Akroan Mastiff

Creature - Hound

, : Tap target creature.

Even when many of the soldiers who guarded Akros were called away, its safety was never in doubt.

Akroan Phalanx

Creature - Human Soldier

Vigilance

: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Shields up, spears out, heels set, hearts firm.

Akroan Skyguard

Creature - Human Soldier

Flying

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Akroan Skyguard, put a +1/+1 counter on Akroan Skyguard.

"Trust me. When you have earned a god's favor, you'll know."

Akroma's Memorial

Legendary Artifact

Creatures you control have flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, haste, and protection from black and from red.

"No rest. No mercy. No matter what."
-Memorial inscription

Akroma's Vengeance

Sorcery

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Ixidor had only to imagine their ruin and Akroma made it so.

Akroma, Angel of Fury

Legendary Creature - Angel

Akroma, Angel of Fury can't be countered.

Flying, trample, protection from white and from blue

: Akroma, Angel of Fury gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

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

Alabaster Kirin

Creature - Kirin

Flying, vigilance

The appearance of a kirin signifies the passing or arrival of an important figure. As word of sightings spread, all the khans took it to mean themselves. Only the shaman Chianul thought of Sarkhan Vol.

Alabaster Mage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target creature you control gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

"We hold sacred the powers of light and life. Truth and honor are our greatest weapons."
-Alabaster creed

Alchemist's Apprentice

Creature - Human Wizard

Sacrifice Alchemist's Apprentice: Draw a card.

Side effects may include foul odors, scalding steam, and spontaneous nonexistence.

Alchemist's Refuge

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : You may cast nonland cards this turn as though they had flash.

Persecuted alchemists fled deep into Kessig's wilds, seeking solitude to continue their ghoulish craft.

Alesha's Vanguard

Creature - Orc Warrior

Dash (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Boundaries drawn on maps or marked with stone have no meaning for the Mardu.

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

First strike

Whenever Alesha, Who Smiles at Death attacks, you may pay . If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

"Greet death with sword in hand."

Algae Gharial

Creature - Crocodile

Shroud

Whenever another creature dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Algae Gharial.

It lurks just under the surface, using the algae-choked tar pits of Jund as both home and hunting blind.

Aligned Hedron Network

Artifact

When Aligned Hedron Network enters the battlefield, exile all creatures with power 5 or greater until Aligned Hedron Network leaves the battlefield. (Those creatures return under their owners' control.)

The last hedron slotted into place, locking Ulamog in an infinite loop of binding energy.

Alive (Alive/Well)

Sorcery

Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

All Is Dust

Tribal Sorcery - Eldrazi

Each player sacrifices all colored permanents he or she controls.

"The emergence of the Eldrazi isn't necessarily a bad thing, as long as you've already lived a fulfilling and complete life without regrets."
-Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Alliance of Arms

Sorcery

Join forces - Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player puts X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Allied Reinforcements

Sorcery

Put two 2/2 white Knight Ally creature tokens onto the battlefield.

"Our formation was scattered after Sea Gate fell. If you're fighting the Eldrazi, consider us your newest recruits."

Alloy Myr

Artifact Creature - Myr

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

With or without witnesses, the suns continued their prismatic dance.

Alluring Siren

Creature - Siren

: Target creature an opponent controls attacks you this turn if able.

She lures victims with promises of flesh, captures them in a net of deceit, and destroys them in the embrace of the sea.

Ally Encampment

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast an Ally spell.

, , Sacrifice Ally Encampment: Return target Ally you control to its owner's hand.

Alms Beast

Creature - Beast

Creatures blocking or blocked by Alms Beast have lifelink.

Alms-coins are only redeemable at Orzhov businesses.

Alpha Authority

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has hexproof and can't be blocked by more than one creature.

Even the bitterest enemies of the Burning-Tree Clan respect the strength of Borborygmos's rule.

Alpha Brawl

Sorcery

Target creature an opponent controls deals damage equal to its power to each other creature that player controls, then each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to that creature.

Being an alpha means proving it every full moon.

Alpha Tyrranax

Creature - Beast

Hunger seized the tyrranax, and the Sylvok's vision quest ended in disaster.

