Viashino Racketeer

Creature - Viashino Rogue

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

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

Viashino Outrider

Creature - Viashino

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.)

"Give thy ration to thy mount, if the road be long. So sayeth the bey."

Viashino Heretic

Creature - Viashino

, : Destroy target artifact. Viashino Heretic deals damage to that artifact's controller equal to the artifact's converted mana cost.

"The past is buried for good reason."

Viashino Grappler

Creature - Viashino

: Viashino Grappler gains trample until end of turn.

"They've returned for the mana rig, but it no longer belongs to them."
-Viashino bey

Viashino Firstblade

Creature - Viashino Soldier

Haste

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

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

Viashino Fangtail

Creature - Viashino Warrior

: Viashino Fangtail deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

"When the bony terminus gets too large, it's shed from the tail in coinciding periods of heightened aggression and hunger."
-Simic research notes

Viashino Cutthroat

Creature - Viashino

Haste

At the beginning of the end step, return Viashino Cutthroat to its owner's hand.

"You guys go on ahead. I'll catch up with ya."
-Vark, goblin scout, last words

Viashino Bladescout

Creature - Viashino Scout

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

When Viashino Bladescout enters the battlefield, target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

"Find your courage in a desperate moment, and you turn the tide of history. So sayeth the bey."

Viashino Bey

Creature - Viashino

If Viashino Bey attacks, all creatures you control attack if able.

When the bey runs, match his stride.
-Viashino saying

Vial of Poison

Artifact

, Sacrifice Vial of Poison: Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

There are worse ways to die, but not many.

Vial of Dragonfire

Artifact

, , Sacrifice Vial of Dragonfire: Vial of Dragonfire deals 2 damage to target creature.

Designed by an ancient artificer, the vials are strong enough to hold the very breath of a dragon-until it's needed.

Vhati il-Dal

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

: Target creature's power or toughness becomes 1 until end of turn.

"Sir, I just thought . . . ," explained Vhati.
"Don't think," interrupted Greven. "It doesn't suit you."

Vexing Sphinx

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

Cumulative upkeep-Discard a card. (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.)

When Vexing Sphinx dies, draw a card for each age counter on it.

Vexing Shusher

Creature - Goblin Shaman

Vexing Shusher can't be countered.

: Target spell can't be countered by spells or abilities.

The stench of bloodcap mushrooms on the breath is enough to ward off even the most potent magics, especially when combined with a special chant: "Hushhh."

Vexing Devil

Creature - Devil

When Vexing Devil enters the battlefield, any opponent may have it deal 4 damage to him or her. If a player does, sacrifice Vexing Devil.

It's not any fun until someone loses an eye.

Vexing Beetle

Creature - Insect

Vexing Beetle can't be countered.

Vexing Beetle gets +3/+3 as long as no opponent controls a creature.

As the Mirari's mutating effects grew out of control, centaurs and druids fled-but insects swarmed closer.

Vexing Arcanix

Artifact

, : Target player names a card, then reveals the top card of his or her library. If it's the named card, the player puts it into his or her hand. Otherwise, the player puts it into his or her graveyard and Vexing Arcanix deals 2 damage to him or her.

Vex

Instant

Counter target spell. That spell's controller may draw a card.

"The druids would be better off if they spent more time in the lab and less time watching trees grow."
-Pontifex, elder researcher

Veteran's Voice

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

Tap enchanted creature: Target creature other than the creature tapped this way gets +2/+1 until end of turn. Activate this ability only if enchanted creature is untapped.

"Good soldiers rely first upon their training, then upon their instincts." -King Darien of Kjeldor

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."

Veteran's Armaments

Tribal Artifact - Soldier Equipment

Equipped creature has "Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each attacking creature."

Whenever a Soldier creature enters the battlefield, you may attach Veteran's Armaments to it.

Equip

Veteran Warleader

Creature - Human Soldier Ally

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

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

Veteran Swordsmith

Creature - Human Soldier

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

"Truth is a straight, keen edge. There are no soft angles or rounded edges. To fight for truth, we must forge in steel."

