Cathodion

Artifact Creature - Construct

When Cathodion dies, add to your mana pool.

Instead of creating a tool that would be damaged by heat, the Thran built one that was charged by it.

Caustic Crawler

Creature - Insect

Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target creature get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Novice explorers can mistake the acid-carved stone lairs for ancient ruins. They rarely survive to learn better.

Caustic Hound

Creature - Hound

When Caustic Hound dies, each player loses 4 life.

At first, the Mirrans aimed for its exposed gut. The survivors quickly learned to do otherwise.

Caustic Wasps

Creature - Insect

Flying

Whenever Caustic Wasps deals combat damage to a player, you may destroy target artifact that player controls.

Even the wasp knows how to pay the magistrate his due respect.

Cautery Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Slivers have ", Sacrifice this permanent: This permanent deals 1 damage to target creature or player."

All Slivers have ", Sacrifice this permanent: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target Sliver creature or player this turn."

Cavalry Master

Creature - Human Knight

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

Other creatures you control with flanking have flanking. (Each instance of flanking triggers separately.)

Cavalry Pegasus

Creature - Pegasus

Flying

Whenever Cavalry Pegasus attacks, each attacking Human gains flying until end of turn.

"It is hope, hooved and winged."
-Cymede, queen of Akros

Cave People

Creature - Human

Whenever Cave People attacks, it gets +1/-2 until end of turn.

, : Target creature gains mountainwalk until end of turn.

Cave Tiger

Creature - Cat

Whenever Cave Tiger becomes blocked by a creature, Cave Tiger gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

The druids found a haven in the cool limestone tunnels beneath Argoth. The invaders found only tigers.

Cavern Crawler

Creature - Insect

Mountainwalk

: Cavern Crawler gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Cavern Harpy

Creature - Harpy Beast

Flying

When Cavern Harpy enters the battlefield, return a blue or black creature you control to its owner's hand.

Pay 1 life: Return Cavern Harpy to its owner's hand.

Cavern Thoctar

Creature - Beast

: Cavern Thoctar gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Natives of Naya know better than to loiter near the mouth of a cave. Two glowing red eyes and the stench of foul breath are all the warning you're likely to get.

Ceaseless Searblades

Creature - Elemental Warrior

Whenever you activate an ability of an Elemental, Ceaseless Searblades gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Flamekins' fires burn cool until they decide otherwise.

Celestial Ancient

Creature - Elemental

Flying

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

"We thought the clouds had moved from the night sky. Then the night sky moved, and the horizon grew wings."
-Josuri

Celestial Crusader

Creature - Spirit

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

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

Flying

Other white creatures get +1/+1.

Celestial Force

Creature - Elemental

At the beginning of each upkeep, you gain 3 life.

"Wishing upon only one star seems like a failure of imagination."
-Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter

Celestial Gatekeeper

Creature - Bird Cleric

Flying

When Celestial Gatekeeper dies, exile it, then return up to two target Bird and/or Cleric permanent cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Celestial Kirin

Legendary Creature - Kirin Spirit

Flying

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, destroy all permanents with that spell's converted mana cost.

All bow at its visitation-some in awe, some in honor, some in fear.

Cemetery Gate

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Protection from black

"It keeps some out, yes. It also keeps others in!"
-Grandmother Sengir

Cemetery Puca

Creature - Shapeshifter

Whenever a creature dies, you may pay . If you do, Cemetery Puca becomes a copy of that creature and gains this ability.

"'Tis a strange creature indeed that chooses the vanquished over the victor."
-Awylla, elvish safewright

Cemetery Reaper

Creature - Zombie

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

, : Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

Every grave cradles a recruit.

Cenn's Heir

Creature - Kithkin Soldier

Whenever Cenn's Heir attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each other attacking Kithkin.

His home clachan's familial spirit bolsters his own, but he will be ready to preside over the town as cenn only after he learns to project that strength to others.

Cenn's Tactician

Creature - Kithkin Soldier

, : Put a +1/+1 counter on target Soldier creature.

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it can block an additional creature.

The choke point was the plan, but devoted camaraderie was always her strategy.

Centaur Archer

Creature - Centaur Archer

: Centaur Archer deals 1 damage to target creature with flying.

"Centaurs will kill our Aesthir if they can; they've always been enemies. Destroy the horse-people on sight."
-Arna Kennerüd, Skyknight

Centaur Battlemaster

Creature - Centaur Warrior

Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Centaur Battlemaster, put three +1/+1 counters on Centaur Battlemaster.

