Akki Underling

Creature - Goblin Warrior

As long as you have seven or more cards in hand, Akki Underling gets +2/+1 and has first strike.

"I lost my hounds in the war and thus found myself employing akki as servants. I found their training to be remarkably similar."
-Kensuke, houndmaster

Dense Canopy

Enchantment

Creatures with flying can block only creatures with flying.

The orochi learned how to move swiftly and surely along the forest floor, like fish darting through gull-watched waters.

Shinen of Life's Roar

Creature - Spirit

All creatures able to block Shinen of Life's Roar do so.

Channel - , Discard Shinen of Life's Roar: All creatures able to block target creature this turn do so.

Ashes of the Fallen

Artifact

As Ashes of the Fallen enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

Each creature card in your graveyard has the chosen creature type in addition to its other types.

The ashes of the dead mingle with the soil, and both become as one.

Ebony Owl Netsuke

Artifact

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has seven or more cards in hand, Ebony Owl Netsuke deals 4 damage to him or her.

"Owls filled the skies during the Kami War, harbingers of darker times to come."
-The History of Kamigawa

Ivory Crane Netsuke

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have seven or more cards in hand, you gain 4 life.

It is said that the feathers of a crane are clouds, plucked and sewn together by the hands of the kami.

Manriki-Gusari

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has ": Destroy target Equipment."

Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Scroll of Origins

Artifact

, : Draw a card if you have seven or more cards in hand.

The words from which language sprang, the knowledge from which thought was born, the story from which history was woven.

Courier Hawk

Creature - Bird

Flying, vigilance

The Orzhov started using hawks as messengers in order to bypass the many toll roads and bridges that dot Ravnica. Soon the service became one of their most profitable businesses.

Flickerform

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

: Exile enchanted creature and all Auras attached to it. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If you do, return the other cards exiled this way to the battlefield under their owners' control attached to that creature.

Leave No Trace

Instant

Radiance - Destroy target enchantment and each other enchantment that shares a color with it.

The magic of the Boros patrols the streets even when their soldiers do not.

Suppression Field

Enchantment

Activated abilities cost more to activate unless they're mana abilities.

The most feared of Azorius punishments is to be freed-sent back out into the world, stripped of all magical defenses.

Veteran Armorer

Creature - Human Soldier

Other creatures you control get +0/+1.

"Give me a sword and I'll kill a few enemies. But give me a hammer and a fiery forge, and I'll turn the tide of battle."

Drake Familiar

Creature - Drake

Flying

When Drake Familiar enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you return an enchantment to its owner's hand.

"Falconry? A fine sport I suppose, if you're attracted to the frailty of birds."
-Trivaz, Izzet mage

Lore Broker

Creature - Human Rogue

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

Lies are sold as often as truths-and used just as effectively.

Muddle the Mixture

Instant

Counter target instant or sorcery spell.

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.)

Quickchange

Instant

Target creature becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.

Draw a card.

Most Ravnicans lead lives of desperate survival. Those who thrive are malleable enough to change with the ever-shifting politics of the guilds.

Remand

Instant

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it into its owner's hand instead of into that player's graveyard.

Draw a card.

"Well, at least all of that arm-waving and arcane babbling you did was impressive."

Surveilling Sprite

Creature - Faerie Rogue

Flying

When Surveilling Sprite dies, you may draw a card.

Their natural curiosity, combined with a knack for trespassing, makes sprites excellent spies.

Blood Funnel

Enchantment

Noncreature spells you cast cost less to cast.

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, counter that spell unless you sacrifice a creature.

Clinging Darkness

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -4/-1.

There's an experience worse than blindness-it's the certainty that your vision is perfect and the horror that there's no world around you to see.

Dark Confidant

Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost.

Greatness, at any cost.

Golgari Thug

Creature - Human Warrior

When Golgari Thug dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly four cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)

Hunted Horror

Creature - Horror

Trample

When Hunted Horror enters the battlefield, put two 3/3 green Centaur creature tokens with protection from black onto the battlefield under target opponent's control.

Last Gasp

Instant

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

"Allow me a moment to catch your breath."

Roofstalker Wight

Creature - Zombie

: Roofstalker Wight gains flying until end of turn.

No heartbeat to hear, no greed to bribe, no fear of death.

Shred Memory

Instant

Exile up to four target cards from a single graveyard.

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.)

Fiery Conclusion

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Fiery Conclusion, sacrifice a creature.

Fiery Conclusion deals 5 damage to target creature.

The Boros legionnaire saw a noble sacrifice, the Rakdos thug a blazing suicide, and the Izzet alchemist an experiment gone awry.

Instill Furor

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has "At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice this creature unless it attacked this turn."

"The Rakdos know little of technology, but they definitely know how to push buttons."
-Trivaz, Izzet mage

Rain of Embers

Sorcery

Rain of Embers deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

There's plenty to talk about in the marketplaces of Ravnica, be it the latest feud between guilds or the terrible weather.

Reroute

Instant

Change the target of target activated ability with a single target. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Draw a card.

Three hundred years of practice thwarted by an instant of mischief.

