Binding Grasp

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Binding Grasp unless you pay .

You control enchanted creature.

Enchanted creature gets +0/+1.

"What I want, I take."
-Gustha Ebbasdotter,
Kjeldoran royal mage

Biomantic Mastery

Sorcery

( can be paid with either or .)

Draw a card for each creature target player controls, then draw a card for each creature another target player controls.

"Look beyond, to the vascular awareness that all life is a map to greater knowledge."
-Momir Vig, Biomancy, vol. I

Biomass Mutation

Instant

Creatures you control become X/X until end of turn.

"A regression to ancient forms? A glimpse of future evolutions? Or a fleeting alteration of the present?"
-Vorel of the Hull Clade

Bioplasm

Creature - Ooze

Whenever Bioplasm attacks, exile the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, Bioplasm gets +X/+Y until end of turn, where X is the exiled creature card's power and Y is its toughness.

Biorhythm

Sorcery

Each player's life total becomes the number of creatures he or she controls.

"I have seen life's purpose, and now it is my own."
-Kamahl, druid acolyte

Bioshift

Instant

Move any number of +1/+1 counters from target creature onto another target creature with the same controller.

"It's all right if you change your mind. There's always a chance we can rearrange parts later."
-Zija, Simic mutationist

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.

Birchlore Rangers

Creature - Elf Druid

Tap two untapped Elves you control: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

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

Bird Maiden

Creature - Human Bird

Flying

Four things that never meet do here unite
To shed my blood and to ravage my heart,
A radiant brow and tresses that beguile
And rosy cheeks and a glittering smile."
-The Arabian Nights, trans. Haddawy

Birds of Paradise

Creature - Bird

Flying

: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

"The gods used their feathers to paint all the colors of the world."
-Yare-Tiva, warden of Gramur forest

Birthing Hulk

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When Birthing Hulk enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C} to your mana pool." ({C} represents colorless mana.)

{C}: Regenerate Birthing Hulk.

Birthing Pod

Artifact

( can be paid with either or 2 life.)

, , Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Bite of the Black Rose

Sorcery

Will of the council - Starting with you, each player votes for sickness or psychosis. If sickness gets more votes, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. If psychosis gets more votes or the vote is tied, each opponent discards two cards.

Biting Tether

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

You control enchanted creature.

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature.

A chain of lies as strong as steel.

Bitter Feud

Enchantment

As Bitter Feud enters the battlefield, choose two players.

If a source controlled by one of the chosen players would deal damage to the other chosen player or a permanent that player controls, that source deals double that damage to that player or permanent instead.

Bitter Ordeal

Sorcery

Search target player's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

Gravestorm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each permanent put into a graveyard this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Bitter Revelation

Sorcery

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 2 life.

"Here you lie then, Ugin. The corpses of worlds will join you in the tomb."
-Sorin Markov

Bitterblossom

Tribal Enchantment - Faerie

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and put a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

In Lorwyn's brief evenings, the sun pauses at the horizon long enough for a certain species of violet to bloom with the fragrance of mischief.

Bitterheart Witch

Creature - Human Shaman

Deathtouch

When Bitterheart Witch dies, you may search your library for a Curse card, put it onto the battlefield attached to target player, then shuffle your library.

Bituminous Blast

Instant

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.)

Bituminous Blast deals 4 damage to target creature.

Black Carriage

Creature - Horse

Trample

Black Carriage doesn't untap during your untap step.

Sacrifice a creature: Untap Black Carriage. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.

"The Baron's drivers are also driven."
-Chandler

Black Cat

Creature - Zombie Cat

When Black Cat dies, target opponent discards a card at random.

Its last life is spent tormenting your dreams.

Black Knight

Creature - Human Knight

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Black Lotus

Artifact

, Sacrifice Black Lotus: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool.

Black Mana Battery

Artifact

, : Put a charge counter on Black Mana Battery.

, Remove any number of charge counters from Black Mana Battery: Add to your mana pool, then add an additional to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way.

Black Market

Enchantment

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market.

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, add to your mana pool for each charge counter on Black Market.

Black Oak of Odunos

Creature - Zombie Treefolk

Defender

, Tap another untapped creature you control: Black Oak of Odunos gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Phenax promised the newly dead souls they would be spared from Erebos. In this, he did not lie.

Black Poplar Shaman

Creature - Treefolk Shaman

: Regenerate target Treefolk.

It absorbs the pain of other treefolk, which leaves it bitter, yet addicted to the sensation of agony.

Black Scarab

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't be blocked by black creatures.

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 as long as an opponent controls a black permanent.

Black Sun's Zenith

Sorcery

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

"Under the suns, Mirrodin kneels and begs us for perfection."
-Geth, Lord of the Vault

Black Vise

Artifact

As Black Vise enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.

At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, Black Vise deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in his or her hand minus 4.

Black Ward

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has protection from black. This effect doesn't remove Black Ward.

Blackcleave Cliffs

Land

Blackcleave Cliffs enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.

: Add or to your mana pool.

