Decorated Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

: Prevent the next 1 combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

The awards and medals of polis-dwellers mean nothing to griffins, but they repay acts of generosity.

Deep-Sea Kraken

Creature - Kraken

Deep-Sea Kraken can't be blocked.

Suspend 9- (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with nine 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.)

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if Deep-Sea Kraken is suspended, remove a time counter from it.

The rift remained open for days, sluicing ancient seawater. It closed only after the last great tentacle squirmed its way through.

Deep-Slumber Titan

Creature - Giant Warrior

Deep-Slumber Titan enters the battlefield tapped.

Deep-Slumber Titan doesn't untap during your untap step.

Whenever Deep-Slumber Titan is dealt damage, untap it.

Do not disturb.

Deepcavern Imp

Creature - Imp Rebel

Flying, haste

Echo-Discard a card. (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.)

Deepchannel Mentor

Creature - Merfolk Rogue

Blue creatures you control are unblockable.

The rivers can no longer provide safe passage for travelers and commerce. They serve only as highways for raiders and channels for blood and woe.

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.)

Deepfire Elemental

Creature - Elemental

: Destroy target artifact or creature with converted mana cost X.

"There are deep, deep places in this world that have long burned hot with little regard for the whitening of the earth's thin skin."
-Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper

Deeptread Merrow

Creature - Merfolk Rogue

: Deeptread Merrow gains islandwalk until end of turn.

"My success at navigating the Dark Meanders irritates the Inkfathom school. They consider themselves peerless divers, but I try to remind them that they cannot own commodities like bravery and cunning."

Deepwater Hypnotist

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

Inspired - Whenever Deepwater Hypnotist becomes untapped, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-0 until end of turn.

"Watch the waves too long, and you may never look away."
-Meletian proverb

Deepwood Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

Pay 2 life: Regenerate Deepwood Ghoul.

They feed on the living to stay undead.

Defiant Bloodlord

Creature - Vampire

Flying

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

"Despite their bravado, mortals are fragile. If Zendikar is to endure, its lords must save it."-Drana, Kalastria bloodchief

Defiant Ogre

Creature - Ogre Warrior

When Defiant Ogre enters the battlefield, choose one -

• Put a +1/+1 counter on Defiant Ogre.

• Destroy target artifact.

"I have no clan, but I still have purpose."

Defiant Vanguard

Creature - Human Rebel

When Defiant Vanguard blocks, at end of combat, destroy it and all creatures it blocked this turn.

, : Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with converted mana cost 4 or less and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

Defiler of Souls

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a monocolored creature.

"Stray not into sin, lest you face the doorman of an insatiable tomb."
-Prayer of Asha

Deft Duelist

Creature - Human Rogue

First strike

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Some Serul Cove rogues traffic in stolen sigils, which fetch a high price from those who would rather pay for honor than earn it.

Deity of Scars

Creature - Spirit Avatar

Trample

Deity of Scars enters the battlefield with two -1/-1 counters on it.

, Remove a -1/-1 counter from Deity of Scars: Regenerate Deity of Scars.

"His skin cuts swords."
-The Seer's Parables

Delver of Secrets

Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card. If an instant or sorcery card is revealed this way, transform Delver of Secrets.

Dementia Bat

Creature - Bat

Flying

, Sacrifice Dementia Bat: Target player discards two cards.

"When terror outweighs all other thoughts, they will understand that I am the true Father of Machines."
-Azax-Azog, the Demon Thane

Dementia Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Slivers have ": Name a card. Target opponent reveals a card at random from his or her hand. If it's the named card, that player discards it. Activate this ability only during your turn."

Demigod of Revenge

Creature - Spirit Avatar

Flying, haste

When you cast Demigod of Revenge, return all cards named Demigod of Revenge from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"His laugh, a bellowing, deathly din, slices through the heavens, making them bleed."
-The Seer's Parables

Demon of Death's Gate

Creature - Demon

You may pay 6 life and sacrifice three black creatures rather than pay Demon of Death's Gate's mana cost.

Flying, trample

The locks on the cages of the damned are opened with keys of marrow, sinew, and blood.

Demon of Wailing Agonies

Creature - Demon

Flying

Lieutenant - As long as you control your commander, Demon of Wailing Agonies gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever Demon of Wailing Agonies deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a creature."

Demon's Herald

Creature - Human Wizard

, , Sacrifice a blue creature, a black creature, and a red creature: Search your library for a card named Prince of Thralls and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

"May these deaths be the first of many."

Demon's Jester

Creature - Imp

Flying

Hellbent - Demon's Jester gets +2/+1 as long as you have no cards in hand.

They knock 'em dead, with or without the punch line.

Demonic Taskmaster

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than Demonic Taskmaster.

