Zurgo Helmsmasher

Legendary Creature - Orc Warrior

Haste

Zurgo Helmsmasher attacks each combat if able.

Zurgo Helmsmasher has indestructible as long as it's your turn.

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Zurgo Helmsmasher this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Zurgo Helmsmasher.

Zulaport Cutthroat

Creature - Human Rogue Ally

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"Eldrazi? Ha! Try walking through Zulaport at night with your pockets full. Now that's dangerous."

Zulaport Chainmage

Creature - Human Shaman Ally

Cohort - , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Target opponent loses 2 life.

The chains obey her. Everything else would do best to get out of her way.

Zof Shade

Creature - Shade

: Zof Shade gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

It haunts the remnants of the Helix of Zof, leeching strength from the vast Eldrazi ruin.

Zhur-Taa Swine

Creature - Boar

Bloodrush - , Discard Zhur-Taa Swine: Target attacking creature gets +5/+4 until end of turn.

Gurley was the first to domesticate one, though his widow didn't take much solace in that accomplishment.

Zhur-Taa Druid

Creature - Human Druid

: Add to your mana pool.

Whenever you tap Zhur-Taa Druid for mana, it deals 1 damage to each opponent.

"Only the decadent think magic should be pristine and without cost."

Zhur-Taa Ancient

Creature - Beast

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana to his or her mana pool of any type that land produced.

Many Ravnicans think of nature as orderly groves and elf-tended rot farms. They haven't seen the Gruul wilds.

Zephyr Charge

Enchantment

: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"All armies prefer high ground to low and sunny places to dark."-Sun Tzu, Art of War, trans. Giles

Zendikar Resurgent

Enchantment

Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana to your mana pool of any type that land produced. (The types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless.)

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Zarichi Tiger

Creature - Cat

, : You gain 2 life.

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

Zanikev Locust

Creature - Insect

Flying

Scavenge (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Zameck Guildmage

Creature - Elf Wizard

: This turn, each creature you control enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.

Zada, Hedron Grinder

Legendary Creature - Goblin Ally

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets only Zada, Hedron Grinder, copy that spell for each other creature you control that the spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those creatures.

"A hedron holds magic for a thousand years-or less, if need be."

Zada's Commando

Creature - Goblin Archer Ally

First strike

Cohort - , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Zada's Commando deals 1 damage to target opponent.

"There's a word for someone who brings too much gear to battle: ‘survivor.'"
-Zada of Slab Haven

Young Pyromancer

Creature - Human Shaman

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a 1/1 red Elemental creature token onto the battlefield.

Immolation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Yoked Ox

Creature - Ox

It was in fields of grain, not fields of battle, that the Champion learned to bear the yoke of duty to the gods. She worked the land long before she was called on to defend it.
-The Theriad

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

, , Put a verse counter on Yisan, the Wanderer Bard: Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of verse counters on Yisan, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Designed by Brian Fargo

Yavimaya Coast

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Add or to your mana pool. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.

Xenagos, the Reveler

Planeswalker - Xenagos (Loyalty: 3)

+1: Add X mana in any combination of and/or to your mana pool, where X is the number of creatures you control.

0: Put a 2/2 red and green Satyr creature token with haste onto the battlefield.

-6: Exile the top seven cards of your library. You may put any number of creature and/or land cards from among them onto the battlefield.

Xenagos, God of Revels

Legendary Enchantment Creature - God

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to red and green is less than seven, Xenagos isn't a creature.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target creature you control gains haste and gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is that creature's power.

Xathrid Slyblade

Creature - Human Assassin

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

: Until end of turn, Xathrid Slyblade loses hexproof and gains first strike and deathtouch. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike. Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Designed by Rob Pardo

Xathrid Necromancer

Creature - Human Wizard

Whenever Xathrid Necromancer or another Human creature you control dies, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield tapped.

"My commands shall echo forever in their dusty skulls."