Where the Oxidda Chain mingles with the Mephidross, oil-suffused metal crumbles away, leaving walls of blackened bones.

Blackcleave Goblin

Creature - Goblin Zombie

Haste

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

"Bitten? Save time, amputate now."
-Lephar, loxodon surgeon

Blackmail

Sorcery

Target player reveals three cards from his or her hand and you choose one of them. That player discards that card.

In addition to killing peasants, punishing subordinates, and raising an army of nightmares, Braids somehow found time for her favorite hobby: petty extortion.

Blade of the Bloodchief

Artifact - Equipment

Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. If equipped creature is a Vampire, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead.

Equip

Blade of the Sixth Pride

Creature - Cat Rebel

Blade Sliver

Creature - Sliver

All Sliver creatures get +1/+0.

After breaking free from the Riptide Project, the slivers quickly adapted to life on Otaria-much to the dismay of life on Otaria.

Blade Splicer

Creature - Human Artificer

When Blade Splicer enters the battlefield, put a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token onto the battlefield.

Golem creatures you control have first strike.

Blade-Tribe Berserkers

Creature - Human Berserker

Metalcraft - When Blade-Tribe Berserkers enters the battlefield, if you control three or more artifacts, Blade-Tribe Berserkers gets +3/+3 and gains haste until end of turn.

Bladed Bracers

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

As long as equipped creature is a Human or an Angel, it has vigilance.

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

Forged from the rubble of the Helvault.

Bladed Pinions

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has flying and first strike.

Equip

Lacking trained pterons, the Auriok had to rely on other measures to gain the upper hand in the skies.

Bladed Sentinel

Artifact Creature - Construct

: Bladed Sentinel gains vigilance until end of turn.

The Mirran partisans created hundreds of patrol sentinels to divert Phyrexian assaults from the Tangle.

Blademane Baku

Creature - Spirit

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on Blademane Baku.

, Remove X ki counters from Blademane Baku: For each counter removed, Blademane Baku gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Blades of Velis Vel

Tribal Instant - Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type at all times.)

Up to two target creatures each get +2/+0 and gain all creature types until end of turn.

"The changing kind suffers as we do. We must join as one to quench our tyrants!"

Bladetusk Boar

Creature - Boar

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Those who dare stand in its path are either brave or mindless. Or in the case of goblins, both.

Bladewing the Risen

Legendary Creature - Zombie Dragon

Flying

When Bladewing the Risen enters the battlefield, you may return target Dragon permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

: Dragon creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Bladewing's Thrall

Creature - Zombie

Bladewing's Thrall has flying as long as you control a Dragon.

When a Dragon enters the battlefield, you may return Bladewing's Thrall from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Blanchwood Armor

Enchantment - Aura

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

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each Forest you control.

"Before armor, there was bark. Before blades, there were thorns."
-Molimo, maro-sorcerer

Blanchwood Treefolk

Creature - Treefolk

The massive Argivian attack on their rooted kindred was a declaration of war to the treefolk.

Blanket of Night

Enchantment

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

"Kaervek imprisoned Mangara out of jealousy, but he taints Jamuraa simply out of spite."
-Asmira, Holy Avenger

Blasphemous Act

Sorcery

Blasphemous Act costs less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.

Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

"Holy places are no longer sanctuary from death, and death is no longer sanctuary from anything."
-Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Blast of Genius

Sorcery

Choose target creature or player. Draw three cards, then discard a card. Blast of Genius deals damage equal to the discarded card's converted mana cost to that creature or player.

Ral Zarek's brainstorms bring actual thunder and lightning.

Blasted Landscape

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

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

Blaster Mage

Creature - Human Spellshaper

, , Discard a card: Destroy target Wall.

"Don't get up. I'll show myself out."

Blastfire Bolt

Instant

Blastfire Bolt deals 5 damage to target creature. Destroy all Equipment attached to that creature.

"Encase yourself in the most elaborate armor, and cower behind the heaviest shield. I would hate for you to feel helpless."
-Korig the Ruiner

Blasting Station

Artifact

, Sacrifice a creature: Blasting Station deals 1 damage to target creature or player.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you may untap Blasting Station.

Blastoderm

Creature - Beast

Shroud (This permanent can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Fading 3 (This creature enters the battlefield with three fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)

Blatant Thievery

Sorcery

For each opponent, gain control of target permanent that player controls. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

"I'll leave subtlety to the rich."

Blaze

Sorcery

Blaze deals X damage to target creature or player.

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.

Blaze of Glory

Instant

Cast Blaze of Glory only during combat before blockers are declared.

Target creature defending player controls can block any number of creatures this turn. It blocks each attacking creature this turn if able.

Blazethorn Scarecrow

Artifact Creature - Scarecrow

Blazethorn Scarecrow has haste as long as you control a red creature.

Blazethorn Scarecrow has wither as long as you control a green creature. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Blazing Archon

Creature - Archon

Flying

Creatures can't attack you.

