Axebane Guardian

Creature - Human Druid

Defender

: Add X mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool, where X is the number of creatures with defender you control.

Only a worthy few are permitted within the sentient forest known as Axebane.

Axebane Stag

Creature - Elk

"When the spires have burned and the cobblestones are dust, he will take his rightful place as king of the wilds."
-Kirce, Axebane guardian

Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim

Legendary Creature - Kor Cleric

Deathtouch

, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

, Sacrifice another creature: Exile target nonland permanent. Activate this ability only if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total.

Azami, Lady of Scrolls

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Draw a card.

"Choices belong to those with the luxuries of time and distance. We have neither. I recommend we proceed with the plan to destroy all shrines of the kami."
-Lady Azami, letter to Sensei Hisoka

Azor's Elocutors

Creature - Human Advisor

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a filibuster counter on Azor's Elocutors. Then if Azor's Elocutors has five or more filibuster counters on it, you win the game.

Whenever a source deals damage to you, remove a filibuster counter from Azor's Elocutors.

Azorius Arrester

Creature - Human Soldier

When Azorius Arrester enters the battlefield, detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

"You have the right to remain silent. Mostly because I tire of your excuses."

Azorius Chancery

Land

Azorius Chancery enters the battlefield tapped.

When Azorius Chancery enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add to your mana pool.

Azorius Charm

Instant

Choose one - Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn; or draw a card; or put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

"The rules of logic and order have already made the choice for you."
-Isperia

Azorius Cluestone

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Azorius Cluestone: Draw a card.

Its three sides represent the Sova, judges and arbitrators; the Jelenn, scribes and elocutors; and the Lyev, lawmages and enforcers.

Azorius Guildgate

Land - Gate

Azorius Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Enter the Senate, the seat of justice and the foundation of Ravnican society.

Azorius Guildmage

Creature - Vedalken Wizard

: Tap target creature.

: Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Azorius Herald

Creature - Spirit

Azorius Herald can't be blocked.

When Azorius Herald enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life.

When Azorius Herald enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless was spent to cast it.

"As peace should be-gentle yet unstoppable."
-Augustin IV

Azorius Justiciar

Creature - Human Wizard

When Azorius Justiciar enters the battlefield, detain up to two target creatures your opponents control. (Until your next turn, those creatures can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)

"Your potential to commit a crime warrants further investigation."

Azorius Keyrune

Artifact

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Azorius Keyrune becomes a 2/2 white and blue Bird artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

"The higher the mind soars, the greater its understanding of the law."
-Isperia

Azure Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

More so than "storm" or "pirate," "drake" is the word a sailor least wants to hear.

Azure Mage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Draw a card.

"We draw our power from the infinite ocean of the mind, where all manner of things can be conceived."
-Azure creed

Æther Adept

Creature - Human Wizard

When Æther Adept enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand.

"The universe is my instrument, and the song I play upon it is one you are forbidden to hear."

Æther Figment

Creature - Illusion

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

Æther Figment is unblockable.

If Æther Figment was kicked, it enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Æther Gale

Sorcery

Return six target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

The militia formed up in the central plaza awaiting the onslaught, but the giants never quite made it.

Æther Searcher

Artifact Creature - Construct

Reveal Æther Searcher as you draft it. Reveal the next card you draft and note its name.

When Æther Searcher enters the battlefield, you may search your hand and/or library for a card with a name noted as you drafted cards named Æther Searcher. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you searched your library this way, shuffle it.

Æther Snap

Sorcery

Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.

"May you wake to find you were only ever a dream."
-Mephidross curse

Æther Spellbomb

Artifact

, Sacrifice Æther Spellbomb: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

, Sacrifice Æther Spellbomb: Draw a card.

Æther Tradewinds

Instant

Return target permanent you control and target permanent you don't control to their owners' hands.

"The wind smells of misfortune. Check your knots."
-Anitan, Ondu cleric

Æther Vial

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Æther Vial.

: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Æther Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.

Ætherize

Instant

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

"You can come back once you've learned some manners-and figured out how to reconstitute your physical forms."

Ætherling

Creature - Shapeshifter

: Exile Ætherling. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

: Ætherling can't be blocked this turn.

: Ætherling gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

: Ætherling gets -1/+1 until end of turn.

Æthermage's Touch

Instant

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. It has "At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to its owner's hand." Then put the rest of the cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Æthersnipe

Creature - Elemental

When Æthersnipe enters the battlefield, return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Ætherspouts

Instant

For each attacking creature, its owner puts it on the top or bottom of his or her library.

"Don't worry, there's plenty for everyone."
-Vickon, Eleventh Company battlemage

Back from the Brink

Enchantment

Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of that card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

On Innistrad, death is just a career change.

Back to Nature

Instant

Destroy all enchantments.

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

Backup Plan

Conspiracy

(Start the game with this conspiracy face up in the command zone.)

Draw an additional hand of seven cards as the game begins. Before taking mulligans, shuffle all but one of your hands into your library.

"In the market for an alternative, friend?"

Bad Moon

Enchantment

Black creatures get +1/+1.

Bala Ged Scorpion

Creature - Scorpion

When Bala Ged Scorpion enters the battlefield, you may destroy target creature with power 1 or less.

Fast and lethal, with a penchant for the weak and infirm.

Bala Ged Thief

Creature - Human Rogue Ally

Whenever Bala Ged Thief or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, target player reveals a number of cards from his or her hand equal to the number of Allies you control. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.

Balefire Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

Whenever Balefire Dragon deals combat damage to a player, it deals that much damage to each creature that player controls.

If it comes for you, die boldly or die swiftly-for die you will.

Baleful Eidolon

Enchantment Creature - Spirit

Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)

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

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch.

Baleful Force

Creature - Elemental

At the beginning of each upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

"As with any malevolent being, the trick is knowing how long you can afford to keep it in your service."-Liliana Vess

Baleful Strix

Artifact Creature - Bird

Flying, deathtouch

When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Its beak rends flesh and bone, exposing the tender marrow of dream.

Ball Lightning

Creature - Elemental

Trample (If this creature would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.)

Haste (This creature can attack and as soon as it comes under your control.)

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Ball Lightning.