Grizzled Outcasts

Creature - Human Werewolf

At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform Grizzled Outcasts.

Seen as unsavory, the hunters were never allowed in town-until one night they vanished.

Gutter Grime

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, put a slime counter on Gutter Grime, then put a green Ooze creature token onto the battlefield with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of slime counters on Gutter Grime."

Hollowhenge Scavenger

Creature - Elemental

Morbid - When Hollowhenge Scavenger enters the battlefield, if a creature died this turn, you gain 5 life.

After werewolves slaughtered the citizenry of Hollowhenge, other creatures moved in.

Kessig Cagebreakers

Creature - Human Rogue

Whenever Kessig Cagebreakers attacks, put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield tapped and attacking for each creature card in your graveyard.

"They put bars on these noble beasts and then wonder why werewolves target our towns."

Somberwald Spider

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Morbid - Somberwald Spider enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it if a creature died this turn.

Stensian vampires encourage spiders near their manors so they can rob the webs.

Spider Spawning

Sorcery

Put a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach onto the battlefield for each creature card in your graveyard.

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

Grimgrin, Corpse-Born

Legendary Creature - Zombie Warrior

Grimgrin, Corpse-Born enters the battlefield tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step.

Sacrifice another creature: Untap Grimgrin and put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Whenever Grimgrin attacks, destroy target creature defending player controls, then put a +1/+1 counter on Grimgrin.

Creepy Doll

Artifact Creature - Construct

Indestructible

Whenever Creepy Doll deals combat damage to a creature, flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy that creature.

A child's porcelain doll went missing one night, as did a pair of kitchen shears and the town magistrate.

Manor Gargoyle

Artifact Creature - Gargoyle

Defender

Manor Gargoyle has indestructible as long as it has defender.

: Until end of turn, Manor Gargoyle loses defender and gains flying.

Nothing could break it but the fall.

Bazaar Krovod

Creature - Beast

Whenever Bazaar Krovod attacks, another target attacking creature gets +0/+2 until end of turn. Untap that creature.

The Hauler's Collective wields great influence over the Ravnican merchant class. Without it, little moves in the city.

Knightly Valor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Knightly Valor enters the battlefield, put a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has vigilance.

Sphere of Safety

Enchantment

Creatures can't attack you or a planeswalker you control unless their controller pays for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

The Rakdos believe that all are eager to join their revels, even when told otherwise.

Psychic Spiral

Instant

Shuffle all cards from your graveyard into your library. Target player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

An elocutor forces criminals to confess to the laws they merely intended to break.

Search the City

Enchantment

When Search the City enters the battlefield, exile the top five cards of your library.

Whenever you play a card with the same name as one of the exiled cards, you may put one of those cards with that name into its owner's hand. Then if there are no cards exiled with Search the City, sacrifice it. If you do, take an extra turn after this one.

Voidwielder

Creature - Human Wizard

When Voidwielder enters the battlefield, you may return target creature to its owner's hand.

"He makes up his own laws, and that's dangerous to all who love peace and prosperity. Kill him on sight."
-Mirela, Azorius hussar

Catacomb Slug

Creature - Slug

"The entire murder scene was covered in dripping, oozing slime. No need for a soothsayer to solve that one."
-Pel Javya, Wojek investigator

Destroy the Evidence

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Its controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a land card, then puts those cards into his or her graveyard.

Everyone knew the Dimir had done the damage. Everyone suspected the Izzet had hired them.

Batterhorn

Creature - Beast

When Batterhorn enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact.

Novice shopkeeps spend hours deciding how best to display their wares. Veterans focus on portability.

Goblin Rally

Sorcery

Put four 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.

You don't so much hire goblins as put ideas in their heads.

Pyroconvergence

Enchantment

Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, Pyroconvergence deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

"The Izzet are an equation that turns lunacy into explosions."
-Leonos, Azorius arbiter

Survey the Wreckage

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Put a 1/1 red Goblin creature token onto the battlefield.

Goblins and architects seldom get along.

Gobbling Ooze

Creature - Ooze

, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Gobbling Ooze.

The furious citizens blamed the Simic for releasing it in their district. The Simic pointed out that rats were no longer a problem.

Rubbleback Rhino

Creature - Rhino

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

The trouble started when a street urchin bet a goblin he could ride one until the clock on Shilbo's Tower struck thirteen.