Wring Flesh

Instant

Target creature gets -3/-1 until end of turn.

"Don't blame me. You're the one walking around with skin."
-Zul Ashur, lich lord

Wrecking Ogre

Creature - Ogre Warrior

Double strike

Bloodrush - , Discard Wrecking Ogre: Target attacking creature gets +3/+3 and gains double strike until end of turn.

If no opponent can be found, ogres of the Bolrac Clan will often pick fights with buildings.

Worst Fears

Sorcery

You control target player during that player's next turn. Exile Worst Fears. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for the player.)

Elspeth feared that her trespass into Nyx would not go unanswered.

Worldspine Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Trample

When Worldspine Wurm dies, put three 5/5 green Wurm creature tokens with trample onto the battlefield.

When Worldspine Wurm is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

World Breaker

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When you cast World Breaker, exile target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Reach

{C}, Sacrifice a land: Return World Breaker from your graveyard to your hand. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Woolly Loxodon

Creature - Elephant Warrior

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

Even among the hardiest warriors of the Temur, loxodons are respected for their adaptation to the mountain snows.

Woodlot Crawler

Creature - Insect

Forestwalk, protection from green

"We learned something from the Simic. Unfortunately for them."
-Nefara, Dimir agent

Woodland Wanderer

Creature - Elemental

Vigilance, trample

Converge - Woodland Wanderer enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.

"The elements understand better than anyone that actions speak louder than words."-Gideon Jura

Wooded Foothills

Land

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Wooded Foothills: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Woodborn Behemoth

Creature - Elemental

As long as you control eight or more lands, Woodborn Behemoth gets +4/+4 and has trample. (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.)

Wojek Halberdiers

Creature - Human Soldier

Battalion - Whenever Wojek Halberdiers and at least two other creatures attack, Wojek Halberdiers gains first strike until end of turn.

Tired of Boros interference, the Rakdos unleashed hellraiser goblins, hoping their corpses would weigh down the halberds.

Witness the End

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Target opponent exiles two cards from his or her hand and loses 2 life.

"Ulamog stood before us at Sea Gate, ready to succumb . . . and then Kozilek arose. Whatever hope I had for our world died."
-Vandri, Kalastria emissary

Witness of the Ages

Artifact Creature - Golem

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

It strode through the clash of dragons, the fall of Ugin, and the rise of the khans.

Witchstalker

Creature - Wolf

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Whenever an opponent casts a blue or black spell during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Witchstalker.

Witches' Eye

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has ", : Scry 1." (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Equip

The price of prophecy is a vacant eye socket.

Witch's Familiar

Creature - Frog

Some bog witches practice the strange art of batrachomancy, reading portents in the number, size, and color of warts on a toad's hide.

Winterflame

Instant

Choose one or both -

• Tap target creature.

• Winterflame deals 2 damage to target creature.

"The mountains scream with the dragons' throats."
-Chianul, Who Whispers Twice

Wingsteed Rider

Creature - Human Knight

Flying

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

Trust is the only bridle a pegasus will accept.

Wingmate Roc

Creature - Bird

Flying

Raid - When Wingmate Roc enters the battlefield, if you attacked with a creature this turn, put a 3/4 white Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Whenever Wingmate Roc attacks, you gain 1 life for each attacking creature.

Windswept Heath

Land

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Windswept Heath: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Windstorm

Instant

Windstorm deals X damage to each creature with flying.

"We don't like interlopers and thieves cluttering our skies."
-Dionus, elvish archdruid

Windrider Patrol

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Flying

Whenever Windrider Patrol deals combat damage to a player, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Windreader Sphinx

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.

"Your mind is too filled with foolish concerns to hear the subtle whispers that the breeze brings."

Wind-Scarred Crag

Land

Wind-Scarred Crag enters the battlefield tapped.