Subservience to greater power is the only law in the pit.

Demonlord of Ashmouth

Creature - Demon

Flying

When Demonlord of Ashmouth enters the battlefield, exile it unless you sacrifice another creature.

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.)

Den Protector

Creature - Human Warrior

Creatures with power less than Den Protector's power can't block it.

Megamorph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

When Den Protector is turned face up, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Denizen of the Deep

Creature - Serpent

When Denizen of the Deep enters the battlefield, return each other creature you control to its owner's hand.

According to merfolk legend, a denizen of the deep swallows the horizon at the end of each day, bringing on the cold blanket of night.

Deputy of Acquittals

Creature - Human Wizard

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

When Deputy of Acquittals enters the battlefield, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

"Everyone deserves a day in court."

Deranged Assistant

Creature - Human Wizard

, Put the top card of your library into your graveyard: Add to your mana pool.

"Garl, adjust the slurry dispensers. Garl, fetch more corpses. Garl, quit crying and give me your brain tissue. If he doesn't stop being so rude, I'm quitting."

Deranged Outcast

Creature - Human Rogue

, Sacrifice a Human: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Cast out by his village, he now takes grim offense at refugees who seek shelter in his forest.

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Legendary Creature - Bird Wizard

FlyingWhenever Derevi, Empyrial Tactician enters the battlefield or a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may tap or untap target permanent.: Put Derevi onto the battlefield from the command zone.

Descendant of Kiyomaro

Creature - Human Soldier

As long as you have more cards in hand than each opponent, Descendant of Kiyomaro gets +1/+2 and has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage, you gain 3 life."

"The blood of Kiyomaro flows in my veins. He did not let Eiganjo fall and neither shall I."

Descendant of Masumaro

Creature - Human Monk

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on Descendant of Masumaro for each card in your hand, then remove a +1/+1 counter from Descendant of Masumaro for each card in target opponent's hand.

Descendant of Soramaro

Creature - Human Wizard

: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of cards in your hand, then put them back in any order.

"Soramaro speaks through me. Listen! And I will tell the wisdom of the ancestors."

Desecration Demon

Creature - Demon

Flying

At the beginning of each combat, any opponent may sacrifice a creature. If a player does, tap Desecration Demon and put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Desecration Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Whenever a player casts a spell, sacrifice a creature.

Its precious corpses dance like puppets to attract mindless nim prey.

Desecrator Hag

Creature - Hag

When Desecrator Hag enters the battlefield, return to your hand the creature card in your graveyard with the greatest power. If two or more cards are tied for greatest power, you choose one of them.

Loose earth is not a burial but an appetizer.

Desolation Giant

Creature - Giant

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

When Desolation Giant enters the battlefield, destroy all other creatures you control. If it was kicked, destroy all other creatures instead.

Desolation Twin

Creature - Eldrazi

When you cast Desolation Twin, put a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token onto the battlefield.

"With precise coordination and enough blood spilled, one can be driven off, even brought down. But two . . . that's a lot of blood."-Munda, ambush leader

Destructor Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Destructor Dragon dies, destroy target noncreature permanent.

After countless attacks on the Salt Road where it passes through the frozen tundra, the Abzan began to refer to the area as Atarka territory rather than Temur lands.

Detritivore

Creature - Lhurgoyf

Detritivore's power and toughness are each equal to the number of nonbasic land cards in your opponents' graveyards.

Suspend X-. X can't be 0. (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with X 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.)

Whenever a time counter is removed from Detritivore while it's exiled, destroy target nonbasic land.

Deus of Calamity

Creature - Spirit Avatar

Trample

Whenever Deus of Calamity deals 6 or more damage to an opponent, destroy target land that player controls.

"He bears the marks of ages upon his skin, memories of dreams long dead and best left buried."
-The Seer's Parables

Devoted Druid

Creature - Elf Druid

: Add to your mana pool.

Put a -1/-1 counter on Devoted Druid: Untap Devoted Druid.

"Mana lurks in all things, even in the depths of one's own heart."

Devoted Retainer

Creature - Human Samurai

Bushido 1 (When this blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Deep within Eiganjo Castle lay the Palace of Infinite Halls, a seemingly endless network of corridors once guarded by a seemingly endless legion of samurai.

Devouring Swarm

Creature - Insect

Flying

Sacrifice a creature: Devouring Swarm gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Their arrival is heralded by the deafening hum of ten thousand wings. Their departure is marked by the silence of the dead.

Devout Chaplain

Creature - Human Cleric

, Tap two untapped Humans you control: Exile target artifact or enchantment.

"By Avacyn's decree, we shall cleanse these relics of their demonic past."

Devout Lightcaster

Creature - Kor Cleric

Protection from black

When Devout Lightcaster enters the battlefield, exile target black permanent.