Alpine Grizzly

Creature - Bear

The Temur welcome bears into the clan, fighting alongside them in battle. The relationship dates back to when they labored side by side under Sultai rule.

Altac Bloodseeker

Creature - Human Berserker

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, Altac Bloodseeker gets +2/+0 and gains first strike and haste until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike, and it can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)

Altar of Dementia

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Target player puts a number of cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness."
-Volrath

Altar of the Brood

Artifact

Whenever another permanent enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Supplicants offer flesh and silver, flowers and blood. The altar takes what it will, eyes gleaming with unspoken promises.

Altar of the Lost

Artifact

Altar of the Lost enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add two mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast spells with flashback from a graveyard.

Altar's Reap

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Altar's Reap, sacrifice a creature.

Draw two cards.

"The demons don't care if we mutter niceties and act out ceremonies. Just kill him."
-Bishop Volpaig, servant of Griselbrand

Amass the Components

Sorcery

Draw three cards, then put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library.

"I knew I'd find a use for all that newt spittle!"

Ambuscade Shaman

Creature - Orc Shaman

Whenever Ambuscade Shaman or another creature enters the battlefield under your control, that creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Dash (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Ambush Krotiq

Creature - Insect

Trample

When Ambush Krotiq enters the battlefield, return another creature you control to its owner's hand.

The Abzan merchants soon discovered why this route was clear of dragons.

Ambush Viper

Creature - Snake

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

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

"Living creatures seldom impress me. But I like this one."
-Uta Falkenrath

Amphin Cutthroat

Creature - Salamander Rogue

"The amphin have long built their society in secret. While surface dwellers squabbled over trivial borders, they patiently expanded, building their ammonite temple-caves. Now amphin priests eye the shore, and amphin hunters gird for war."
-Gor Muldrak, Cryptohistories

Amphin Pathmage

Creature - Salamander Wizard

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

"There are those who do not believe in the existence of the amphin. This seems somehow to be of their own design."
-Gor Muldrak, Cryptohistories

Amrou Scout

Creature - Kithkin Rebel Scout

, : Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with converted mana cost 3 or less and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

The people of Amrou were scattered by war and driven into hiding. Scouts maintain the beacon fires that signal "return" and "home."

Amrou Seekers

Creature - Kithkin Rebel

Amrou Seekers can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or white creatures.

The paradise of Amrou Haven had become a field of cinders. Its people struggled to survive, hoping to see visions of its past in the strange storms that quickly passed.

Amulet of Vigor

Artifact

Whenever a permanent enters the battlefield tapped and under your control, untap it.

"After years of study, I've learned an important lesson: the relics we watch may be watching us back."
-Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit

Legendary Creature - Spirit Soldier

Whenever another nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Martyred for worshipping her ancestors, she now walks among them.

Anafenza, the Foremost

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever Anafenza, the Foremost attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on another target tapped creature you control.

If a creature card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Rarely at rest on the Amber Throne, Anafenza always leads the Abzan Houses to battle.

Anathemancer

Creature - Zombie Wizard

When Anathemancer enters the battlefield, it deals damage to target player equal to the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.

Unearth (: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Anax and Cymede

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

First strike, vigilance

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Anax and Cymede, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn.

Akros's greatest heroes are also its royalty.

Ancestral Statue

Artifact Creature - Golem

When Ancestral Statue enters the battlefield, return a nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand.

The mage awakened the statue in hopes of learning the lost lore of her clan, but the statue was interested only in war.

Ancestral Vengeance

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Ancestral Vengeance enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1.

The defenses of the Abzan extend well beyond the walls of their fortresses.

Ancient Carp

Creature - Fish

"Why eat now what could one day grow into a feast?"
-Ojutai, translated from Draconic

Ancient Crab

Creature - Crab

After the fall of Sea Gate and the draining of the Halimar basin, the crab set off to find a new home.

Ancient Craving

Sorcery

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Knowledge demands sacrifice.

Ancient Grudge

Instant

Destroy target artifact.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

If there's anything a werewolf hates, it's a collar-especially Avacyn's Collar, the symbol of her church.

