Bant Sojourners

Creature - Human Soldier

When you cycle Bant Sojourners or it dies, you may put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"We must spread Bant's light before we are shadowed over."

Bant Sureblade

Creature - Human Soldier

As long as you control another multicolored permanent, Bant Sureblade gets +1/+1 and has first strike.

Soldiers who fought through Grixis learned to hit first, recite the prayer of Asha later.

Bar the Door

Instant

Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.

"It may not look like much, but it's a good old door with strong wards. It'll hold."
-Olgard of the Skiltfolk

Barbarian Bully

Creature - Human Barbarian

Discard a card at random: Barbarian Bully gets +2/+2 until end of turn unless a player has Barbarian Bully deal 4 damage to him or her. Activate this ability only once each turn.

"Out of my way"

Barbarian Guides

Creature - Human Barbarian

, : Choose a land type. Target creature you control gains snow landwalk of the chosen type until end of turn. Return that creature to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Barbarian Lunatic

Creature - Human Barbarian

, Sacrifice Barbarian Lunatic: Barbarian Lunatic deals 2 damage to target creature.

"I once saw a single barbarian charge a band of twenty nomads. I've seen some crazy ones, too."
-Nomad sentry

Barbarian Outcast

Creature - Human Barbarian Beast

When you control no Swamps, sacrifice Barbarian Outcast.

"We offer power to anyone willing to take it. Sadly, few are unburdened enough by their prejudices to accept."
-Cabal surgeon

Barbarian Riftcutter

Creature - Human Barbarian

, Sacrifice Barbarian Riftcutter: Destroy target land.

"Riftcutters are suicidal anarchists, waving those lightning axes around so much that the walls are as likely to fall as their foes."
-Heruj, Selesnya initiate

Barbarian Ring

Land

: Add to your mana pool. Barbarian Ring deals 1 damage to you.

Threshold - , , Sacrifice Barbarian Ring: Barbarian Ring deals 2 damage to target creature or player. Activate this ability only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Barbary Apes

Creature - Ape

Unpredictable in the extreme, these carnivorous apes will prey even upon their own kind.

Barbed Battlegear

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/-1.

Equip

"One need only look at the inhabitants of this world to see that they are forged halfway to perfection. All they need is a whisper of the Glorious Word."
-Urabrask the Hidden

Barbed Field

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ": This land deals 1 damage to target creature or player."

Wherever they went, the Keldons transformed the land into a weapon.

Barbed Foliage

Enchantment

Whenever a creature attacks you, it loses flanking until end of turn.

Whenever a creature without flying attacks you, Barbed Foliage deals 1 damage to it.

Barbed Lightning

Instant

Choose one - Barbed Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature; or Barbed Lightning deals 3 damage to target player.

Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Every creature on Mirrodin is a lightning rod.

Barbed Sextant

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Barbed Sextant: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Barbed Shocker

Creature - Insect

Trample, haste

Whenever Barbed Shocker deals damage to a player, that player discards all the cards in his or her hand, then draws that many cards.

Fervid shamans willingly submit to shockers in hopes of glimpsing the fortunes of the future.

Barbed Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have ": This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Spans of spines leapt from one sliver to the next, forming a deadly hedge around the Weatherlight.

Barbed Wire

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Barbed Wire deals 1 damage to that player.

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt by Barbed Wire this turn.

A steel snake with ten thousand teeth.

Barbed-Back Wurm

Creature - Wurm

: Target green creature blocking Barbed-Back Wurm gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"The Mwonvuli Jungle has given the darkness teeth for tearing the gift of life from the weak."
-Jolrael

Bargaining Table

Artifact

, : Draw a card. X is the number of cards in an opponent's hand.

Although it looks like a game, business around the table is deadly serious.

Barishi

Creature - Elemental

When Barishi dies, exile Barishi, then shuffle all creature cards from your graveyard into your library.

Barkhide Mauler

Creature - Beast

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Anywhere else they would be hunted for their skins, but in Wirewood, they are safe.

Barkshell Blessing

Instant

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

Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)

Barktooth Warbeard

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

He is devious and cunning, in both appearance and deed. Beware the Warbeard, for this brute bites as well as he barks!

