : Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has first strike.

"Hold the line, for family and the fallen!"

Ainok Guide

Creature - Hound Scout

When Ainok Guide enters the battlefield, choose one -

• Put a +1/+1 counter on Ainok Guide.

• Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle your library and put that card on top of it.

Ainok Survivalist

Creature - Hound Shaman

Megamorph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

When Ainok Survivalist is turned face up, destroy target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.

Ainok Tracker

Creature - Hound Scout

First strike

Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Some ainok of the mountains are accepted among the Temur as trusted hunt-mates.

Air Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Flying

"The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab."
-Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea

Air Servant

Creature - Elemental

Flying

: Tap target creature with flying.

"Wind is forceful, yet ephemeral. It can knock a dragon out of the sky, yet pass through the smallest crack unhindered."
-Jestus Dreya, Of Elements and Eternity

Ajani Goldmane

Planeswalker - Ajani (Loyalty: 4)

+1: You gain 2 life.

-1: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn.

-6: Put a white Avatar creature token onto the battlefield. It has "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to your life total."

Ajani Steadfast

Planeswalker - Ajani (Loyalty: 4)

+1: Until end of turn, up to one target creature gets +1/+1 and gains first strike, vigilance, and lifelink.

−2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and a loyalty counter on each other planeswalker you control.

−7: You get an emblem with "If a source would deal damage to you or a planeswalker you control, prevent all but 1 of that damage."