Martial Glory

Instant

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

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

"Yes, Boros tactics are unparalleled. But when your comrades are dying around you, inner strength must carry the day."
-Gideon Jura, to Aurelia

Razortip Whip

Artifact

, : Razortip Whip deals 1 damage to target opponent.

"It no longer surprises me what shows up in our raid of a Rakdos revue."
-Janik Bara, Wojek captain

Paranoid Delusions

Sorcery

Target player puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Skinbrand Goblin

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Bloodrush - , Discard Skinbrand Goblin: Target attacking creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

"These Gruul skin-runes-discern whether their patterns evoke streets, leylines, or both. You have four days."
-Niv-Mizzet, to his assistant

Vizkopa Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.

Boros Charm

Instant

Choose one - Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player; or permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn; or target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

"Practice compassion and mercy. But know when they must end."
-Aurelia

High Priest of Penance

Creature - Human Cleric

Whenever High Priest of Penance is dealt damage, you may destroy target nonland permanent.

"All I require is faith, loyalty, obedience, trust, and complete and utter devotion."

Basilica Screecher

Creature - Bat

Flying

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

A screech in the night is all it takes for Orzhov debtors to clutch at their coin purses.

Crackling Perimeter

Enchantment

Tap an untapped Gate you control: Crackling Perimeter deals 1 damage to each opponent.

As the path he sought came into focus, Niv-Mizzet took steps to prevent others from approaching it.

Simic Charm

Instant

Choose one - Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn; or permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn; or return target creature to its owner's hand.

"We measure our progress in heartbeats."
-Prime Speaker Zegana

Domri Rade

Planeswalker - Domri (Loyalty: 3)

+1: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

-2: Target creature you control fights another target creature.

-7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control have double strike, trample, hexproof, and haste."

Sage's Row Denizen

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

Whenever another blue creature enters the battlefield under your control, target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"I offer you wisdom untainted by false loyalty, learning free of any guild's agenda."

Orzhov Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Orzhov Keyrune becomes a 1/4 white and black Thrull artifact creature with lifelink until end of turn.

You only need to wield it once to appreciate the power of control.

Simic Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Simic Keyrune becomes a 2/3 green and blue Crab artifact creature with hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Righteous Charge

Sorcery

Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.

"In the name of peace, moderation, and decency-wipe them all out!"

Gruul Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Gruul Keyrune becomes a 3/2 red and green Beast artifact creature with trample until end of turn.

As perilous and unpredictable as the wilds themselves.

Hold the Gates

Enchantment

Creatures you control get +0/+1 for each Gate you control and have vigilance.

"We grew up on these streets. We know them better than any Boros grunt from Zelzo."

Biovisionary

Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of the end step, if you control four or more creatures named Biovisionary, you win the game.

He tired of his fellow researchers and their useless prattling, so he decided to make a network of scholars with whom he could carry a conversation.

Armored Transport

Artifact Creature - Construct

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Armored Transport by creatures blocking it.

"If only our jails were as secure."
-Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Crocanura

Creature - Crocodile Frog

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

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.)

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

Predator's Rapport

Instant

Choose target creature you control. You gain life equal to that creature's power plus its toughness.

"Other guilds say the Gruul are savages, no better than the beasts we live with. I say we've found friends who won't stab us in the back."
-Domri Rade

Corpse Blockade

Creature - Zombie

Defender

Sacrifice another creature: Corpse Blockade gains deathtouch until end of turn.

There are laws against it, but the dead have no one to complain to and the living are too frightened to investigate.

Bane Alley Broker

Creature - Human Rogue

: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand face down.

You may look at cards exiled with Bane Alley Broker.

, : Return a card exiled with Bane Alley Broker to its owner's hand.

Massive Raid

Instant

Massive Raid deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of creatures you control.

"The Boros lack vision. Give them a convenient scapegoat and they'll be blind to the true threats."
-Lazav

Boros Reckoner

Creature - Minotaur Wizard

Whenever Boros Reckoner is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target creature or player.

: Boros Reckoner gains first strike until end of turn.

"Imagine a thunderstorm that's also a tactical genius. That's him."
-Dars Gostok, Firefist captain

Gift of Orzhova

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying and lifelink.