Barl's Cage

Artifact

: Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

For a dozen years the cage had held Lord Ith, but as the Pretender Mairsil's power weakened, so did the bars.

Baron Sengir

Legendary Creature - Vampire

Flying

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Baron Sengir this turn dies, put a +2/+2 counter on Baron Sengir.

: Regenerate another target Vampire.

"Beast. Defiler. The source of all my pain." -Ihsan's Shade

Barony Vampire

Creature - Vampire

"Poor little sun-dweller out past curfew. And to think, you might have survived if it wasn't so close to suppertime."

Barrage of Boulders

Sorcery

Barrage of Boulders deals 1 damage to each creature you don't control.

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, creatures can't block this turn.

Crude tactics can be effective nonetheless.

Barrage of Expendables

Enchantment

, Sacrifice a creature: Barrage of Expendables deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Goblin generals don't distinguish between troops and ammunition.

Barrage Ogre

Creature - Ogre Warrior

, Sacrifice an artifact: Barrage Ogre deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

The elves had devised countless strategies to combat Memnarch's war machines, but they had no idea what to do when one was thrown at them.

Barrage Tyrant

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

, Sacrifice another colorless creature: Barrage Tyrant deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target creature or player.

Terrible fury. Excellent aim.

Barrel Down Sokenzan

Instant - Arcane

Sweep - Return any number of Mountains you control to their owner's hand. Barrel Down Sokenzan deals damage to target creature equal to twice the number of Mountains returned this way.

Barreling Attack

Instant

Target creature gains trample until end of turn. When that creature becomes blocked this turn, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

"The trollish game of push-fall inspired this impressive tactic."
-Sidar Jabari

Barren Glory

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control no permanents other than Barren Glory and have no cards in hand, you win the game.

"The only perfect world is an empty world, with no one to sin or wage war."
-Tarran, magus of the disk

Barren Moor

Land

Barren Moor enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add to your mana pool.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Barrenton Cragtreads

Creature - Kithkin Scout

Barrenton Cragtreads can't be blocked by red creatures.

"Boggarts are easy to get around. Just toss some mutton in another direction. Giants are a little harder. You have to be quick to avoid their steps. Cinders are the difficult ones, but even they have fears to be exploited."

Barrenton Medic

Creature - Kithkin Cleric

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Put a -1/-1 counter on Barrenton Medic: Untap Barrenton Medic.

His dreams are filled with noxious powders and clinking vials.

Barrin's Codex

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a page counter on Barrin's Codex.

, , Sacrifice Barrin's Codex: Draw X cards, where X is the number of page counters on Barrin's Codex.

Barrin's Spite

Sorcery

Choose two target creatures controlled by the same player. Their controller chooses and sacrifices one of them. Return the other to its owner's hand.

"Only vengeance matters now."
-Barrin

Barrin's Unmaking

Instant

Return target permanent to its owner's hand if that permanent shares a color with the most common color among all permanents or a color tied for most common.

Barrin, Master Wizard

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

, Sacrifice a permanent: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

"Knowledge is no more expensive than ignorance, and at least as satisfying."
-Barrin, master wizard

Barrow Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Barrow Ghoul unless you exile the top creature card of your graveyard.

"They killed my family to deny me a future. They fed on my ancestors to deny me a past."
-Crovax

Bartel Runeaxe

Legendary Creature - Giant Warrior

Vigilance

Bartel Runeaxe can't be the target of Aura spells.

Thundering down from Hammerheim, no foe could slow Bartel's charge.

Barter in Blood

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices two creatures.

"We must all make sacrifices for the good of Innistrad."
-Sorin Markov

Baru, Fist of Krosa

Legendary Creature - Human Druid

Whenever a Forest enters the battlefield, green creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn.

Grandeur - Discard another card named Baru, Fist of Krosa: Put an X/X green Wurm creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the number of lands you control.

Basal Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Slivers have "Sacrifice this permanent: Add to your mana pool."

"Fascinating . . . These creatures display the paradox of tenacity and purposed self-destruction I have sought to breed into my thrulls."
-Endrek Sahr, master breeder

Basal Thrull

Creature - Thrull

, Sacrifice Basal Thrull: Add to your mana pool.

