Deviant Glee

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and has ": This creature gains trample until end of turn."

"You just need the right incentive to fulfill my dreams."

Devastation Tide

Sorcery

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

Miracle (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

It's hard to argue with a force made of divine will.

Devastating Summons

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Devastating Summons, sacrifice X lands.

Put two X/X red Elemental creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Things born in magma are always angry.

Devastating Dreams

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast Devastating Dreams, discard X cards at random.

Each player sacrifices X lands. Devastating Dreams deals X damage to each creature.

Kamahl dreams of storms of fire.

Devastate

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Devastate deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

"You're willing to die for your homeland. I'm willing to kill for it."
-Latulla, Keldon overseer

Deus of Calamity

Creature - Spirit Avatar

Trample

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

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

Detritivore

Creature - Lhurgoyf

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

Suspend X-. X can't be 0. (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with X time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

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

Detonate

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact with converted mana cost X. It can't be regenerated. Detonate deals X damage to that artifact's controller.

Detention Sphere

Enchantment

When Detention Sphere enters the battlefield, you may exile target nonland permanent not named Detention Sphere and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.

When Detention Sphere leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Detainment Spell

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature's activated abilities can't be activated.

: Attach Detainment Spell to target creature.

Bind the mind rather than the wrist, and you stop the intent to harm before it starts.

Destructor Dragon

Creature - Dragon

Flying

When Destructor Dragon dies, destroy target noncreature permanent.

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

Destructive Urge

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a land.

Red sky at night, dragon's delight.

Destructive Revelry

Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Destructive Revelry deals 2 damage to that permanent's controller.

"Stoke a fire hot enough and you'll never run out of things to burn."
-Xenagos, the Reveler

Destructive Force

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices five lands. Destructive Force deals 5 damage to each creature.

The end of the world rarely comes quietly.

Destructive Flow

Enchantment

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a nonbasic land.

Stage two of the Phyrexian invasion included the complete alteration of Dominaria's landscape.

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.

Despotic Scepter

Artifact

: Destroy target permanent you own. It can't be regenerated.

"We were not meant to have such terrible things. They should be left where we found them, if not destroyed!"
-Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Despondency

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets -2/-0.

When Despondency is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Despondency to its owner's hand.

Despoil

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Its controller loses 2 life.

Nothing could grow where the vile smoke had been, and no one could breathe it and live.

Despise

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.

"Truth is always a weapon in your enemies' hands."
-Geth, Lord of the Vault

Desperate Stand

Sorcery

Strive - Desperate Stand costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Any number of target creatures each get +2/+0 and gain first strike and vigilance until end of turn.

At the Akroan gates, hoplites revived the tactics of Kytheon Iora's infamous irregulars.

Desperate Ritual

Instant - Arcane

Add to your mana pool.

Splice onto Arcane (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Desperate Research

Sorcery

Name a card other than a basic land card. Then reveal the top seven cards of your library and put all of them with that name into your hand. Exile the rest.

Desperate Ravings

Instant

Draw two cards, then discard a card at random.

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

Her mind was quite gone, yet she spoke nothing but truth.

Desperate Gambit

Instant

Choose a source you control and flip a coin. If you win the flip, the next time that source would deal damage this turn, it deals double that damage instead. If you lose the flip, the next time it would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage.

Desolation Twin

Creature - Eldrazi

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

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

Desolation Giant

Creature - Giant

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

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

Desolation Angel

Creature - Angel

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

Flying

When Desolation Angel enters the battlefield, destroy all lands you control. If it was kicked, destroy all lands instead.

Desolation

Enchantment

At the beginning of each end step, each player who tapped a land for mana this turn sacrifices a land. Desolation deals 2 damage to each player who sacrificed a Plains this way.

"Kill a creature, destroy the present. Kill the land, destroy the future."
-Kaervek

Desolate Lighthouse

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Draw a card, then discard a card.

A lonely sentinel facing gales, hurricanes, and tides of homicidal spirits.

Desertion

Instant

Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

First the insult, then the injury.

Deserter's Quarters

Artifact

You may choose not to untap Deserter's Quarters during your untap step.

, : Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Deserter's Quarters remains tapped.

In Akros, the penalty for running from battle is one night's stay in the Deserter's Quarters.

Deserted Temple

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, : Untap target land.

A monument to long-forgotten gods, it stands as a tribute to the fleeting nature of human ways.

Desert Twister

Sorcery

Destroy target permanent.

Desert Nomads

Creature - Human Nomad

Desertwalk

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Desert Nomads by Deserts.

Desert

Land - Desert

: Add to your mana pool.

: Desert deals 1 damage to target attacking creature. Activate this ability only during the end of combat step.

Desecrator Hag

Creature - Hag

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

Loose earth is not a burial but an appetizer.

Desecration Plague

Sorcery

Destroy target enchantment or land.

"The gods think of us as insects. Perhaps there is wisdom in that."
-Perisophia the philosopher

Desecration Elemental

Creature - Elemental

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

Whenever a player casts a spell, sacrifice a creature.

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

Desecration Demon

Creature - Demon

Flying

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

Desecrated Earth

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Its controller discards a card.

"The land is swollen with mana, cursed relics, and secrets. If you puncture it, you never know what will burst out."
-Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Descent of the Dragons

Sorcery

Destroy any number of target creatures. For each creature destroyed this way, its controller puts a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Dragons emerge from tempests fully formed and terribly hungry.

Descent into Madness

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a despair counter on Descent into Madness, then each player exiles X permanents he or she controls and/or cards from his or her hand, where X is the number of despair counters on Descent into Madness.

The stairs lead down in both directions.

Descendants' Path

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card that shares a creature type with a creature you control, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Otherwise, put that card on the bottom of your library.

Descendant of Soramaro

Creature - Human Wizard

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

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

Descendant of Masumaro

Creature - Human Monk

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

Descendant of Kiyomaro

Creature - Human Soldier

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

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

Dermoplasm

Creature - Shapeshifter

Flying

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

When Dermoplasm is turned face up, you may put a creature card with morph from your hand onto the battlefield face up. If you do, return Dermoplasm to its owner's hand.

Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Legendary Creature - Bird Wizard

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

Derelor

Creature - Thrull

Black spells you cast cost more to cast.

"The derelor's greatest contribution to the Ebon Hand was the inspirational effect its creator's execution had upon the other thrull breeders."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. II

Deranged Outcast

Creature - Human Rogue

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

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

Deranged Hermit

Creature - Elf

Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

When Deranged Hermit enters the battlefield, put four 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Squirrel creatures get +1/+1.

Deranged Assistant

Creature - Human Wizard

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

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

Deputy of Acquittals

Creature - Human Wizard

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

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

"Everyone deserves a day in court."

Deprive

Instant

As an additional cost to cast Deprive, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

Counter target spell.

"That would have brought shame to you as a mage. Tell you what-I'll keep your secret."
-Noyan Dar, Tazeem lullmage

Deploy to the Front

Sorcery

Put X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield.

"We will descend upon you like a plague of locusts to purge you from our lands!"
-Hirov, commander of the Thousand Swords

Denying Wind

Sorcery

Search target player's library for up to seven cards and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

"The third wind of ascension is Eliminator, clearing Keld's path to victory."
-Keld Triumphant

Deny Reality

Sorcery

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.)

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Dense Foliage

Enchantment

Creatures can't be the targets of spells.

"Big plants not only good for hidin', but full o' tasty bugs, too."
-Squee, goblin cabin hand

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.

Denizen of the Deep

Creature - Serpent

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

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

Denied!

Instant

Play Denied only as any opponent casts target spell. Name a card, then look at all cards in that player's hand. If the named card is in the player's hand, counter target spell.

"Don't worry about it. It happens to every mage sooner or later."

Den Protector

Creature - Human Warrior

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

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

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

Demystify

Instant

Destroy target enchantment.

Behind every mage is a trail of shattered lies.

Demoralize

Instant

Each creature can't be blocked this turn except by two or more creatures.

Threshold - If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, creatures can't block this turn.

Demonspine Whip

Artifact - Equipment

: Equipped creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Equip

Using a spine to break a slave's back appeals to the Grixis sense of irony.