"Through the haze of battle I saw the glint of sun on golden mane, the sheen of glory clad in mail, and I dropped my sword and wept at the idiocy of war."
-Dravin, Gruul deserter

Blazing Blade Askari

Creature - Human Knight

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)

: Blazing Blade Askari becomes colorless until end of turn.

"This can't be Jamuraa. We could not have failed her this badly . . . ."

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.

Blazing Salvo

Instant

Blazing Salvo deals 3 damage to target creature unless that creature's controller has Blazing Salvo deal 5 damage to him or her.

Barbarians equate courage with the ability to endure pain.

Blazing Shoal

Instant - Arcane

You may exile a red card with converted mana cost X from your hand rather than pay Blazing Shoal's mana cost.

Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Blazing Specter

Creature - Specter

Flying, haste

Whenever Blazing Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Blazing Torch

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature can't be blocked by Vampires or Zombies.

Equipped creature has ", Sacrifice Blazing Torch: Blazing Torch deals 2 damage to target creature or player."

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

Bleak Coven Vampires

Creature - Vampire Warrior

Metalcraft - When Bleak Coven Vampires enters the battlefield, if you control three or more artifacts, target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.

As the shadow of the Mephidross spread over the Tangle, the vampires' territory expanded.

Blessed Breath

Instant - Arcane

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

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.)

Blessed Orator

Creature - Human Cleric

Other creatures you control get +0/+1.

His quiet words fade into the night's chill, yet they burn into his listeners' minds with all the power of a thousand suns.

Blessed Reincarnation

Instant

Exile target creature an opponent controls. That player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until a creature card is revealed. The player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles the rest into his or her library.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Blessed Reversal

Instant

You gain 3 life for each creature attacking you.

"A battle's outcome is never certain."
-The Southern Paladin

Blessed Wind

Sorcery

Target player's life total becomes 20.

"The fourth wind of ascension is Anointer, deifying the worthy."
-Keld Triumphant

Blessed Wine

Instant

You gain 1 life.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

"Out there, there are spirits, but here, there is wine."
-Blessing for the bounty of Kjeld

Blessing

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

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

Blessing of Leeches

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.

: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Blessing of the Nephilim

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each of its colors.

"Before the first stone was laid or the first elf-child born, the power of the nephilim was gathering. Let that power be spread by my hands."

Blessings of Nature

Sorcery

Distribute four +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures.

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

Blight

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant land

When enchanted land becomes tapped, destroy it.

Blight Herder

Creature - Eldrazi Processor

When you cast Blight Herder, you may put two cards your opponents own from exile into their owners' graveyards. If you do, put three 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add to your mana pool."

Blight Mamba

Creature - Snake

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

: Regenerate Blight Mamba.

Its venom drips with Phyrexia's hate.

Blight Sickle

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has wither. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Equip

Its scars cut deeper than its blade.

Blightcaster

Creature - Human Wizard

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may have target creature get -2/-2 until end of turn.

"Your flesh is unprepared for my gifts."

Blighted Agent

Creature - Human Rogue

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Blighted Agent is unblockable.

"Urabrask may suspect our surveillance, but he cannot stop it."
-Avaricta, Gitaxian sective

Blighted Cataract

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Blighted Cataract: Draw two cards.

Once, water ran here. Now only dust and ash fall from the clifftops.

Blighted Fen

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Blighted Fen: Target opponent sacrifices a creature.

"We came to a place where the skin of Zendikar was peeled back and its bones lay bare to the sky."-Greenweaver Mina

Blighted Gorge

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Blighted Gorge: Blighted Gorge deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

The land is dying, but it will not go peacefully.

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.

Blighted Steppe

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Blighted Steppe: You gain 2 life for each creature you control.

"When a limb is gangrenous, you cut it off. This is no different."-Greenweaver Mina

Blighted Woodland

Land

: Add to your mana pool.

, , Sacrifice Blighted Woodland: Search your library for up to two basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

Blightning

Sorcery

Blightning deals 3 damage to target player. That player discards two cards.

While the smell of burning flesh is common in Grixis, the odor of smoldering brain matter is a rare treat.

Blightsoil Druid

Creature - Elf Druid

, Pay 1 life: Add to your mana pool.

"See the beauty in death: the clean white bones lying in the fertile soil and the brightly colored moonglove sprouting from the fell earth."

Blightspeaker

Creature - Human Rebel Cleric

: Target player loses 1 life.

, : Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with converted mana cost 3 or less and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

One croaked sermon spreads propaganda and plague.

Blightsteel Colossus

Artifact Creature - Golem

Trample, infect

Blightsteel Colossus is indestructible.

If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Blightwidow

Creature - Spider

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Blind Creeper

Creature - Zombie Beast

Whenever a player casts a spell, Blind Creeper gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

It shuns everything except its next meal.

Blind Fury

Instant

Cast Blind Fury only before the combat damage step.

All creatures lose trample until end of turn. If a creature would deal combat damage to a creature this turn, it deals double that damage to that creature instead.

"Tell me . . . have you ever sung the Song of Blood?"
-Purraj of Urborg