Zodiac Monkey

Creature - Ape

Forestwalk (This creature is unblockable as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

It lives mainly on fruit, leaves, and the occasional nose.

Nether Shadow

Creature - Spirit

Haste

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Nether Shadow is in your graveyard with three or more creature cards above it, you may put Nether Shadow onto the battlefield.

Lord of Atlantis

Creature - Merfolk

Other Merfolk creatures get +1/+1 and have islandwalk.

A master of tactics, the Lord of Atlantis makes his people bold in battle merely by arriving to lead them.

Elvish Archers

Creature - Elf Archer

First strike

I tell you, there was so many arrows flying about you couldn't hardly see the sun. So I says to young Angus, "Well, at least now we're fighting in the shade!"

Ironclaw Orcs

Creature - Orc

Ironclaw Orcs can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.

Generations of genetic weeding have given rise to the deviously cowardly Ironclaw clan. To say that Orcs in general are vicious, depraved, and ignoble does not do justice to the Ironclaw.

Rock Hydra

Creature - Hydra

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

For each 1 damage that would be dealt to Rock Hydra, if it has a +1/+1 counter on it, remove a +1/+1 counter from it and prevent that 1 damage.

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Rock Hydra this turn.

: Put a +1/+1 counter on Rock Hydra. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

Mesa Pegasus

Creature - Pegasus

Flying; banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Before a woman marries in the village of Sursi, she must visit the land of the Mesa Pegasus. Legend has it that if the woman is pure of heart and her love is true, a Mesa Pegasus will appear, blessing her family with long life and good fortune.

Erg Raiders

Creature - Human Warrior

At the beginning of your end step, if Erg Raiders didn't attack this turn, Erg Raiders deals 2 damage to you unless it came under your control this turn.

Atog

Creature - Atog

Sacrifice an artifact: Atog gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

The bane of all artificers, the legendary Atogs devoured intricate tools to further their own twisted growth.

Dwarven Weaponsmith

Creature - Dwarf Artificer

, Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

"Work with zeal as hammers peal! Melt, anneal, and pound the steel!"
-Old Dwarvish forge-chant

Cyclopean Mummy

Creature - Zombie

When Cyclopean Mummy dies, exile it.

The ritual of plucking out an eye to gain future sight is but a curse that enables the living to see their own deaths.

Giant Tortoise

Creature - Turtle

Giant Tortoise gets +0/+3 as long as it's untapped.

Sindbad

Creature - Human

: Draw a card and reveal it. If it isn't a land card, discard it.

Zephyr Falcon

Creature - Bird

Flying, vigilance

Although greatly prized among falconers, the Zephyr Falcon is capricious and not easily tamed.

Whirling Dervish

Creature - Human Monk

Protection from black

At the beginning of each end step, if Whirling Dervish dealt damage to an opponent this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Goblin Rock Sled

Creature - Goblin

Trample

Goblin Rock Sled doesn't untap during your untap step if it attacked during your last turn.

Goblin Rock Sled can't attack unless defending player controls a Mountain.

Amrou Kithkin

Creature - Kithkin

Amrou Kithkin can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.

Quick and agile, Amrou Kithkin can usually escape from even the most fearsome opponents.

Osai Vultures

Creature - Bird

Flying

At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a carrion counter on Osai Vultures.

Remove two carrion counters from Osai Vultures: Osai Vultures gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Pikemen

Creature - Human Soldier

First strike; banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"As the cavalry bore down, we faced them with swords drawn and pikes hidden in the grass at our feet. ‘Don't lift your pikes 'til I give the word,' I said."
-Maeveen O'Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier

Battering Ram

Artifact Creature - Construct

At the beginning of combat on your turn, Battering Ram gains banding until end of combat. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's blocking.)

Whenever Battering Ram becomes blocked by a Wall, destroy that Wall at end of combat.

By the time Mishra was defeated, no mage was foolish enough to rely heavily on walls.

Knight of Stromgald

Creature - Human Knight

Protection from white

: Knight of Stromgald gains first strike until end of turn.

: Knight of Stromgald gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Kjeldorans should rule supreme, and to the rest, death!"
-Avram Garrisson,
Leader of the Knights of Stromgald

Dandân

Creature - Fish

Dandân can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.

When you control no Islands, sacrifice Dandân.

"Catch good today. Start replacing crew tomorrow."
-Faysal al-Mousa, fisher captain, log

Magus of the Unseen

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Untap target artifact an opponent controls and gain control of it until end of turn. It gains haste until end of turn. When you lose control of the artifact, tap it.

