Plague Beetle

Creature - Insect

Swampwalk (This creature is unblockable as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

No one knows whether they were named for the disease they carry or for the speed at which they multiply.

Sleeper Agent

Creature - Minion

When Sleeper Agent enters the battlefield, target opponent gains control of it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, Sleeper Agent deals 2 damage to you.

Vampire Bats

Creature - Bat

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

: Vampire Bats gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate this ability no more than twice each turn.

Duct Crawler

Creature - Insect

: Target creature can't block Duct Crawler this turn.

"Boss told us to try and train 'em. Trained it to attack-it ate Flugg. Trained it to run fast-it got away. Success!"
-Dlig, goblin spelunker

Mogg Fanatic

Creature - Goblin

Sacrifice Mogg Fanatic: Mogg Fanatic deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

"I got it! I got it! I-"

Spark Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Trample, haste (If this creature would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker. This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)

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

Vulshok shamans could never keep them alive for more than a few seconds, yet those few seconds seemed to be enough.

Elvish Berserker

Creature - Elf Berserker

Whenever Elvish Berserker becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

Their fury scatters enemies like a pile of dry leaves.

Skyshroud Ranger

Creature - Elf

: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Not even the elves truly know the Skyshroud Forest. The rangers are merely the best equipped to handle its uncertainty.

Wall of Wood

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Orcish lumberjacks spent the night sharpening their blades and resting for a day of labor. They awoke to find that the forest had been making its own preparations.

Savannah Lions

Creature - Cat

Even the brave are scared by a lion three times: first by its tracks, again by its roar, and one last time face to face.
-Somali proverb

Weathered Wayfarer

Creature - Human Nomad Cleric

, : Search your library for a land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Activate this ability only if an opponent controls more lands than you.

Will-O'-The-Wisp

Creature - Spirit

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

: Regenerate Will-o'-the-Wisp. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

Kird Ape

Creature - Ape

Kird Ape gets +1/+2 as long as you control a Forest.

It puts the "fur" in "fury."

Mogg Sentry

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, Mogg Sentry gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Nothing makes a mogg madder than having to wake up.

Groundskeeper

Creature - Human Druid

: Return target basic land card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Soldiers speak of defending the soil, but they care only for their nations. I care nothing for their nations and everything for the soil."

Norwood Ranger

Creature - Elf Scout

The song of the forest is in perfect harmony. If a single note is out of place, the elves will find its source.

Tree Monkey

Creature - Ape

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

The vines and branches of the jungle canopy are all the wings it needs.

Maggot Carrier

Creature - Zombie

When Maggot Carrier enters the battlefield, each player loses 1 life.

"We do not suddenly fall on death, but advance towards it by slight degrees; we die every day."
-Seneca, Epistles, trans. Gummere

Cinder Wall

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

When Cinder Wall blocks, destroy it at end of combat.

"The smell of roasted flesh hung over the valley for hours."
-Onean sergeant

Orcish Spy

Creature - Orc Rogue

: Look at the top three cards of target player's library.

"You idiot Never let the spies mingle with the orcish regulars after completing a mission. Now we'll never get them to fight"
-General Khurzog

Elvish Lyrist

Creature - Elf

, , Sacrifice Elvish Lyrist: Destroy target enchantment.

To an elf, magic and music are the same.

Elvish Pioneer

Creature - Elf Druid

When Elvish Pioneer enters the battlefield, you may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

"Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime."

Elvish Scrapper

Creature - Elf

, , Sacrifice Elvish Scrapper: Destroy target artifact.

"The stories tell of a distant time when machines overran the forests, destroying everything that lived. That time will not come again."

Kjeldoran Javelineer

Creature - Human Soldier

Cumulative upkeep (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

: Kjeldoran Javelineer deals damage equal to the number of age counters on it to target attacking or blocking creature.

Martyr of Sands

Creature - Human Cleric

, Reveal X white cards from your hand, Sacrifice Martyr of Sands: You gain three times X life.

"Only in our vulnerability is there true power, and that power is life itself."

Martyr of Frost

Creature - Human Wizard

, Reveal X blue cards from your hand, Sacrifice Martyr of Frost: Counter target spell unless its controller pays .

"Do not call the Balduvians barbaric. Their magic is as potent as it is primal."
-Zur the Enchanter

Martyr of Bones

Creature - Human Wizard

, Reveal X black cards from your hand, Sacrifice Martyr of Bones: Exile up to X target cards from a single graveyard.

Puppeteered by Heidar's icy hand, they were sacrificed to the Frost Marsh to raise Haakon's army.

Lightning Serpent

Creature - Elemental Serpent

Trample, haste

Lightning Serpent enters the battlefield with X +1/+0 counters on it.

