Beetleform Mage

Creature - Human Insect Wizard

: Beetleform Mage gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.

"When the Simic say to take command of your life, we don't mean just your career."
-Vorel of the Hull Clade

Blaze Commando

Creature - Minotaur Soldier

Whenever an instant or sorcery spell you control deals damage, put two 1/1 red and white Soldier creature tokens with haste onto the battlefield.

A true Boros commando only calls for reinforcements so they can clean up the mess.

Blood Baron of Vizkopa

Creature - Vampire

Lifelink, protection from white and from black

As long as you have 30 or more life and an opponent has 10 or less life, Blood Baron of Vizkopa gets +6/+6 and has flying.

Blood Scrivener

Creature - Zombie Wizard

If you would draw a card while you have no cards in hand, instead draw two cards and lose 1 life.

Make sure you bleed the fine print.

Boros Battleshaper

Creature - Minotaur Soldier

At the beginning of each combat, up to one target creature attacks or blocks this combat if able and up to one target creature can't attack or block this combat.

Leaders shape the minds of their allies. It takes a master to shape the minds of enemies.

Boros Mastiff

Creature - Hound

Battalion - Whenever Boros Mastiff and at least two other creatures attack, Boros Mastiff gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Bronzebeak Moa

Creature - Bird

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, Bronzebeak Moa gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

They fight for their home with more loyalty than any conscript.

Carnage Gladiator

Creature - Skeleton Warrior

Whenever a creature blocks, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

: Regenerate Carnage Gladiator.

Not the foulest or bloodiest act at Rix Maadi by a stretch.

Council of the Absolute

Creature - Human Advisor

As Council of the Absolute enters the battlefield, name a card other than a creature or land card.

Your opponents can't cast cards with the chosen name.

Spells with the chosen name you cast cost less to cast.

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."

Emmara Tandris

Legendary Creature - Elf Shaman

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creature tokens you control.

When Selesnya needed a champion, Emmara put the ranks of her guild before herself-making her the perfect choice.

Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

First strike, haste

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.)

Each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has haste.

Fluxcharger

Creature - Weird

Flying

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may switch Fluxcharger's power and toughness until end of turn.

One part mizzium, two parts elemental energy, eleven parts danger.

Goblin Test Pilot

Creature - Goblin Wizard

Flying

: Goblin Test Pilot deals 2 damage to target creature or player chosen at random.

"All pilots and prototypes destroyed. Extensive collateral damage inflicted. Conclusion: flawless design."
-Manual of Melek

Haazda Snare Squad

Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever Haazda Snare Squad attacks, you may pay . If you do, tap target creature an opponent controls.

They've been probation officers, army grunts, bounty hunters-anything to make their district safer.

Haunter of Nightveil

Creature - Spirit

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0.

The Dimir employ the spirits of Ravnica's ancient, nameless dead, guiding their malevolence toward selected victims.

Hired Torturer

Creature - Human Rogue

Defender

, : Target opponent loses 2 life, then reveals a card at random from his or her hand.

"Follow your passion, I always say. Might as well get paid to do what you love."

Jelenn Sphinx

Creature - Sphinx

Flying, vigilance

Whenever Jelenn Sphinx attacks, other attacking creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Few among the Azorius have ever spoken with the sphinxes, but all have felt their influence.

Korozda Gorgon

Creature - Gorgon

Deathtouch

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

"Welcome to my collection."

Kraul Warrior

Creature - Insect Warrior

: Kraul Warrior gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

The insectile kraul lurk in the tunnels below street level. Many are loyal to the Golgari Swarm, but others follow their own esoteric caste system.

Lavinia of the Tenth

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

Protection from red

When Lavinia of the Tenth enters the battlefield, detain each nonland permanent your opponents control with converted mana cost 4 or less. (Until your next turn, those permanents can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)

Master of Cruelties

Creature - Demon

First strike, deathtouch

Master of Cruelties can only attack alone.

Whenever Master of Cruelties attacks a player and isn't blocked, that player's life total becomes 1. Master of Cruelties assigns no combat damage this combat.

Maw of the Obzedat

Creature - Thrull

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

The devout sacrifice themselves to it hoping for escape from their debts to the guild, but many end up owing in the afterlife.

Maze Abomination

Creature - Elemental

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Multicolored creatures you control have deathtouch.

Maze Behemoth

Creature - Elemental

Trample

Multicolored creatures you control have trample.