Fall of the Gavel

Instant

Counter target spell. You gain 5 life.

"My ruling is final. Order is upheld. Justice is done."

Hypersonic Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying, haste

You may cast sorcery cards as though they had flash. (You may cast them any time you could cast an instant.)

"Even this primitive specimen of my kind is impressive."
-Niv-Mizzet

Mercurial Chemister

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Draw two cards.

, , Discard a card: Mercurial Chemister deals damage to target creature equal to the discarded card's converted mana cost.

What some see as "distracted" is really "fathoming the unfathomable."

Rakdos Ragemutt

Creature - Elemental Hound

Lifelink, haste

Ragemutts pull the chariots of the Butcher Clowns, a trio of wingless, zombified faeries formerly of the Izzet.

Righteous Authority

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each card in its controller's hand.

At the beginning of the draw step of enchanted creature's controller, that player draws an additional card.

Skull Rend

Sorcery

Skull Rend deals 2 damage to each opponent. Those players each discard two cards at random.

"We could never accept anyone with a face that pretty or a mind that sane."
-Nyoser, Gore-House ringleader

Spawn of Rix Maadi

Creature - Horror

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.)

"Straight from the blood-drenched imagination of our illustrious parun!"
-Nyoser, Gore-House ringleader

Thoughtflare

Instant

Draw four cards, then discard two cards.

"If this is thinking, I don't know what I was doing before."

Vraska the Unseen

Planeswalker - Vraska (Loyalty: 5)

+1: Until your next turn, whenever a creature deals combat damage to Vraska the Unseen, destroy that creature.

-3: Destroy target nonland permanent.

-7: Put three 1/1 black Assassin creature tokens onto the battlefield with "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."

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.

Golgari Longlegs

Creature - Insect

Despite its enormous stature, it can fold itself into a tunnel with startling quickness, vanishing back into the undercity.

Righteous Cause

Enchantment

Whenever a creature attacks, you gain 1 life.

"Until the world unites in vengeful fury and Phage is destroyed, I will not stay my hand."
-Akroma, angelic avenger

Shattered Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may gain 3 life.

She preaches the blessings of the Machine Orthodoxy.

Chromeshell Crab

Creature - Crab Beast

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

When Chromeshell Crab is turned face up, you may exchange control of target creature you control and target creature an opponent controls.

Mulldrifter

Creature - Elemental

Flying

When Mulldrifter enters the battlefield, draw two cards.

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

Battlegrace Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

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

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Knight-Captain of Eos

Creature - Human Knight

When Knight-Captain of Eos enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.

, Sacrifice a Soldier: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

The strength of Bant's caste system is the unfailing loyalty of its meekest members.

Scourglass

Artifact

, Sacrifice Scourglass: Destroy all permanents except for artifacts and lands. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

"Soon I will sleep, eyes closing to a world tarnished with flesh, and then wake to a polished vision."
-Sharuum

Welkin Guide

Creature - Bird Cleric

Flying

When Welkin Guide enters the battlefield, target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.

"Those talons really dig into your skin, but it's better than being dropped."
-Rafiq of the Many

Cloudheath Drake

Artifact Creature - Drake

Flying

: Cloudheath Drake gains vigilance until end of turn.

A permanent storm rages over the plain of Cloudheath, and drakes ride its currents-two reminders that some elements of Esper will not be controlled.

Coma Veil

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant artifact or creature

Enchanted permanent doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Etherium does not know sleep. Only magic can teach it the resting state of cold steel.

Covenant of Minds

Sorcery

Reveal the top three cards of your library. Target opponent may choose to put those cards into your hand. If he or she doesn't, put those cards into your graveyard and draw five cards.

Before signing anything on Grixis, always read the fine print.

Tezzeret the Seeker

Planeswalker - Tezzeret (Loyalty: 4)

+1: Untap up to two target artifacts.

-X: Search your library for an artifact card with converted mana cost X or less and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

-5: Artifacts you control become 5/5 artifact creatures until end of turn.

Ad Nauseam

Instant

Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost. You may repeat this process any number of times.

When the task spilled over into undeath, he stopped calling it his life's work.

Corpse Connoisseur

Creature - Zombie Wizard

When Corpse Connoisseur enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a creature card and put that card into your graveyard. If you do, shuffle your library.