Demonmail Hauberk

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +4/+2.

Equip-Sacrifice a creature.

It comes off as easily as your own skin.

Demonlord of Ashmouth

Creature - Demon

Flying

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

Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Demonic Tutor

Sorcery

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Demonic Torment

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack.

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by enchanted creature.

Demonic Taskmaster

Creature - Demon

Flying

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

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

Demonic Rising

Enchantment

At the beginning of your end step, if you control exactly one creature, put a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Which is the greater folly, summoning the demon or expecting gratitude from it?

Demonic Hordes

Creature - Demon

: Destroy target land.

At the beginning of your upkeep, unless you pay , tap Demonic Hordes and sacrifice a land of an opponent's choice.

Created to destroy Dominia, Demons can sometimes be bent to a more focused purpose.

Demonic Dread

Sorcery

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.)

Target creature can't block this turn.

Demonic Consultation

Instant

Name a card. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal the named card. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.

Demonic Collusion

Sorcery

Buyback-Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Demonic Attorney

Sorcery

Remove Demonic Attorney from your deck before playing if you're not playing for ante.

Each player antes the top card of his or her library.

Demonic Appetite

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature you control

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

"Morality is just shorthand for the constraints of being powerless."
-Ob Nixilis

Demonfire

Sorcery

Demonfire deals X damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Hellbent - If you have no cards in hand, Demonfire can't be countered by spells or abilities and the damage can't be prevented.

Demon's Jester

Creature - Imp

Flying

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

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

Demon's Horn

Artifact

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Its curve mimics the twists of life and death.

Demon's Herald

Creature - Human Wizard

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

"May these deaths be the first of many."

Demon's Grasp

Sorcery

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

"Take what solace you can in the knowledge that you will not be here to witness Zendikar's demise."-Ob Nixilis

Demon of Wailing Agonies

Creature - Demon

Flying

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

Demon of Death's Gate

Creature - Demon

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

Flying, trample

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

Demolish

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact or land.

"To truly defeat a skaberen, you must destroy not the monster but the lab."
-Rem Karolus, Blade of the Inquisitors

Demigod of Revenge

Creature - Spirit Avatar

Flying, haste

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

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

Dementia Sliver

Creature - Sliver

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

Dementia Bat

Creature - Bat

Flying

, Sacrifice Dementia Bat: Target player discards two cards.

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

Dematerialize

Sorcery

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

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

Delver of Secrets

Creature - Human Wizard

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

Delusions of Mediocrity

Enchantment

When Delusions of Mediocrity enters the battlefield, you gain 10 life.

When Delusions of Mediocrity leaves the battlefield, you lose 10 life.

When nothing but second best will do.

Deluge

Instant

Tap all creatures without flying.

"From the sea came all life, and to the sea it will return. The sooner the better."
-Emperor Aboshan

Delraich

Creature - Horror

Trample

You may sacrifice three black creatures rather than pay Delraich's mana cost.

It wears the souls of its victims like jewels on a chain.

Delirium Skeins

Sorcery

Each player discards three cards.

There came a rush, a sudden fire in the mind. Then the two saw only the sooty fog of madness, heard only the crackling of their last thoughts burning away.

Delirium

Instant

Cast Delirium only during an opponent's turn.

Tap target creature that player controls. That creature deals damage equal to its power to the player. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by the creature this turn.

Delif's Cube

Artifact

, : This turn, when target creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, it assigns no combat damage this turn and you put a cube counter on Delif's Cube.

, Remove a cube counter from Delif's Cube: Regenerate target creature.

Delif's Cone

Artifact

, Sacrifice Delif's Cone: This turn, when target creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, you may gain life equal to its power. If you do, it assigns no combat damage this turn.

"Where is it written that beasts must cause pain?" -Delif, Ponderings

Delaying Shield

Enchantment

If damage would be dealt to you, put that many delay counters on Delaying Shield instead.

At the beginning of your upkeep, remove all delay counters from Delaying Shield. For each delay counter removed this way, you lose 1 life unless you pay .

Delay

Instant

Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, remove a counter from that card. When the last is removed, the player plays it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)