It returned to the leylines as quickly as it had appeared, leaving only broken bodies to mark its passage.

Maze Glider

Creature - Elemental

Flying

Multicolored creatures you control have flying.

The pattern of the Implicit Maze extends in more than two dimensions.

Maze Rusher

Creature - Elemental

Haste

Multicolored creatures you control have haste.

"The maze seems to fight us at every turn, resisting our efforts to solve it."
-Niv-Mizzet

Maze Sentinel

Creature - Elemental

Vigilance

Multicolored creatures you control have vigilance.

The route has been known for millennia, but only by those with no means to tell it.

Melek, Izzet Paragon

Legendary Creature - Weird Wizard

Play with the top card of your library revealed.

You may cast the top card of your library if it's an instant or sorcery card.

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your library, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker

Legendary Creature - Vampire

Flying

Whenever Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals four land cards, then puts those cards into his or her graveyard.

Murmuring Phantasm

Creature - Spirit

Defender

"The most insidious thing in the world is nonsense that sounds just plausible enough to listen to."
-Lazav

Nivix Cyclops

Creature - Cyclops

Defender

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Nivix Cyclops gets +3/+0 until end of turn and can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.

Notion Thief

Creature - Human Rogue

Flash

If an opponent would draw a card except the first one he or she draws in each of his or her draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Opal Lake Gatekeepers

Creature - Vedalken Soldier

When Opal Lake Gatekeepers enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Gates, you may draw a card.

Sentries guard Ravnica's landmarks and outlying districts, unaware of these places' import to the maze.

Pontiff of Blight

Creature - Zombie Cleric

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

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

Progenitor Mimic

Creature - Shapeshifter

You may have Progenitor Mimic enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield except it gains "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this creature isn't a token, put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of this creature."

Pyrewild Shaman

Creature - Goblin Shaman

Bloodrush - , Discard Pyrewild Shaman: Target attacking creature gets +3/+1 until end of turn.

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, if Pyrewild Shaman is in your graveyard, you may pay . If you do, return Pyrewild Shaman to your hand.

Rakdos Drake

Creature - Drake

Flying

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

Rakdos rioters paint their faces to resemble the drakes' bloodied muzzles.

Renegade Krasis

Creature - Beast Mutant

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Whenever Renegade Krasis evolves, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Riot Piker

Creature - Goblin Berserker

First strike

Riot Piker attacks each turn if able.

He doesn't care whether he's rioting about trade rights or just having a drunken brawl. He wakes up every morning eager to smash some heads.

Rot Farm Skeleton

Creature - Plant Skeleton

Rot Farm Skeleton can't block.

, Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard: Return Rot Farm Skeleton from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Rubblebelt Maaka

Creature - Cat

Bloodrush - , Discard Rubblebelt Maaka: Target attacking creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

"The maaka remain loyal to us in this time of strife. We don't even have to feed them-our enemies do."
-Nedja, Gruul shaman

Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

Legendary Creature - Ogre Warrior

Vigilance, reach

Ruric Thar, the Unbowed attacks each turn if able.

Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, Ruric Thar deals 6 damage to that player.

Saruli Gatekeepers

Creature - Elf Warrior

When Saruli Gatekeepers enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Gates, you gain 7 life.

In Ravnica's wilder districts, nature still stirs, and its protectors still mind their posts.

Savageborn Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Double strike

Savageborn Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

: Put a +1/+1 counter on Savageborn Hydra. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Scab-Clan Giant

Creature - Giant Warrior

When Scab-Clan Giant enters the battlefield, it fights target creature an opponent controls chosen at random.

For the Gruul, bone-crushing rage is the first priority. Accuracy comes in a distant ninetieth.

Scion of Vitu-Ghazi

Creature - Elemental

When Scion of Vitu-Ghazi enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, put a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield, then populate. (Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Sin Collector

Creature - Human Cleric

When Sin Collector enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it and exile that card.

"That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you."

Sire of Insanity

Creature - Demon

At the beginning of each end step, each player discards his or her hand.

Its victims become mindless lunatics. Conveniently, that's the first step in joining the Cult of Rakdos.

Skylasher

Creature - Insect

Flash

Skylasher can't be countered.