Unearth (: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Dreg Reaver

Creature - Zombie Beast

"On our thirty-fourth day of digging, we unearthed a chamber that contained the intact remains of several species long extinct from Grixis. One in particular should make a fine siege engine . . . ."
-Last notes of Shungus Nod, fleshcrafter

Skeletal Kathari

Creature - Bird Skeleton

Flying

, Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate Skeletal Kathari.

Undeath doesn't end the kathari's search for carrion; it only removes one corpse from the Dregscape.

Bloodpyre Elemental

Creature - Elemental

Sacrifice Bloodpyre Elemental: Bloodpyre Elemental deals 4 damage to target creature. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Elementals born of Jund are as cruel and unstable as the plane itself.

Caldera Hellion

Creature - Hellion

Devour 1 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

When Caldera Hellion enters the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to each creature.

Scourge Devil

Creature - Devil

When Scourge Devil enters the battlefield, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Unearth (: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Skeletonize

Instant

Skeletonize deals 3 damage to target creature. When a creature dealt damage this way dies this turn, put a 1/1 black Skeleton creature token onto the battlefield with ": Regenerate this creature."

Fire burns away both flesh and freedom.

Volcanic Submersion

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

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

A dragon's death is almost as feared as its life. Old, dying dragons throw themselves into volcanoes, causing massive upheaval and widespread disaster.

Where Ancients Tread

Enchantment

Whenever a creature with power 5 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Where Ancients Tread deal 5 damage to target creature or player.

"Never subtle nor cryptic is the reckoning of the mighty."
-Mayael the Anima

Mosstodon

Creature - Plant Elephant

: Target creature with power 5 or greater gains trample until end of turn.

Whether gargantuans are the manifested will of Progenitus or simply the result of overabundant resources is moot when a herd of them is thundering at you.

Mycoloth

Creature - Fungus

Devour 2 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield for each +1/+1 counter on Mycoloth.

Skullmulcher

Creature - Elemental

Devour 1 (As this enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters the battlefield with that many +1/+1 counters on it.)

When Skullmulcher enters the battlefield, draw a card for each creature it devoured.

Soul's Might

Sorcery

Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's power.

An avatar he sculpts of instinct and force.

Carrion Thrash

Creature - Viashino Warrior

When Carrion Thrash dies, you may pay . If you do, return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Viashino hunt in gangs called thrashes. Not all thrashes hunt the freshest game.

Kresh the Bloodbraided

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

Whenever another creature dies, you may put X +1/+1 counters on Kresh the Bloodbraided, where X is that creature's power.

Each of his twenty-two braids is bound with bone and leather from a foe.

Rakeclaw Gargantuan

Creature - Beast

: Target creature with power 5 or greater gains first strike until end of turn.

Naya teems with gargantuans, titanic monsters to whom both nature and civilization defer.

Waveskimmer Aven

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying

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

The greatest gift you can give a sea aven is solitude.

Lich's Mirror

Artifact

If you would lose the game, instead shuffle your hand, your graveyard, and all permanents you own into your library, then draw seven cards and your life total becomes 20.

It shows not what you are but what you were.

Minion Reflector

Artifact

Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay . If you do, put a token that's a copy of that creature onto the battlefield. That token has haste and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this permanent."

To crack a mirror is to provide an opening for the reflection to escape.

Aven Archer

Creature - Bird Soldier Archer

Flying

, : Aven Archer deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.

Aimed by the eyes of eagles, their arrows never miss the mark.

Aven Flock

Creature - Bird Soldier

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

: Aven Flock gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Just as each added feather steadies the wing, so does the flock grow stronger with each new member.

Second Thoughts

Instant

Exile target attacking creature.

Draw a card.

It suddenly dawned on Jorin that farming was quite a noble profession.

Aven Windreader

Creature - Bird Soldier Wizard

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)

: Target player reveals the top card of his or her library.

"The tiniest ripple tells a story ten fathoms deep."

Balshan Griffin

Creature - Griffin

Flying

, Discard a card: Return Balshan Griffin to its owner's hand.

It helps to have an extra direction in which to run.

Fervent Denial

Instant

Counter target spell.