When Wind-Scarred Crag enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Wind Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

A smaller cousin to the dragon, drakes are often seen at the side of powerful wizards who use them as airborne eyes and ears.

Willing (Ready/Willing)

Instant

Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

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

Will-Forged Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

The modular nature of the automaton's design makes assembly perfectly intuitive.

Wildwood Rebirth

Instant

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

In Ravnica, there are maladies far more difficult to treat than death.

Wildfire Cerberus

Creature - Hound

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

When Wildfire Cerberus becomes monstrous, it deals 2 damage to each opponent and each creature your opponents control.

Wild Ricochet

Instant

You may choose new targets for target instant or sorcery spell. Then copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"I knew that trick long before your great-grandmother's great-grandmother was born."

Wild Guess

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Wild Guess, discard a card.

Draw two cards.

No guts, no glory.

Wild Celebrants

Creature - Satyr

When Wild Celebrants enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact.

"You can tell something's really valuable by the sound it makes when you slam your staff into it."

Wild Beastmaster

Creature - Human Shaman

Whenever Wild Beastmaster attacks, each other creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is Wild Beastmaster's power.

"When they covered the world in city, all they did was give themselves nowhere to run."

Wight of Precinct Six

Creature - Zombie

Wight of Precinct Six gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your opponents' graveyards.

Even the lost and undead need a protector.

Whitewater Naiads

Enchantment Creature - Nymph

Constellation - Whenever Whitewater Naiads or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Stand against the crash of the river's rapids and you will know the power of the naiads.

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.)

Whirlwind Adept

Creature - Djinn Monk

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Whip of Erebos

Legendary Enchantment Artifact

Creatures you control have lifelink.

, : Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Whims of the Fates

Sorcery

Starting with you, each player separates all permanents he or she controls into three piles. Then each player chooses one of his or her piles at random and sacrifices those permanents. (Piles can be empty.)

Whelming Wave

Sorcery

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

"I can see why this appeals to Thassa."
-Kiora

Wetland Sambar

Creature - Elk

As a test of calm and compassion, a Jeskai monk softly approaches a grazing sambar and offers it a lotus from his or her hand. If the creature eats, the student ascends to the next level of training.

Well (Alive/Well)

Sorcery

You gain 2 life for each creature you control.

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

Welkin Tern

Creature - Bird

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

Welkin Tern can block only creatures with flying.

"It preys on other birds. And drakelings. And drakes. Pretty much anything that crosses its flight path is fair game."
-Amira, skycaptain of Thune

Weight of the Underworld

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -3/-2.

Proud Alkmenos, who would not bow to Erebos in death, is now bowed by his own hubris for all eternity.

Weave Fate

Instant

Draw two cards.

Temur shamans speak of three destinies: the now, the echo of the past, and the unwritten. They find flickering paths among tangled possibilities.

Wear (Wear/Tear)

Instant

Destroy target artifact.

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

Weapons Trainer

Creature - Human Soldier Ally

Other creatures you control get +1/+0 as long as you control an Equipment.

"When I'm done training you, anything will be a deadly weapon."

Weapon Surge

Instant

Target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Wayfaring Temple

Creature - Elemental

Wayfaring Temple's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control.

Whenever Wayfaring Temple deals combat damage to a player, populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

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.

Wavecrash Triton

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Wavecrash Triton, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Wave-Wing Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Flying

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

"Do you see? All of Tazeem strains at its tether."-Noyan Dar, Tazeem roilmage

Watery Grave

Land - Island Swamp

(: Add or to your mana pool.)

As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Watery Grave enters the battlefield tapped.

Waterwhirl

Instant

Return up to two target creatures to their owners' hands.

"Be as water: untamed and unheld, yet inexorably flowing toward a greater goal."
-Shensu, Riverwheel mystic

Water Servant

Creature - Elemental

: Water Servant gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

: Water Servant gets -1/+1 until end of turn.