"A herd is only as strong as its weakest. Our weakest just killed his third minotaur raider-today."
-Braulios of Pheres Band

Centaur Chieftain

Creature - Centaur

Haste

Threshold - As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Centaur Chieftain has "When Centaur Chieftain enters the battlefield, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn."

Centaur Courser

Creature - Centaur Warrior

"The centaurs are truly free. Never will they be tamed by temptation or controlled by fear. They live in total harmony, a feat not yet achieved by our kind."
-Ramal, sage of Westgate

Centaur Healer

Creature - Centaur Cleric

When Centaur Healer enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

Instructors at the Kasarna training grounds are capable healers in case their students fail to grasp the subtleties of combat.

Centaur Rootcaster

Creature - Centaur Druid

Whenever Centaur Rootcaster deals combat damage to a player, you may search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped. If you do, shuffle your library.

Centaur Safeguard

Creature - Centaur Warrior

( can be paid with either or .)

When Centaur Safeguard dies, you may gain 3 life.

Swift, strong, and selfless, the centaurs are the shields of the Conclave.

Centaur Veteran

Creature - Centaur

Trample

, Discard a card: Regenerate Centaur Veteran.

He wears his scars like badges of honor, warning his foes that he's not easily defeated.

Centaur's Herald

Creature - Elf Scout

, Sacrifice Centaur's Herald: Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield.

The farther they go from Vitu-Ghazi, the less willing the crowd is to part for them.

Cephalid Aristocrat

Creature - Cephalid

Whenever Cephalid Aristocrat becomes the target of a spell or ability, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.

It's easy to tell the difference between the devious cephalids and the trustworthy ones. The trustworthy ones are dead.

Cephalid Broker

Creature - Cephalid

: Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards.

Cephalids value the free exchange of ideas-except for the "free" part.

Cephalid Constable

Creature - Cephalid Wizard

Whenever Cephalid Constable deals combat damage to a player, return up to that many target permanents that player controls to their owners' hands.

Cephalids don't police people. They police loyalties.

Cephalid Illusionist

Creature - Cephalid Wizard

Whenever Cephalid Illusionist becomes the target of a spell or ability, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.

, : Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by target creature you control this turn.

Cephalid Inkshrouder

Creature - Cephalid

Discard a card: Cephalid Inkshrouder gains shroud until end of turn and is unblockable this turn. (A permanent with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Cephalids shrink from the harsh glare of scrutiny.

Cephalid Looter

Creature - Cephalid Rogue

: Target player draws a card, then discards a card.

"Amazing, isn't it, what humans will throw away when they're drowning?"

Cephalid Pathmage

Creature - Cephalid Wizard

Cephalid Pathmage is unblockable.

, Sacrifice Cephalid Pathmage: Target creature is unblockable this turn.

Pathmages can open doors that aren't even there.

Cephalid Retainer

Creature - Cephalid

: Tap target creature without flying.

Cephalids whisper flattery in your ear, put jewels in your hand, spin dreams in your head, and stick knives in your back.

Cephalid Sage

Creature - Cephalid

Threshold - As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Cephalid Sage has "When Cephalid Sage enters the battlefield, draw three cards, then discard two cards."

Cephalid Scout

Creature - Cephalid Wizard Scout

Flying

, Sacrifice a land: Draw a card.

The more they survey the dreadful dry expanses, the more the cephalids thirst to tame them.

Cephalid Snitch

Creature - Cephalid Wizard

Sacrifice Cephalid Snitch: Target creature loses protection from black until end of turn.

The cautious are wary of their enemies. The wise are also wary of their friends.

Cephalid Vandal

Creature - Cephalid Rogue

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a shred counter on Cephalid Vandal. Then put the top card of your library into your graveyard for each shred counter on Cephalid Vandal.

Ceremonial Guard

Creature - Human Soldier

When Ceremonial Guard attacks or blocks, destroy it at end of combat.

"These guards are the most disciplined military unit in the city. They couldn't fight their way out of a broom closet, but they've got discipline."
-Gerrard, to Sisay

Cerodon Yearling

Creature - Beast

Vigilance, haste

The unit of measurement used to chart a cerodon's growth is "persons consumed."

Cerulean Sphinx

Creature - Sphinx

Flying

: Cerulean Sphinx's owner shuffles it into his or her library.