Ancient Hellkite

Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Ancient Hellkite deals 1 damage to target creature defending player controls. Activate this ability only if Ancient Hellkite is attacking.

When a dragon attacks, there are no bystanders.

Ancient Silverback

Creature - Ape

: Regenerate Ancient Silverback. (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.)

Ancient Stirrings

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a colorless card from among them and put it into your hand. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. (Cards with no colored mana in their mana costs are colorless. Lands are also colorless.)

Ancient Ziggurat

Land

: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

Built in honor of Alara's creatures, the ziggurat vanished long ago. When Progenitus awakened, the temple emerged again.

Angel of Despair

Creature - Angel

Flying

When Angel of Despair enters the battlefield, destroy target permanent.

"I feel in them a sense of duty and commitment, yet I can feel nothing else. It is as if their duty is to an empty void."
-Razia

Angel of Finality

Creature - Angel

Flying When Angel of Finality enters the battlefield, exile all cards from target player's graveyard.

"Better the dead depart utterly than be enslaved."

Angel of Flight Alabaster

Creature - Angel

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, return target Spirit card from your graveyard to your hand.

She endures without Avacyn but secretly asks each soul she guides if it has seen her.

Angel of Glory's Rise

Creature - Angel

Flying

When Angel of Glory's Rise enters the battlefield, exile all Zombies, then return all Human creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"Justice isn't done until undeath is undone."

Angel of Jubilation

Creature - Angel

Flying

Other nonblack creatures you control get +1/+1.

Players can't pay life or sacrifice creatures to cast spells or activate abilities.

"Though Innistrad is not cleansed of evil, we finally have cause to rejoice."

Angel of Renewal

Creature - Angel Ally

Flying

When Angel of Renewal enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life for each creature you control.

"No more fear. No more failure. No more death. No more!"

Angel of Serenity

Creature - Angel

Flying

When Angel of Serenity enters the battlefield, you may exile up to three other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards.

When Angel of Serenity leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

Angel of the Dire Hour

Creature - Angel

Flash

Flying

When Angel of the Dire Hour enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, exile all attacking creatures.

She arrived like a meteorite, and the enemy fell in a shock wave of holy vengeance.

Angel's Feather

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may gain 1 life.

The angel represents divine perfection; even the smallest feather is imbued with beauty and benevolence.

Angel's Grace

Instant

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

You can't lose the game this turn and your opponents can't win the game this turn. Until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

Angel's Herald

Creature - Human Cleric

, , Sacrifice a green creature, a white creature, and a blue creature: Search your library for a card named Empyrial Archangel and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Rigorous faith and belief are rewarded on occasion, and richly so.

Angel's Mercy

Instant

You gain 7 life.

"I understand your fears. I pity your doubts. I absolve you of both."

Angel's Tomb

Artifact

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Angel's Tomb become a 3/3 white Angel artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

"Faith can quicken the stones themselves with life."
-Writings of Mikaeus

Angelheart Vial

Artifact

Whenever you're dealt damage, you may put that many charge counters on Angelheart Vial.

, , Remove four charge counters from Angelheart Vial: You gain 2 life and draw a card.

It holds a whisper from Iona: "Persevere."

Angelic Accord

Enchantment

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 4 or more life this turn, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

As demons are drawn to suffering, angels are drawn to acts of benevolence.

Angelic Arbiter

Creature - Angel

Flying

Each opponent who cast a spell this turn can't attack with creatures.

Each opponent who attacked with a creature this turn can't cast spells.

Angelic Armaments

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has flying, and is a white Angel in addition to its other colors and types.

Equip

Forged in dark hours from the flame that would not die.

Angelic Benediction

Enchantment

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, you may tap target creature.

"Only the bravest are worthy of our blessing."

Angelic Captain

Creature - Angel Ally

Flying

Whenever Angelic Captain attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each other attacking Ally.

As the soldiers beneath her raised their voices, the angel spread her wings, their span seeming to cover the sky.

Angelic Destiny

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +4/+4, has flying and first strike, and is an Angel in addition to its other types.

