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.)

Whispergear Sneak

Artifact Creature - Construct

Draft Whispergear Sneak face up.

During the draft, you may turn Whispergear Sneak face down. If you do, look at any unopened booster pack in the draft or any booster pack not being looked at by another player.

Spy for today. Plan for tomorrow.

Whisperer of the Wilds

Creature - Human Shaman

: Add to your mana pool.

Ferocious - : Add to your mana pool. Activate this ability only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

She speaks only in whispers but can be heard over the fiercest storm.

Whisk Away

Instant

Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

The maneuvers of the Abzan formation intrigued Ojutai in both their complexity and their futility.

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.)

Whirlwind

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures with flying.

Urza tried to rule the air, but Gaea taught him that she controlled all the elements.

Whirlpool Whelm

Instant

Clash with an opponent, then return target creature to its owner's hand. If you win, you may put that creature on top of its owner's library instead. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Whirlpool Warrior

Creature - Merfolk Warrior

When Whirlpool Warrior enters the battlefield, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

, Sacrifice Whirlpool Warrior: Each player shuffles the cards from his or her hand into his or her library, then draws that many cards.

Whirlpool Rider

Creature - Merfolk

When Whirlpool Rider enters the battlefield, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

Where the wind meets the water, change is inevitable.

Whirlpool Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

When Whirlpool Drake enters the battlefield, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

When Whirlpool Drake dies, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

Whirling Dervish

Creature - Human Monk

Protection from black

At the beginning of each end step, if Whirling Dervish dealt damage to an opponent this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Whirling Catapult

Artifact

, Exile the top two cards of your library: Whirling Catapult deals 1 damage to each creature with flying and each player.

"Direct confrontation never was to the Orcs' taste."
-General Varchild

Whiptongue Frog

Creature - Frog

: Whiptongue Frog gains flying until end of turn.

Their favorite food? Wind dancers.

Whiptail Moloch

Creature - Lizard

When Whiptail Moloch enters the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to target creature you control.

"It wags its tail when it's happy. It wags its tail when it's angry. Nope, there's no good time to be around a whiptail."
-Rugar, Leaguehall Infirmary patient

Whipstitched Zombie

Creature - Zombie

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Whipstitched Zombie unless you pay .

Pity the tailor.

Whippoorwill

Creature - Bird

, : Target creature can't be regenerated this turn. Damage that would be dealt to that creature this turn can't be prevented or dealt instead to another creature or player. When the creature dies this turn, exile the creature.

If the Whippoorwill remains silent, the soul has not reached its reward.

Whiplash Trap

Instant - Trap

If an opponent had two or more creatures enter the battlefield under his or her control this turn, you may pay rather than pay Whiplash Trap's mana cost.

Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.

Whipkeeper

Creature - Dwarf

: Whipkeeper deals damage to target creature equal to the damage already dealt to it this turn.

"If you don't hit your adversaries while they're down, they might get up again."

Whipgrass Entangler

Creature - Human Cleric

: Until end of turn, target creature gains "This creature can't attack or block unless its controller pays for each Cleric on the battlefield."

"Now that I have your attention, perhaps I can tell you of the Order."

Whipflare

Sorcery

Whipflare deals 2 damage to each nonartifact creature.

The slag-workers wasted no time in creating their own flare pulses to cleanse the area of the incompleat.

Whipcorder

Creature - Human Soldier Rebel

, : Tap target creature.

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

His bolas whirl like galaxies, but it's his enemies who see stars.

Whip-Spine Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

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

"I swear the clouds were created just so the drakes would have a place to lurk."
-Kasharri, skyknight

Whip Vine

Creature - Plant Wall

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

You may choose not to untap Whip Vine during your untap step.

: Tap target creature with flying blocked by Whip Vine. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Whip Vine remains tapped.

Whip Silk

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

: Return Whip Silk to its owner's hand.

Llanowar forges weapons of steel. Yavimaya grows her weapons within.

Whip Sergeant

Creature - Human Soldier

: Target creature gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack this turn.)

Keldon soldiers learn to move faster than the whip.

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.

Whimwader

Creature - Elemental

Whimwader can't attack unless defending player controls a blue permanent.

"Thought? Deceit? Progress? Now you're just making it hungry."
-Abral, kithkin alchemist

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.)

Whim of Volrath

Instant

Buyback (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another until end of turn. (For example, you may change "nonred creature" to "nongreen creature" or "plainswalk" to "swampwalk.")