"About the sphinx, I have mixed feelings. Their wisdom I crave, but their secrecy I can't tolerate."
-Szadek

Cerulean Wyvern

Creature - Drake

Flying, protection from green

"Once, a Quirion asked why I was so cautious when the day was clear. I told him of the sky-blue hide of the cerluean wyvern, and he offered me double if I could conjure a strong tailwind!"
-Sisay, Captain of the Weatherlight

Ceta Disciple

Creature - Merfolk Wizard

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

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

"The sea holds all that you need. You simply must know how to ask for it."

Cetavolver

Creature - Volver

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

If Cetavolver was kicked with its kicker, it enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it and with first strike.

If Cetavolver was kicked with its kicker, it enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it and with trample.

Chainbreaker

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Chainbreaker enters the battlefield with two -1/-1 counters on it.

, : Remove a -1/-1 counter from target creature.

Scarecrows deemed too malevolent to roam free are shackled to boulders or dolmen stones. Their animosity usually outlives the chains.

Chained Throatseeker

Creature - Horror

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Chained Throatseeker can't attack unless defending player is poisoned.

Chainer, Dementia Master

Legendary Creature - Human Minion

Nightmare creatures get +1/+1.

, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.

When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Chainflinger

Creature - Beast

, : Chainflinger deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

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

Chambered Nautilus

Creature - Nautilus Beast

Whenever Chambered Nautilus becomes blocked, you may draw a card.

What's merely a home for the nautilus can become exquisite jewelry in the hands of Saprazzan artisans.

Chameleon Colossus

Creature - Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type at all times.)

Protection from black

: Chameleon Colossus gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is its power.

Chameleon Spirit

Creature - Illusion Spirit

As Chameleon Spirit enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Chameleon Spirit's power and toughness are each equal to the number of permanents of the chosen color your opponents control.

Champion of Arashin

Creature - Hound Warrior

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

"The blood of Dromoka and the blood of my veins are the same."

Champion of Lambholt

Creature - Human Warrior

Creatures with power less than Champion of Lambholt's power can't block creatures you control.

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Champion of Lambholt.

Champion of Stray Souls

Creature - Skeleton Warrior

, , Sacrifice X other creatures: Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

: Put Champion of Stray Souls on top of your library from your graveyard.

Champion of the Parish

Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever another Human enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Champion of the Parish.

"I stand for every cobbler, tanner, and fool in this town-and they stand for me."

Champion's Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

Champion's Drake gets +3/+3 as long as you control a creature with three or more level counters on it.

"'Fraid of heights? Ride a horse. 'Fraid of missing out? Rein up a drake."
-Trinda, Hada spy patrol

Chancellor of the Annex

Creature - Angel

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, when each opponent casts his or her first spell of the game, counter that spell unless that player pays .

Flying

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, counter it unless that player pays .

Chancellor of the Dross

Creature - Vampire

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life, then you gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Flying, lifelink

Chancellor of the Forge

Creature - Giant

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, put a 1/1 red Goblin creature token with haste onto the battlefield.

When Chancellor of the Forge enters the battlefield, put X 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens with haste onto the battlefield, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Chancellor of the Spires

Creature - Sphinx

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, each opponent puts the top seven cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Flying

When Chancellor of the Spires enters the battlefield, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

Chancellor of the Tangle

Creature - Beast

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of your first main phase, add to your mana pool.

Vigilance, reach

Chandler

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

, : Destroy target artifact creature.

"Never brag about the latest wonder you've created, students. Chandler might be listening."
-Reveka, Wizard Savant

Chandra's Phoenix

Creature - Phoenix

Flying

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

Whenever an opponent is dealt damage by a red instant or sorcery spell you control or by a red planeswalker you control, return Chandra's Phoenix from your graveyard to your hand.

Chandra's Spitfire

Creature - Elemental

Flying

Whenever an opponent is dealt noncombat damage, Chandra's Spitfire gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

"I've lit most everything on fire-trees, rocks, even the water. Now it's time to burn the clouds."

Changeling Berserker

Creature - Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type at all times.)

Haste

Champion a creature (When this enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you exile another creature you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.)

Changeling Hero

Creature - Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type at all times.)

Champion a creature (When this enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you exile another creature you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.)

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Changeling Sentinel

Creature - Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type at all times.)