When enchanted creature dies, return Angelic Destiny to its owner's hand.

Angelic Edict

Sorcery

Exile target creature or enchantment.

The Boros built a prison in the sky where Azorius statutes couldn't restrict their sense of justice.

Angelic Field Marshal

Creature - Angel

Flying

Lieutenant - As long as you control your commander, Angelic Field Marshal gets +2/+2 and creatures you control have vigilance.

Her presence on the battlefield can transform an unruly mob into a disciplined army.

Angelic Gift

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Angelic Gift enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature has flying.

"Zendikar will triumph this day, and our armies will fly with angels."

Angelic Overseer

Creature - Angel

Flying

As long as you control a Human, Angelic Overseer has hexproof and indestructible.

From mortal hope immortal power springs.

Angelic Skirmisher

Creature - Angel

Flying

At the beginning of each combat, choose first strike, vigilance, or lifelink. Creatures you control gain that ability until end of turn.

"A keen mind wields an army as a deft hand wields a sword."

Angelic Wall

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Flying

"The air stirred as if fanned by angels' wings, and the enemy was turned aside."
-Tales of Ikarov the Voyager

Angelsong

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Clash of sword and cry of beast fall mute when angels sound the call to prayer.

Anger

Creature - Incarnation

Haste

As long as Anger is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

"For its time as a mortal, Anger chose a shell of boiling rock."
-Scroll of Beginnings

Anger of the Gods

Sorcery

Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

There was no reason to pray. This was already an act of the gods.

Animar, Soul of Elements

Legendary Creature - Elemental

Protection from white and from black

Whenever you cast a creature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Animar, Soul of Elements.

Creature spells you cast cost less to cast for each +1/+1 counter on Animar.

Ankle Shanker

Creature - Goblin Berserker

Haste

Whenever Ankle Shanker attacks, creatures you control gain first strike and deathtouch until end of turn.

The stature of the fighter matters less than the depth of the cut.

Annihilate

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Draw a card.

"Whatever Yawgmoth marks, dies. There is no escape."
-Tsabo Tavoc, Phyrexian general

Annihilating Fire

Instant

Annihilating Fire deals 3 damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

"The most impressive performances can be done only once."
-Mote, Rakdos madcap

Annul

Instant

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

The most effective way to destroy a spell is to ensure it was never cast in the first place.

Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Legendary Creature - Vampire Shaman

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player sacrifices a non-Vampire creature.

"So many have died in search of that map. And now it appears in the hands of the arrogant child Chandra Nalaar."

Ant Queen

Creature - Insect

: Put a 1/1 green Insect creature token onto the battlefield.

"Kill the queen first, or we'll be fighting her drones forever. It is not in a queen's nature to have enough servants."
-Borzard, exterminator captain

Anthousa, Setessan Hero

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Anthousa, Setessan Hero, up to three target lands you control each become 2/2 Warrior creatures until end of turn. They're still lands.

The warriors she leads can rarely keep pace with her, and neither can the tales.

Anticipate

Instant

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"When I have meditated on all outcomes, my opponent has no recourse."

Anvilwrought Raptor

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying, first strike

"I know its lightness, for I have seen it fly. I know its weight, for I have seen it strike."
-Brigone, soldier of Meletis

Apex Hawks

Creature - Bird

Multikicker (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell.)

Flying

Apex Hawks enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each time it was kicked.

Apocalypse Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Apocalypse Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, it enters the battlefield with an additional X +1/+1 counters on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Apocalypse Hydra: Apocalypse Hydra deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Apostle's Blessing

Instant

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Target artifact or creature you control gains protection from artifacts or from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Appetite for Brains

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it with converted mana cost 4 or greater and exile that card.

Just as with a peach, the first bite is always the juiciest.

Aquastrand Spider

Creature - Spider Mutant

Graft 2 (This creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)

: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Aqueous Form

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be blocked.

Whenever enchanted creature attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Aquus Steed

Creature - Beast

, : Target creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn.

In water, it's as graceful as a dolphin. On land, it darts and jerks so unpredictably that few can ride it for long.