Whetwheel

Artifact

, : Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

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

Whetstone

Artifact

: Each player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

To hone swords and dull minds.
-Whetstone inscription

Where Ancients Tread

Enchantment

Whenever a creature with power 5 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Where Ancients Tread deal 5 damage to target creature or player.

"Never subtle nor cryptic is the reckoning of the mighty."
-Mayael the Anima

When Fluffy Bunnies Attack

Instant

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of times the letter of your choice appears in that creature's name.

"Get it? Bunnies, letters, -X/-X? Me neither."
-Bucky, flavor text writer

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

Wheel of Torture

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Wheel of Torture deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in his or her hand.

"I'd like to buy a bowel."

Wheel of Sun and Moon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant player

If a card would be put into enchanted player's graveyard from anywhere, instead that card is revealed and put on the bottom of that player's library.

Every life ends, but life itself never does.

Wheel of Fortune

Sorcery

Each player discards his or her hand and draws seven cards.

Wheel of Fate

Sorcery

Illus. Kev Walker

Wheel and Deal

Instant

Any number of target opponents each discards his or her hand and draws seven cards.

Draw a card.

Whalebone Glider

Artifact

, : Target creature with power 3 or less gains flying until end of turn.

"It's no Ornithopter, but then I'm no Urza."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

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.

Wet Willie of the Damned

Sorcery

Wet Willie of the Damned deals 2½ damage to target creature or player and you gain 2½ life.

Ever the warrior, Glissa responded with a "wedgie from beyond Uranus."

Western Paladin

Creature - Zombie Knight

, : Destroy target white creature.

"Expect nothing but scorn, flattery, and lies. And never turn your back on him."
-The Northern Paladin

Werebear

Creature - Human Bear Druid

: Add to your mana pool.

Threshold - Werebear gets +3/+3 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

He exercises his right to bear arms.

Wellwisher

Creature - Elf

: You gain 1 life for each Elf on the battlefield.

"Close your ears to the voice of greed, and you can turn a gift for one into a gift for many."

Wellspring

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

When Wellspring enters the battlefield, gain control of enchanted land until end of turn.

At the beginning of your upkeep, untap enchanted land. You gain control of that land until end of turn.

Wellgabber Apothecary

Creature - Merfolk Cleric

: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target tapped Merfolk or Kithkin creature this turn.

"You've discovered that boggarts bite, I see. And will the militia be chasing this lot? . . . Ah, you're staying in town to avoid Nath's hunt. Wise. Now this poultice . . ."

Well-Laid Plans

Enchantment

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to a creature by another creature if they share a color.

"I knew this day would come," said Urza. Looking at the destruction, Barrin sighed, "You don't have to revel in it."

Well of Lost Dreams

Artifact

Whenever you gain life, you may pay , where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Some say the knowledge lost during the Ritual of Rebuking is returned through the well's waters.

Well of Life

Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no untapped lands, you gain 2 life.

When you have given everything, then you have everything to gain.
-Well inscription

Well of Knowledge

Artifact

: Draw a card. Any player may activate this ability but only during his or her draw step.

Well of Ideas

Enchantment

When Well of Ideas enters the battlefield, draw two cards.

At the beginning of each other player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

At the beginning of your draw step, draw two additional cards.

Well of Discovery

Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no untapped lands, draw a card.

When you have given everything, then you are capable of anything.
-Well inscription

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

Welkin Hawk

Creature - Bird

Flying

When Welkin Hawk dies, you may search your library for a card named Welkin Hawk, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Welkin Guide

Creature - Bird Cleric

Flying

When Welkin Guide enters the battlefield, target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.

"Those talons really dig into your skin, but it's better than being dropped."
-Rafiq of the Many

Welding Jar

Artifact

Sacrifice Welding Jar: Regenerate target artifact.

Weirding Shaman

Creature - Goblin Shaman

, Sacrifice a Goblin: Put two 1/1 black Goblin Rogue creature tokens onto the battlefield.

All boggarts have an auntie, but they don't all have a mum.

Weird Harvest

Sorcery

Each player may search his or her library for up to X creature cards, reveal those cards, and put them into his or her hand. Then each player who searched his or her library this way shuffles it.

Krosa's distorted groves bear strange fruit.

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.

Weight of Spires

Instant

Weight of Spires deals damage to target creature equal to the number of nonbasic lands that creature's controller controls.