Vigilance

There's nothing more unsettling than locking blades with something that looks just like you.

Changeling Titan

Creature - Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type at all times.)

Champion a creature (When this enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you exile another creature you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.)

Chaos Harlequin

Creature - Human

: Exile the top card of your library. If that card is a land card, Chaos Harlequin gets -4/-0 until end of turn. Otherwise, Chaos Harlequin gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Chaos Imps

Creature - Imp

Flying

Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Chaos Imps has trample as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.

Chaos Lord

Creature - Human

First strike

At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent gains control of Chaos Lord if the number of permanents is even.

Chaos Lord can attack as though it had haste unless it entered the battlefield this turn.

Chaotic Goo

Creature - Ooze

Chaotic Goo enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may flip a coin. If you win the flip, put a +1/+1 counter on Chaotic Goo. If you lose the flip, remove a +1/+1 counter from Chaotic Goo.

Chapel Geist

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Death has bound it with chains of past regrets. Forever it searches for atonement, each kindness removing a single link.

Char-Rumbler

Creature - Elemental

Double strike

: Char-Rumbler gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Elementals flourished as Dominaria healed and new forms of life adapted to the land's reinfusion with mana.

Charging Badger

Creature - Badger

Trample

"If the hierarchies of nature were determined by ferocity alone, the badger would be lord of the beasts."
-Anthousa of Setessa

Charging Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

Whenever Charging Griffin attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Four claws, two wings, one beak, no fear.

Charging Paladin

Creature - Human Knight

Whenever Charging Paladin attacks, it gets +0/+3 until end of turn.

"Hope shall be the blade that severs our bonds."

Charging Rhino

Creature - Rhino

Charging Rhino can't be blocked by more than one creature.

"Is it wrong to go straight for what you want? Sneaking is for cats and goblins."
-Tahngarth of the Weatherlight

Charging Slateback

Creature - Beast

Charging Slateback can't block.

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

Goblins prize its hide for building rock sled runners.

Charging Troll

Creature - Troll

Vigilance

: Regenerate Charging Troll.

They stop for nothing, not even the end of a battle.

Charm Peddler

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, prevent that damage.

Charmbreaker Devils

Creature - Devil

At the beginning of your upkeep, return an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard to your hand.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Charmbreaker Devils gets +4/+0 until end of turn.

Charmed Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

When Charmed Griffin enters the battlefield, each other player may put an artifact or enchantment card onto the battlefield from his or her hand.

Are you sure you can afford such a luxury?

Charnelhoard Wurm

Creature - Wurm

Trample

Whenever Charnelhoard Wurm deals damage to an opponent, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Jund's dragons hoard only sangrite crystals. Its wurms aren't so picky.

Chartooth Cougar

Creature - Cat Beast

: Chartooth Cougar gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Mountaincycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.)

Chasm Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

Whenever Chasm Drake attacks, target creature you control gains flying until end of turn.

"Once he's got you, hold on. Fall from a drake and you'll suffer much worse than a bruise."
-Garl, drake trainer

Chasm Guide

Creature - Goblin Scout Ally

Rally - Whenever Chasm Guide or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

With a single act of bravery, she went from expendable to indispensable.

Chasm Skulker

Creature - Squid Horror

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Chasm Skulker.

When Chasm Skulker dies, put X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk onto the battlefield, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Chasm Skulker. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Designed by Mike Neumann

Chief Engineer

Creature - Vedalken Artificer

Artifact spells you cast have convoke. (Your creatures can help cast those spells. Each creature you tap while casting an artifact spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

An eye for detail, a mind for numbers, a soul of clockwork.

Chief of the Edge

Creature - Human Warrior

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

"We are the swift, the strong, the blade's sharp shriek! Fear nothing, and strike!"

Chief of the Scale

Creature - Human Warrior

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

"We are the shield unbroken. If we fall today, we will die well, and our trees will bear our names in honor."

Chieftain en-Dal

Creature - Human Knight

Whenever Chieftain en-Dal attacks, attacking creatures gain first strike until end of turn.

The clearest commands are practical examples.

Child of Alara

Legendary Creature - Avatar

Trample

When Child of Alara dies, destroy all nonland permanents. They can't be regenerated.

The progeny of the Maelstrom shows no allegiance-and no mercy-to any of the five shards.

Child of Gaea

Creature - Elemental

Trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Child of Gaea unless you pay .

: Regenerate Child of Gaea.