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.

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

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."

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.)

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.

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

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."

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.)

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Wall of Frost

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Frost blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"I welcome it. The pasture is cleared of weeds and the wolves are frozen solid."
-Lumi, goatherd

Wall of Fire

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Wall of Fire gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Mercy is for those who keep their distance.

Wall of Essence

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Essence is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life.

The ceiling and the floor fell in love, but only the wall knew.
-Dal saying

Walker of the Wastes

Creature - Eldrazi

({C} represents colorless mana.)

Trample

Walker of the Wastes gets +1/+1 for each land you control named Wastes.

In the absence of life, something yet grows.

Vulpine Goliath

Creature - Fox

Trample

"With a diet of hydras, giants, and massive serpents, anything would get that big."
-Corisande, Setessan hunter

Voyaging Satyr

Creature - Satyr Druid

: Untap target land.

"None can own the land's bounty. The gods made this world for all to share its riches. And I'm not just saying that because you caught me stealing your fruit."

Vortex Elemental

Creature - Elemental

: Put Vortex Elemental and each creature blocking or blocked by it on top of their owners' libraries, then those players shuffle their libraries.

: Target creature blocks Vortex Elemental this turn if able.

The sea is always hungry.

Vorel of the Hull Clade

Legendary Creature - Human Merfolk

, : For each counter on target artifact, creature, or land, put another of those counters on that permanent.

"I used to hurl rocks and eat scraps of meat burned over a fire. Look at what I've become and tell me Simic does not hold infinite possibility."

Voracious Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Voracious Wurm enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the amount of life you've gained this turn.

Shepherds in Kalonia know it's better to let sheep roam than have them be trapped when the wurms are feeding.

Voracious Null

Creature - Zombie

, Sacrifice another creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on Voracious Null. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

"These days, there's no shortage of food for the nulls of Guul Draz."-Drana, Kalastria bloodchief

Volatile Rig

Artifact Creature - Construct

Trample

Volatile Rig attacks each turn if able.

Whenever Volatile Rig is dealt damage, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, sacrifice Volatile Rig.

When Volatile Rig dies, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, it deals 4 damage to each creature and each player.

Voidwielder

Creature - Human Wizard

When Voidwielder enters the battlefield, you may return target creature to its owner's hand.

"He makes up his own laws, and that's dangerous to all who love peace and prosperity. Kill him on sight."
-Mirela, Azorius hussar

Void Winnower

Creature - Eldrazi

Your opponents can't cast spells with even converted mana costs. (Zero is even.)

Your opponents can't block with creatures with even converted mana costs.

"Have you ever seen a world fall to its knees? Watch, and learn."-Ob Nixilis

Void Grafter

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

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

When Void Grafter enters the battlefield, another target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn.

Void Attendant

Creature - Eldrazi Processor

Devoid (This card has no color.)

, Put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard: Put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

The Eldrazi don't merely extinguish life-they supplant it.

Voice of Resurgence

Creature - Elemental

Whenever an opponent casts a spell during your turn or when Voice of Resurgence dies, put a green and white Elemental creature token onto the battlefield with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control."

Vizkopa Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

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

Vizkopa Confessor

Creature - Human Cleric

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

When Vizkopa Confessor enters the battlefield, pay any amount of life. Target opponent reveals that many cards from his or her hand. You choose one of them and exile it.

Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage

Creature - Dryad Shaman

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

: Populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

"Preachers of freedom forget that conformity can be beautiful."

Vile Redeemer

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flash

When you cast Vile Redeemer, you may pay {C}. If you do, put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield for each nontoken creature that died under your control this turn. Those tokens have "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C} to your mana pool."

Vile Aggregate

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Vile Aggregate's power is equal to the number of colorless creatures you control.

Trample

Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of his or her library.)

Viashino Shanktail

Creature - Viashino Warrior

First strike

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

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

Viashino Racketeer

Creature - Viashino Rogue

When Viashino Racketeer enters the battlefield, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

"You may call me a fool, selling this stuff on Orzhov turf. Well, you need to be a little reckless to survive."

Viashino Firstblade

Creature - Viashino Soldier

Haste

When Viashino Firstblade enters the battlefield, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"All that steel doesn't make them slower. It makes them bolder."
-Tajic, Blade of the Legion

Veteran Warleader

Creature - Human Soldier Ally

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

Tap another untapped Ally you control: Veteran Warleader gains your choice of first strike, vigilance, or trample until end of turn.

Vestige of Emrakul

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Trample

Emrakul has not been seen in months. Though her brood's numbers have dwindled in her absence, each drone is still a deadly threat.

Venom Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

"We attacked with arrows dipped in poison. The slivers that did not die began to change."
-Hastric, Thunian scout

Venerable Lammasu

Creature - Lammasu

Flying

Lammasu are the enigmatic travelers of Tarkir, soaring high above all lands in all seasons. None know their true purpose, but they often arrive on the eve of great conflicts or turning points in history.

Vastwood Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Vastwood Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

When Vastwood Hydra dies, you may distribute a number of +1/+1 counters equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on Vastwood Hydra among any number of creatures you control.

Vassal Soul

Creature - Spirit

Flying

For the Azorius, the opportunity to serve the law is too great an honor for death to interrupt.

Varolz, the Scar-Striped

Legendary Creature - Troll Warrior

Each creature card in your graveyard has scavenge. The scavenge cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Varolz, the Scar-Striped.

Vaporkin

Creature - Elemental

Flying

Vaporkin can block only creatures with flying.

"Mists are carefree. They drift where they will, unencumbered by rocks and river beds."
-Thrasios, triton hero

Vanguard of Brimaz

Creature - Cat Soldier

Vigilance

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Vanguard of Brimaz, put a 1/1 white Cat Soldier creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.

"The humans and their gods never blessed me. Only the pride deserves my allegiance."

Vampire Warlord

Creature - Vampire Warrior

Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Vampire Warlord. (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.)

"How can you serve me? By dying."

Vampire Envoy

Creature - Vampire Cleric Ally

Flying

Whenever Vampire Envoy becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

"Zendikar will fight until it has bled its last."

Valley Dasher

Creature - Human Berserker

Haste

Valley Dasher attacks each turn if able.

Mardu riders' greatest fear is that a battle might end before their weapons draw blood.

Valakut Predator

Creature - Elemental

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

"Whatever volcanoes dream of, it seems like they always wake up grumpy."-Raff Slugeater, goblin shortcutter

Valakut Invoker

Creature - Human Shaman

: Valakut Invoker deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

"As long as we have walked this world, we have known it as a harsh and unforgiving place."-The Invokers' Tales