Reach, protection from blue

"It preys on those who would spy on our lands, so we never prey on it."
-Kroshkar, Gruul shaman

Smelt-Ward Gatekeepers

Creature - Human Warrior

When Smelt-Ward Gatekeepers enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Gates, gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Species Gorger

Creature - Frog Beast

At the beginning of your upkeep, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

"We raised eelhawks to control the squidflies, then waspcrabs to prey on the eelhawks. Now what do we do with all these waspcrabs?"
-Gulistan, Simic biomancer

Spike Jester

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Haste

For the Rakdos, "suicidal charge" and "good showmanship" are one and the same.

Steeple Roc

Creature - Bird

Flying, first strike

"Sometimes it forgets to loosen its grip before taking flight. I lost my roof that way."
-Ecaban, Boros scout

Sunspire Gatekeepers

Creature - Human Soldier

When Sunspire Gatekeepers enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Gates, put a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield.

"You will pass with respect, or you will not pass at all."

Tajic, Blade of the Legion

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

Indestructible

Battalion - Whenever Tajic, Blade of the Legion and at least two other creatures attack, Tajic gets +5/+5 until end of turn.

"I run the maze alone, but I fight with the full might of the Legion."

Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

Vigilance, protection from creatures

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, destroy that creature. Put a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Thrashing Mossdog

Creature - Plant Hound

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Scavenge (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Tithe Drinker

Creature - Vampire

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

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Trostani's Summoner

Creature - Elf Shaman

When Trostani's Summoner enters the battlefield, put a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance, a 3/3 green Centaur creature token, and a 4/4 green Rhino creature token with trample onto the battlefield.

Ubul Sar Gatekeepers

Creature - Zombie Soldier

When Ubul Sar Gatekeepers enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Gates, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

There are many gates into the undercity, but few ways out.

Varolz, the Scar-Striped

Legendary Creature - Troll Warrior

Each creature card in your graveyard has scavenge. The scavenge cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Varolz, the Scar-Striped.

Viashino Firstblade

Creature - Viashino Soldier

Haste

When Viashino Firstblade enters the battlefield, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"All that steel doesn't make them slower. It makes them bolder."
-Tajic, Blade of the Legion

Voice of Resurgence

Creature - Elemental

Whenever an opponent casts a spell during your turn or when Voice of Resurgence dies, put a green and white Elemental creature token onto the battlefield with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control."

Vorel of the Hull Clade

Legendary Creature - Human Merfolk

, : For each counter on target artifact, creature, or land, put another of those counters on that permanent.

"I used to hurl rocks and eat scraps of meat burned over a fire. Look at what I've become and tell me Simic does not hold infinite possibility."

Woodlot Crawler

Creature - Insect

Forestwalk, protection from green

"We learned something from the Simic. Unfortunately for them."
-Nefara, Dimir agent

Zhur-Taa Ancient

Creature - Beast

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana to his or her mana pool of any type that land produced.

Many Ravnicans think of nature as orderly groves and elf-tended rot farms. They haven't seen the Gruul wilds.

Zhur-Taa Druid

Creature - Human Druid

: Add to your mana pool.

Whenever you tap Zhur-Taa Druid for mana, it deals 1 damage to each opponent.

"Only the decadent think magic should be pristine and without cost."

Mesmeric Fiend

Creature - Nightmare Horror

When Mesmeric Fiend enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.

When Mesmeric Fiend leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.

Adaptive Snapjaw

Creature - Lizard Beast

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

"Eh, needs more toad."
-Gulistan, Simic biomancer

Alms Beast

Creature - Beast

Creatures blocking or blocked by Alms Beast have lifelink.

Alms-coins are only redeemable at Orzhov businesses.

Angelic Skirmisher

Creature - Angel

Flying

At the beginning of each combat, choose first strike, vigilance, or lifelink. Creatures you control gain that ability until end of turn.

"A keen mind wields an army as a deft hand wields a sword."

Armored Transport

Artifact Creature - Construct

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to Armored Transport by creatures blocking it.

"If only our jails were as secure."
-Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Aurelia, the Warleader

Legendary Creature - Angel

Flying, vigilance, haste

Whenever Aurelia, the Warleader attacks for the first time each turn, untap all creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

Where Razia was aloof and untouchable, Aurelia is on the frontlines, calling for war.

Balustrade Spy

Creature - Vampire Rogue

Flying

When Balustrade Spy enters the battlefield, target player 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.

Bane Alley Broker

Creature - Human Rogue

: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand face down.