"Goddess, grant us light to banish the world's shadows."
-Prayer to Kamsa

Dewdrop Spy

Creature - Faerie Rogue

Flash

Flying

When Dewdrop Spy enters the battlefield, look at the top card of target player's library.

Only in dew from Oona herself is there clarity enough to see a victim's mind.

Diaochan, Artful Beauty

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

: Destroy target creature of your choice, then destroy target creature of an opponent's choice. Activate this ability only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Diffusion Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Whenever a Sliver creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays .

"The hive shimmered, and its walls seemed a living mirror."
-Hastric, Thunian scout

Diluvian Primordial

Creature - Avatar

Flying

When Diluvian Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a card cast this way would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead.

Dimensional Infiltrator

Creature - Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Flash

Flying

{C}: Target opponent exiles the top card of his or her library. If it's a land card, you may return Dimensional Infiltrator to its owner's hand. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Dimir Cutpurse

Creature - Spirit

Whenever Dimir Cutpurse deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you draw a card.

Other guilds demand tolls from those who travel their territories, but not House Dimir. It takes its share secretly, one coin purse at a time.

Dimir Doppelganger

Creature - Shapeshifter

: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Dimir Doppelganger becomes a copy of that card and gains this ability.

"Fear not. Your life will not go unlived."

Dimir Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

( can be paid with either or .)

: Target player draws a card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

: Target player discards a card. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Dimir House Guard

Creature - Skeleton

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate Dimir House Guard.

Transmute (, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same converted mana cost as this card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Dimir Infiltrator

Creature - Spirit

Dimir Infiltrator is unblockable.

Transmute (, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same converted mana cost as this card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Dinrova Horror

Creature - Horror

When Dinrova Horror enters the battlefield, return target permanent to its owner's hand, then that player discards a card.

"Welcome to the Dimir Public Offices. Not responsible for death or loss of property. Basement off-limits."
-Sign outside Dinrova Building

Diregraf Captain

Creature - Zombie Soldier

Deathtouch

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.

Whenever another Zombie you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life.

Though its mind has long since rotted away, it wields a sword with deadly skill.

Diregraf Escort

Creature - Human Cleric

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)

As long as Diregraf Escort is paired with another creature, both creatures have protection from Zombies.

Diregraf Ghoul

Creature - Zombie

Diregraf Ghoul enters the battlefield tapped.

"At least this one still has arms and legs. Well, most of its legs."
-Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Dirgur Nemesis

Creature - Serpent

Defender

Megamorph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Disciple of Bolas

Creature - Human Wizard

When Disciple of Bolas enters the battlefield, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

"Lord Bolas has shown me how each miserable little life holds untold resources."

Disciple of Deceit

Creature - Human Rogue

Inspired - Whenever Disciple of Deceit becomes untapped, you may discard a nonland card. If you do, search your library for a card with the same converted mana cost as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Disciple of Griselbrand

Creature - Human Cleric

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

The demon Griselbrand dared to stand against Avacyn, earning him the loathing of thousands and the admiration of a few.

Disciple of Phenax

Creature - Human Cleric

When Disciple of Phenax enters the battlefield, target player reveals a number of cards from his or her hand equal to your devotion to black. You choose one of them. That player discards that card. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Disciple of Tevesh Szat

Creature - Human Cleric

: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

, , Sacrifice Disciple of Tevesh Szat: Target creature gets -6/-6 until end of turn.

"You pray to Freyalise, but she cannot hear your pleas. It is Tevesh Szat who will claim your soul."

Disciple of the Old Ways

Creature - Human Warrior

: Disciple of the Old Ways gains first strike until end of turn.

"Selesnya thinks nature is a pretty plaything. True nature would rip their faces off and wear their skins as trophies."

Disciple of the Vault

Creature - Human Cleric

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may have target opponent lose 1 life.

He stands in the shadow of his lord, Geth, drinking in the dark energies of the Vault.

Disowned Ancestor

Creature - Spirit Warrior

Outlast (, : Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)

Long after death, the spirits of the Disowned continue to seek redemption among their Abzan kin.

Divebomber Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

, Sacrifice Divebomber Griffin: Divebomber Griffin deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Justice flies swiftly on angry wings.

Diviner Spirit

Creature - Spirit

Whenever Diviner Spirit deals combat damage to a player, you and that player each draw that many cards.

Sentience is its natural habitat.

Diving Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying, vigilance

To outrace the griffin
-Kipamu expression meaning
"to do the impossible"

Divinity of Pride

Creature - Spirit Avatar

Flying, lifelink

Divinity of Pride gets +4/+4 as long as you have 25 or more life.

"She spoke of mystery and portent, of such unfathomable things that my mind screamed for pity."
-The Seer's Parables

Djinn Illuminatus

Creature - Djinn

( can be paid with either or .)