Veteran of the Depths

Creature - Merfolk Soldier

Whenever Veteran of the Depths becomes tapped, you may put a +1/+1 counter on it.

In the backwaters of the Merrow Lanes lie stones scarred with tallies of countless generations, each representing a victory of merrow soldiers.

Veteran Explorer

Creature - Human Soldier Scout

When Veteran Explorer dies, each player may search his or her library for up to two basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield. Then each player who searched his or her library this way shuffles it.

Veteran Cavalier

Creature - Human Knight

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Spirit is the sword and experience the sharpening stone.
-Arabian proverb

Veteran Brawlers

Creature - Human Soldier

Veteran Brawlers can't attack if defending player controls an untapped land.

Veteran Brawlers can't block if you control an untapped land.

Death awaits them on both fronts.

Veteran Bodyguard

Creature - Human

As long as Veteran Bodyguard is untapped, all damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures is dealt to Veteran Bodyguard instead.

Good bodyguards are hard to find, mainly because they don't live long.

Veteran Armorsmith

Creature - Human Soldier

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

"Courage is a proud and gleaming shield. It does not bend or hide from sight. To fight with courage, we must forge in steel."

Veteran Armorer

Creature - Human Soldier

Other creatures you control get +0/+1.

"Give me a sword and I'll kill a few enemies. But give me a hammer and a fiery forge, and I'll turn the tide of battle."

Vesuvan Shapeshifter

Creature - Shapeshifter

As Vesuvan Shapeshifter enters the battlefield or is turned face up, you may choose another creature on the battlefield. If you do, until Vesuvan Shapeshifter is turned face down, it becomes a copy of that creature and gains "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may turn this creature face down."

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

Vesuvan Doppelganger

Creature - Shapeshifter

You may have Vesuvan Doppelganger enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield except it doesn't copy that creature's color and it gains "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have this creature become a copy of target creature except it doesn't copy that creature's color. If you do, this creature gains this ability."

Vesuva

Land

You may have Vesuva enter the battlefield tapped as a copy of any land on the battlefield.

It is everywhere you've ever been.

Vestige of Emrakul

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Trample

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

Vessel of Endless Rest

Artifact

When Vessel of Endless Rest enters the battlefield, put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Vesper Ghoul

Creature - Zombie Druid

, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

"Nature's exceptions remind us not to think in absolutes. Just as the orchid blossoms on blackened stone, so does the gift of mana occasionally manifest in the undead."
-Bougrat, druid of the Cult of Yore

Vertigo Spawn

Creature - Illusion

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Vertigo Spawn blocks a creature, tap that creature. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Vertigo

Instant

Vertigo deals 2 damage to target creature with flying. That creature loses flying until end of turn.

"I saw the wizard gesturing, but I didn't guess his plan until my aesthir cried out and went into a dive."
-Arna Kennerüd, skyknight

Vernal Equinox

Enchantment

Any player may cast creature and enchantment cards as though they had flash.

Vernal Bloom

Enchantment

Whenever a Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Spring breathes the magic of new life.

Vermiculos

Creature - Horror

Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield, Vermiculos gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Mirrodin's artificial environment requires its own predators, scavengers, and senseless forces of nature.

Verduran Enchantress

Creature - Human Druid

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may draw a card.

"Graceful? Yes. Beautiful? Absolutely. Harmless? Definitely not."
-Fyndhorn elder

Verduran Emissary

Creature - Human Wizard

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

When Verduran Emissary enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated.

Verdigris

Instant

Destroy target artifact.

"Only the most sophisticated inventions can survive nature's unsophisticated motivations."
-Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

Verdeloth the Ancient

Legendary Creature - Treefolk

Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)

Saproling creatures and other Treefolk creatures get +1/+1.

When Verdeloth the Ancient enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Verdant Touch

Sorcery

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

Target land becomes a 2/2 creature that's still a land. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Verdant Succession

Enchantment

Whenever a green nontoken creature dies, that creature's controller may search his or her library for a card with the same name as that creature and put it onto the battlefield. If that player does, he or she shuffles his or her library.

Verdant Haven

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

When Verdant Haven enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.

Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any color to his or her mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Verdant Force

Creature - Elemental

At the beginning of each upkeep, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

Left to itself, nature overflows any container, overthrows any restriction, and overreaches any boundary.

Verdant Field

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

Enchanted land has ": Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn."

Jolrael tends the land so that the land will tend the beasts.

Verdant Embrace

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has "At the beginning of each upkeep, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield."

Verdant Eidolon

Creature - Spirit

, Sacrifice Verdant Eidolon: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool.

Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, you may return Verdant Eidolon from your graveyard to your hand.

Verdant Catacombs

Land

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Verdant Catacombs: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Ventifact Bottle

Artifact

, : Put X charge counters on Ventifact Bottle. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, if Ventifact Bottle has a charge counter on it, tap it and remove all charge counters from it. Add to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way.

Vent Sentinel

Creature - Elemental

Defender

, : Vent Sentinel deals damage to target player equal to the number of creatures with defender you control.

"Zendikar fortifies itself against the Great Threat, making sentries of sky, sea, and stone."
-The War Diaries

Venser, the Sojourner

Planeswalker - Venser (Loyalty: 3)

+2: Exile target permanent you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

-1: Creatures are unblockable this turn.

-8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, exile target permanent."

Venser, Shaper Savant

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

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

When Venser, Shaper Savant enters the battlefield, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

His marvels of artifice pale in comparison to the developing machinery of his mind.

Venser's Sliver

Artifact Creature - Sliver

Venser admired his handiwork and smiled. His first prototype had joined with the hive mind all too well, running with the brood and becoming a predator itself. This one, he thought, would be accepted into the hive but still obey his commands.

Venser's Journal

Artifact

You have no maximum hand size.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

A Planeswalker's chronicle spans worlds and civilizations, each page a lifetime.

Venser's Diffusion

Instant

Return target nonland permanent or suspended card to its owner's hand.

"Each reality is but the dream of another, and each sleeper a god unknowing."

Venomspout Brackus

Creature - Beast

, : Venomspout Brackus deals 5 damage to target attacking or blocking creature with flying.

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

Venomous Vines

Sorcery

Destroy target enchanted permanent.

"True strength comes from within. The false promise of unnatural power only incurs Krosa's wrath."
-Seton, centaur druid

Venomous Fangs

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a creature, destroy the other creature.

All the pain of the shattered forest contained in a single drop.

Venomous Dragonfly

Creature - Insect

Flying

Whenever Venomous Dragonfly blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature at end of combat.

A pretty little death is still death.

Venomous Breath

Instant

Choose target creature. At end of combat, destroy all creatures that blocked or were blocked by it this turn.

Venom Sliver

Creature - Sliver

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

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

Venom

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall creature, destroy the other creature at end of combat.

"I told him it was just a flesh wound, but the next time I looked at him, poor Tadhg was dead and gone."
-Maeveen O'Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier

Vengevine

Creature - Elemental

Haste

Whenever you cast a spell, if it's the second creature spell you cast this turn, you may return Vengevine from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Leave but a shred of root and it will return, bursting with vigor.

Vengeful Vampire

Creature - Vampire

Flying

Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

He wields the full power of wrath unfettered by the sympathies of a soul.

Vengeful Rebirth

Sorcery

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. If you return a nonland card to your hand this way, Vengeful Rebirth deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to target creature or player.

Exile Vengeful Rebirth.

Vengeful Pharaoh

Creature - Zombie

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Whenever combat damage is dealt to you or a planeswalker you control, if Vengeful Pharaoh is in your graveyard, destroy target attacking creature, then put Vengeful Pharaoh on top of your library.

Vengeful Firebrand

Creature - Elemental Warrior

Vengeful Firebrand has haste as long as a Warrior card is in your graveyard.

: Vengeful Firebrand gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

The flame of a warrior is never extinguished.

Vengeful Dreams

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Vengeful Dreams, discard X cards.

Exile X target attacking creatures.

Teroh dreams of his enemies' doom.

Vengeful Dead

Creature - Zombie

Whenever Vengeful Dead or another Zombie dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Those who don't learn from their deaths are destined to repeat them.

