Salvage Scout

Creature - Human Scout

, Sacrifice Salvage Scout: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I'm not saying it's dangerous work. I'm just saying don't sign up if you have plans for your seventieth birthday."

Seize the Initiative

Instant

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

The time between spotting a leonin shikari and feeling its claws is just time enough to draw your last breath.

Turn Aside

Instant

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

"It's not my job to ask our leaders about their experiments at the Knowledge Pool. It's my job to make sure they can continue performing them."

Twisted Image

Instant

Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"True strength is in the mind, for the body is too malleable a form."
-Politus, vedalken emisar

Vault Skyward

Instant

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. Untap it.

"The edges of the Quicksilver Sea run dark with the spread of the Mephidross. Two more aerial passes before I can be sure what I'm seeing . . ."
-Lafarius, Neurok sky agent

Vedalken Certarch

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

Metalcraft - : Tap target artifact, creature, or land. Activate this ability only if you control three or more artifacts.

"An appropriately detailed model is indistinguishable from reality, and much easier to control."

Fume Spitter

Creature - Horror

Sacrifice Fume Spitter: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

"Our archers made sport of it as it fumbled its way up the slag ridge. As it collapsed we thought ourselves safe, but the foul thing carried more than necrogen."
-Adaran, Tangle hunter

Tainted Strike

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains infect until end of turn. (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

"Welcome to perfection."
-Sheoldred, Whispering One

Assault Strobe

Sorcery

Target creature gains double strike until end of turn. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

When breaking someone's face once just isn't enough.

Galvanic Blast

Instant

Galvanic Blast deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Metalcraft - Galvanic Blast deals 4 damage to that creature or player instead if you control three or more artifacts.

Mirrodin has little weather, but it certainly has lightning.

Goblin Gaveleer

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Trample

Goblin Gaveleer gets +2/+0 for each Equipment attached to it.

"When everything looks like a nail, you really need to get yourself a hammer."
-Krol, goblin furnace-priest

Kuldotha Rebirth

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Kuldotha Rebirth, sacrifice an artifact.

Put three 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.

All goblin rituals serve a dual purpose as fertility rites, even the destructive ones. Especially the destructive ones.

Spikeshot Elder

Creature - Goblin Shaman

: Spikeshot Elder deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

Now that he knows a thousand ways of hurting people, his next shamanic quest is to discover a thousand more.

Copperhorn Scout

Creature - Elf Scout

Whenever Copperhorn Scout attacks, untap each other creature you control.

Fangren spur may sound louder, but Viridian resurgents claim that the horn of the vorrac creates a truer, more inspiring note.

Ezuri's Archers

Creature - Elf Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Whenever Ezuri's Archers blocks a creature with flying, Ezuri's Archers gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

Untamed Might

Instant

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

"Beasts kill for their very survival. If you would have their strength, you must know their desperation."
-Konnos, Sylvok sage

Wing Puncture

Instant

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature with flying.

"If I were the air, I wouldn't taunt the ground. It has the weight advantage."
-Konnos, Sylvok sage

Withstand Death

Instant

Target creature is indestructible this turn. (Lethal damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.)

On Mirrodin, every conflict ends in either death or darksteel.

Darksteel Axe

Artifact - Equipment

Darksteel Axe is indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.

Equip

Heavier than it looks, tricky to wield, guaranteed to last.

Flight Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Flight Spellbomb: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

When Flight Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Golden Urn

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Golden Urn.

, Sacrifice Golden Urn: You gain life equal to the number of charge counters on Golden Urn.

Horizon Spellbomb

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Horizon Spellbomb: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

When Horizon Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Infiltration Lens

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked by a creature, you may draw two cards.

Equip

Neurok spies carry devices that let them look a few moments into the future, giving them an almost insurmountable edge.

Nihil Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Nihil Spellbomb: Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.

When Nihil Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Origin Spellbomb

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Origin Spellbomb: Put a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

When Origin Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Panic Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Panic Spellbomb: Target creature can't block this turn.

When Panic Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.

Sylvok Lifestaff

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

Whenever equipped creature dies, you gain 3 life.

Equip

The druid's lifestaff connects her to generations of bygone Sylvok.

Vector Asp

Artifact Creature - Snake

: Vector Asp gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Phyrexia's machines take inspiration from nature. Twisted, disturbing inspiration.

Caravan Escort

Creature - Human Knight

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 1-4

2/2

LEVEL 5+

5/5

First strike

Emerge Unscathed

Instant

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Guard Duty

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has defender.

"I was told these were standard issue. Do I look standard to you?"

Hyena Umbra

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has first strike.

Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Oust

Sorcery

Put target creature into its owner's library second from the top. Its controller gains 3 life.

"‘Invincible' is just a word."
-Gideon Jura

Smite

Instant

Destroy target blocked creature.

"The mighty rely solely on their strength. They are shocked when we do the same."
-Tars Olan, kor world-gift

Soul's Attendant

Creature - Human Cleric

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may gain 1 life.

In truth, her own faith was gone, trodden in Ulamog's wake. She pantomimed the blessing in the hope that it would inspire others to continue to struggle.