You may look at cards exiled with Bane Alley Broker.

, : Return a card exiled with Bane Alley Broker to its owner's hand.

Basilica Guards

Creature - Human Soldier

Defender

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

"None may pass . . . for free."

Basilica Screecher

Creature - Bat

Flying

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

A screech in the night is all it takes for Orzhov debtors to clutch at their coin purses.

Biovisionary

Creature - Human Wizard

At the beginning of the end step, if you control four or more creatures named Biovisionary, you win the game.

He tired of his fellow researchers and their useless prattling, so he decided to make a network of scholars with whom he could carry a conversation.

Bomber Corps

Creature - Human Soldier

Battalion - Whenever Bomber Corps and at least two other creatures attack, Bomber Corps deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

"Subtlety is for lawmages and spies."

Borborygmos Enraged

Legendary Creature - Cyclops

Trample

Whenever Borborygmos Enraged deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Discard a land card: Borborygmos Enraged deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Boros Elite

Creature - Human Soldier

Battalion - Whenever Boros Elite and at least two other creatures attack, Boros Elite gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

"First, you must fight among the rank and file. It is there I will discern your skills as a leader."
-Aurelia, to Gideon Jura

Boros Reckoner

Creature - Minotaur Wizard

Whenever Boros Reckoner is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target creature or player.

: Boros Reckoner gains first strike until end of turn.

"Imagine a thunderstorm that's also a tactical genius. That's him."
-Dars Gostok, Firefist captain

Burning-Tree Emissary

Creature - Human Shaman

When Burning-Tree Emissary enters the battlefield, add to your mana pool.

Those who regard the Gruul as savage simpletons underestimate the subtle power of their shamans.

Cartel Aristocrat

Creature - Human Advisor

Sacrifice another creature: Cartel Aristocrat gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

"Your life serves a higher purpose now: ensuring the continuation of my own."

Cinder Elemental

Creature - Elemental

, , Sacrifice Cinder Elemental: Cinder Elemental deals X damage to target creature or player.

Their rage can grow to such proportions that they explode in a cloud of fire.

Clinging Anemones

Creature - Jellyfish

Defender

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Cloudfin Raptor

Creature - Bird Mutant

Flying

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Consuming Aberration

Creature - Horror

Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards.

Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent 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.

Corpse Blockade

Creature - Zombie

Defender

Sacrifice another creature: Corpse Blockade gains deathtouch until end of turn.

There are laws against it, but the dead have no one to complain to and the living are too frightened to investigate.

Court Street Denizen

Creature - Human Soldier

Whenever another white creature enters the battlefield under your control, tap target creature an opponent controls.

"The Boros fight for justice. The Azorius fight for law. I hold the line between, and make sure the people are given both."

Crocanura

Creature - Crocodile Frog

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Crowned Ceratok

Creature - Rhino

Trample

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

The best way to calm a rampaging ceratok is to wait until it dies of natural causes.

Crypt Ghast

Creature - Spirit

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add to your mana pool (in addition to the mana the land produces).

Daring Skyjek

Creature - Human Knight

Battalion - Whenever Daring Skyjek and at least two other creatures attack, Daring Skyjek gains flying until end of turn.

"The hard part isn't landing in the saddle. The hard part is leaping before you see it."

Deathcult Rogue

Creature - Human Rogue

Deathcult Rogue can't be blocked except by Rogues.

"The hussars can't catch him, and he evades our traps with ease. I fear he walks unseen even in the halls of New Prahv."
-Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Deathpact Angel

Creature - Angel

Flying

When Deathpact Angel dies, put a 1/1 white and black Cleric creature token onto the battlefield. It has ", , Sacrifice this creature: Return a card named Deathpact Angel from your graveyard to the battlefield."

Diluvian Primordial

Creature - Avatar

Flying

When Diluvian Primordial enters the battlefield, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a card cast this way would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead.

Dinrova Horror

Creature - Horror

When Dinrova Horror enters the battlefield, return target permanent to its owner's hand, then that player discards a card.

"Welcome to the Dimir Public Offices. Not responsible for death or loss of property. Basement off-limits."
-Sign outside Dinrova Building

Disciple of the Old Ways

Creature - Human Warrior

: Disciple of the Old Ways gains first strike until end of turn.

"Selesnya thinks nature is a pretty plaything. True nature would rip their faces off and wear their skins as trophies."