Sell-Sword Brute

Creature - Human Mercenary

When Sell-Sword Brute dies, it deals 2 damage to you.

"Killing is easy. Just wrap your hand around the haft, and wrap your enemy around the blade."

Viashino Slasher

Creature - Viashino Warrior

: Viashino Slasher gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Citizens of Ravnica stick to the main streets. Shortcuts may look tempting, but down each alley, dozens of hungry hands await, and screams do not carry into the busy market throng.

Fists of Ironwood

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

When Fists of Ironwood enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Enchanted creature has trample.

Saprolings add the three and the four to the "one-two punch."

Life from the Loam

Sorcery

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)

Transluminant

Creature - Dryad Shaman

, Sacrifice Transluminant: Put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step.

"Forget yourself. Forget your city. Forget your homes, your families, the debts and obligations that hold you to this world."

Vinelasher Kudzu

Creature - Plant

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Vinelasher Kudzu.

It grows to hate you.

Boros Swiftblade

Creature - Human Soldier

Double strike

When the Boros Legion attacks, swiftblades enter the fray first. They pick off the archers and mages, softening the enemy front before the flame-kin and giants go in.

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.)

Glimpse the Unthinkable

Sorcery

Target player puts the top ten cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

"I am confident that if anyone actually penetrates our facades, even the most perceptive would still be fundamentally unprepared for the truth of House Dimir."
-Szadek

Lightning Helix

Instant

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.

Though less well-known than its army of soldiers, the Boros Legion's mage-priests are as respected by the innocent as they are hated by the ghosts of the guilty.

Psychic Drain

Sorcery

Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard and you gain X life.

"Gold can be reearned, goods restored. The moroii steal youth, more precious than either, and once gone, it's gone forever."
-Berta Suszat, civic healer

Seeds of Strength

Instant

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Beneath the beauty of light and seed is the might of Vitu-Ghazi.

Selesnya Evangel

Creature - Elf Shaman

, , Tap an untapped creature you control: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

"The clamor of the city drowns all voices. But together we can sing a harmony that will resonate from Ravnica's tallest spires to her deepest wells."

Thundersong Trumpeter

Creature - Human Soldier

: Target creature can't attack or block this turn.

"Hear that? Those notes mean we've arrived at Sunhome! Let our allies' hearts soar and our enemies' hearts shatter at the sound!"
-Klattic, Boros legionnaire

Watchwolf

Creature - Wolf

Only in Ravnica do the wolves watch the flock.

Boros Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

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.

Golgari Guildmage

Creature - Elf Shaman

, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

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

Lurking Informant

Creature - Human Rogue

( can be paid with either or .)

, : Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card into that player's graveyard.

In the undercity, forgetfulness is often encouraged at the point of a blade.

Selesnya Guildmage

Creature - Elf Wizard

: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Shadow of Doubt

Instant

( can be paid with either or .)

Players can't search libraries this turn.

Draw a card.

"Your ignorance is my bliss."
-Szadek

Boros Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

"Have you ever held a Boros signet? There's a weight to it that belies its size-a weight of strength and of pride."
-Agrus Kos

Crown of Convergence

Artifact

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

As long as the top card of your library is a creature card, creatures you control that share a color with that card get +1/+1.

: Put the top card of your library on the bottom of your library.

Cyclopean Snare

Artifact

, : Tap target creature, then return Cyclopean Snare to its owner's hand.

The spoiled, gluttonous halls of the Orzhov teem with gaudy, needless wealth. Even their security measures are made for beauty first, efficiency second.

Dimir Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

An emblem of a secret guild, the Dimir insignia is seen only by its own members-and the doomed.

Golgari Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

Depending on your point of view, the seal represents a proud guardian of the natural cycle or one who has sold her soul to darkness for eternal life.

Selesnya Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

The symbol of the Conclave is one of unity, with tree supporting sun and sun feeding tree.

To Arms!

Instant

Untap all creatures you control.

Draw a card.

"The call came, spell-borne through mortar and stone to the ear of every soldier. The call came, and the advantage was ours."
-Lodusz, captain of the watch

Hatching Plans

Enchantment

When Hatching Plans is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw three cards.

So wondrous to behold, so delicate and finely crafted-and yet, such a pleasure to smash.

Train of Thought

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost.)

Draw a card.

"But then . . . oh, but . . . which means . . . which would lead to . . . exactly!"

Vertigo Spawn

Creature - Illusion

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Vertigo Spawn blocks a creature, tap that creature. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Pyromatics

Instant

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Pyromatics deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Siege of Towers

Sorcery

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Target Mountain becomes a 3/1 creature. It's still a land.

Tin Street Hooligan

Creature - Goblin Rogue

When Tin Street Hooligan enters the battlefield, if was spent to cast Tin Street Hooligan, destroy target artifact.

"Rauck-Chauv's like a holiday! Only it isn't on the calendars, and instead of dancing you knock people flat, and instead of giving gifts you break stuff."

Dryad Sophisticate

Creature - Dryad

Nonbasic landwalk

From Tin Street to the Outcast Mansions, she walks unbidden and unbound, her graceful silence never shaken by the riot of city life around her.