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Lightning Serpent.

Ice exploded into steam in its wake, hissing like a thousand serpents hailing their blazing master.

Martyr of Ashes

Creature - Human Shaman

, Reveal X red cards from your hand, Sacrifice Martyr of Ashes: Martyr of Ashes deals X damage to each creature without flying.

She turns ash into flame and burns enemies to ash.

Martyr of Spores

Creature - Human Shaman

, Reveal X green cards from your hand, Sacrifice Martyr of Spores: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn.

"Weep not for me. I will rise with the spring's new growth."

Auriok Transfixer

Creature - Human Scout

, : Tap target artifact.

"My grandfather knew enough spells to fill a hundred scrolls. Nowadays, if a spell cannot fight the levelers, it is not even taught to our young."

Leonin Elder

Creature - Cat Cleric

Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield, you may gain 1 life.

"The wisdom of the elders is just as much a weapon as a sword or spear. We must learn to wield it."
-Ushanti, leonin seer

Disciple of the Vault

Creature - Human Cleric

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may have target opponent lose 1 life.

He stands in the shadow of his lord, Geth, drinking in the dark energies of the Vault.

Krark-Clan Shaman

Creature - Goblin Shaman

Sacrifice an artifact: Krark-Clan Shaman deals 1 damage to each creature without flying.

Brown Ouphe

Creature - Ouphe

, : Counter target activated ability from an artifact source. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

"Ouphes love trinkets and love to take them apart. I only wish they wouldn't do so with the magical ones."
-Taaveti of Kelsinko, Elvish Hunter

Clockwork Beetle

Artifact Creature - Insect

Clockwork Beetle enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Whenever Clockwork Beetle attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at end of combat.

Myr Mindservant

Artifact Creature - Myr

, : Shuffle your library.

Steel Wall

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Auriok Glaivemaster

Creature - Human Soldier

As long as Auriok Glaivemaster is equipped, it gets +1/+1 and has first strike.

"Give me a bit of steel and I'll deliver it into the hearts of my enemies."

Crazed Goblin

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Crazed Goblin attacks each turn if able.

Because fighting is easier than figuring out what else to do.

Viridian Acolyte

Creature - Elf Shaman

, : Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

"We have no sun to guide our dead, so I tend the prismatic flames of the spirit fires that show the souls their way. When I die, I hope there is one left to guide my spirit home."

Arcbound Worker

Artifact Creature - Construct

Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

The parts are as strong as the whole.

Myr Moonvessel

Artifact Creature - Myr

When Myr Moonvessel dies, add to your mana pool.

Memnarch created the myr with three qualities in mind: dependability, controllability, and disposability.

Myr Servitor

Artifact Creature - Myr

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Myr Servitor is on the battlefield, each player returns all cards named Myr Servitor from his or her graveyard to the battlefield.

The Krark Clan enjoys pulling them apart just to watch them reassemble one another.

Razorgrass Screen

Artifact Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Razorgrass Screen blocks each turn if able.

Hand-stitched, and marked by the blood of the Auriok.

Bushi Tenderfoot

Creature - Human Soldier

When a creature dealt damage by Bushi Tenderfoot this turn dies, flip Bushi Tenderfoot.

Devoted Retainer

Creature - Human Samurai

Bushido 1 (When this blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Deep within Eiganjo Castle lay the Palace of Infinite Halls, a seemingly endless network of corridors once guarded by a seemingly endless legion of samurai.

Isamaru, Hound of Konda

Legendary Creature - Hound

The hound sniffed the air and let slip a low growl. General Takeno looked down at the faithful Isamaru and calmed him with a touch. "Alert the men. The kami are coming."

Kitsune Diviner

Creature - Fox Cleric

: Tap target Spirit.

She who once led prayers honoring the kami adapted to use her influence to stay them.

Lantern Kami

Creature - Spirit

Flying

"Snuffing the light of a lantern without saying a small prayer is bad luck. Though its flame can only singe, its soul can repeatedly visit misery on one's house."
-Teachings of Eight-and-a-Half-Tails

Wandering Ones

Creature - Spirit

"I saw them once, when I was a child. They led me to my parents' arms when I was lost. Why have they abandoned me now? Why won't they take me home again?"
-Unnamed beggar

Rag Dealer

Creature - Human Rogue

, : Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.

"After General Takeno found the Oathkeeper amidst the bamboo marshes, more scavengers braved the swamp's nezumi, oni, and kami in hopes of glory."
-The History of Kamigawa

Akki Avalanchers

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Sacrifice a land: Akki Avalanchers gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Among Godo's hordes, "beware of falling rocks" came to mean "akki live nearby."

Hana Kami

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice Hana Kami: Return target Arcane card from your graveyard to your hand.