"Remember by whose gift you ascend."
-Milana, Orzhov prelate

Slaughterhorn

Creature - Beast

Bloodrush - , Discard Slaughterhorn: Target attacking creature gets +3/+2 until end of turn.

The Orzhov clergy would never cross its path, but sending thrull couriers to do so is cheap and entertaining.

Psychic Strike

Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Until more information could be gleaned about Niv-Mizzet's intentions, Lazav took every opportunity to stall his experiments.

Dimir Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Dimir Keyrune becomes a 2/2 blue and black Horror artifact creature until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

A key that slips through every lock.

Kingpin's Pet

Creature - Thrull

Flying

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

"Debt and death sound so similar, and thrulls are so hard of hearing. Mistakes are inevitable."
-Milana, Orzhov prelate

Five-Alarm Fire

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage, put a blaze counter on Five-Alarm Fire.

Remove five blaze counters from Five-Alarm Fire: Five-Alarm Fire deals 5 damage to target creature or player.

Simic Fluxmage

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

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.)

, : Move a +1/+1 counter from Simic Fluxmage onto target creature.

Miming Slime

Sorcery

Put an X/X green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

"We paid the Simic very well for this capability, but we should quickly recoup our expenses in saved wages."
-Milana, Orzhov prelate

Simic Manipulator

Creature - Mutant Wizard

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.)

, Remove one or more +1/+1 counters from Simic Manipulator: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of +1/+1 counters removed this way.

Boros Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Boros Keyrune becomes a 1/1 red and white Soldier artifact creature with double strike until end of turn. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Mortus Strider

Creature - Skeleton

When Mortus Strider dies, return it to its owner's hand.

Dimir's best agents hide from death itself.

Elusive Krasis

Creature - Fish Mutant

Elusive Krasis is unblockable.

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.)

Immortal Servitude

Sorcery

Return each creature card with converted mana cost X from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"The fine print of countless contracts has ensured we are never defenseless."
-Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov

Deathcult Rogue

Creature - Human Rogue

Deathcult Rogue can't be blocked except by Rogues.

"The hussars can't catch him, and he evades our traps with ease. I fear he walks unseen even in the halls of New Prahv."
-Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Arrows of Justice

Instant

Arrows of Justice deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Archers from the Horizon Military Academy hone their skills by targeting pickpockets blocks away.

Drakewing Krasis

Creature - Lizard Drake

Flying, trample

Cautious not to repeat Vig's mistakes, the Simic fuse life essences using magic alone. Each result is called a krasis.

Verdant Haven

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

When Verdant Haven enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.

Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any color to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Basilica Guards

Creature - Human Soldier

Defender

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

"None may pass . . . for free."

Slate Street Ruffian

Creature - Human Warrior

Whenever Slate Street Ruffian becomes blocked, defending player discards a card.

"Merciless to the point of psychosis. Let's give him a job."
-Zelinas, Orzhov recruiter

Warmind Infantry

Creature - Elemental Soldier

Battalion - Whenever Warmind Infantry and at least two other creatures attack, Warmind Infantry gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Before Aurelia denounced Niv-Mizzet, the two guilds had collaborated on the Warmind Initiative in pursuit of the ultimate soldier.

Hellraiser Goblin

Creature - Goblin Berserker

Creatures you control have haste and attack each combat if able.

Don't let him lead the soldiers, but by all means let him lead the way.

Nightveil Specter

Creature - Specter

Flying

Whenever Nightveil Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of his or her library.

You may play cards exiled with Nightveil Specter.

Court Street Denizen

Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever another white creature enters the battlefield under your control, tap target creature an opponent controls.

"The Boros fight for justice. The Azorius fight for law. I hold the line between, and make sure the people are given both."

Hindervines

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures with no +1/+1 counters on them.

"Woodlands and laws. Both grow faster than the Azorius's ability to manage them."
-Suniel the Woodwise

Ember Beast

Creature - Beast

Ember Beast can't attack or block alone.

Spot one ember beast, attack.
Spot a second, best fall back.
-Dwarven saying

Undercity Informer

Creature - Human Rogue

, Sacrifice a creature: Target player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a land card, then puts those cards into his or her graveyard.

