Kozilek, the Great Distortion

Legendary Creature - Eldrazi

When you cast Kozilek, the Great Distortion, if you have fewer than seven cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference.

Menace

Discard a card with converted mana cost X: Counter target spell with converted mana cost X.

A void as cryptic as reality itself.

Deceiver of Form

Creature - Eldrazi

({C} represents colorless mana.)

At the beginning of combat on your turn, reveal the top card of your library. If a creature card is revealed this way, you may have creatures you control other than Deceiver of Form become copies of that card until end of turn. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.

Roiling Waters

Sorcery

Return up to two target creatures your opponents control to their owners' hands. Target player draws two cards.

"The Roil may be unpredictable, but it is not uncontrollable."
-Noyan Dar, Tazeem roilmage

Sphinx of the Final Word

Creature - Sphinx

Sphinx of the Final Word can't be countered.

Flying, hexproof

Instant and sorcery spells you control can't be countered by spells or abilities.

He answers questions as readily as he asks them, but his answer is always "no."

Dread Defiler

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

{C}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Target opponent loses life equal to the exiled card's power. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

It left behind an echoing emptiness more horrible than the grave.

Tyrant of Valakut

Creature - Dragon

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Flying

When Tyrant of Valakut enters the battlefield, if its surge cost was paid, it deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Birthing Hulk

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When Birthing Hulk enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C} to your mana pool." ({C} represents colorless mana.)

{C}: Regenerate Birthing Hulk.

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.)

Gladehart Cavalry

Creature - Elf Knight

When Gladehart Cavalry enters the battlefield, support 6. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to six other target creatures.)

Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, you gain 2 life.

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.

Endbringer

Creature - Eldrazi

Untap Endbringer during each other player's untap step.

: Endbringer deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

{C}, : Target creature can't attack or block this turn.

{C}{C}, : Draw a card.

Kozilek's Pathfinder

Creature - Eldrazi

{C}: Target creature can't block Kozilek's Pathfinder this turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

"We didn't know where it came from or where it was going. All we knew was that we did not matter."
-Akiri, kor line-slinger

Linvala, the Preserver

Legendary Creature - Angel

Flying

When Linvala, the Preserver enters the battlefield, if an opponent has more life than you, you gain 5 life.

When Linvala enters the battlefield, if an opponent controls more creatures than you, put a 3/3 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Deepfathom Skulker

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

{C}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Crush of Tentacles

Sorcery

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If Crush of Tentacles's surge cost was paid, put an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token onto the battlefield.

Chandra, Flamecaller

Planeswalker - Chandra (Loyalty: 4)

+1: Put two 3/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste onto the battlefield. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.

0: Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards plus one.

−X: Chandra, Flamecaller deals X damage to each creature.

Canopy Gorger

Creature - Wurm

The settlement's defenders were glad to have such a massive, ferocious creature join the fight-but less glad to see it flatten their homes along the way.

Baloth Null

Creature - Zombie Beast

When Baloth Null enters the battlefield, return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

"Humans use pigs to hunt for mushrooms, don't they? It's like that."
-Harak, Malakir bloodwitch

Reality Smasher

Creature - Eldrazi

({C} represents colorless mana.)

Trample, haste

Whenever Reality Smasher becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, counter that spell unless its controller discards a card.

As easy to stop as it is to comprehend.

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.

Expedition Raptor

Creature - Bird

Flying

When Expedition Raptor enters the battlefield, support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two other target creatures.)

General Tazri

Legendary Creature - Human Ally

When General Tazri enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Ally creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

: Ally creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of colors among those creatures.

Munda's Vanguard

Creature - Kor Knight Ally

Cohort - , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

"Do not let yourselves fall now. Zendikar is depending on us-on you!"

Steppe Glider

Creature - Elemental

Flying, vigilance

: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains flying and vigilance until end of turn.

It glides over the landscape. It also happens to be one.

Cyclone Sire

Creature - Elemental

Flying

When Cyclone Sire dies, 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.

The rampaging Roil creates life out of the most volatile elements.

Jwar Isle Avenger

Creature - Sphinx

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Flying

Though solitary by nature, the sphinxes did not hesitate to join in the fight against the Eldrazi.

Kozilek's Translator

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Pay 1 life: Add {C} to your mana pool. Activate this ability only once each turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

From nothingness, sustenance.

Malakir Soothsayer

Creature - Vampire Shaman Ally

Cohort - , Tap an untapped Ally you control: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

"Your blood whispers secrets your mind could never comprehend."

Remorseless Punishment

Sorcery

Target opponent loses 5 life unless that player discards two cards or sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. Repeat this process once.

"I have suffered a thousand lifetimes of agony on this wretched world. I've far less time to share with you, but I assure you, no less pain."
-Ob Nixilis

Boulder Salvo

Sorcery

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Boulder Salvo deals 4 damage to target creature.

"If someone claims the sky is falling, I listen."
-Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist

Cinder Hellion

Creature - Hellion

Trample

When Cinder Hellion enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to target opponent.

