Sultai Skullkeeper

Creature - Naga Shaman

When Sultai Skullkeeper enters the battlefield, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.

A skullkeeper is the first to arrive after the palace archers strike down intruders, probing their brains for choice bits of knowledge.

Sultai Scavenger

Creature - Bird Warrior

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

Flying

Since they guard armies of walking carrion, Sultai aven are never far from a meal.

Sultai Runemark

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.

Enchanted creature has deathtouch as long as you control a green or blue permanent. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Sultai Flayer

Creature - Naga Shaman

Whenever a creature you control with toughness 4 or greater dies, you gain 4 life.

"You can have the body, necromancer. I just want the skin."

Sultai Emissary

Creature - Zombie Warrior

When Sultai Emissary dies, manifest the top card of your library. (Put that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

To the Sultai, Ugin's power was just one more resource to be exploited.

Sultai Charm

Instant

Choose one -

• Destroy target monocolored creature.

• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

• Draw two cards, then discard a card.

"Strike," the fumes hiss. "Raise an empire with your ambition."

Sultai Banner

Artifact

: Add , , or to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Sultai Banner: Draw a card.

Power to dominate, cruelty to rule.

Sultai Ascendancy

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top two cards of your library. Put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest back on top of your library in any order.

Sulfurous Blast

Instant

Sulfurous Blast deals 2 damage to each creature and each player. If you cast this spell during your main phase, Sulfurous Blast deals 3 damage to each creature and each player instead.

The Keldons used the toxic vents in the cracked earth to bolster their home's defenses.

Sulfuric Vortex

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Sulfuric Vortex deals 2 damage to that player.

If a player would gain life, that player gains no life instead.

Sulfur Falls

Land

Sulfur Falls enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Skirsdag cultists meet behind a waterfall's curtain and plot with demonic forces.

Suicidal Charge

Enchantment

Sacrifice Suicidal Charge: Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. Those creatures attack this turn if able.

"They think they're winning. But they're just lining up to be dinner."
-Rakka Mar

Suffer the Past

Instant

Exile X target cards from target player's graveyard. For each card exiled this way, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Ulamog's tentacles, their touch like burning ice, rummaged through his soul and stung his memories one by one.

Sudden Storm

Instant

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

No matter how big and strong you are, the sea is bigger and stronger.

Sudden Spoiling

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.)

Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Sudden Shock

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.)

Sudden Shock deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Arc mages aren't known for their patience.

Sudden Reclamation

Instant

Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard, then return a creature card and a land card from your graveyard to your hand.

"There is no secret buried so deep that we will never find it."
-Kurtar, Sultai necromancer

Sudden Disappearance

Sorcery

Exile all nonland permanents target player controls. Return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Sudden Demise

Sorcery

Choose a color. Sudden Demise deals X damage to each creature of the chosen color.

In the Skyfang Mountains, one misstep can mean the end of an entire clan.

Submerged Boneyard

Land

Submerged Boneyard enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

"Long after the land has given up the last of its secrets, there will still be mysteries in the depths of the sea."
-Kiora

Sublime Archangel

Creature - Angel

Flying

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

Other creatures you control have exalted. (If a creature has multiple instances of exalted, each triggers separately.)

Stymied Hopes

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

When a god's will is against you, the day never ends well.

Sturmgeist

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Sturmgeist's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Whenever Sturmgeist deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Stun Sniper

Creature - Human Archer

, : Stun Sniper deals 1 damage to target creature. Tap that creature.

The tips of her bolts are blunt, but her aim is deadly sharp.

Stuffy Doll

Artifact Creature - Construct

Indestructible

As Stuffy Doll enters the battlefield, choose a player.

Whenever Stuffy Doll is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to the chosen player.

: Stuffy Doll deals 1 damage to itself.

Student of Warfare

Creature - Human Knight

Level up (: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)

LEVEL 2-6

3/3

First strike

LEVEL 7+

4/4

Double strike

Student of Ojutai

Creature - Human Monk

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you gain 2 life.

"Human enlightenment is a firefly that sparks in the night. Dragon enlightenment is a beacon that disperses all darkness."

Stubborn Denial

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays .

Ferocious - If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.

The Temur have no patience for subtlety.

Structural Collapse

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices an artifact and a land. Structural Collapse deals 2 damage to that player.

The Gruul holiday of Rauck-Chauv always ends the same way.

Stronghold Discipline

Sorcery

Each player loses 1 life for each creature he or she controls.

In Urborg, the instigators of each new rebellion are soaked in the blood of the last.

Stronghold Assassin

Creature - Zombie Assassin

, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

The assassin sees only throats and hears only heartbeats.

Strongarm Monk

Creature - Human Monk

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

"His companions are wise to follow him, for his foes dare not stand in his way."
-Zhiada, Dirgur protector

Stromkirk Patrol

Creature - Vampire Soldier

Whenever Stromkirk Patrol deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

"You'd best move along, human. Our palates are far less discerning than our master's."

Stromkirk Noble

Creature - Vampire

Stromkirk Noble can't be blocked by Humans.

Whenever Stromkirk Noble deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

"A responsible king walks among his subjects."