"Scandal and slander are never welcome news. That's why I'm never the messenger."

Gateway Shade

Creature - Shade

: Gateway Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Tap an untapped Gate you control: Gateway Shade gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Tireless and merciless, shades are harnessed as spies by the Dimir.

Frontline Medic

Creature - Human Cleric

Battalion - Whenever Frontline Medic and at least two other creatures attack, creatures you control are indestructible this turn.

Sacrifice Frontline Medic: Counter target spell with in its mana cost unless its controller pays .

Skyknight Legionnaire

Creature - Human Knight

Flying, haste

"I do not know which gives me more pride: the legions of soldiers marching in thunderous lockstep, or the cry of the skyknights riding their rocs like jagged lightning overhead."
-Razia

Crypt Ghast

Creature - Spirit

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add to your mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Ghor-Clan Rampager

Creature - Beast

Trample

Bloodrush - , Discard Ghor-Clan Rampager: Target attacking creature gets +4/+4 and gains trample until end of turn.

"The Simic come from the cold slow depths. How could they understand the fire in a wild heart?"
-Kroshkar, Gruul shaman

Viashino Shanktail

Creature - Viashino Warrior

First strike

Bloodrush - , Discard Viashino Shanktail: Target attacking creature gets +3/+1 and gains first strike until end of turn.

The Slizt Clan's battle cry is an impressive display of fury, defiance, and spit.

Balustrade Spy

Creature - Vampire Rogue

Flying

When Balustrade Spy enters the battlefield, target player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a land card, then puts those cards into his or her graveyard.

Way of the Thief

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Enchanted creature is unblockable as long as you control a Gate.

A true shortcut isn't a way other people don't know; it's a way other people can't go.

Fathom Mage

Creature - Human Wizard

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.)

Whenever a +1/+1 counter is placed on Fathom Mage, you may draw a card.

Rubblebelt Raiders

Creature - Human Warrior

Whenever Rubblebelt Raiders attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each attacking creature you control.

"This city will perish, and the Gruul will cheer as the boar-god crushes the last bricks into dust."
-Nikya of the Old Ways

Call of the Nightwing

Sorcery

Put a 1/1 blue and black Horror creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Syndicate Enforcer

Creature - Human Rogue

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Even the darkest corners of Ravnica still lie in the shadow of the Church.

Midnight Recovery

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Whispering Madness

Sorcery

Each player discards his or her hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Mark for Death

Sorcery

Target creature an opponent controls blocks this turn if able. Untap that creature. Other creatures that player controls can't block this turn.

Everyone roots for the little guy, but nobody bets on him.

Crowned Ceratok

Creature - Rhino

Trample

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

The best way to calm a rampaging ceratok is to wait until it dies of natural causes.

Purge the Profane

Sorcery

Target opponent discards two cards and you gain 2 life.

The Orzhov hear the plans of the other guilds through the guilty thoughts of the disloyal.

Zarichi Tiger

Creature - Cat

, : You gain 2 life.

"The taming and consecration of these creatures is evidence of our faith."
-Resimir, Zarichi Temple priest

Soul Ransom

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

Discard two cards: Soul Ransom's controller sacrifices it, then draws two cards. Only any opponent may activate this ability.

Scatter Arc

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell.

Draw a card.

"Should your chosen emissary be able to fluctuate triharmonic pentodes, however unlikely, I shall shunt excess negavolt radicals."

Keymaster Rogue

Creature - Human Rogue

Keymaster Rogue is unblockable.

When Keymaster Rogue enters the battlefield, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

"This one opens the grate outside Zelzo Base. This one is for Ismeri Library. This one is for an invisible door . . . No, I've said too much."

Last Thoughts

Sorcery

Draw a card.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Knight of Obligation

Creature - Human Knight

Vigilance

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

He can calculate interest to six decimal places even in the midst of a deadly duel.

One Thousand Lashes

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player loses 1 life.

Alms Beast

Creature - Beast

Creatures blocking or blocked by Alms Beast have lifelink.

Alms-coins are only redeemable at Orzhov businesses.