Chandra used jets of flame to lure hellions into the path of oncoming Eldrazi.

Goblin Dark-Dwellers

Creature - Goblin

Menace

When Goblin Dark-Dwellers enters the battlefield, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that card would be put into your graveyard this turn, exile it instead.

Press into Service

Sorcery

Support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Embodiment of Insight

Creature - Elemental

Vigilance

Land creatures you control have vigilance.

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target land you control become a 3/3 Elemental creature with haste until end of turn. It's still a land.

Nissa's Judgment

Sorcery

Support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)

Choose up to one target creature an opponent controls. Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it deals damage equal to its power to that creature.

Tajuru Pathwarden

Creature - Elf Warrior Ally

Vigilance, trample

"My people blazed these pathways long ago, before the Eldrazi came. We will ride them long after the Eldrazi are gone."

Thought-Knot Seer

Creature - Eldrazi

({C} represents colorless mana.)

When Thought-Knot Seer enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.

When Thought-Knot Seer leaves the battlefield, target opponent draws a card.

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.

Allied Reinforcements

Sorcery

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

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

Iona's Blessing

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has vigilance, and can block an additional creature.

"Walk now in my light. When the rest of the world closes its eyes, you will still see."
-Iona

Isolation Zone

Enchantment

When Isolation Zone enters the battlefield, exile target creature or enchantment an opponent controls until Isolation Zone leaves the battlefield. (That permanent returns under its owner's control.)

When properly aligned, hedrons become powerful tools of binding.

Relief Captain

Creature - Kor Knight Ally

When Relief Captain enters the battlefield, support 3. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to three other target creatures.)

Sometimes gestures of support are small. Sometimes not.

Spawnbinder Mage

Creature - Human Wizard Ally

Cohort - , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Tap target creature.

"Follow me. Step lightly. And resist the urge to kick them."

Gravity Negator

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flying

Whenever Gravity Negator attacks, you may pay {C}. If you do, another target creature gains flying until end of turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Thought Harvester

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flying

Whenever you cast a colorless spell, target opponent exiles the top card of his or her library.

"I never thought I'd miss the gomazoa."
-Trinda, Hada spy patrol

Comparative Analysis

Instant

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Target player draws two cards.

"Our time grows short. If we wish to vanquish the Eldrazi, we must unlock the hedrons' secrets."
-Jace Beleren

Overwhelming Denial

Instant

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Overwhelming Denial can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Counter target spell.

Unity of Purpose

Instant

Support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)

Untap each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Faced with the novel problem of inspiring an army, Jace asked himself: "What would Gideon say?"

Havoc Sower

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

{C}: Havoc Sower gets +2/+1 until end of turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

It grew with a terrible swiftness.

Inverter of Truth

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flying

When Inverter of Truth enters the battlefield, exile all cards from your library face down, then shuffle all cards from your graveyard into your library.

In its shadow, everything changed.

Oblivion Strike

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Exile target creature.

It's bad enough to be torn to pieces. It's worse by far to be torn from the world itself.

Sifter of Skulls

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C} to your mana pool." ({C} represents colorless mana.)

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

Drana's Chosen

Creature - Vampire Shaman Ally

Cohort - , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield tapped.

"Drana commands me. I command my nulls. And so her bidding is done."

Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

Legendary Creature - Vampire Warrior

Lifelink

If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet.

Null Caller

Creature - Vampire Shaman

, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield tapped.

Zendikar's defenders include both healers and vampires. One way or another, the fallen will return to the fight.

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.

Consuming Sinkhole

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Choose one -

• Exile target land creature.

• Consuming Sinkhole deals 4 damage to target player.

"What will not yield will be consumed."
-Ayli, high priest of the Eternal Pilgrims

Maw of Kozilek

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

{C}: Maw of Kozilek gets +2/-2 until end of turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

"The Eldrazi make worse than ruins-they make a world where not even ruins stand."
-Gideon Jura

Embodiment of Fury

Creature - Elemental

Trample

Land creatures you control have trample.

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target land you control become a 3/3 Elemental creature with haste until end of turn. It's still a land.

Goblin Freerunner

Creature - Goblin Warrior Ally

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

There are old goblins and ambitious goblins, but very few old, ambitious goblins.

Pyromancer's Assault

Enchantment

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, Pyromancer's Assault deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Never ask a pyromancer if that's the best she's got.

Harvester Troll

Creature - Troll

When Harvester Troll enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature or land. If you do, put two +1/+1 counters on Harvester Troll.

Having no interest in the greater conflict, the trolls continue to prey upon whatever wanders into their domain.

Saddleback Lagac

Creature - Lizard

When Saddleback Lagac enters the battlefield, support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two other target creatures.)

"A good lagac will carry you through thick and thin. A bad one . . . well, it's a tasty dinner."
-Raff Slugeater, goblin shortcutter

Seed Guardian

Creature - Elemental

Reach

When Seed Guardian dies, put an X/X green Elemental creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

It is a reminder that spring will always follow winter.

Cliffhaven Vampire

Creature - Vampire Warrior Ally

Flying

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

"My people are no longer slaves to the Eldrazi, beholden to the past. We will determine our own future."