Gatherer of Graces

Creature - Human Druid

Gatherer of Graces gets +1/+1 for each Aura attached to it.

Sacrifice an Aura: Regenerate Gatherer of Graces.

"Garb is for common folk. I prefer to wear insight and zeal, ambition and flame."

Silhana Ledgewalker

Creature - Elf Rogue

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

Silhana Ledgewalker can't be blocked except by creatures with flying.

Street folk call them "spire mice," but behind the mockery is an unspoken envy of the ledgewalkers' skill at avoiding harm.

Castigate

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.

"We have no need for military might. We wield two of the sharpest swords ever forged: Faith in our left hand, Wealth in our right."
-Vuliev of the Ghost Council

Conjurer's Ban

Sorcery

Name a card. Until your next turn, the named card can't be played.

Draw a card.

Orzhov faithful file past to have their minds purged of "impure" desires. There, the guiltwardens eliminate any thoughts of hope or self-sufficiency.

Leap of Flame

Instant

Replicate (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains flying and first strike until end of turn.

Scab-Clan Mauler

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.)

Trample

Gruul Guildmage

Creature - Human Shaman

( can be paid with either or .)

, Sacrifice a land: Gruul Guildmage deals 2 damage to target player.

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

Izzet Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

( can be paid with either or .)

: Copy target instant spell you control with converted mana cost 2 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.

: Copy target sorcery spell you control with converted mana cost 2 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Mourning Thrull

Creature - Thrull

( can be paid with either or .)

Flying

Whenever Mourning Thrull deals damage, you gain that much life.

Orzhov Guildmage

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target player gains 1 life.

: Each player loses 1 life.

Gruul Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

Izzet Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

Orzhov Signet

Artifact

, : Add to your mana pool.

Beacon Hawk

Creature - Bird

Flying

Whenever Beacon Hawk deals combat damage to a player, you may untap target creature.

: Beacon Hawk gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Carom

Instant

The next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn is dealt to another target creature instead.

Draw a card.

Her enemy's strength is her own.

Mistral Charger

Creature - Pegasus

Flying

Some sky steeds break from the thundering herd to ride free on the open winds.

Plaxmanta

Creature - Beast

Flash

When Plaxmanta enters the battlefield, creatures you control gain shroud until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

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

Skyscribing

Sorcery

Each player draws X cards.

Forecast - , Reveal Skyscribing from your hand: Each player draws a card. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Vision Skeins

Instant

Each player draws two cards.

"I could see in the other mage's eyes that he'd thought of it too. Then it became a race to exploit the knowledge first."

Brain Pry

Sorcery

Name a nonland card. Target player reveals his or her hand. That player discards a card with that name. If he or she can't, you draw a card.

To the Rakdos, the fun is in the shakedown. The loot is usually discarded.

Drekavac

Creature - Beast

When Drekavac enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you discard a noncreature card.

Like a vulture's scalp, the face of a drekavac is oily and hairless. The filth and disease of its carrion diet slip off its blood-slick skin.

Infernal Tutor

Sorcery

Reveal a card from your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Hellbent - If you have no cards in hand, instead search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

Macabre Waltz

Sorcery

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card.

"All dead move to the hollow rhythm of necromancy."
-Savra

Nightcreep

Instant

Until end of turn, all creatures become black and all lands become Swamps.

"Please tell me I'm hallucinating. I'd rather be crazy than here."
-Gorev Hadszak, Wojek investigator

Ignorant Bliss

Instant

Exile all cards from your hand face down. At the beginning of the next end step, return those cards to your hand, then draw a card.

"A quick step beyond oblivion lies a place so full of thoughts that it leaves no room for your own."
-Quyzl, chronarch prodigy

Psychotic Fury

Instant

Target multicolored creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Draw a card.

"Rage, my servants. Our ancient power is renewed in blood."
-Rakdos

Squealing Devil

Creature - Devil

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

When Squealing Devil enters the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

When Squealing Devil enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless was spent to cast it.

Utvara Scalper

Creature - Goblin Scout

Flying

Utvara Scalper attacks each turn if able.

He wages war wherever the wind carries him.

Aquastrand Spider

Creature - Spider Mutant

Graft 2 (This creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)

: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Might of the Nephilim

Instant

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each of its colors.

"Send a runner to Tin Street, and tell 'em the delivery has been . . . uh . . . held up."
-Bonmod, caravan rear guard

Azorius First-Wing

Creature - Griffin

Flying, protection from enchantments

With a steady diet of lawbreakers, Azorius griffins inevitably develop a resistance to the contraband magic that taints much of their prey.

Coiling Oracle

Creature - Snake Elf Druid

When Coiling Oracle enters the battlefield, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Snaking remnants of nature directed by a body of thought and progress, the oracles embody all that is Simic.

Gobhobbler Rats

Creature - Rat

Hellbent - As long as you have no cards in hand, Gobhobbler Rats gets +1/+0 and has ": Regenerate Gobhobbler Rats."

Lyzolda's pet rats eat better than the average citizen. In fact, they can usually be found eating the average citizen.

Overrule

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays . You gain X life.

With one commanding word, the spell was put down and a fine collected for its casting.