Sea Sprite

Creature - Faerie

Flying, protection from red

"No one can catch what won't be caught."
-Kakra, sea troll

Vodalian Soldiers

Creature - Merfolk Soldier

"Vodalian rank is displayed by the colors and patterns of their skin. Beware the color red; that is the badge of the empress's favor."
-Corbio, pearl diver

Wyluli Wolf

Creature - Wolf

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

"When one wolf calls, others follow.
Who wants to fight creatures that eat scorpions?"
-Maimun al-Wyluli, diary

Dwarven Soldier

Creature - Dwarf Soldier

Whenever Dwarven Soldier blocks or becomes blocked by one or more Orcs, Dwarven Soldier gets +0/+2 until end of turn.

"Orc must die / Orc must die / Not an orc? / March on by."
-Dwarven marching song

Aysen Bureaucrats

Creature - Human Advisor

: Tap target creature with power 2 or less.

"When one's word is law, one's whim is equally binding."
-Calmont, Aysen bureaucrat

Hipparion

Creature - Horse

Hipparion can't block creatures with power 3 or greater unless you pay .

"Someone once said that hipparions are to warriors what aesthir are to skyknights. Don't believe it."
-General Jarkeld, the Arctic Fox

Mesa Falcon

Creature - Bird

Flying

: Mesa Falcon gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

"The faith of Serra is borne on wings of hope."
-Gulsen, abbey matron

Order of the White Shield

Creature - Human Knight

Protection from black

: Order of the White Shield gains first strike until end of turn.

: Order of the White Shield gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

A shield of light admits no shadow.

Repentant Blacksmith

Creature - Human

Protection from red

"For my confession they burned me with fire / And found that I was for endurance made."
-The Arabian Nights,
trans. Haddawy

Shield Bearer

Creature - Human Soldier

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

"You have almost completed your four years, my son. Soon you shall be a skyknight."
-Arna Kennerüd, skyknight

Armored Pegasus

Creature - Pegasus

Flying

Asked how it survived a run-in with a bog imp, the pegasus just shook its mane and burped.

Longbow Archer

Creature - Human Soldier Archer

First strike; reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

"If it bears wings, I will pin it to the skies over Tefemburu."
-Roya, Zhalfirin archer

Soldevi Sage

Creature - Human Wizard

, Sacrifice two lands: Draw three cards, then discard one of them.

"To hide the truth is more than folly-it is fatal."
-Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi heretic

Blighted Shaman

Creature - Human Cleric Shaman

, Sacrifice a Swamp: Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

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

Goblin Recruiter

Creature - Goblin

When Goblin Recruiter enters the battlefield, search your library for any number of Goblin cards and reveal those cards. Shuffle your library, then put them on top of it in any order.

"Next!"

Unseen Walker

Creature - Dryad

Forestwalk

: Target creature gains forestwalk until end of turn.

"To pass through the jungle: silence, courtesy, ferocity, as the occasion demands."
-Kamau, "Proper Passage"

Angelic Page

Creature - Angel Spirit

Flying

: Target attacking or blocking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

If only every message were as perfect as its messenger.

Knight Errant

Creature - Human Knight

Knights are quick to pledge their loyalty and even quicker to charge into battle.

Skyshroud Falcon

Creature - Bird

Flying, vigilance

The earliest mystics believed that the falcon slit the sky to let the light break through.

Wind Dancer

Creature - Faerie

Flying

: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

The sky is her stage.

Goblin Glider

Creature - Goblin

Flying

Goblin Glider can't block.

"What's got two arms, one wing, and no brains?"
-Ghitu riddle

Goblin Raider

Creature - Goblin Warrior

Goblin Raider can't block.

He's smart for a goblin. He can do two things: hit and run.

Okk

Creature - Goblin

Okk can't attack unless a creature with greater power also attacks.

Okk can't block unless a creature with greater power also blocks.

Pygmy Pyrosaur

Creature - Lizard

Pygmy Pyrosaur can't block.

: Pygmy Pyrosaur gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Do not judge a lizard by its size.
-Ghitu proverb

Seeker of Skybreak

Creature - Elf

: Untap target creature.

Seekers spend their lives protecting a home they rarely visit.

Sword Dancer

Creature - Human Rebel

: Target attacking creature gets -1/-0 until end of turn.

Most soldiers think of the sword as a weapon. In the hands of Zho monks, swords are also the strongest of shields.

Coral Eel

Creature - Fish

Some fishers like to eat eels, and some eels like to eat fishers.

Sage of Lat-Nam

Creature - Human Artificer

, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Within each device is a spark of its creator's soul. Within each sage is a lamp that awaits that spark.

Sneaky Homunculus

Creature - Homunculus Illusion

Sneaky Homunculus can't block or be blocked by creatures with power 2 or greater.

