Ancient Den

Artifact Land

(Ancient Den isn't a spell.)

: Add to your mana pool.

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 Mercy

Creature - Angel

Flying

When Angel of Mercy enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

Every tear shed is a drop of immortality.

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 Salvation

Creature - Angel

Flash; convoke (Each creature you tap while casting this spell reduces its cost by or by one mana of that creature's color.)

Flying

When Angel of Salvation enters the battlefield, prevent the next 5 damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of target creatures and/or players, divided as you choose.

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 Blessing

Sorcery

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

Only the warrior who can admit mortal weakness will be bolstered by immortal strength.

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 Chorus

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain life equal to its toughness.

The harmony of the glorious is a dirge to the wicked.

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 Page

Creature - Angel Spirit

Flying

: Target attacking or blocking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

If only every message were as perfect as its messenger.

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.

Annex

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land (Target a land as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that land.)

You control enchanted land.

You should see how small the map is.

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.

Anodet Lurker

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Anodet Lurker dies, you gain 3 life.

These machines build fearsome visages out of scrap metal to scare off predators who would otherwise be eager to consume them.

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

Anthem of Rakdos

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn and Anthem of Rakdos deals 1 damage to you.

Hellbent - As long as you have no cards in hand, if a source you control would deal damage to a creature or player, it deals double that damage to that creature or player instead.

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."

Antler Skulkin

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

: Target white creature gains persist until end of turn. (When it 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.)

Every skull has a tale to tell, and a skulkin is many dire tales cobbled together.

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.

Aphotic Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Draw a card.

Merrows skulk the silty bogs around the Wanderbrine, their very thoughts stained with evil.

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.

Apothecary Initiate

Creature - Kithkin Cleric

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

Kithkin jealously hoard their knowledge of poultices and remedies so that no outside threat can benefit from their wisdom.

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.

Aquamorph Entity

Creature - Shapeshifter

As Aquamorph Entity enters the battlefield or is turned face up, it becomes your choice of 5/1 or 1/5.

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

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.)

Aquitect's Will

Tribal Sorcery - Merfolk

Put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. If you control a Merfolk, draw a card.

There is nowhere on Lorwyn that the Merrow Lanes cannot go.

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.

Araba Mothrider

Creature - Human Samurai

Flying

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

"My finest creations are fashioned after the moths of Eiganjo. They fly higher, faster, and more gracefully than any of my own designs."
-Noboru, master kitemaker

Arachnoid

Artifact Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

It follows the green sun over Mirrodin's surface, spinning massive webs of whispersilk as it goes.

Arachnus Spinner

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Tap an untapped Spider you control: Search your graveyard and/or library for a card named Arachnus Web and put it onto the battlefield attached to target creature. If you search your library this way, shuffle it.

Arachnus Web

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

At the beginning of the end step, if enchanted creature's power is 4 or greater, destroy Arachnus Web.

Arashi, the Sky Asunder

Legendary Creature - Spirit

, : Arashi, the Sky Asunder deals X damage to target creature with flying.

Channel - , Discard Arashi: Arashi deals X damage to each creature with flying.

Arashin Cleric

Creature - Human Cleric

When Arashin Cleric enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

"We'll have time to put out the fires when those trapped within the ruins are safe."

Arashin Foremost

Creature - Human Warrior

Double strike

Whenever Arashin Foremost enters the battlefield or attacks, another target Warrior creature you control gains double strike until end of turn.

"I would gladly give my life if it would inspire my clan to victory."

Arashin Sovereign

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Arashin Sovereign dies, you may put it on the top or bottom of its owner's library.

Dromoka dragons foster trust among their subjects, while the other clans must spend their time quelling rebellion.

Arashin War Beast

Creature - Beast

Whenever Arashin War Beast deals combat damage to one or more blocking creatures, manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Arbalest Elite

Creature - Human Archer

, : Arbalest Elite deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. Arbalest Elite doesn't untap during your next untap step.

There are few things as satisfying as a good, healthy thunk.

Arbiter of Knollridge

Creature - Giant Wizard

Vigilance

When Arbiter of Knollridge enters the battlefield, each player's life total becomes the highest life total among all players.

Though giants are mortal, they live so long and on such a grand scale that many small folk don't believe they ever truly die.

Arbiter of the Ideal

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Inspired - Whenever Arbiter of the Ideal becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact, creature, or land card, you may put it onto the battlefield with a manifestation counter on it. That permanent is an enchantment in addition to its other types.

Arbor Colossus

Creature - Giant

Reach

: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

When Arbor Colossus becomes monstrous, destroy target creature with flying an opponent controls.

Arbor Elf

Creature - Elf Druid

: Untap target Forest.

"The forest will surround you with its life if you are still and calm."

Arc Blade

Sorcery

Arc Blade deals 2 damage to target creature or player. Exile Arc Blade with three time counters on it.

Suspend 3- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with three 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.)

Arc Lightning

Sorcery

Arc Lightning deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures and/or players.

Rainclouds don't last long in Shiv, but that doesn't stop the lightning.

Arc Runner

Creature - Elemental Ox

Haste (This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Arc Runner.

The storms of the wastelands form quickly and hit hard. Few have anything to do with rain.

Arc Trail

Sorcery

Arc Trail deals 2 damage to target creature or player and 1 damage to another target creature or player.

"Don't try to hit your enemies. Concentrate on the space between them, and fill the air with doom."
-Spear-Tribe teaching

Arc-Slogger

Creature - Beast

, Exile the top ten cards of your library: Arc-Slogger deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

A shuffling sound and the smell of ozone follow the slogger as surely as its electric tail.

Arcane Denial

Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Arcane Lighthouse

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Arcane Melee

Enchantment

Instant and sorcery spells cost less to cast.

Debates between wizards are never purely academic.

Arcane Sanctum

Land

Arcane Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

"We must rely on our own knowledge, not on the dogma of the seekers or the mutterings of the sphinxes."
-Tullus of Palandius

Arcane Spyglass

Artifact

, , Sacrifice a land: Draw a card and put a charge counter on Arcane Spyglass.

Remove three charge counters from Arcane Spyglass: Draw a card.

It breaches not physical distances but temporal ones.

Arcane Teachings

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has ": This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or player."

Not all knowledge is learned from parchment.

Arcanis the Omnipotent

Legendary Creature - Wizard

: Draw three cards.

: Return Arcanis the Omnipotent to its owner's hand.

"Do not concern yourself with my origin, my race, or my ancestry. Seek my record in the pits, and then make your wager."

Arcanum Wings

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has flying.

Aura swap (: Exchange this Aura with an Aura card in your hand.)

Nobles don wings to reach the sky villas of their peers, exchanging them for more fashionable attire upon arrival.

Arcbond

Instant

Choose target creature. Whenever that creature is dealt damage this turn, it deals that much damage to each other creature and each player.

"If you must die today, make your death worthy of legend."
-Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

Arcbound Bruiser

Artifact Creature - Golem

Modular 3 (This enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Break in case of emergency.

Arcbound Crusher

Artifact Creature - Juggernaut

Trample

Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Crusher.

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.)

Arcbound Fiend

Artifact Creature - Horror

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto Arcbound Fiend.

Modular 3 (This enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Hybrid

Artifact Creature - Beast

Haste

Modular 2 (This enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Lancer

Artifact Creature - Beast

First strike

Modular 4 (This enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Overseer

Artifact Creature - Golem

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature with modular you control.

Modular 6 (This enters the battlefield with six +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Arcbound Ravager

Artifact Creature - Beast

Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Ravager.

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.)