Stromkirk Captain

Creature - Vampire Soldier

First strike

Other Vampire creatures you control get +1/+1 and have first strike.

"No longer can we allow our human populations to be mindlessly slaughtered by ghouls. Slay all who trespass."
-Runo Stromkirk

Stroke of Genius

Instant

Target player draws X cards.

After a hundred failed experiments, Urza was stunned to find that common silver passed through the portal undamaged. He immediately designed a golem made of the metal.

Strionic Resonator

Artifact

, : Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Its tines cannot be rung by mere physical force. Only magic of great power can start its eldritch resonance.

Striking Sliver

Creature - Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have first strike. (They deal combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

You're too busy recoiling in fear to realize that it's already hit you.

Strider Harness

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has haste.

Equip

Each journey begins with a single step-and sometimes ends with that single step as well.

Strength of the Tajuru

Instant

Multikicker (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell.)

Choose target creature, then choose another target creature for each time Strength of the Tajuru was kicked. Put X +1/+1 counters on each of them.

Strength from the Fallen

Enchantment

Constellation - Whenever Strength from the Fallen or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Street Wraith

Creature - Wraith

Swampwalk

Cycling-Pay 2 life. (Pay 2 life, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The lamps on Wyndmoor Street snuff themselves at midnight and refuse to relight, afraid to illuminate what lies in the darkness.

Street Sweeper

Artifact Creature - Construct

Whenever Street Sweeper attacks, destroy all Auras attached to target land.

The sweepers roam endlessly, scrubbing away the refuse-and anything else too slow or too clumsy to get out of their way.

Street Spasm

Instant

Street Spasm deals X damage to target creature without flying you don't control.

Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")

Stratus Walk

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Stratus Walk enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchanted creature has flying.

Enchanted creature can block only creatures with flying.

Stratus Dancer

Creature - Djinn Monk

Flying

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 Stratus Dancer is turned face up, counter target instant or sorcery spell.

Strategic Planning

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

"Plans evolved within the tent decide a victory 1,000 li away."

Strata Scythe

Artifact - Equipment

Imprint - When Strata Scythe enters the battlefield, search your library for a land card, exile it, then shuffle your library.

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land on the battlefield with the same name as the exiled card.

Equip

Strangling Soot

Instant

Destroy target creature with toughness 3 or less.

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

"What good is your blade without your breath?"
-Greht, Gathan warlord

Strangleroot Geist

Creature - Spirit

Haste

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.)

Geists of the hanged often haunt the tree on which they died.

Stranglehold

Enchantment

Your opponents can't search libraries.

If an opponent would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.

The correct answer to a barbarian's riddle is to choke on your cleverness and die.

Strandwalker

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 +2/+4 and has reach.

Equip

Stormwing Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying, first strike

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 Stormwing Dragon is turned face up, put a +1/+1 counter on each other Dragon creature you control.

Stormtide Leviathan

Creature - Leviathan

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

All lands are Islands in addition to their other types.

Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.

Stormsurge Kraken

Creature - Kraken

Hexproof

Lieutenant - As long as you control your commander, Stormsurge Kraken gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever Stormsurge Kraken becomes blocked, you may draw two cards."

Most see krakens as wantonly violent, failing to notice their meticulous attention to detail when dismantling a vessel.

Stormscape Battlemage

Creature - Metathran Wizard

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

When Stormscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its kicker, you gain 3 life.

When Stormscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its kicker, destroy target nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

Stormrider Rig

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may attach Stormrider Rig to it.

Equip

Stormfront Pegasus

Creature - Pegasus

Flying

Its hooves touch the earth only when a hero must rise.

Stormcrag Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Trample

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.)

The storms of Tarkir awaken more than dragons.

Stormchaser Mage

Creature - Human Wizard

Flying, haste

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

Roilmages' tactics are as chaotic as the energies they channel.

Stormchaser Chimera

Creature - Chimera

Flying

: Scry 1, then reveal the top card of your library. Stormchaser Chimera gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that card's converted mana cost. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Stormcaller's Boon

Enchantment

Sacrifice Stormcaller's Boon: Creatures you control gain flying until end of turn.

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Stormcaller of Keranos

Creature - Human Shaman

Haste

: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

A prayer answered by Keranos is clear for all to witness.

Stormbreath Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying, haste, protection from white

: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

When Stormbreath Dragon becomes monstrous, it deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Stormbound Geist

Creature - Spirit

Flying

Stormbound Geist can block only creatures with 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.)

Stormblood Berserker

Creature - Human Berserker

Bloodthirst 2 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it.)

Stormblood Berserker can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.

Blood is holy to those whose god is War.

Storm Herd

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 white Pegasus creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield, where X is your life total.

"When you hear thunder on a cloudless day, take cover and brace for the coming of the storm herd."
-Skotov, Tin Street basket vendor

Stony Silence

Enchantment

Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.

Let moss grow over gargoyles
-Gavony saying meaning
"forget painful memories"

Stonewright

Creature - Human Shaman

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 Stonewright is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has ": This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."