"This creature has innate perceptiveness. It knows when to rise and when to vanish into the tides."
-Jestus Dreya, Of Elements and Eternity

Watcher of the Roost

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

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

When Watcher of the Roost is turned face up, you gain 2 life.

Wastes

Basic Land

: Add {C} to your mana pool.

Wasteland Viper

Creature - Snake

Deathtouch

Bloodrush - , Discard Wasteland Viper: Target attacking creature gets +1/+2 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

"The Gruul embrace all things poisonous and living in the cracks of society."
-Teysa Karlov, Grand Envoy of Orzhov

Wasteland Strangler

Creature - Eldrazi Processor

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When Wasteland Strangler enters the battlefield, you may put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard. If you do, target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

Waste Not

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add to your mana pool.

Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Designed by the Magic community

Warriors' Lesson

Instant

Until end of turn, up to two target creatures you control each gain "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

"Let each challenge make you a better warrior."
-Anthousa of Setessa

Warping Wail

Instant

({C} represents colorless mana.)

Choose one -

• Exile target creature with power or toughness 1 or less.

• Counter target sorcery spell.

• Put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C} to your mana pool."

Warped Physique

Instant

Target creature gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

The Gruul seek unbounded strength. The Dimir deliver cruel irony.

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.

Warleader's Helix

Instant

Warleader's Helix deals 4 damage to target creature or player and you gain 4 life.

"There is no time to remedy our enemies' ignorance. Blast it out of them."
-Aurelia

Warden of the Eye

Creature - Djinn Wizard

When Warden of the Eye enters the battlefield, return target noncreature, nonland card from your graveyard to your hand.

The wardens guard the sacred documents of Tarkir's history, though they are forbidden to read the words.

Warden of the Beyond

Creature - Human Wizard

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Warden of the Beyond gets +2/+2 as long as an opponent owns a card in exile.

He draws strength from a vast source few mortals can fathom.
Designed by Isaiah Cartwright

Warden of Geometries

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Vigilance

: Add {C} to your mana pool. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

The wastelands disorient even the most experienced scouts, making them easy prey for Kozilek's drones.

Warden of Evos Isle

Creature - Bird Wizard

Flying

Creature spells with flying you cast cost less to cast.

On Evos Isle, the swift and formidable aven enforce the will of the ruling sphinxes.

Warchanter of Mogis

Creature - Minotaur Shaman

Inspired - Whenever Warchanter of Mogis becomes untapped, target creature you control gains intimidate until end of turn. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

War-Wing Siren

Creature - Siren Soldier

Flying

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets War-Wing Siren, put a +1/+1 counter on War-Wing Siren.

Once she sang sailors to their doom. Now she leads them to glory.

War-Name Aspirant

Creature - Human Warrior

Raid - War-Name Aspirant enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it if you attacked with a creature this turn.

War-Name Aspirant can't be blocked by creatures with power 1 or less.

No battle means more to a Mardu warrior than the one that earns her war name.

War Behemoth

Creature - Beast

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

"The Houses always hope for peace, but we always pack for war."
-Gvar Barzeel, krumar commander

Wandering Fumarole

Land

Wandering Fumarole enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Until end of turn, Wandering Fumarole becomes a 1/4 blue and red Elemental creature with ": Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn." It's still a land.

Wall of Swords

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Flying

The air hummed with the scissoring sound of uncounted blades that hovered in front of the invaders as though wielded by a phalanx of unseen hands.

Wall of Resurgence

Creature - Wall

Defender

When Wall of Resurgence enters the battlefield, you may put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control. If you do, that land becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste that's still a land.

Wall of Mulch

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

, Sacrifice a Wall: Draw a card.

Mulch is the fabric of life in the forest. Plants live in it, they die in it, and then they become part of it, feeding countless generations to come.

Wall of Limbs

Creature - Zombie Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Wall of Limbs.

, Sacrifice Wall of Limbs: Target player loses X life, where X is Wall of Limbs's power.