Initially bred for sacrifice, the Thrulls eventually turned on their masters, the Order of the Ebon Hand, with gruesome results.
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. II

Basalt Gargoyle

Creature - Gargoyle

Flying

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

: Basalt Gargoyle gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Basalt Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Basalt Golem can't be blocked by artifact creatures.

Whenever Basalt Golem becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller sacrifices it at end of combat. If the player does, he or she puts a 0/2 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender onto the battlefield.

Basalt Monolith

Artifact

Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.

: Add to your mana pool.

: Untap Basalt Monolith.

Basandra, Battle Seraph

Legendary Creature - Angel

Flying

Players can't cast spells during combat.

: Target creature attacks this turn if able.

"Why listen to the mumblings of wizards when the lash speaks true?"

Bash to Bits

Instant

Destroy target artifact.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Basilica Guards

Creature - Human Soldier

Defender

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

"None may pass . . . for free."

Basilica Screecher

Creature - Bat

Flying

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

A screech in the night is all it takes for Orzhov debtors to clutch at their coin purses.

Basilisk Collar

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink.

Equip

During their endless travels, the mages of the Goma Fada caravan have learned ways to harness both life and death.

Basiliza Screecher

Basking Rootwalla

Creature - Lizard

: Basking Rootwalla gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Madness (If you discard this card, you may cast it for its madness cost instead of putting it into your graveyard.)

Bassara Tower Archer

Creature - Human Archer

Hexproof, reach

Setessan warriors of Bassara Tower are known for their guerrilla tactics and skill with the bow. Interlopers into the Nessian Wood do not get far.

Bathe in Dragonfire

Sorcery

Bathe in Dragonfire deals 4 damage to target creature.

The scent of cooked flesh lingers in the charred landscape of Tarkir.

Bathe in Light

Instant

Radiance - Choose a color. Target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.

"Truth shines even in darkness. Those who march on the side of truth walk always in righteous light."

Baton of Courage

Artifact

Flash

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

Remove a charge counter from Baton of Courage: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Baton of Morale

Artifact

: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"The Goblins would kill to get ahold of this one."
-Arcum Dagsson,
Soldevi Machinist

Battered Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

Battered Golem doesn't untap during your untap step.

Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield, you may untap Battered Golem.

A dent marks every year of service, and it has as much rust as glory.

Batterhorn

Creature - Beast

When Batterhorn enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact.

Novice shopkeeps spend hours deciding how best to display their wares. Veterans focus on portability.

Battering Craghorn

Creature - Goat Beast

First strike

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

Their skeletons can be found all over Skirk Ridge, tangled in each other's horns.

Battering Krasis

Creature - Fish Beast

Trample

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Battering Ram

Artifact Creature - Construct

At the beginning of combat on your turn, Battering Ram gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.)

Whenever Battering Ram becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

Battering Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have trample.

Covered with hard shell-like plates, these slivers burrow through solid rock to carve out new nests for their hives.

Battering Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Bloodthirst 1 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creatures with power less than Battering Wurm's power can't block it.

Batterskull

Artifact - Equipment

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, put a 0/0 black Germ creature token onto the battlefield, then attach this to it.)

Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink.

: Return Batterskull to its owner's hand.

Equip

Battle Brawler

Creature - Orc Warrior

As long as you control a red or white permanent, Battle Brawler gets +1/+0 and has first strike.

Every time he returns from battle unscathed, he feels a tinge of disappointment.

Battle Cry

Instant

Untap all white creatures you control.

Whenever a creature blocks this turn, it gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"In the thick of battle, you must keep your wits about you. Yelling a lot helps, too."
-General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Battle Frenzy

Instant

Green creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Nongreen creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

"One day you, too, shall drink the blood of your foes. It is something to look forward to."
-Toothlicker Harj, Orcish Captain

Battle Hurda

Creature - Giant

First strike

"Murasan hurdas were too aggressive to tolerate a harness, so we put them on guard duty. Now the bandits can't get within spitting distance of us."
-Bruse Tarl, Goma Fada nomad

Battle Hymn

Instant

Add to your mana pool for each creature you control.