"Finally, a good use for an Azorius courthouse."
-Ghut Rak, Gruul guildmage

Weight of Conscience

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack.

Tap two untapped creatures you control that share a creature type: Exile enchanted creature.

Sometimes the weight of the world on your shoulders is a literal one.

Weed-Pruner Poplar

Creature - Treefolk Assassin

At the beginning of your upkeep, target creature other than Weed-Pruner Poplar gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"When Byoog reached down to pull up a bit of root for the stew, he didn't expect the root to pull back."
-A tale of Auntie Wort

Weed Strangle

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. Clash with an opponent. If you win, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of his or her library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if his or her card had a higher converted mana cost.)

Wee Dragonauts

Creature - Faerie Wizard

Flying

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Wee Dragonauts gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Web of Inertia

Enchantment

At the beginning of each opponent's combat, that player may exile a card from his or her graveyard. If the player doesn't, creatures he or she controls can't attack you this turn.

Cephalids specialize in lose-lose situations.

Web

Enchantment - Aura

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

Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Weaver of Lies

Creature - Beast

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

When Weaver of Lies is turned face up, turn any number of target creatures with morph other than Weaver of Lies face down.

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.

Weatherseed Treefolk

Creature - Treefolk

Trample

When Weatherseed Treefolk dies, return it to its owner's hand.

Weatherseed Totem

Artifact

: Add to your mana pool.

: Weatherseed Totem becomes a 5/3 green Treefolk artifact creature with trample until end of turn.

When Weatherseed Totem is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it was a creature, return this card to its owner's hand.

Weatherseed Faeries

Creature - Faerie

Flying, protection from red

Two days after the forge was completed, the faeries were immune to its flames.

Weatherseed Elf

Creature - Elf

: Target creature gains forestwalk until end of turn.

"My grandmother once told me the future of our world was inside the Weatherseed. When I touched it, I knew she was right."

Weathered Wayfarer

Creature - Human Nomad Cleric

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

Weathered Bodyguards

Creature - Human Soldier

As long as Weathered Bodyguards is untapped, all combat damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to Weathered Bodyguards instead.

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

Wear Away

Instant - Arcane

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

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.")

Weakstone

Artifact

Attacking creatures get -1/-0.

During the brothers' childhood, Tocasia took them to explore the sacred cave of Koilos. There, in the Hall of Tagsin, Mishra discovered the mysterious weakstone.

Weakness

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

"For strength to have any meaning, there must also be . . . you."

Wayward Soul

Creature - Spirit

Flying

: Put Wayward Soul on top of its owner's library.

"no home no heart no hope"
-Stronghold graffito

Wayward Angel

Creature - Angel Horror

Flying, vigilance

Threshold - As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Wayward Angel gets +3/+3, is black, has trample, and has "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature."

Waylay

Instant

Put three 2/2 white Knight creature tokens onto the battlefield. Exile them at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

"You reek of corruption," spat the knight. "Why are you even here?"

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.)

Wayfaring Giant

Creature - Giant

Domain - Wayfaring Giant gets +1/+1 for each basic land type among lands you control.

Its stature and stride increase with each step it takes.

Wayfarer's Bauble

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

It is the forest beyond the horizon, the mountain waiting to be climbed, the new land across the endless sea.

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.

Waxmane Baku

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on Waxmane Baku.

, Remove X ki counters from Waxmane Baku: Tap X target creatures.

Wax (Wax/Wane)

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Waveskimmer Aven

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

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

The greatest gift you can give a sea aven is solitude.

Waves of Aggression

Sorcery

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

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

Wave of Vitriol

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices all artifacts, enchantments, and nonbasic lands he or she controls. For each land sacrificed this way, its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then each player who searched his or her library this way shuffles it.

Wave of Terror

Enchantment

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

At the beginning of your draw step, destroy each creature with converted mana cost equal to the number of age counters on Wave of Terror. They can't be regenerated.

The sea of fear has endless depths.

Wave of Reckoning

Sorcery

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Inner conflict can defeat a soldier more quickly than any army.

Wave of Indifference

Sorcery

X target creatures can't block this turn.

"Darius?"
"Yeah?"
"There's a goblin sneaking up on you."
"So?"
"Just sayin'."

Wave Elemental

Creature - Elemental

, , Sacrifice Wave Elemental: Tap up to three target creatures without flying.

"Consider the wave: how weak the mother yet how strong the child."
-Tywanna, Shaper Guildmage