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

"Your tenacity is admirable. And futile."
-Emperor Aboshan

Laquatus's Creativity

Sorcery

Target player draws cards equal to the number of cards in his or her hand, then discards that many cards.

One never knows when inspiration will bubble up.

Persuasion

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)

You control enchanted creature.

"Protocol demands that you bow down before me. I always stand on protocol."

Pulsating Illusion

Creature - Illusion

Flying

Discard a card: Pulsating Illusion gets +4/+4 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Scrivener

Creature - Human Wizard

When Scrivener enters the battlefield, you may return target instant card from your graveyard to your hand.

A good memory is no match for a good scribe.

Traumatize

Sorcery

Target player puts the top half of his or her library, rounded down, into his or her graveyard.

Dreads had half a mind to leave.

Cursed Monstrosity

Creature - Horror

Flying

Whenever Cursed Monstrosity becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it unless you discard a land card.

"Run away It's an . . . um . . . run away"
-Nomad sentry

Haunting Echoes

Sorcery

Exile all cards from target player's graveyard other than basic land cards. For each card exiled this way, search that player's library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Repentant Vampire

Creature - Vampire

Flying

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

Threshold - As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Repentant Vampire is white and has ": Destroy target black creature."

Sadistic Hypnotist

Creature - Human Minion

Sacrifice a creature: Target player discards two cards. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

"Victory in the pits is almost as rewarding as the methods I use to achieve it."

Screams of the Damned

Enchantment

, Exile a card from your graveyard: Screams of the Damned deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

It's important to face your inner demons . . . unless they're the kind of demons that can kill you.

Traveling Plague

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of each upkeep, put a plague counter on Traveling Plague.

Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 for each plague counter on Traveling Plague.

When enchanted creature leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller returns Traveling Plague from its owner's graveyard to the battlefield.

Zombie Assassin

Creature - Zombie Assassin

, Exile two cards from your graveyard and Zombie Assassin: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

"Zombies don't kill. They recruit."
-Braids, dementia summoner

Anarchist

Creature - Human Wizard

When Anarchist enters the battlefield, you may return target sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Those who will not follow are doomed to lead.

Burning Sands

Enchantment

Whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller sacrifices a land.

"Pain teaches lessons no scholar can."
-Kamahl, pit fighter

Dwarven Strike Force

Creature - Dwarf Berserker

Discard a card at random: Dwarven Strike Force gains first strike and haste until end of turn.

Any given foothill may hide dozens of dwarves waiting to spill from their tunnels like fire ants.

Epicenter

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices a land.

Threshold - Each player sacrifices all lands he or she controls instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Sometimes destruction is Dominaria's way of rebuilding. Sometimes it's not.

Frenetic Ogre

Creature - Ogre

, Discard a card at random: Frenetic Ogre gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

The best thing about ogres is that they never try to sneak up on you.

Savage Firecat

Creature - Elemental Cat

Trample

Savage Firecat enters the battlefield with seven +1/+1 counters on it.

Whenever you tap a land for mana, remove a +1/+1 counter from Savage Firecat.

Shower of Coals

Sorcery

Shower of Coals deals 2 damage to each of up to three target creatures and/or players.

Threshold - Shower of Coals deals 4 damage to each of those creatures and/or players instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Thermal Blast

Instant

Thermal Blast deals 3 damage to target creature.

Threshold - Thermal Blast deals 5 damage to that creature instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Beast Attack

Instant

Put a 4/4 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.

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

Gorilla Titan

Creature - Ape

Trample

Gorilla Titan gets +4/+4 as long as there are no cards in your graveyard.

"I want a banana this big"

Metamorphic Wurm

Creature - Elephant Wurm

Threshold - Metamorphic Wurm gets +4/+4 as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Only a handful have seen it transform. Or, from the wurm's perspective, only a mouthful.

Rabid Elephant

Creature - Elephant

Whenever Rabid Elephant becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

When in doubt, stomp.

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.

Atogatog

Legendary Creature - Atog

Sacrifice an Atog creature: Atogatog gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

It relishes old-fashioned family meals.

Mirari

Legendary Artifact

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay . If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

"It offers you what you want, not what you need."
-Braids, dementia summoner

Norn's Annex

Artifact

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

Creatures can't attack you or a planeswalker you control unless their controller pays for each of those creatures.