"A church is just wood and walls. A congregation is the faithful praising the angels."
-Kolman, elder of Gatstaf

Battle Mastery

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

"Boom Boom Boots the size of oxcarts, then an axe like a falling sun. Elves scattered. Trees scattered. Even the hills ran for the hills"
-Clachan Tales

Battle of Wits

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 200 or more cards in your library, you win the game.

There is no loftier ambition than the pursuit of knowledge.

Battle Rampart

Creature - Wall

Defender

: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

"I will build no sanctuaries. The safety you seek can be won only by the sword."
-Yannash, outpost builder

Battle Screech

Sorcery

Put two 1/1 white Bird creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

Flashback-Tap three untapped white creatures you control. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Battle Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control get +2/+0.

"One emitted a strange series of buzzing clicks and guttural commands, then clawed arms emerged from all of them. Is there no limit to their adaptations?"-Hastric, Thunian scout

Battle Squadron

Creature - Goblin

Flying

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

The goblins made an unruly pile with military precision.

Battle Strain

Enchantment

Whenever a creature blocks, Battle Strain deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.

The pits swallow the weak as predators swallow prey.

Battle-Mad Ronin

Creature - Human Samurai

Bushido 2 (When this blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.)

Battle-Mad Ronin attacks each turn if able.

"I fought fiercely, bravely, and without mercy. Had I not struck down my captain in the heat of battle, I might have become a hero instead of an outcast."

Battle-Rattle Shaman

Creature - Goblin Shaman

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have target creature get +2/+0 until end of turn.

The shaman rattles not to inspire a battle fury but to drown out the shrieks of those fleeing the Eldrazi.

Battlefield Forge

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

: Add or to your mana pool. Battlefield Forge deals 1 damage to you.

Battlefield Medic

Creature - Human Cleric

: Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn, where X is the number of Clerics on the battlefield.

"Death never stops to rest. Neither can we."

Battlefield Percher

Creature - Bird

Flying

Battlefield Percher can block only creatures with flying.

: Battlefield Percher gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Battlefield Scrounger

Creature - Centaur

Threshold - Put three cards from your graveyard on the bottom of your library: Battlefield Scrounger gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn, and only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Battlefield Thaumaturge

Creature - Human Wizard

Each instant and sorcery spell you cast costs less to cast for each creature it targets.

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Battlefield Thaumaturge, Battlefield Thaumaturge gains hexproof until end of turn.

Battleflight Eagle

Creature - Bird

Flying

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

Eagles make fine mounts, but they're too proud to carry anyone for long.

Battlefront Krushok

Creature - Beast

Battlefront Krushok can't be blocked by more than one creature.

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it can't be blocked by more than one creature.

Krushoks clear debris from fertile fields, fallow fields, and battlefields.

Battlegate Mimic

Creature - Shapeshifter

Whenever you cast a spell that's both red and white, Battlegate Mimic becomes 4/2 and gains first strike until end of turn.

Mimics don't need perfect disguises. They need only the perfect victims: the naive, the young, or the poor of sight.

Battlegrace Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

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

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Battleground Geist

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Other Spirit creatures you control get +1/+0.

Not content to nudge vases and chill drawing rooms, some geists muster spectral armies to claw at the hearts of the living.

Battlegrowth

Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Battletide Alchemist

Creature - Kithkin Cleric

If a source would deal damage to a player, you may prevent X of that damage, where X is the number of Clerics you control.

"I do not heal. Healing means that the pain has already been felt. To stop suffering, one must prevent the world's wounds altogether."

Battlewand Oak

Creature - Treefolk Warrior

Whenever a Forest enters the battlefield under your control, Battlewand Oak gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Whenever you cast a Treefolk spell, Battlewand Oak gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Battlewise Aven

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

Threshold - As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Battlewise Aven gets +1/+1 and has first strike.

Experience is a good teacher, not a kind one.

Battlewise Hoplite

Creature - Human Soldier

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Battlewise Hoplite, put a +1/+1 counter on Battlewise Hoplite, then scry 1. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Battlewise Valor

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

It's never good to walk into an ambush, but with the right spell you might walk out again.