Vengeful Archon

Creature - Archon

Flying

: Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to you this turn. If damage is prevented this way, Vengeful Archon deals that much damage to target player.

Vengeance

Sorcery

Destroy target tapped creature.

"It is the duty of the strong to oppose any who threaten the weak."
-The Southern Paladin

Venerated Teacher

Creature - Human Wizard

When Venerated Teacher enters the battlefield, put two level counters on each creature you control with level up.

"The unfathomable is upon us, students. I have no doubt you will rise to the occasion."

Venerable Monk

Creature - Human Monk Cleric

When Venerable Monk enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.

Age wears the flesh but galvanizes the soul.

Venerable Lammasu

Creature - Lammasu

Flying

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

Venerable Kumo

Creature - Spirit

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Soulshift 4 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with converted mana cost 4 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Vendilion Clique

Legendary Creature - Faerie Wizard

Flash

Flying

When Vendilion Clique enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of his or her library, then draws a card.

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

Venarian Gold

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Venarian Gold enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature and put X sleep counters on it.

Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step if it has a sleep counter on it.

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, remove a sleep counter from that creature.

Venarian Glimmer

Instant

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

Dream of nothing, and wake to a dream come true.

Veldt

Land

Veldt doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a depletion counter on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a depletion counter from Veldt.

: Add or to your mana pool. Put a depletion counter on Veldt.

Veldrane of Sengir

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

: Veldrane of Sengir gets -3/-0 and gains forestwalk until end of turn.

"Poor, foolish Veldrane. He goes wherever the Baron wills him. One day, he'll go to die."
-Halina, Dwarven Trader

Vela the Night-Clad

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Intimidate

Other creatures you control have intimidate.

Whenever Vela the Night-Clad or another creature you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Vela snuffs out every trace of Krond's reign, leaving pure nightfall in her wake.

Veinfire Borderpost

Artifact

You may pay and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay Veinfire Borderpost's mana cost.

Veinfire Borderpost enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Vein Drinker

Creature - Vampire

Flying

, : Vein Drinker deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to Vein Drinker.

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Vein Drinker this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Vein Drinker.

Veilstone Amulet

Artifact

Whenever you cast a spell, creatures you control can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn.

Sometimes it's ostentatious to go unseen.

Veiling Oddity

Creature - Illusion

Suspend 4- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

When the last time counter is removed from Veiling Oddity while it's exiled, creatures are unblockable this turn.

Veiled Serpent

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a spell, if Veiled Serpent is an enchantment, Veiled Serpent becomes a 4/4 Serpent creature that can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

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

Veiled Sentry

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a spell, if Veiled Sentry is an enchantment, Veiled Sentry becomes an Illusion creature with power and toughness each equal to that spell's converted mana cost.

Veiled Crocodile

Enchantment

When a player has no cards in hand, if Veiled Crocodile is an enchantment, Veiled Crocodile becomes a 4/4 Crocodile creature.

Some roads are paved with bad intentions.

Veiled Apparition

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a spell, if Veiled Apparition is an enchantment, Veiled Apparition becomes a 3/3 Illusion creature with flying and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Veiled Apparition unless you pay ."

Veilborn Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

Veilborn Ghoul can't block.

Whenever a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, you may return Veilborn Ghoul from your graveyard to your hand.

Liliana's voice carries far, reaching beyond the cold pall of death.

Veil of Secrecy

Instant - Arcane

Target creature gains shroud until end of turn and is unblockable this turn.

Splice onto Arcane-Return a blue creature you control to its owner's hand. (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.)

Veil of Birds

Enchantment

When an opponent casts a spell, if Veil of Birds is an enchantment, Veil of Birds becomes a 1/1 Bird creature with flying.

When wind marries sky, even the bride's veil sings her praises.

Vedalken Shackles

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Vedalken Shackles during your untap step.

, : Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of Islands you control for as long as Vedalken Shackles remains tapped.

Vedalken Plotter

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

When Vedalken Plotter enters the battlefield, exchange control of target land you control and target land an opponent controls.

"Fair? At what point in our negotiations did you convince yourself my goal was to be fair?"