Student of Warfare

Creature - Human Knight

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 2-6

3/3

First strike

LEVEL 7+

4/4

Double strike

Aura Finesse

Instant

Attach target Aura you control to target creature.

Draw a card.

"Although armor and auras can be similar, the brains required to use them are worlds apart."
-Zilan, Makindi auramancer

Crab Umbra

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

: Untap enchanted creature.

Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Distortion Strike

Sorcery

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Enclave Cryptologist

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 1-2

0/1

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

LEVEL 3+

0/1

: Draw a card.

Shared Discovery

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Shared Discovery, tap four untapped creatures you control.

Draw three cards.

Riches must be divided, but real wealth can be shared.

Skywatcher Adept

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 1-2

2/2

Flying

LEVEL 3+

4/2

Flying

Training Grounds

Enchantment

Activated abilities of creatures you control cost up to less to activate. This effect can't reduce the amount of mana an ability costs to activate to less than one mana.

Under the master's eye, skills are honed sharper and spells cut deeper.

Death Cultist

Creature - Human Wizard

Sacrifice Death Cultist: Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Death inevitably seduces all who study it.

Demonic Appetite

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

"Morality is just shorthand for the constraints of being powerless."
-Ob Nixilis

Guul Draz Assassin

Creature - Vampire Assassin

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 2-3

2/2

, : Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

LEVEL 4+

4/4

, : Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Inquisition of Kozilek

Sorcery

Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it with converted mana cost 3 or less. That player discards that card.

You will scream out your innermost secrets just to make it stop.

Mortician Beetle

Creature - Insect

Whenever a player sacrifices a creature, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Mortician Beetle.

To the soldier, war is famine; to the scavenger, a feast.

Nighthaze

Sorcery

Target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"To evade the brood lineages, one must be made dark to all the senses."
-Traga, Zulaport runner

Suffer the Past

Instant

Exile X target cards from target player's graveyard. For each card exiled this way, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Ulamog's tentacles, their touch like burning ice, rummaged through his soul and stung his memories one by one.

Vendetta

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

"Consider my debt to your kin paid in full."
-Idrol, Guul Draz assassin

Virulent Swipe

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Zulaport Enforcer

Creature - Human Warrior

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 1-2

3/3

LEVEL 3+

5/5

Zulaport Enforcer can't be blocked except by black creatures.

Devastating Summons

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Devastating Summons, sacrifice X lands.

Put two X/X red Elemental creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Things born in magma are always angry.

Flame Slash

Sorcery

Flame Slash deals 4 damage to target creature.

After millennia asleep, the Eldrazi had forgotten about Zendikar's fiery temper and dislike of strangers.

Forked Bolt

Sorcery

Forked Bolt deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two target creatures and/or players.

"Play no favorites. Everybody dies."
-Sparkmage saying

Heat Ray

Instant

Heat Ray deals X damage to target creature.

"There was clearly a scream. I'm not sure if there was a mouth."
-Sachir, Akoum Expeditionary House

Ancient Stirrings

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a colorless card from among them and put it into your hand. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. (Cards with no colored mana in their mana costs are colorless. Lands are also colorless.)

Gelatinous Genesis

Sorcery

Put X X/X green Ooze creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Even as the world was left cracked and gory by the marauding Eldrazi, new life began to drip from its wounds.

Irresistible Prey

Sorcery

Target creature must be blocked this turn if able.

Draw a card.

The baloth's instincts boiled, its muscles pulled taut, and its razor-spines bristled, as it turned to face-a runt meepling.

Joraga Treespeaker

Creature - Elf Druid

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 1-4

1/2

: Add to your mana pool.

LEVEL 5+

1/4

Elves you control have ": Add to your mana pool."

Leaf Arrow

Instant

Leaf Arrow deals 3 damage to target creature with flying.

"Those who think the trees shall remain bystanders throughout this conflict shall be sorely mistaken."
-Sutina, Speaker of the Tajuru

Might of the Masses

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature you control.

The Joraga elves never need ask a troll to leave their territory. They merely grant it their combined strength, and it can't resist embarking on a merry rampage.

Prey's Vengeance

Instant

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

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Spider Umbra

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Hada Freeblade

Creature - Human Soldier Ally

Whenever Hada Freeblade or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Hada Freeblade.

"I toiled in Kazuul's mines when I was eight. I think I'm tough enough for a little hiking."

Kitesail Apprentice

Creature - Kor Soldier

As long as Kitesail Apprentice is equipped, it gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Carving lines through the sky, kite sailors map trails for the pilgrims below to follow.

Loam Lion

Creature - Cat

Loam Lion gets +1/+2 as long as you control a Forest.

In Zendikar, today's grassland could be tomorrow's jungle, and hunting grounds change as quickly as the weather.

Perimeter Captain

Creature - Human Soldier

Defender

Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.

"We stand between the jaws of chaos and the mantle of order."

Veteran's Reflexes

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Untap that creature.

"Assume everything wants to kill you. At the very least, assume everything wants what's in your pack."