Mina and Denn, Wildborn

Legendary Creature - Elf Ally

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

Greenweaver Mina and her twin brother Denn lead the last of the Mul Daya into an uncertain future.

Matter Reshaper

Creature - Eldrazi

({C} represents colorless mana.)

When Matter Reshaper dies, reveal the top card of your library. You may put that card onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card with converted mana cost 3 or less. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Eldrazi Displacer

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

{C}: Exile another target creature, then return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Affa Protector

Creature - Human Soldier Ally

Vigilance

"Through all the terrors we face, I hold on to the memory of the world before the Eldrazi came. I'd like to see that world again."

Call the Gatewatch

Sorcery

Search your library for a planeswalker card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

"I've heard it said that a Planeswalker is someone who can always run from danger. But Gideon's right: we're also the ones who can choose to stay."
-Jace Beleren

Kor Scythemaster

Creature - Kor Soldier Ally

Kor Scythemaster has first strike as long as it's attacking.

The kor of Zendikar are known for quiet determination in the face of overwhelming odds.

Kor Sky Climber

Creature - Kor Soldier Ally

: Kor Sky Climber gains flying until end of turn.

"With rope, I can fly as far as the rope can reach. But with light, the sky is the limit."

Make a Stand

Instant

Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

For a moment they stood tall, all fear forgotten.

Oath of Gideon

Legendary Enchantment

When Oath of Gideon enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 white Kor Ally creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Each planeswalker you control enters the battlefield with an additional loyalty counter on it.

"For justice and peace, I will keep watch."

Shoulder to Shoulder

Sorcery

Support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)

Draw a card.

"Sea Gate may have fallen, but we still stand. We still fight."
-Gideon Jura

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.

Abstruse Interference

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . You put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C} to your mana pool." ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Cultivator Drone

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

: Add {C} to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a colorless spell, activate an ability of a colorless permanent, or pay a cost that contains {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Void Shatter

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Eldrazi break concentration like glass.

Ancient Crab

Creature - Crab

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

Containment Membrane

Enchantment - Aura

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Grip of the Roil

Instant

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Draw a card.

Hedron Alignment

Enchantment

Hexproof

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may reveal your hand. If you do, you win the game if you own a card named Hedron Alignment in exile, in your hand, in your graveyard, and on the battlefield.

: Scry 1.

Oath of Jace

Legendary Enchantment

When Oath of Jace enters the battlefield, draw three cards, then discard two cards.

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry X, where X is the number of planeswalkers you control.

"For the sake of the Multiverse, I will keep watch."

Sweep Away

Instant

Return target creature to its owner's hand. If that creature is attacking, you may put it on top of its owner's library instead.

The Roil takes many forms. It also takes many victims.

Essence Depleter

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

{C}: Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

When Kozilek emerged at Sea Gate, his brood lineage swarmed to the surface.

Flaying Tendrils

Sorcery

Devoid (This card has no color.)

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If a creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Only one Eldrazi stood against them, yet the defenders were outnumbered.

Kozilek's Shrieker

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

{C}: Kozilek's Shrieker gets +1/+0 and gains menace until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures. {C} represents colorless mana.)

Listen to the sound of defeat.

Tar Snare

Instant

Target creature gets -3/-2 until end of turn.

The amorphous, magically animated residue known as the Fathom Sludge lurks in the Hagra Cistern, attacking its prey with pseudopods and dragging it down to be digested.

Untamed Hunger

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

"Mindlessness is not weakness. When we are lost to hunger we are unstoppable."
-Drana, Kalastria bloodchief

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."

Eldrazi Aggressor

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Eldrazi Aggressor has haste as long as you control another colorless creature.

"They employ a foul sort of teamwork."
-General Tazri, allied commander

Eldrazi Obligator

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When you cast Eldrazi Obligator, you may pay {C}. If you do, gain control of target creature until end of turn, untap that creature, and it gains haste until end of turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Haste

Kozilek's Return

Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Kozilek's Return deals 2 damage to each creature.

Whenever you cast an Eldrazi creature spell with converted mana cost 7 or greater, you may exile Kozilek's Return from your graveyard. If you do, Kozilek's Return deals 5 damage to each creature.

Akoum Flameseeker

Creature - Human Shaman Ally

Cohort - , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

In the face of extinction, the most perilous endeavors can be cause for hope.

Devour in Flames

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Devour in Flames, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

Devour in Flames deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Ob Nixilis had prepared for every eventuality-except Chandra Nalaar.

Kazuul's Toll Collector

Creature - Ogre Warrior

: Attach target Equipment you control to Kazuul's Toll Collector. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Travelers are advised to bring extra swords, preferably shiny ones.

Reckless Bushwhacker

Creature - Goblin Warrior Ally

Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)

Haste

When Reckless Bushwhacker enters the battlefield, if its surge cost was paid, other creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain haste until end of turn.

Scion Summoner

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When Scion Summoner enters the battlefield, put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C} to your mana pool." ({C} represents colorless mana.)