Keep watch only for the giants and you'll be eaten by the ants.

Canyon Wildcat

Creature - Cat

Mountainwalk

In the warrior kingdom of Keld, the cats used in the hunt are prized for their tracking sense and ability to climb walls.

Vine Trellis

Creature - Plant Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Add to your mana pool.

Nature twists knots stronger than any rope.

Cuombajj Witches

Creature - Human Wizard

: Cuombajj Witches deals 1 damage to target creature or player and 1 damage to target creature or player of an opponent's choice.

Hasran Ogress

Creature - Ogre

Whenever Hasran Ogress attacks, it deals 3 damage to you unless you pay .

King Suleiman

Creature - Human

: Destroy target Djinn or Efreet.

"We made tempestuous winds obedient to Solomon . . . And many of the devils We also made obedient to him." -The Qur'an, 21:81

Priest of Yawgmoth

Creature - Human Cleric

, Sacrifice an artifact: Add to your mana pool an amount of equal to the sacrificed artifact's converted mana cost.

Argothian Pixies

Creature - Faerie

Argothian Pixies can't be blocked by artifact creatures.

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Argothian Pixies by artifact creatures.

After the rape of Argoth Forest during the rule of the artificers, the Pixies of Argoth bent their magic to more practical ends.

Citanul Druid

Creature - Human Druid

Whenever an opponent casts an artifact spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Citanul Druid.

Driven mad by the fall of Argoth, the Citanul Druids found peace only in battle.

Giant Slug

Creature - Slug

: At the beginning of your next upkeep, choose a basic land type. Giant Slug gains landwalk of the chosen type until the end of that turn.

Walking Dead

Creature - Zombie

: Regenerate Walking Dead.

The Walking Dead are the remains of freakish experiments by the Necromantic Lords.

Wall of Tombstones

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, Wall of Tombstones's toughness becomes 1 plus the number of creature cards in your graveyard. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Barbary Apes

Creature - Ape

Unpredictable in the extreme, these carnivorous apes will prey even upon their own kind.

Emerald Dragonfly

Creature - Insect

Flying

: Emerald Dragonfly gains first strike until end of turn.

"Flittering, wheeling,/ darting in to strike, and then/ gone just as you blink."
-"Dragonfly Haiku," poet unkown

Fire Sprites

Creature - Faerie

Flying

, : Add to your mana pool.

Shelkin Brownie

Creature - Ouphe

: Target creature loses all "bands with other" abilities until end of turn.

Leave a bowl of milk on your doorstep each night for the brownies, or they'll cause you no end of mischief.

Blazing Effigy

Creature - Elemental

When Blazing Effigy dies, it deals X damage to target creature, where X is 3 plus the amount of damage dealt to Blazing Effigy this turn by other sources named Blazing Effigy.

Kobold Drill Sergeant

Creature - Kobold Soldier

Other Kobold creatures you control get +0/+1 and have trample.

"Joining this army is easy, boy. Just survive your first battle."

Kobold Overlord

Creature - Kobold

First strike

Other Kobold creatures you control have first strike.

"One for all, all for one; we strike first, and then you're done!" -Oath of the Kobold Musketeers

Kobold Taskmaster

Creature - Kobold

Other Kobold creatures you control get +1/+0.

The Taskmaster knows that there is no cure for the common Kobold.

Wall of Earth

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

The ground shuddered violently and the earth seemed to come to life. The elemental force contained in the vast wall of earth was trapped, bent to its controller's will.

Wall of Caltrops

Creature - Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Wall of Caltrops blocks a creature, if at least one other Wall creature is blocking that creature and no non-Wall creatures are blocking that creature, Wall of Caltrops gains banding until end of turn. (If any creatures with banding you control are blocking a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by.)

"Ow! Ow ow ow! Oooh, ow, OW!"

Frankenstein's Monster

Creature - Zombie

As Frankenstein's Monster enters the battlefield, exile X creature cards from your graveyard. If you can't, put Frankenstein's Monster into its owner's graveyard instead of onto the battlefield. For each creature card exiled this way, Frankenstein's Monster enters the battlefield with a +2/+0, +1/+1, or +0/+2 counter on it.

Drowned

Creature - Zombie

: Regenerate Drowned.

We asked Captain Soll what became of the Serafina, but all he said was, "Ships that go down shouldn't come back up."

Merfolk Assassin

Creature - Merfolk Assassin

: Destroy target creature with islandwalk.

People of the Woods

Creature - Human

People of the Woods's toughness is equal to the number of Forests you control.