Mental Vapors

Sorcery

Target player discards a card.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Master Biomancer

Creature - Elf Wizard

Each other creature you control enters the battlefield with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to Master Biomancer's power and as a Mutant in addition to its other types.

"Nature is a wonderful engineer but works far too slowly for my tastes."

Ætherize

Instant

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

"You can come back once you've learned some manners-and figured out how to reconstitute your physical forms."

Ooze Flux

Enchantment

, Remove one or more +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Put an X/X green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters removed this way.

Lazav, Dimir Mastermind

Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter

Hexproof

Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may have Lazav, Dimir Mastermind become a copy of that card except its name is still Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it gains hexproof and this ability.

Holy Mantle

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from creatures.

"The guilds promise to provide safety. I prefer to make my own."
-Briska, Ninth District freemage

Duskmantle Seer

Creature - Vampire Wizard

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player reveals the top card of his or her library, loses life equal to that card's converted mana cost, then puts it into his or her hand.

Assault Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

"Griffins do not serve. They give freely to those they trust."
-Amira, skycaptain of Thune

Grisly Spectacle

Instant

Destroy target nonartifact creature. Its controller puts a number of cards equal to that creature's power from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"Watch people flock to a murder scene. Then tell me we're not all a little sick in the head."
-Juri, proprietor of the Juri Revue

Gideon, Champion of Justice

Planeswalker - Gideon (Loyalty: 4)

+1: Put a loyalty counter on Gideon, Champion of Justice for each creature target opponent controls.

0: Until end of turn, Gideon, Champion of Justice becomes an indestructible Human Soldier creature with power and toughness each equal to the number of loyalty counters on him. He's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.

-15: Exile all other permanents.

Ivy Lane Denizen

Creature - Elf Warrior

Whenever another green creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

"Skyknight gear? Well, I have drake-skin gauntlets, supple and fireproof. Or a ceratok chestplate that'll stop a crossbow bolt."

Cinder Elemental

Creature - Elemental

, , Sacrifice Cinder Elemental: Cinder Elemental deals X damage to target creature or player.

Their rage can grow to such proportions that they explode in a cloud of fire.

Homing Lightning

Instant

Homing Lightning deals 4 damage to target creature and each other creature with the same name as that creature.

"I see countless worlds. What makes them think I can't find them in just one?"
-Ral Zarek

Voidwalk

Sorcery

Exile target creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Unexpected Results

Sorcery

Shuffle your library, then reveal the top card. If it's a nonland card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield and return Unexpected Results to its owner's hand.

Spark Trooper

Creature - Elemental Soldier

Trample, lifelink, haste

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Spark Trooper.

Izzet-designed conductors atop Sunhome charge empty sets of armor that give form to the fluctuating elementals.

Firemane Avenger

Creature - Angel

Flying

Battalion - Whenever Firemane Avenger and at least two other creatures attack, Firemane Avenger deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.

Firemane Nevena led the victorious assault on the Barbu Rooftop rebels. Now the Gateless have marked her for death.

Ordruun Veteran

Creature - Minotaur Soldier

Battalion - Whenever Ordruun Veteran and at least two other creatures attack, Ordruun Veteran gains double strike until end of turn. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

"My father was Gruul, but I chose the precision of the legion over the fury of the pack."

Clinging Anemones

Creature - Jellyfish

Defender

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.)

Scorchwalker

Creature - Elemental

Bloodrush - , Discard Scorchwalker: Target attacking creature gets +5/+1 until end of turn.

"Borborygmos's elemental launched an assault, but the Izzet wards held and experiments continue."
-Skyknight report on the Rubblebelt

Scab-Clan Charger

Creature - Centaur Warrior

Bloodrush - , Discard Scab-Clan Charger: Target attacking creature gets +2/+4 until end of turn.

"The only roads I wish to see are those beaten flat by wild hooves."

Millennial Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

"You've got to keep your wits about you on the roofs. Not all stones are compliant handholds."
-Iveta, rooftop runner

Towering Thunderfist

Creature - Giant Soldier

: Towering Thunderfist gains vigilance until end of turn.

"Nothing ruins a party like one of those big killjoys bursting through the door and setting all the guests free."
-Ruba, Rakdos cultist