It grew in lands lit by pride and watered by tears.

Jukai Messenger

Creature - Human Monk

Forestwalk

Dosan's monks, deep in spiritual thought, could walk through the thickest of forests without leaving a mark, even the leaves beneath their feet unaffected by their passing.

Orochi Leafcaller

Creature - Snake Shaman

: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

"Only orochi hatched from eggs ‘touched by the kami' may become shamans. These days, there are fewer and fewer new shamans being born."

Empty-Shrine Kannushi

Creature - Human Cleric

Empty-Shrine Kannushi has protection from the colors of permanents you control.

"Crease the folds, bend the paper, turn the spirits, shield the soul."

Kami of False Hope

Creature - Spirit

Sacrifice Kami of False Hope: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

"Across the rift of battle, a bridge of gossamer. And for one moment, it holds."
-Snow-Fur, kitsune poet

Teardrop Kami

Creature - Spirit

Sacrifice Teardrop Kami: You may tap or untap target creature.

"Do not fall into the trap of thinking you understand the kami. Cannot a drop of water be dew on the meadow, a glacier's thaw, or the tear of a child?"
-Sensei Hisoka

Bile Urchin

Creature - Spirit

Sacrifice Bile Urchin: Target player loses 1 life.

"The two youths argued and tempers flared. One youth opened his mouth to utter a vile curse, but what he spat out instead was a kami of poison and filth."
-Sensei Golden-Tail

Nezumi Shadow-Watcher

Creature - Rat Warrior

Sacrifice Nezumi Shadow-Watcher: Destroy target Ninja.

"The Okiba Gang! Night-cursed thieves and assassins! I've had enough of their meddling! Triple the guard!"
-Marrow-Gnawer

Frostling

Creature - Spirit

Sacrifice Frostling: Frostling deals 1 damage to target creature.

Its bite will take off more than a toe.

Goblin Cohort

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Goblin Cohort can't attack unless you've cast a creature spell this turn.

Akki shells provided good protection when downhill charging became headlong tumbling.

Child of Thorns

Creature - Spirit

Sacrifice Child of Thorns: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"The soratami scoff at the perils of Jukai, calling the forest an ‘unruly garden.' Perhaps we should send them a rose such as this."
-Dokai, Weaver of Life

Traproot Kami

Creature - Spirit

Defender; reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Traproot Kami's toughness is equal to the number of Forests on the battlefield.

Ghost-Lit Redeemer

Creature - Spirit

, : You gain 2 life.

Channel - , Discard Ghost-Lit Redeemer: You gain 4 life.

Dreamcatcher

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may sacrifice Dreamcatcher. If you do, draw a card.

"Be careful where your mind wanders. Even in the quietest moments, the kami are listening, and your thoughts give them shape."
-Lady Azami

Trusted Advisor

Creature - Human Advisor

Your maximum hand size is increased by two.

At the beginning of your upkeep, return a blue creature you control to its owner's hand.

Some of Minamo's students claimed he was as old as the knowledge he dispensed.

Ghost-Lit Stalker

Creature - Spirit

, : Target player discards two cards. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Channel - , Discard Ghost-Lit Stalker: Target player discards four cards. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Gnat Miser

Creature - Rat Shaman

Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by one.

Nezumi insect-shamans enjoyed solitary lives, which was fortunate since no other nezumi could stand to live within half a mile of their foul stench.

Glitterfang

Creature - Spirit

Haste

At the beginning of the end step, return Glitterfang to its owner's hand.

"Through the veil's rip spilled hundreds of minor kami, rushing over the battlefield like embers from a kicked campfire. Then they were gone."
-Great Battles of Kamigawa

Godo's Irregulars

Creature - Human Warrior

: Godo's Irregulars deals 1 damage to target creature blocking it.

Godo trained their muscles and honed their skills, but he left their hearts wild and empty.

Promised Kannushi

Creature - Human Druid

Soulshift 7 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with converted mana cost 7 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Sakura-Tribe Scout

Creature - Snake Shaman Scout

: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"Scouts of the Sakura Tribe spent two years wandering the forest to learn every leaf and tree. That knowledge was called upon during the Kami War to ensure the orochi's survival."
-The History of Kamigawa

Caregiver

Creature - Human Cleric

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

"The guilds each believe its way is right, but their ways only bring blood to Ravnica's streets and tears to Ravnica's families."

Votary of the Conclave

Creature - Human Soldier

: Regenerate Votary of the Conclave.

An ageless order, the votaries receive the gift of rejuvenation from the temple gardens they guard.

Grayscaled Gharial

Creature - Crocodile

Islandwalk

Each tooth carries enough bacteria to kill a person in a day or two. But then, gharials do have 138 teeth.