Stonework Puma

Artifact Creature - Cat Ally

"We suffer uneasy ground, unstable alliances, and unpredictable magic. Something you can truly trust is worth more than a chest of gold."
-Nikou, Joraga bard

Stonewise Fortifier

Creature - Human Wizard

: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Stonewise Fortifier by target creature this turn.

Ephara taught some mortals to feel every vein in marble as though it flows with their own blood.

Stoneshock Giant

Creature - Giant

: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

When Stoneshock Giant becomes monstrous, creatures without flying your opponents control can't block this turn.

Stonehorn Dignitary

Creature - Rhino Soldier

When Stonehorn Dignitary enters the battlefield, target opponent skips his or her next combat phase.

It did not escape the ambassador's notice that the sound of war drums could also marshal the city to attention.

Stonehorn Chanter

Creature - Rhino Cleric

: Stonehorn Chanter gains vigilance and lifelink until end of turn. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap. Damage dealt by it also causes you to gain that much life.)

With the Stonehorn, piety and power are one.

Stonehewer Giant

Creature - Giant Warrior

Vigilance

, : Search your library for an Equipment card and put it onto the battlefield. Attach it to a creature you control. Then shuffle your library.

"No matter how strong, an unarmed fighter is no more than a fool."

Stonefury

Instant

Stonefury deals damage to target creature equal to the number of lands you control.

Akoum can make any intruder look small.

Stoneforge Mystic

Creature - Kor Artificer

When Stoneforge Mystic enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

, : You may put an Equipment card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Stoneforge Masterwork

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control that shares a creature type with it.

Equip

The nomadic kor carry only necessities on their long treks. The coming of the Eldrazi redefined "necessities."

Stoneforge Acolyte

Creature - Kor Artificer Ally

Cohort - , Tap an untapped Ally you control: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal an Equipment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"The stone speaks. We are merely interpreters."

Stonefare Crocodile

Creature - Crocodile

: Stonefare Crocodile gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

The Izzet's plans to exploit the undercity ran into a few stubborn obstacles.

Stonecloaker

Creature - Gargoyle

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

Flying

When Stonecloaker enters the battlefield, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

When Stonecloaker enters the battlefield, exile target card from a graveyard.

Stone Idol Trap

Instant - Trap

Stone Idol Trap costs less to cast for each attacking creature.

Put a 6/12 colorless Construct artifact creature token with trample onto the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of your next end step.

Stone Haven Outfitter

Creature - Kor Artificer Ally

Equipped creatures you control get +1/+1.

Whenever an equipped creature you control dies, draw a card.

The makers and menders are the first called to battle and the last to leave.

Stone Haven Medic

Creature - Kor Cleric

, : You gain 1 life.

"These days, soldiers never stick around long enough for a proper healing. They just want me to knit them up so they can hurry back to the fight."

Stone Golem

Artifact Creature - Golem

The sculptor, like most artists, put his heart and soul in his work. But the newly awakened golem decided he wanted his creator's other, more tangible parts.

Stone Giant

Creature - Giant

: Target creature you control with toughness less than Stone Giant's power gains flying until end of turn. Destroy that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

A typical day for a giant. A momentous event for a goat.

Stomping Ground

Land - Mountain Forest

(: Add or to your mana pool.)

As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Stomping Ground enters the battlefield tapped.

Stomper Cub

Creature - Beast

Trample

"This one is only a yearling, but it would be wise to move away before we provide it with excellent hunting practice."
-Samila, Murasa Expeditionary House

Stolen Itentity

Stolen Identity

Sorcery

Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of target artifact or creature.

Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Stolen Goods

Sorcery

Target opponent exiles cards from the top of his or her library until he or she exiles a nonland card. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

Stoke the Flames

Instant

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)

Stoke the Flames deals 4 damage to target creature or player.

Stoic Rebuttal

Instant

Metalcraft - Stoic Rebuttal costs less to cast if you control three or more artifacts.

Counter target spell.

Obsessed with the pursuit of knowledge above all else, vedalken can appear to be cold and emotionless.

Stoic Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying, vigilance

Players can't untap more than one creature during their untap steps.

Even the most battle-hardened soldiers pause in her presence for a moment of introspection.

Stitcher's Apprentice

Creature - Homunculus

, : Put a 2/2 blue Homunculus creature token onto the battlefield, then sacrifice a creature.

"Oglor create life, Oglor take it away. Oglor god! . . . until Master return."

Stitcher Geralf

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

, : Each player puts the top three cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Exile up to two creature cards put into graveyards this way. Put an X/X blue Zombie creature token onto the battlefield, where X is the total power of the cards exiled this way.

Stitched Drake

Creature - Zombie Drake

As an additional cost to cast Stitched Drake, exile a creature card from your graveyard.

Flying

"The best skaab are more powerful and more beautiful than the sum of their parts."
-Stitcher Geralf

Stitch Together

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Threshold - Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Stirring Wildwood

Land

Stirring Wildwood enters the battlefield tapped.

: Add or to your mana pool.

: Until end of turn, Stirring Wildwood becomes a 3/4 green and white Elemental creature with reach. It's still a land.

Stir the Pride

Instant

Choose one - Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn; or until end of turn, creatures you control gain "Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life."

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