Flying

Each instant and sorcery spell you cast has replicate. The replicate cost is equal to its mana cost. (When you cast it, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Djinn of Infinite Deceits

Creature - Djinn

Flying: Exchange control of two target nonlegendary creatures. You can't activate this ability during combat.

The winds of change have a mind of their own.

Djinn of Wishes

Creature - Djinn

Flying

Djinn of Wishes enters the battlefield with three wish counters on it.

, Remove a wish counter from Djinn of Wishes: Reveal the top card of your library. You may play that card without paying its mana cost. If you don't, exile it.

Dodecapod

Artifact Creature - Golem

If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Dodecapod, put it onto the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it instead of putting it into your graveyard.

Dominator Drone

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of his or her library.)

When Dominator Drone enters the battlefield, if you control another colorless creature, each opponent loses 2 life.

Dominus of Fealty

Creature - Spirit Avatar

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may gain control of target permanent until end of turn. If you do, untap it and it gains haste until end of turn.

"Nothing is truly your own. It is his, whether you know it or not."
-The Seer's Parables

Doomed Necromancer

Creature - Human Cleric Mercenary

, , Sacrifice Doomed Necromancer: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Many necromancers share the same last words-the ones that conclude the undeath ritual.

Doomed Traveler

Creature - Human Soldier

When Doomed Traveler dies, put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

He vowed he would never rest until he reached his destination. He doesn't know how right he was.

Doomgape

Creature - Elemental

Trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

It eats and eats until the juiciest morsel it can find is itself.

Doorkeeper

Creature - Homunculus

Defender

, : Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the number of creatures with defender you control.

One piercing stare usually convinces thieves to go elsewhere.

Doran, the Siege Tower

Legendary Creature - Treefolk Shaman

Each creature assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

"Each year that passes rings you inwardly with memory and might. Wield your heart, and the world will tremble."

Dormant Gomazoa

Creature - Jellyfish

Flying

Dormant Gomazoa enters the battlefield tapped.

Dormant Gomazoa doesn't untap during your untap step.

Whenever you become the target of a spell, you may untap Dormant Gomazoa.

Dormant Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures have defender.

All Slivers have "When this permanent enters the battlefield, draw a card."

"It triggers the hive's period of Ætheric fertility-a time when even feeding is a lower priority than reproduction."
-Rukarumel, field journal

Dosan the Falling Leaf

Legendary Creature - Human Monk

Players can cast spells only during their own turns.

"Each night as Master Dosan prays to the kami, the hate he receives in return withers his body a little more. Though the kami are slowly killing him, still he continues his prayers."
-Meditation journal of a young budoka

Dowsing Shaman

Creature - Centaur Shaman

, : Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

He combs the streets looking for the lost light, the discarded enigmas of the city.

Draco

Artifact Creature - Dragon

Domain - Draco costs less to cast for each basic land type among lands you control.

Flying

Domain - At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Draco unless you pay . This cost is reduced by for each basic land type among lands you control.

Dragon Bell Monk

Creature - Human Monk

Vigilance

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

He has spent years training his eyes and ears to detect the subtle signs of a dragon's approach.

Dragon Broodmother

Creature - Dragon

Flying

At the beginning of each upkeep, put a 1/1 red and green Dragon creature token with flying and devour 2 onto the battlefield. (As the token enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters the battlefield with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

Dragon Egg

Creature - Dragon

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

When Dragon Egg dies, put a 2/2 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield. It has ": This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Dragon birth lairs are littered with treasure to entice the young from their eggs.

Dragon Hatchling

Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Dragon Hatchling gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Those dragons grow fast. For a while they feed on squirrels and goblins and then suddenly you're missing a mammoth."
-Hurdek, Mazar mammoth trainer

Dragon Hunter

Creature - Human Warrior

Protection from Dragons

Dragon Hunter can block Dragons as though it had reach.

"Dromoka has taught me the secrets of her kind, that I might use them in her service."

Dragon Whelp

Creature - Dragon

Flying

: Dragon Whelp gets +1/+0 until end of turn. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice Dragon Whelp at the beginning of the next end step.

Dragon Whisperer

Creature - Human Shaman

: Dragon Whisperer gains flying until end of turn.

: Dragon Whisperer gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Formidable - : Put a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield. Activate this ability only if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater.

Dragon's Eye Savants

Creature - Human Wizard

Morph-Reveal a blue card in your hand. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

When Dragon's Eye Savants is turned face up, look at target opponent's hand.

Dragon's Eye Sentry

Creature - Human Monk

Defender, first strike

Even the humblest guard of Ojutai's strongholds ponders the puzzles of the Great Teacher's lessons.