Thoughtpicker Witch

Creature - Human Wizard

, Sacrifice a creature: Look at the top two cards of target opponent's library, then exile one of them.

"Once the brew gets the brains nice and pickled, they're a lot easier to pick through."

Frenzied Goblin

Creature - Goblin Berserker

Whenever Frenzied Goblin attacks, you may pay . If you do, target creature can't block this turn.

The upside to not thinking about the consequences is that you'll always surprise those who do.

Torpid Moloch

Creature - Lizard

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Sacrifice three lands: Torpid Moloch loses defender until end of turn.

Market hucksters sell molochs for use as watchdogs. Of course, that's all molochs do. Sit around . . . and watch.

War-Torch Goblin

Creature - Goblin Warrior

, Sacrifice War-Torch Goblin: War-Torch Goblin deals 2 damage to target blocking creature.

"In a town shaped by the subtle machinations and political intrigue of its guilds, it's reassuring to see a goblin waving his torch and screaming about some nonsense or other."
-Agrus Kos

Elves of Deep Shadow

Creature - Elf Druid

: Add to your mana pool. Elves of Deep Shadow deals 1 damage to you.

"They are aberrations who have turned on everything we hold sacred. Let them be cast out." -Ailheen, Speaker of the Council

Elvish Skysweeper

Creature - Elf Warrior

, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target creature with flying.

The spires of Ravnica are no different from the tall trees of other planes. The elves navigate and protect them just the same.

Boros Recruit

Creature - Goblin Soldier

( can be paid with either or .)

First strike

"Look at this goblin, once wild, untamed, and full of idiocy. The Boros have given him the skill of a soldier and focused his heart with a single cause."
-Razia

Lionheart Maverick

Creature - Human Knight

Vigilance

: Lionheart Maverick gets +1/+2 until end of turn.

"Your signet is no symbol of power. It marks only your need for numbers to aid you. What do you do, guild-rat, now that you face my blade alone?"

Martyred Rusalka

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature can't attack this turn.

Rakdos cultists hanged her for sport in the township square. Her ghost now stands vigil at what has become known as the Tree of Weeping.

Order of the Stars

Creature - Human Cleric

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

As Order of the Stars enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Order of the Stars has protection from the chosen color.

As stoic as the marble halls, as unblinking as the stars upon their shields.

Drowned Rusalka

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice a creature: Discard a card, then draw a card.

Lurking below the current, she thirsts until others come to drink.

Plagued Rusalka

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Look at her, once filled with innocence. Death has a way of wringing away such . . . deficiencies."
-Savra

Scorched Rusalka

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice a creature: Scorched Rusalka deals 1 damage to target player.

Each small blaze she sets jogs her memory, letting her piece together the mystery of her own fiery end.

Skarrgan Pit-Skulk

Creature - Human Warrior

Bloodthirst 1 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creatures with power less than Skarrgan Pit-Skulk's power can't block it.

Starved Rusalka

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

"No more wretched fate is there than to waste away. If you are slain, your ghost may at least avenge itself upon your killer. But what release is there for one slain by Time?"
-Ilromov, traveling storyteller

Wild Cantor

Creature - Human Druid

( can be paid with either or .)

Sacrifice Wild Cantor: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Haazda Exonerator

Creature - Human Cleric

, Sacrifice Haazda Exonerator: Destroy target Aura.

"This aura threatens the sanctity of your soul. Wrenching it free won't be easy on either of us. If you're ready, we'll begin."

Slithering Shade

Creature - Shade

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

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

Hellbent - Slithering Shade can attack as though it didn't have defender as long as you have no cards in hand.

Kill-Suit Cultist

Creature - Goblin Berserker

Kill-Suit Cultist attacks each turn if able.

, Sacrifice Kill-Suit Cultist: The next time damage would be dealt to target creature this turn, destroy that creature instead.

Dressed to kill.

Simic Initiate

Creature - Human Mutant

Graft 1 (This creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)

Simic initiates begin their training as experimental subjects. Failures are flushed to the undersewers.

Children of Korlis

Creature - Human Rebel Cleric

Sacrifice Children of Korlis: You gain life equal to the life you've lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

"We have a proud history of self-sacrifice. But it is easy, in these bleak times, to find one among us who is eager to die for any cause."
-Tavalus, acolyte of Korlis

Sidewinder Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have flanking. (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks a Sliver, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

"They encircled our patrol with the stealth of snakes, corralling us like livestock."
-Merrik Aidar, Benalish patrol

Drifter il-Dal

Creature - Human Wizard

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Drifter il-Dal unless you pay .

They study the deeds of their traitorous ancestors, hoping the stories may reveal a way back to the physical world.