"Their rain of arrows left only myself alive, cowering within a tree hollow. They did not even come out to loot the bodies." -Vervamon the Elder

Scarwood Hag

Creature - Hag

, : Target creature gains forestwalk until end of turn.

: Target creature loses forestwalk until end of turn.

Exorcist

Creature - Human Cleric

, : Destroy target black creature.

Though they often bore little greater charm than the demons they battled, exorcists were always welcome in Scarwood.

Squire

Creature - Human Soldier

"Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. Of his stature he was of even lengthe. And wonderly deliver, and greete of strengthe." -Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Marsh Goblins

Creature - Goblin

Swampwalk

Even the other Goblin races shun the Marsh Goblins, thanks to certain unwholesome customs they practice.

Scarwood Goblins

Creature - Goblin

Larger and more cunning than most Goblins, Scarwood Goblins are thankfully found only in isolated pockets.

Basal Thrull

Creature - Thrull

, Sacrifice Basal Thrull: Add to your mana pool.

Initially bred for sacrifice, the Thrulls eventually turned on their masters, the Order of the Ebon Hand, with gruesome results.
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. II

Order of the Ebon Hand

Creature - Cleric Knight

Protection from white

: Order of the Ebon Hand gains first strike until end of turn.

: Order of the Ebon Hand gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

A true follower of Tourach took pride in achievement to the exclusion of other concerns.

River Merfolk

Creature - Merfolk

: River Merfolk gains mountainwalk until end of turn.

"Dwelling in icy mountain streams near their Goblin and Orcish foes, the River Merfolk were known for their stoicism."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. V

Svyelunite Priest

Creature - Merfolk Cleric

, : Target creature gains shroud until end of turn. Activate this ability only during your upkeep. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

"Early Vodalians worshipped Svyelun, goddess of the Pearl Moon. Later she became a more abstract figure."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. V

Elvish Farmer

Creature - Elf

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Elvish Farmer.

Remove three spore counters from Elvish Farmer: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token onto the battlefield.

Sacrifice a Saproling: You gain 2 life.

Elvish Hunter

Creature - Elf Archer

, : Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

"Elves often tipped their arrows with a drug that caused a deep but harmless sleep."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. III

Spore Flower

Creature - Fungus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Spore Flower.

Remove three spore counters from Spore Flower: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Dwarven Lieutenant

Creature - Dwarf Soldier

: Target Dwarf creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Dwarven officers were tireless in battle, moving up and down the lines to rally their troops and boost morale."
-Sarpadian Empires, vol. IV

Brine Shaman

Creature - Human Cleric Shaman

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

, Sacrifice a creature: Counter target creature spell.

"The Shamans of Marit Lage do her bidding in secret, but they do it gladly."
-Halvor Arenson, Kjeldoran Priest

Krovikan Elementalist

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

: Target creature you control gains flying until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

"The Elementalists' talents could be useful if turned to other purposes."
-Zur the Enchanter

Balduvian Conjurer

Creature - Human Wizard

: Target snow land becomes a 2/2 creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

"The very lands of Balduvia are alive."
-Arna Kennerüd, Skyknight

Mistfolk

Creature - Illusion

: Counter target spell that targets Mistfolk.

"Although my official log will state there is no evidence pointing to the existence of the Mistfolk, my certainty is lessened by the cursed consistency of the expedition's eyewitness accounts."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Phantasmal Mount

Creature - Illusion Horse

Flying

: Target creature you control with toughness 2 or less gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn. When Phantasmal Mount leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice that creature. When the creature leaves the battlefield this turn, sacrifice Phantasmal Mount.

Soldevi Machinist

Creature - Human Wizard Artificer

: Add to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to activate abilities of artifacts.

"Perhaps this time the power of the artificers shall be used wisely."
-Arcum Dagsson, Soldevi Machinist

Zuran Enchanter

Creature - Human Wizard

, : Target player discards a card. Activate this ability only during your turn.

"We are Kjeldorans no more."
-Zur the Enchanter

Balduvian Bears

Creature - Bear

"They're a hardy bunch, but I'd still bet that they just slept through the worst of the cold times."
-Disa the Restless, journal entry

Freyalise Supplicant

Creature - Human Cleric

, Sacrifice a red or white creature: Freyalise Supplicant deals damage to target creature or player equal to half the sacrificed creature's power, rounded down.

"We have joined with the Druids of the Juniper Order. Our faith is one."
-Laina of the Elvish Council

Balduvian Hydra

Creature - Hydra

Balduvian Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+0 counters on it.

Remove a +1/+0 counter from Balduvian Hydra: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Balduvian Hydra this turn.

: Put a +1/+0 counter on Balduvian Hydra. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.