Quest for Ula's Temple

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you may reveal it and put a quest counter on Quest for Ula's Temple.

At the beginning of each end step, if there are three or more quest counters on Quest for Ula's Temple, you may put a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Wind Zendikon

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land is a 2/2 blue Elemental creature with flying. It's still a land.

When enchanted land dies, return that card to its owner's hand.

Death's Shadow

Creature - Avatar

Death's Shadow gets -X/-X, where X is your life total.

The shadow of the candle looms tall even as its light grows dim.

Mire's Toll

Sorcery

Target player reveals a number of cards from his or her hand equal to the number of Swamps you control. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.

As the bridge snapped, Berko was sure he heard the swamp laughing at him.

Pulse Tracker

Creature - Vampire Rogue

Whenever Pulse Tracker attacks, each opponent loses 1 life.

Pulse trackers terrorize adventurers, driving them through the jungle toward certain death at the gates of Malakir.

Quag Vampires

Creature - Vampire Rogue

Multikicker (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell.)

Swampwalk

Quag Vampires enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each time it was kicked.

Quest for the Nihil Stone

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may put a quest counter on Quest for the Nihil Stone.

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand and Quest for the Nihil Stone has two or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 5 life.

Bull Rush

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

"It's gone mad! Loose the chains and save what you can!"

Dragonmaster Outcast

Creature - Human Shaman

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control six or more lands, put a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

"Cast out by my tribe, I am a pariah trapped in this mammal's carcass. Only my true kin hear my cries."

Quest for the Goblin Lord

Enchantment

Whenever a Goblin enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a quest counter on Quest for the Goblin Lord.

As long as Quest for the Goblin Lord has five or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +2/+0.

A shrine to unchecked desire.

Skitter of Lizards

Creature - Lizard

Multikicker (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell.)

Haste

Skitter of Lizards enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each time it was kicked.

Groundswell

Instant

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

Landfall - If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn instead.

"This world will not be tamed."

Joraga Warcaller

Creature - Elf Warrior

Multikicker (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell.)

Joraga Warcaller enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each time it was kicked.

Other Elf creatures you control get +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on Joraga Warcaller.

Nature's Claim

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

"On this plane, the use of magic can provoke a ferocious reprisal from nature. Whoever the Eldrazi were, their relics left Zendikar forever enraged."
-Jace Beleren

Brave the Elements

Instant

Choose a color. White creatures you control gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn. (They can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything of that color.)

"Trust me, your lost fingers and toes are nothing compared to the lost treasures of Sejiri."
-Zahr Gada, Halimar expedition leader

Kor Duelist

Creature - Kor Soldier

As long as Kor Duelist is equipped, it has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

"Swords cannot reach far enough. Chains cannot strike hard enough. An eternal dilemma, but a simple one."

Quest for the Holy Relic

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may put a quest counter on Quest for the Holy Relic.

Remove five quest counters from Quest for the Holy Relic and sacrifice it: Search your library for an Equipment card, put it onto the battlefield, and attach it to a creature you control. Then shuffle your library.

Shieldmate's Blessing

Instant

Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

"Even land dwellers may call for Emeria's grace in times of need."
-Emeria's Creed

Steppe Lynx

Creature - Cat

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

Nothing quickens the predator's blood like the unfamiliar scents of new hunting grounds and the mewling cries of new prey.

Sunspring Expedition

Enchantment

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a quest counter on Sunspring Expedition.

Remove three quest counters from Sunspring Expedition and sacrifice it: You gain 8 life.

Caller of Gales

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

, : Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

"Some merfolk choose to rest their fins in the water. I believe wisdom exists not only where we were born but where we were told not to go."

Cosi's Trickster

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Whenever an opponent shuffles his or her library, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Cosi's Trickster.

She watches the chaos created by the Roil, seeking strength in the patterns of anarchy.

Hedron Crab

Creature - Crab

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, target player puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Hedrons perplex minds both great and small.

Quest for Ancient Secrets

Enchantment

Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you may put a quest counter on Quest for Ancient Secrets.

Remove five quest counters from Quest for Ancient Secrets and sacrifice it: Target player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.

Spell Pierce

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays .

"There's a hole in your plan."
-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Bloodchief Ascension

Enchantment

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Bloodchief Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if Bloodchief Ascension has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Disfigure

Instant

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

"Brave scar or unfortunate tale? It all depends on your pain threshold."

Guul Draz Vampire

Creature - Vampire Rogue

As long as an opponent has 10 or less life, Guul Draz Vampire gets +2/+1 and has intimidate. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

"A creature's bloodscent is a beacon that cannot be disguised."

Mire Blight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature is dealt damage, destroy it.

"Is there anything in Guul Draz that doesn't suck the life out of you?"
-Tarsa, Sea Gate sell-sword

Quest for the Gravelord

Enchantment

Whenever a creature dies, you may put a quest counter on Quest for the Gravelord.

Remove three quest counters from Quest for the Gravelord and sacrifice it: Put a 5/5 black Zombie Giant creature token onto the battlefield.